THE FORTUNES.OF THE FARMER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 15

THE FORTUNES.OF THE FARMER.

The Sydney Morning Herald considers it but natural th.it tho farmer should have more faith in his luck than tlio town man. Tho latter usually goto what ha urns, but tho man on (ho land through untoward circumstances may lose hLi season's labours almost in the twinkling of an eye. Excossivo rains or no rain at all prove equally disastrous, a lato frost may spoil n splendid potato crop, or. his best horse may die unexpectedly. The successful man, in his own opinion, is seldom lucky j in tho other fejlow's he is the cpoi'.t child of forluns. It is true that one year'a result sometimes affects a man's farming pi ogress for Ill's. He makes a hit or nil3s in his first season or two, and very oflin his whole futnre is influenced. If ha ecoras while his neighbour fails, ho may at onco get a lead in the r.iv?r. cultivated, and the cap becomes wiJcr and wideis But the luck i 3 fairly uniform as a rule, though tho pull is cerliiinly with the man who has porno capital, and who can afford a judiciouii expenditure, and holds* 0:1 when prices are low and markets pioniising. But good management is worth nny amount of luck. The sensible man dcoa not attempt his luck. H» works on averages, makes money fast in good reasons, and very often more than holds hie own in bad cnc?.

Regarding Saiss Phyllis Dare's engagement, tho San Francisco Argonautwrites: '"Lord Bosabcry is greatly annoyed because his son, Lord ?-?alnieny, has become engaged to Phyllis Dare- Ilia lordsllip had expressed liis displ-sua.ure by ordering the young hopeful to the tuicestral estates in Scotland, which muy bfe a very severe punishment, although it docs not seem so to the mero outsidei The discipline will be entirely futile, if we may judge from experience, and also from the fact that Lord Dalmeny will irv lierit i 33,000,000, which is quite endugh for the simple life, even in company with so very charming a lady aa Miss Phyllia Dare. " Lord Rosebary may as Well' rts cognlso tho inevitable, and make the besi of it. Ah a matter of strict history, most of these marriagC3 between aristocrat o and actresses have turned out very well, in spite of a- few glaring excep tions. Miss Daie haa withdrawn her mkc from all theatrical bills, in pieparution for her entrance into the charmed circle of th& peartige, and it will not, be her fault if she does not get there." Tho Graiiville Barker management at the L'ourt Theatre London (G.E. lately married Miss Lilh>h M'Carthy), has found a good plyce for ,l£dmund Gwenn, whom AuMtrcKa knew t-a Touchstone. :vr» the Cockney burglar in "Sherlock Uolmcrs," and iii; Old Lively in "Sunday," fays a contributor to a, Sydney journal. Uwcnn, v.'hc.^! wife is one r.f tlie Terry family, fuid, when ictimiing to England, that ho was in no hurry for an engagement , but would wfiit for something good — and he seems lo have got it. The Court crowd mostly pli.yi JJernard Shaw's riecos, and always tho new and unconvention.i!. Tho Hefcice says that soon "t« have acted at the Court will be, a3 it Avcro, to have taken an academical dogioa in acting." Also, it nays that Gwenn aa v good-humoured, hard-hitting Labour lender hi the new political play, "Voles for Women," "pluyis ruperbly."* And in tlie Saturday iloview, Max Boorbohm, tlio superior, the scornful, the man with the elevated literary noso, actually calls Gwenn "perfect." Tlie actor, by the v/av. ia a. master of make-up, nnd admitted when here that lie alwuj-8 took an hour over the painting and upholetcring of himself, and in parts like Lively, two hours, (ll.llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllll.llllftllllllllllllllllll!.-.

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