SOUTHERN LOVE

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 4

SOUTHERN LOVE

I came, across an old Spanish proverb tho other day which struck me as being simyi'. :'• true. Translated, it read tlu.L . ' ■'. i.»en are like cats, they belong to those who look after them." I have never yet come across the woman who didn't like being petted and stroked and generally looked after. As to cream, well, .naturally enough, she prefers the cream of lite to its skim-milk, so you can hardly blame her for preferring the hearthrug of tho man who is ablo to give her saucer after saucer of this indigestible commodity. We. northerners always find it hard to realise this. An Englishman thinks when he has given a woman his name and the housekeeping money he has done what England expects every man to do — Ins duty, and would be very much surprised to hear that in other countries — those countries where women are looked up>on as incarnations of caprice and desire — the men never dare stop giving, lest the fragile , affections " 01 their wives become detached, and float away like the . dust off a butterfly's wings. Love is a pastime abroad, a coloured ball tossed gaily from hand to hand.— "Louise" in "Vanity Fair."