ENGAGED COUPLES.
| A BISHOP'S ApiCE. The Bishop of tfipon is somewhat amused by the seriousness with which' numerous people have taken his suggestion' that homes ehpuid be started for engaged couples, in which, they might be taught the duties of their future life. " Yet, though I 'have no immediate intention," he told a newspaper representative recently, "of starting such a borne, and I am really not now engaged in drawing up its cu-raouhira, there was something serious under my httle joke. lam astoriiehe4'at the fashion in which modern girls- .pass the days before their marriage. A whirl of excitement about clothes arid preisente, a round of farewell parties, winding up with a ball the night before, the wedding— ,is that' a good preparation for a wedding-day and for the honeymoon afterwards? Can you wonder at tho hysteria, 'tempers,'' and a score of little ills of which.' vo<u hearlater? I have seen girls faint during their wedding ceremony from pure nervous fatigue caused by the gaieties and excitement of the previous ' days. " Though I cannot undertake to start a -horn© for them, I would have erigaged young ,folkpafes the days before their marriage soberly and quietly, and start out fcr a honeymoon fresh and healthy and happy.?' ' '■' j
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8678, 19 July 1906, Page 2
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207ENGAGED COUPLES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8678, 19 July 1906, Page 2
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