. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER IX. HONEYMOONING. The importance of the honeymoon, which had been so much vauntedto him by his father, had not held good.—The Married Life of HE honeymoon is defined by Johnson to be the first month after marriage, when thereis nothing but tenderness and pleasure. Andcertainly it ought to be the happiest month inEi our lives; but it may, like every other good thing,be spoiled by mismanagement. When this is the case, wetake our honeymoon like other pleasures—sadly. Instead ofhappy reminiscences, nothing is l
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER IX. HONEYMOONING. The importance of the honeymoon, which had been so much vauntedto him by his father, had not held good.—The Married Life of HE honeymoon is defined by Johnson to be the first month after marriage, when thereis nothing but tenderness and pleasure. Andcertainly it ought to be the happiest month inEi our lives; but it may, like every other good thing,be spoiled by mismanagement. When this is the case, wetake our honeymoon like other pleasures—sadly. Instead ofhappy reminiscences, nothing is left of it except its jars. You take, says the philosophical observer, a man and a^oman, who in nine cases out of ten know very little aboutfach other (though they generally fancy they do), you cut offthe woman from all her female friends, you deprive the man of his ordinary business and ordinary pleasures, and you condemnthis unhappy pair to spend a month of enforced seclusion ineach others society. If they marry in the summer and staiton a tour, the man is oppressed \Yith a plethora of sight-seeing,while the lady, as often as not, becomes seriously ill fromfatigue and excitement. A newly-married man took
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