HINTS ON. HABITS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2642, 14 January 1908, Page 7

HINTS ON. HABITS.

Get out of the habit of being poor. Poverty is no crime, but it ia infernally bad taste. Besides, lots of people have been cut out of wills simply and solely for being poor.

Being poor is an extremely hard habit to break yourself of, unless you begin very early in life. If you have been poor for fifty or sixty years, you are practically incurable.

Some people get into the way of marrying just as Americans acquire the habit of getting divorced. If you find it necessary to marry more thanthree times, you may safely assume that you arc one of Nature's widowers and retire from the business. Marriages are made in Heaven. That's why all the brightest and best men are waiting. They don't want to throw themselves away on this side, of Jordan. There are as good widows on land as ever you will meet on an Atlantic liner. Acquire perfect manners. The use of manners is to enable you to do exactly what you want without giving offence. The worst of all faults is to have none. Money is the language of politics. The more you have the more yon will be able to talk. If you have enough you will find it is. also, the language of Love and Society and Damnation. That is why it is called L. S. D. Beauty is only skin deep. And the heart is very far from the skin. If, by any chance, you want to be really good, get out of the habit of being beautiful. Try to gain a reputation greater than you deserve, and then teach yourself to deserve it. If you can do this you won't need any further help from me. Don't get into the habit of believeing that there is plenty of room at the top of the tree. There is not. There is only room for one man at the top. And he's there, feeling very uncomfortable and exposed to all weathers. But there is a lot of room on the thick, strong boughs half-way up the tree, where you are sheltered from the sun and protected from the rain.

Be careful that when the man at the top is blown down or drops from exhaustion, he doesn't hit you.

Do not be too intelligent. In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is a monstrosity.