ADVICE TO THE ENGAGED.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1201, 8 March 1895, Page 14

ADVICE TO THE ENGAGED.

to HIM. If you think that a woman is any weaker-minded than a man, stop where you are. If you intend to treat yourself any better than you treat wife, don’t take one. if you suppose that running the house consists i n paying the bills, don’t undertake it. If you have found it a hard task to be happy yourself, don’t try to make anyone else happy. Ifyu have chosen a pretty woman without regard to her other qualities, halt j you are on the wrong road. If you incline to the opinion that any manners are good enough for home manners, don’t try to have a home. if you think tiiat a house should have only one head, and that head bo yours, - postpone your wedding indefinitely; " \ ' If you are of opinion that marriage makes man and wife one, and that you are to be that one, send in your regrets at once; TO HER. ■ ' If you are marrying for money only, you must only expect to get what money can buy. If you are going to marry a mfyn- for his looks, you mustn’t be surprised when he gives you black ones. If you are going into the thing blindly, don’t hold up your hands in I o!y horror when you get your eyes opened. " If you are marrying a man to reform him, it behoves you to exercise all- the zeal and patience of the reformer. If you only contemplate taking a hits; band in order to gain greater freedom, don’t be surprised if he should profit by youi example. If you have been engaged three times before, this, you had better wait six months ; perhaps thi3 engagement may be followed by still another. If you have an idea that a cookery took and an allowance can make a happy home, you should get yourself to a nunnery with all convenient speed. . If you are fond of dress and shew and empty parade, and take pleasure in the frivolities of life, don’t murry a man at all ; merely marry something that will. pass for a man.