Tit-Bits.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1212, 17 December 1919, Page 7

Tit-Bits.

IN VERSE AND PROSE

Mh! laugh and be glad. For life's but a joke; Kind tlio ribs of the world And just land them a poke: The rikios may be dark. * Or sunshiny and blue. Hut the hue of the .skies Mustn't matter t» you. The easiest and-beat way i<> expand the chest is to have a large heart in it. Success (hint konsist in never makin' blunders, but in never inakin' the same nne twiet.—Josh Billfngs. + + Talk happiness. The world is 'sad enough without your woe, Joy is the vital air of the'-soul. — ■*.\niiei"s Journal.' Don't toll your troubles to others : lliev are looking- for an opportunity I" tell'theirs to .you.—George Eliot. + + The worst lesson that ean be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his' sufferings.— Theodore ltoosev.lt. No man's a failure until he's dead, or loses his eoursfje., and that's the same tiling.— G. H. Larimer. li' I can put one touch of a rosy sunset* into Hit: lite of any man or woman 1 shall feel thai I .have worked with God.—George Maedonakl. imn't carry your wishbone where your backhone ought to be.—Josh Biliings. + + There are four things which cojne not back:

Tlic spoken word, ':■■:', The sped arrow. The past life, and The neglected opportunity. —Arabian Proverb. . Tlllv S*ILYKR LINING. The inner half of every. cloudy Is. bright and shining: I iWvefure turn my douds> about, And always wear them inside old Ti.i show Uirt lining. —Ellen Thorneycrol'l. fiWl>!i\ + + Nothing so needs reforming as other IxWtpie's iialiils.—Mark Twain. + + No guoil Ihing is faituiT,*aiid no evil thing success.