THE GIRL WHO WANTS A MAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 150, 2 May 1908, Page 6

THE GIRL WHO WANTS A MAN.

(By Our Christchurch Chortler).

A ' tall Ellesmere girl ; wants a man. She writes thus to the local buster : — "Why is it -that short girls are more popular with men than are tall damsels ? lam sft Bin m height, and although I have a moderate share of good looks and a peasant disposition, men seem to bar me because of my height. I made a calculation among my girl acquaintances and out of twenty girls fifteen who are under sft 4in, are engaged, whereas not one of the other five, whose height averages about my own, has a lover. Don't you think that man carries the old-fashioned maxim, 'Little and good, 1 too far ?— Yours, FiveEight." To think we never noticed it beforeThai; little girls are those that we adore. Is it because they are so cuddlesome, And m the stillness breathe just "yum and "yum" ? "> Or is it that they sit upon the knee As light as any feather, restfully, And do not pose, But fill a given space — an armful— see ? ■Well, well— who knows ? Besides a woman large, though, passing fair And queenly, with proud Juno's wealth of hair, May be an Amazon m strength and jaw, ggaggj^utch her erring lord with mighty '" ■'*''' omes home drunk at one-