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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10684, 3 February 1913, Page 3

It is a common error that man has a rib less than woman. Both have twenty-four ribs, Even though we grant that Adam had one rib less, yet there is no reason why his descendants should have the same for, as somebody once .observed, " Mutilations are not transmitted from father to son." From the lips of woman every infant hears the first accents of affection, •and receives the lesson of tenderness and love. For the approbation of woman the grown-up youth will undertake the boldest enterprise, and brave overv difficulty of study, danger, find even death itself. To the happiness of woman the man of mature years will devote the best energies of his mind: and from the affectionate regard of woman, t.he man wlio has become ven?mlil." in .\c;irs derives his chief consolation in life's declino. ■ '