TRIAL MARRIAGES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 3

TRIAL MARRIAGES.

LADY BARRETT S ADVICE. THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER. LONDON, November 16. Trial marriage and all other forms of sexual adventure before marriage were strongly condemned by Lady (Florence) Barret, the woman doctor, at a lunch-liour address to business girls at Wesley’s Chapel yesterday. The address was one of a series arranged by the Alliance of Honour. “Whether you like it or not,” said Lady Barrett, “what goes on before marriage is going to make an enormous difference to your marriage. If you are to judge rightly about the type of man you are to marry, you have to have a complete as. to what marriage means. “You read books in which experienced people advocate trial marriages. I suggest that if such ‘marriages’ are entered into, you are destroying the perfection of true marriage, and all the people who know will tell you this is a fact. “On the other hand, young people should have companionship, frankness, and free out-of-door amusements witli each other if they want to know something of each others character, and also whether their characters are such that they will fit into one another. “Nothing but companionship with a- man wjl tell you whether he is going to look upon you as an equal or as a slave. After all, what matters in marriage is the character of the two people who marry, and not their material positions.”