PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

Evening Star, Issue 14307, 4 March 1910, Page 8

PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

While it is recognised that the manners of men deteriorate" when they live wholly apart from women, it is not considered discreet to admit that women this side middle at:c, living under equally unnatural conditions, suffer'a kind' of famine only less expressed, not less felt, than in the case of the norma! young rnnri long debarred from tho society of women. Just as there is no temperance advocate so keen as the one who has lived under a drunkard's roof, so in the midst of a welter of publicity are islanded those souls who r.j;r.nt encroachment with a passion unknown to men, who have less need to guard - th.msc.ves.—Elizabeth Robins. A woman 'd orter hev a little will to back her sweetpess; it's all_ too soft an' slushy otherways.—Mary Wilkirisl Love, strangely enough, that great mystery, may "bo lost and found again. But the'peculiar friendship of men who have mov<d and worked together for great ends, be it on a big scale or on a small, leaves a .mark on the soul never to be effaced.—Mrs Wilfrid Ward. •

How much longer a woman grieves" for the love she. has lost untimely thtin for the love she has won and worn out like a threadbare garment—till the vanishing of the silken woof reveals the coarser thread of the warp.—M. E. Braddon. "Speech, aftor all, is not an elemental thing, for there is no word in any tongue to fit life's chief moments. —Flcronco Bailey.