Social Moods.
i HUSBAND'S GROWL. IJEJSiSHE question, ' What motive is powerful enough to make tbe l&Bm truthful equivocate, the idle exert themselves, and the liberal act meanly/:has been answered by the reply, ' A desire to obtain orders for the play!' We should h»ye rather said, ' A desire to buy bargains This appears oie of the most universal passions of mankind.' The proverb tells u? that 'Experience teaches fools/ bnt even the lessons of this stern monitor ssem thrown away on the inveterate bargain-huuter. He or she may have been taken in time after time with articles 'made to sell'—aot to use, bnt the attraction of a 'great gale' or an 'alarming sacrifice' casts all these recollections to the winds, Women are always held up as the chief believers in bargains, but men are hardly wises. The husband or b: other, who is so witty at the expense of the female members of his family who have returned from a sale, laden with
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 7
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162Social Moods. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 7
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