MORE COURTSHIP AFTER MARRIAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 4

MORE COURTSHIP AFTER MARRIAGE.

Sonic men I hav,' met seem to consider their certificate as n sort of fully paid up policy of happiness, writes a correspondent of the Delineator. They act as if the courtship days were those of paying premiums of compliment, cheerfulness, courtesy, consideration and chivalry, and that marriage cuts oil' all these premiums of loverlike attention. The only way to get an absolutely guaranteed insurance on matrimony is to keep paying the premiums. 1 have known many first-class niatrimouial policies to lapse just because of these suspended payments.

These, same men at their clubs often run perilously close to the dead-line of boredom in telling of the marvellous ipialitics of their wives;-they run the. (•liroiuatirscalc of enthusiasm, while you wonder, in a dreamy way, whether the angels in the heaven were not modelled after these women. Vet at home these husbands keep as silent about their appreciation as if it were a Masonic secret* There is a tendency to assume that this love is known and recognised, 10 why speak of it,? "She knows how much 1 think of her"—(his is a dangerous taking for granted of what should be made real, pulsing and vital in the thought, word, and deed. There, is little danger in over-telling this story; it is often the wine of life and inspiration to one hungering and thirsting for the little lendernes- of affection. Oftiiues some little touch of loving sweetness throws a golden streak of happiness through a wife's whole day, and an involuntary half-smile and a love-light in the eves lioru of the remembrance, hours later,' tells of the Vitalising power of a seeming trille. forgotten or perhaps unnoted by him who thus gladdened a life

There are more people on this great, big, rolling earth hungering for sweetness, tenderness, and ' words of gentle appreciation, genial eonlidenee and generous affection thin nre starving for bread.. Such won!-; thai were the current coin of conversation before marriage often seem withdrawn from circulation afterwards. Willi husband 'and wife those (l-lieale nicssigcs of alfertioll cost, so little sometimes nnlv a thought, but it

i-. thi' ili.nij.'ht that is all./ I have known nii'n who would no mw think volunlnrily of carrying home to their wives a bunch of roses just us ;i hit of sentiment, limn they would think of taking homo a bridge ur a cathedral or two or tliri-c mill's of sea const. It is not fail- to have all the roses before marriage, and only their memory and thorns afterwards.