A WOMAN’S TOAST.

Kumara Times, Issue 1136, 20 May 1880, Page 4

A WOMAN’S TOAST.

Mrs; of the New Northwest, ath literary re-union at Salem, Oregon, “ toasted the gentlemen as follows : “ God bless’em {they halve our joys; they doublp. our,sorrows ; they treble our expenses ; they quadruple our cares ; they excite our magnanimity; they increase our aelf-reapect ; they awake our enthusiasm ; they arouse pur affections; they control our property ; and out manoeuvre us m everything; This would be a very dreary world without ’em. In fact,l may say. without prospect of successful contradiction, that without’em .it would not be much of a world anyhow. We love’ ’em and the dear beings can’t help it; we control ’em and the precious fellows don’t know it. A 8 /huSbgpda they are always convenient, tho’ not always on hand; aabeaiptj.they are by no means ‘matchless. They are most agreeable visitors; they are handy at state fairs, and indispensable at oysteS salobhsM They are splendid as escorts for some other fellow’s wife or sister, and as .friends they are better than women. outL fathers they are grand. He may be a failure in business, a wreck in constitution, notenpugh to boast of, as a beauty, nothing to speak df asA wit, less than nothing as a legislator for < woman’s rights, and even nofbrilliant aq a member of the press ; but if he is our own father we overlook his short-comings, and cover his peccadilloes with the mantle of charity. ss our husbands, how we love to parade tgeth aS paragons. In the sublime JangGSge of the inspired'poet : We’ll He for them, We’ll cry for them, And if we could we’d fly for them, We’d do anything but die for them.”