Notes of the Day.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3591, 2 August 1912, Page 4

Notes of the Day.

A RIDICULOUS CATALOGUE OF BRITISH FAULTS.

According to Herr Maiano Hergglelotfc, who professes to have gained a thorough insight into British characteristics during a sojourn of fifteen years in London, we are a hopelessly decadent nation, “swiftly rolling downhill to our doom, while Germany climb up on the side of triumph.” Herr Kerggelett is responsible for .a remarkable volume which is being sold largely in Berlin under the title “On the Probability of a- War Between Germany and England, and on the Future of the Two Countries, with a Description of the Englishmen of the Present Day.” We adhere, it seems, to the following lethargic code of life:—

(1) Don’t reflect, meditate or worry. (2) Don’t exert yourself unnecessarily.

(3) Don’t excite yourself over mistakes committed, over things forgotten or neglected. (4) Learn no foreign languages; there are always enough foreigners available when they are needed. (5) Don’t change anything, unless it is already too late.

(G) Don’t learn anything from other nations.

(7) Don’t take precautions, let the trouble come.

(S) Don't possess an exaggerated sense of duty, there are other people in the world.

(9) Forget everything quickly, recollection only disturbs the peace of the soul.

(10) Keep no promise, unless pleasure or sport is concerned. (11) Do nothing thoroughly, do only what is absolutely necessary.

(12) Don’t begin anything too soon to-morrow is also a cfav.

(13) Indifference and callousness take one quietly through life. (14) Superficiality and case save trouble and embellish existence. (15) Dream, doze blissfully, indulge in delicious thoughts about riches and snort, sleep long, eat well, work easily, and little, abuse for a quarter of an hour each day the political party to which you do not belong, pay your taxes, be contented, believe firmly in the superiority of the British people, and manifest "a pleasing exterior and demeanour to everyone. WHAT ULSTER WILL DO. The “Spectator” has an nlarmr*g leading article on what Ulster will do when the Home Rule Bill is passed. “What the Ulster Unionists will do if tho Bill passes is to ignore it ‘ utirely,” it says. “They will rerun? wherever they are in a local_ majority all recognition of the Dublin 1 arliament, the Dublin Executive, > *)d the Dublin courts of law. 4 bey wdl

not wait td~be attacked, but wilL onco form a Provisional of their own to keep order and to pr. vid- as for as possible for their local, needs Further, they will not > alien elections to take place for the Dublin Parliament, nor will they pennit tho officers of the Dublin Government £ show their faces m iSoith-Lasfc b ter Such action will no doubt U described as revolutionary, arbitrary, rebellious, treasonable, find will also no doubt, technically fully desen o such description. But that will not prevent it from taking place How can the Government contemplate with equanimity the forcing of a million of unwilling Ulstermen under a Dublin Parliament by tlie use of the ufle and the bayonet ? Are they really prepared to employ such methods in Gl.=T< > r v” The Government has rejected an amendment to the Home Rule BiL exempting the counties <n Antrim. Down. Londonderry, ana Armagh from its operation.