y those who have known each other for a few days only before marrying for life. A minister of religion stated quite recently, "I have had

itional, except under very special reasons, on the woman and the man having been engaged for a fixed and sufficiently long period. I would recommend this reform to all ecclesiastical opposers of divorce. Betrothal should

ding increase on the pre-war rate. A large percentage of the marriages which are dissolved by the court have been contracted since August, 1914. Petition after petition is filed praying for the dissolution of marriages which should never have been made. English law m

The unhappiness and failure in many marriages looms before us a colossal, an unprecedented and menacing