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Show Current Comment THE MATtRIAGE FLIGHT. Now York Hall. "Thoro seems to bo no doubt," says the sociologist, Lester F. Ward, "that the woddlng tour Is a survival of the marriage flight following wife capture, mado to escape tho fury of the wife's relatives." Marriage being no longer accompanied by sandbagging, why simulate the fright of the fugitives or the fury "of the relatives7 In what respect re-spect Is tho so-called "honeymoon" following fol-lowing marriage any saner than the "horning" nnd 'belling" and "shlver-eelng" "shlver-eelng" and other tokens of a vanished "fury" with which a young couple are made to feel that they may havo committed com-mitted a mistake in becoming united In the holy bonds of matrimony? That so many young people como out of the ordeal of a wedding tour still fond of each other and even bravely asserting as-serting that they havo had a splendid time Is evidence rather of the strength of their lovo than of the wisdom or charm of the convention to which they conformed. It Is a tour without any object, tnken under peculiarly exacting conditions. Both bride and groom are apt to bo fatigued by tholr preparations for marriage. They are making a radical radi-cal alteration In their way of life. Thoy are exchanging the standpoint of the Individual for that of the family. Tho first weeks of married llfo at best aro something of a test. To spend them In tho fatigues of purposeless travel, In going from hotel to hotel, or even In remaining re-maining at some one resort, Is to undertake un-dertake the tent under the most unfavorable unfa-vorable conditions. |