Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Courtesy In the Home. [ARTICLE]

Courtesy In the Home.

Why should dally life together destroy the mutual consideration and courtesy a man and woman show before marriage, which they would continue as mere friends? If husband and wife, no matter how much they love each other, no matter at what close range they live, would strive to grant each other the treatment which ordinary good breeding exacts, would respect one another as individuals, not as household furniture, would foster mutual forbearance and ordinary politeness In “little things,” then the divorce courts would be cheated, children would suffer fewer violations of their inalienable rights to home and harmony and there would be less cynical complaint of “something rotten in the state of matrimony.”—Mary’ E. Walter, in the Chicago News.