A GOOD TEST.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 391, 16 September 1874, Page 6

A GOOD TEST.

We think the umbrella can be taken ,as ,a, veiy good test of a person's character. The man who always takes an. umbrella out with him is a cautious fellow who abstains from all speculation, and is pretty sure to die rich. Th© man who is always ■ leaving his ■umbrella behind him is one genei-ally .^ho makes no provision for the morrow, He is reckless, thoughtless, always late for the train, leaves the street door open when he goes home late at night, and absent to such a degree as to speak ill of a baby iv the presence of its mamma. The man who is always losing his umbrella is an unlucky dog, whose bills are always protested, whose boots split, whose gloves crack, whose buttens are always coming off, whose "change" is sure to have some bad money in. it. Be, cautious how you lend LIOO to such a man ! The nian< who is perpetually expressing a nervoiss anxiety about his umbrella, and wondering if it is safe, is full , of meanness and low suspicion. „Jjet him be ever so rich, give^not .your daughter to him ; he will undoubtedly take more care of his urabretla than of his wife. The man with a cottsn umbrejla is either a philosopher' or an economist ; he defies the world and all its fashionable prejudices, or else he does it because it is cheaper to lose than a silk one. The man who goes to a horticultural Jete without an umbrella is simply a goose, who richly deserves the ducking he gets. These aTe r s,eritiment's worthy of a Sangster.