SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2389, 2 January 1909, Page 10 (Supplement)

SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.

BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE SEVEN HUNDREDTH. WIFE.

(Translated by Helen Rowland.) Verily, my daughter, three things •a man jiatetli—even these three: 1. A bouse in Avhich the furniture is too fine to he sat upon and tho chairs too good to hold bis feet. 2. A woman avlio attempteth to convince him. that he is wrong-—and succeedeth in doing it. 3. To be found out. Yea, and a fourth-and a fifth he despisetli: _for a weeping woman is unto hei‘ (husband as a spigot that leaketh and, maketh a distracting iioise; even as a sponge that scratch-, etli or a collar Avith a raw edge is she -unto him. • . . But a lady conversationalist is as a fire that sputteretli and lie •flceth in terror before the sparks of her Ayit. She striketh him dumb—-but not with adniiraton. For in conversation, as in .life, a man wanteth only an audience, and hankeretli for his oivn move as in a game of checkers. Verily, slio who had studied tho ologics and discourseth thereon is a foolish child beside her who -asketh a man questions concerning himself. For a man that talketh of books aifr politics and new thought wearioth withal;.but a man that talketh of himself never tiretli. Yea, my daughter, there, are but two Avays round a man: one leadeth through his vanity and the : other through his fear. For while a woman tmay bully her Avay over him, she -can smile her way straight through ihim.