24 MAY 1930, Page 19

POINT FROM LETTER MAY MARRIAGES.

The two oldest and best known English couplets run thus

" If ye marry in Lent You will live to repent "

and

" If ye marry in May You will rue the day."

Lent, however, as a close season for marriage, certainly, I regret to note appears to be on the decline. Not so however with the prejudice against May as a marital month. Few people, however, are aware that the superstition about May marriages is of ancient origin. Ovid, in his Fasti, liber V, wrote thus of these marriages :

" Menke malas Maio nubere vulgus ait."