POINTS OF VIEW

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 46, 19 June 1906, Page 2

POINTS OF VIEW

b Beauty may be only skin-deep, but ugliness goes in to the bone. j, Very, few individual Americans have the influence of individual Englishmen. * To be a book-worm Is not the same thing as to lie a book-lover. The difference is * that between a gourmand and a gourmet. * It is only when death throws Its shadow over the page of lifer that we realise the full significance of what w£ are reading. The consciousness of physical capacity,, even though circumstances prevent its perpetual maintenance at the highest pitch, will go far ti preserve a healthy equipoise of mind and body. »j. Man rover forgets Hint, he fs a serious animal. He is serious in all that he does. Hence lu* dresses seriously, and, as a result, is always seriously fashionable as well as fashionably serious. There has always been an unconquerable facination for the many in following the careers of great crimnals, and at the present day the love of sensationalism is particularly vivid. Modern Press methods have been great factors in fostering it and in crowning celebrated criminals with something of a halo. Tt js universal experience that happiness stimulates both mind and muscle to keener and more rapid and more effective activity. In the exercise of the available powers of the office as well as of the team, of the mechanic as well as of the diplomatist, in the hall of council and on the field of battle, tho most optimistic spirit accomplishes the best results.

It may be true that unwed women preponderate in the suburbs, that seven per cent, more girl-babies than boy-babies are born every year, that

more women are earning their living —that is, getting separate incomes—than heretofore, but all the same, somehow or other we fancy man will hold his ground, even if we have to resort to the Chinese method of dealing with the superfluous girl. Woman would never be happy alone. She needs man to grumble at, she wants him as a competitor, she must have him to conquer, and she will not suffer him to become extinct.

I have watched the Ideal Woman in many places, at home and in society, with the result that I have come to the conclusion that she is the one of our sex whom men most persistently avoid. They are quite civil to her when she is thrown in their way ; they will even admire openly her demeanour, or the way she keeps house, or nurses her invalid mother ; but they do not seek her out and they do not marry her. 986.