30 YEARS AFTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15307, 28 March 1914, Page 6

30 YEARS AFTER.

NEW GUIDE TO SUCCESS IN MATRIMONY. AUTHOR OF FAMOUS BOOK "STILL HAPPY." Thirty years ago the Rev E T reading the" T a hearted, ' S S3 cherish f* arri f-" Every bride pages. thS betterD jus\\ i L?ri|bS y f n a d s S v M , r Hai % iand as wis! as everheVat ai ?T^ 'BtiJl happy," and he wishes'u.s to nfid ff lmS1C?1, Wlt of old Montaigne -and-if there , s garrulity in some of e pages it. must be excused because it is, -such blithe babble. • TH , E .MARRIAGEABLE AGE The brightest, chapter in the whole boql V s that entitled "The Marriageable it: alO ° ne or two sparkles ri ;lif®? ple r "f 1 into matrimony as they rush, to, catch a train, and in their one'" y sometimes catcll the wrong : "If there are. some woman not worth looking at alter thirty years of there are quite as many not Worth speaking to before that." "No woman should marry until , she can manage money and a, house :and take oare of a baby." "Many girls are on the shelf to-dav Wdav 6 " Pt mGn 011 the rack Tes■ln choosing a wife beauty should Ysavs our wise author) bv no means be overlooked, for it is the outward and visible sign of health. But there are other points to consider. Observe how she shakes hands, how she 'puts her ' foot on the ground.' how she talks. and how she eats. This'last is very important, for if a woman eat as if she did not take any interest in the operation she will not take much trouble p.bout her husband's dinner!" "TEMPORARY INSANITY." Summing up this chapter Mr Hardy says that if we had inquests upon sudden marriages as we have upon sudden deaths the verdict would often be "temporary insanity." To quote once again: since Eye. woman has accepted the man supplied tio her and pretended to have choosen him for herself." "A husband is one of the things tha.t go with a. wedding. The bride knows that she has to take him with the rice and the .old shoes. " "A woman is willing to endure anything to have the star part in a matrimonial drama. She may not need a husband, rbut she likes to grab a mail away, from other women." "A duck of a man generally makes a goose of a husband. " In his serious moments, and when he sets out to be the ment-'or of the married coup'e Mr Hardy's ad.vi.se,. is ,go,cd, honest Nestorian stuff. A "H6"rejd:cW; to see—as we all should—a young, wife, o;; an old. one, tlie' stairs or to the hall door .with ,her ? lftis-' band when he goes to business hi the morning and_ welcpme him back in the evening. Nothing is truer than that the "appalling intimacy" of domestic life tends, when not guarded against. ,<y deteriorate manners, or that "a good many husbands are spoilt in the cooking." TWENTY YEARS AND TWENTY MINUTES. , Neat epigrams abound. For example-, "ft takes twenty years for a mother to make a mail of her son and twenty minutes for another woman to make a fob! of him." And," finally. "The marriage wliich begins with a k:ss and ends with a curse is a.tragedy. People should continue after marriage those tender, winning, ways that were so effective when they were courting. In all other investments a man doubles and trebles his property by fresh im- : provements or new investments, but marriage often becomes bankrupt be- | cause the principal is not put out to I interest."