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Southland Times, Issue 978, 1 July 1868, Page 3

Judson's Cottbtship. — A maiden friend of mine, who has been wooed eleven times, and knows a good deal about it, assures me that the only attentions to be taken notice of, and relied upon, are those that touch the pocket. "When your Platonic friend," she says, " begins to offer gifts, costly according to his means, depend upon it the affair has become a business with him, as well as with you." The American missionary Judson possessed a valuable watch, which he bestowed in succession before marriage upon each of his three wives ; when he offered it to the third object of his affections, he stated that it had the desirable property of always returning to him bringing the beloved wearer with it. Be sure the wise and prudent man would never have parted with his watch, unless he had been firmly persuaded that he was' making a good investment, safe to bring him in large and clear returns. "W"hen a costly offering is laid upon the shrine the offer means worship.