A GOOD TEST.

Evening Star, Issue 3566, 28 July 1874, Page 3

A GOOD TEST.

We think the umbrella can be taken as a very good test of a person’s character. Ihe man who always takes an umbrella out with him is a cautious fellow who abstains from all speculation, and is pretty sure to die rich. The man who is always leaving his umbrella behind him is one generally who makes no provision for the morrow. He is reckless, thoughtless, always late for the train, leaves the street door open when he goes home late at night, and absent to such a degree as to speak ill of a baby iu the presence of its mamma. The man who is always losing his umbrella is an unlucky dog, whose bills are always protested, whose boots split, whose gloves crack, whose buttons are always coming oft, whose “change” is sure to have some bad money in it. Be cautious how you lend LIOO to such a man! The man who is perpetually expressing a nervous anxiety about his umbrella, and wondei’ing if it is safe, is full of meanness and low suspicion. Let him be ever so rich, give not your daughter to him ; he will undoubtedly take more care of his umbrella than of his wife. The man with a cotton umbrella is either a philosopher or an economist; he defies tho world and all its fashionable prejudices, or else he does it because it is cheaper to lose than a silk one. The man who goes to a horticultural Jete without an umbrella is simply a goose, who richly deserves the ducking he gets. These are sentiments worthy of a Sangster.