WEDDED BLISS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 5

WEDDED BLISS.

< NEW COMMANDMENTS. ALWAYS BE MODERATE. LET WIFE HAVE HER SAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO. May 24. 1 In California, where the divorce habit runs riot among American families, a (striking British example of wedded bliss ’ has just been afforded by two natives ’ of the Midlands of England, Mr. and i Mrs. Walter W. Rowley, who were married in Birmingham 55 years ago. ’ The fifty-fifth anniversary of their wedding was made the motive of a big , celebration in San Francisco ard much J attendant publicity in the metropolitan I Press. Rowley said there arc three ‘ commandments, not ten, for happy mar- (. ried life. 1 He tabulated these commandments - as follows: “(1) Let your wife have her 1 say so and don’t contradict her; (2) 3 maintain family religious observance, . The family altar and its ideals help e keep the home together; (3) be moderate 1 in all things, even in your opinions.” :l His wife —the Louisa whom he marg ried more than half a century ago, and 1 who was his childhood sweetheart before that—beamed £is Rowley spoke, and a tinkled off a few bars of “Silver s Threads Among the Gold” on the piano, r Rowley said he learned the rules from e his parents, who celebrated their gulden o wedding anniversary. o American Citizens. o- A retired business man, Rowley said s he “always tried to be a gentleman” at n- home as well as outside. His three g children, all born in England, but now v American citizens, and four grandchildren and the in-laws participated in v the family dinner party io help the old n folk celebrate the fifty-fifth wedding 4 anniversary. )S His only son is Walter W. Rowley, display manager at San Francisco’s ° largest department store, The Em-

porium, in the heart of the business centre on Market Street. Both his daughters married brothers and live in San Francisco district. The elder Rowley and his wife camel from England, where he had been man-1 ager of an iron foundry, in 1901. and. settled in San Francisco. He engaged in several lines of business before he retired a number of years ago. Both he and Mrs. Rowley are 79 years of age. They met as children when their parents’ were neighbours in Birmingham.