PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12395, 15 March 1926, Page 11

PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

EPIGRAMS OF MARRIAGE. The pungent and witty epigrams of Helen Rowlands on matrimony and love, which had wide circulation ;n America a few years ago, are republished in a new volume, “A guide to Men.” Here are some o-f Miss Row* lands’s best efforts:— Love, the quest; marriage, the con* quest; divorce, the quest. Most marriages, nowadays, seem built for speed, rather than for endurance. A divorcee is one who has graduated from the Correspondence School of Experience. Don’t waste your tears on the girls a heartbroaker should have married and didn’t; save them for the girl ho will marry and shouldn’t. It requires a little moisture to make a postage stamp 6tick, and a little cold water 'of indifference to make a sweetheart stick. There are onily two kinds of perfectly faultless men the dead and the deadly. The height of the average girl’s ambition is just about six feet. Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. The most successful men are not those who have been inspired by a wise woman’s love, but those who have perspired in order to gratify a foolish woman’s whims. It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after ho has stopped guessing. A man’s soul lie® so close to his digestion that when he looks blue and downhearted, a woman never knows whether to offer him a kies, a meal, a doee of philosophy, or a dyspepsia tablet.