EDITOR'S WALLET.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 60

EDITOR'S WALLET.

Au American Fable. THE SAD CASE OF A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD NEVER LOVED.

Once upon a time a youug man with liquid eyes and a celluloid colltr paid a visit to a sage who was renowned for his logic and wisdom, and said :

"Ob, sage, I have come to thee for adviceThe world seems cold and drear to me, and I sometimes wonder if life is-worfch living. Tell me how I cau be happy like other joung men."

" Hast never loved ? " asked tbe sage in answer, as he laid a fatherly hand on the young man's bead.

" I never haefc. I was always too busy with my neckties and moustache to fall in love."

" Thee muit love, young man. There's nothing like it. It soothe* and calms and cheers, while it does not; intoxicat". Go thou and fiod a handsome, trim-built maiden 'and shy up to her."

Tbe young man departed with the light of hope thining in his eyes, bub after a few months he returned looking more disconsolate than ever to exclaim :

"Alas ! Oh, sage, but lam mare weary of life than before ! "

" Lht's see. You are the spring ohic'sen I advised to find a handsome maiden ? " " Tbe same." " And didst fall in' love ? " " I didst — three of 'em."

" And didst; fall in love ? "

" Not only that, but I didsf; propose, and am at the present moment engaged to all three, and mu6t either skip the cjuntry or dodge ab least two shotguns. Alas ! what can Ido ? "

Moral. — "Thy situation art truly painful, yon 11 " >ii m, and thou wilfc probably have to go \v< - replied the sage. •' Whea thee came to me nr advice I forgob to say that love, like medicine, should be taken, in m -deration and according to ths symptoms. While 100 little adds but to the dreariness of life, too much makes a man. wish he had never beeti Darn. Fee, please, »tid move on to make room for the next." — Detroit Fiee Fress.