THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12833, 5 April 1905, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

DISSIPATING IN HATS. Dress is the. medicine of the soul. . . . Where a man takes a whisky and soda it is enough for a woman to buy a new, hat. — Barry Pain. ____" MODERN MENUS. The menus of the well-to-do aro on- the topsy-turvy system. Instead of being so arranged as to appease hunger, they stimulate appetite.—Headmaster of Haileybury. THE FAMILY MEAL. I consider tho family meal to be something much more sacred than merely an act of satisfying hunger. To me it is the meet-ing-ground of all family joys and all family sympathies.Professor von Herkomcr in the House Beautiful. A GOOD SPORTSMAN. Make a man a sportsman, a real lover of sport, and you get him well on the road to sobriety, self-respect, and physical wellbeing. " Keep on making sportsmen" would not be a had motto for Parliament!— The Earl of Lonsdale in C. B. Fry's Magazine. BUSINESS AND BUNS. The physical deterioration of the girls of the country is a. serious matter for the nation. - Girls in business live too much on tea and muffins,' and do not get, sufficient good meals.—Hon. Emily Kinnaird at Cardiff. _ " PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION." In the hurry and race of modern life .there is a tendency to advocate education which niav he of "immediate assistance to professional life. The temptation to specialise too much should bo resisted.—Lord Alvci'stone. OUT OF THE RUNNING. Once you abandon a hard-wor place in any profession it is barely possible to retrieve the error. Another fills your place, ami if you are a candidate for work again von have to take your position at. the end of the queue.—"Claudius Clear" in the British Weekly.

BOWDLERISED DEATH CERTIFICATES. Medical men are sometimes inclined to avoid stating in language of blunt truth the precise cause of death. Inasmuch as relatives see the certificate, (hey are, with some •sense of delicacy, wishful not to hurt susceptibilities by attributing death to causes such as drink, drugs, or immorality.—-Law Times. CONSTANCY IN POLITICS. The virtue of constancy is praised as much in the politician as in the lover. "The greatest compliment yon can pay to a woman is to give to her you. lime, and it is the same with our Senate. A man who is always in his place becomes a sort of favourite."—Lord P.eaeonsiield in his posthumous novel in the Times. COLONEL YOT'NOHUSBAND'S REWARD. \ piece of work which has aroused the admiration of Europe is coldly and querulously received bv the Government which inaugurated it. It is a blunder which does not alter our opinion of the Commissioner, outleaves us with little respect for his superiors. —Spectatoi. DEARTH OF CARRIAGE HOUSES. The scarcity of carriage horses is a sign of the 'Mt-at competition of the motor. One of the leading firms of London horse, dealers was lately unable to supply throe first-class carriage horses. They stated that the supply of fine barouche horses seemed almost exhausted.— Gentleman. • FEEDING FOR CHARACTER. • 'Scientists provide us with all manner of means of combating' our faults and failings. ,-We can be careful about our wallpapers, wo ,can take colour baths, and,, above, all, we tf G&» feed ourselves iu such a fashion that we ' can at will either increase our viciousness and weaknesses, or turn ourselves into very agreeable members of society.—Lady's Pictorial. EXCESS OB PROPRIETY. Roth the girls and the boys of tile present day are, perhaps, just a little too highly trained. Tin- merest infants conduct themselves with a propriety that would have done credit to their grandmothers; but the question is whether the spirit has not been taken our of them to some extent, by this schooling in the proprieties.—Country Life. "TIBET PAINTED RED." There can be no doubt that had the sphere .if influence in Tibet passed into Russian hands, as ha? seemed almost certain fev years past, India would have proved a verita'ile heel of Achilles to British existence in Asia. Henceforth Tibet may for all practical purposes be painted red to mark Ejnglish control, for no one can imagine that England will crive up the tremendous advantages which she has gained, save by compulsion of a stronger force.— Book-lovers' Magazine, Philadelphia. WOMEN WHO HI". A sign ot the vast improvement that has taken place in ladies' riding is that, whereas in former years a horse was supposed to require special training before ho, t*ould be considered a safe mount for a lady, nowadays most women can and do ride any horse, provided lie is neither a very hard puller nor a determined refuser.—Lady's Realm. THE PHOTOGRAPHR CRAZE. Next to bridge, photography is the greatest craze of the social world. There is no escape anywhero from the camera, nor is anything sacred from the possessor of « 'koda.k. With all the Royal ladies leading the way. it is only natural, perhaps. But one cannot repress a feeling akin to boredom when one is," grouped" more than five times a clay in the course of a week-end visit.— The World. REAL DIPLOMACY. Sit Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador, is trying very hard to appreciate the intricacies of American humour, and ii rapidly "getting there." The other day when a wag asked him why lie laughed at his glories, he said, with ready wit: "I do not understand thorn at once, but I take them on faith. T,laugh when I hear thou, .and then when they sink, in I laugh again. So, you see, I have a double- amount of pleasure.—Town Topics, New York. RUSSIAN IRONY. The mission sent, by Lord Curzon to Cabul is of such an unfriendly nature towards Russian interests that it is. hard to believe the London Government will agree, with the Indian ways. May wo hope that in the future a new Blue Book may disclose documents ■ showing that the British Government is far from sharing the views of its Indian offi—Novoe Vrenaya, St. Petersburg. , WOMEN'S WORRIES. Against the battle? of men, what of the loneliness of women, their secret, discontents, • cares, sorrows, and desires? What of their i social and domestic worries? Worries about , marrying and' not marrying, about husbands, about''children, about, servants, about kitchen boilers, about • dressmakers, about nerves, about occupation? And then the ; monotony!— Mrs. <3raigie>, in Grand Magazine. ■ TAPPING OF THE "DEATH-WATCH." Tin? tapping resembling the ticking of a ' watch, heard iu old .bedrooms, is caused by a. minute beetle, or. rather by several specie? of the genus Anobium, Raising' themselves on their hind logs, very much as a woodpecker taps the bark of a tree with its beak, thev strike their horned bends quickly, and ' with considerable force for such tiny insects, against old books, wooden panels, or the plaster of a. wall. Tints, to tin; superstitious, "The solemn death-watch clicks the hour of death."—Nature Notes. .

IT LOOKS SO EASY. Nature never suggests effort, nor does the masterpiece. The effect of a gtfeat painting is that you feel that you can go home at once and do something like it, but you can't. —George Clausen. *> THP AFTER-DINNER SPEAKER. The after-dinne. speakc., properly considered, is an entertainer, a showmanthe successor of the old Court jester; he speaks wisdom in the guise of folly-.— F. Austin in the Illustrated London News. A GOOD SOLDIER. The abolition of a false idea of soldiering would surclj bo no evil. Let the taxpayer and the possible recruit learn to realise that the requirements of a good soldier are essentially health, a straight eye, and a disciplined mind.J.* H. M. Abbott in the Spectator. THE WAYFARING AN. 1 ravel and experience and the inquiring spirit are like temptation; they either kill or invigorate. A child brought up on the "sheltered life" system may grow up a good man, but the odds aro against his goodness being o potent influence on his fellows.Spectator. ' PIONEERS OF EMPIRE. It is to the men who have in the first place as explorers, or as missioners, or as parts of military expeditions, ox as parts of more peaceful expeditions, been sent out for th: sake of commerceit is to those men that we owe the British Empire, and it is to those men we have to look for the maintenance and preservation of it.—Mr. Cbambeilain at Liverpool. - HAPPY MARRIED MAN. A king's ransom, spent annually, without intelligent, common-sense thought, will not. buy comfort. A very small income, indeed, laid out by a woman who has brains enough to realise that to be a good housekeeper is a harder feat than to be a successful railway president, will produce results that would fill the tenants of most palaces with longing. Happy the man who hasn't the money to make a splurge and has the wife to make a home. IGNORANT MOTHERS. The poorer classes in this count are usualij utterly ignorant of all principles of hygiene. How, indeed, could they be otherwise with no one to teach them? ( They do not know how to feed their babies": they do not understand the importance of fresh air ami cleanliness or the dangers of alcohol. These are all things that can be taught. They are taught in other countries; and it is time they were taught, in England.—Speaker. THINKING IN MILLIONS. Unconsciously, most English men and women have been thinking in millions over since the American and mining millionaires have come to the front—and that is one of the main causes of the distress which exists throughout the country. In the West End most men of moderate means have been living as if a vast fortune was awaiting them in the immediate future, their wives and daughters have dressed considerably beyond their allowance; and in the city the average business man will not consider a proposal that affords no prospect of profit on a large scale. —The Graphic,