HINTS FOR ENGAGED COUPLES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue IX, 26 August 1899, Page 36

HINTS FOR ENGAGED COUPLES.

It often happens that a girl* thinks her-elf ill-used because her fiance refuse* to devote a* much time and attention to her a* she think* herself entitled to. He goes wwith his male friends on evenings wwhen *he think* he ought to be wvith herself. And she '*. perhaps, sometimes a good deal more hurt by the fact than she need t-e. On the either hand, his friends think it rather hard that because he ha* got a *w eel heart they must need* <»e neglected. Now. which has the greater claim on him? Shall he neg.ect his swwretheart or hi* friends? As to claim, there can be little quesTion about it. When he elected a girl into the position of his promised wvife he gawe her a claim beside wwhich most others became exceedingly small. He has no right to let her feel herself neglected, and though no man wvorth calling a fiiend will wvillingly* throw over old friendship, still he has taken a new relationship wwhich comes first. But the girl is wwrong and foolish if she wishes him to neglect his friends—foolish. Iwecause she should never put herself »n rivalry wvith his other feelings of affection: and wwrong. because she is doing an injustice l»o:h to herself and his friends. I-et her consider that he can satisfy the claims of both, if ’hew are reasonable, ami that he wwill love her the more if she does not wvant to part him from his friends.