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WHY MARRIAGE SOMETIMES WRECKS.
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to paint? Yet how awfully they look without, and even with? And use cologne in addition, thus telling all within smelling distance that they lack that balmy perfume which is coincident with sexuality. ONE-FOURTH HAVE CROOKED SPINES."—Prof. O. S. Fowler.

PHYSICAL WEAKNESS CAUSE OF MARITAL MISERIES.

The lack of physical excellence, more especially among women, is unquestionably one of the greatest causes of marital unhappiness. Although men are supposed to select their wives, woman in reality does the selecting, and if all her physical forces are not developed to their full completeness, she has not the acuteness of discrimination in sexual selection that she would possess under more normal conditions. Hence she often selects a man for a husband, not because she loves him with all the devotion, intensity and power that should accompany every true marriage, but because he will enable her to advance socially, or to satisfy other ambitious, in an insipid way, she may believe