Choosing a Wife.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue XXIII, 8 June 1901, Page 1094

Choosing a Wife.

Mr Richard le Gallienne, who is over in America ju-t now. Ins l>een giving his ideas on the selection of wives and ImsItauds to the “ New York Journal.” Generally speaking—so tar as one ean generalise on so intimate and particular a subject—he says, lam on the side of the ••.loll,” if you can afford to keep her, and if you are prepared for her lack of intel lectual versatility and a certain monotony in her conversation For when yon come to think of it. “doll” is really the word applied by “ hygienic ” women to beautiful the women who wear No. 5 shoes as against the women who wear No. 2s.

Of course, there are many kinds of beautiful women, and —if I may write jKjrsonallv for a moment--! prefer the kind that would gain the smallest, number of vote, in a “plebiscite ’’ competition. I prefer the woman that seems beautiful to me. I like a few select other people to think her beautiful, too. But I don’t want too many of my opinion. And when you get lieaiity you get, as one of our greatest, most masculine English |>oets has said (of course 1 mean Browning), “ aliout the l>est that God invents.”

Of course, so much depends on what you marry for. There are two universally accepted reasons for marriage—marriage for love, and marriage for money. If you marry for money you will be wise to engage a smart lawyer ; if you marry for love, no one can help yon. In conclusion, marry the person yon want to many, and don’t take any one else’s advice upon the subject—certainly not mine.