Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — THE PERILOUS YEARS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PERILOUS YEARS.

Justice Ford of New York was discussing his famous dictum: “In my opinion it takes about five years for the ordinary couple to learn to overlook each other’s faults,” He Bald: “After five years of marriage a spirit of gentleness and loving kind ness manifests itself. But in the firqt two or three years a spirit of tht bitterest disillusion prevails. | “This bitter epirlt was well Illustrated In a dialogue wherein a young wife sobbed, ‘And you used to sa> that you could hear the rustle ol angels’ wings whenever I drew near you!* “ ‘But L’ve found out now,’ the husband sneered, ‘that the sound was only the creaking of your broken corset bones.’ ”

“There goes Wobbs. He had sojQM fixed opinions until he married that “What became of hia opinions them.” .......

HIS FATE.