MARRIAGES WHICH MAKE HOMES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2901, 25 June 1925, Page 1

MARRIAGES WHICH MAKE HOMES.

Every marriage docs not make a home. There ore some men and women who have not the faculty for home-making', and there are others who, in their dangerously exclusive enthusiasm for each other, forget that a real home is not merely an entrancing retreat from the world, writes Margaret Gaston, in I lie London “Daily Mail.'" It may he that, of course, when the lovers wish to he so, hut if it is never more than that it becomes gradually artificial and languid. - Home is a centre of human life, and to its kindness, its matured knowledge, its comprehending welcome, people whose lives are not centralised turn with lively gratitude. Tt takes a man and a woman io make a home. Men rarely try to make homes by themselves. Women try, and their efforts arc courageous and touching, hut never quite successful. So it is one of the pleasant duiics of the happily married (o make for their friends ;i rallying point of good companionship. This can grow only out of the harmony of their own love for each other—a love that widens into ever-increas-ing sympathies and generosities as the years go by. Tn modern marriage the necessity for diverse as well as mutual interests is healthily recognised. Man and woman go separately away from, home if they wish. Each brings hack a current of fresh thought and the content felt beneath their own roof never verges ,m stagnation. To he a child of such a home is to he an extremely fortunate young person. To visit such a home is to find mental refreshment and a hen rt-warming demonstration ot the environment that love, at its wisest and best, can create. Even to think of such a home at a distance is tin inspiration. Men and women who have concent rated their own experience in Mich a great achievement have nothing to fear. Even if their days of high romance should he over it does not matter. The marriages which make homes are never broken.