Boy and girl marriages, so common during the war, have become very much rarer in England in these more stringent times. The experience of those best competent to judge is that both the 1920 bride and bridegroom are older than their predecessors who sought the services of the clergy and the registrars in the hectic days of the war.
The reasons are not far to seek.
is Norah March, a well-known authority on social questions, discussing the subject with a "Daily News" representative, pointed out' that marriage had experienced the inevitable reactions of the post-war period. Naturally, those weddings which were a direct result of the abnormal conditions of 1914-18 had come to an end. The factors_making for the "wildly romantic' matches ceased to operate.
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