REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

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

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

(By Helen Rowland.)

A bird ill the hand may bo worth two in tlie bush, but a woman out of reach is worth two in hand to any man.

Proposing to a girl by moonlight is as foolish as picking out a bat or a cravat by electric tight; after the honeymoon what you thought was rose color so often turns out to be indigo blue. It always hurts a man for a woman with whom lie has flirted to accuse him of having deceitful intentions, when as a matter of fact lie merely had no intentions whatever.

The folly of padding and painting lies not so much in that it shocks men, but that it flatters them too much lor you to show that you don’t think that you are quite good enough for them just as God made you. Any husband will make married life one long sweet song, if the wile will just sit by and play tho accompaniment. A man may like “old books, old wine, old friends,” but in fashions, women and Jove affairs, it is always tho latest tiling that appeals to him. “Once stung, always shy,” is the motto of tho bachelor. Flirtation is the liors d’oeuvro to the feast of life, marriage the roast beef, and divorce —the just dessert. A wile soon learns that to ask her husband the point of his joke is almost as fatal as to ask him if it lias

anv. . . If only their heartstrings became entangled people would not find the marriage tie so binding; it is a man s purse strings or a woman’s apron strings that really form the Gordian knot. Strange how a man, who can no longer keep up tho pace, mistakes ennui for remorse and a broken-down constitution for conscience. • "When a nice girl smokes cigarettes and tries to bo “bohemian” it always affects a man just as though lie had seen St. Cecilia doing a skirt danco. No woman should marry a man unless, she would be perfectly happy to live .with him -alone m the Sahara desert— because as far as excitement goes that’s about what married lire 1S A ll husband’s jealousy may be flattering, but it is about as comfortiug as a bouquet covered! trsmtlx thorns.