THE PERILS OF PEACE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE PERILS OF PEACE.

And never will those qualities Le more needed than in the near future. There are, no doubt, before most of us, after the last shot lias been tired, years of poverty and struggle when we shad require all that the war has taught us of work and thrift and self-denial, before times of ease and plenty come "o us again; and the success with which we shall emerge from these dark years will depend very largely on what the war lias taught our women, and the use they make of its lessons. Nor iii the forecast of the future must we overlook the part the man of middlcage may play in it. Beyond a douiit many a man who has settled down tj a life of so-called "single blessedness" will feel the call of duty, throw off their selfishness, and take to himself a wife; and ki the majority of cases the woman lie chooses will need no sympathy. There are many worse things possible to a young woman than to marry :i man who has outlived the follies and instability of youth, who has shed youth's illusions and who has the means "and the will to provide a comfortable home and an assured future for nis wife. Such a marriage may lack romance- but it may well Ik- happy and enviable. As Dorothy Dix truly says, "no convention in the world is more absurd than counting a person's age by years —we see many happy marriages full ot congeniality and comradeship where there is great disparity in age between husband and wife; and many unhappy and uncongenial matches where almost the only thing that the couple seem to hava in common is the fact that tliev have lived about the same length of time."—Sheffield Weekly Telegraph.