WHERE LOVE IS BORN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 64, 11 February 1930, Page 2

WHERE LOVE IS BORN.

TRAIN AS MATCHMAKER. Where do future husbands first meet their luture wives ? Mr E. H. ’lemme, the Channel swimmer and one of 11)29’s 160,000 odd bridegrooms, lias confessed that he found his bride by picking up and restoring to her the handbag she accidentally dropped on a seaside promenade. But what of the others? What are the happiest breeding grounds of romance

Mrs Morgan, London secretary of the Y.W.C.A.. discounted the seaside romance. “There is too much playing at love by the sea (she said;, and the participants iiave their homes too far apart for th., much-overrated matchmaker to have much material result. Perhaps the greatest of all Cupid’s haunts is the suburban train, though rot the Underground, where it is too noisy. But in other trains young people see each other day after day, say ’Good morning,’ and—then comes the first invitation out. Then there are city offices where men and women work side by side all day. They have every opportunity of studying the traits of one another’s characters in detail. I believe that office marriages enjoy a high percentage of success.” A professor of psychology at London University favoured another theory : ‘‘Wherever a limited number of young people meet in a place where there is nothing to do they make love, and get married. That is the natural law, and see how it works out. The Transatlantic liners are famous for the crop of romances they produce at every crossing. More-society marriages are made at those rather dull “duty” .house parties, where the young people Join in a comradeship of boredom, than at any of the “coming-out” balls. Mothers used, a hundred years ago, openly to send their daughters to Brighton to find a husband.”