WHY PEOPLE MARRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 273, 19 November 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHY PEOPLE MARRY.

Car'ous Instances of the Causes Which Captured Husbands.

It would be an interesting and instructive lesson, says an English paper, if, in a community of married people representing various social grades, we could request the i.divid.ae both husbands and wives, to inform us clearly and truthfully of the reasons which induced them to select their respective partners for life. It would be found in many instances the most insignificant trifles had influenced many of them in this most delicate matter.

As an instance in point, take the case of the wealthy young Quaker who married his wife simply because she was the possessor of a pin-cushion ! Here is the story : He had been out, and his necktie became disarranged, when, happening to meet two young ladies of his own persuasion with whom he was acquainted, he inquired whether either of them could give Trim a pin. One of the girls immediately produced from her pocket a natty little pincushion full of pins, which she handed to hiir with a bewitching smile. It is more than probable that this smilo and the good looks of the fair donor had a good deal to dp with the young fellow's choice, as he proposed to her and was accepted the next day. But he always sturdily maintained that he was influenced at the time by nothing more than the pinrcushion,. Another illustration from life: A welleducated and intelligent gentleman,, on being asked bow he came to select the young woman who eventually became his wife, and whom he had first met in a wellknown drapery establishment,replied: ''Because I observed how pimbly, yet gracefully, she mounted a ladder." We once heard of a young man who remarked that he had chosen his wife—an amiable, highly accomplished girl and a splendid vocalist—" Just because ehe had eaten such a hearty dinner at a picnic." .

Hundreds of eimilar cases could be adduced, but the foregoing examples will show what small matters may influence many in their choice of a life partner.