Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-24
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being unsensrous even to book.
Z. B. Browning.


send me this book for Christmas
present.
Woman and The Wits" BY G. +.
Monkshood. Cloth "Kimono' edi.
ton, size 4hX9l2in. IA PIP. II
NJ. Caldwell Co, Boston. Price "a
cents.
A most valuable collection of "epi
grams on woman, love and beauty
edited by Mr.. MonkshOOd OF London.
There Is a frOntispieCe OF party OF
women at a dance, but as II Is untitled
IT. hasl no special significance. The
binding of the volume is new and TAX.
ing, the paper of good quality, but the
printing, due either to poor type or
bad ink, is not good.
As the selections are made with care
from the best authors, ancient and
modern, there will he some to suit
every class of readers. One Is apt TO
accept with some misgivings and
much scanning, any book of quota
tons upon such subjects as woman,
love and beauty, but Mr.. Monkshood
has shown good taste and quite com
mCndable refinement in his compila.
ton, and although the epigrams are
not all in praise OF womans or her
attributes, none are coarse or unSind.
MIR. MCadUr, VINO edited "Rellcc-
TONS" Tor instance, could never have
done this work satElaCt orily; like
many men he delights too much in his
fling at the sex, and would have spoil.
ed the book by having in il the unsea-
sOned grOwl of some mysogynist.
The author says In Woman and the
Wits ! have brought together some
OF the wiscst. witticst, and tenderest
Cpigrams. proverbs, aNiOms, adages or
short, Dithy seutCnCcs-Call them what
you withdrawing to the woman. and
also TO the passions, affections, senti'
ments, and emotions generally"
These are all that our space Will
allow:
Second thoughts are best. God
created man; woman was the aftar.
thought.
BE circumspect in your liasions with
women. Ii Is better to be seen at the
opera with this man than to be seen
at mass with that woman.-Mme. De
MaintenOn.
4 woman never commands q man,
unless he be a fool, but by her obedi,
Spy.
Before going to war say q prayer;
before going to sea say two prayers;
before marrying say three prayers.
Women are apt TO see chiefly tho
defects Of a man of talent, and the
merits of a fool.
or all men Adam was the happicst
he had no mother.in-law.-Pa
There are no women to whom vir.
tue comes easier than those who pos.
sess no attraCtions.-Junius.
Devotion Is the last love of women.
st. Evremond.
Who loves not women, wine and
song. remains Il fool his whole life
long-Martin Luther.
In love only the awkward are pun.
iehed-like the Spartan thieves.
The heart of loving woman is
golden sanctuary, where often there
reigns an idol of clay.
a woman who Is guided by the head.
and not by the heart, is a social pesti.
lenCe. BalZaC.
II Is easier to take care OF a peck
of ileas than Of one woman.-Anon.
| don't want a woman to weigh me
in q balance; there are enough men
for that sort of work.-Holmes.
Love thy wife as thy soul; shake
her as plum tree.-Russian Proverb.
The most dreadful thing against
women Is the character of the men
who praise them.-Anon.
Trust a poor woman to dress her
children in finery.-Mitchell.
A light wife doth make q heavy
Observation-Disclosures.
Woman has the same desires as man
but does not have the same right to
express them.-Rousseau.
A woman's love is often a misfor.
tune: the friendship is always boon.
-MeZieres.
The best woman is the one least
talked about.-Schiller.
All women are good-good for moth.
ing. or good for something.-Cervan-
ties.
The most reasonable women have
hours wherein to be unreasonable
Cherbuliez.
A woman Of sense ought to be above
Hattcring a man.-liOlmes.
God bless all good women! To their
sou nhnuS ana pltylns hearts we must
all come at last.-Holmes.
Most women are better out Of their
houses than in them.-Tacitus.
The woman we love the most is often
the woman to whom we express 1t the
least.--De BeauChene.
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