DESERET NEWS: Most men and women marry to get companionship. The thing tht lures them into the bondage of matrimony is neither romance nor the sex appeal. What they fall for is the prospect of getting some one to whom they can talk endlessly. Somebody who will laugh at their jokes and encore their stories.

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The era of advice to the lovelorn had arrived. Daily doses of Dorothy Dix advised men and women on how to maintain their marriage and rear their children. Dix tended to put the onus on women, as above, to go the extra mile to keep the matrimonial wheels well oiled.

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