The Man and His Two Sweethearts

A MIDDLE-AGED¹ MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two
women at the same time.  One of them was young, and the other
well advanced in years.  The elder woman, ashamed to be courted
by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer
visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs.  The
younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an
old man, was equally zealous² in removing every gray hair she
could find.  Thus it came to pass that between them both he very
soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. 


Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.