REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2455, 20 March 1909, Page 12 (Supplement)

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

(By Helen Rowland.) Once upon a time there lived a princess who Avas as good as she was beautiful —but pshaw! this doesn’t interest any man! When a man tells another something which isn’t so, it’s “a lie,” but Avhen lie tells the same thing to a ivoman, it’s just “policy.” Every man is enough of an optimist to look on tho bright side of his wife’s troubles the day after the cook leaves, but somehow his pessimism returns Avhen she suggests that he help wipe the dishes. If a man could remain as cool and unmoved in tho face of a woman's smiles as he does in tho face of her tears, we would all feel just like immortalizing him. Acute inflammation of the vanity is an affliction which makes a man suspicious that every Avoman he meets is in love with him and will pine aAvay if lie isn’t kind enough to flirt Avith her. A clever flirt is something like a sleight-of-hand performer —he makes you see a lot of things that aren’t there. Tho most pathetic thing about Faust is not the mad scene, but the mad gentleman in a drc-ss suit who sit 6 next his Avife listening to it—with Anna Held, or Salome, or the Parisian Daisies, only half a block away. One way to lose a lover is to marry him. . ~ ri