THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12546, 13 April 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

I SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP. | he Indian Army will never want leaders, simply because it is the Kitest school of lead - | ership in the world. —The King. | MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S HOLIDAY. j Mr. Chamberlain is to-day the most envied ! man in the Three Kingdoms. He is to havej a two months' holiday from the fiscal quesj tion.—Evening News. RADIUM AND BRAINS. We cannot get- away from our scientific | theory that radium is to be found, not only i in pitch-blende, but also in the brains of I municipal representatives. —Traction and | Transmission I LOVE AND Il DEM E. Falling in love is apt to make people diffi- ' dent. Robust men have been known to disf cover symptoms ot heart disease, and blame- | less livers to believe themselves of -black- | est dye.—Times Literary Supplement. j SUGGESTION FOR HOSTESSES. I Hostesses in search of novelty might do | worse than revive some of the old-fashioned j dances, and so teach the present generation ' some of the beauty of the graceful ease and | elegant serenity which they exemplified. -• j Globe. j DEADLY FLANNELETTE. | In making clothes for the poor, especially J any garment for a working man, have noth- ; ing to do with the deceptive cotton-stuff | .-jailed flannelette. The shocking prevalence j of 'diseases' of the chest-, in this country, is ' bad enough as it is. without that death- ! hus teller.—The Irish Homestead. j ONE-LEGGED PROFESSIONS. j Did you know that fully 90 per cent, of j the railroad flagmen in the United States are j one-legged men? Did you know that- fully ! 90 per cent, of the men who sweep out the grooves, and who grease them, at the curves 1 on street railway lines, are one-legged men? Bulletin. Philadelphia. BATHING A LUXURY. When, 1 wonder, will cleanliness be con sidered as much a part of life in hotels as the repose bestowed by a comfortable bed? The charge for baths, Is or Is 6d a day in the best establishments, is absurd. It means that the visitors simply pay the proprietor's water-rate. —Lady Violet Greville, in The Graphic. RACING " CERTAINTIES." It is easy to advise people how to lose their money by selecting horses for them to back; but, assuredly, that is not counsel which recommends its donor as a philanthropist. In some countries he would not be allowed to live long after his first few " certainities" had finished ten minutes -Sporting and Dramatic News. THE GOLFER'S CLUB-HOUSE. The golf club-house is the visible heart, if not the actual centre, of the course, the scene of far more matches than are ever played on the links, the factory of far more goodwill than is ever exhausted through the green. It is somewhere between a creche and a Masonic lodge, with something tutorial about it that sets the particular tone. — Manchester Guardian. TRICKS OF THE BRAIN. As to speech in connection with tricks of the brain, I was telling Jones last Monday 1 meet him regularly in the club smokingroom —my great anecdote (about the speech of the Bashful Bridegroom) which I learnt at school in '79, and when I had got threequarters through 1 caught a look in his eye which instantly gave me the impression that I had told him the story . previously. • Was this an hallucination or not? Punch.

■ . TAX ON TREASURE. Demand notes for income-tax on the amount of their finds are being served on the discoverers of " hidden treasure." —Financial News. * „ —— ■■ — NEED FOR CONSCRIPTION. Necessity brings the idea of some kind of conscription more and more to the front, much as Englishmen detect it.—Tagliche Rundschau, Berlin. CODDLING THE DRUNKARD. Let us be just to the drunkard, and merciful, but for his own sake, and the sake of his family and the community, don't coddle him.--New York American. FINE SCENERY NOT WANTED. It seems a pity that golf courses should generally be so very beautifully situated, tor to lovers of scenery it. is apt to be more distracting than the interest of the game can allow.—Golfing. FINLAND FEMINISM. Feminism bleaks out in the most unexpected places, and is responsible for unlook-ed-for results. In Finland " woman's rights " have made great ground, and the advocates of lie equality of the sexes have insisted on the suppression of the titles .Miss and -Madam, as demonstrating the inferiority of wovijan. —The Bystander. WAR AND MILLINERY. ' The * war- between Russia and dapan will greatly concern the importers of straw braids. The desirable " Jap braids" are already a scarcity in the market, and war will force the price skyward. On account of their scarcity, the Jap silk hats will probably become a prominent feature in millinery.—Daily Tribune, New York. .WISER FRENCHMEN. It,is no longer the universal belief in France that the Englishman eats plum pudding at each me a l or goes to bed every night with a bottle of whisky as his pillow. Slowly, too, is he losing the conviction that every Anglais is a milord, and can pay accordingly. The hotel coupon and the cheap ticket have destroyed this ancient belief to no small extent.--Gentle-woman. BRITISH TORPEDOES. 11l the Mediterranean fleet speed of firing from submerged tubes is as much a matter of record-making as gunnery and coaling. Three torpedoes in one minute forty seconds is the present record, but a great deal more than record is in it, for it means that British warships are at present able to discharge about three torpedoes to one that the enemy can get off.—Naval and Military. Record. IS BREAD TOO CHEAP ? There is some truth in what Mr. Jowett said about bread being too cheap. The margin of profit on bread is always too small. The baker makes the bread, and should fix the price, which , should be a remunerative owe; but every baker knows how difficult it is to raise the price of the loaf. In London to-day good bread can be bought in some parts for per quartern; but that is not a fair price. At least it should be s£d. — The Bakers' Times. THE BRITISH WORKMAN. The British workman goes breakfast! to his labour and toils in an indifferent manner until lunch time, when he has his beer and food, such as he thinks necessary to sustain life. If he is at all remarkable for speed or zeal in his work, his misdemeanour is at once called to the attention of his union, and he is filled for " rushing." The ordinary labourer- in Great Britain dawdles over his work to such an extent that he does less than half as much in a given time. as an American workman. —Chicago Tribune.

MISSIONARIES OP ' SANITATION. One striking example held before the poor will prove infinitely more efficacious than a hundred unctuous precepts. We believe more in practical- missionaries of sanitation. The schoolmaster should," no doubt, be abroad. But we would ,like to see the sanitary missionary abroad also in a larger force all over the city.—The Kaiser-i-Hind. RAILWAY FREIGHTS. British manufacturers have made acquaintance with the fact that no application of the human reason, no fact, argument, or representation, founded though it may be on logic as solid as the Pyramids, has the least influence' on the inflexible determination of the railways to extract the last farthing that can be wrung from their customers.African World. LATTER-DAY ALTRUISM. The Church is not- any longer the sole agency for altruistic work." Consider the unselfish labour which goes to the co-operative movement, trade unionism, charity organisation, political propaganda, and "education. Here is altruistic enthusiasm, generated not always in the Churches, but, wherever generated, certainly spending itself in channels of human, usefulness. A splendid town councillor once said, "I make my work on the council my religion." Sunday Strand. GOLF MANIA. The symptoms of the golf mania are unmistakable. If you see an individual careering down Me A lister Road armed to the teeth with grotesque instruments, apparently commandeered from the Torture Chamber of the Tower of London, be sure he or she has got golf! The golf fever is in out; veins. Penang caught the infection long ago, and, unless the victims are duly isolated, boiled, and sulphured, I fear the malady will be far-reaching.--Penang Gazette. - . : CHANCES FOR CAPITAL. There probably .never- were such opportunities as now for the capitalist to find, openings of a profitable nature for the employment of capital, and we look to investors paying particular attention to the smaller commercial ■ undertakings rather than, ,to the larger which savour of trusts. Smaller undertakings have a.career of prosperity, before them, and they are generally controlled by active men, while the larger have, in the majority of cases, attained their zenith of success, and are controlled to a great extent by men who have reached their goal, and are desirous of resting on their laurels.—The Partner.