Show CROSSED IX LOVE It Docs Not Always Explain Why One Is Unmarried Probably nothing more wholly more exclusively concerns the persons entering enter-ing into it than their marriage And yet as a rule all their associates and most of their acquaintances seem to feel as much Interest in them as themselves them-selves and talk far mores about it Their knowledge of the engagement and how it was brought about with every minor detail appears Very much greater than the knowledge of the couple immediately involved The fact is that marriage generally and particularly is a subject of extreme ex-treme interest to young people everywhere every-where especially to young women and in all ranks of society It Is not strange therefore that it should fur raish endless gossip and criticism though these may be excessive and often mischevious Many mortals maybe may-be in no wise attractive but when they are on the eve of marriage they become attractive by that circumstance alone The regard the reverence felt f Jr wedlock wed-lock 13 a proof of civilization Every truly enlightened person believes in it as an institution as essential to the wellbeing of the state whether he accepts ac-cepts or declines it on his own account The optaioni in America is so overwhelmingly over-whelmingly in its favor that there is opt to be a prejudice in minor towns especially against any man who perseveres perse-veres 1n bachelorhood says Harpers Bazar He is generally believed to have neglected one of his plainest duties and to be responsible in some way to the public for his neglect But under this belief smoulders a halfformed conviction convic-tion notably among women thathe fs not directly answerable for his celibacy Indeed the sentimental world is so entirely promatrimonial as to hold that the unwedded have been unlucky in their wooing They have been disappointed disap-pointed in their suit or as the common phrase is have been crossed ini love It is always wondering why this manor man-or that woman unless there are visible reasons for itare not married and after a certain amount of wondering it imagines It hats solved the problem by Concluding that he and she have foeert cjrossed in love There may not be the slightest evidence argument for any such conclusion But on the hypothesis a violent one that nobody would con I tiue jstesfe if partner were procter aibleV dfeapEpinnient must beyassumed cellsnt as marriage is in itself all whoembra6e it inaj not sbare ifa benefits bene-fits especfeilly IffosePwo are undls crfmfeatlng or precipitate in their n heare siiearpeisons of bath exesconstithtonally unfltted for wd lock and jLt conscious of their uhfiuiess they deservecredit for refraining from Ifc > 6 mariy icouple make aT serious mistakelconnubially arid discover it to loibe that it is fair to infer that many ceWbatesare judicious as Tvett us lucky to have remained such t Besides hundreds hun-dreds ormenjiiri every community bachelprsfrpm circumstances They do not want to marry to cold blood and never having met a woman who appealed ap-pealed to themiparticularly or aroused a1 tomultin ir hearts they havp remained re-mained bachelors W J |