Then Paul Hendrickson said-- "Few women can resist the attraction of gold.

Creatures of taste--lovers of the beautiful--fond of dress, equipage, elegance--I do not wonder that we who have little beyond ourselves to offer them, find simple manhood light in the balance." And he sighed heavily.
"It is because true men are not true to themselves and the true women Heaven wills to cross their paths in spring-time, that so many of them fail to secure the best for life-companions!" answered Mrs.
Denison.

"Worth is too retiring or too proud.

Either diffidence or self-esteem holds it back in shadow.

I confess myself to be sorely puzzled at times with the phenomenon.