IN PRAISE OF WIVES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

IN PRAISE OF WIVES.

PRIZE PROVERBS AND EPIGRAMS. The grow ing interest in Japan over the woman question has been further evidenced in a call for epigrams on tho topic, " What a man would wish of bis wife," in a Tokio neswpaper. The prizes for proverbs on ideals for womanhood were as fallows: — First prize: " A good wife lays the foundation of a bronze statue," Second prize: "To buy gold lings is to hasten the selling of iron pans." Third prize: "Even Queen Victoria was a wife before her husband."

" Soft cotton makes gunpowder." " The wife that complains of poverty is the maker of poverty." " Nature planted a beard on man and engraved dimples on a woman." Fourth prize: "No wife is too good for her husband. - ' " When tho wife is gentle indoors the husband can be firm out of doors." "Jealousy is like an injection needle —if it goes too far harm ensJues, while too little of it does no good."

Fifth prize: "Your economv is a great by-product to increase tne net income." "The home with an insincere wife is more precarious than a flying machine with an injured propeller." " One end of vanity passte into pris-

on." "The heaviest load for the husband is the wife's vanity." "A cheery face is the best toilet." "Luxury is a bomb that destroys the home." "Wife out, creditors in." " Be the mother of a great man rather than the wife of a Prime Minister." "To talk happiness with an untrue wife is Hko admiring the moon with a, blind man."