THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

; PHYSICAL CULTURE FOB WOMEN. | To women, then, sane physical culture ; on reasonably light lines brings the great escape from weariness and that seediniess i which is almost worse than positive illi ness. Ten or fifteen minutes a day do , the trick, so long as perseverance is not ; defeated by monotony. This sort of i daily exercise is no magic potion 'to j cure all ills with one dose. . To get the i best result you must persevere even when the daily movements become a perfectly dreadful bore. That may seem a counsel of perfection. But it is a small price to pay.—' 1 Daily News." ' j WATCHWORD OF EMPIRE. ; The King is not merely the represens tative of the most ancient dynasty in. the world, which traces its descent back i through 44 generations, to ths,,Apglo- ■ Saxon twilight. He is also .the living . j bond of union between the Dominions scattered oversea and the Mother County- And thus,, with no perfunctory spirit, liis loyal subjects will day the. wish "God save the King," which is the watchword of a world-wide Empire.—"Daily Mail." ' (THE "DISASTROUS WOMAN COMPETITOR."

j The prospect ahead of the' aVer&go : male—for the rarely gifted in whatever j way will always get to the top and be safe—suggests a grim problem, of which some solution might be found in the comic papers were it not that wbm&i's increasing avoidance of marriage Will leave men fewer and fewer homes in which to do domestic duty, as a -last resource. And what is utterly baffling about it all is that there is no avoiding the disastrous woman competitor, the justice of whose claim to equal rights has been fully conceded and, as far as to-day's foresight may be credited, .can never again be denied.—'' Daily Telegraph. " ' i ' ' HAMPSTEAD HEATH CIVILISE!}. '

You can spend the afternoon on Hampstead Heath without receiving a single discharge from a collapsible tube of scent or having a "tiddler"'applied to the back of your neck. A firm, but gentle police force has taught'us that to frolic too openly is to use insulting behaviour calculated to provoke a breatclj of the peace, and the result is that thfesf things are not done nowadays.— '* Evening News" (London). ;

COMPLEXITY OF FEDERAL POLITICS;

As far as one party ?s aoncerned<we now know exactly where we .. staod. ; Labour offers us a good Protectionist Tariff and the Initiative Referendum • but it will not abate the party game, it will not take steps to make Parliament either a workable or a representative? institution, and it will not stop th§ prgy of expenditure on defence. Its impossible schemes of nationalising distribution are not worth talking about '.-because they are not "within the region of. practical politics, and are forbidden by the Constitution. It remains for all sensible people to await the rival programme before deciding how to east their votes. What has the Cook nartv tn propose t —'' Age."