MODERN MAXIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 15

MODERN MAXIMS.

ENTERTAINING 31ORAXISINGS.

To reason is man's prerogative: woman's prerogative Is to vanauiish man and reason. Wnen people insist npon the right to work they generally mean the right to be paid for doing as they please. "Always regard yourself as the background—not as the 'star.' That is the practical way of seeing ourselves as others see us." It Is a great mistake to think that egotism always bores. Everyone would be interesting if he were egotistic In the right place. Terminology sometimes dignifies with a splendid title adventures which comparison would reduce to the level of a street scuffle. A man's mind Is singularly transparent in its workings when he is attempting to deceive; at otiier times te is harder to understand than a woman. The man in whom this rule is reversed is a diplomatist; the fact of being an exception Is counted to ihim (for cleverness.—"Westminster Gazette."