They illumine the way of life with a peculiar glow.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning sang: "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! Our ministering two angels look surprise On one another as they strike athwart Their wings in passing." but her union with Robert Browning showed that they were nearer alike than in her sad humility she had fancied.

Jonas Lie, the Norwegian novelist, and his gifted wife, it is said, "knew the felicity of a perfect union," and he himself has testified, "If I have ever written anything of merit, my wife has as great a share in it as myself, and her name should appear on the title-page as collaborator." The joint discoveries of the Curies are well known, linking husband and wife together in a great gift to humanity.

In humbler circles of the gifted and the talented the married couples are becoming more numerous each decade whose work as well as whose affection binds them together.
=The Supreme Satisfactions of Successful Marriage.=--Take it all in all, although no particular marriage may be "made in heaven," the sort of union that monogamic marriage has worked out at its highest reaches is without a rival in depth of feeling, in satisfaction of association, in wealth of comradeship, and in social value as a foundation for family life and for initial training toward social serviceableness.

No wise person can do aught to lessen its opportunity for ethical drill, or for that due mingling of attraction and duty which make all the vital associations of human beings helps toward the higher life.

No wise person will continue in the ancient error of mistaking show for substance in these weighty matters.
All who believe that the family is an institution whose gift to the social order is not yet outgrown and whose possibilities of social value are not yet fully developed, must work to make the right marriages easier to secure, and the wrong ones less easy to be consummated, and to purge the ideals of home of selfishness and of superficiality by constant portrayal of the best in the married life.
The stage and the moving picture should more often portray the world's marriage successes rather than perpetual reproductions of the marriage failures.