PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY.

Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 3

PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY.

Men never understand how much Ave sav and how little w;e mean; they have no atmosphere in their minds, which are like those dazzling photographs of ioreign places, where the shadows are blacker than the substances. If-you remark that you want a bit of fancy Avork just to keep vour finders employed, they think that you are miserable m your marriage, and are striving to deaden your anguish by ceaseless toil, and if vou say you couldn't walk another thirty inches or. so after a hard day's exercise they think vou are dying of exhaustion, and ought to have an injection of strychnine. Explanations rarely explain anything except what had better be left unexplained; therefore wise persons avoid them as much as possible.—Ellen Thornycroft Fowler. From the lower orders of creation up to man love rouses a great longing for preeminence, a need to outshine as well as utterly to vanquish rivals. In men and women not. altogether of the baser sort love brings lo birth a power to make the only atcnement possible. for lacks and failure.' impossible to forgive ourselves. Thosv who truly love ns must help us to bear our own unworthiness. for this is the tiling that w.-, cannot, bear alone. Not until avc get beyond the ancient, instinctive Arish to dazzle eyes that are dear by our fine feathers of Avit or- beauty, goodness or philosophy, may we find love's highest and most precious opportunity in helping to endure the absence of excellences lost or found.—Elizabeth Robins.