MORE DEWARISMS

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 24

MORE DEWARISMS

THE UNDER-DOG IN CHINA

Hero iire some more Lord Dewarisms, wbiob were made by the famous epigrammatist at the Distillers’ Jubilee banquet in London recently Every child comes into the world endowed with liberty, opportunity, and a share of tbo war debt. Man reaps what be sows unless bo is an amateur gardener. War docs not pay, but it, makes everybody pay. The wages of war is debt. If the League-of Nations woidd only agree not to have another war until the last one is paid for, everlasting peace would bo assured. The sun never sets upon the British Empire; that is why her troubles arc continuous. We know who is the culprit behind the war in tbo Far East. Tbo real puzzle to-day is China.. Never was_ it more necessary to handle china, 'with care. The underdog in China at the present time appears to • ho ' tbo ■ Pekingese. ’ If we had to familiarise ourselves with the names of the Chinese generals and places it would he Confuciau more confounded, and even Confucius himself might ho confused. Some people are already apprehensive that tire hand which rocks the cradle will be the hand that will rock the ship of State. Britannia rides the waves. In future it may ho the wives who will rule Britannia.

The man with, tho political hco in his bonnet, often gets stung. USELESS LAW. There is a law in tin's country that prohibits a, man from marrying his mother-in-law. _ That is the limit of useless legislation. Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. The trouble is that (he average man wants pre-war prices for what ho sells, and peace-time prices for what he buys. • You will always get some people in favor of nationalisation of something if it happens to belong to somebody else. A lot of people will bo unhappy in heaven when they discover that it isn't the exclusive property of one denomination. Four-fifths of the perjury of the world is expended on tombstones, women, and competitors. History has no record that any Scot has ever been robbed on leaving that .paragon of motherlands, 'because at that stage they have ‘never had anything on them to rob. .Most men aro groat believers in heredity until iho son makes a, foul of himself.