The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-05, Page 23OPEN 1-4
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TH HUIrN XPOSiTall'OQTQ ER 1970 SA\4.
Odds re ends
y Elaine Toimnshigind
Now rnct i:riages
have chitnged!
occasion a few weeks earlier, and since then,
vtedding,anniversary this summer. Another
neighbours of theirs, marked , a similar'
couple, ' who are friends and 'former
My grandparents celebrated their sixtieth
rye noticed newspaper" accounts of a few'
ether couples, whO have been married, fifty
years, sixty years "and even longer. '
Sixty years! That's a long time to be
hitched to one person.
Most of the couples I've talked to or read
about grew up within a few miles of each
other. Courting sixty odd, years ago,
consisted of riding up and dcrivn the main
street of tnwp,in a horsed and 'buggy.
Most weddings took place in the bride's
home or the church manse. The bryle and according
groom's parentS, immediate family and• be , divor
closest friends night be ,there, or there suppert•
might be just the minister and the witness Thin have changed, people have
needed .to sign the marriage certificate. changed, ;and marriage is do longer the
After the ceremony, the couple was "institution " it was once"considered to be.
sometimes driven around, town in a horse I Law. Reform Commission recommendation.
and buggy or wagon, and later they returned ' makedivorceseasier to obtain. A couple need
tothe bride's home for 13 dinner ytriPared by no longer "stick it out" if the 'situation has
mothers, sisters and aunts. become , intolerable. _ •
At the end of the day, the bridal' couple . A United Church brief supported the
slipped away to their new hotne„ which was recommendations but also urged feder'al and furnished with the bare necessities they had .provinciat governments to establish stronger
—15etti" able-to
the 'gifts
and a few weddin
second-h an
g gifts. counselling and support services for •,
Ma- weie d ny of
furniture ,that had been in the family for
"years- - --Aunt-Liiiid's iron WO that mother -In the February issue of the Observer, file" •
had used in the guest room or Grandma's UnitecfChurch stated, "We believe that the JaSon Henderson sleeps through the
rocker that hal sat in the front room. ' institution of marriage is more likely to be .
Honeymoons, in those da y s ,
, protected by supporting and enriching the variety show at the fair last week
The newly-weds lost no time in settling down relationship, than that the relationship is
likely to be upheld by _strenthening the into married life.
institution. It was a quiet simple beginning to sixty
"years of marriage. quite .a contrast to the
Meanwhile, couples ' who have been elaborate weddings of , today that take
married fifty or sixty years talk about a lot of
months of planning and. thousands• of things - good times and hard times that dollars. There are gowns to be made, seemed to draw them closer togetherrather tuxedos to be rented and forty, fifty, one, than drive them apart. They don't seem
hundred or more guest's to be wined and
surprised that the ,marriage lasted sixty dined and entertained. years, and some of them predict it Will last
The wedding days of most 1978 bridal
another another sixty (years. couples arc much different from those of the
save
Il
1918 couples,' and unfortuantely, that's rot
the only, difference in their marriages.
The chances Of today's marriage lasting
"until death do us part" are • Orli and
growing slimmer each year, Three in every
five marriages in Canada end in diVaice.
From 1965 to 1975, the number of divorces in
Canadat multiplied five times.
The U.S. 'Census Bureau predicts that in
1985 one in three Americans will divorce.
Although eighty. pefeen't of them Will
remarry, the chances for a successful
marriage the second time around will be
worse than the first time.
Young women are advised to become
career-oriented before marriage, because,
ta istics, in a few years they'll
ith two 'or three kids, to
ids win
xpositor's
contest
at ho
Four younger readers of
the HI:tron Expositor won
grizesiin this year's Elmer
Safery 4Contest.
" The contest is sponsored
annually innewspapersacro ,,s
the province, by the Ontario
Safety Council.
The four local youngsters
who won Parker • House
games for their efforts were
Stephen and Linda Van Dyk
of RR 3, Seaforth, Michael
Schoonderwoerd of Dublin
and Susan 1-Pulley of Seaforth.
This yearr the children
were asked to draw.:a picture
illustrating' the safety rule
. .
which children living in 'the
country woiild have to
remember more often than
children livil in., the city.
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