rules which govern other partnerships. Let us be just to the deserter,
be he man or woman, before we are sentimentally generous to
the deserted.

And don't let us be _too_ sure that we know all the facts in these
separation cases. It is human nature to fix up outward appearances for
the benefit of the passer-by.

Seek rather to _understand_. Condemn not.

Has any one told you it is lucky to be married?

I hasten to inform you it is just as lucky to be divorced, and I know
it.



CHAPTER XIV.

THE OLD, OLD STORY.

This is the springtime, when fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love and
everybody wants to go a-soul-mating. Consequently my mail is leavened
with letters from those who are unhappily married but who are sure they
have got their eye on the One who from the foundation of the ion was
intended for them. They all want to leave the old mis-mate and go to the
new found soul mate, and they all want my advice and encouragement--to
do it! Some of these writers have already left their husbands (?) and
want to know whether or not they should go back, or go on. To one such I
wrote the following letter, which I publish in the hope that it will