Year: 1874




to remember that Mr. aud Mrs Jones
might have been just as happy if they
had been wise and high principled enough
to act in early life as some other people
who shall DO nameless-did


1t may be remarked that the amount
of sympathy which is often expended on
Jones aud his wife is simply SO much
sentiment and feeling wasted, for the
simple reason that the pair are frequently
among the nerrjest and most coutented
couples in existence The gushing
individuals may be as coutented as they
represent themselves, but there is good
reason for believing that when the eye Of
the world is not upon them they have
their little squabeles the same as other
people do Nor are their tiffs due to n
too strong d,sre on the part OF the ono
to sacrifice himself or herself, as the case
may be. for the sake Of the other. Even
in public the cloven hoof of dissatisfac-
tion occasionally makes itself apparent,


Mrs. Brown, for instance, is one Who
made love match. Unfortunately, her
husband has not done we'll in life He
has been "helped by his friends" SO
many times that he cauuot remember
how many; he has more than cnee
suffered humiliation at the instance Of
crowd of hungry creditors. and there is
no probability that he will ever be able
to place his wife 10 that position which
she is best fitted to adorn. Still, Mrs.
Brown does not complain, i. e., she says
she does not. Possibly Brown himself
does not agree with her upon this point
The precise thing which the affectionats
Mrs. Brown does is to paint her husband
as something akin to fool, and to poin,
out that when she was younger, score
or two ef infinitely superior sen than
him supplcatad for her hand and hear:
But, then, she loved Brown, though he
was something like a uincom poop. aBd
Brown only; and so, though size could
have done Infinitely better, she chose him.
Notwithstanding that ne has dragged her
from her high estate Notwithstanding
that he has subjected her to many species
Of humiliation, and notwithstanding that
he is lamentably short of ideas and spirit,
she loves him still, and has never
regretted the choice she pade. This is
often the sun aud substance of the
eulogium which she passed on the much
to be envied Brown, who ought surely TO
feel very grateful, and immensely con
sratulate himself upon the possession Of
a wife who can prize him, without admit
ting that he possesses single merit,
except the mere fact Of being what he j.
Mr.. Brown. 1t would be very un-
gracious for him to protest against hsr
statements, or to enaea7or to prove that
much of that Of which she complains In
her seraph like manner is entirely owing
to herself


Of course positions are sometimes re.
versed. Smith, for Instance, sweetly muir
murs something after the fashion Of Mrs
Brown. Oh, yes he is quite ready to admit
that his wife has not got two ideas in hcr
head beyond dress, that she is not able
to fill the position in which she would bo
placed, if it were not for various circum-
stances; that she brought him nothing,
and that he u sht have married the most
beautiful, Intellectual, aud wealthy wo-
man in creation, but he loved-aud so on
In the same style, of which our readers
have probably had enough, and Of which
we certainly have