SATURDAY NIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 60, 9 February 1884, Page 2

SATURDAY NIGHT.

THE FIRESIDE. Improvident Marriages. The G-raphiOr • says [ jof . improvident marriages : '^-The Daily News has opened its columns > to' some interes.tiug letters on the subjebb of clerks' riages; and'tt is; pleasant to. note, that moat of the correspondents have written m a manly tone about, their trials a3 husbands and fathers, ..TheraJs the young man* who -com. plains that, being married hp can no longer live as fee used ta ( do when a bachelor j but there is the better young man %tio finds that by self-denial and care, he has gone on very well, and is all the happiei- for having induced a brave-hearted girl to cast h6r lot m with him. ' After, all, the qaestion mu^t-resolYd itself • into the very old butplain one as to whet.her E^wift a.n.d Angelina really love each other; A good wife i» not an incumbrance to a inau, but a^aYiog and .»,] blearing ; and children cost less, upon an honest repltoning, than cigars, liquonng over bar countei-s, billiards, »nd the backing of this or that jockey's mounts. But if Edwin and Angelina are ridt ; really fond each pother,,- they will naturally find it disagreeable to praotice self-denial for one another's sakes } and again there will be trouble if Edwin^ though loving. Angelina,! has_ an idia thatiie -oughtlto begin life, where his father left.off, and treat himself and his wife to luxuries he has not had the time or pernaps f the diligence tb earn. : An improvident marriage is not one m which a man takes a wife before he has -money to keep her m the circumstances to which she was accustomed at home; foi no unselfish girl— and all loving girls beconfe unselfish— fekpectß,as a rule,to go to such a'hobie aS that which she left. An improvident marriage is one m; which both parties hare not sensibly cotisjdeied'whetlrer they are really eager ; to join hands for life, and willing to -\ Endure poverty tooether. The Jittle shifts of penury can be borne jga.i|y enough by a young- couple euro that patience and work, will- -bring 'them better : times ; b^ut-no do,ubt,Ed,win is amuch to Ije^pitied iellow^' if "hd'svhines that Angelina. e^cpeptS; morejexpendifrtre' than he can .afford.^ J^oif this irieanfe thatAngelina and he had better havei feept apart ; and it suggests a, fe.a.r |ba| t^ey may pai t some &y a%V :#ky iD S. d^ : covered,. (00 late, that'' their '* mahi^e w^s, ftot jnade^n heaven, ; ' ' <. ■