LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Evening Star, Issue 14516, 7 November 1910, Page 4

LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Talk of cynical man! He will never be to worldly wise as a score of anonymous ladies who tell us what they think of love. A fashion paper (says tho Paris correspondent of the 'Telegraph') has iustib.ted a cone* pondenea among iis readers, which seems tc have caught '•)! considerably, io jadgo by tb* page:- of' questions and copious answer* Koine corre..poi:dcnfcs want to knew howio make gooseberry jam or mend a china flower pot. Put ose of them sigß3 "Love at and asks for appropriate inform*. tion. She is twvaad-twftaty. She loves tha wrong man, and she hates the man who loves her, and whom iifir paresis want her to many. Shall she marry the man die hzfeeS) or (iio a maid.? .Oven cynical man would hesitate to answer " Marry." Tlio rntwmm majority of ihe kulies, however, who veplf in ilie paper ur.rter cover of ennoos pseudonyms, .say ia substance, "Many the r..nn you hate. 'Love is not of the sijgfctesfc impwince for ittaxatd." "Bain* how" advises: '" >'oa have no sympathy ft* the youup: man, but rf you etarry Mm he -,v"!'i eeridhiiy cease to he ind;ff r avhlt." Tba iady writes tlus without any coercions hmtmr. "in time you will certainly lrara to kwo him. 1 have a friend who wis esaciSy ia yov.r po-iition. She has bean married three year.-. ar,d has two charmirij babies, ami sayg she ia quite hippy." The hist remark is cso« '.!'o:. a . Another adviser writes: "Toubavew idea whs! a bore an affectionate husband becomts. -Msrriaae and !:we don't ft* eny lerf'tii of time. Mutual «3tsem *> fl» real four.dat ion of marriage." *Marry by all norms'' :-?.vs a lady who signs' herself '•Shy DaiV; ""don't let- the chanes go byv TMa't sniff' at it. In a few years year romaatic notions will away, aid vou will acknr.w;w3 f -o t'sat rsmanba passion hj r-1! nonsc-.-e, and that tba Jjjj,. r ,.;,i !],T3p:'nr:rs i 5 l~> hare a cornfftrtahlft hoi?:s.'"f krow fr <-■:•) c.-rperience," Yet a». other worl<liy-w;.-o lady writes: G-ris Vive- ail w-'-ts of wrong Bottom about m.irr,.'t(r3. They think the passion of their betrothal days is jroicg to last for ever. Ilnpf ir-e-s may last, but passion doesn't, because life does away with it. Very often the nicest men to be engaged to make tlio worst habsands. You dorrt love the young man, hot if he cares for vou he will be nice to you, and yon trill ifko him and end by caring for him. One of my friends hated the man she married, and now slie thanks me for having persuaded her to marry him. What rational, sensible souk these FrentSi ladies are!