WOMAN'S FAITH IN GLUE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 158, 5 July 1881, Page 1

WOMAN'S FAITH IN GLUE.

It is the firm belief of woman that everything can be mended by glue, or by some other adhesive mixture. There is no possible breakage which furniture can undergo which she will not boldly attempt to repair with whatever sticky matarial happens to be at hand. There is nothing more beautiful and pathetic than the unfaltering trust placed by a pure, good woman in mucilage. A man may become hardened by long years of vice and wickedness, but when lie sees a woman try to fasten a broken leg to the^ dining-room table witli mucilage, he is melted to tears. Ifc is certainly strange that this faith in -mucilage . should not be ih the least degree shaken *j by a 'thousand failures. Experience, ; like argument, has no effect in leading a woman to doubt the efficacy- of that feeble aud pretentious gum, and she will go on trying tp stick together * broken pianos aud wrecked bedsteads. though she has never known mucilage to stick anything together w_ith any permanence except the .liair of 'trouble"*some childron. , With the " cruel and heartless purpose of playing upon the holiest emotions of the female heart, . certain depraved persons have frbm time to time put upon the market bottles of the alleged glue, which they have -represented to be Capable of sticking anything together, from two halves of a lead pencil up to the broken pieces of a steamer's shaft. J Millions of money have been paid out for 'these 'delusive bottles by trusting women,' but the mixture which tbey contained was found to, be as: faithless . .is mucilageDoubtless there were things' which it could mend, but fot any. of tlib capital operations, such as iho gluing of ttte back of an upright chair to its' seat or the fastening of a loose door-knob to the door— operations in whicli women take peculiar delight— it was useless. Its power for evil is, however, nearly gone, for most women have lost all faith in it arid have retura-sd to mucilage with more confidence than ever.