BY THE WAY.

Grey River Argus, 22 July 1922, Page 6

BY THE WAY.

The Chau go. •Suddenly it came to me, and I clupI ped my hand to my leg almost with the |excit-emcnt of a great inventor. I had i been three days in Germany and not | one man had 1 soon with the ends of I his moustaches turned up. The abolition I of the pig-tail in China, cannot have wrought a greater change.” Jame s” in tho “Weekly Westminster Gazette.” How To End War. The only way to ensure everlasting peace is for tho ■world to decide not to have another war until the last one is paid for.—“ Punch.” Sign of Decay. “It 'was, for example, when Rome was decaying that there was a great increas-o in -wealth at one extreme, and dire poverty at the other.” —The Bishop of ’.Bendigo, > My Oath. “ We have become so used to thinking in terms of money that we are apt to ignore the realities underlying the appearance of monetary transactions.” —Sir AV. Schooling. Hie, L--' An epidemic of hiccoughing Ims broken out in Faris and district. Hundreds of persons daily visit the hospitals for relief. .Unless the patient is hiccoughing more than 12 times a minute he is advised to go home and keep warm.—“ Daily Chronicle,’’ London. On the Contrary. If a man gels quietly drunk he may be n<» nuisance.—Judge Cluer. Vice Voi,‘a. All tho Empires that have perished were cankered by tho folly of pretending that might is right.—Hamilton Fyfe. What is Coercion? The majority can give effect to its will only by the aid of the law, or by I organising itself. Ou the surface ine minority is coerced, and liberty appears to suff-er. But in the nalitios of the situation, if the minoriiy ims its way the majority is coerced.—-J’ro-fessor L. T. Bobhouse. Scarce Anywhere! Gold is scare in Glasgow, to judge 1.-y the recent experience of a morchant there. He visited a number of banks in an attempt to borrow a sovereign ■with which to illustrate a lecture at the Liberal Club on “What is :i i’ound Sterling?” Although, offered ten-fold security of the loan, none of the bank managers could oblige him. All smilingly replied that they had not a single sovereign on their premises. So the lecturer’s audience had to fall back cn their memories.—“ Daily Chronic’e. ” London. Through the Telescope. There are few discoveries revealed by the telescope more surprising than this: that the increased power of vision not only adds to the number of stars, but introduces to us a totally new class o>‘: objects not incomparable in numl'Cr to the stars, exhibiting structural data l is such as slass cannot show, and forms suggestive of internal commorious like the whirlwind or the volcan.c cloud. —Professor George Forbes, ALA., F.K.k. in ‘Chamber’s Journal.” Cobbet’s Eclipse, Considering Cobbett was a successful agitator and demagogue; that ho issued a twopenny papor with enormous results; that he addressed great meetings and had a considerable backing, it is a curious fact Umi. ad that rare ore should have died imt into silence :;nd that all that pcqm !a ri iy shou.l 1 Jrnve been immediately followed by negieev. Perhaps ii was pm'.ly because Cobbett was always siin nded by crowds that lie has ccmc ii:‘o neglect. The demagogue is under a cloud, and often in :i cloud, in the estimate of history, because 11m relin'd aid educated assume that he was talking nonsense — although Cobbett on 100 points almost invariably talked sense.—G. K. Chesterton. The Indispensable. The actor is not tho useless person some suppose him to be. He is as essential to the town as its water supply.—Miss Lena Ash well. A New Eldorado. “Bi.-hop” Jmadboater, thocsophist, spookologisi, olc., etc., lias given us such a fine description of Mars, which he declares he has visited, that if we could only find a means of negotiating the 45,000,000 miles, many of us would gladly pack our swags and “buzz off” to a world that ages ago must have evolved from the rotten social system that effects this earth of ours to-day. “Down and Out” in Queensland ‘‘Standard. ’ ’ Value of Illusions. Life, people too, can be ugly if stripped bare. We need all our ideals, all the illusions we can muster and hold on to make thorn seem fine and noble. I don’t believe in hugging errors, o.r

cherishing illusions about those who have, been proved worthless. But in many ways wo can make things better by believing in them. AVo can keep the lamp of love burring brightly, tending it, mending it, until the illusion wo cherish of i s beaut} and goodness, and worth, is no longer an illusion, but a substantial thing, created and made strong and permanent by the very faith and trust we ourselves had in it.—Helen Pope, in “Daily News.” Tho Dead Prepare Life. Tmthor was a bad physicist when he ■envied the dead because they rest—the dead have much to do; they prepare life. Our sun is bearing us with al! his following toward the constellation Hercules, where we shall arrive in a few milliards of centuries. Ho will die on the journey, and the EarJi with him. We shall then serve as material for a new universe, which may perhaps bo better than this one, but which will be no more lasting. For to be is 1n end, and all is movement, all Hows by ami passes. Creation is being continually remade. Neither time nor space will be lacking. W'e can still see a star which disappeared 10,000 years ago. U died, leaving its rays, which are reaching us to-day. —Anatole France. Room for Workers. There is no overcrowding of the world for capable women who find a joy ifi working, and thei-c never will be. It is the half-educated women, the superfically accomplished women, the ■women with one eye on their work and the oth-er eye on “a good thing” who are always crowding the market and finding a difficulty in getting a livingThe problem comes home to me, for -1 have a young daughter of 16. I tell her that if I can afford it, and if she has brains enough, she may become a doctor or a barrister, but that, if not, she will be holding quite as honourable a place in the world if she becomes a good cook or a good housemaid! And so she finds a joyous relaxation from book-learning in the craftsmanship of fine stitchery ami in the physical recreation of scrubbing and cooking and gardening. There was a time when many women found a happy sphere of congenial work in milking and butter making and cheese-making; but nowadays the milkmaid and the dairymaid have gone as typists, and men have taken on the healthier outdoor work. —Lieut. Col. Josiah Oldfield,