MR DOOLEY ON MARRIED MEN.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 172, 14 April 1903, Page 4

MR DOOLEY ON MARRIED MEN.

" Whin a man's marrid, he's a marrid man. That's all ye can say about him. Iv coorse bethinks marredge isgoin'to change th' whole currint av his bein', as Hogan says. But it doesn't. Afther he's been hooked up f r a few months, he finds he was marrid befure, even if he wasn't, which is ofthen th' case, d'ye moind. Th' fiurrst bride iv his bosom was th' Day's Wurruk, an' it can't be put off. They's no groun's f'r dissolvin' that marredge, Hinnissy. Ye can't say to th' Day's Wurruk : ' Here, take this bunch iv alimong an' go on th' stage.' It turns up at breakfast about th' fourth month afther th' weddin' an' creates a scandal. Th' unforchnit man thries to shoo it off, but it fixes him with his eye an' hauls him away from th' bacon and eggs, while the lady opposite weeps, and vvondhers what he can see in annything so old an' homely. It says, ' Come with me; aroon,* an' he goes. An' afther that he spinds most iv hi? time an' ofthen a good deal iv his money with th' enchantress. I teel ye what, Hinnissy, th'Day's Wurruk has broke uj3 more happy homes thin comic opry. If th' coorts would allow it, marmy a woman cud get a divoorce ot th' groun's that her husband cared more f'r his Day's Wurruk thin he did f'r her. 'Hinnissy varsus Hinnissy ; corryspondint, th' Day's Wurrnk.' They'd be ividence that th' defindant was seen ridin' in a cab with th' corryspondint, that he took it to a picnic, that he wint to th' theaytre with it, that the talked about it in his sleep, an' that, lost to all since ov shame, he even escoorted it home an' inthrajooced it to his varchoos wife an' innocent childer. So it don't make much dif-h-ence who a man marries. If he has a job, he's sate."