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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 186, 18 July 1884, Page 2

There is a rumour from Germany that a learned chemist has discovered a wonderful oil that will restore youth to old age. It must be a species of o-live oil. She said at a friend’s luncheon table, at which she found several strangers seated, apropos of a remark made of a lady of uncertain age, “ Why, good gracious, she is as old as the hills I” and could not imagine in the least what had caused the general consternation. She did a little later on, however, when it was explained to her that two maiden sisters at the table, whose names she did not catch in the introduction, were called Hill, and were extremely sensitive on the subject of age, If the conclusions a woman has reached are sound, that is all that concerns us. And that they are very apt to be sound on the practical matter of domestic and secular life, nothing but prejudice or self-conceit can prevent us from acknowledging. The inference, therefore, is unavoidable, that the man who thinks it beneath his dignity to take counsel with an intelligent wife stands in his own light, and betrays that lack of judgment which he tacitly attributes to her.