A Young Lady's Idea of Marriage.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 30, 29 December 1883, Page 3

A Young Lady's Idea of Marriage.

So she was going to be married ; to be mistress of a house, settle in London ; be able to go out into the streets all alone, to shop or visit ; have a gentleman all her own, whom she could put her linger on any moment, and make him take her about, even to the opera and the theatre ; to give dinner-parties her own self, and even a little ball once in a way ; to buy whatever dresses she thought proper, instead of being crippled by an allowance ; have the legal right of speaking first in society, instead of sitting mumchance and mock modest ; to be mistress intead of Miss contemptible title ; to be a woman instead of a girl ; and all this rational liberty, domestic power, and social dignity were to be obtained by merely wedding a dear fellow who loved her, and was so nice ; and the bright career to be ushered in with several delights, each of them dear to a girl's very soul ; presents from all her friends ; as many beautiful new dresses as if one was changing her body or her hemisphere, instead of her name ; 6clat ; going to church, which is a good English girl's theatre of display and temple of vanity, and there tasting delightful publicity and whispered admiration, in a heavenly long veil, which she could not wear even once if she remained single. This bright and variegated picture of holy wedlock, as revealed to young ladies by feminine tradition, though not enumerated in the Book of Common Prayer, so entranced her that time flew by unheeded. —Charles Beade.

The Lyttelton "Times" says that the successful candidates for the two vacant Cathedral Choir Scholarships were R. Kerkham, son of the Roy. R. Kerkham, Incumbent of Roslyn, - Otago ; and H. L. Brett, son of Mr Henry Brett, proprietor of the Auckland Evening Star. Sir William Fox's West Coast Commission has been further extended till Ist July, 1884. " • ■ ' '