WORDS ABOUT WIVES.
A buxom widow nmst be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth. Choose a wife rather by your ear than jour eye. For whom does the blind man’s wife adorn herself? He that tells his wife news is but latelv married'. Next to no wife a good wife is best. A man must ask his wife’s leave to thrive. A prudent wife is from the Lord. A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of. the eyes: A truth-telling woman has few friends. _*>eware of a bad. woman, and put not your crust in a good one. Every woman who is a shrew in domestic Ufa is now become a scold in politics. Every woman would rather be handsome than good. We never know what a woman doesn’t mean until she has spoken. (( Woman is an evil, but a necessary evil.— ‘ M.A.8.”
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Evening Star, Issue 14054, 8 May 1909, Page 3
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166WORDS ABOUT WIVES. Evening Star, Issue 14054, 8 May 1909, Page 3
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