A SENSIBLE LOVE-LETTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4200, 27 January 1885, Page 3

A SENSIBLE LOVE- LETTER.

♦ . In the Finney-Garmoyie breach of promise case, the counsel for plaintiff, in his address to the jury, said :— I will just read to you one or two of the letters which passed between them as a specimen :— Dear Old Sweetheart, — I wore your present at dinner after you left, but X do want you to remember what I say when 1 beg you not to give me anything else for a long time, sweetheart ; for besides, you see, being a loving pair, we are a sensible man and woman who care for each other more than for anything else in the world, having settled to pass our lives together. If this is to be successful you must get in the habit of treating me as a woman, and not a mere plaything upon whom jewels and toys are to be lavished as if those were the only things to make her happy. Now, dear old boy, you must face the fact that you have great expenses, therefore you cannot put your income round my neck and arms without getting your affairs into a muddle. All the prttty thiogß you love to give me are, as I know, so many signs, or, as you say, a kind of public witness of your affection for me, but you must give me what I do ask — your compliance with my wish in this particular. You see lam not simply a brainless doll, with a spurious kind t,f love, to be kept alive by all sorts of tribuies to her vanity, but a loving woman, who, besides thinking of the pleasures of the moment, wants to see the future clearly on the same line 3. Do you think I do not appreciate the sweet thoughts which prompt you to give me the prettiest of jewels 1 Now, 1 only want you to see these things from, my own point of view. You and I owe something to other people — by which I mean that as you and I have done something a little out of the way, we are bo md to make it a great success for each other, so that other men and women in a similar position may say "These two took their own lives into their own keeping, and gave up many things for the sake of each other, and they made a success of it," as we will do. It seems to me. rather a good thing in life to try and help each other, being strong and brave, and doing what is right. The remains of an English traveller, had been exhumed for interment in the family vault. When the coffin was opened the spectators started back in affright. " Why these appear to be the remains of a lion." " Yes," replied a nephew of the deceased, with a sigh, "that's the lion that ate him up ; uncle's inside of him." Two secret printing-offices have been seized at St. Petersburg. In Pultava a short time since seven peasants were executed for revolt. In the province of Novgorod the peasants have killed a landed proprietor. This agrarian movement is attributed to the machinations of Nihilists, whose agents represent the proprietors as obnoxious to the Government. The director of a Paris prison the other clay apprised a prisoner that he ha r l inherited a fortune af 2,000,000 francs and a magnificent estate in Switzerland. The authorities of the locality where it. is situated forwarded with the title deeds to the property a photograph of the mansion. The joy of the prisoner at the intelligence conveyed was so great that he registered a vow in. the presence of the governor of the gaol to live an honest life henceforward. Before, however, he can enjoy the windfall he has three years of a prison regime to undergo. He had failed for half a million, and his assets would not pay two cents on the dollar. He gave up everything he had to satisfy his creditors, not even reserving the watch he had in his pocket. And yet they growled. An old friend called to see him. He met him at the depot with a $5000 span of horses and conveyed him to a g200;000 residence, where he wined and dined him like a prince, on the finest of china and the costliest of plate. " Why, Jones," said his old friend, " I thought you had failed ?" "So I have -given up everything — absolutely everything to my creditors, as an honest man should," replied the bankrupt in a tone of selfabnegation. " Why you appear to be living pretty weli," remarked the old friend. " Ah, 'my dear sir, how mistaken you are !" returned the two-cents-on-the dollar failure. " Everything that you see is my wife's — absolutely everything. But she is too tender-hearted to deprive me of their use on account of my misfortunes." Though it is very common to reproach old bachelors, with their celibacy, and to pity old maids as if " single blessedness " were a misfortune, yet many married people have seen fit to offer apologies for having entered into what some profane wag has called the "holy bands of padlock." One man says iie married to get a housekeeper ; another to get rid of bad company. Many women declare that they got married for the sake of a home ; few acknowledge that their motive was to get a husband. Goethe averred that he got married in order to be •" respectable. " John Wilkes said he got a wife " to please his friends." Wycherley, who espoused his housemaid, said he did it "to spite his relations." A widow who married a second husband, said she wanted somebody to condole with her for the loss of her first. Another, because she thought