Marriage in France. has always /boon:"'arranged" by. the parents of [the young' couple, and arranged with' regard to position, prosperity, family. connections, and general Jcharacteristics. All' very satisfactory om the whole. But now along comes the famous Dr. Edgar Ber~ ilian, of Paris, who has been studying humanity for more years than most men live, with a few deductions as to how fo minimize any hazard to unhappiness in marriages of love jor of arrangement, His deductions are for the world in general, and may be set forth before long in a ponderous volume. Briefly they all centre in this maxim. "Obey racial impulse."
If you are of Latin oigin, see that you fall in love or bid your daughter fall in love with a Eatin. Anglo-Saxons are for Anglo-Saxons only.
It is the strange admixtures. of international. marriages which have tangled the world and made it what itis to-day. The ideal marriage is between a man and woman whose ancestors: dwelt in the same areas, had the same ealture, the same customs and religions for generations. It is, he believes, impossible to wipe lout diferent racial characteristics between the 160 baste races of Europe, like is always seeking like land re-establishing the mere type, Iso why not- discourage the exceptions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.