LOVES’ PHILOSOPHY THE PERFECT MAN

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 6, 1 December 1925, Page 29

LOVES’ PHILOSOPHY THE PERFECT MAN

' | 'HE pungent and witty epigrams -®- of Helen Rowlands on matrimony and love, which had wide circulation in America a few years ago, are republished in a new volume, “A Guide to Men.” Here are some of Miss Rowlands’ best efforts;— Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Most marriages, nowadays, seem built for speed rather than for endurance. A divorcee is one who has graduated from the Correspondence School of Experience. All love is 99.44 per cent, pure; pure imagination, pure vanity, pure curiosity, pure folly, or whatever else it happens to be. waste your tears on the girls a heart - breaker should have married and didn’t; save them for the girl he will marry and shouldn’t. It requires a little moisture to make a postage stamp_stick, and a

little cold water of indifference to make a sweetheart stick. There are only two kinds of perfectly faultless men—the dead and the deadly. Marriage is a discord that turns “Love’s Old Sweet Song” from a eulogy into an elegy. The height of the average girl’s ambition is just about six feet. Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. The most successful men are not those who have been inspired by a wise woman’s love, but those who have perspired in order to gratify a foolish woman’s whims. It is easier to keep half-a-dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. A man’s soul lies so close to his digestion that when he looks blue and downhearted, a woman never knews whether to offer him a kiss, a meal, a dose of philosophy, or a dyspepsia tablet.