A WOMAN'S OPINION OF MEN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1332, 25 April 1885, Page 3

A WOMAN'S OPINION OF MEN.

At a literary meeting Mrs Duniway "toasted the men "as follows :—" Bless 'em. We halve their ioys, double their sorrows, treble their expense, quadruple their cares, excite their affections, control their property, and out-manoeuvre them in everything. This would be a dreary world without them. In fact, I may say without 'em it would not be much of a world, anyhow. We love 'em, and the precious fellows don't know it. As husbands they are always convenient though always on hand ; as beaux they are by no means matchless. They are the most agreeable visitors ; they are handy at bazaars, and indespensible at balls. They are splendid as escorts for some other fellow's sister, and as friends they are better than women. As our fathers they are inexpressibly grand. A man may be a failure in buisness, a wreck in constitution, not enough to boast of as a beauty, nothing as a legislator for woman's rights, and not even very brilliant as a member of the Press, but if he is our own father we overlook his shortcomings and cover his peccadilloes with the divine mantle of charity. Then, as our husbands, how we long to parade them as, paragons ! In the sublime language of the inspired poet: We'll sigh for them, We'll cry for them, And if we could we'd fly for them ; We'd do anything but die for them.'