ROMANTIC MARRIAGES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 3

ROMANTIC MARRIAGES

SOME STRANGE ORIGINS. TTncbands and wives have been set and asks in bat magic cucumstances ‘ OV S-e ft t,r place; it seen* jf d ?° crolden rule. Romance has been di covered at the dullest dinner partj, or on the top of an omnibus on a wet nl Suss Sybil Thorndyke for instance, s: and m theh GS cas°mil pversatwn that e£ sued by a mere chance was the ning of a romance that ended in the happiest of marriages. . „ Ladv Tree first saw the great actoi who was to be her husband, the late Sir Herbert Tree, at a fancy dress tall. “It is so long ago,” she said m te ling the storv “that I remembei little about it ’ except that it as our fiis meeting. I don’t remember even where it was, or what we both woie. 1 - nect he was too grandly dreamy fiavl remembered to go in fancy dress at Mrs Thomas Hardy was her late husband’s secretary before she as Ins wile. Theirs was one of the numberless mai riages that are the result of a business relationship. Tins kind of is often the happiest. A man and woman who can work amicably and well together have a good chance of making a successful home. . But the most romantic marriages of all are those that are the outcome or pure chance. A meeting in a train, some courtesv extended to a strangei ini a difficulty, a storm of ram, a dog fight—anything in the world mav Be the occasion of the first meeting. There is no need for the girl wuo has no brothers and few friends to believe romance can never come her way. It will meet her where she least expects to find it. _____