TESTING WAR WEDDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17139, 19 April 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

TESTING WAR WEDDINGS.

WILL THEY PROVE SUCCESSFUL.

The testing time of the war weddings has twae, says a writer in a London paper. Tlie romance is over, the daily fear past, the everyday troubles, ahead. Si'in our captains and lieutenants will heroine ordinary civilians. In many cases the problem is intensified ■ because the war brides, have taken up well- ■ paid war work. Although married thev have been independent/ women. It will : be a trial to them to give up interesting I work, make a home, and be dependent. ! fin the small income of a man making j either business start or are start. Besides, i the army has led most, officers into a ' more expensive way of life. They will | now have to reconcile first-class tastes i with a tliird-clasj income. | I have no fear for the. genuine love I matches. Devoted couples will /nee anvI thing together. Tim brave young folk I will pull through. , Hut I am dubious about many of the j hasty weddings—when the girl was drown 1 by the clamour of a uniform and the man ' merely necatiso he bad met an attractive ! girl and could marry her without tho i slightest. feeling of responsibility. It is impossible that the girl may find her war hero a very ordinary person. And often a man after his marriage lias as an ..llicer met women o;' a different, social gi.ide and has been able to mako comparisons. lie will want more than inern | pr«-tt mess from his wife ami it is very ' possible he may be disappointed. Then there are the rnanv who have been fai'Muited by Uio army life. Judging by rnv own acquaintances, many young oflli-i't-s' one dread is being demobilised. Thev like (.lie army life and wish to stay in the service. Yet how can the married among thorn maintain wives and families ,00 their ordinary pay without war | allowances !