Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-04
Lovemahing in England.

English girls seldom marry before
the age of twenty-five or twenty-three.
Some marry well at the age Of thirty,
A marriage in England is not arranged
in few days or even few months
A young man Of about twenty engages
himself to a young lady of say eighteen,
and the lovers remain engaged for three
or even five years. These are the
women's good time. During the en-
gagement she enjoys almost all the
sweets of married life without any of its
troubles, and she is free. Sometimes
she does her best to make the engage
ment last as long as possible. She pre-
fers to murnur words of love to her
betrothed to shutting herself up with
him in some semi-detached cottage,
wherein to bemoan the high price Of
bread and butter and coal On the day
she is married she is settled, as they
say in England that means she is
established. | would define this word
"settled" more correctly by saying that
her business is done for. do not
wish at all to convey the idea that
woman finds no happiness in the Eng
ish household nothing is further
from my mind. | think, on the con
trary, she can enter it with more conf
dence than can her Sister across the
channel, because she assumes less re
sponslbility, and because her mother
has invariably versed her most thorough
ly in domestic economy. Woman ii
England know nothing at all about
their husbands business, no more thar
clerk knows about the private affair
Of his employer; and it is even a diff
cult thing for her to say whether he Il
making fortune or on the verge o
bankruptcy. When her husband dies
an English woman who has no fortun,
may become governess, housekeep
er or a nurse. That is servitude. Al
Englishman gives his wife so much
month for househould expenses and S,
much for her wardrobe.her wages
as it were She evinces do surpris
' when she learns that they must NOV
, some evening in the dark, withou
making a noise. She goes with the
furniture--in a double sense.
Col. Fizzletop was under the painful ne
cessity of administering severe castigation t
!; his son Johnny. After he had completed hi
labors he said sternly to the suffering victim
'Now tel me why punished you7'
"Thats l." sobbed Johnny, 'you nearl
# pounded the life out of me, and now you don
even know why you did it."-[Texas Sifting'
!. In front of the blacksmith shops at Gree
u Cove, Fla, a young negro was trying to e,
e tract a nail from the hind foot of an able
} bodied and vicious looking mule. An age
. colored man came along, watched the oper:
!. ton for a moment and then observed: ''Gue.
you 60 to heaven if dat mule kick you once.
y "Reckon not" was the reply. "Wha
den ?" asked the old man.. "Cl'ar beyond"
It Sam Johnsing was accosted as follows
J, II hears you has done got married at last
n "Yes, married de Wildly SNOWFALL" !"
4 How de debble did yer come ter marry d,
: old woman1"
e "I'll splain it ter YER You knows ho
:, spensive hit am ter raise family OBJ youn
a niggahs in Austin. Dey nebber turns out wei
: | Dey am ----'- sss1,ae. >f..;eisI-n
We'll, what OBJ dat ?"
''You see, by marryinde Wildly Snowba
Y | sabcs myself de trouble and mysery o
e raisin family, bekase her younges son al
I more dan forty yeahs oh age. BY dis hea
marriage gets family OBJ growed up chi
, drums without habing to pay cent. - 7erc
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