Show The Independent has an article on The Brides Promise to Obey which will give young men a little inkling of how they can marry u Queen I says 1 that both Victoria and Wllhclmina I who In obedience to long conventional usage made such promises of submission submis-sion to their husbands had previously I broken all the conventions of maidenly i maiden-ly modesty by celectlng the man and making the proposal of marriage In all that went before marriage they took the initiative they sought their partner part-ner they asked his consent to their choice they provided for his support they were first and he second but when it came to the ceremony Itself they Insisted upon retaining the formula of obedience which they knew and every one else knew was farcical nonsense Obedience no more belongs to such a queenly position than it does to the position of those women who in humbler life support themselves and their husbands and whom a Virginia Vir-ginia Judge has lately declared to be the head of the house All n young man needs to do to get to be the husband of a Queen as will bo seen by the above Is to get the Queen to ask him Then there Is along a-long dissertation on the clinging to the old barbarous rule which was prescribed pre-scribed when women were the despised servants and drudges of men Then there is more telling what ought Lobe Lo-be It seems to us that about all that I should be done in a marriage Is for the groom to say he will marry the bride and do the best he can and for the bride to nay that she will marry the man and that she will do the best she can until It gels to be too tough and then she will quit because that is what mfost of them will do anyhow |