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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 9 July 1864, Page 3

Partingtonian Philosophy. — Mrs Partington ' sometimes gets things mixed up, but with regard to marriage her ideas are tolerably clear. "If ever I'm married," said ike, looking up from the book he was reading, and kicking the tongs away from the fender, "if ever I'm married " — " Don't speak of marriage, Isaac, till you aro old enough to understand the bond that binds congenial souls. People mustn't speak of mamage with impurity. It is the first thing children think of now-a-days ; and young boys in pianoforcs, and young girls with beads fricasced into spittoon curls, and full of lovo-sick stories, arc talking of marriage before they get into their teens. Think of such ones getting married! Yet there's Mr Spaid, when Heaven took his wife away, went right to a young ladies' cemetery and got another, no more fit to be the head of a family than I am to be the board of mayor and alderman." She tapped the new box that her friend, tho colonel, had givon her, with hor eyes resting npon tho gold hoarfc inlaid in' tho con tre of the lid, as if hearts wore trumps in her mind at tho time, whilo Iko, without finishing, his sentence, kept on with his ireading, accompanying liinsclf with a pedal performance on tho tablo-log, and a clatter upon' tho round ofhis chair with the handle of a fork in his hand.