QUEER MARRIAGES

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 6

QUEER MARRIAGES

COMMON SENSE VERSUS JUDGMENT OF THE EYE. Whatever the idealists may say, there are many methods! of chobsing a wife (writes .Horace Newte in the London ’Daily Mail). - I knew a desirable man who was so harassed by the charming girls about him thab ha puit their names in a halt and asked his young sister to .draw one out. He proposed to the owner 'of tors, was accepted, and! the marriage 4s an outstanding success in every wav. Another man 'I knew loved peace and .quiet. Perhaps that was why Its married a deaf and dumb girl So .far as I know, he never regretted his choice. Not long ago I heard of a man who lived with ihi. s brother for years. But direbt'ly his brother was married he went to a dance and proposed to the first girl bet danced with. She accepted Id lll , and when he was asked why he got married he Irkplied, “ Because my brother did.” .1 once melt a happily-married man who told me of Ithe subtle way in whiich he had chosen ,a wife. Realising that he bad ndt tliiai time or the nerve to train the modern young woman, he looked about for a girl with a selfish mother. After two yearls' search ha discovered one who was having a hard timg at home. Although the mother had money the girl had to do all the housework, and was bullied from morning to night. But her lib'shand It old me she had rn#te the bedt of wives. Stole had never known the meaning of kindness, and .he had to say only one kind word ,to make her blissfully happy; and if he toiok her occasionally to the pictures she thought sl’nja was having the time of her life. Quite a reasonably hajppy marriage I know of is that in which the proud husband was so sea-red by Ithe .pain® and troubles attending the selection of a wife that h)a persuaded his mother to dO' it for him. The mother was shrewd, and, after considering carefully their likely acquaintances, she made liter choice, and proposed for her son. d suppose that the succgsg of what some folk would oafl unromanltic marriages is due 'to the fact Ithat the man who If alls in love is led by the eye, whereas with the other sort common Sense hag a say in this matter.