understand each other like a good lawyer understands the 

 science of law and makes use of it, then married life could 

 exist without friction, but it is through stubbornness or 

 some other foolishness that trouble begins. If we could all 

 be more human, most of our dead locks of hate would dis- 

 appear. We should not seek to antagonize, but we should 

 try to help each other, as sometimes it doesn't take very 

 much to cause a person to an excited feeling and destroy 

 that sweet emotion. You see we all have minds that conceal 

 thoughts of both good and evil, but we should not always 

 see a sliver in the eyes of others and not notice the timber 

 in our own. Remember no one ever got very popular by 

 knocking, so let us not burden ourselves unduly with what 

 others may say regarding us. Rather let us turn a deaf 

 ear to all utterance of unjust criticism. If we know that we 

 are free from the habit of criticizing ourselves, we can then 

 be sure there is no weapon formed that can prosper against 

 us, if we want to be at peace with ourselves and the world. 

 We must not only refrain from doing and thinking evil, but 

 we must forsake it. You see there is so much good in the 

 worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, therefore it 

 behooves us, that none of us should speak ill of any of us. 

 We all look at outsiders differently, when we are inside, 

 which should not concern us. There are more valuable and 

 more important things in life that we should pay attention 

 to. Speaking of married life, as a science, it is most cer- 

 tainly a science to keep love in circulation. Of course, any 

 man or woman that have thorough love both of them wants 

 to see the other happy, but the case often is when men grow 

 old love for them grows cold. It is surprising that pots full 

 of ink are splashed through the daily papers in telling of 

 how to avoid divorces, preachers, doctors and others have 

 expressed themselves, but they all differ in their conclusions. 

 Some say how old we ought to be before marriage, how 

 long we ought to know each other and that a couple shall 

 know each other's reputation, breeding, etc., before mar- 



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