When Marriage is a Failure

Southland Times, Issue 15156, 29 January 1902, Page 4

When Marriage is a Failure

» , — The Key. E. J. Hardy, M.A-, author of 'How to be Happy Though Married,' has again been ohatting on the all-important subjeot.thiß time under the title of 'Marriage Failures.' Marriage is a failure, he says, when a husband entrusts money to every one except to his wife, or wben a wife looks upon her husband as a mere remitting maohine— a slot thab receives money for her bo take ib away. Marriage is a failure when a bachalor thinks tnat he oan retain his freedom from anxiety and self-regarding pteasure after marriage, and taok this matter on merely aB an additional luxury, or when a girl marries only to be free from the restraints of girlhood. Before marriage a girl speaks to her lover with her eyes, after marriage with her tongue, and in other respects her manner is generally less winning. This is the Borb of thing that made Dean Swift) Say -that 'the reason why so few marriages are happy is beoause young women spend cheir time in making nets, not in making cages.' Marriage is a failure when husband and wife nag and try to geb bhe last word, when they see only the worßt and not the best io eaoh other's charaoter; when the husband tries to be mistress as well as master, and the wife wilt have a finger iv every pie of her husband's business. It is a failure when a husband thinks horns a plaoe to get away from, bec.Uße his wife pays more attention to her new hat than to the family dinner. — Temple Magazine,