MARRIAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3024, 9 October 1888, Page 2

MARRIAGE.

' Oui*. greatest English poet, vShafe;;";' Bpcaru/inone,of his,dramas,,pttlred- ■■;•';'.''.-'■' V.Much Ado tibout' Nothihg,";---.t'old '.•- story of. a.young lady called Beatrice,; V,' •who,'besides, being verybeautifnl was;■'••■ very' clevei'^very-witty and ; very sen-: ' ' siblo. Hha Wt>S;wbped;bya fine Span-' /. y.' isli I prince, -hbied Don Pedro, and.;; "• -\ after, a time, tJiis. Don - Pedro: asked; her. if slie would marry bini.' She ; : replied,-" No, my lord j/ not. unless I ■.; V '■; might '■ have fanother jiuhband' for working days; yoiir. Grace is:tpb '£ to wearfevery ; 'day\" -:Yontig ;fplks'''; £•■,'; who are seeking to form acquaintance';;{.(/ should think of thissp'eech of Beatrice.? 5 Friends, tobea comfort and ajtrength} if <£ must be friends' forevery.daj, not,for-.6 '•.' ■; high days and fedsts. ; v .Of alf the. work ;: £.7 ■'■■ mwhicfiyounguienandyou'ng'wbmeri;- > ; ; engage,; there is noDe-fwhich;brihgV.if loti them together, in). pleasameriritimhey;; than work - for others ; work.' Work of this kiiidy is ' mostly"-'-• ■""' ■: 'earned on in connection with religious communities, and this is why.so many .. friend in themselves" - and full of promise-for the'..•future, have their-oriyin in churches;. and chapels;." It;isfprobablo. that more .' '. acquaintances ■which have ended in : marriage engagementsiiave been.cbtu-'-,'■. menc'd when attending churches and . ;• chapels, than in any other way.. There ':.•''.) is this to bosaid for mot engagements; ; - they have, for the most part, ended , happily; they have not often led to; misery and pain in the future, as have engagements formed in scenes of < pleasure and gaity, -% People. who engage, perseveringlyj and zealously, '[ -',''.:;' ; in work for the same object, and that - an unselfish one, must, wan extent, ' bo right minded; and'what mors. reasonable basis for future congenial ■;■■'' companionship can tbero be than bar- . mony of taste and sentiment 1 The secret of happiness in marriage is that a wedded pair should pull together; " and there is no more reliable sign that tboy will do 'so, when joined together,, than the facttlut, whon apart, they naturally pull in the same 'direction. —PhvllisßrowninAl. '-■'.'■