FROM THE MAGAZINES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 251, 19 October 1912, Page 14

FROM THE MAGAZINES.

THE TOP OF LIFBJ In the July "CorBhill" Win 'f throp Young describes & new . ' ?* the northern face of the thus describes the sensation orT* on attaining the summit:— T tnu »|l "In a few moments we • ''M Kγ pinnacle itself, spear-nniJr j" 1 * frosted with ostrich-puTmes 2*' S noblest of mountain pvranuda r* , * toy its th ree w/tVicTSH nd R es into a perpetual wind ".It was past twelve o'clock V, been some soven hour s on the »£\ * the iace, and 12 hours from ft * with practically no halt. • S: the air and the effort of act like wine on the brain is an impossibility so lon* V» Rn ls* remains to be overcome 3 Tw t action on the summit i 3 i^*** whole thought goes out in on.Z', •■' feel*.* of rest. It is the most i°&» physK-al sensations. The S past effort, the prospect of fi'f' come, even fatigue itself— all in a surge of well-being, of puS realisation. '"f.W' "■Nerve and fibre and thought,,. „ at rest and in harmony, and th consequently are exceptionally JjS> ble to external impression of £3?' This sensitiveness gives iti value to the plory of th e .WnW™« from a summit. But the realisation has to b e fiHei tion. Some mortals go'tb tfwn fortahly on s summit, for «Jl'tk, !S" This is wasteful of great njomeij. prefer to eat, which is eeMjjtf; u~fpros.aic. And some just and let the luxury of seiilitwi sight pour in iincatalogued-'ini m, afterwards remembered p.g cloud of one lost hour's delightful aS? ■■ ence."

.-- . A LIXK WTTE THE PAST, The connecting link between th* at and the present, between the udjett East and the modern West worth Huntingdon, PIi.JX, F.IUJ&i, "Harper's Monthly") is found in tie to trees of California, .the huge: .iJw known as "Sequoia gigantea.": Etbtob has heard of this tree's vaet-liaAitl great age. The trunk of a specimen has a diameter of 25 pr SO'to which is equal to the width ofan.eria. ary house. Such a tree often ttratnJOo feet, or six times as high as a laifgiili and within 25 feet of the top the tank is still 10 or 12 feet in thicfaw&JS: Three thousand fence posts, ;6ilSe!ftt to support a wire fence, aroiihd'dgkt or nine thousand acres, have beeniMt from one of these giants, and that wu only the first step towards using jti huge carcase. Six hundred »'nd' Jiff thousand shingles, enough to coverm roofs of 70 or SO houses, formed tit second item of its product. Finally tare remained, hundreds of cords of firnrotf "which tkd one could use because of t}> prohibitive expense of hauling the tml out of the mountains. M The upper third of the trunk initl the branches Ke on the l ground tAb* they fell, not visibly rotting, for tkt wood is wonderfully enduring, Hint simply waiting till some foolish eilfo shall light a devastating fire. Hogtii the sequoias are, their size i» eciwlj so wonderful as their age. A tr*j tbt has lived 500 years is still ip-iteeirlj youth; one that has roundrf »V v thousand summers and wintSerj is oj)j in full maturity; and old age, the tkttt score years and ten of the sequoiae t do« not come for seventeen or eighteen Kituries. How old the oldest trees inij be is not yet certain, but I haveiwMinW the rings of 40 that were over Jβ years of age, of three that 'wire: ora 3,000, and one that was 3jls6i ' In tta days of the Trojan War and of Hβ exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt M oldest tree was a sturdy sapling.

VOTES FOR WOMEN. "An Old-Faehioned Person" , .w>>>W * "The Question of the Vote" in the Jolj number of "The Girl's Own Piper W Woman's Magazine." Sho sa)-e:--''lifjj! mind the great barrier to women in p«w tics is the natural physical one. Th«< are so many times when home J3 the onlj proper place for a woman. This fact 11; inexorable. It seem 3to mc thattheow! proper time for women to mix With fflfl at the polls is after she is fifty: ?e»t»:» age. I do not say this flippantly. JJ* lieve it. I think that sex is theVrell o» rier to women's rights. j^ "I am convinced that the whole :•«<** of woman's clamouring for lies in the puree. It is said that the Id" of money is the root of all evil. -B**' no doubting the fact that womliia t» rest, her discontent, her desire to gH"?* business and politics arise directly "J* her senee of injustice over money.** want to give women 'what money m need'—they propose to he judges and women, year by year,-., have; PjF more weary of it, more desirous of ««• ing things more equitably arranged. ■ "Now, on this one point Iw> .•i"r fragist. If by voting we could ««" this unlovely dispute, remove frOS;.*' men's lives this cloud o|f unh»pp»?*J would say let us vote. But IcaMoM" how suffrage would make this Wr" any better. If thfc law should W#M certain percentage of a ms , n '* i ' e^JL e the just portion for a woman s ac his partner in life, there jrould ««; be room for dispute. She might spena », foolishly, and have to fall ha< *.°. n ,!", for a further portion, or ehe miff" W up a continual fussing over tiem quacy of the amount; it would, «*«• itseJf alter all into a domestic prow to be worked out according : 4 ° •*?*-•. mon-sense of the parties „. "So long as marriage remains .an-w tution, so long as men and t w together with the idea of each other for ft lifetime, these qu*« of domestic equity will come will have to be settled °7' toe fjft themselves. No law can Sentiment and custom can .c ß&nge. changing, but ithe actual ™™Z° n J7 M man in the married state, if she* W* according to Nature, will re ?*!"l dj the saint There is that story of life and love wluc> <*na°t changed, and which, after all, d 0 want changed when it comes For this reason, I think roost ■ .* would vote with their all unmarried women would.-low-V, their sweetaeaxte-I never caw » who wouldn't change her politics to *-«»*•#**& bility of the history of *»"•" S 1 ftf make. -n. feel W little would actually bring, and •»>>»£ q{ j doubt that much good WOUW I believe there is no m*™ J* force than the idea that very next year or the y™J**f%£* ing to be a change, and that m a what offers at present IM* * 9lm 5 },■ ing. ,, f-