Show Mars Mars- and ad Cupid Allies With Happy Marriages Increasing 3 T r I d V I i V A 4 1 I I 4 I I III s 1 it 1 I War ar Puts Young Persons in Mood to Make Personal Sacrifices ces By Mrs Sol Lake Lake Matrimony in Salt Lake City has increased increased in- in creased 50 O 0 per Del cent during this present pres pros ent war year according accordIng- to to Mrs J Grundy There have been almost one- one half halt more marriages hero than took look place in 1916 and the number of w weddings weddings wed wed- d- d dings In other American cities cities cities' has multiplied notably Nor is the surplus a matter of slacker slack slack- er marriages A list If compiled would bo be brimming over ovet with military titles indicating the many members of society who have given their services to their country and for months the newspapers have been filled with ac accounts accounts accounts ac- ac counts of ot military weddings The grooms groom's conventional black has become conventional khaki and the newest and most energetic of all the allies aIlles are Mars and Cupid Marriage in short Is Js becoming pop pop- ular again ular-again again in the circles from which as as' an all institution it has suffered the severest bombardment during recent years The people who have money enough to afford to stay unmarried and time enough to think of all the reasons for not marrying arc are patronizing the marriage marriage marriage mar mar- license bureau with almost the a assiduity of Farmington or Logan Before long the tho charms and advantages nd of marriage will be he rediscovered vered by the novelists and essayists Why is cannon fodder likewise fodder fodder fodder fod fod- der for Cupid Why did the declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion of war Induce many an individual declaration of intentions many a proposal proposal proposal pro pro- I put the question to a certain young man of my acquaintance I r think its it's because war means sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- he explained gravely eople get in a sacrificial moo mood mood And therefore they marry each other other other oth oth- I er 1 I interrupted Nice cheerful view you you have of the sacred institution I suppose you OU see the bride and anti groom groomas as victims who vho figuratively cut each others other's throats at the altar Some do just that tha t he parried But what I really meant was that marriage means a certain amount of self-sacrifice self a certain yielding of in individual individual individual in- in habits and preferences And AndI I think that in time of war an especially especial especial- ly large number of people are wrought up up UI to the point where they are ready to try not to be selfish where they are ashamed to let trifles dominate I them In wartime there is In the air ail a contagion of devotion to something outside ones one's own comfort Therefore the selfish bachelors and the selfish selfish- of course I mean independent young independent independent young harness women decide to try double One reason why I believe marriage flourishes in wartime is because it then comes nearest to the romantic ideal of the knight knigh who loves and fights for his lady the lady the lady who waits walts works and weeps In the castle Of course the young man who in days of peace marries and goes downtown on the subway to make a living is fighting for tor his wife and his home But hor her Imagination n has not been trained to n.'s see it wa way And of course the wife who keeps running smoothly the wheels of a complicated complicated com corn modern household is as loyal loyala o ral a a. lady of the castle as she who knits and worries about somebody somewhere somewhere some some- where in Franco France But to the somebody she wears wear a halo which never nevor can adorn the troubled brow of a mere housewife Mars is the most successful mal maker er of halos I never realized how wonderful Tom Torn TomI I was until he told mo me he had joined the submarine chasers a little brido bride said to me not lon long ago I always had thought of him hinr just as one one- of the boys But when T I knew know he was brave enough h hand and unselfish enough to give up his good position and risk his lifo life for America without even waiting to see if ho would be called in the tho draft draft draft- well I Just couldn't help falling in love loye with him I wonder now why I 1 didn't appreciate him long before And the tho young oung man who enters the service wants to love before he ridEs rifles away In time Ume of If peace his attitude toward marriage e if he is a normal youth is H pretty well expressed In fn the comforting conclusion that theres there's all the the- time there is Ills His enlistment brings sharply home to him hinl the fact tact that there ma may be bo only a little time before before well well of course he Isn't going to think about that But let us us lovo love and marry for tomorrow we die If If marriage In wartime is super- super romantic it also aIm is It ItIs Itis Itis Is the simples surest most convenient of assuring both for the soldier and arid the girl left behind an interesting emotional relationship When a state of war exists there are tre serious obstacles in the way of Platonic Platonic Platonic Pla Pla- tonic friendships and other unlabeled sentimental experiments experiment's which demand demanda a great deal of time fully adjusted adjusted ad ad- shadows and two lives JiVES free from inflexible lb c duties dutIe and obligations Military Mili tary etiquette has a certain old fashioned fash fasli- ionel ration consideration for fOt the claims cl of wolves wives but v very little or none at all allI I j I f rii r 1 r 1 r 4 S ie I for sirens soul mates good pals and the other their own The goddess behind the accelerated marriage machine of course is nature cleverer tactician than any general on any of ot the battle fronts The Tho thing in which nature is is interested Is not love but life If men thwart he her he by destroying life in in war sho she shrewdly patiently draws the fire of her enemies enemies ene cite I mies by making use of their war- war kindled passions to produce more life The most decent of her maneuvers Is the war nar marriage the attraction of two hitherto indifferent young persons persons persons per per- sons by the tho great simple war in war war-In-I forces of of- pity tenderness passion passion pas pas- sion slon and fear of eternal separation Are Ate the war marriage going to be successful No blanket verdict on any group roup of marriages may be returned The cynical will con concede ede the success of thOSA unions which are arc as brief as they are ecstatic in which the c cycle cle cleof of the honeymoon sets in widowhood But I believe that any ny ny war marriage has a better chance chande of success than al almost almost almost al- al most any marriage in the piping times of peace for the reason that when a great danger a great gret obstacle has come come- and passed between two lovers they and their love lovo cannot be quite sh shallow quite stupid When her husband comes back to the woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man who has married him and sent him to France when life becomes quietly happy normal even a little monotonous for tor her and for him there still must be bo moments when each thinks It Is wonderful that we are together together anti and we might not have been For so long as a man and women do not forget torget that it Is wonderful they are ate lovers Indeed and their marriage marriage mar- mar e h being love lovo i 1 is a R. success |