A Weighty Question.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 61

A Weighty Question.

A Paris fashion paper has instituted a correspondence on the subject of love. A woman who signed her letter “Love or Death,” explained that she loves the wrong man, and she hates the man who loves her, and whom her parents want her to marry. Shall she marry the man she hates, or die a maid? The immense majority of the ladies who reply say in substance, “Marry the man you haite. Love in not of the slightest importance for getting married.” “Rainbow” advises, “You have no sympathy for the young man, but if you marry him he will certainly cease to be indifferent.” Another adviser writes: —“You have no idea what a bore an affectionate husband becomes. Marriage and love don’t agree for any length of time. Mutual esteem is the real foundation of marriage.” “Marry by all means,” says a lady who signs herself “Shy Daisy”; “don’t let the chanee go by. Don’t sniff at it. In a few years your romantic notions will pass away, and you will acknowledge. that romantic passion is all nonsense, and that the only real happiness is to have a comfortable home. I know from experience.” Only two correspondents advise “Love or Death” to “die a maid rather (than marry a man she doesn’t care for.”