HOLE PREFERRED TO DARN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 272, 14 November 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOLE PREFERRED TO DARN.

Justice David J. Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, who has suggested what many regard as a good remedy for the lynching evil, lived In his childhood in : Asia. Minor, In the town of Symrna. , Justice Brewer sometimes recounts Interesting scraps of philosophy, of humour, ot , of epigram that he hard in Symrna when i boy. The other day, he said: "Adjib, a scribe of Symrna, once paused to speak to me on the highway. Adjib's robe was as white as snow, but there was a hole in it. "/'There is a little hole in your robe, AdJib.' I said. " 'I know it,' Adjib replied, j " 'If you know it, why don't you darn it?' I asked. , " 'For the sake of appearances,' AdJib , answered. 'A hole,' he went on, 'may. be j an accident of the most recent happening. A hole will pass upon a king, a noble or i the most rich and powerful person. But.; a darn is the sign of poverty. There Is no getting around it, no misunderstanding' it. I cannot afford to wear a darned robe.' "