MARRIAGE M IMS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 18

MARRIAGE M IMS

WHY THEY ARE IGNORED. (By Evelyn Vivian). No advice is so liberally broatlcasl and 60 wliolesalely ignored ns axioim on marriage. The about-to-bemarrie< persist in their obstinate intentions, de spite the monosyllabic warning of Mr Punch and the long-winded fulminatiom of the philosophers. Witty shafts cynical bludgeons, sophisticated shrugs leave them unmoved. They know all about it, bless thei:

valiant hearts! Or think they do, which is’ the same thing, only more so. They know that it’s all a terrific lottery, but .they’re willing to take those individual risks that neither sermons nor satire can mitigate.

Who wants all this precious pathsmoothing serenity, anyway, when the blood flows warm in the veins and Life spells Adventure! Who wants to miss the fun of the matrimonial fair! Who wants to secape the penalties any more than the delights of adjusting one's character to a beloved personality, even though the adjusting must sometimes take place with tears no less than smiles! Who wants to be robbed of an experience that has just got to be most intriguingly different in each individual case! Who wants to be denied the psychological discoveries that only one close relationship in the whole wide world can provide! Who wants, i short, to miss either the heights or the deeps of an experience that all the maxims on earth can never make tamely safe for adventurous humanity. Not those about to-be married! You may spare your breath in regard to

affinity complexes, the new comradeship standard, the vital need for mutual interests and enthusiasms. Love puts this marriage business on its own se-

parate plane, and the success or failure of the partnership is determined by none of these modern considerations. Love doesn’t feed on logic, even if it is labelled IS2C. It is nourished, now as always, on that elusive quality we call sex attraction. That is why the marriage maxim-makers can go on talking until they are blue in the face without making the faintest impression on those about-to-be-married who have succumbed to its lure.