AN EDITOR ON EARLY MARRIAGES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1994, 19 May 1885, Page 2

AN EDITOR ON EARLY MARRIAGES.

Nhief;e.ntl|3 p,f the chappy marriages are t]jo result; of groen humaii ealvcß being allowed to run at large in the-Society pastures, without any yokes ; on,them, They marry and have children bofcire they do moustaches; they are fathers "of twins before they are proprietors of two pap of panta, and. the little girls they marry are old wqmen. befqre they are twenty years ' old. Occasionally sne of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is a clear case of luck, If there %as# a Irw against young galoots,' : sparP' ing and marrying before they have cut all their teeth, we suppose the little cusses would evade it some way, but there ought to be a sentiment against it. It is time enough for these bantams to think of finding a pullet when they have raised money enough to buy a bundle of laths to build a henhouse. But they see a girl who looks cunning, and they are afraid there is not going to be girls enough to go round, and then they begin to get in their work real spry, and before they' are aware of the sanctity of the marriage relation, they are hitched for life. Jhfl before they own a qp.ok stove WftWd-> M they taveta ggt w to tl > e,li^ an.d m afte'v the doctor, so frightened that they run themselves out of bvonfcli, and ahiiae the doctor because he doesn't run too, and when the dootor gets there, there is not enough linen to wrap up a doll baby,