For Men Only
Came across an. old American journal the Other day m which; appears a speech by Colonel Melisirat a Pittsburg banquet m, 1898. V ■ ■-- THE toast was "The Ladies:" :Ex- ■*• tract therefrom: "It has been well said that 'all :::a woman, Jias to do m this world Is£ ' contained'-^ wi'min trie duties r ,of a daughter,, a ,sister, -a wife, arid a, mother/' .-** "She,. has; "sustained at leas'tTone of these relations to even the pootest of us; but I winder, if (there is a man here to-night so. T miserably' abject f and forlorn arid.. Gqd-foi*salcen •':■; as not, some time; m; hfsjife,- toVhave ; "been "able tb regard her 1 y in the deiightf ill" relation of sweetheart?. -;-i. hope riot.., \ •."';. :X '. "i'^y'ou.ld; rather he had a dozen than no .^we ; effieart at all. . . : ;•'..: ' ' "The riiost'unselfish: devoQah we • may j ever know 'iis: that 'of/ our " mother ; a sweet affection is ;tfifat of p.ur sistersi a mpvit tender -lo^e.-is ■ that of pur, daughters. . ...'■; • •;.; r "But ; the love' and affection all want, and Without which we ar6 never satisfied, is that of the sweethearts who reward our devotion — out^ of all proportion. to, our v deser.ts,T—by becoming our .wives . and \]the:v nipthers ->;of;our daugliters;?' - V .* :r >~%'> : * -. ; ** .;!' : Unfortunately, most : men ' use the ladiis' • pa^e'f or ; shaving- paper !;2
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 17
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217For Men Only NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 17
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