Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-03
WHY WOMEN WILLINGLY MARRY
CRIPPLES
Editorial OF the Osaka Asahf.l

| There is peculiar and Fundamentals
/ difference between men and womeE
/ in regard to their love for crippled
members of the opposite sex. This
fact psychology has recognized fol
years but it has never been made &c
apparent as III the wholesale mar
riages of English women to war
| wounded men at the present time
The question which psychology asks
| and then answers is this; why dc
women apparently delight in marrying
mutilated men while men never mar
ry crippled women 2'' The battle
MANNED soldiers all over Europe are
exceedingly numerous. Blind men, leg
| less men, armless men are in every
town. England has just issued June
1876 statistics concerning her Grip.
pied men. She has suffered all told
about 100000 casualties in the war,
and for every 1000 of these there are
200 cases of irreparable injuries. Last
year alone there were $4,000 war mar.
riages, large percentage of which
were between physically perfect won.
en- and mutilated soldiers.
English women have taken active
steps to organize league for the
marrying of wounded heroes, and con-
certed effort has been made all over
the isles to- encourage this kind Of
wedlock.
Their efforts working in conjunction
with the national campaign for the en-
couragement of marriage between
English women and soldiers who are
about TO leave for the front has over
turned all statistical prophecies and
produced an astounding rise in the
marriage rate Of the British Isles.
For a generation England's marriage
rate steadily decreased, and from 1853
until 1913 the rate was 15.S in 1000,
but in 1914, inc year in which the
war broke out, the rate leaped to 1874.
In 1915 it was still Higher. The par
ticipation OF the crippled soldiers in
this increase has been tremendous.
Dr. Robert H. Gauii, professor of eX-.
perimental psychology at the North
western university, says of this inner
ent difference of the sexes: Women
are much more likely to marry Grip
pied Or deformed persons, particularly
in time of patriotic fervor. In normal
times they are always more likely to
marry cut of sympathy, and when
young soldiers return from the front
with the atmosphere of heroism about
them, another indacement towards
pity and sympathy is injected into the
The question of physical perfection
or beauty is a much more potent ar
gument in masculine than in feminine
consideration. Women on the aver
age look for strength they admire not
SO much personal attraction of form
and feature as they do sthe evidence
of power and control and the ability
to handle situations
History presents many instances of
and decidedly imperfectly |
formed men who were most successful
with the women. Lord Byron was Sc
riously crippled, having a constitu-
tionally weak thigh and a partially |
shriyeled leg which made him walk |
with a pitifM limp at all times. Rich |
ard III of England was called Crooked
Back Dick owing to the fact that he T
was a hunchback, and yet he accom- +
plished q feat of conquest over a
beautiful woman's heart. Modern
chronicles contain very prominent
of this characteristic in wom-
enkind Gen. Aware: Oregon, Next
>os best military leader, lost his
light arm in conquering the Viilistas,
ind shortly afterwards met the Sonora
Maria Tapis, celebrated beauty of
he higher social circles of that coun-
ry, who fell in love with him. Gen.
Oregon, stern, ruthless soldier, had / {
10 time for matrimony previous to this
Iour, but the feminine sympathy he
eceived in his convalescence broke |
own the barriers and he sought the |
'enora's hand in marriage, and they &
redded. Fl
Has Japan any definite policy in
hina2
Judging from the sequence OF
vents in the Far East during the past
ecade or more We can hardly believe
,1f the Japanese government has any
e|Irite policy with regard to China. [
hat Japan desires. and desires most :
merely. to maintain China's indepen-
moe and integrity IS estfonahl e
4. &''1 does not know how 70 acconp
. |.[ end she has been cropping
/.. dark She has been following
.| q exnediency and emporium,