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Woman's Dearest Attribute

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
August
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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A party of club men were sitting in the soft twilight of the smoking room at the Pendennis club the other evening. They were chatting, between the puffs of their cigars, in that indolent, easy going manner that distinguishes every one who can say proudly, "I have dined today." The talk drifted along to the subject of womea "I have often wondered," said one man about town, "what is really the dearest attribute to man of the modern woman." "Why didn't you turn your wonder to the question of a future existence?" said the cynical member of the symposium; "it is much the easier subject. Fórmy part, I have always held the answer to be - Her passion for dress." Then the company proceeded to, gye its opinie iadmdually. The ans.Wërs carné" rapidly, "Her tbirsfrot ■tement," "Her vanity," and many atributes of women were given as bejög dearest to man's purse, until the supply really seemed exhausted. There was a pause in the conversatipn, broken at length by the voice ' i a married man, a great observer, ,nd an unfrequent conversationist. "I venture to say," said he in a leisurely tone, "that I can name something about wpman that costs man dearer than anythmg'yet mentioned." "Impossible," said the crowd. "Will you bet- a dinner?" "Yes. Now display your rashness. What is the dearest attribute of woman in your deluded opinión?"' "Her tears."

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