HOW TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 4

HOW TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND.

"WATCH Hi.M KAT PEACH." It von want to know tho character <>i tho man you intend to marry .vatcb. him eat a peach," is tho advice tendered to fiancees in the Paris 'Figaro'' by M Elio Dautrin, a well-known rnwic.li writer.

I'o gir l * :ji love or on the brink of dove he gives a warning. "You should ■watch careiully at table tho voting man' on whom your whole, future will do]K'Tkl. II he should bend over his knife and fork and finish his mast in three gulps, l.eware! Ho is not the man wlia will be able to submit to tender sympathy and caresses. If lie oats withontf enjoying what is put bi.f.w him and cannot tell yon tho menu a minute alter, it means disappointment for vou ; ho will never appreciate tlw hats'yo« wear, imr the stylo of your droKs- ■>, and you will l(K>k pretty for nothing. "If ho is immoderately fond ol the sweets, he is of a nervous disposition; and will nag. If it is the cheese and roant ho prefers, ho i.s muscular and pui-ciu. Jj ho IK*' A txitor it MIP;HI§ that 110 its loud of the couniry; if ai lover of lino old wine, ho has the soul of a landed proprietor. "The, best test of a future is to watch him at the moment oi dessert. See how lie handles a peach. Does ho take it distractedly or 'ike a man in a hurry? Does ho swallow it' hastily? Then say to .vourfiell, 'He ie not the husband for mo.' "Butj'l he takes it slowly and tendeny, like a connoisseur who appreciates what ho eats, if he does not swallow it at. once, but peels it with the aic <>i an artist, and treats it with devotion, then do not hesitate to marry him aM qiiiekly as you can."