Girls First

Southland Times, Issue 10200, 4 July 1889, Page 3

Girls First

The best husbands I ever met came out of a family where the mother, a most heroic and self denying woman, laid down the Absolute law, 'Girls firat.' Not in any authority butfirtt to be thought of as to prctection aod .tenderness. Consequently the chvvnl* rous care which these lads were taught to show to their own sisters naturally extended itself to all women. They grew up true gentlemen —gentlemen, gpneronn, unexacting, courteous of .speech ami kind of heart. In them was the protecting strength of manhood, which ecorns to use its strength except for protection ; the proud-honesty of manhood, -which iiifinitely prefeie being lovingly and..openlyresisted to being 'twisted round one's finger/ at men are twitted, and mean women will always be found ready to do. but which I think all honest men aod brave women would not merely dislike, but utterly despiß>.— Author of John Halifax. . ■