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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4322, 26 September 1921, Page 1

“What is woman ?” The roundness of the moon, the wisdom of the serpent, the entwinemeni of clinging vines, the trembling of the aspen tree, the slenderness of the daffodil, the velvet of the pansy, the gentleness of the falling leaf, .the glance of the fawn, the gaiety of-the sun’s rays, the laughter of rippling water, the constancy of the stars, the tears of the mountain mist, the melody or Pan’s pipes, the fitfulness of the winds, the timidity of the hare, the courage of the lion, ;the brilliancy of the diamond, the flavour of clover honey, the cruelty of 'the tiger, the warmth of fire, the cupidity of a the purity of fresh fallen snow, and the cooing of the dove. Unite them all, and you have that most wonderful, enchanting, and disillusionising manufacture of all creaon —A Woman. A little complex, perhaps, but ...