"THE PIT."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 27 May 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

"THE PIT."

• Like other great' institutions, •- the pit gradually grew fronra humble -'origin; Shakespeare, as overy one knows, despised tho groundlings and their taste for.:dumb shows.and lioise; and no wonder that the inmates of the "yard," as tho pit was originally called,' craved for excitement, for they had to witness the performance under every'physical disadvantage, not even seats being provided for them in the public • playi houses, although at the private theatres, -which wero under the protection of some royal or noble personage, the case was differ rent, But at the Restoration.the pittites had become a very different class of people, and counted ainoug their number Mr. Pepys and other persons of taste and respectability. Its acme of power the pit reached in the last century, when both professional and amateur critics took their station there, and expressed

done se permet de corriger Gluck ?" or" Lea trombones no sont pas partis I C'est insupportable I"—to the utter astonishment of the audience and to the horror of Valentino, the conductor, as may well be imagined,— Pall ■ Mall Gazette, ■ .-.,- ■•'■•..' •:> ■ ' Frirmls are often like • the negro's moon—- " NoWior shine dark nights." ■'' A Wipe Should be Consulted.-Tlio man who thinks it bencntli his dignity to. take counsel with an intelligent wifo stands in his own light, and betrays that lack of judgment which Tie tacitly attributes to her, j

'Love and MAiuiiAGE.-\Yliere husband and wife love oacli other' they get nlong'woll througji all the vicissitudes of life, because ono immensurable sourco of happiness always remains to them, whatever disasters hctide-aud that is their liuiailing sympathy with oach other. Nothing less thnp thi- enables a couple to endure with equanimity all the care's and nnxietios and disappointments of. married ]ife. ; . Nothing is.more common than, to see two young porsons t many with the. approval.of the families and. all the friends'on each side, " What a fortunato match for both of tliein!"-overyorio exclaims," To "outside.appearance such it is, ' A little tline clapses-it may be a fow years, it maybe only one—when, to the surprise of their acquaintances, it is announced that the marriage lias turned out unhappily,. The explanation is simple-there was no love between thorn. ...There was a degreo of friendship, there was a,mutual expectation of advantage from the connexion—but love there was not. 'For the, ordinary transactions and relations of life,' nspect end friendship are all that' arc required, It is not so in marriape, Nothing there will supply the place of love. The belief that thero are substitute* for it is ono to which many a gay and 'hopeful young; couple have trusted their happiness only to find it a total wreck, ,