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MARRIAGE TRAVESTIED

THE

THE ways of the transgressor are Evil of Short-Term uition would develop under a short-

hard. So, too, are those of the social reformer.

Mr. A. P. Herbert, whom it has pleased fate to take as a professional humorist and make the Instrument

Contracts

By "AN OLD STAGER"

What sort of family life or tro-

term marriage contract system? To ine it sounds like a frigid sacrifice' of the children's best welfare, which is conserved in the united home,

the altar of on

sheer sexual voluptuosity.

of a sweeping revolution in our mar-

It invites all the social and per- ringe laws, may yet find it so. He the dotted line with rather less pre- impetuosity and careless surrender to They will light-heartedly sign on sonal disasters that await youthful has had a strenuous and ocasionally meditation than if they were taking rash impulse, and throws the children, Berce struggle with the episcopal a service fat.

who are the helpless victims of the reactionaries and other die-hard There are many other points of system, to the wolves of homeless We should become a apostles, but he will presently dis- expert criticism that promptly sug- perdition. cover that his worst enemies are his best authorities, it is the third year orphans.

gest themselves, According to the population of short-term matrimonial

of married life that brings the tug Already a clergyman has launched of inte. About then is a new campaign of drastic marriage when normal marriages may become it need not cause us intense anxiety,

slightly criticul.

own friends,

reform.

Thts gentleman proposes that marriage shall be made a ter- Serving their Term minal civil contract, of, say, len years legal duration, with the option of extension for a further ve more years on the expiration of the original domestle lease,

ог

This prospect is daunting and dis.. the time gusting enough to be repulitve. But

because, since it rung counter ta fundamental and elemental human instincts, as well as to those of the more admirable specimens of the Under the existing marriage laws, brute creation, it will never become

crisis ripens to open disaster, the general practice. divorce is fairly easy. Perhaps, con- Basis of Civilisation sidering the fickleness of human judg- To achieve this purpose he would ment and the instability of human Its evil lies in the fact, however; make uptional in the marriage ser- mnods, it la already too easy.

that it would encourage the decadents vice the "until death us do part"

Will the disgruntled parties have, and degenerates. It would be hold- vow, and, of course, Institute State under the new dispensation now ing a particularly nusty candle to the endowment for children. Finally, he seriously proposed to wait ill their devil. would facilitate the termination of ten-year contract is up? Will they, Civilisation in all recorded ages unsatisfactory unions, apparently con- willy-ally, have to serve out the re- hus been an inverted pyramid based tract or no contract, by a registered mainder of their term? Or will the on the apex of the family and the private agreement and noi through clause about "registered private home. To attempt to dustroy or the divorce courts.

ngreement" become instantly opera- undermine that slchder domestic Live?

basis is a work, not of enlightened A somewhat similar proposal was propounded" "more than thirty-years-Moreover, where exactly this progress but of stark, storing reac ogo by no less a person than George short-term contrae! business to end? tionary debacle.

That is If we are to have ten-year marriages,

one reason why it is really Meredith.

with or without the option of re- surprising to find such a theory ex- newal, why not five or two-year pounded at all. It it ever by any ones?

freak of legislative Insanily become 11 This is a surprisingly tolerant pro- find the vital social institution

is amazing, and disturbing, to operative, my earnest advice to the of young man who contemplated a short- gramme to come from a quarter as- marriage being treated in this cold- term marriage would be to remain sociated with the Nonconformist con- blooded business spirit.

a bachelor, science of former epochs. In its de- Even the Russian Sovlet has If he could bear the thought of parture from the straight and ant realised soon enough the necessity of not living with her for ever, he had row rend of pre-war Nonconformist scrapping the first Bolshevist easy- best not risk living with her aven ethics it is so broad-minded as to marriage-easy-divorce regime. It for a decade-with any old option of resemble by comparison one of those did not work at all. The family renewal or otherwise. great wide by-pass motoring roads remains, in spite of all modern If you are not in love, don't marry. down which one observes modern changes and new-fangled philoso- If you are, grapple her to your trafic, significantly punctuated with phles, still the unti of domestic heart with hoops of something better ambulance atatlon, carcering at 60 or civilisation. 30 m.p.h.

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of my most cherished ideala. A crust- ed old bachelor necessarily takes a hopelessly romantic view of mor- riage. The notion of reducing its

than ien-year options.

SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS

sacred rites to the level of a building PARENTS may need to take steps the pupli; and if it were the approved lease, with a terminal option of t to protect their children from a and accepted procedure, it would short renewal, is enough to give me few black sheep in the teaching pro- never be necessary, for the hand sentimental goose-flesh.

fession. But without doubt the vast would never be refused. But educa- of teachers deserve tion authorities lay down the law, But I realise that my outlook on majority this question is warped by antiquity sympathy for the position in which "Strap only on the hand," and re- nd they and temselves with regard to bel parents communicate this in- and inexperience. Yet, even

their children. The mitting this cardinal disqualification, the possibilty of being charged with formation to

addition, school dis- result is that some districts have a I fancy there must be a psychological, assault. In error in this reforming pastor's matri- cipline suffers from this possibility. band of regular lie classroom monial plans.

Trouble seldom arises when par- lawyers.. ents are at one with school authori The Teacher's' Handicap Human nature, we are told, never ties in desiring good behaviour in changes much even in the course of the children. It is when unruly and long neon. The history of mankind disobedient children, often with distinctly confirms that theory. Yet direct or indirect parental encourage to say what should be done if a youthful human naturo must

ment, defy authority that harmless pupil refuses to hold out his hand. undergone a genuine sea change since but slightly unconventional methods No teacher would dream of asking my adolescence, if this ten-years of correction must be adopted. These this Information, lest he be met with option for marriage is now a work- methods may be made to look poss the modern nonsense talk about the abla proposition.

tively brutal when expressed in Adieu to Romance

legal Innguage, or in terms which are maliciously hall correct.

have

It is a fact worthy of note that in What young couple, or, for that

each district teachers seem to direct matter, what middle-aged one, being all their assaults on the members of genuinely in love and contemplating matrimony, is going to renounce de one or two families. liberately that splendid bargain em- Trouble-Makers bodied in the "t death us do part" vow? It seems me the great lovers of history, and romance have all felt that eternity. was too brief I pledge for thelr devotion and #delity,

attachment.

The education authorities neglect

teacher's personality" and the super- fully, of ali punishments when good teacher is on the job.

2

Teachers, if bold, apply their strop to the pupil's bottom, and take the riskt; if timid, they avold the issue," and the rebel knows it, and dis- ciplins grows worse.

All practical teachers know that Such trouble-making families are the teacher who produces perfect usually known to teachers, and it is behaviour when no punishment is not unknown for a timid headmaster even possible is an entirely mythical

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shun bad lie (anag.).

It lacks definition,

10 Is this drink kept in a bin

OF?

11 Vehicle for sheep,

13 To start with, you can't hit this bird, and thero's even less the other way,

15 This mouse is called Ingenuo in

France.

10 Found in ears and on toes.

17 This is equal rubbish-with

wings.

10 Better half.

20 Balle-na-Cliath's predecessor in

Ireland.

21 The industrious workman who always finishes after all the others.

23 Growth. 24 Dimly mixed up with another

afty, but in no severe fashion, 27 This bite la only a

trifling affair.

28 Complie for a controversy.

to avold trouble by tolerating con- person, like the equally mythical 20 Although he already has com

pany he always takes us in too, This, of course, is purely re- lative.

32 A blue. Keep it dark, though. 34 Port concealed in lemonade

ncat,

35 Gives a good order for liqueur.

DOWN

which maintains law. duct in the children of these parents police force If marriage is to be made a evil which would not be allowed in the and order without Jalis or fines. short-term contract, ke taking

children. Malicious, or merely But things being what they are, they other country cottage or a senside bungalow, stupidly Indulgent, parents can cause would prejudice their chances if they 33 Eating (nag.). we mist bid ndieu to such sentimental too much trouble

brought the issue to a head with the and publicly. tosh as the classic Dante and Beatrice The behaviour of our school chil- education authorities.

Henco the existence in our schools dren would be much improved more of these so-called assaults of a state of affairs where certain The modern swain, operating under were committed, for they almost in- recalcitrant pupils are immune from the short-term contract wedding variably consist in applying the all forms of punishment, and know scheme, will approach marriage very strap to the bottom of a boy who re- 11, unless the teacher commits much as he might the purchase of n

technical assault, of a typo sports car. The blushing bride will fuses to hold out his hand,

The ordinary man would consider milted from time immemorial by regard the affair in much the same this very sensible, and indeed most parents, usually, with ̈ less light as she would the acquisition obvious procedure, salutary to the necessity.

of a sewing machine.

conduct and harmless to the body of

R. II.

com-

2 Why keep the girl in Ignor-

ance?

3 Brult abroad.

4 The affection In

monarch is hald.

which

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5 Hurry, deepest one (anag.).

6 Made up in Holland.

વિસ

7 A good number (but not the

winner) show themselves to bo Increasingly mean.

8 Places the toller apart.

12 I'm clear, anyhow, and that may be taken as something remark- ablet.

14 I.C.A, and A.MIC.E. and artist,

too,

15 Spoil a crustacean.

18 You'll have your trouble in vain to account for such a scoundrel, 22 Mica:

25 Enter a comedian, unless you prefer to be highly praised. 20 Twins.

27 Make a restless movement. 30 Patronymic..

31 A most unfortunate conjunc-

tlon.

• Yesterday's Solution

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