POPULARITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 8

POPULARITY.

Porlmps there are few who have not at some time or another looked upon popularity as a most desirable attainment. Yet among the many futile desires of humanity possibly none is less worth striving "or. "Not only is it most elusive, but more tickle than the moon, and those who to-day are cheered to the echo may be trampled oil to-morrow. Men have been known almost to perjure themselves in order to be popular, though the object of their desire had no 'more substance than a soap bubble. Lured by the iridescence, thev follow in the hope of grasping what is essentially so fragile that a mere breath will annihilate it. In truth, popularity is but a travesty of that most precious reward—a good name, which is all the more enviable in that it cannot be obtained except by solid worth and consistent greatness of heart and mind. To be thus enshrined in the memory of men is a prize as much worth winning as mere popularity is to be despised. —L.C. °