Says Love,
Only, Makes
Marriage
Endurable
Dorothy Dix
Why Is Love
Essential
In
Marriage ?
Love Is Essential To Marriage Because Only Love Can
Bear The Disillusions, The Sacrifices And The Daily
Companionship Of The Same Person, Year After Year
-fv man asKs, Why is love so essen
tial in marriage?”
Apparently love isn’t essential to
marriage in Continental Europe,
human beings. In tho Orient, where
the man never sees tho woman to
whom he is married until he lifts her
veil after the ceremony, and where
wives are frankly bought as objects
de luxe or kitchen conveniences, love
cuts no figures In matrimony.
Nor is love the dominant factor in
marriage in Continuental Europe,
where marriage is a family affair
arranged for the uniting of two for
tunes, or for strengthening social
position, and where the man’s income
and tho bride’s dowry are considered
of far more importnaco than the emo
tions they inspire in each other. With
theirr love is the garnish on the
domestic dish. Nice, and pretty, and,
without doubt, giving an added relisA,
but it has nothing to do -with the
substantial quality of the food Itself.
Truth compels up to admit that all
of these peoples who take their love
on the side, as it were, get along very
well without conjugal love. Further
more, perhaps because less is expected
of marriage, there are fewer divorces
among those who regard matrimony
as a business proposition than among
those who believe that they will find
it an earthly paradise.
