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j Officer of the Scot Guards, on
j Leave from the Front, Leaving
j the Archbishop of Canter-
! bury' Office with His Special
Marriage License.
London, January 1.
THE treat -war has had aa extraordi
nary effect fn stimulating marriage
and romance In England and other
European countries. v
So marked is this tendency that It may
be doubted whether tba war will hare the
affect, so much feared by philosophers, of
permanently reducing the population.
Never hare there been so many mar
riages In the upper classes, of English so
ciety as during the war period. The
Church of England officials who Issue
special licenses for marriages to be per
formed away from church or under unusual
circum stands, hare had ten times the
ordinary number of applications.
This Is a striking proof of the popularity
of marriage among the upper classes, for
they usuajly wish their weddings cele
brated by a Church of England clergyman.
The ordinary and economical way of do
ing this Is tq hare "the banns announced"
for three Sundays In adranca f the cere
mony This Is slow work, and does not '
sutt the bridegroom, who has got "forty- .
eight hours leave of absence to get mar
ried," or who bas Just been ordered to the
front '
To avoid these formalities you must get
a special license. Ona kind, which simply
enables you to be married in a church
without previous notice, costs $10, while
another kind, which enables you to get
married where yott like, costs about $150.;
Of course, there are cheaper ways of
getting married for ordinary persons, and
a public official called a "registrar" will do
It for CO centa ' , .
The Archbishop of Canterbury has '
Issued an urgent appeal to all patriotio
young men and women to get married with
out delay, "la order that our beloved conn
try may not lack men to defend li In the
future." In order to help the movement
the Archbishop ordered a large reduction
In the fees for licenses
This appeal bas been responded to nobly
by. both sexes There Is no doubt that
many young women who refused their con
sent or coyly dodged the question before
the war, have now cheerfully said "yes."
Many officers were just about to ba
married when they were ordered to tba
front Those of them who have not been
killed have usually been able to obtain
leave of absence long enough to run home
to England and get married. "Iforty-elght
hours leave of absence to get married"
has become a common expression In the
British army.
Ths front, where the army la serving, Is
so near England that It is usually possible
to get home and back within twenty-four
hours. When the leave Is extended to
forty-eight tours. It leaves tlnis for a short
honeymoon. '
Ona conspicuous Instance of such V mar
riage was that of the Baroness Beaumont,
who Is a peeress In her own right, and the
Hon. Bernard Fits Alan Howard, elder son
and heir of Lord Howard It GlossopKwho
belongs to the historic family of which the
Duke of Norfolk Is the head. The bride
groom was ordered to the front with his
regiment, ksown ss Lovat's Scouts, but
obtained the customary forty-eight hours'
leave of absence, got a special license and
was married at the Baroness Beaumont's
home, Carlton Towers. Yorkshire.
The Hon. Mary Gardner, the handsome
daughter of Lord and Lady Burghciere
end the non. Ceoffrey Hope-Morley, eldest
son of Lord Hollenden, a governor of the
Back of England, were married under simi
lar circumstances,
j ' Another wedding jit the same kind was
j 'hat of Lord Edward Grosvenor, ia officer
I t of the firing corps and uncje of the Duke
of Westminster, and LadyT)orothy Browne.
; Saughter of the Earl of Kenmare. Miss
Gwendolyn Van Raalte, a great heiress,
nd sister of Lady Howard de Walden, was
I forced by the war to postpone her mar
; riage indefinitely with Lieutenant Noel
j Francis, but he unexpectedly obtained
It-are of absence and the happy event took
I place.
Lord Frederick Conyngham, son of the
Marquis Conyngham, obtained leave from .
his regiment. the famous Innlskllllng
Fuslleers, to come home and marry MIes
Molly Tobln. a charming Australian heiress
Hvlcg la London. ,
Lord Herbert Hervry, son of the Marquis
of BrUtol, was married to - Lady Jean
How the War Has Promoted Many
Romances Between Society Beauties
and Officers Who Hastily Wed
and Then Rush
Back to the
Battlefield Again
Cochrane, daughter of the Earl of Dun
donald. The bridegroom In this case
started back to South America to help, the
British fleet sink that'of Admiral von Spee.
A somewhat unusual romance of the war
was that of the Marquis of Tavistock, old
est son and heir or the Duke of Bedford,
one of the richest and most important
noblemen in England. He was married
very quietly to Miss Roberta Jowltt Whit
well of Oxford, daughter of a family In
modest circumstances, and not belonging
to a class In which a duke's heir would
ordinarily find a bride. She- two were
brought together by their interest In the
wounded victims of the war.
The Marquis Is not lit for military ser
vice and the newly married pair spent
their honeymoon nursing the wounded at
the Y. M. ' C A. camp, near Endslcigh,
Devonshire, one of the Duke of Bedford's
seats. .
Under thelnflucnce of the war English
men of the upper classes have thrown off
much of the, traditional coldness and re
serve with which foreigners credit them.
. They rush about In uniform, responding to
the cheers of . the populace, and waving
their marriage licenses. Look at the door
way of the office where the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Issues his licenses, and you
I may see an officer of the aristocratic Scots
Guards, or some other regiment, coming
out In uniform quite unabashed;' with the
words "Marriage Licenses" staring over
his head and his own license In his hand.
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One of the Many Weddinga in Berlin Where the
, Bridegroom Wears Full Uniform and Then
Hastens to the Front
War has very great evils, but It also
brings out much that Is good In humanity.
It gives free play to all the emotions, both
good and bad. Under Us stimulus women
have surrendered themselves to the sway
of their emotional natures" and have ex-'
hlbited the self-sacrlflca that Is their most
beautiful characteristic.
By Dr. W. J, Wriffht
THE highly perfumed woman, who, on
entering a room causes all present
involuntarily to sniff the odor, docs
not know she Is stimulating tha now less
used and therefore less powerful olfactory
nerves In man by which he was once able
to recognize individuals by the odor hu
man alone. AIbo, a person who always
uses the same perfume creates a power of
association which no one can withstand.
A certain recognlaant look will come into
a person's eyes when they Inhale a smell
p!eaant or otherwise, and. in an instant
the4r. thoughts are off to theperson or
things associated with It.
It has long been recognized that men
and races have distinctive odors. The
Chinese say Europeans smell unpleasantly.
rauier uae sncep. while the accused
taliate by Bavins: the
re
an Mirthy giucll. rather like wnndi In
Thoso who employ Chinese servants quick
ly become accustomed to tm8 odor. The
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Lady Jean Cochrane, Daughter of the
Earl of Dundonald, Bride of Lord
Herbert Hervey,' Who Hurried
Away from His Honeymoon to
Catch the German Fleet off
South America.
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Society beauties,
who at ordinary
times, would have
angled with all
their lures for the
' biggest millionaire
have now thrown
themselves Into the
arms of penniless
young " soldiers.
Those who hesitat
ed before the war about making an Impru
dent marriage, have thrown all doubt to the
winds and become soldiers' wives. -It
requires courage of a high order for a
woman to marry a man who Is ordered to
the front If he U killed, his troubles
are over, bu hers will be Just be
Why Perfumes Are the Best Aids to Memory
Filipino has It. and. when a number are to. tt u rnrinn. ... .. ' .
Filipino has It, and, when a number are to
gether, It Is very perceptible.
Another race odor which has been long
recognized 'is that of the American Indiau.'
once attributed to the fact that they lived
in smoky teepees and dressed In skins.
But the Indians of. Arizona, the Apache
and tha Yuma, who mostly live out of
doors, and, until recently, went practically
unclothed, have tha same odor as their
northern, brother, tha Utes, Shoshones and
Sioux.
Of course, the strong musky odor of ths
negro Is well known, but they In turn say
that Americans have a "faint smcm." which
is unpleasant The theory that this Is all
a matter of diet Is disproved by the fact
that meat-eating and vegetarian peoples
of the same rare possessing it. One old
Americau. Dr. Samuel Turney. declared
that if he were taken blindfold into a
crowd, he could tell a German, a French
man, etc., by smell alone. .
Oopyrljht. 1915, by tha Bur Company
lipis ' iter
The Hon. Mary Gardner, Daughter
of Lord Burghciere, Hastily Married
to Lieutenant Geoffrey Hope Mor
ley, Heir to Lord Hollenden.
An English society girl has given an In
teresting glimpse In a letter of the
emotional condition of her friends, In
which she says:
"The khaki kiss Is all the ragu this
Christmas, and one kiss leads to another,
you know."
Then she describes some of the efforts
of amateur nurses to care for the wounded:
"I beard,, too, from a staff man who came
over for Lord Roberts's funeral, that by all
accounts the regiment of women over there
doesnH want any reinforcing far from it
At least two duchesses, he said, were on
the Boulogne boat when he crossed, and I
forget how many lesserSadies, all. of
course, on the mlnisterlng-angel Job intent.
I've been wondering how some of them
like the, new searching at Victoria; It's
ii is curious now certain acenta an
pleasant to some and repulsive to others.
I have often heard patchouli, so much
used by the lower classes, called a "loud"
smell, and ylangylang, "new mown. nay"
and "white rose" styled "disgusting," while
the abusers themselves were redolent of
Ess bouquet, "white lilac" or lavender
water. It Is sometimes dangerous to be- '
come associated with one particular per
fume. A lady, who boaster that she used
a rare and very costly one, went to a
lawyer to put berore him some damaging
facts concerning a woman whom she hated.
When the hated one also called on )he .
lawyer, her quick sense perceived the per
fume and there was a stormy scene be- (
tween the two ladles when they met. The
strong perfumes are undoubtedly used to
attract, especially by the demi-mondaina
and that makes it difficult to understand
why all women now-a-days have taken to
them, and left the mere "suggestion" of a
Ureal Britain Highta Rterv
Miss lobin, an Australian Heiress, Married in London to
Lord Frederick Conyngham, of the Inniskilling Fusileers,
Who Went Away Next Day to the Battlefield in France.'
very drastic.
believe, and chil
ly work stripping,
too, Ihesa days.
Though It's lust
possible to- avoid that part of It If you
wear a red cross somewhere and take at
least two maids and a footman with you.
"Dlnard, too, Is full of wounded, in hotels
and villas as well as the municipal hos
pital, chiefly French though there are lots
of English at St. Malo opposite. A lot of
the doctors and nurses are English, and
as neither they nor the men are much of
linguists there are odd complications some
times. One Frenchman who'd had a bad
night with toothache asked piteously in
the morning for some Iodine (d'iode).
'Yes, yes, of course you shall have some,'
said the nurse, and In a few minutes
Drought him a bowl of nice hot milk"
It is not only in England that the rush to
get married has occurred, but in all the
countries concerned in the war. The young
perfume alone.
The acuteneds of dogs In tracking people
shows individuality Jn odor. Every one
knows the wonderful power possessed by
he bloodhound and some other breeds in
following up a track, and how a left-at-home
dog will sometimes forget his woe if
given a glove or shoe or something belong
ing to his master.
Many doctors who advocate the "simple
life" regime, say that any one . In full
bealth should be as pleasant to the sense
of smell ss the body of a little child. Per
haps few have associated any smell with
a child, but notice the mother rapturously
kissing her" baby on face and neck and
arms, giving a short quick Inspiration-as
6he does so. This is a remnant of the
active eflort to smell or explore by the
olfactory sense. The baby flesh is particu
larly pleasant In odor to the mother and
even to others.
The word "kiss." Is connected by Skeat
with tha Latin, "gustus," taste, and we cer
men and girls of Germany have thrown,
themselves into; the movement with all the
energy and unrestrained enthusiasm of
their national temperament The Kaiser's
son, Prince Oscar, set the example when
Immediately after the outbreak of the war
be was " married morganatlcally to tha
Countess Basse wit z, who was not of royal
blood. He was attended by his brother
officers and soldiers, and after a brief
honeymoon,' went on to the front
Ills fxamplo hasieen followed by
thousands of his countrymen and women,
who have been warned by the government
that they must provide an army for tha
future.
In France marriage is said to be looked
at in a new light. One of the leading
Paris newspapers the other day remarked
that race suicide was a thing of the past
All the young married women who are not
nursing the wounded are working on baby
clothes. Life in Paris has become too
serious for words.
tainly do not aste our food when wa hav
a cold in the head and-cannot smelL The
"nose kiss" of the Zealanders and Esqui
maux is certainly an effort to explore by
the olfactory sense. The lovers' kiss, long,
Inspiratory, Is. with that of the mother'
most primitive of all. and Is. essentially!
a smelling.
Man is supposed to retain a large. In
herited capacity of unconscious smell
sense operating In him unknown and un
observed, and some scientists have urged
that wa are attracted or repelled by others
from the unconscious operation upon uarof
the. to us. pleasing or displeasing odor
coming from them.
It seems not unnatural to associate the
k ?K8W.et al'0t a little child with
bealth when we remember the peculiar
odors emanating from sick persons.
mM." .hVe,.. detided Pied goose
smeii, typhoid and gastroenteritis r
mousey one; the aour smell of rheumatk
fever is well known, and many declart
that old people smell of the "grava" whila'
stUl alive and welL
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