A HUMOURIST ON MARRIAGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 126

A HUMOURIST ON MARRIAGE.

Two loving hearts may be united by marriage, or two goodly estates ; the latter union is generally the more productive of happiness. People who have no money are sometimes married for love. Usually they are not married at all. People who have money marry for love, and in this case there is probably a combination of both systems. Tbere is a proverb going the rounds about * marrying in haste and repenting at leisure,’ but as a matter of fact the repentance is often a deal more hurried than the marriage. It is considered wicked to have more than one wife at a time, and that is the cause of many distressing breach of promise actions. A man I knew who wished to make two souls happy was treated with great harshness. He married one woman for love and the other for money, and as one would not give her love without money, and the other her money without love, he was rather embarrassed. The matter was eventually submitted to a judge of arbitration, and the award included free lodgings lor my friend. But there is a delicious sense of freedom after that sort of thing, even in goal. It is the fashion nowadays to scoff at matrimony, but I notice that girls are ready to accept any man who promises to supply them with all the comforts of life ; and if there was no marriage many a man who is now living in ease and comfort on his wife’s father would have to toil hard for bis daily bread.