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wivjos who .siion.u Jno i'mtikd. 111,-iv is a slory ;il>onl a girl who found uut ih<> day before hey wedding that her sweetheart had jiiii'tl alioticr g r I fur her, SUltl so till.' invited till' jill >■( l "ill lo llm wedding anil mn.lv Ihe liiiili-LMooii) marry tin- girl in' was trying t'» forget instead of tin' out; who had marie him do tin; forgetting. Nice story, isn't it'.' Kveryone seems to In' feeling sorry for the girl who gave u|j Ikt own marriage for tin' sake of tin- jilted rival. I doll'l Iwr'.tr* Winifred liiaek). I'm sorry lor the jjlrl i In' unwilling nnui married. When I near of a man who marries a woman because he thinks he has to marry her. I don't waste a minute's t.me being .sorrv', .for him. I'm sorry I'oiJ th,,woinaii who marries him. Wouldn't yon love lo marry a man who made yon his wife' because someone made iiim do it lieeause lie though: you'd die it' he didn't ' Wouldn't it b<' l'uit Lo jzo to a UieaLre willi >nch a hr.-band and Sco ii-in glow iviiiin"\cr ihe love M'L'iio and res i. 1 (,'•*"during the "Kor better, for worso, for ru-hor, for poorer" dialogue. Wouldn't it In* comfortable lo foul that everything you did and said <'!' di{u'l do Hay wencompared to Tile -iiyin.es ami doings or Ihe unsavingy or undoings of llie gir. W'lio wi generously gave you the man and kept liia heart! (if course, if you were elovcr enough and patient enough and determined enough, you could plot and plan ami scheme him into loving you-aft'r a fa-diioii. Oli. yus L'vn it dune. The plainn-t woman in 'the world can make herself so uselul, ,v) itidispeusahle. to her hushaud that lioT wonder how ii> the world lie ever drrameil of getting along without her. And at the end of a- lew year- id absolute, self-repression, ahsnlule snr render of her lirain and soul and heart and \erv life itself, he will give her. f he is even half a man. a kind of arndsiiig gralitiKle which lie may fill i,,ve. hut is all worth while, I wonWliv, the wnniiin who is married lo a man who only half loves her is only fialf alive.