SAYINGS OF MRS SOLOMON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

SAYINGS OF MRS SOLOMON.

BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE SEVEN HUNDRETH WIFE

(Translated by Helen Rowland.) Peradrent-uro, -my daughter, a man shall come unto tliee, saying * Ileect not tho counsel of they mother, for site driveth. She hath known sorrow bccauso of one man mayhap lie hath turned her down —and behold! in her bitterness, she revileth all men. But I am not as others are !' ’ Hearken to him gently and secrete tliv smile; kiss him upon his ba.*J spot or in tho cleft of his chin and coo unto him softly, hut resetvu thine opinion. _ For, .verily, thy mother hath suffered of one man —even of him that .lath married her; which is the beginning of all suffering. But if any man hath turned her down, of him she thinketh with chastened tenderness. For was he not- a blessing in disguise , Yet marriage is a desirable thing and it hath its compensations. Tor she that doth not marry shnl nevei become a widow. Nay, she shall dwell in boarding house, and hoi sha.ll be made bitter with prunes and broad-pudding gossip. Her nieces shall call her “ohl maid,” and her nephews shall borrow her money. She shall go about alone and pay for her own theatre tickets, and. the other boarders shall pity her. let if .she be popular she shall be suspicious of the landlady and her reputation shall hang upon the gas biU. She shall bo invited to tho weddings of her most intimate friends, one a net then another, and shall bo made to listen while they discourse gushingly of their “Algernons.” s And it shall come to pass tha* m her second youth she shall pick Tip a broken stick and shall marry it guic - ly even though it resemble the ourangoutang. Yea, she shall snatch a babe from tho candle and bear him unwillingly to the altar. _ . . For, verily ,marriage is but tne least of two evils; and a little husband is more to he desired than great freedom. Selak 1