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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
Reasons for Uniting as Well as for 
Separating. 
Our laws require that married people 
seeking a divorce must supply full and 
explicit reasons that are usually wide- 
ly diffused through the public press. 
When this country was divorced from 
England, the reasons and the necessity 
were plainly stated in the preamble to 
the Declaration of Independence : 
“When in the course of human 
events, it becomes necessary for one 
people to dissolve the political bands 
which have connected them with an- 
other, and to assume among the powers 
of the earth, the separate and equal sta- 
tion to which the Laws of Nature and 
of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent 
respect to the opinion of mankind re- 
quires that they should declare the 
causes which impel them to the sepa- 
ration.” 
Why is a publication of these reasons 
always a part of the separation? Why 
not for union? Why does not a young 
woman, for example, tell us why she 
likes the groom, and the bridegroom 
tell why he likes the bride? 
Our incorporation, The Agassiz As- 
sociation, is for mutual helpfulness. 
Each Member for the benefit of all the 
others tells what he has seen in nature. 
Now comes one of our delightful young 
women, nineteen years of age, who has 
been a Member of The Agassiz Asso- 
ciation since 1915 and has told us many 
of her observations of nature, and who 
now tells us why she has accepted as 
her husband Count Charles Phillippe 
de Bruche. 
For all prospective brides, and bride- 
grooms too, here is an example. It will 
save many puzzling questions on the 
part of friends, such as : “I wonder 
what she could have seen in him.” 
Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., is 
famed the world over as the youngest 
author in The Authors’ League of 
America. When a bride introduces the 
new custom of telling the public why 
she selected the groom, it becomes in- 
teresting to know who she is. We 
therefore gladly publish a little account 
of this girl who came to us as a Member 
six years ago after considerable corre- 
spondence and previous interest. 
Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., 
(daughter of Colonel James B. Stoner, 
U. S. Public Health Service, and Dr. 
Winifred Sackville Stoner, author of 
“Natural Education” and other works 
on child training) is the youngest au- 
thor in The Authors’ League of Ameri- 
ca. At the age of nine she passed college 
entrance examinations. At twelve she 
was declared by Dr. M. V. O’Shea of 
the University of Wisconsin to know 
WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER, TR.. BECOMES- 
A COUNTESS AND TELLS US FELLOW MEM- 
BERS OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION THE 
“REASONS FOR HER CHOICE.” 
more than the average college gradu- 
ate. She toured the world at five years 
of age, and lectured in Esperanto. At 
sixteen she appeared as a public lec- 
turer in the Lee Keedick Lecture Bu- 
reau, appearing with such men as Sir 
Oliver Lodge and John Drinkwater. 
She published books before she was six 
years old. At the age of nineteen she 
is the author of a dozen books, many 
magazine articles, songs and scenarios. 
She has won prizes for high diving, for 
horsemanship, for fencing and other 
athletic sports. She was listed among 
the notables of America’s Who’s Who 
before she was sweet sixteen, and she 
has been as sprightly in love as in let- 
