THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12856, 3 May 1905, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

THROWING AWAY MONEY. Nor lack of money is the cause of poverty so much as lack of the educated sense of how to spend money.—Saturday Post. STUDY YOUR GRANDMOTHERS. One giddy grandmother in a genealogical tree will often explain the man who is an enigma and the woman with a past. —Mr. Edward Bennett, in the- English Illustrated. INEFFECTUAL VIRTUE. Perhaps there is no greater tragedy in human life than great goodness called to high office without, the wisdom necessary to its discharge.—Canon Becching, at York Minster. THL; LADY'S HAT. Rightly or wrongly, the average woman's soul revolts at. the idea of wearing a hat of the same design as any other woman. This assertion of her individuality is as necessary to her as her general submission to Ihe despotism of till modes. —Daily Graphic. AGE-BY A MAN. The only way to make women satisfied with matrimony would be for them to be. born willows; then they would have had all tho experience of marriage, and have got; rid of the necessary encumbrance.— Woman. MARRIAGE—BY A WOMAN. For the first three months we play a. leading part, and are praised and applauded every step of the way. After that we have to retire to the back of the stage, and simply " walk on" for the rest of our natural lives. —Woman. SERIOUSNESS OF MARRIAGE. It might bo argued that the reason why people marry less Hum they did in the past is because they regard tho state of matrimony with more respect, and think it a more serious matter than their forefathers did.—Tho Lady. DEFENDING THE SPORTSMAN. Paradox as it may seem ,it. is a matter of daily experience that, there is no such lover of animals and the life of nature as the sportsman. In its right place in evolution, sport is not an evil thing.Colonel Thornton, in Theosophieal Review. HOW TO KEEP WELL. I am confident that a great many more would go to the medical man to get overhauled —just, as they go to the dentist —if medical men would .. . . tell patients not merely how to get well, but to keep well.—Dr. James Ban*, at. Liverpool. IRRESPONSIBLE MUNICIPALITIES. Whereas full discussion in Parliament is necessary before the nation can borrow m million, our municipalities, which are composed of men with no excessive sense of responsibility, can run up gigantic debts almost before the ratepayers are aware of tho fact.—Daily Mail.

HUMANITARIAN" POLICE. A Melbourne Court would have ordered two offending lads a sound whipping but for the knowledge that the police refused to whack. At the same time it was plainly hinted that means would probably be taken to compel constables to cowhide.—Mail, Sydney. IMPERIAL JEALOUSIES. South Africa may be very important— to Jewish speculators with foreign names: but, after all. it is only a wretched hole-and-corner sort of a place with a insignificant British population, and has not half the claim upon tho public attention possessed by India.—Pioneer, Allahabad. THE PEOPLE AND THE TRUSTS. Neither this people nor any other free people will permanently tolerate vast power conferred by vast wealth in a corporate form that does not lodge somewhere in the Government a still higher power of seeing that this power is used for and not against the people as a whole.President Roosevelt. MODERN CRAZES. There are few studies mote interesting than that of Booms or Crazes. The accepted theory respecting them is that whole classes or communities become hypnotised; and, in that state, perform the operation described by Dickens' Marchioness, when she made orange-peel, soaked in water, serve as sherry, by " making believe very much." -The Era. THE PLEASURES OF RETIREMENT. Men who have been used in cities to congenial companionship need to reflect gravely before they finally part with it. In any circumstances the most stimulating and delightful of all conversation is tho conversation between fellow workers. For the pleasures of retirement a price must be paid, but it may well be possible to pay too much. —" Claudius Clear,' in the British Weekly. POSSIBLE CRICKET FATALITIES. It is doubtful if Cotter's fast ones will be of very much assistance 'o the Australian team in England. At the first they will no doubt scare the batsmen, and a, few of the unfortunates may be killed. It would be unfortunate if one of them should Strike Warner; nothing would dissuade the English Press thai we hadn't sent Cotter home especially to wreak vengeance on him for libelling our country.—Bulletin, Sydney. WEALTH ON THE LAND. If our waste and uncultivated lands possess vast but hidden potentialities, then to realise and to act. upon this truth will result in this, that, (ho fide of population, now strongly settling towards our great cities, will gradually turn and How towards the deserted country ; and then there must, arise the greatest demand for labour, skill, and ability of all kinds, which this country has ever seen.—Mr. Ebenezer Howard, in the Daily Chronicle. FOND OF INTERFERING. Wo are, a* a nation, far too ready to play judge, jury, and prosecuting counsel to ail our neighbours, only suggesting that; someone other than ourselves should carry out our sentence. The hatred which recurs against us from time to time in all the countries of Europe is chiefly owing to the fact that we are always sitting on a magisterial bench doling out unctuous reproof and good advice to other nations."The Clubman,'' in the Sketch. ABUSE OF PHRASES. The diction of the minor writer both is affected by and reacts on common speech To him every anniversary is an "auspicious occasion," every entertainment a " brilliant function." Every marriage ceremony is .1 "very pretty wedding,'' at every banquet the "festive board groans," every host is "genial," every actress and every coflin receives "floral tributes." One cannot even be drowned without finding a " watery grave."—The Author. MR. HALL CAINE ON CLERGY. Speaking as one whose intimate friends are among the members of the clerical profession, I will venture the opinion that in the qualities of sincerity, purity, and selfsacrifice, they aro neither much better nor worse than almost any other class with which 1 have been brought into close relation, including even the much-maligned class of actors and actresses who live, perhaps, under influences of more temptation. —Hall Caine,, iu Booklovers' Magazine, Philadelphia.