But to my mind any state of affairs, even a Reno state of affairs, looks more encouraging than the old conditions under which innocent girls married to rakes and drunkards were forbidden to escape their chains.

It is not for the good of children to be born of disease and misery and hatred.

It is not for their good to be brought up in an atmosphere of hopeless inharmony.

What is happening in this country is not a weakening of the marriage bond, but a strengthening of it.

For soon there will grow up in the American man's mind a desire for a marriage which will be at least as equitable as a business partnership; as fair to one party as to the other.