WHICH WOMAN?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 3

WHICH WOMAN?

Most women regard men as they do the Ten Commandments—something to be studied, bat not obeyed. Ideals are the last refuge of the absolutely commonplace.

To know oneself is to understand everyone else.

To know a woman thoroughly it is necessary to know what kind of letters she writes.

Most women are so harmonious that, in the interests of harmony, they change their complexions to match their gowns; it's simpler. Conventionality Z is slain the souls of more men and women than drink and

To understand a woman is to kuow Heaven—and Hell.

nowadays. . . . Bad cookery is at the root of all the evil and half the divorces in England. If a woman hRs all she wants of a thing, she doesn't want it. More men are killed by bad dinners than by broken hearts. A heart mends much quicker than—a digestion. Conventional kisses are as banal as conventional morality. Nothing pleases an impulsive, featherbrained woman so much as to prove to her that she always acts with logieal deliberation. _ "■'•iif'ifi The great art of happiness—for a w'Oman—is to go through life seeing only the things she is meant to see. For a man—to see all that a woman doesn't want hi 3 to see.

A bad man is generally attracted by a good woman—she stirs his surface emotions. Then his badness attracts her, and she reforms him until she herself is beyond reformation. Matrimony . . an insane desire to support another man's daughter. . . . Temporary insanity with permanent results. , . An unreasoning craving for a place to hang yourself or your hat in.