WISE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2750, 16 January 1882, Page 2

WISE.

The church picnics, kiss-in-the-ring, and other social games during the holidays, appear (says the M Wairarapa Star ”) to be producing alarming results in the matrimonial line. No fewer than six Masterton girls, to our knowledge have begun the New Year by giving thtir mistresses notice, urging with a blush that “ they are very sorry, but they are going to start housekeeping on their own account." The result is quite a famine in the “domestic ” lino. Mistresses are no longer desirous of girls that can wash, cook, and do up muslins. They are only too content if they will stay at home and leave off courting- There is one claass of de serving females, fortunately, who are likely to profit immensely by tlffi reaping and binding harvest that Cupid, the clergyman, and social festivities have brought about. We. refer to plain looking spinsters in the autumn of life. If they no longer possess charms for the swains of the village, their sedate looks and chastened accents have a powerful recommendation for mistresses who are beginning to appreciate the proverb “ an old horse for a bard road.” If there are any “ old gals ” in New Zealand who are not afraid of a little work, and wish comfortable homes and sweet-tempered mistresses, we believe they would find the Wairarapa—parti cularly Masterton —a happy huntingground at the present moment.