FROM THE MAGAZINES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 14

FROM THE MAGAZINES.

■ '•-■ LONDON TOWS. - "",'[% Oh, London Town's a firm *™L" "" - •*? don sights are tolra - •M-on. And London ale Is r i~ht «i_ the London aW * M **«• "« briat, i And busily goes the world tier. h«7 I grows the mind. tner «- b ». «lfty I And London town of all ..--•' I to leave behind. *- M ?g-'fo& I Then hey for croft and _o_.»« : v -' '7 and field, and pond. >WW ' a M MU, . With Bredou Hill fopfni »,_ ?■■■/• _ HIU beyond ***• mc "4 Malver. The hawthorn white i' the __-«.''''-'■' all the spring's attire Ma * et< > w ' <">_ Iv the comely land of Teme «,* r ""'' ! Clen, ana Clee. anTw^J-** ngs ' 'M \ Oh, London girls are brava *rlrt." . --4 : and cloth o' gold " raT, .«m», in sPJj : And London shops are ran. ____."' "*■ gallant things are aouF ""W' w het, And bonnily clinks the gold «... V- ; n ■ drowsily blinks t_eeye° tte ' b '" And London town of ill Sm. t, **'""' to hurry by. W - "" Pm ,glaa ; Then hey for covert and wooffland. aia iii' and elm and oak. *""' 1 a sh Tewkesbury inus, and MalvOTn »-„ : " r -*V Worcester chimney-s^bf 1 Ma£s V& , Th %n P t P he e " t b r yrl. lQ <*«»*• *■" «•««-.. ' And all the land from Lndlow t n ».- 7„ Bredon church's. splreT' *?. Oh, London tunes are new *xm_,'and London books are wise. ;, ■-.."■ And London plays are rare jOays, aid fine to country eyes, c But crafty fares the knave' there, "and wickedly fares the Jew. ': / ... ' And London town of all towns I'm tlnd! ; to hurry through. ' ;"*.".■; So hey for the road, the west road, by mill and forge and fold. . '._„ '< Scent of the feru and song of the lark by brook, and field, and woldi " • To the comely folk at the-hearthstone and ; the talk beside the toe. -...-- -J •In the hearty larnl, where I was bred, my' I land of heart's desire. . .

| —John Masefielcl, in 'the "Living Age." 1 INDIFFERENCE TO DANGER. '" ; If a Titanic sank every <week in tiii year the horror of even Bo terrible an .event would shortly lose its, force, save 'only for immediate relatrvcs andfrieii_y i What happens constantly ,we grow to regard as more or less • merita-We. '; Scarcely a day -paeses w'rtboutmotor vcihicles killing one or more person. in each of our large .cities.- The-.small lsf«ce devoted to rtbepe in daily papers merely reflects the apathy I which prevails tanjiong their .readers' Will en tbe first few awmen, lost their j lives, whether here or abroad,, columns 1 were devoted to. each event, wrth fall I description of the struggle'in tfie ait and minutest details of whatVfollpwei i V.our evening paper to-nigltt niay devote ■ pevli.iTs four or five lines to record the ! dearh of one or two aviation corps oft Jeers. The locai press will devote' space Ito the accident, but only because.it sfas j strictly h-ome news. This conupbrant or a.t least indifferent view of what par-sirs as inevitable goes on for a' liniel until conditions become so' bail "that somebody wakes up and calls on everjr body to stop and view the awful 'wreck" Then trliere rs a. chance to improve or remedy things.—H. H. "Windsor, in tie December ''Popular Mechanics Magizine." , , ~ , r' ' ,' ;: ■ ---•>•' "" "■' •■''■'"-•'•■*.; ■: . j'i)

the' plain%6_t_jf.; '..'"'; ■There is reallyjojneed for' even the plainest .of.plain. tq v ,he despondent about her There !| in fact., abundant'..hope for'herjii iht realm of things beautiful and^i^fira: •if she'only knew it, and I.do";not,fi»U«e to say that tbe .plainest wom'in liyttj to-day can', by follbmng'the '!a«s'-Sf health and "hygiene, and %. &Tseft'S| a few simple find regular''".bilef : -rn!S, render herself charming.. attractive"-M pleasant to ]ook upon... '."'•'.- •. "ThlM are few women, indeed,' who-are' witlwiil -rit "cast one good point. It mats •beautiful, white gleaming,and pearly. Or, perhaips it-is a wen'tli .of glorious ktir.'ibfig-t.and'-buril.-!^' •like deep gold or copper,, or- poesiblt an abundance of-that misty.-brown-"iiu I that has lurking in its -cloudy".meslW tout varying tints, or "again rtrmayr"* those rare and beitriif-l ravens black trei—rs. -'-'hadowy, dusky, and dark* night. But whatever good-*wintppr«; have, cultivate it for all yon are worJi play vrp to it, acceniuate.it.-. v--Plain women are- usually w<_cM» interesting, and withal .bo good-naW: that they can be qorte as attractive »ljdr lovable as the "beauty".; moreover, ttr-fr have never been spoiled by fl-ttery, and are therefore -less given, .to .;*)««? jealousies. Now,. »■ a]!' thm';M. couragement to you, ,my drar.« reader?—-Marie Blanche, in DeceaSi*' "Good Health." ... ■.-..-, , tf

A BERESFORD ESCAPADE. 7| j During a cruise in the. Pacific" \M \ Charles Beresford got .into % PW$ I scrape, of which he .writes m,™W 1 Magazine." "Before we quitted the Saur wich" Islands/ he says, "an -em | occurred (of which I was the humUe . and unwitting instrument) winch aokIT brought about what are called m., national complications,' .1; should * ;\ plain that feeling ran pretty JK r" jtween the English . ! in the. Sandwich Island .with regard J? the American Civil War, w*ucW« I waging. It was none of but we of the Clio-aose-toW#* I with the South. 'Now that tiW i unhappy differences ~ have - ■&*&£! r] long composed, there can, rbe no ism i in referring to them. But, it Wi** \ resentment against the North which* , spired my indiscretion-it wa3;tHe."i« ural desire to win a bet. . ; .. >•'?, '; "A certain lady-her name does. •» matter-bet mc. that I wotdd not** , down a steep pass in the MM* | which no horse had yet been took the bet and won it.- \ same fair lady bet ' ball-that I would not P^: **wa « American Flag. That emblem wJ«g in wood upon an escutcheon finm the entrance to the _«* en °* sulate. I took that bet, too, "Having induced two other •«_#£ men to come with _c, cover of night to the CQ*"hg| climbed upon the hacks ; of- "J -«J. iplices, leaped,up, caughV>ol4. ol X escutcheon" anil brought the whol• *j down upon us. Then we trophy on board in a shore **J$ tunatelv, the boatman it was," and basely <£&*»s Consul, who was natu ™"* fl ," !oB„ and who insisted that, the .flag ;be nailed up again in its M no intention of tamcting announce, had never considered how be the consequences of a My-sar . > My captain very rt^M had pulled down the u P a^ain,andsentnie.w.tha-up ; | carpenters on-shore. ' * ye , L nolir ,,tl insulted emblem of * ( | the deep delight-of *= The Olio put to-sea. we a wards that the i««"S| dispatched a couple capture mc. What a iO £VM men to refrain from * e * nn s» ■ «»■._ , • - . yl