A WOMAN'S OPINION OF MEN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4995, 15 January 1885, Page 2

A WOMAN'S OPINION OF MEN.

At a literary meeting Mrs D.uniway ".*' " toasted the men as follows : " Bless 'em. We hajver their joys, double their sorrows, treble their expense, quadruple their cares, 4 excite their affections, control their/ property, and out manoeuvre them in everything. Tbis would be a dreary world with- i out them. In fact; I may say without 'em it would not be much of a .world; ni anyhow. We love 'em, and the pre* -** cious 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 indispensible 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 business, a wreck in constitution, not enough to boast of as a beauty, nothing as a legislator for woman's rights*' and not even very briUiant 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 bat die for them."