Happiness at Home

Southland Times, Issue 11326, 6 December 1889, Page 4

Happiness at Home

« There would be much more happiness in married life— If home troubles were never told to neighbour*, If expenses were proportioned to receipts. If they tried to be agreeable us in court■nip days. If each remembered that the other waf| s j human being and nut an angel. If fuel and provisions were laid in during the high tide of summer work. If both parties remembered that they married for worse as well as for better. If maiculine bills for Havanas and feminine ditto for rare lace were turned into the ITenera2 fund until evck time as they could be incurred without risk. If men wonld remember thai a woman cannot be always imilicg who has to cock the dinner, answer to the door bell half a dozen times and get rid of a neighbour who has dropped in, tend a sick baby, tie up the cut finger of a two-year-old, tie up the bead of a five-year-old and get an eighi-year-old ready for school, to say nothing of cleaning, sweeping, dußting, etc. A woman with all this to contend with may claim it as a privilege to look a little tired sometimes, and a word of sympathy would not be too much to expect from the man who during the honeymoon would not let, her cany aa much as a sunAad". — Western Ploughman