HOME TRUTHS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 64, 10 April 1909, Page 4

HOME TRUTHS.

WOIIDS THAT WERE BETTEII UNSPOKEN. 11l the really happy home tho unnecessary truth is never spoken. If the baby takes the best tea-cup and throws it to the tloor, and smashes it to a thousand atoms, nobody savs' "You naughty baby; you've, broken the best tea-cup." It is realised, in the really happy home, that the bits 011 the floor speak eloquently for themselves. So, when the cook falls through the kitchen window, when the gas escape, when the lire smokes, when resit-day comes round, .nobody mentions the unpleasant truth. It is as impossible for a man to forget rent-day as for a fire to smoke unseen by those who are looking at it. In the really, happy home a man may be in a roaring bad temper if lie chooses, and nobody will tell him that he is cross. The servant may cook the joint to a finder, but tile head of the bouse never dreams of saying "The meat is overdone." On the other hand, pleasant truths constantly are uttered. "Dearest," says the wife to the husband on his return from the office. "I attended firteen bargain-sale* to-dav, and I did. not spend a halfpenny." "Yon angel," remarks the husband. And I found a sovereign j n the 'bus. and IHV salary was doubled." Such talk is worth while. But what value is there to the- chatter of those women who only cease ehatteriii"- when asleep or in their graves? ° A worker hi a poor parish in the East End of London has arranged the types of chattering women into three classes. There is the chatterer with no sense of proportion, to whom the fact that there is a mouse hi the room is infinitely more important than the fact that there has been an earthquake in Italy which 'l'stroved over a hundred thousand people ami two cities at a stroke There is the chatterer who has hut one string to her harp, and will na- all day about a trifle of no importance? And there is the chatterer who ramble? in her chatter, s0 that it is impossible to keep pace with her or exchange a rational idea. e

i l If one were to take down i-, shorthand J a verbatim report of the chatter of the ls chattering woman for one .lay, and thvn «ere to read her words to her next toy, lt it is probable that she, would he so aslt tounded at the futility oi her remark, t „ that she would think before speakh" 1(1 for ever after. ' " re Most of us, i„d e ed. would be horrified ,t to hear our words of a day repeated l.v it thTh unaeeessal y to the well-beimr of " therefore, wore better «\ vah,e d or^!ri d jT gin , t0 " Then ,T' !,,uf Peasant speech. . men all homes would benin 1 „ '•Wy-Honie paper. " " to lw 0 epigrams about women. !S3QHS6S»« * * " !ha b,,t «"»>» f »'- ' Panage. 5S '° n * toui ' ,lst0 '"-' of 10ve... v',f re 15 1110st virtuous whom Xature , has made he most voluptuous, and i v son the coldest.—La Reaumvlle. of l rt e ,M VOmiUl l^ gins t0 be asl ""»*l y will int i 1 ," 0t be »* s '«aun:d ,he f ,-Titu° LWius med ° f What sIK °"« IU ' V Women have the same desires as men. t but do not have the same right to exe prese them.—Rousseau. t - Certain importunities ahvavs please women, even when the import'uuer does * not please—Anon. • Woman is seldom merciiul to' the ■ man who is timid.—Lytton. Woman is fine for her own satisfac--1 tion alone; man only knows man's insensibility to a new dress.-Jane Austin. j A woman who has surrendered her lios 3 has surrendered everything.—Viand. Hen declare their love' before thev . fed it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it.—De Latona. r Coquettes are like hunters who are ; fond of hunting but do not eat the game.—Anon. Women are rakes by nature, and " prudes by necessity.—Rochefoucauld. Love makes time pass, and time i makes love pass.—l'roverb. Xothing is so embarrassing as the ■ first tete-a-tete when there is even- ■ thing to say—unless it be the last, when everything has been said.—Rogueplan. ' 1 llcll, for women who arc only hand- ' some, is old age.—Saint Evremoml. ' it is not for good women that men 1 have fought battle*, given their lives, t and staked their souls.—.Mrs. W. K. 1 . Clifford. 1 'j As soon as women are ours, we are 1 . no longer theirs.—Montaigne. I 1 W oman is at once apple a:id serpent. 1 —Heine. 11 Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it Ossoli. Of all things that men possess women alone take pleasure in being possessed.--Maltherbe. Woman is a reed which bends to every breeze but breaks not in the tempest.—Hhately. The reason why so few women are touched by friendship i s that they find it dull when they have experienced love —La Rocheioueauld. : I never yet knew « tolerable woman to be fond of her own sex.—Swift. Even if women were immortal thev could never foresee their last lover.-J-Mnon de L\Enelos. j One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves.-Roeh 'pedre. '°'" an is the Sundav of man.— Miclrclet. The castle that parleys and the woman who listens are ready to surrender.—Proverb. Women driss less to be clothed than to be adomed. When alone before their mirrors tlVy think more of men than of themselves.—Rochebrune. Women are compounds of plain sew>ng. and make-believe daughters wf, Sham and Hem.—Sheldosi. | Constancy is the chimera of "love.— Vanvenarges. To marry is to domesticate the Recording' Angel.—Stevenson. Bachelors are providential bring*. (Jod created them for the consolation of widow* and the hope oi maidis.—]).Finod. Tli!' heart of a woman never grows old; when it has ceased to low it Jia« | ceased to live.—Rochepedre. I It is easier for a woman to defend [ her virtue against uieu thau hvr reputa- | tion against women.—Rochebninv. | Man argues woman may not be trust»ed too far: woman feels that man may I not be trusted too near.—Urowne. , M omen made lis Juae Paradise, but , how fr<'(|uently we find it again in their ;arm<. —De Finod. All women are fond of mind* that inhabit fine bodies and of souls that have fine eve.s.—.Joubert. Some women are jint ami discerning that they never see an opportunity for being generous.—Anon. Refore promising a woman to love only her. one should have seen thein all or should *ee only 'her.—Dupuy. f Jn condemning woman's vanity, mm ' complain of the fire they themselves | have kindled.—Lingree. Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which to admire we should "not understand. —-Congrcve. Men never are consoled lor their first love, nor women for their last. —Weiss. A secret passion defends the heart of woman butter than lier moral aense.— De I*i Bretonne. Some men are different. All women are alike. A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sing* at night when htt is afraid.—Rousseau. The virtue of women is often the lore of reputation and quiet—Rochefoucauld, Woman's natural mission is to lovi\ to love but one, to love always.— lliehelet. Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume only in the shade.—-De Lammenais. Heaven has refused genius to woman in order to concentrate all the fire ill Irer heart—Rivarot. In wishing to rule lier empire -woman iestrovs it—Canabis. Women are at ease in perfidy as serjents are ill bushes—Feuillet._ Women, asses, and nuts require strong rands.—Spanish Proverb.

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