THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12660, 14 September 1904, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

A LEGISLATOR'S AMBITION. 1 have been trying to smoke a cigar since I was eight years old, and I haven't yet succeeded.—T. P. O'Connor, M.P., in M.A.P. A GREGARIOUS PEOPLE. So long as thev don't: eat in their own diningi'oom in London or sit tinder, their own tree in, the country people are- quite happy to-day.Ladies' Field. ■■ COMPULSORY AMBIDEXTERITY. At St. Olave's Grammar School no prize is "presented unless the boy who stands at the top is ambidextrous, and can write with equal facility and neatness with each hand. —City Press. ■' ■■"'.■',■■ MUSCOVITE HOPES. In spite of all her fiery, warlike ardour, it is evident that Japan will soon no longer have the means to continue the war, in consequence of her complete financial ruin.— Gazette, St, Petersburg. MUSCOVITE PIRACY. Russia's assertion of a right to confiscate a haystack of private correspondence on the chance, of finding a needle of contraband is a piratical performance that concerns every civilised Power.— New York. WOMEN'S LOOKS. No man is a hero to his valet, and no woman is a beauty to her .maid,— Coming "Considering the degree of perfection to which the cosmetic art has been brought, no woman ever need look passes.— - WAR AT THE ZOO." Other noteworthy additions (at the Zoological Gardens) are two Japanese bears. These animals are black, and much smaller than the Russian bears, from which thev have to be kept separate to prevent them from fighting.—The Times. FRENCH VIEW OF MR. CHAMBER - " LAIN. While the cause which Mr. Chamberlain represents is as .yet far from having triumphed, the man himself is more popular than ever. He may be beaten at the next general election, but he will, nevertheless, be the most powerful and magnetic of Brit statesmen.—Temps, Paris. -PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES." < It- is a striking coincidence that the Simploh tunnel is to be completed in April, ISOS, precisely a. hundred years after the completion by Napoleon of his road over the Simj)lnn Pass, which involved the building of 613 bridges -and eight tunnels.— Frankfurter Zeittmg. ______ " GERMAN VIEW OF RUSSIA. The longer the Russian Government resists fulfilling the justifiable demands of the people the more ruthless will become the means with which liberty will finally lie won. Unless the signs, of the times are deceiving, Russia already stands on the eve of a catastrophe.—Voss-tschen Zeitung, Ber-" lin. ..'. ; ' . . .-,., -V;y ■■ ■ ' ;,; ... TIBET SITUATION. We are it! this Tibet business, and the first thing w« have to do is to see it through. fViiv concession to prejudice at home, or to smooth words from Lhasa, may pile up to? the Indian Government a burden of future troubles by the side of which the present enterprise ' will appear as nothing. The purdah must he Pioneer, Allahabad. . FRENCH AND ENGLISH DRESS. It may sound strange, but in sober truth dress in Paris is simpler and cheaper than in London. There it is natural, unforced; here,, a struggle to reach a foreign ami unnatural standard not unlike the French craze for sport. The average Englishwoman, knows as much about dress as a French bourgeois of fox-hunting. Life.

CRACKING THE HUSH, WHIP. No weakness and no falling away among Liberal statesmen can affect in the slightest degree, the Baccess of Ireland's national cause. The Liberal Party which is to be formed after' the next general election will scon find that tfte question of Home Rule will have once again to be accepted as the foremost principle of Liberalism. — McCarthy, in Independence," New York. HOW RUSSIAN MONEY TALKS. Men of affairs, financiers, and investors are level-headed and practical, and they should know that Russia cannot and will not be beaten by the Japanese. -They should act upon this knowledge. What has the Russian Bourse done to counteract- the manifestations of foreign distrust? Nothin Neither patience nor courage has been exhibited by it.—Norne Vremya, St. Petersburg. SEA BATHING BANGERS,, Anyone who labours under any heart' affection should eschew sea bathing altogether, except under medical advice. Delicate children, in whom the reaction does not readily manifest itself, should not he allowed to bathe. Much unintentional cruelty is perpetrated on these by wellmeaning parents . under the mistaken idea, of strengthening them.— ,Q. Younger, M.D., in London Opinion. IRELAND AND THE KING. The winning of a loyal Ireland is no small or easy ambition. It is beyond the power of either party in English politics to gain it. The only possible solution of the difficult problem'lies with the King. Quietly, unostentatiously, he has already accomplished : much, and a few years more will show a marked change in the political and social conditions of the Irish people. New York. CLOSING THE DARDANELLES. We have demonstrated how unnatural is the position of a great Power like PvUS9ia, whose fleet is shut up in the Black Sea, and ■ cannot leave it simply because England does not wish it. True, the treaty closing the Dardanelles is signed by other great Powers, and acknowledged by Russia herself; but this in nowise modifies the unnatural position which is created.—Novosti, St. Petersburg. MEALS OUT OF DOORS. Even in the very heart of the country one is struck by the absence of meals taken out of doors. People owning lovely gardens do not avail themselves of anything more al fresco than afternoon tea on the lawn, whereas breakfast and lunch, if not dinner, might well be enjoyed in the open air. Breakfast especially is delightful in the garden, but there is nearly always the nightmare of giving trouble to the servants to prevent the innovation.Madame. LONDON FOR PRESERVATION. Every time I have been in London I have been struck with amazement by the numbers of old women who fire dressed as if they were still in their rosy teens, lam of the opinion that these are the most astonishing old women in the world." There is nothing like them in our country, and I never saw anything of the kind. m"France.—Geraldine Bonner in Argonaut, San Francisco. THE MATRIMONIAL AUDIT. Matrimonially the season has been fairly satisfactory. Financial considerations have more weight with both sexes than was once the case. It is still true that " youth will to youth," but the watchful eye of the prudent mother was never more on the alert, and many a man wilio would willingly have married finds himself still unattached. Lady's Pictorial. ■ " . ."'. ,-ti" ■ i.' * . FEMININE INCONSISTENCY. Woman is a creature of contradictions. Sho will sit in a draught in a low-necked fown with her arms and shoulders bare; nt she will go out on the hottest afternoon, with her head and neck tied up in a thick chiffon veil. But she will hold her skirt about six inches higher than any wulking- ! skirt that ever was made. She is up in ' arms when she sees a horse whipped but she will drag a poor little dog on a shopping , bout that would enfeeble a good-sized man. I Bulletin. ,'Philadelphja. •