MAN’S WAP EFFORT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25277, 14 July 1943, Page 4

MAN’S WAP EFFORT

OFFER OF MARRIAGE (Air Mail) SYDNEY, June 29. An unusual'.'contribution to the war effort was the offer of a middle-aged bachelor in a New South Wales country town to marry a war widow with one or two children. -. The offer was made through the administrator of the Dalwood Children’s Home, Sydney. The prospective bridegroom is’ a tradesman in a reserved occupation, and he is willing to make a home. He is anxious to provide education, fatherly interest and affection for the son of some soldier killed in the present war. He stresses this would be the main object of the marriage. “I have been debarred from military service and feel that this would be my real war effort,” he said. Abandoned by both his parents as a baby, the man said he was brought up in an orphanage; He had never married because he had never met the “right woman.” f

Dr A. H. Martin, a psychologist, said that such a marriage has more than en average chance of enduring happiness. A marriage based on the idea of giving, rather than getting, was psychologically sound.