Philosophical.
Young people, when in the halcyon days of their courtship, are prone to invest each other with the attributes of angels, and the closer intimacy of married life reveals the fact that they are simply human, after all, having faults and failings that fall in a measure even to the best of us. While this discovery may cause surprise and regret, it need not result in unhappiness, particularly if ons is of the philosophical turn of mind of the old 1 lady mentioned in the followingincident : —
"When my Josiah and me was first married," she said, "I'd an idea that he hadn't a fault in the world. I wouldn't hear to anything but that he was pea-feet; and he thought the same of me. "He just thought, Josiah cfid, that h-e"d drawn one o£ them impossibJe prizes in the lottery of matrimony — a woman without a fault.
"Well, by the time we'd gone through two or three housekeeping scrapes, a-taking tip and putting- down carpets and setting up and tearing down stoves and all that sort of thing, to say nothings of 'blue Monday,' wash-day, and toothaches that lasted three days at_a time — time we'd gone through all that, Josiah had found out that I want quite an angel, and I'd discovered thai; ho could do and say thing 3 the saints would skeersely do and say.
"And' one day, in one of my penitent spalls, I says to Joshiah, sa3-s I, ' I am t the person you ,thought I was. am I, Jbsiah? I ain't half as good and sweet as I thought I'd be.' "He wag a* the dinner table when I said it, and there was a big dish of beautiful honey in the oomb on the table. Josiah picked it vp 1 , and he says. says he: 'Mirandy, I like honey as well as any man living likes it, and you like it, too. but i£ we had to eafc ft three times a day for evon six months we.'d get so desprilly sick of it we'd never want to hear the word 'honey' asrain. 'Variety.' says he, 'is the spice of life, sure onousrh.'
''And most married folk. I take notice, don't eat honey three times a- day. and they've variety enough to make life iutorestin'."
Philosophical.
Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 79
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