Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 699, 27 October 1909, Page 7

Items of Interest.

Life's real heroes and heroines are those who bear their own burdens bravely, and give a helping hand to those around them.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

There are three kinds of people in the world—the wills, the won'ts, the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.

Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirits always sweet, and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability—that is an idea as noble as it is difficult.

There is a world of comfort in the thought that all clays are not alike. If to-day is a day of suffering- and discouragement, or of defeat and humiliation, to-morrow, or the next day, or the next, is aimost sure to suffer a skychange. The weather is bound to shift. It cannot rain always, any more 'han it can shine always. Think of that when you are under any manner of cloud. It is our forgetting it that makes these transitory clouds so much more saddening than they need to be.

Brooding over trouble is like surrounding oneself with a fog; it magnifies all objects seen through it. Occupation of the mind prevents this. Any hard work, manual work even, give." the mind other matters of concern, and also tires the body as to ensure sileep, There is a class of people who are comparitively valueless in the world because of a certain morbidness which they are pleased to call sensitiveness. In reality it is nothing of the sort. It is self-love —a refined variety of it, to be sure —-"but none the less it is the result of a selfishly objective state, in which they look in and not out, and down and not up, and fail to lend a hand —not even from any reaJ unwillingness, but because they are looking in, and do not see the opportunity.