PASSES MAN’S UNDERSTANDING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144147, 17 July 1913, Page 7

PASSES MAN’S UNDERSTANDING.

In “An Unknown Lover” Mrs. G. do Horne Vaizey makes this palpable hit: “Do you,remember a character in a book a year or two ago saying that the consciousness of being perfectly dressed imparted a peace and joy which religion can never bestow I have quoted that saying to many women in turns, and each and all on the spur of the moment exclaimed, “How truel” though the serious-minded one tried to back out afterwards. “I have wondered sometimes if the difference in temperament between the two sexes isn’t after all mainly a matter of clothes. A man goes to a decent tailor, puts on a. well-cut tweed or dress suit, arranges his tie with a certain amount of skill, and—kings can do no more. Never in all his life does he experience the agonising sensation of entering a room and realising at a glance that he is all wrong, while the right thing is hanging idly at home in the wardrobe; never is nis heart torn by consciousness of inferiority, or the necessity of putting up with the secondbest, when the first is a dream of beauty and booomingness. . “He knows none of these trials, but, then, on the other hand, he has none of the thrills 1 Who could be thrilled by an old black coat?—but when it is the exact shade of bine that matches your eyes, when the lines of the skirt make you blush at your own grace, when the trimmings are dreams, and the very linings a picture, then, 0 man! the elation of it mounts to the feminine head like wine, and no mere male can understand.”