LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2518, 4 May 1882, Page 2

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

“We should have thought of that before we joined the force,” says the policeman in the “ Pirates of Penzance.” In like manner girls before they marry should taka all the pros, and cojis. of their future life into serious consideration. If one of them yearns after the gay world it is evident she should think twice before she marries a hermit. If, on the contrary, the tastes of another lead her to follow a quiet life, she should not become engaged to a star actor or a cabinet minister. A case occurred in Wellington last week which shows that all women do not employ the necessary foresight before they bind themselves for good and all to the fates of their husbands. The wife of a foreign fisherman named Andrew Parris applied at the Resident Magistrate’s Court for a protection order, as also for the custody of her child, four years of age. Mrs. Parris’swore that she had maintained herself away from her husband for the last four months, and that, on one occasion, ho had struck her for not returning to his lonely fire side at the Heads. She admitted thct he had repeatedly asked her to go home, and had frequently supplied her with groceries, Ac., since she had left. But the picture of the “ lonely fireside ” was too much for her gay spirit. Tbo intellectual conversation of her piscatorial husband was no off-set for the loss of the pomps and vanities of this wicked, though pleasant, world. She was something of the same temperament as tho lady who declared that a box of the latest fashions from Paris afforded a consolation that religion itself was powerless to give. Before marriage, no doubt, the idea of a constant tete-a-tete with a bold fisherman, broken only by tho moaning of tho waves, was pleasant rather than otherwise. Sweet nothings mingled with original remarks on tho state of the flounder market, the condition of the rock cod and moki fisheries were then looked upon as never likely to pall. But the forecasts of Mrs. Parris were singularly astray, or perhaps it was that she did not bring her mind sufficiently to bear on the situation. Any how she had decided that a stalled ox at tho Hoads was not so pleasant as a dinner of herbs in the metropolis, within easy reach of the bom et shops. The magistrate, however, seems to have brought her to her bearings. He said she had no right to leave her husband simply because she found it rather lonely, and he refused tho application, and re»

commended Mrs. Parris to bo more obedient to her husband in future. Hence it is to be presumed that she has once more returned to the arms of her loving spouse, and is now engaged in those domestic duties connected with the home life of individuals who gain their livelihood on the stormy sea. « F or m en must work and women must weep Though storms be sudden and waters deep. If she does not like her realisation of the jpicture, she has only herself to blame. She “ should have thought of that before she joined the force.”