Matrimonial Maxims.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 15 December 1917, Page 1

Matrimonial Maxims.

Marriage, which makes two one, is a life-long struggle to decide who is that one.

Wives should never pester their hus- | bands. A husband is like an egg. If kept continually in hot water he soon i gets hardened. Love is a good bit like soda-water. They both fizzle out. Lovers are often described as dovelike; but after marriage all tlie cooing gives way to billing. Married women are like an army; they are hopelessly lost if they have no reserve. But, strangely enough, when they are long past their prime they find there reserve with the "colours. '' A novelist says: "Love is but change of air.'' Hence the breezes and chills that follow. A bachelor lives the life of a gentleman and dies like a dog. A married man lives the life of a dog and dies like a gentleman. Divorce (like "liberty") means being free from the things you don't like in order to be a slave to the things you do. Two women, two opinions. If the modern young wife's mania for dress is leading her, as the puritans maintain, to perdition—well, shewill not need the furbelow. Woman is a very inflammable creature, hence so many "sparks" on earth —and ditto below.