A MOTHER'S ADVICE TO HER SON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4715, 5 August 1893, Page 3

A MOTHER'S ADVICE TO HER SON.

"Now John," said a mother to a son, "listen to your mother. Never marry a young woman, John, before you have contrived to peep mat the house where she live*, at least four or five times, before breakfast. Yon should know how late she liea in bed in the morning. You should take notice whether her complexion is in the morning as it iB in the evening, or whether tbe morning wash and the towel have robbed her of her evening bloom. You should take care to surprise her, so that you may see her in her morning dress, and observe how her hair looks when she is not expecting you. If possible, you should be where you can hear the morning conversation between her and her mother. If she ia ill-natured and snappish to her mother so she will be to you, depend on it. But if you find her up and dressed neatly in the morning, with the same countenance, the sarnie smiles, the same neatly combed hair, the same ready and pleasant answer to her mother, which characterize her appearance and deportment in the evening, and particularly if she is lending a hand to get the breakfast ready, she is a prize, John, and the sooner you seoure her .to yourself the better. She may not play the piano; that ia nothing. If she can make good bread, that is something."