"H.R.H.-Woman"

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2891, 6 February 1893, Page 2

"H.R.H.-Woman"

A man writes to '* Woman" :-r-" A ! woman's income ought to go exactly | twice hs far as a man's. A woman doesn't have to have nef hair cut every week, or her boots blackened every hour. Sixpennyworth ot rum and rosewater will keep her tresses in order a whole mon*h, aud the same quantity of polish wUI shin a her boots for a whole season. She doesn't pay for a newspaper, for the theatre tickets, for the cab fare, for reading matter, or for horns cheer if there is any sort of roan in the family. If she falls in love, she doesn't have to buy bouquets for the object of her affections. She is not obliged to woo a frowning mamma with French fconbons, to mollify a stern father with imported cigars, or appease an ugly little brother with circus tickets and mechanical toys. When she marries she does not always support her mother and sisters-in-law for the rest of their natural lives. She never gives, a shilling for a white rosebud And a bit of maidenhair bat she buys tenpennvworth of flowers and twopennyworth of fern, and makes a' posy large enough to coyer the front of her drew. She may give twelve and six for her evening gloves, but she never gets them a size too small and splits the pslm. Altogether a woman's ■*.i '> > ■■ '• *' a

extravagances are about half as numerous as those of her husband."