EARLY MARRIAGES.

Shannon News, 13 May 1927, Page 3

EARLY MARRIAGES.

COUNTRY’S GREATNESS DEPENDS ON THEM. “This country’s greatness depends largely upon the so-called improvident marriages of young people, who are mated at an early age> rather than upon people who wait to get married until they are 40 or 50”. With this remark Mr Scanlan, the Metropolitan magistrate, adjourned a summons at Marylebone, against a mother and father who had refused their consent to the marriage of their 19-year-old son. The parents, Mr. and Mrs Martin Schutz, of Regent’s Park, were summoned under the Guardianship of Infants Act to show cause why the Court should not give its consent to the marriage. Cecil Stuart Schutz, the son, said he wanted to marry Ella Francis Hatai (21), of Camden Town. He was a clerk, he said, and earned £3 a week, but his parents refused consent to his marriage, saying that he could not support himself, let alone a wife. Deciding to adjourn the summons for the court missionary’s opinion,' tli: magistrates said that if the missionary advised the marriage he would give hu consent.