Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-05
HOneymOOns.

HOneymOOnS.
Spite of the popular view that the
honeymoon is the special month of
felicity, the old.fashioned idea OF mat
rimony is certainly more true which
does not regard its beginning as by any
means the most happy time Of welded
life. When passion gives way to deep
seated love, husband and wife afford to
look back upon the honeymoon with a
smile, and join useful Knockers in laugh.
ing at any luckless couple about to enter
the FOOLS paradise. Besides the novel.
ties of temper and disposition which
then become apparent to the young hus-
band and wife for the first time, many
untoward accidents may befall them
which at this interesting epoch press
upon them with unusual hardness.
Thus the unlucky bride loses all her
luggage, including the most valuable
OF her wedding presents; or she catches
q crying cold in her head, or the
measles-all which we have known to
occur; or she has her most becoming
bonnet irrevocably ruined by shower
or the happy pair ramble too far afield,
and find themselves footsore and out of
temper or else they are intercepted by
the tide, and rescued at some risk, too
happy if they have not to be drawn up
The cliff by ropes, to the intense delight
OF the watering places visitor. If the
honeymoon can be safely tided over
without quarrel, the happy pair may
cherish good hopes. They must be su-
pernatural!y amiable. Another Incl
dent of honeymoons at the seaside is
that landladies and land-house keepers
think the youthful pair suitable victims
to their greed. 1t is taken for granted
that they are so absorbed in gazing into
each others eyes that they will never
look into such commonplace matters as
bills; consequently we have known
couple straying through the fairy land
of honeymoon utterly forgetful of so
sublunary commodity as money, until
rudely awakened by a very substantial
series of bills. Indeed, q honeymoon
often costs happy pair in good posi-
ton of life as much as a funeral does to
poor person.
Amid all the sweets of the honeymoon
it is probably O relief to the parties
concerned when it is over. The man
secretly longs for his regular work, and
chafes under perpetual petits SONS. The
wife, too, yearns for her new sphere of
duties as a matron, and cannot help
thinking how her wedding presents will
look in the new house. Her little court
has yet to be held, visitors received,
and the usual round of entertainments
gone through. 1t is scarcely in femi-
nine nature to abide quietly amongst
lakes and mountains with these attrac-
tons in front, which permit, too. of
wearing the more gorgeous articles of
the rousseau. So the honeymoon grad
ually falls into its appointed place
amongst the fragments of life. It is no
longer, indeed, the trance of love and
happiness which it seemed when touched
with the rosy hues OF anticipation, but
it has been period of calm, trustful
delight, such as may we'll color the flu
ture of wedlock, an adumbration of
what every really happy marriage
should resemble throughout its contin-
uance. OF course, it is out of the ques-
ton that its settled bliss should pervade
all the future years of the young couple,
but it becomes, at NIL events, q test by
which the happiness of their succeeding
years may be gagged. Though we ridi-
Guile it in after days, we may we'll regard
a happy honeymoon as an integral por.
ton of all nuptial Joy.
Henry Merritt, the late English au-
thor, critic, and picture-restorer-hus.
band of the American artist, Anna Lea
suffered much in early life from pow
erty /; and when he grew to have good
income. he generously spent so much on
other people that he rarely had any
ready money for himself. His method
of keeping his money was curiously
simple he put all the bank-notes he re-
ceived between the leaves of books,
which were then put up in their accus-
toned places on his book-shelves. His
life, though a noble, was not very
happy one. There is something strange
ly pathetic in what he said not long be-
fore his death Everything in my
life has come too late. could not buy
good food and clothing until my health
was ruined. Now I have the dearest
wife, l cannot live to enjoy happiness"
4 Boy WORTH LOOKING AFrER.-The
Pekin (Ill.) Repu6lica chronicles bit
of heroism by Peoria County boy
which deserves recognition. A coal
shaft is being sunk just north of Hollis,
and the other day q workman by the
name of Harland lighted slow match
leading to blast, and then signaled TO
be drawn up. The depth of the shaft
was seventy feet. When he had been
raised fourteen feet he struck the bot
tom of board partition and was thrown
back to the bottom. Thomas Crandall,
stepson of Harland, was a witness to
the accident, and promptly slid down
the rope, seventy feet, and tore the
match from the fuse in time to prevent
an explosion. The act was brave one,
scarcely to be paralleled. The boys
hands were terribly lacerated by the
friction of the rope. The stepfather
was rescued with broken rib and other
severe bruises.
An English journal gives credit to
American genius for the following in
ventions and discoveries, which, it says,
have been adopted all over the world ::