THEORIES OF MARRIAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2456, 19 November 1886, Page 2

THEORIES OF MARRIAGE.

A new theory of suitability in marriago ia offered by Mr Howolls" " Rev David Sewell" in the current cheapness of "A Minister's_ Charge," or, if not a new theory, it is at least an expression of an unformulated idea growing in popular feeliugs of lato years. This is, that it is much better for a woman to marry a man' who is not quite up to her in intellectual development than for a man to marry a women of much less mental stature. A man has more chance to grow mentally after marriage than a woman, according to the Howells-Sewell philosophy, and, if his wife is noticeably inferior to begin with ho is very likely to grow quite away from her, and thus lose any possibility of an intellectual companionship with her. If, on the other hand, she is somowhat superior at the start, she is likely to lead hiui upwards towards a real companionship. The Rev. Mr Sewell grows very earnest in this number, too, about the pernicious idea that a man and woman ought to go on with a proposed marriage from a falso idea of honour after one of them has disoovared that the beat possibilities for either an not to be realised in such a. marriage.