A TOO COOL BRIDEGROOM.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 2

A TOO COOL BRIDEGROOM.

What the whole • duty of a- bridegroom,, when, after the wedding and the breakfast, he finds himself alone, with his bride in an empty railway compartment?, I- do. not pretend ' to give an authoritative answer,, but I imagined that a few terms of endearment and possibly an. occasional caress would not be quite out of place. £Chis secerns to -have; been the opinion of the young lacly who was married at Accrington the other, day to, a^ Mr John Smith: The blushing bride has not been married before, but she was naturally surprised and distressed'by theproceedingsof herhusband. They had scarcely left Accrington, England when Mi\ Smith settled himself in a corner, yawned once or twice and fell into a deep slumber.. It is possible that "Mr Smith in impose i£ not a pleasing' spectacle. It is possible that Mrs Smith was merely hurt) by the stolidity of his demeanour under conditions favourable to cheerfulness, not to say enthusiasm. " But it is certain that, for one br both reasons, the maiden slipped, quietly out of the carriage at the nrst station, leaving behind Jier only a slip of paper attached to Mr Smith's coat-tail and bearing the, words: " Tired of znatrimony. Had enough of it and gone home to my ma. Mary." " lv '