WHY GIRLS WILL WED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 321, 1 December 1888, Page 8

WHY GIRLS WILL WED.

r^i h rn^c nl tlio early daybreak, f With n'snrk And achine: heu'd,^ j -Arid she >»nid— lhis cross little<A\foinan — ',1 wonder why girls \\ill Mcd ! wouldn't, T sim sure, if thoy reckoned „ Tim IhuiSr« that a. wife must Hear ; The never-done, woikof it household, The neveYMlr.no Mother care. 5 Six doz^i pieces to wa«di to day, .And (lie Children mtist g^> to school. And evcrvrfp fr'no^vn'on \v:^hin« days Dabv i>< cri)»»* as \i in it 1 , And B:id-et i< new <o tlie woik \ft COh, deirr, how niV hr-nd does .jrh«> !) Yet, 1 shidl liave tho dinner to/'tiol*, And all oC the b -ds to m.ikt .' as soon Us the hiWfcfnst avhr rch.dy, _ Father came in from tbe yurd ; "j^c hissed {he aibk little mother, — ' Was sine that her woik \\ as hard.' Up. said to the noisy hoy* : ' ftt* ill'! Your mother's not well to day,' And wtien he bid her * j»ood-\>ye,' He ' could kiss the pain away--And the coffee or kis^— which was h ?—? — Healed like n maL'ici)] chaim ; The spiiit nf diHgent Was everytvhere on the farm. The fether \Vorked hard at the ploughing. The niothei forgot her p.iin, Bridf*tt did we'd with her wusliing, - Thbie wasn't a drop of rain. The baking and cleaning were over, When the l,o\b came homo from school ; Baby forgot it way washing-day, Aud pleasantly # broke his vulo ; And at night the house was clean and bright — There was not a thing amiss. " { 'Tis only a wife,' the farmer thought, " l Would do as much for a kiss.' And the^vife, sifting down in (he fire-light, The baby at her side, -He r hrskuid chatting, and watching her Wirh a huslund's loving pride, Thought, miiuh cr her full and pleasant hovie. Of hei child: en asleep in bed ; Aad said with ii sv, eet, contented Inu^h, 1 ivb voonder That uirlt will wed I '

1 A rex ; "\viites t is follow* to the li.'Xveno bu<r : — "With reference to the €iiYi in ihe price of New Zealand beef, nl)<s\v me to state that this is cause 1 by the funnel s 'ft Home rushing their fat cattle (now being taken off the glass) into the *smirket, owing to the comparative failure 'of the turnip crop en account of the wet "'season ; and further by enormous shipments from the U. S. and Canada before the season closes. November being the roughest month to the Atlantic Ocean, li^e cattle 'canaot be profitably shipped after October. 1 may also say that the agricultural editor , of the Glasgow Herald predicted this temporary drop, and he also piedicted that -frozen beef will be 6d to G|d per pound, before May and June."