WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

i The title of Mr. J. M. Barrie's clever play, " What Every Woman Knows," is providing London with a new catch phrase. When in London you hear something witty and wise, the truth of which cannot be denied, the popular retort is, ".Why, that's what every woman knows." A journalistic philosopher has been struck with the phrase, and gives lis here a few of the things that " every jvoman knows." 1 Every woman knows, that when her husband tells her a book he haa been reading ia aot fit for any circulating library, that is just the very book ehe wants to read, and That she usually reads it, too. That if a real man should make lore like the hero of a play the average girl

srould be scared to death. I That some women acquire the habit of looking for trouble to such an extent that .they would be lonesome without

it. . , 1 That when a woman admires her husband's whiskers it is after she has given jnp in despair trying to make him shave "them off. t That some men will come home smiling from the races after losing £lO, but if their wives ask tliein for 25* for a new hat they ask if "she means to drive them into the workhouse,' and then grow speechless, i -jhat when her husband spends two jmineas on " a nice little dinner with one of his pals,'' it is money well spent ; but if she dares to treat herself to an eighteenpensiy lunch at a restaurant it is gross extravagance, i That love-letters should never be destroyed. Because, if she is successful hi gathering in the writer, reading them aloud to him two years after marriage w ;il have a most softening influence on her spouse, and bring him up to the scratch when he grumbles about nia-in-law. And i'i they have outlived th.-;ir influence as an adjunct to courtship, they are never too old to be brought into court. ,1 That though her husband is as bloodthirsty a foeman as ever burglar met. when lie lhas just returned from his club at night, yet he daren't give cook notice to leave to save his life-. That her own offspring is undoubted)} a perfect swan, although everyone else is convinced that it is an ugly duckling _and a mongrel at that. . ■ That, though her husband never wro .e a. line in his life, he is the greatest author of Action who ever lived, and has imagination enough to give the loe laureate ten poems and a That her husband has absolutely n taste whatever; but that when he chost her for his wife he exhibited more o it than a whole regiment who ignore 1 the suave, smiling husband abroad is often the domestic tenor at home. Dishes he will eat at a r « taul with gurgles of delight would .it ■home get the cook instant dismiss a smart a ' ,A handsome young SiUsband with a couple of hnmlied ™Ti7better than a gouty old fos-il 35 L ctple of thousand. TW smnc •women, of course, would go WM> ] husband who prowls 1 'around the kitchen and lectures the servant-girl on "waste" should i stantly beheaded. Ever} wo ' he is simiply hateful. That first babies are always divin. , no matter how " puggv " the n =e be. When number seven, eight, or . • comes into a household all the <» ity" has worn off.