A Happy Life.

Otago Witness, Issue 1639, 21 April 1883, Page 27

A Happy Life.

A man who has married for love is a happy fellow. • He is generally cheerful, and always thinking of the dear ones at home. He prefers ' to live out of town for the bake of his children. He is rarely late at business, rises early, gardens a little, eats a hearty breakfast, and goes to the necessary labour with a light heart and a clean conscience. He often brings home pleasant surprises for his wife and children. You may recognise him in trains loaded with parcels, which he good-naturedly cai-ries with perfect unconcern of what others think — a new bonnet, music, books, a clcik for his wife ; while in another parcel the wheels of a cart, a jack-in-the-box, a doll, or a skipping-rope protrudes through the paper, and suggests the nursery. He is brave and kind, though he makes no noise in the world. The human-

izing influence of that darling red-cheeked little fellow who calls him father brings a glow of rapture of the purest pleasure earth holds ; for the man who has never felt a tiny hand ciasp his will always lack something— he will be less human, less blessed than others. This is the noble, the honest, the only form of life that imparts real contentment and joy, that will mak a death-bed glorious, and love see peace through its tears. It is so purely unselfish, so tenderly true ; it satisfies the highest instincts. It stimulates men to the best deeds they are cabable of.