THE SENSIBLE HONEYMOON.
As to long honeymoons, all sensible people are become utterly to disbelieve in them. They are a forced homage to utter false idea s^ they are a waste of .money at a moment when erery shilling is wanted for much more pressing objects ; they are a lpss-of time, which soon comes to be dreary and weary in a grand hotel, or dull lodgings,, with-.nothing to see. and less to do. Most of < all, they are a risk for love, which otfgiit&ot so soon to be so .unpleasantly tested jby the inevitable petulances of a hopfeless ennui. Three days by all means, and then, oh ! happy I friends, go . straight ijrhqme, with your money in your pocket for the real honey* moon, say six monthf hence* which you will enjoy far more when you have.spent a few happy home weeks as man- and' wife together, and which you can honestly claim as your usual holiday. Whenerer you oome back, six weeks hence or one, you will have just as much to stand the ' fire of a little hard storing, which won't hurt you, and of bright pleasantries, which need not Tex y<ju; and the sooner. you are at home, the aponer you will find ,* out what married feppiness • Canon Thorold in Sunday Magaamt.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2645, 30 June 1877, Page 2
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215THE SENSIBLE HONEYMOON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2645, 30 June 1877, Page 2
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