Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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Modern Screen Can You Safeguard Marriage? (Continued from page 87) She believes that it is wholesome — and fun, besides — for a husband and wife to get away somewhere now and then together, just the two of them — "with no friends or relations." "Things sort of adjust themselves, the atmosphere clears, you get better acquainted with each other — " She believes that it is fatal for a man and wife to spend too much time in each other's company. "No one can bear it to be too much with anyone else, however dear. . . ." They should have outside interests, as many friends as possible, as many diverse things to think about as they can contrive. *TPHESE precautions, she declares, are not extraordinary "safeguards" for marriage. They are merely steps which should be taken by anyone, married or single, to insure a normal, cheerful existence. They agree, Carole and Bill, upon a fairly simple code. "The only thing of which you can be sure is today. Tomorrow is purely problematical. Make today as lovely as you can, laugh as much as you can — this day is your only sure possession !" Both of them are individualists. Each would resent, bitterly, the attempt of anyone else to encroach upon his personal freedom, his right to decide things for himself. Neither believes in the family as a close-knit unit, the members of which are interdependent upon each other for anything. Both, however, have made concessions in these matters in their day. . . . Whatever may be happening in their emotional life, Carole admires Bill intensely. She quotes him constantly, with deep respect for his opinions and his habits of thinking. "Bill knotvs about words !" she told me. "He has a passion for them. He pores over dictionaries and he has given me a respect for language that I never dreamed of before. . . ." They have long, intense discussions of everything under the sun. "It is so grand," Carole sighs, "to have somebody with whom you can talk, with whom you can exchange ideas. You find out what you think about things, yourself. Your opinions take shape !" Knowing" the pair of them, I am convinced that if anything ever happens to separate them, ' it will happen quickly and with no nonsense. There will be no dawdling and complaining and running to their friends to tell their troubles. They are pretty adult people and they will not be frightened by astrologers or the opinions of their friends or the gossip of their enemies. When Carole tells me, "We are all right — now," I believe her. She is not one to lie. But I shan't prophesy about that marriage. I am no astrologer ! ALTHOUGH RIT IS SO INEXPENSIVE, IT'S A PRICELESS HELP THESE DAYS. WHITE RIT, THE ORIGINAL COLOR REMOVER, TAKES OUT SPOTS AND STAINS FROM WHITE GOODS AND REMOVES ALL COLORS HARMLESSLY— EVEN BLACK. YOU MOTHERS NEEDN'T BE AFRAID TO USE IT ON THE GIRLS* GOOD DRESSES. RIT TINTS THEM BEAUTIFULLY WITHOUT STREAKING OR SPOTTING AND DOESN'T TAKE THE LIFE OUT OF SILK. IT'S REALLY MARVELOUS. At all drug and notion counters — 33 smart Paris shades that last like fast dyes. Also WHITE RIT — the original color remover. NO LONGER A SOAP — RIT NOW DISSOLVES COMPLETELY 95