Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — The Happy Marriage. [ARTICLE]

The Happy Marriage.

Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, recently addressed the Dorchester Woman’s Club. His subject was “The Happy Marriage.” “Human love la the main source of our human ideals,” he said. “For creating and Increasing human happiness the home counts for very much more than anything else. Marriage is and always must be the source of domestic joys aud happiness. Within fifty years marriage lias undergone many changes, hut, after all, it has only changed with everything else in the world. The Intellectual conditlous of civilized life have also changed as the industrial independence of woman Increases. The happy marriage begins In the attraction lietween man aud woman which we cnll love. It is the moat admirable thing In human nature, being au Idealizing devotion. The young woman who marries for money or position la sacrificing the best of life which marrlago affords. The chief conditions of a happy marriage are health, common Intellectual Interests, and a religious belief held in common between hualtand and wife.”