AN ESSAY ON WOMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 361, 12 January 1880, Page 2

AN ESSAY ON WOMAN.

After man came woman. And she has been after himever since. She is a person of noble extraction being made of a man's rib. I don't know why Adam wanted to fool away his ribs in that way, but I suppose lie was not accountable for all that lie did. Woman is the superior bein« in Miiasachussels. There are about 60°,C00 mm of hw-sex than males in the State. This accounts for the terrified, hunted down expression of the single men who emigrate from the East. Woman was not made perfect. .She has her faults—false hair, false complexion, and so on, but she is a great deal better than her neighbors and she knows it, Eve was a woman. She must have been a model wife, fop it co3t Adam nothing to keep her in clothing. Still, I don't think they were a bit Iwppy. She couldn't go to sewing circles and air her information ab'ut everybody she knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies by wearing her new bonnet to a church. Neither could she hang over the back fence and gossip with her near neighbor. All these privileges me denied her.

Poor Eve ! She's dead now. And the fashion she inaugurated is dead too. If it hadn't been for that confounded snaik" perhaps the ladies of the present day would dress as economically as Eve did. Woman is endowed with a tremendous fund of knowledge, and a tongue to sun. She has the capacity for learning everything she was divinely intended to kninv, and a few items beside. The happiest period of a woman's life is when she is making Iter wedding garments. The saddest is when her husband comes home late at night, and yells to her from the ront door to throw out a handful of keyli»les of different sizes. There is some curiosity in feminine nature, For instance, I once knew a young lady who could pass another one on the street without looking around to see what she had '«!■ Poor thing! she was blind.-Joih