FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Conversation had drifted once more to the ever-interesting subject of marriage. The smoking-room was full, and almost every man had contributed something out of his own personal experience to the discussion. Some said long engagements were better than short ores; some held that marriage was an utter failure, and others- that' it was the only thing tnat made life worth living. One perky little person insisted that a man should be “master in his own house,” but was violently opposed by a regular giant, who believed in leaving “things to the wife,” and so on.
This subject, however, was sidetracked by somebody observing that it was curious to note how little men almost invarmb’.y married large women. At this, a very small, unhappy-look-ing little man burst suddenly into life.
“No, sir,” you arc wrong-!” he protested mildly. “In m.y opinion it is the big women who nvirry the little men 1’
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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 329, 10 July 1914, Page 2
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