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Title: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

Author: Helen Rowland

Illustrator: Henry S. Eddy

Release Date: March 19, 2010 [EBook #31700]

Language: English

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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL

THE average man looks on matrimony as a hitching post where he can tie a
woman and leave her until he comes home nights.

STRANGE, how joyfully a man will pay a lawyer five hundred dollars for
untying the knot that he begrudged paying a clergyman fifty dollars for
tying.

REFLECTIONS _of_ A BACHELOR GIRL

_By_ HELEN ROWLAND

_Decorated by_ HENRY S. EDDY

"Just once more" is the Devil's best argument.

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
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[Illustration]

Copyright, 1909, by
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY

[Reflections of a Bachelor Girl]

A MAN buttons a woman's dress up the back with almost the same grace and
alacrity that a woman displays in climbing a barbed wire fence.

[Illustration]

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL

"JUST once more" is the Devil's best argument.

VARIETY is the spice of love.

THE only people who believe in a personal devil, nowadays, are the ones
who are married to that kind.

THE girl who marries for money is bought; but the girl who marries for
love is sold.

A WISE lover, like a good cook, is one who knows when the fire is out.

ALIMONY is the price of peace.

IN marriage, the love-light so often goes out as soon as the gas bills
begin to come in.

[Illustration]

THE only way to be happy with a husband is to learn to be happy without
him most of the time.

LOVE is just the shine on the jewel of matrimony; but, after all, the
shine on a jewel is the whole thing.

A MAN firmly believes that, if he can only keep his wife in the straight
and narrow path, he can go out and zig-zag all over the downward one
without falling from gra