Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1949, Page 4

Oddments

Cleanliness is what's left of a small boy after we pull the’plug.— Willard H. Moody, New York. A land of settled government, a land of just and old renown, where freedom slowly broadens down, from precedent to precedent.—Tennyson. « .1: «: ® $ “Where is everybody?” asked the youngest daughter, bouncing in at 10 p.m. “Out in the kitchen.” grumbled papa, “eating tomorrow’s dinner.” — New York Mirror. •j» s# # # “The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.- Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. It draws its load cheerfully, and is patient of the bit and of the whip. But genius is always impatient of its harness: Its wild blood makes it hard to train.” —“The Professor at the Breakfast Table.” fls

The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Fisher) told Church of England clergymen the other clay that he found it most difficult to attach the word “family” to a family of one. “It isn’t easy to attach it t<T a family of two, but I begin to feel happier when it’s a family of three, so that the children can grow up with all that interchange that makes a family,” Dr Fisher said. “In the public interest nothing is more desirable than that the clergy of the Church of England should still have large families; it is desirable because so many outstanding men and women in British history were children of Church of England parsonages.” The Archbishop, who married a clergyman’s daughter, has six sons. -—The Seeker