IS A HONEYMOON HAPPY?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XXV, 24 June 1899, Page 862

IS A HONEYMOON HAPPY?

Everyone may think it is the rankest heresy to say ‘No’—to even hint the golden month has not been exactly all honey; that the latter weeks dragged a bit, and the return to the new home was hailed by both with ill-concealed delight. Nothing would induce either Beatrice or Benedick to confess it, although the former whispers -in her mother’s ear, ‘How glad she is to see her again!’ and Benedick feels positively friendly towards Smith when he meets him at

the club, although he has hitherto cordially detested him. That this should be so is exceedingly natural. Take two people away from all their ordinary pursuits and occupations, deprive them both of absolutely any other society but their own, and what must happen? It indicates no lack of love. The very newness of their relation to one another prevents them being the friends and comrades they will grow to be in after years. They can talk only one language, and although the language of love is the sweetest and prettiest the world knows, yet it cannot be spoken from early morn to dewy eve by any two

commonsense human beings without producing a desire for some outside interest, and a longing to mix again with their fellow-beings. Until she has been totally deprived of it, no girl realises her need for feminine society. It is an old saying, that a mother must wait till her daughter marries to be appreciated at her proper value. In many ways this is true. A woman is never really happy unless she can discuss her happiness with another woman. Be he ever so much in love, a man longs just as keenly for his fellow-men. The average honeymoon is far too long. A week, or a fortnight at the outside, is in reality quite enough, and this gives an excuse for taking the other half of the month later —a sort of second honeymoon, which often proves even more delightful than the first. London ‘Evening News.’

FIRST PRODUCTION OF “LA POUPEE” IN AUCKLAND BY THE POLLARDS.