REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 4

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL

Let the bachelor girl have the laugh on love- but >he will find ilmi there is nothing to cry on which compares to a man's shoulder. Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained, ami a week's rest will put it in penect working condition again.

I "Nothing can exceed the romantic tenderness and graceful eclat with which I mem make love—in noveU, except the offhand eomimmplaeeuess with which they do it in real life. A man's first proposal comes hard, but later he learns lo do it as easily and nonchalantly—and almost as often —as he wears a dress suit. That shocked look on a man's face when a sympathetic woman says she "•understands'' him is probably caused by a hidden fear that maybe she really does.

Every man fancies lie "knows the world''—merely because he is more or less acquainted with the flesh and the devil.

A married woman doesn't waste her fears on mice and burglars after she has discovered that there are real dangers like widows and chorus-girls all around.

The accident of marriage is the only calamity against which there is no insurance.