Show MARRIAGE f CHANGING f FAST I LECTURER SA SAYS is isMan Man No Longer Considered Considered Consid- Consid ered Head of Household House House- hold Davies States By ART DECK Ideas of marrIage are changing as rapidly as are arc stYles in the opInion of John Langdon Davies English lecturer who spoke before a capacity capacity ca- ca audience at the Assembly hall Monday evening under the auspIces aus- aus flees of the extension division of the University of Utah The rhe speaker told of the great grent transition which Is being brought about In marriage customs since the time of our forefathers and compared corn com pared the customs of America and England wIth those which exIst In Spain at the present time No longer is the man being con con- as the head of the house li he declared and no no lon longer er is the home being considered as the center of family life With one daughter I attending college in the eastern part of the United States another daughter in a western university one of the sons occupied as a high power salesman In one end of the country and another doing the same in another part the mother and father are arc left more mare or less to themselves themselves them them- selves and the home Is rapidly becoming becoming be- be coming less and less a family lIe pointed out that It was for for- merely the idea and custom for ason a ason son to follow his fathers father's footsteps upon hIs death and carry carryon on with whatever occupation his father followed and th that t it was rather a surprise when a father did not die when hIs son reached the age of 2 2 Now the father lives lives' liveson on indefinitely indefinitely and the son branches out into some new line of endeavor he continued The origin of the custom of bridal veils bridesmaids the tho best man and various other customs which we enjoy in connection with the modern marriage ceremony were explained with their relation to the vast past and present The differences of the marriage institution in America and Spain were shown and discussed with the relative merits of eachIn each In Spain the woman is married at an ea early ly age and bears beals n. n child every year or at least every other ethel year until she re rc che the the ag ago ot of 35 when she is con art an old woman lie ho declared while In America where birth control is practiced more or less no one knows just how old a woman is oven even though she is 70 Mr DavIes said that ho he believes that the ideal marriage e is i's the lastIng lasting last last- Ing one but ho does not advocate anything regarding the future futuro of the institution lIe He believes there are great changes to face marriage due to the rapidly Changing reia- reia between the sexes |