ON CHOOSING A WIFE.

North Otago Times, 22 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

ON CHOOSING A WIFE.

"Ancient Talcs With Modern Ending;*" is the title of an intcrtaining article in ''Pearson's Magazine." The ancient tales are funny to begin with, and Hie modern endings make them funnier, This is one of tho tales : "A young man was in love with three daughters of one family, but • he could not tell which he loved best and he could not marry all of them ' without emigrating to Utah or Tut- ! key. "He managed to get himself invited to tea. " 'Will you have cheese ?' ho inquired. " 'Are you fond of cheese ?' asked Hildegarde. " 'Yes, I like cheese.' " ' Wo will have sonic, then,' said Margaret. " 'I will watch how each of them cuts the choose-rind,' he said to himself ; 'then I shall know which will make the best housekeeper.' "At tho tea table Hildegarde, the eldest, took tho cheese, and began to pare off a very thick rind, "Extravagant!' thought tho young man, 'She would want a new hat every week.'- - " 'Oh, how wasteful!' cried Margaret, tho second daughter, Hand it to me'—and she pared a rind so thin that it was no paring at all. " 'She would bo stingy !' the young man decided, 'and would want mo to smoke cheap cigars and wear shilling ties.' " 'To thin !' exclaimed Dorothy, tho youngest; and she took the cheese and pared it just right. " 'She's tho one for me!' mentally exulted tho young man, ; "After tea, he led her into tho conservatory and proposed, : She promptly refused him. j " 'Pleaso explain why is this,' he asked, in an agitated voice, • "'I .will tell you,' replied the fair Dorothy, coldly. 'My sisters and I have heard of the checsc-rind test ever since wo' were in the nursery, so we understood your artless plan. My sisters' cut it thick and thin on purpose to discourage you, I cut it just right, not for the sake of refusing you but that I might tell you what we all think. This is it :- A young man who dees not know which girl ho wants for a wife would not make a good husband for anyone," Good evening !'" | = .