The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-07 00:00:00

MAY MARRIAGES.

It may have been noticed that on two on three mornings
peat the list of marriages announced in the Times has been
of very unusual length. This Is partially to b., explained
by the fact that Easter, succeeding the conventional
melancholy of Lent, is • time-honoured hymeneal
mama. Not less significant, however, is the circumstance
thstjooinciding in the present year as Lent bas done with
the closing days of April, persona about to marry, and
anxious to marry at once, have found it necessary to wed
are the month whirl has just gone had quite expired,
under penalty of postponing the consummation of their
felicity till leafy Tuna should be here, or of exposing
themselves to the sinister cceseauencee of matrimony
inauspiciously embramd in tic' mouth of Kay. May
marriages are proverbially unlucky, May husbands
monster., May brides destined prematurely to develop
into shrews and vixens. The shadow of the Divorce-court.
or the tomb, has been discovered by experience
to hang over those couples who, in irreverent
defiance of something more than a popular
superstition, embrace wedlock in the month deer
to the princely promoters of international exhibitions.
Either the May bridegroom is a potential respon-
dent Or codusrondent, or the Irate, have already
sharpened Use particular pair of scissors with which they
have decided to cut the thread of hie existence. The
maiden who becomes • wife in May Is the heroine of an
elispentent in December, or her name figures a twelve-
month beam in the natal and obituary columns of the
=rsimultaneously. dome desolating storm. sone
blow, is ems to be reserved for the twain who
make themselves one at this ill-starred period. The
bailiffs are in before the year is out: the destroying angel
...dm, bests his wings in the devoted household the
cooing of the love-birds is shamed in the proems. of a
gyeat grief. We need not inquire lot, the origin of the
belief. It is as firmly
_plitoted among hundreds and
thousands of intelligent Mulish men and women as the
prejudice whist forming one of • dinner-party of 13, or
the monad objection to commencing a lens voyage on
Friday. There is not perhaps more wisdom shown in
dries in the face of • popular superstition than in paying
It the compliment of recognition. As society bas done,
DO will it continue to du ; and May marriage. will to the
end of time lie looked upon as things to be eschewed.
Cynics who are scaplical as to the beneficence of the
Institution of matrimony may think that, on the principle
of like cum; like. May la aqZtl:rly suitable maim for
mariagee of all kinds. Or, rwin; this Mew,
they may, justifying their the broad facts el
personal eirjewienee, ask whether, judging from results, •
majority KM* married omits of modern days may not
Li moranied to have adored Me married state midway
boa... An Feels' day and the anniversary of her gramme
Maisel?. eseassion. Became the blow dealt by the deity
who presides over Kay, and who has a morbid horror of
disturbed by the peal of wedding-belle, is deferred
or mouths and many years. It is only the heavier
when It astaally descends Who is be, this evil genius,
that entertalu Iso sour and irrational a grudge against the
pairings of Kaytide. and that has the power to visit with
sealt signal retributive yoga them who disregard his
PrePoserous whims—this Regiment imp of the perverse.
QM Vary mama Wails inemayal to man
than U s
of eanaMancy crowned by fruition, and wedlock
the goal at aLI emoted =int'. forbid Mat itolso. br
:rd..: of dire pains •M perils, to obey tit* unlynrid
instinct! Contszoporurf Ws abounds in inseendes of the
completeness with which Its yeano. Ia executed, and
Kay marriages May be regsmilo as • synonym for all
those miscarriages of domestic bike that are. the memos
of our octal system. The anandals of fashionebO Ut
the revelations of that division of the High Court of
Judie§ which is Presided over by Sir James Mennen, the
commentary supplied by • emscregion of seems ahem on
the current standard of casingal felicity and fidelity—all
these things are study the fruit of the marriages that
have been made in May. Doubtime it wee in this month
of liar, with its bewitching influences and its fresh fasci-
nation of natural beauty that the unhappy boy'
phised by Kosice led Lydia, or was her nuns Own=
alter upwards of • quarter of • century ago, lit. Imo that
there were pest incidents In his career into wkiells it
WM well aot too minutely to enquire, and that the lovely
bride had been as catholic in the bestowal of her affections
ae the woman of Sargoria. BM all this was an affair of
the past Her husband was to find her "always golden,
always food.- The repeniPat Magdalen changed her
Mower and her tastes with her name; des emote we.
metamorphceed into the virtuous metros, sod even the
lay Evangelist. It was as If Hotly Sorrel had suddenly
merged her identity in the future wife of Lisa Mede,
I wept, or amnia to go, well for • thee. If the
lady site did not go into society, a mei& section,
chieily the mile and theeMeco-eatical section. of ImbieW
came to her. Beres of bac entertalntionta were mg quite
succonfal, sed more than one of her dinner-penis* or.. •
Barresoldal homeet But she was at least ememed in the
white digh of reopectability and religion; she lived in the
aka. of medity, with which Were blended the suspicions
of al wafted from the Moons of Mika At lase
the extra, Dinah Morris disavowed. end, in her
by, for SWIM aid trinkets and male society, Mrs.
Pommes weaker else. stead revealed. The wedded Kim
with the enjoymeet of which the road had credited Me
pair, terned out to be sleed hypomim. Boone
!at E lady's hiss& weresesail • miles' generataan
chuck's., Both erilielins amid emeore were alike uneesam•
able. What had lispissmil was sly in staid hilllosent if
the inewitable. The world had formals Ale fact that the
marriage was contracted in the mothof ay.
It I. atorag list, that of the unions cemented within the
ahaiing row weeps which xunmence to-day. Aam
pens at the present noisistme to be engaging the atten-
tion of the Dublin lawyers Mai poet presumably be Le-
clud,d in the catepory. It was • Jihy Jmarriage in two
senate; for not OW MUM 117 titeraili Or Metatiberi-
may have been the month Its aelebrenion, but the
relations between beide and bridegroom were Mass tbnY
proverbially exist between the month of flowers and
garlands and the month which rounds the PM with
gloom and wet Nor was the husband December only Is
comparison with his wife's May, but • singularlY matte
December into the terse= They wale =Pirated by as
interval of just thirty years, and Or Mil_ I=lC•ibi•,_,gulf
which exists between Mimeo siAo-
twenty-two— young and strung tr L... „,_.
•••
fifty-two—a condoned invalid and ortycee. • see sad
heir, whows legitimacy is not yet esitMA br•• tea w•dm
after the bridal day, was the fruit of WY married*.
Bat theme, It may be said, are the illustrations of an ex-
**Stoma infelicity. Ills not always that the anti-matri-
modal sodas to whim May is clearly sacred mnspels the
world at large to mignon the wrath which he wnsela upon
the Made of those who have offended his wilL Bermes
the open modal is averted, the actual =Mod=
It dose not follow that Me biMarneee gene—fled is
=lt
the the elements at work more feeble hiliantillkezell
of poem Them are ti-assorted mime width VW
Molten to the end, but whisk it is the a
of a life to preserve unbroken, No dieM it
diseerored, if only particulate could be
In most cam in which husband and wile live
egialasmes they were originally mated in May,
youth
May In
and beauty have been perchmed by op sod
w y month _ the mon in which Os ansila
we.aorob .ided. When Incompatible Metes end
have been Vraecombined, who will doubt that It
in the May ihat tie operation was pedeMeadil
AM while =en was in progress, who meld have
There
adisilassieless au= zupef trat wl(stiss in thi: face of
all the Bet legend and wife are amend= by
some Invisible barrier that has eagle .hisewent Mom
=an aid love has , * mons
mw Ism has assewted a beadle of
Mem have come to there
bast' al these erpgrimess. sesegi it le
oaf Me holy state at has teem*
l• • =IA it is aoll eves
mem hes
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