PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 8

PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY

Most women are ;it their best, in Ihrir own houses.—Real happiness begins where sentimentality ends.—.Most minds have some thought of self, even in relation to tlio grief of others.—-Lucas Cleeve. The whole lesson of life, as I understand it, is this— that wo are out heie not so much to obtain happiness for ourselves as to create it for others.- -.\nnie S. Swan. In tho personalities that most, attract us wo cannot measure the qualities: we can onlv allow ourselves to be guided by tho charm—that indefinable gift of the gods which lies we know not where, ami is we know not wliat.-Klean.or Alexander. Fictitious melancholy is enjoyable, in sad novels, in doleful pictures, in pathetic music, in teai-compelling play.';, because it mav be regulated ; the disconsolate novel can be shelved, a depressing picture ignored, plaintive music stopped, tiagic plays avoided ; but real affliction, takes the mastery; every hour must be gone through. every sigh must have its cause; under this tyr.iiniy of" time, under tin's persistency of