Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — Elements of a True Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Elements of a True Marriage.

There are three elements that combine to make a true marriage—health, love and sympathetic companionship. No man or woman physically weak should marry, and thus entail suffering on others. Love does not mean passion; it is based on understanding. Men and women should know each other behind the curtain, as it were, before marriage. Unhappy lives often result from imperfect knowledge before marriage of the characteristics of the partner in the contract. Love make* sacrifices; passion never. No husband or wife has ever known true liappinesi until after the birth of a child. Men and women on the plane of marriage stand equals. There should be sympathetic companionship in the sense thal an irreligious person should not marrj one who is religiously inclined, or an unintellectual person one who is of op posite taste. There shonld be sympathy and fellowship between -husbaud nnd wife in all the' pursuits of life.— Rev. Charles H. Caton. When O’Donovan Rossa edited a paper a “sub” used to do his work, sometimes* who signed himself “Sul Rossa.”