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Rh most people are agreed in the matter of monogamic marriages—of one man to one woman at a time—as ideal. To those people who look upon marriage as largely an individual matter, the new plans proposed appeal with great force.

Frankly, how can the gamble be taken out of marriage?

The advocates of new ideas say that marriage must always be, in the very nature of the case, a gamble, and the only way to eliminate the hazard is to gamble again and again until the player wins.

This can be done, it is claimed, by making divorce an easy thing, obtainable by mutual consent when both partners are satisfied that their union is a failure.

But birth control should be practiced as long as there is an element of doubt as to the final success of the marriage. In this way permanently unhappy marriages will be avoided and everyone may be sure of getting eventually his or her true mate.

My own personal idea of the way that the gamble can be taken out of marriage and permanent happiness secured is by a scientfic study of the subject, finding out just why marriages are not happy, and providing an education for young people in the most important matter of their lives which shall instruct them as to the means to avoid unhappiness and Rh