A BACHELOR MAID’S REFLECTIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XX, 15 November 1902, Page 1280

A BACHELOR MAID’S REFLECTIONS.

Many a man marries a girl because she is as “pretty as a picture,’’ and then growls at the price of her picture hats. The last mermaid died of shock at the sight of the first man in his bathing suit. “Alls fair in love and war”—except suicide. You can’t expect a woman on the box seat of a coach to realise that she will look like a perfect fright while she's getting down. Man was made from dust first, so that woman might sweep all before her. The brilliancy of many a society leader depends largely upon her jewel box. Who knows more about the “strenuous life”—a man who talks about it after he’s grown up, or the mother who helped him cut his first teeth? Men allow their wives pin money and then expect them to ouy tiaras. No man is really blase who retains a single ideal. One great difference between men and women is that women pray over what a man swears at. No man yet was so high up that his wife couldn’t call him down. Men do the headwork of the world, but women are the headrests. When a girl gives a xcan the mitten, he very often returns her glove. Men select their wives much as women buy books—chiefly because of a pretty cover. No man is n hero to his trained nurse. Many a woman depends upon her husband’s club to keep her supplied with gossip.