A BIG DIFFERENCE IN AGE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6132, 19 March 1898, Page 4

A BIG DIFFERENCE IN AGE.

"John Henry Skidmore," said the irate young woman, " I want to know why you now spurn me, after winning my^love and enea^in^ yourself to marry me ? "Very well, Miss Teeters, if you insist upon it I will tell you." " I do insist." " You have lately announoed yourself a believer in theosophy." " I have. What of it P" "Yon declare that you have already lived several times on this earth." "I do. Is that any reason why y6U should cease to love me P" "You say that you lived in Central Africa at l«a<t 2750 years ago." " Yes. 1 did." "And in Eastern Asia 1000 years before that." " Jusfc so." " Well, don't jrou see that all this changes our relations entirely." " I can't see that it does." "Then I will enlighten Jroit. I think that husband and wife should be nearly of _ the same age, the husband a little older' than the wife. Certainly I cannot think of v. marriage with you now that I have ascertained that there is such a disparity between our ageg." "Very well, Mi* Sk'idtnbre, 1 Will tied whether the courts #ill entertain your view of the matter. To-morrow I begin a puit for .£2OOO damages for breach of promise of marriage."