The Social Revolution Through the Orange Wreath.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 77, 4 March 1885, Page 4

The Social Revolution Through the Orange Wreath .

• •'■•• • .'. :— *» There. is an interesting paper m the current number of the National Review. The writer, who signs himself " A humble but Democrative Tory, 11 says all we have to do is to apply the law of competitive examination to the law of marriage. All boys and girls m the country should be sent, of course, to the national schools, andi the surviving of them to the universities, and then "the man and woman who stood at the head of their respective lists m the examination would become, husband and wife and so on all down the list. It is thus obvious that the clever son of a storekeeper might marry a dulcet daughter, and that an earl might wed a farm servants child." The scheme is by no means altogether m the air, for already do not. the girls who stand at the head of the examination lists at Girton marry, the men whose names are appended , as examiners? We w.ait ' for some of these ladies and gentlemen to subject the ingenious theory of the National Reviewer to the test j of experience., I