Spare Moments.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2399, 9 September 1907, Page 6

Spare Moments.

THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL ATTRACTIONS. Gannie— ‘ He is a very grave und severe man, but still, I think he is quite attractive.’ Kitty—* Well, if he is, it’s the attraction of gravity.* A GIVE-AWAY ALL AROUND. ‘I think,’ she said as she came into tho room, * that I will give that poll parrot away/ • Yes,’ replied the young man who was calling. *lt would be only fair. She has been doing as much for you.’ I SHE WAS PARTICULAR. Carrie Constant— 1 So you’ve thrown your new admirer overboard ?* Gertie Gaygirl— * You bet; just as soonT learned he was a dairyman.’ * What had that to do with it ?’ •Considerable. I want a man who is a man. None of your milk-and-water chaps for me.*

ACT IN THE PRESENT. Don’t keep alabaster boxes of love and sympathy to break aver coffins. Living is none too sweet at best, and flowers on the coffin oast no backward fragrance. 4 What do the dead care for the tender token, Tho love the praise, the floral offerings ? But living, palpitating hearts are broken For want of just these things.’ THE COMING HEROINE. Mr. Jinks — 4 1 wish you wouldn’t allow our daughter to read those sentimental novels.’ Mrs. Jinks— 4 She isn't reading a sentimental novel. Tho heroine doesn't marry for love.’ 4 Well, the modern society novel in which the heroine marries fur money is just as bqd.’ ‘ She isn’t reading a society novel.’ 4 Then what is it ?’ 4 T t’s an advanced novel.’ 4 What’s that ?* 4 The heroine marries for a political pull. A CASE IN POINT. 4 Women are very suspicious creatures.’ * Well, no w, I think the contrary. In my opinion they are very confiding.’ 1 They are—over the left.’ 4 lt is a fact. There’s my wife, for Instance ; she’s a woman and she trusts mo. There’s my grocer, he’s a man, and he won’t.’ AN EVENTFUL DAY. 4 Well, well!’ exclaimed tho editor. l lf that wasn’t a queer experience !’ 4 What was that ?’ said tho foreman. ‘There was a man in here just now who didn’t seem to know any more about Low a newspaper should be run than I do/

APHORISMS. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. —Johnson. Children have more need of models than of critics.—Joubart. Method is tho very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.— Cecil. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.— Rousseau. It is with charity as with money—tho more we stand in need of it, the less wo have to give away.—Boveo. If people would only stop talking where they stop knowing, half the evils of life would come to an end.—Edward Everett Halo. Many, indeed, think of being happy with God in heaven, but the being happy in God on earth never enters into their thoughts.— John Wesley. Never hold anyone by tho button or the hand in order to be hoard out; for, if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.—Chesterfield. Free will is not the liberty to do whatever .one likes, but the power of doing whatever one fee? ought to be dono, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom ’indeed. —Geo. McDonald.