right person?" you ask. By recognizing
science's recent discovery to the effect that certain types can travel
helpfully, happily and harmoniously together and that certain others
never can.
What Every Individual Owes to Himself
Every individual owes it to himself to find the right work and the
right mate, because these are fundamental needs of every human being.
Lacking them, life is a failure; possessing but one of them, life is
half a failure.
To obtain and apply the very fullest knowledge toward the attainment of
these two great requisites should be the aim of every person.
Neglected Subjects
Despite the fact that these are the most vital problems pertaining to
human happiness and that every individual's life depends for its glory
or defeat, joy or sorrow upon the right settlement of them--they are two
of the most neglected.
Divorce Courts
Our divorce courts are full of splendid men and women who are there
not because they are weak or wrong, but because they stepped into
nature's age-old Instinct trap without realizing where it would lead
them.
These men and women who pay so heavy a price for their ignorance and
blindness are _not_ to blame. Most of them have been taught that to be
legally bound together was sufficient guarantee of marital bliss.
But experience has shown us that there are certain kinds of people each
individual can associate with in harmony and that there are those with
whom he could never be happy though a hundred ministers pronounced them
mated for life.
Times Will Change
But the time is coming when we will select our mates scientifically,
not merely sentimentally. It is also coming when we will know what every
child is fitted to do by looking at him, just as we know better today
than to set a shepherd dog on the trail of criminals or a bloodhound to
herd sheep.
The Great Quest
Instead of beclouding the significance and the sanity of life's great
quest; instead of encouraging every manner of mismating as we do today,
we will some day arm our children with knowledge enabling them to wisely
choose their life work and their life mate.
Dolly's Dimple
The fact that Dolly has a dimple may make your senses whirl but it is
not sufficient basis for marriage. There are things of vastly greater
importance, though of course this does not seem possible to you at the
time.
Sammy's Smile
And though Sammy sports a smile the gods might envy, he may not be t
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