OFFICE WEDDINGS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4723, 11 July 1924, Page 1

OFFICE WEDDINGS.

O WHY TREY ARE SUCCESSFUL. WIDE, FACILITIES TO STUDY. When woman first went n-to a bust? ness. office Cupid < naturally followed., The woman who meets her future husband here has this advantage : she can-study him in his relation to his business, a phase of a man’s character of which other women know little until after the honeymoon. Watching him during day after day of routine, she will be in no doubt whether he is a worker or an idler, a white man or one to be passed by on the other side, states a Writer in the “Sydney Sunday Times'.” x His !( powers of judgment, of decision in critical circumstances, of self-con-, trol, will be revealed to her. Other, women in private life may discover, whether, the man who has awakened in them something more than mere interest is placid or hot-headed; an easy-going,, happy-go-lucky fellow, or, a bullying tyrant. The business woman makes these discoveries about the business man ’while she compares him' with other men who, share his duties; The manner in which his office work is performed is a fair test of the man’s worth—and of the woman’s. Wide as is the difference between the atmosphere of the office and that of the home, the woman who is destined to make a good wife will give infallible. , signs of that, destiny as she follows out . the daily, programme of unroman,tic business duties. Especially fortunate is her hus-band-to-be if he can. .observe his wife as she, reveals herself in the capacity of manager—as >an overseer and director, of the, work, of others. Is she prepared to make little, personal sacrifices in the, interests of ethers? Is she warm-hearted and sympathetic ? Is she-neat and conscientious ? Does she understand the meaning of economy ? Or, on the other hand, is she a shirker, continually calculating how little work will earn her weekly wage ? Is she self-opinionated, overbearing in her dealings with the juniors ? The man has only himself to blame if daily experience does not satisfy him on these points. The office wedding is far less likely to be a failure than many a marriage with more romantic preliminaries.