THE EXPENSIVE GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 769, 18 March 1910, Page 3

THE EXPENSIVE GIRL.

.One.reason why. men .don't marry is, so they say, because girls - have such extravagant ideas (writes "Christina" in the "Australasian")... -"What can a fel-' low who has only'a few: hundreds a year do?" asks "Fad X:,' disconsolately'. His thoughts are,all of apretty girl we wot of, with, wavy hair and'brown eyes—and a rich father. "Girls always expect to begin where their father and mother left off," he says, decidedly.' ."They want motor-cars and diamond 'ringsj''and a- staff" of .servants, and: they"wouldn't 'live' 1 in'' .the country, i'or anything:"' All this-is" a little bit hard oil the girls;' Thoy 'almost begin to wish they hadn't.rich-fathers/; Because a, girl lives in'-a'big" house.'and is surrounded by every'luxury, the.young i men of -her acquaintance imagine \ she' wouldn't be "contentit wi' little." "This is, m five cases" out of six,-, quite a mistake, but how .is Angelina to lei;-Edwin know.it? She can't very well, though there are ever so'many people who vow that girls really do three-quarters of the courting, and "a fellow is engaged before he is aware-of >it." But if men are.diffident, girls -are shy—sometimes.- A modest maiden confided to me'that the man she most admired'had-said: '"No- man with less than-a thousanda year dare ask you to marry him." ' She' could find in reply, nothing -to say,;. so perhaps he, having only, four hundred: or thereabouts, still believes it. Several girls I know have willingly forsaken' all,. a -large home with plenty of-servants, to follow the men they, love,-who can' only afford : small cottages,, with very little help, if any. But whether these girls were obliged to go more than half-way in order touring their present-, husbands up to engagement point I cannot fathom-and -I cannot inquire! • .

, Her (truculently): ?T. see there's a man in France has murdered three of his wives in t succession. I'd'like to see the man that would murder me!" Him-' "So would I, my dear!" ' '

. -, And is this chair really an antique piece of furniture?" inquired a curio hunter of a lady. "Antique," was the indignant reply. "Certainly it is. Why, it • was so worm-eaten when I bought it that f. had to have a. new back and a ■new seat and three new legs made for it."

Tour complexion cannot possibly be cleansed'of skin eruptions, such as pimples an<J blackheads, which is a form of acne, by the. use of powders, creams, or massage'pastes. The cause must be removed, which in many instances ia due to overheat of the blood, and can'be remedied by taking Shaw's ' Blood Iron Pills, which are sold'in bottles at 2s. 6d. each; and procurable only .at Shaw's Medical' Hall, Manners Street,' and the' Cecil Buildings, Lambton Quay.—Advt.