ROMANTIC MARRIAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

ROMANTIC MARRIAGES.

SOME STRANGE ORIGINS.

•* WE MET AT THE ZOO."

Husbands and wives have been set thinking of their first meeting by a lonely girl's letter, published recently in London, in the Daily Express. Sho laments her uncongenial singleness, and asks in what magic circumstances lovers first meet.

There is no place, it seems, and no golden rule. Romanco has been discovered at the dullest dinner party, or on the top of an omnibus on a wet night.

Miss Sybil Thorndike, for instance, first, met her husband, Mr. Lewis Casson, at the Dublin Zoo. They found themselves together at a lion's cage, and their casual conversation that ensued by ft mere chance was the beginning of a romance that ended in the happiest of mar-

riages. Lady Tree first saw the great actor who was to bo 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 ho was too grandly dreamy to have remembered to go in fancy dress at all. Mrs. Thomas Hardy was her lato husband's secretary before sho was his wife. Theirs was one of the numberless marriages that aro the result of a business relationship. This kind of marriage in often the happiest. A man and woman who can work amicably and well together have a good chanco of making ft successful borne.

But tiio most romantic marriages of oil are those that are the outcome of pure chanco. A meeting in a train, Bomo courtesy extended to a stranger in a difficulty, a storm of rain, a dog-fight—-anything in the world may lie the occasion of the first meeting.

There is no need for the girl who ha 3 no brothers and few friends to believe romance can never come her way. It will meet her where she least expects to find it.