WIFELY DISCIPLINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 11

WIFELY DISCIPLINE

URGING ESSENTIAL TO CAREER A LONDON DEBATE In debating the question, “Is marriage an essential discipline for a successful professional career?” at Gray’s Inn, London, on July 20, Mr. Justice Eve took the negative and Colonel Robert Loraine the affirmative. The former said: “I was born for the sole purpose of pleasing myself, and the word ‘discipline’ and all it implies is anathema to me.” He therefore had a profound doubt about the veracity of the proposition that marriage was essential to success. Remarking that the discipline of holy matrimony cast dark shadows before it, the judge drew a humorous picture of the various episodes between courtship and marriage. He describes the making of a marriage settlement which deprived the male of the control of every penny of his money and left him with only the suit he stood up in, another to sit down

in, and his pyjamas—a delightful condition, he said, for a man who was about to make his way in a difficult profession. Colonel Loraine said that St. Paul declared in favour of marriage, because “It is better to marry than to burn.” But it was to be observed that he chose the uncomfortable alternative himself. In these days persistent obstinacy was required to reach the higher levels of success, and the vacilating male was handicapped by the lack of iron resolution when harsh and unconscionable decision had to be made. Often would he relent and” waver without the irresistible force slow, but sure, of domstic pressure.