What Woman lias Said in Favour of Man. PRIZE SELECTION FROM " TIT-BITS."

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 49, 10 May 1884, Page 5

What Woman lias Said in Favour of Man. PRIZE SELECTION FROM " TIT-BITS."

In the lovo of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness ; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's kneo. The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return. The heart of man turns to one woman out of all the rest he's been i' the world, and makes it easier for him to work seven years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other woman for th' asking. I often think of the words, "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke'fe grand dirge over them ; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman whom he never dreams he shall touch so much as her little finger, or the hem of her robe. — George Eltot (Mrs Cross).

As a rule men are truer friends than women— more capable of friendship.— Mish Thackeray. Man in his majesty, his beauty, in his every movement, his exquisitely formed frame, his complicated economy of being, i 3 more impressive — more startling — evidence of the might, the wisdom, the benevolence of his glorious Maker, than even the source of the river, the structure of the flower, the growth of the tree. Man proceeding from, destined for — immortality— the beloved, the peculiar care and treasure of the Eternal — man, beautiful man ! — -('lrack Aguilar.

Grand, true man ! Man, before whom (a) woman's heart instinctively bows down in Eve-like submission, murmuring, " I have found theo, my greater Belf— my head, my sustainer, and my guide." The man of genius stands forth as the high priest of divinity itself, before whom it befits him to offer up, not only the first fruit of his intellect, but the continued sweet savour of a life, high and pure. . . . . The eloquent upholder of virtue, the scorner of vice, the earnest — the noble — man ! —Dinah Maria Mulock.

'Tia man's pride, His highest, -woithiest, noblest boast, Tho privilege he prizes most. To stand by helpless woman's side. — Mibs HoLFonn,

Man has a wonderful power of conceiving things. The grandest philanthropic experiment which have hitherto proved undoubtedly successful have been the work of men. Man is made for sympathy. It is the deepest want and the highest privilege of his nature ; a want by which ... he never ceases to be stimulated ; a privilege of which ... he can never bo wholly divested, — Harriet Martin eau.

Persuasion sits on his tongue, and love, almighty love, triumphant in his eyes ! His wit, like an essence bottle, is a collection of all that is poignant in a thousand flowers. Intrepid spirit, nice honour, generosity, and understanding, all unite to form him. —Mrs Cowley.

I have often fancied that there must be a man born in the world for every woman ; one whom to see would be to love, to reverence, to adore ; one with whom her sympathies would so entirely blend that she would recognise him at once as her true lord. — Mrs Crowe. He (is) an angel upon earth—kind, gentle, affable, and affectionate. —Maria Tiikrese Kemble.

Softer than tho April showers ; White-handed innocence supports bis throne ; His sighs are sweet as breath of earliest flowers, Affection guides his steps, and peace proteots his bowers. —Mrs Tighe.