The Archive · 1939

Wedding Hazard

"tu contrast the papers today report the wedding of a young couple in Essex, who announced that they would have no music in church, no flowers, no frolicsome but costly frills of any sort. Economy is their watchword, no starting their married in debt, And he ts only 22 she 39, If these things are done in the fron tree... Con you not imagine them as the years oon? No pan-tommies or Christmas dinners for the children; no seaside trips in summer; only a banking account added to stealthily year by year, and the house growing colder and colder as the mile of human Kindness dries in their withered breast Lord and Lady George Scott The most interesting wedding of St. Margaret's, West minster, on December be said for sowing of wild oats, everything to De said for having "good ting from time to time. Tam sure it is 0 great mistake not to buy something that you very much want when you have the "chance, Probably you will manage the payment all right even ually, If not, Ht will make no dite Foeonce in the ultimate bankruptey, Which of course is a most immoral doctrine. "'Pereunt et imputantur—"you have to pay for your fun." But the point x that you have had your fun." The thought of a 19-year-old filet being such a horrid little pri as to have a drab wedding merely save money is simply nauseating.

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