SOME STRANGE MATINGS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 August 1930, Page 2

SOME STRANGE MATINGS

“WE MET AT THE ZOO.” Husbands and wives have been get thinking, of their first meeting bv a lonely girl’s letter, published recently m London in the “Daily Express.” She laments her uncongenial singleness, and asks in what magic cireoinstances lovers first meet.

There is no place, it seems, and no golden ruiie. Romance has been discovered at the dullest dinner party, or ■on top of an omnibus on a wet night. Miss Svbil Thorndvke. for instance, first met heir, husband, Mr Lewis -Caisson, at the Dublin Zoo>. They found themselves together at a lion’s cage, and their casual conversation tint ensued by a, more chance was the beginning of a romance that ended in the happiest of marriages. Lady Tree first saw the great actor who was to be her husband, the late Sir Herbert Tree, at a fancy dress ball. “It is so long ago,” she said in telling the story “that I remember little about it except that it was our first meeting. I don’t remember even where it was, or what we both wore. I expect lie was too grandly dreamy to go infancy dress at all.”

Mrs Thomas Hardy was her late husband’s secretary before she was his wife Theirs was one. of the numberless marriages that are thei result of ai business relationship. This kind of marriage is often the happiest. A man and woman who can work amicably anid! well together ho-ve a good chance of making a successful home.

But the most romantic marriages of all are those that are the outcome of puro chance. A meeting in a. train, some Courtesy extended to ai stranger in a. difficulty, a storm of rain, a'dogfight—anything in the world may be the occasion of the first meeting. There* is no, need for the girl who has no brothel's and few friends to believe romance can never come her way. It will meet her where she least expects to find it.