: i The tale that I relate, This lesson seems to carry — Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Cowpjat. EVEN in the healthy climate of New Zealand there are many men— Whose legs, like loaden branches, bow tothe earth,; • '■-■ ':"■ , ; Willing to If&ife theirjaurden.^ . y Shakespeare. For now, as in the time of La Bruyere,; " many men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable," frequently realising Spenser's description — •-••••• As pale and wan as ashes was his looke, His body leane and meagre as a rake, And skin all withered as a dried rooke. In all countries, and especially in newlysettled eegions, where a disparity of the sexes ex&ts, There is an ordei ." -\ Of mortals on the earth, who do become : ' Old in their youth, and die ere middle age. 1 Bykon. While it is a welT established 1 fact that— - Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide. COLTON. . Recently published, in 16mo, cloth boards; price 4s 6d (by post ss), or handsomely bound in calf l2a^ ~ • ... W EAKN-E S S ■■■•: ' In its relation to Married Life, by iD& L. L. SMITH, il ; For eighteen years the Leading Consulting Medical Man in Melbourne, in all. -Special' Diseases, and in all Complaints incidental to hot climates. • ■•'•• In this work will be found an answer to the question which heads this advertisement. In the Australian Colonies, more than in the mother country, is continually heard the complaint, that "youngmen will not marry;" and their conduct in abstaining from marriage, in certain cases, is highly commendable; for ; '■'■■" "It is less a breach of Wedlock. , to part than still to foil and profane that M3'stery of Joy-and Union/w ith a polluting Sadness and perpetual Distemper." *■■■ ' " • ; Milton. Yet it cannot be disputed that- the highest degree of earthly happiness, is that yielded by the permanent enjoyments of the married state, for .Without our hopes, without our jf ears, Without the Home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial Beauty won, Oh ? what were Man ?— a World without Son.; •»-., .;..-,•■ ;•' " : ;vv ■■' Campbell. It is true that many marriages prove unhappy- from' there being no children, and other causes but it is equally true that the cause of unhappiness is generally removable; : for of nearly every woman it may be said — In any honest suit she's framed as fruitful As the free elements. [ :,i"> • ■ ;•;■'■' .'SHAKSPEARE. DR. L; L; SMITH, 192 to 194, Bouirke street 'east, Melbourne Consultation Fee (by letter)^ £lr ' " Life is not to live, but to be well." c ,.. : •■■-. -. iMARTIAIf r.r-, . J,-i-*I
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 840, 6 April 1871, Page 4
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429Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 840, 6 April 1871, Page 4
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