An Editor on Early Marrtages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 3 June 1885, Page 2

An Editor on Early Marrtages.

Ninetenthsof tlie imhHpfiyiiiamagHi are the result of green human calves l»em« allowed to run at large m tbo S»>cieLy pastures, without aiiy. on them. They marry atii^EirwF* children before they do moustaches } they are father* of twins tefoiiv^ey are proprietor* ot two pair* of pants and the little girls they marry are old women before they are twenty old; Occasionally one of these gWing*- *■ marriages turns mit all right, but it is a clear case of luck. If there wfc<t a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they have 'cut all their teeth, we suppose the little ensses would evade it some way, but there ought to bo a sentiment agirinxfcJ it. It is time enough for these, little bantams 10 think of finding a pullofc when they have raised money erfougW! to buy a bundle of laths to* build a . henhou>e. But they see a girt who looks cunning, and they are > afraid H there is hoc going to be girls enough ' : ' to go round, and tb«u they begin~tb * get m their work real **pry, and before they are awaie of the sanctity of the marriuge relation, they are hitched for lift', and before they own a cook move or a bedstead, they hare to get up m the night and after tb£ doctor, so frightened that thuy run iKeinaelve* out of breath, and abuse the doctor because hn doesn't ruu too, and ;if ltoa the «loctoi geta there, there m' riot enough Jiueu to h rap up a jdol(< baby.