SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2366, 5 December 1908, Page 9 (Supplement)

SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.

BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE SEVEN HUNDREDTH WIFE.

(Translated by Helen Rowland.)

Behold, my daughter, blessed are the powers of soft soap 1 And a joolish compliment worketli wonders where a wise argument failetli. For if it is meet to praise a man, is it not meat and bread and jam also to liattoi hi tn ? Therefore I charge thee, when tlimo husband pratoth that thou art ruining him with extra vagence, defend not thyself. Kiss him and rumple Ins hair. Tell him ho hath a profile like unto Nape lean and shoulders like unto James K. Hackett, “only better. ’ Yea., oxa.lt not liis tailor, but the fruit of his labors, even the shoulders lie hath padded to perfection and the crooked legs ho hath made to look straight. Yet .-hearken meekly wlion a man ad vise tli thee to discard thy tight corsets and to forego the powder on thy nose; hut go thy ways untroubled, for a slender waist is more to be desired than great respectability anda daub of talcum on. the nose is worth two on the puff. And, whatever lie preachcth, when a man gazeth after the forwardblonde in the red petticoat and the manufactured blush, it is not,, my daughter, with disgust that he gazeth after her. For a man talketh on theory, but lie eateth oil impulse; lie praisetli one tli in e and chase,th another ; ami foi him the world of women is divided *nto two classes: , X 1 , Those whom he respecteth and those whom lie taketh to luncheon. Tlios'e whom ho consideretli sensible” —and those to whom lie sendcth violets. , ' ' Those whom he ought., to marry—and those to whom he doth marryThose. 1 whom he calleth wise—and those whom he calleth “Baby.” 0 And which of would ye be. Selaji I