DON'T GET WRATHY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

DON'T GET WRATHY.

Yon often hear a girl sav: * - Yes, I know I'm hastv. I fly out at tin* lea* thing. Bat it a soon all over.’’ And yon often bear a young man say: “I’ve got the very deuce of « temper. Bro 1 never bear anv malice, thank goodness.” And, somehow, both the girl and the young man seem ruther proud than otherwise of their infirmitv. . For a bad temper is an infirmity, ft « a sign of a lamentable lack ofeetfctmtrol. And lack of self-control means, in one word, weakness. It is, of coarse, better to let the cork nut and gn off pop than to nurse a grudge and to plot some mean revensje. At the same time, it is worse than silly to let the habib grow on you. It is nothing .short of idiotic to brag about it. Really wrong men and realty sensible women know that to take ‘an in- •»« tn silence h far less humiliating than to shout back at the ftop of vour Voire. And so they school themselves to think before they retaliatflr, even though they may have been vilelv treated. THE FLY WHICH COST £->.OOO. About January 25th. IDOL a curious thing happened at Monte Carlo. The rrterstition of gamblers is w ell recngnisbu* it is seldom that their reliance •poo omens brings them such luck as was the case on the above date. At what is known as the “suicides" table J*/he Monte Carlo gambling rooms the following remarkable incident occurred. A fly alighted on number 13 on the roulHte table at the time when the ptarers had suffered i persistent run of bad luck. The superstitious gamblers exchanged covert glances. and •(•orbed Jieir pockets for money with wlrieb te stake. "In a few moments the “middle doxen," that is to say. the numbers 13 to 2-1. were literallr eorered with stakes. Then an elderlv gambler arose and piled napoleons round fthe square on which the fly hail •lighted, thus backing the numbers from 10 to 1”. Less confident players staked 'smaller amounts on Hie "transv»rsalee.” The ivory marble was -cut spinning round the ronlette wheel. Tliere was a moment of suspense ami tlien the emupier announced the winning number—l 3. But what is far more extraordinary, the same number came np three times in succession. That fly cost the Casino £5.000.

Many a good thing is lost by not asking tor it.