SAYINGS ABOUT WOMEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 952, 11 June 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAYINGS ABOUT WOMEN.

Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill nature —Dupuy. Woman is an idol that man worships until he throws it down. Women love always ; when the earth slips from them they take refuge in heaven. The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard further than the loudest call of duty. There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty.—Montaigne. Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed.—Malherbe. Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her. We censure the inconstancy of women when we are the victims, We find it charming when we are the objects. We meet in society many beautiful and attractive women whom we think would make excellent wives—for our friends. Woman among savages is a beast of burden ; in Asia, she is a piece of furniture ; in Europe; she is a spoiled child.—Senac de Meilhan. The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship ; and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer him hers. At 20 man is less a lover of woman than of women. He is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. It is not easy to be a widow ; one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to feign its ignorance.—Madame de Girardin. Men are so fearful of w’o unding a woman’s vanity that they rarely remember that she may by some possibility possess a grain of common sense. —Miss Braddon.

Women of the world never use harsh expressions, when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points. “ Don’t you think,” said he, “ that the women are possessed by Satan ?” “ Yes, as soon as they are married,” replied she sweetly. Plump girls are going out of fashion; that is, the plumper the girl the slimmer her chances. La Rochefoucauld: There is but one kind of love, but there are a thousand different copies of it. Josh Billings : Bashfulness iz orfen like the plating on spoons—when it wares orf it shos the brass. Onida: Woman only runs away to be run after, and if you do not pursue her, she comes back—always. Rouchefoucauld : We "pass often from love to ambition, but we seldom return from ambition to love. Henry Watterson: Woman is the hand-organ of the devil, and man is the monkey that dances to the music. Seneca: The goodness of gold is tried by fire, the goodness of women by gold, and the goodness of men by women. Hilda Kruger: A pretty foot is very like those pocket-books we see advertised as lost—“ of no value to anyone except the owner.”

A pretty widow always appears to most advantage about six months after her great loss. She is still sedate enough to retain much of the charm which sorrow lends, and yet sufficiently recovered to show that she is not insensible to the attractions of society. At this stage it is a bad time for a man to be fooling around who has sworn never to marry a widow. It leaves him only two courses to take —flight or suicide. He doesn’t take either, but just flops around like a fly in a molasses jug, and the wilder he flops the faster he sticks. A fashionable draper informs us that the dresses for the spring wear are made up with a new and lovely polonaise, the waist of which .contains a steel trap, concealed by a masked panier. When a young gentleman calls, who is considered a catch, and accidentally—or otherwise—places his arm around the wearer’s waist, he hears a “ click,” and finds his arm caught. A big brother and lamp enters, and it is neck or nothing with the victim. We (Pay of Plenty Timex) are informed that a gentleman in this town contemplates forming a company for the erection of a cocoa palace on the same principle as those started in Liverpool and London some years ago. Tea, coffee, and cocoa are to be supplied at very moderate rates for out-door consumption. We understand the same gentleman is now r trying to establish a co-operative store also on the home principle. Whilst admiring the pluck and energy of our friend in embarking so extensively in business we hardly think the town is sufficiently large for these establishments, and should advise him to apply his energies to more promising pursuits.