“Until Death Do Us Part”
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A NATIVE of New Guinea, who had married his wife at a mission station became tired of her after a few years, as is the manner of men all the world over. So he approached the missionary one day, and asked permission to throw her away and acquire a new one, nam ing a buxom lass who had taken his roving fancy.
“No!” said the missionary, sternly.
“This woman is your lawfully wedded wife—until death do you part!”
The native returned home, and thought the matter out. “Until death do us part” muttered he, fingering his club; and, with such an easy solution to his prob lem, he brought the club down heavily on his wife’s unoffending head and re moved, as he thought, for ever, the bar rier to his heart’s desire.
And the following week, when they arrested him and dragged him off to gaol, he expressed himself as more bewildered then injured.
Mrs. Gladys M. Steiner, wife of the manager of Fead Island Plantation, New Guinea, died in Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, on November 27, after a short illness.