Masculine Taste.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 12

Masculine Taste.

In Mrs King's book on India she tells a good story ot masculine taste: At a flower show the ladies were judges in one hall, while in another hall the gentlemen awarded bhe prizes. A comparison of results brought into strong light the contrast of opinions ; or rather, the difference of atandards. 'We had no great difficulby,' says Mrs King, ' in awarding the prize for the best-arranged cub flowers to a basket tilled with a most graceful and artistic combination of scarlet, yellow, white, and blue. It was in amusing contrast to another bouquet to which the masculine judges awarded their first prize. We begged them to let us guess which was the prize-winner, and going round bhe table we unanimously fixed on one; bub the men shook their heads. So we tried again, and after fixing unsuccessfully on three more, we humbly confessed ourselves beaten. The judges' faces fell, and with some shyness they pointed outthonrrangementthathadaeemed to them the moat commendable. It was like a cauliflower in shape, and contained a great quantity of flowers all so tight and neat that they might have been clipped ! Our presence of mind was not equal to saying more than "Oh, really 1" aud one of the judees remarked, almost apologetically, 11 You ccc, we like something solid !"'