THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
Everyone knows that a good deal—though not all—of the misery of life is due to early and improvident marriages. A writer in The St. James's Gazette has put this into doggerel as follows :
The reason the battle of life’s so hard Is because of our daughters and wives. To keep up appearances we’re debarred • From smoking our pipe in our little back-yard And mocking at Fashion’s cold gyves. They must go to the seaside and get into debt, Ape those who are richer— we worry and fret ; And they are the reason—the daughters and wife—’Gainst fighting the battle of life.
The bachelor’s ex’s most moderate are, He aims not to enter swell sets. He rides in the ’bus or the humble tram-car, He hails not the hansom that crawls from afar, He never was known to have debts. The remedy, then, you can easily see : From wives and from daughters, oh, keep yourselves tree ; And then in a world that’s with bachelors rife There can’t be a battle of life.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 4 July 1891, Page 134
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174THE BATTLE OF LIFE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 4 July 1891, Page 134
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