A Plea for Short Honeymoons.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 19, 6 November 1912, Page 54

A Plea for Short Honeymoons.

In the “ Memoirs of Daniel Macmillan" his opinion is thus slated: "That going out for the noneymoon is a most wise and useful invention: it enables you to be so constantly together anil to obtain a deeper knowledge of each other; and it also helps one to see and feel the preciousness of such intimacy as nothing else could. Intercourse in the presence of others never leads below the surface, and it is in the very depths of our being that true, calm deep and true peace and love lie. Nothing so well prepares us for the serious duties of after-life.” "As to long honeymoons,” says the Bishop of Hoehester, “ most sensible people have come utterly to disbelieve in them. They are a forced homage to utterly false ideas; they are a waste or 1 money at a moment when every shilling is wanted for much more pressing objects; they are a loss of time, which soon comes to be dreary and weary. Most of all. they are a risk for love, which ought not so soon to be so unpleasantly tested by the inevitable petulances of a secret ennui. Six days by all means, and then, oh! happy friends, go straight home. . . Whenever you come baek. six weeks hence or one, you will have just as much to stand the fire of a little hard staring, -which won't hurt you, and of bright happiness, which need not vex you; ami the sooner you are at home the sooner you will find out what married happiness means.” — From “How to be Happy Though Married,” by E. J. Hardy.