A CHANGED ASPECT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10294, 29 April 1895, Page 2

A CHANGED ASPECT.

We were witness to a mo3b depressing spectacle, nnd the passage of a dark cloud over love's young dream, on the platform of the Spencer-street Railway station the other day. A bridal party occupied a couple of the seats. The newly consolidated pair were about to depart to Ballarat on their honey, and they sat very close together, and looked unutterable gush into each others eyes, and Bqueozed each other's hands, and blushed, and giggled, and were plethoric with pure blies. Presently there was heard n sound of fall mg luggage and the wailing of infants, and the snorts of an exhausted man, and a thin, lnnk miserable individual, carrying a youngster and two bandboxes and a basket, and lugging ten packages and a long string of a family numbering seven (lin ked misery long drawn out), steamed on to the platform, and staggered to a seat, where he wiped his damp brow with tho second eldest, and gasped, "Oh my ! in a heart broken, used up cadence, till his pale, weary little wife forgot her in with the twins. We looked over at the bridal party, and its air of gladness was goue — the groom was cold, aud reserved, and gloomy, and the bride had an aspect of wishing she had never left ma. PLAYING A NEW GAME. What are you doing ? questioned an astonished parent of his five-year-old son, who was covered with soot from head to foot, nnd had on his father's sealskin h and boots. I'm playin' Sansa Claus for sister and Tommy, an' I can't get up the chimney, explained tho little f ello w. YES. He : First a woman wants a hus band. She : Yes. And then she wants him to get rich. Yes. And then She wantß another husband. WISHED IT HAD. He reeled home at two iv the morning and as the storm rose higher and higher ho chuckled to himself at the good excuse lie had. Couldn't get home any sooner, m'dear, ho gurgled. Rc-galar blizzard blowing. Sitnp'y took my breath away. There was a cold smile on her face as she sniffed and replied - Ugl), you brute ! I wish it bad.