Woman's Truth

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 14, 5 February 1884, Page 3

Woman's Truth

A wenaan is inaccurate nnt for the same reason that a man, unless ofthe female temperament, usually is. She is rarely a braggart, and is far less inclined to make a false display than her husband » or her brother. She will unquestionably exaggerate the merest nothing which has scared her, until one might imagine that she was ! a heroine of .romance, . a petticoated j FaUtaff wrestling with many men in j buckrami or rhe victim of' an outrage j as atrocious as any with which bystf ri- • cal Bulgarians crammed impulsive corr-esp.indents. But it is not altogether vanity, or even that craze for notoriety, incident?*! even to the keenest brained ot the sox, which dictates this absurd amplification of a very simple affair. '1 he lady is too emotional to be exact; her intellect is subordinate to ber imagination. For the same reason that it is hard for a prosaic man to do business with a woman, it' is, with rare exceptions, an almost' insurmountable difficulty to make her, no matter how industrious, into a sound mathematician . The twosides df a triangie will sooner or later* if the girl-undergraduate: gets her head, be unequal, just as the three black crows wbich she saw in the meadow are apt to become four or five, in addition to a white one, which the listeners are compelled to accept under pain ot " doubting c lady's word," — World.