LOVE AND OTHER NONSENSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2431, 20 February 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

LOVE AND OTHER NONSENSE.

(From “Belinda’s Year Book.”)

To love a good woman is a liberal education; a commercial education is to love -a lady of fashion. “A girl who is satisfied with her wardrobe can bear many privations.

“Love is ail exquisite flower; but, if we would pluck it, we must be brave enough to seek it where it grows—on the edge of an awful precipice. “The most beautiful nose in' the world may be unsympathetic. At all events it is not sufficient company and interest at the breakfast table.

“The best compliment a man can pay a girl is to ask her not to marry him.

“A girl always wants to be first in a man’s life, but a woman of the world prefers to be last. It is certainly safer.

“Wo often marry the man wo understand less than anyone else in the world. Mystery is so very attractive. “A man is perfectly capable of making a sacrifice for a woman in the heat of emotion, but there, -are nine chances to one that he never forgives her for it afterwards. “Men would very rarely feel flattered if they knew the truth. That is why really good, kind women trv their best to keep it from them. “They say a watched pot- never boils, but a, watched husband does- — pretty quick. “A woman, can stamp her foot at a. man and love him simultaneously. “Men . . - after considering a woman for months, invariably decide that they loved her at first- sight. “A. woman cannot crystallise a man who is merely a copy of another; and a man’s most dangerous rival is the man who is least like him. “Even if a man is delightful, no woman would marry him if she. knew what he was like. No, I am sure it is so. Our motto is, ‘I don't know so I want.’ But the motto of a man is: ‘I know; give it mo.’ “There are two things which every man or woman believes about himself or herself —namely, that he or she has a strong sense of humor, anil is a small oa-ter. Most .people arc convinced that they are poor sleepers as well, but this is not quite so universal an article of belief as the other two.