Lucky Marriages

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 10 February 1906, Page 11

Lucky Marriages

“She is a lucky girl!” \Vha has not overheard this remark at a smart and fashionable wedding when the bride’s gown is a thing of splendour, and the list of wedding presents is exception dly long? Generally it is when the husband 1 as money and position that lookers-or. — who in this case do not sec most of the game —credit the girl he marries as a lucky girl. And yet good luck in marriage dees not mean money, position, lv?jilty, or' any such outward things. Love and harmony- alon • mean happiness. Good easy surroundings may add their ccmforts, but alon? they are as nothing. Yet every young vlrl will hope to marry and have plenty of money. Often it happens that, thinking so much of this, she loses the substance of :< “lucky marriage” in grasp ng for its gilded shadow. How foolish it is to start out with the idea of making a wealthy’ marriage. And not only foolish, but wrong. On every side are emphatic warnings, for unhappy’ marriages, alas! are everywhere to be found. Yet no heed is paid to them. The girl who would make a “lucky marriage” does not-always get at the source of good lit k which comes from the natures of the two people themselves, but in her own inexperienced mind she takes it for granted that if she lias wealth she will lie cont-nt. And she concludes that the man who bestows all this upon her cannot be otherwise than supremely happy.