TIT-BITS.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 5, 7 January 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

Tho policy of right-doing cannot bo doubted; Every intelligent man find woman must see that In nearly overy instance it pays richly and fully for whatever labour or selfsacrifice it may involve, and in a few cases whore they cannot see this result most of them havo sufliciont faith in the law to trust it. Yot, if this bo tho only motive in action, it cannot be called rightdoing in the best sense. That which is done solely for the hope of gain or advantage cannot be of tho highest type. Greek law forbids women walking out excepting on certain festive occasions, but they went out all the same, and frequented the public gymnastic games, in which they were allowed to take a part, to render them stronger and healthy for the sake of thoir children. At home they span and wove in silk and golden threads. They also made and embroidered their own dresses, each one choosing a pattern to suit her own taste. This was until Asiatic luxury was introduced into Greece, when all the splendid materials of the East soon took the place of tho early simplicity of Grecian dress. Sloth and folly Shiver flnd Shrink at sJgfit of toil and hazard, And make the impossibility they fear. — Rowo. I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles, says Southey. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. An illustration of how far the mind can influence beauty may be seen in studying a clever actress's face. Some great actresses have been the reverso of beautiful, even in their youngest days ; yet not only did they seem beautiful on the stage as years grew on them, but they actually became beautiful by studying and playing beautiful parts. The great Bachel was one of these. When she began her artistic career she was ugly, a few years later she had grown beautiful Everything in life has a right and a wrong side. You may take any joy. and, by turning it round, find troubles on the other side; or you can find the greatest trouble, and, by turning it around, find joys on the other side. The gloomiest mountains never casts a shadow on both sides at once. If we would establish any real and enduring power over others, we must cultivate their trust in us. We must be so honest that they rely on our intregity, so sincere that they never doubt our truth, so just that they confide their interests in our hands, so truly kind and generous that they are sure we will do them good and not harm. It is power such as this that enables us really to help or to benefit our fellowmen. Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakest of the cause that is defended by them, or of the ' man that defends it. — Chillingworth. True courtesy is kind. It exhibits itself in the disposition to contribute to the happiness of others. The best reward for having wrought well already is to have more to do — Charles Kingsley. Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress, and shows in the character of Camilla, who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. — Addison. Alas ! if my best friend, who laid down his life for me, were to remember all the instances m which I have neglected him. and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide the guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such. — Cowper. A story was told the other day of a little girl who discovered a cobweb, and then seeing a spider emerge from it called out — "See the cob run ! How fast the cob runs !" As a matter of fact, she builded better than she knew, for cob, or cop, is, according to the dictionaries, the name sometimes given to a spider; whence the word cobweb, which is, strictly speaking, copweb. Cop, in this sense, is probably an abbreviation of the Anglo-Saxon attercoppe, a spider. Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed, of selfdenials, of self-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and duty. — Smiles. A prince, in my opinion, ia the first servant and the first magistrate of the State, and he should account to it for the use he makes of the imposts. If the Sovereign has an enlightened mind and a heart that is right, he will direct all its expenditure to the promotion of the public good, and the greatest advantage of the people. — Frederick the Great. Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. — Heber. Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it nothing can be accomplished. To prize everything according to its real use ought to be the aim of every reasonable man. — Milton. Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable. By silence I hear other men's im- j perfections, and conceal my own. — I Zeno. The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers | reason still. — Pope. The vicar of Kingston Vale wrote to the Duchess of Teck, stating that he intended to start a parish magazine for that district. Hp received a sympathetic reply from the DuchosH, who offered to assist him in his undertaking. In her letter Her Boyal Highness quoted the following lines, as a contribution which she and Princess May thought appropriate • — " If each man in his measure Would do a brother's part To cast a ray of sunlight Into a brother's heart, How changed would bo our country, How changed would be our poor, And then might Merry Eugland Deserve her name once more .'" A hour's sewing soothes a woman's nerves and exerts the same calming influence that tobacco does with a man. She sews all her little irritations into the seams, {imprisons her fancied wrongs into the double gussets, or slays them in the gores. Mrs. Sumerville, a woman of superior intellect aud great culture, wrote in tribute to the soothing powers of a long seam. Madame Dudevat (George Sand), of a very different calibre, contributed from her own experience a similar testimony, as may be read m several of her novels. Every sensible woman confirms it. In all his dealings the Yorkshireman is deliberate and calculating. Even under circumstances the least oxpected this characteristic at times comes out. I remomber once being somewhat amused by a friend tolling me of a man he knew, who was supposed to be courting a cook in the neighbourhood. Mary waa a

yoUng woman of excellent character, but, as is not unfroqiiently tho wny with cooks, her proportions were, to «ay the least of it, considerable. On being taxed with what was thought to bo A tender feeling on his part towaids Mary, the jounjf mnn roplied humorously that lie " thowt sha wadn't suit him, for," he added, " it'll tak all mah addling ti git her a new goon." — Yorkshire Folk Talk, by Eev. M. O. F. Morris.