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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1033, 7 February 1882, Page 4

In a recent article in Truth, New Zealand is sarcastically described as ‘‘the gem of the Southern Ocean, ‘ which grows more wheat per acre than any country in the world,’ and has no market for it, and which rejoices in obligations to the extent of something like £35,000,000, and continues nearly every week to add to its debt 1” A. hard hit exchange tenders the following advice to young men, and recommends that it should be engraved in brass and displayed in every bachelor’s bedroom: —“ Young man, keep your eyes open when you are after the women. If you bite at the naked hook you are green. Is a pretty dress or form so attractive ? or a pretty face even ? Flounces, boys, are no consequence. A pretty face will grow old. Paint will wash off. The sweet smile of the flirt will give way to the scowl of the termagant. Another and a far different being will take the place of the lovely goddess who smiles and eats your sugar candy. The coquette will shine in the kitchen corner, and with the once sparking eye and beaming ■countenance will look daggars at you. Beware! Keep your eye open, boy, when you are after the women. If the dear one is cross, and scolds at her mother in the back room you may be sure you will get particularrubsall over the house. If she blushes when found at domestic duties, be sure she is of the dishrag aristocracy—little breeding, and a great deal less sense. If you may marry a girl who knows nothingbut to commit woman-slaughter on the piano, you have got the poorest piece >of music ever got up. Find one whose mind is right and then pitch in. Boy, don’t he hanging round like a sheep thief, as though you were ashamed to be seen in the daytime, but walk up like a chicken to the ■dough pile, and ask for the article like a man.”