Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

Thoro are now so many valuable organisations where the benevolent impulse is embodied iv forms of that reasonable help which induces men to help themselvos, that abundant channels are opon for all the aid of any kind that private individuals have iv their power to bestow. None need plead the want oi opportunity or the fear of doing harm through the exercise of their sympathies. Mr. A. G. Warner lately said, " In the complex conditions of modern life, self-sacrifice must manifeßt itself and do its work through modern machinery. It must take into its service all the implements of scientific research, and school itself to be wise as well as sympathetic. With the same care and for the same reasons that it would give shelter to neglected and abandoned children, it must see to it that it does not encourage parents to neglect and abandon their children; with the same care and for the same reasons that it would feed a hungry man, it must see to it that that man works for what ho gets; while with thesameoareandforthesamo reasons that it assists a woman who has been abused by her husband, it must, if possible, punich the man who has abused her." It ib a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man that his earthly influence, which has had a commencement, will never, through all ages, be he the very meanest, have an end. The vices operate like age, bring on disease before its time, and in the prime of youth leave the character broken and exhausted. — Junius. Unearned money induces a distaste for labour and activity. It allures to float along with the stream, instead of the healthful labour of stemming the tide of difficulty. Natnrally rampant as are the weeds of sloth and sensuality in the human heart, that condition of life in which there is only work to be done, but' work which must be done, will be tbe safest and best. To avenge one's self is to confesa that one has been wounded ; but it is not the part of a great mind to be wounded by an injury; a noblo mind, and one whioh is is conscious of its own true worth, does not avenge an injury, because it does not feel it. That whioh especially distinguishes a high order of man from alow order of man, that constitutes both human goodness and greatness, is surely not the degree of intelligence with which men pursue their own advantages; but it is disregard of personal pleasure, indulgence, gain, present or remote, because some other line of conduct is more direotly right. Let.us give freely and generously of the best that is in us; let us communicate gladly all the warmth and light that have cheered us and may cheer another; but, when we are gloomy and disconsolate, sick and suffering, perplexed and annoyed, when our feelings are sore and our thoughts bitter, then let us generously an* manfully hold our peace and not burden others with our troubles. There are times when woe must be discussed, and persons from whom relief must be Bought. But for one such case there are a hundred where silenoe is the best cure. Wheu we detail them to another, we magnify them to ourselves; when we keep them in quiet subjection, they shrink in importance. ■ Work with all the speed and ea£o you can, without breaking your head. The pleasures of the world are deceitful ; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, and they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. %.• transparent mirror glass recently introduced in Germany refleots light on one side, from whioh it is praotioally opaque, while from the other ftipo it is transparent. It is proposed to use this type of glass for glazing windows in oity residences, for, while it will not oat off light or vision from the interior, it will prevent outsiders from ■wing into a room. -