MOSE SKINNER ON LOVE AND MATRIMONY.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 219, 16 May 1877, Page 2

MOSE SKINNER ON LOVE AND MATRIMONY.

Most everybody falls in love in course of lifetime. Some make a pretty bad fall of it, and are lamed for life ; and others have a soft and lovely fall, which feels so good that they keop falling in farther and farther till they get married, and then they begin to fall out. When a couple become engaged, they spurn all the vanities of this world, and associate with heads of families. They don’t indulge in anything heavier than a sewing circle, or possibly a select reading from a cookery book. The young lady puts on a very austere look, and has great compassion for all her aocpiaintanccs who ain’t got any bean ; but still she feels that life is calmest, and it won’t do for her to show any weakness. Ho thinks how surely he must have pined away and died if she hadn’t turned up just as she did, and she indulges in horrible reflection as to what must have been her fate if she had never been born. You can generally tell by seeing a couple together how they stand. If they walk arm-in-arm, looking unutterable things into each other’s eyes, and with a sort of partnership air, they are engaged. If the man looks a little indifferent, and the woman clings eagerly to him and watches him jealously, they have been married from four to eight years. After that you don’t see much of them, for they are at home, busily engaged in solving the conundrum, “ How in thurder did you and I ever come together.”