HOME TRUTHS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 41, 13 March 1909, Page 4

HOME TRUTHS.

JOli-JlKi-.llXlCil.Ntl. Everybody knows how rims the story of love. i infatuation, engagement, rhapsody, terms of endearment that never fail. -Marriage, a failing ,of terms of endearment, a drying-up of the fount, and 'then day after day of commonplace, hum-drum, jog-jog-jogging along the road of family cares, until one or the other arrives at the goal of the grave.

And then the terms of endearment are re-born in all epitaph.

Should these things be'; Why should not the husband, on returning home from the olliee, be treated just as when be came, a lover, in the era of passion and infatuation V

j Why should not the mother of seven be dangled on the knew of the father of seven just as much, as a matter of course as when the mere thought of a wedding-ring brought a blush'/ Here we run against a rock of human nature, not easily moved. And there are temperaments to be considered. ; Here is a husband, a Southerner, affectionate. e! v ". ive, demonstrative —lie is readv a.: I anxious to be a lover all the days of his life. But he is wedded to a Northerner, more cold by disposition, unell'iusive. undemonstrative; and somebody has told her that the best way to maintain her husbtind'i- ardent allection is to give its flames little to feed on. So it is only once in a blue moon when she throw* him a caress, and once in'ten years when she strokes. lii« hair, and once in an aeon whea she kisses him .iiui.ked.

Sviv.ilt is that, i.hi- tltiiiii'- of love hi'iv is « liiiiiliaiul of till' opposite - colli, lvSfivi'cl. a nun! ipiito in-i-iiliiilih- of nialiiiiioniiil llhtntion. lie i-wi'ilili-ifcto 11 liul.v who i- iiothi-;i}j if not illMlrtill-jtl-illivi- -.illi- lii'ilps liiT lou- lip-UI liim.

Tin' visnli is tliiii >h.- iiuotlii-rs Kiii-li llmm-. of lovi' ;i~ still vciiiniii in him.

It is only in tin. i.lwil nuin-iiifti! Unit I'nii- t'iv.inil-tilki. is loiinil to be lii? oi-ilh- of thing*. When olii-i- tin- fiiillop of lor,, has .1,-gi-iii'intril into n jnjt-iriil. ii is nut 1-uny to npiilv mi i-IVi-i-l'ivi- spiir. Tlii-jinm thiii!,'is for il»- vomm iii.il-i-h-,1 folk lo Ink,-, liml thnl 'lli.-y n.-vr fall jojf-i"!!■-i>'!iaiiM.'■ thai tli.-ir lovos «o - by -i.li- - 'llial i'V(-vy .-uri'ss jfi'v.'ii. i-v.-ry li-rni of i-iulo.i rinoilt. is duly i-t-tiinidl. -Lov.-rs „iK-,-. l„v,-i- aIH-iiy- - ' - llii« tslionl.l ho lin- moiiii of iiutiinioiry. - Aiiici-icifii journal.