THE EXPERT CONJURER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 13

THE EXPERT CONJURER.

Woman's knowledge of other women is chiefly learnt through the pitfalls she has made for others, and into which she has by some mischance most inconveniently fallen herself. This may be ono of the reasons she never admits her truo discernment —or anything for that matter, if she be a true daughter of Eve, states a writer in an exchange. It is not that woman deliberately deceives her fellow creatures. Not at all. She sets out with perfect honesty of purpose in her early youth, but she finds it is only the fool who leaves her nnnd naked to the world, and so while she is acquiring knowledge she gradually increases its invisibility. She will oven deceive herself , if such a process is worth while or necesf.ary to her happiness. In order to acquire a, certain peace of mind there arc many women who deliberately deccivo themselves that I hey arc making some great sacrifice when in reality they are merely gratifying their own vanity. They will hypnotise themselves into believing that they are finite lovely to look upon when the tragedy of art is sadly imposed 011 the comedy of nature. And surely if women arc willing to deceive their own minds, no man begrudge them deceiving the members of his own sex. Of course, no woman would ever give away the whole box of tricks which make man so diffident of his powers to understand her, and since every woman is perfectly convinced that she is an expert conjuror, however complete tho tricks, it is unnecessary to even mention the remainder. They are merely the result of the working of a woman's mind.