Cases like the following are not uncommon. We know a young lady who was surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries of a refined and elegant home. In the course of her giddy youth she conceived a strong passion for the coachman of the family, the same old story, so frequently repeated in these days on which we have fallen. They were married. The shock of the household was great. When the first outbreak of anger and grief was past, a compromise was made with the offending parties, and they made their home for life in the stable! Love can go a long way in making a cottage comfortable and enjoyable. Poverty is not incompatible with peace and happiness. But love is not enough to make a woman at home in a stable, who is wont to tread on velvet carpets and recline on soft pillows. Her lot was misery, and her brief life one of bitter regret. It is useless to say that parents, if wise, will make things different. Perhaps these parents did the very best they could. The introduction into the family of discordant elements, or the setting up in higher life of one who had no capacity to maintain the position nor taste to enjoy it, might have resulted in more misery than they found in their life among the denizens of the stable. And what was true of them will be found true of nineteen in every twenty marriages that are thus injudiciously made.—The Observer.