RESPONSIBILITIES OF MARRIAGE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 5 December 1907, Page 38

RESPONSIBILITIES OF MARRIAGE

In an address to a 'women's club in Washington, wherein he touched upon the responsibilities assumed with marriage, Andrew Carnegie illustrated his point by the following story : ' A country laird in Scotland at his death left his property in equal shares to his two sons, who continued to live most contentedly together for some years. At last, however, one of them said to the other : " Tarn, we're getting to be auld men ; you take a wife, and when I die you'll get my share o-' the land." " Na, na Jeeirs," said the other. " You're the youngest and the imaisti lively ;\ you take a wife, and when I die you'll get my share, mon." " That's always the way wi' you, Tarn," said the first brother, " when there's any deeficulty or trouble, I must take it all ; you'll do naetliing." '