A Few Things a Man Can't Do.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 4, 23 January 1902, Page 13

A Few Things a Man Can't Do.

A WOMAN will grill a steak, and sec that the coffee does not boil over, and watch the cat does not steal the remnant of the meat on the kitchen table, and 6he can also dress the youngest boy, and ' set the table,' and see to the toast, and stir the oatmeal and give orders to the butcher and baker, and make war on the pig-tailed vegetable hawker, and dye her second hat, and discuss the latest fashion in French jabots and swop kitchen fat for fancy chinaware, and do all these things and a heap more without turning a single hair — real or sham. Man haa certainly done wonders since he came before the public as a star performer. He has navigated the ocean ; he has penetrated the mysteries of the solar system ; he has harnessed the waterfalls and made them light the great cities of the world, and done other marvellous works too numerous to mention. But he can't find a reel of cotton in his wife's workbox,he can't discover the pocket in her dress hanging in the wardrobe, although ' it's right before his very nose ' ; he can't spread a shirt to dry right end up ; he can't fill his mouth with clothes-pegs and talk all the time about the latest society scandal , and he can't greet! like a bosom friend a party that he hates worse than a tramp hates soap.