Miscellaneous.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous.

Tun aut'ior o! "John H.ilifux." has positive opiniond on ir>ama<,'e as eonnefted with q rum. "Two pcoplu," eho sp.y^, " men an-1 wife" 1 , of whom one wis snpiwjeJ to If-, and bo<h re;\W were, wonderfully git ted, puceccd in nu.Vin«r ono another thoroa^hly miserable. Why ? Because tho woman inarned out of a wounded feminine pride or («ho owreJ) for 'ambition,' & self -absorbed, egotistical, bad-tempered man, who had ruinei his constitution by his persistent breaking ol every law of health. Disappointed, neglected, aho does her wifely duty in a literal cense, but she Beacons i!> with incessant complaints and the cruel use of that weapon which is a gentlewoman's instinctive defence against a boor — sarcasm. He, too, liven a life unimpeachable externally, but within fnlj of rancour, malice, and a selfishness which approaches absolute cruelty ; his pleasant nature perpetually blinding him to the sufferings of hia wife, moro gently born and gently bred ; while hex morbid Eeneitiveness exaggerates trivial vexations into great misfortunes, and mere follies into actual crimes. All this wretohedness sprung, not from the man's genius, but his other bad qualities, which , htd he beon a biaiDlesa as?, would have made his life's life and his own just as miecrahle. Yet society moana out the moral, ' Nover marry a genius 1 ' or the worse one, 'If you do marry a genius, you must condone all hh shortcomings, lay yourselves down as a mat for him to rub )va shoes on; give him everything aud expect from him nothing, not even the commonest rules o£ domestic courtesy and social morality."