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way, and nobody can say what stand a woman will take in the
matter. I think that if a girl loves a man she will marry him wheth
er he is handsome or not handsome, brainy or not brainy, wealthy
or poor and proud. As an impartial judge I think that John is
right when he says that there is a type of women who really do
look ahead before their wedding day, yet what, Jim has said is hone
the less true. It is a serious fault in our "American civilization that
girls know so little about their husbands before they marry them.”
Old Judge Osburn, father of the three boys, had been lounging
in his Morris chair in front of the fire-place, listening to the conver
sation. The judge was usually gay, happy and jovial, but a tpuch
of rheumatism during the past week had made him somewhat peev
ish and cynical. “You are right, my boy,” he said when Harry fin
ished-, “and for the yet-y reason that young" people in love do not
look ahead, We find the cause for so many divorce cases on the dock
et every term -pf court. y jt was only the other day,” he went on,
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“ that a friend of mine was-telling me that he believed that one out.
o f almdsVevfery two partiesto a marriage contract gets cheated.”
The fdiscuMon would"'1 perhaps have' continued ad infinitum,
but Mrs. (Jsburn announced, at that moment, that dinner was.wait
ing and the argument was a t ah end.
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The three Osburn brother's ‘were a remarkable trio, sons of an
-exceptionally brilliant father and mother, but the most remarkable
thing about them was that they were triplets.
1 ^.s ,b.bys, the three had essentially the same characteristics,
which they nbw manifested. John was quiet, reserved and a book
worm. He was kind and generous with everybody yet there was a
reserve about him which kept everybody from really understanding
him except those few who had cultivated an intifhate acquaintance.
Jim had always 'been excessively fond of life and sports, yet he was
as tenderhearted and affectionate as either of his brothers. Harry
was the life and wit of the family.' He was always fond of read
ing and even more fondj of talking The Osburn boyiy as children,
were not only the pride of tjieiu parents, but also Of the entire neigh
borhood.
In their boyhood days the three had been inseparable, so close
was their bond of brotherhood. Through their high school and
college days this sameTnotherly affection had existed and now, even