DEFIED CONVENTION

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 17

DEFIED CONVENTION

! - :■.:■- ■ ; HuiaSatgood J ;€io§:.A Lead To ; Modern Wirls For some reason or other the cable announcement of a dramatic turn of events m the overseas romance of Miss Huia Sargood was withheld from the Dunedin newspapers. It was rather a shame, because outside of the movies we seldom enjoy the thrill of a society girl combating the combined forces of Convention,Superstition and Mother Grundy, by holding high to the world the banner of her own wedded happiness.

HTHAT'S what Miss Sargood was brave 1 enough to do a few days before Christmas m the Big Smoke, and 3'ou may be sure that all her Dunedin friends pass her the glad hand-shake for baring her heart to the world m so doing. :• •: ■- ■■- ■.."■■•'■ ■" ' . ■'■; '.. Besides there is a delectable thrill m reading, of one of bne's. o\yn countrywomen; having th.e.\courage.tto alter her choice of husband,' veritably under the very nose of the parson, isn't there 'girls? ■.. : When Huia Sargood's .engager nient was announced, the name of.- : . Captain Valle Pope, Royal Artillery; ' was mentioned as the ' happy hubby-to-be, and two weeks before the proposed -wedding at Savoy Church, that hopeful took out a marriage licence. But Huia's heart must have 'belonged elsewhere, for just a little time before . the .: wedding she took out a special licence to allow her to breast the altar with Lt. Lan Lawrence Mackillop," of the ' Royal Engineers, and a . New Zealahder.; . Two days before this arrangement, Captain Pope had told the church authorities that all was m order for his marriage, to Miss Sargood! ; "The other one is off!" — was the explanation given by. the Maoriland maid. "It was entirely a mistake." Could anything. be more candid? Apart from" her sensational reselectibri on the eve of her marriage, Miss Sargood created a big stir by attiting herself * for the wedding m a green\ dress and coat, with hat to match. ■■'■'.. ■■•'■.•■•'■ Furthermore, she took along with her to cthe church a pet airedale dog which upset the solemn peace of the moment by giving vent to canine cacophony until he released himself from hiis tether at the church door. 'Miss Sargood married the man she wanted as a husband, and if, the social writers of^ some papers thought her behavior too ■ utterly unorthodox for "wedding bells" columns, the editor oosf s the ' London "Daily Express" considered her wedding episode worth a leader. He remarked: . "Miss Sargood set an

s example which doubtless many wives > wisn vney -nad followed . ." . they I never take the benefit of second t thought once they are engaged. - •■.. > "There is a vast, many-sided, AvelL-r** » nigh irresistible social pressure whtps£ propels:- marri^ge'^r. . ■.;££ -aiii^, gil33p t would-be libfetterltor-Wa^Mjan ;'^yentj^^ . hour ' cltS'iig^anai^Ge'. ffie^b&fiaj&r aii&~- --■ gossip,. : th.^l:p : ig^f^# .. Iy to embark oh : *an experiment m : which doubts already begin to arise."