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Here is one thing that we know: People want to be happy in marriage, and from what we know of certain so called happy marriages we feel they have the right to expect to be happy.

The only plausible reason for the creation of human beings is that they were created to be happy.

Since marriage has proved in many cases to be one of the greatest agencies in all the world to bring about happiness, the question, of universal interest, is, What is the surest way to secure happiness through marriage?

Perhaps the most direct way to get at our subject is to ask what is the purpose back of marriage.

Biologically it is unmistakably the procreation of offspring.

In order that so important an end as the continuance of the human race on earth may be secured the relationship between man and woman is made so pleasurable that it cannot easily be cast aside. Rh