QUEER MARRIAGES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1926, Page 18

QUEER MARRIAGES

Whatever the idealists may say, there are many methods of choosing a wife. I knew a desirable man who was so embarrassed by the charming girls about him that he put their names in a hat and asked his young sister to draw one out. He proposed to the owner of this, was accepted, and the marriage is an outstanding success. Another man I knew of loved peace and quiet. Perhaps this was why he 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 his brother for years. But directlv his brother got married he went to a dance and proposed to the first girl he danced with. She accepted him, and when he was asked why he got married he replied: “Because mv brother did.” I once met a happily married man who told me of the subtle way in which he bad chosen a wife. Realising that he had not the time or the nerve to train the modern young woman, lie looked about for a girl with a selfish mother. After two years’ search he discovered one who was having a hard time at home. Although the mother had monev, the girl had to do all the housework and was bullied from morning to night. But her husband told me she made the best of wives. She had never known the meaning of kindness, and he had to say only one kind word to make her blissfully happy ; and if he took her occasionally to the kinema she thought she was having the time of her life. Quite a reasonably happv marriage I know of is that in which the proud husband was so scared by the pains and troubles attending the. selection of a wife that he persuaded his mother to do it for him The mother was shrewd, and after considering carefully their likely acquaintances, she made her choice and proposed for her son. I suppose that the success of what some folks would call unromantic marriages is due to the fact that the man who falls in love is led by the eye, whereas with the other sort common sense has a say in the matter. —Horace Newte, in the “Daily Mail.”

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