Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1911 — The Perilous Years. [ARTICLE]

The Perilous Years.

Justice Ford of New York was discussing his famous dietum: ‘ln my opinion it takes about five years for the ordinary couple to learn to overlook each other’s faults.” He said: “After 5 years of marriage a spirit of gentleness and loving kindness manifests itself. But in the first two or three years a spirit of the bitterest disillusion prevails. “This bitter spirit was well illustrated in a dialogue wherein a young wife sobbed, ’And you used to say that you could hear the rustle of angels’ wings whenever I drew near you!’ ** ‘But I’ve found out now,’ the husband sneered, ‘that the sound was only the creaking of your broken corset bones.* ” -