“GUIDE TO MEN.”

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 115, 7 January 1926, Page 5

“GUIDE TO MEN.”

LOVE AND MARRIAGE. The following sayings are from “A Guide to Men," by Helen Rowlands: — Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. The height, of the average girl's ambition is just about six feet. All love is 99.44 per cent, pure: pure imagination, pure vanity, pure curiosity; pure folly, or whatever else it happens to be. It is easier to koop half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep onrx.lover j after he has stopped guessing. It requires a little moisture to make a postage stamp stick, and a little cold water of indifference to make a sweetheart stick. Most marriages, nowadays, seem built for speed rather than for endurance. Marriage, is a discord that turns “Love's Old Sweet Song" from a eulogy into an elegy. . Marriage is' the operation by whien a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism arc extracted without an anaesthetic. The most successful men are not those who have been inspired by a wise woman’s love, but those who have perspired in order to gratify a foolish woman ’s whims. A man's soul lies so close to .us digestion that when lie looks blue and downhearted a woman never knows whether to offer him a kiss, a meal, a dose of philosophy, or a dyspepsia tablet.