LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
"Where husband and wife really love each other they get along well through all the vicissitudes of life, because one immeasurable source of happiness always remains to them, whatever disasters betide, and that is their unfailing sympathy with each other. Nothing less than 1 this enables a couple to endure with equanimity all the cares and anxieties and disappointments of married life. Nothing is more common than to see two young persons marry with the approval of the farol lies and all the friends on each side. " What a fortunate match for both of them !" every ono exclaims. To outside appearance such it is. A little time elapses — it may be a few years, it may only be one— when, to the surprise of their acquaintances, it is announced that the marriage has turned out unhappily. The explanation is simple — there was no love between them. There was a degree of friendship, there was a mutual expectation of advantage from the connection ; but love there was not. For the ordinary transactions and relations of Jife respect and friendship are all that are required. Ifc i 3 not so in marriage. Nothing there will supply the place of love. The belief that there are substitutes for it is one on which many a gay and hopeful young couple have trusted their happiness only to Had it a totaL wreck.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 23
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231LOVE AND MARRIAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 23
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