Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 137, 16 April 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

That “ half the world does not know how the other half lives ’* our has long passed into a parts proverb, but the fact was letter, brought more strongly home to us the other day on receipt of a printed communiea* tion, asking us to purchase a periodica} letter, “made in Paris.” How on earth the writei makes the thing pay at the ridiculously low figure quoted, it is hard to say. Probaoly this cheapness induces purchase by .country, newspapers unprovided with a literary staff, and to whom the “sweating” of a literary hack has no terrors. It fills up a column or two, and there is always the chance of something spicy to egg on the reader to whom the heading conveys only a dim idea o£ : .Zola at his worst. That several score of papers publish the same thing, evidently matters not. The beading conveys the idea that the circulation of the “ Wayback Worrier” is so greas in the capital of France that it must needs though unwillingly devote some space to that city’s wants and happenings. AH of which is amusing —very. We have no circulation worth, mentioning in Paris, and our readers, in Waimate County are little interested in brawls in the Latin Quartier, or the' occurrence of a dreadful fire in which no one was hurt and one small building burnt, but during which a woman jumped out of an upstairs window in a state of great excitement—and little else. These things do not appeal to them, and besides, this is a paper read by-young and old wherever circulating, and if we cannot uplift the moral standard of xhe, .community we certainly will not intentionally lower it. Under all these circumstances we gently but firmly declined to trade.

In all »climates and communities the .question of marrying marriage, and giving in marriage’ .occupies a great deal of theaverage man and woman's (time in one way or another. Some there are who think there is -Sure to be a. ecarcity pf members i>f the opposite; sox, and naake a grab at the first one they meet, and live unhappy ever aftervrirda. Some there.are who meet their tudn soul jjust about the time they are ready and able to bear the cost c| the'lswd opal’s keep. Others, again, Kehwpiog an eagle eye-on ait and, Jisk . i > ' ** y * Jt "' t if r v i 'V'-V* t* T **i *VV ' r .

4» so far cesultlesa. Such an one is indiylfeual who, under the heading cf* .♦• the Girl I Fancy," and signing bm self “An Insignificant Man,” writt Hhoaty in the Dally Express i—“ lam a, bachelor, not from choice, but from necessity. I seek, I have sought, diligently, but hitherto I have failed to discover that not impossible she,the girl nf my dreams, my souls complement, the affinity that I am convinced awaits me in some corner of this mundane world. I know so well what I don’t want. I don’t want the too attractive girl, the girl who is always surrounded by a jabbering crowd, the girl who considers that all’s fish that *oomes to her net, the girl who only wants to be off with the old love that -she may he on with the new, the girl ■who welcomes every chance newcomer. No, she is not the girl for me. I don’t want the fashionable girl, the girl who da a slave to every .hair-dressing caprice ■of the hour, the girl of cheap finery and worn boots, the girl of ribbons ■and fal lals to catch the casual eye. That’s the girl who will fritter away your money and fail to provide the Sunday dinner. That’s not the girl for me. I don’t want the sharp girl, the girl who has a retort discourteous for .ever on the tip of her tongue, the girl with the fatal gift of ready repartee. Such a girl is apt to “ nag ” later in life. That is not the sort of girl ; of which wives are made ; at any rate, it's not -the sort for me. I want, oh, so little. % want a low-tongued, soft-voiced woman. She may not be beautiful in -any other eyes but mine, but to mo she raliall be the fairest of beauty’s .daughters. I want a practical mind. I want a sympathetic heart. The girl •who will meet you on the doorstep with a smile when your day’s work is over, the girl who cooks as well as her another, the girl who will exercise -economy with discretion, who will not feed you on the fat of the land one week and starve you the next, the girl who is content with her modest home .and her husband’s modest income, who .does not wish to emulate her richer •neighbours, and who can wear a last -year’s gown made ‘ over.' The girl who will enter into your interests, who -will make your ambitions her own. The girl with the merry heart that goes ‘ all the way. J That’s the girl that’s -worth an honest man’s hvo. That’s ■Abe girl that most men want. That’s ■the girl for me,” This wishful bachelor tbas evidently never been in the Wai£nate district.