PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 4

PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

A father who speak* like a friend, who appeals at once to humau nature and the heart, is the sovereign of our souls, and can obtain whatever he desires lro 111 ns. It is certain that love is ol' all passions the most fatal to human happiness.—Mdme De Stack I here are times when stilf-jieeked stoicism become* a vice.—-Mrs Keade. are the outcome of a noble mind. They are made up of pretty saerilice*, a lender consideration for the feelings and needs of others, and something more—a sort of innate goodness and blamclessness of character and a genial kindly spirit.—-Miss jtfacnaughton. Men and women view the world according as their love affairs have been happy or unhappy, Jt'.s a groat mistake, of course, being so personal, but apparency they can't avoid it. There is no optimist so blatant as your happily. successfully married man or woman. They can't be persuaded that everything is not all right. And, conversely, wliea a man has had his heart wounded and all his affection thwarted, it invariably' cither coarsens or embitters him—gener- I ally the lirst. They don't believe in the reality of love. They think it all a passion—a phase of youth that passes —and although.you may speak to them from dune to .lamiary you will never convint-e them that it is not so. —Jane Melon .Kindlater. The world would be a peaceful place . if we could only keep quiet about each other's weak points. Three times every i day—that is, before breakfast, before dinner, before supper—no husband loves I any wife—Author of "Elizabeth and • Her <*!erman Harden."

Our standpoint is so different from the male and female point of view that [ do not think the sexes will ever understand one another. And why should they? If we really understood our mankind: if. for instance, we fathomed their love of their own particular interests or hobbies: if we fully realised their almost unfathomable depths of self love and personal ambition, should we really be ally the happier? On the other hand, if man realised woman's innate desire to influence him. and woman's nlmost unconscious passion for keeping the man she loves entirely to herself, to the detriment of all his other I intere-ts. would he be any the happier?