A FEW APHORISMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 September 1907, Page 4

A FEW APHORISMS.

A kiss on the lips is worth twenty on llie hand. ft takes a woman longer to make up her lace lhaii lo make up Her mind. Courtship lias a man with conceit, but marriage take-, it out of him. it is surprising how many friends a man nas until ho reallv needs on:.

Tile girl who hesitates may not lie lost, out she is. likely lo become an oil maid.

To-day a yii is a beautiful bridg", and to-morrow »he may be merely -Mis •Jones.

The girl in the case knows thai, a man is in love before he himself luinblcjs to the tact.

At eighteen a givi is licklc; but after she is twenty-eight she rinds that il is tlie"iueii who" are liclrfc.

it makes a spinster grind, her teeth evtry time she meets a widow who has buried throe husbands.

Paint, looks all right on an old house, but on an old woman—well, that's unite a diltureiit story.

W'lieu a baby erics in .a man's a.'Tns he immediately discovers that it wants to go to its mother. A newly-married man never realises what lie has done until he has met every one o* his wife's relations.

It is simply impossible to convince the average man thai water is the propu' thing in which to drown his troubles. | When you sec a girl -it down to dinner and tackle a juicy steal; smothered in onions, it's a sign tshe isn't worrying over love affairs.