The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon

The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon

Helen Rowland

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An advice classic from 1913 that explains to young women everything they need to know about men - in a cheeky, irreverent, devil-may-care style. The book is 120 pages of wry and pithy sayings by a woman who understands men. Each page will make women smile and fill men with chagrin. This is the way the game was played 100 years ago, ladies - with perhaps more success than any have had recently. Read The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon and learn the ancient wisdom about husbands, flirts, damsels, bachelors, and sirens - and how the seven-hundredth wife triumphs over them all.

GREETING

Hearken, my Daughter, and give ear unto my wisdom, that thou mayest understand man-his goings and his comings, his stayings out and his return in the morning, his words of honey and his ways of guile.

Beloved, question me not, whence I have learned of man, his secrets. Have I not known one man well? And verily, a woman need know but one man, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

For men are of but one pattern, whereof thou needest but to discover the secret combination; but women are as the Yale lock-no two of them are alike.

Lo! What a paradox is man-even a puzzle which worketh backward!

He mistaketh a sweet scent for a sweet disposition, and a subtile sachet for a subtile mind.

He voweth, "I admire a discreet woman!"-and inviteth the froward blonde of the chorus to supper.

12 He muttereth unto his wife, "Lo! I will go unto the corner for a cigar"-and behold, he wandereth unto many corners and returneth by a circular route.

He kisseth the woman whom he loveth not, and avoideth her whom he loveth, lest his heart become entangled. Yea, he seeketh always the wrong woman that he may forget his heart's desire.

Yet, whichever he weddeth, he regretteth it all the days of his life.

SELAH.

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