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WHY THE MATRIMONIAL AGENCY IS A DANGER.
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The ramifications of the matrimonial agency have never appealed to me as a subject for discussion, writes Helen Hope in the Daily News. Somehow it savoured too much of cheapness, of sensationalism. Yet Sheffield correspondent asks me to denl with it in a serious sense.
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Eye-sight Specialista.
The ordinary way in which young 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
people
meet wants serious revising." he says Seaing so much wrong. so many mistakes, I feel that some other rather than the narrow ways of chapel, churels, uz olub might be made, the proper channel of introduction. You
You have a wonderful clince
among your correspondents, for making people happy. Why not use it Does not part of fairy princess, bringing the right people together, appeal to you?
the
Frankly, it doesn't. I once knew thể elitor of Scots newspaper who in a monient of temporary aberration, pu lonely widower correspondent in touch with
Jan anxious turned out badly. Whenever
The match
anything went wrong that unfortunate. editor, made to feel that it was all his.
fault, was blackmailed heartlessly That agent, and as it cost him both sleep an
was his firat experiment as a matrimonia
Miller, it was his last.
A NATIONAL QUESTION.""
Of course that, though tras is an isolater As Putting lonely souls" into touch with a view to matrimony is quite a big national question, for the feed is great. It has been faced and tackled again and again by people of the highest ideals, but almost always it has been abandoned because the lonely and simple, whe naturally were at tracted to such a scheme, were liable to be exploited by others net so simple; and disaster and tragedy often resulter
A friend of mine, a writer by the way, anxious to find out what sort of people used & pseudo-matrimonial page in a cer tain literary weekly answered a great many letters, initiated correspondence, and later made appointments with her pen friends."
"
They were practically all the same type, a little cranky, a little cut of the ordinary. Some ot them palpable liars, soine poseurs, ppallingly different from their own damboyant description of themselves. She dismissed the experiments" with n shrug: but had she been bereft of other resources, as any women are, she might have forced tierself to look over all defects, loping desperately that one of these im possibles might solve the problem of the unbearable loneliness.
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The really strong, nomad man or woman need never resort to n maatrimonial agener in the search of a partner for life. "Sucn a method is usually the refuge of the weak and unbalanced. That is why it is dan gerous because the unscrupulous know this and are not slow to take advantage, write plausible letters, invest pathetic stor ies, gain sympathy in order to gain some. thing else, money gain or love adventure. Behind the stories of such men as the French Landry and his wives, behind the stories of Smith of the Brides in the Bath case some years ago, behind the stories of the hundreds of fascinating ruen who have victimised womer. stand often the intro-
duction of the matrinional agency
advertisement.
or
It. inay be "delightful to start romantic friendships outside one's own circle; but the risk of a mercenary, debt-ridden woman posing as sympathetic angel, the risk of unscrupulous mer. profiting by the present dearth of husbands and imposing on the natural desire of simple, lonely women for honourable marriage, is so great that it outweighs the delights and the advantages.
THE FOUNDATION.
No, no, my Sheffield friend! The ur dinary way in which young people meet: may need revising," but at least it is natural, not
Young people, if left to themselves, will eventually solve their own problems, and get strong in the soir- them. Neither Church nor State can ing of carry undecided individuals on their backs all the time Initiate "Get Acquainted Clubs, if you like, in every village, in every Make it a side de
on in the copidly growing women's
town in
t the partment institute organisations, with matrons
3lake matrimony the last chaperons thought, sheer bonest friendliness the basis. Such abs must function satisfactorily because there one finds the wholesome environment that freezes out the, un- desirables, the selfiacckers.
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only knew
said. "I've beek in your handstand, be for five weeks now and haven't spoken to a soul. The people I used to know are all gone, the women one can meet casually one doesn't want to know
London, the
In a matrimonial agency you can hardly do that. Because the end is the thing, the cards are on the
is at I am the mercy of the other. Many people assured, have found happiness through such
Such things to give any cluant of lasting happines must be founded not on
any eut-and-dried arrangement, not or convenience, or even on the need for companionship, but on love and Fespect and abiding trust..
3 the page bunest city in the world, is the most unfriendly Of course as an Englishman Every time I happen to be near Charing I'm proud of its reticence, and wouldn't Cross I go and stand for a while at the have it otherwise for worlds. But it's That's the only excuse Corner House to watch the crowds go by.
pretty ghastly
THE PASSING CROWD.
So varied it is gathered together from I can offer."
all ends of the earth, this crowd at London's My friend came up then and I said truest hub. So unceasing. They go past good-bye. But the other evening in the in groups, sightseers led by couriers, family foyer of a theatre I caught sight of the parties in twos or thrtes, husbands and stranger again, immaculate in evening wives, mothers and daughters, fathers and dress, smooth hair, alone, his glance sweep- sons, men friends s
incessantly, youths in hoping for the chance face of an old friend girls arm-in-arm, enraptured may be. Then, disappointed, he presext to be in town, with the smell of petrol and through the swing doors, alone, like there roses, the cries of flower-sellers, the noise of thousands in the Strand, always alone. taxicabs, motor buses, newsboys.
wonten friends; tailDg little, seeing much, ing, round the people in his vicinity,
couples, young,
And amongst them, always, the large
quota of the solitary,
NEED OF COMPANIONSHIP.
But I wondered what sort of woman
They move alo with the crowds, glanc-would eventually meet his questioning
and stay his wan ing from one face to another as it secking glance, amile. for chance friends in the passers-by, lonely dering feet. men, friendless women, isolated, as detached in burrying thousands of the Stand, as though they were atoms moving among the silent atarlit spaces of the Milky Way
"THE LONELY MAN,*******
Not that we, as a nation, can start to take a grandmotherly Interest in all the lonely souls" who drift about the streets of our great cities. Though their very presence, their need for companionship, con- stitutes them at once a metiace to others, Waiting for a friend in the lounge of a and a prey of the butan jackals who in- London hotel one night a gentleman stand- fest and en die some slight service for me night, rects and highways by day and and we entered into conversation. He was Only I wonder how far our duty towards rather. & fine man, tall and, bronzed, just our neighbour should allow to go. If home after a tén: er fifteen years sojourn it should, advocate the throwing aside of abroad. He asked if I would care to have all caution, all convention, and holding out a coffee with or it, I would allow him Bands towards any one who happens to
to entertain me and friendship
who never mind talking with a stranger, was surprised at his attempt to cultivate such a brief acquaintance, and told him so (Uontinued us foot of next coffin.)
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