Life — December 29, 1910 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Those who have never come into con- tact with renowned astronomers can form no adequate conception of hu- (Concluded on page 1213) The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 1210) handkerchief. He invariably stuck the handkerchief into his own mouth for the sake of the essential moisture. I then and there resolved never to sub- ject a grandchild of mine to an expe- rience so salivary. A husband and father of my acquaintance sedulously avoids controversy in his domestic circle because his own parents quar- reled from morning until night. That taught him the rights of neutrals—that is, of the children. It is much to be regretted that in the great outpouring of works on marriage nothing is ever said regarding the blessings of discord in the home. We Americans are taught to avoid domestic strife for the sake of our children when the existence of such strife is often a blessing in disguise to them. The consequent peril to society reveals itself most clearly in the words of Mr. Justice Henry Bischoff, of the Su- preme Court of New York. “ Nobody to-day can truthfully deny,” His Honor is made to say in the New York World, “that quarreling, fault finding and general dissension, such as exists in households where even ordinary re- spect is unknown, has the worst pos- sible effect on every member of that family, and especially the young chil- dren.” Now, I deny the very thing which Mr. Justice Bischoff insists nobody can truthfully deny, and I insist that many a couple reared in homes of harmony themselves have Jed the wedded life of demons in their own domestic circle. It is for the sake of the children that the unhappy home should not be broken up. It is the unsuspected blessings of domestic dis- cord which afford the only available proof that many marriages were made in Heaven, Artistic Perfumer. 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