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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 8

Tipping prevents one man'getting the service he pays for unless he yields up an unearned gratuity, and it makes an object of charity out of the man who accepts something his labours do not entitle him to The whole system is unmoral and belittling — "Post," Washington. b Champagne and port and all other wines are losing their grip in popular favour. The rush and crush of modern life has given us nerves. Bromides are more in our line. Even tho single whisky 'and soda is looked at askance.—"Town and Country." Now York. Women have more tact than nTon It amounts to a natural gift, like their intuition. They can manago to hurt, despiso even msult a man so nicely that he will almost feel obhgod to them!—"llustracion " Barcelona. < • . ' Wealth lessons rather than increases human happiness. Millionaires who langh are rare. The most miserable of men, as 'old ego, approaches, are those who have mado money-making their god.—Andrew Carnegie in "World's Work." • A few years ago the bogy of Socialism was npreared m London to scare investors as,regards Australian securities; but we find that at tho present in only one State—namely, South Australia—is tho Labour party in power,' and that State, by the nay, is enjoying unprecedented prosperity.—"British Australasian. The love of dolls is as old as the world; it is not only a maternal but a,dranatic yearning. Children live in thoir dolls; their fantasy plays around them; they aro perpetual comedy and tragedy, their imagination works through them, and takes the place of romance in older people's lives.—"Graphis,"