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98 people to be honest, even to themselves, where sexual matters are concerned, but facts are facts and one cannot change them by any amount of prudish deceit.

One can say much for happy marriages, much to encourage those who enter these sacred realms and find therein love, peace and happiness. But how about those who do not draw a prize?—those who are scorched in the fire of eternal discontent, who find that the bonds of matrimony goad the very soul, day after day, with stinging cruelty; that it animalizes the very best part of their nature, that it stifles every good and noble thought, that it crushes out every atom of wholesome ambition, and with the fangs of malicious hatred, created and fostered by this enforced unnatural relation, it poisons the very life of the principals in the tragedy. It matters not what the laws of man may be—the laws of justice, the laws of morality, the laws of nature, or even the laws of God, surely do not compel two poor victims of