POINTS OF VIEW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9065, 10 April 1906, Page 6

POINTS OF VIEW.

Nature is an indifferent democrat. Eroin tb& .beginning she has put her foot upoai equality.— J. ByB v in the Christian World. Our ancestors dosed themselves with theology in the same way as we doss ourselves with patent medicines. Let us add, they probably did themselves infinitely less harm. — Academy. The aiovelist who despises his characters is renouncing the highest ideal of his art. . . . The ultimate verdict on mankind is in terms of compassion, cot of derision. — New Age. Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mafchematkb, or for vnusic, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. — Otto Weininger, iai ''Sex and Chara-ctar." Life can never be Teally happy if we do not know what it really is to rise in the morning eager to grapple with the day's pressing duties, or to go to bed at- night healthily tired after a day of hard and teuiccessful (work.— Treasury. "Babies," said Dr Johnson, "do not wish to heax about other babies." The great man was nevac more mistaken, in his life. Babies always want to hear about babies, and the taste of grown-up children is exactly the same. — Spectator. One has to discount one's own emotions. What does not, on reflection, commend itself highly to one's "best self" may, at the moment, have pleased one's inferior self very much indeed. And convecsely. — Max Beerbohm, in me Saturday Review. It seems impossible to persuade the average^' backer that 'he is bound if he bets regularly or often, to get the worst of it with the 1 bookmaker. .- . Until this plain fact is gTasped' by the foolish backer of horses or football heroes, there is little hope of reform. — Saturday Review. We talk gravely of growing up and getting old, but except in a quite superficial sense we never do grow up, and never do get^ old; we call our nurseries by other ■names perhaps, but they aire nurseries still, and we play in them all day until the night comes. — A. St. John Adcock, ia Black and White. It, is an outrageous thing that men who play the game because they like competitive exercise should have their football regulated, their rules altered, and their freedom hampered by an Association which is much more interested in the financial than I lie physical or hedonistic results. — W. Beach Thomas, in the Outlook. ] Mr BalfouT is assuredly one of the most distinguished men, not only of his party, but of his country, which contains few infcalleota so cultivated, few minds more subtle and sagacious, and few with so consummate a, Parliamentaay experience. Unhappily he has a tendency to attack difficulties sideways and to solve or toy to solve them by adrotosss instead of attlacbing them from the front and carrying »fcfaeim.,by force of arms. — M. Charmea, ia the Revue dcs Deux Mondes. -i- R is always on© of the object-lessons of ■"history when, a, caste, a party, or a race attains to a position of prolonged' tyranny over bthens how it ceases' to be able 'to earthings as' they are and eeeks to place on Nature or on God 1 the respoftisibili'ty

for the desolation it has succeeded in making in the world. We axe afraid that the prolonged ages of the tyranny of on© 6ex over the other are not without their example of the effects of this deep-seated weakness of human nature. — Benjamin Kidd, in the Outlook. I If we put aside our insular prejudice and regard kissing as a ceremony, it is, ' after all, much prettier than some of the forms of "le handshake" which prevail in this country. — Westminster Gazette. Tlve opinion, once widely held in England and sedulously inculcated by a host of American writers, that in the United States decent people will have nothing to do with politics, if ever it was true, is now as much out of date as would be tlhe opinion that scrofula can be cured by the royal toudh. — Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, in the Nineteenth Century. There are few political questions that do not touch the lives of women, and while women are required to pay taxes and share the responsibilities of citizenship they are justified in demanding the powers of citizens. The woman of- the twentieth century refuses to be /treated g& "half idiot, half angel" any longer; she prefers to be placed on her simple kvel as half — if not better half — of man. — Gentlewoman.

A widower in Harv-ey County, Kan., having become tired of single blessedness took home his second wife and introduced her to the children by saying : "This is your new mamma." They loolced at her critically, and the youngest blurted -out : "Is that the best you could do, papa?" When, you are about to wash a new blanket for the first time, *begin by soaking it for twelve hours in cold water, then rinse in clean water. This will remove the sulphiiT <used in the bleaching. After this wash the blanket, in a lukewarm lather made of boiled soap and water. Rinse well in clear water, do not wring it, but shake thoroughly and haaige out to dry. .No garments that sweep the pavements [ are allowed to be worn outdoors in Nordhousen, Saxony. Any person tJras arrayed I is forbidden to walk the streets, and a violation of tins ordinance entails a fine of thirty marts.