THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13048, 13 December 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

■ INSULAR EXCLUSIVENESS.; . The corridor :carriage and the Pullman car; the growing hugeness ot . the ■ ocean steamer, have helped to melt the lonely iceberg of British exclusiveness.—The .Tatler. \ ENGLAND'S'. LOVE OF PLEASURE'. As a initio i we are s ; getting to think more of our play; than our work." The .'people to day.,'. as" at Rome of old in its decadent'; time, 'cry out for "bread; and games." In no other country do we, witness the same eager pursuit of pleasure. Dr. Andrew Wilson in Illustrated London News.. ; ■;.'" ■;.■■."■" .. : ■.'■' ' THE FEMININE APPETITE. How many women there must be who are blessed witSi a " healthy appetite" which is a constant source of martyrdom to them. No matter : what her inner cravings may suggest, the "■ woman who dines in public knows that the interest she will: awaken is not uncooarcted with, ( the number.: of courses she refuses.—Lady Pictorial. ; ':'■'■ ' BRUTAL MAN. . 'Men say they cannot stand paint, powder, make-up, or cosmetics of any, kind, yet they ' expect their womenkind to have an ever-youthful complexion, and never to look fagged or worn H out. They relegate to women all the petty cares of a household, and often leave the wife in the morning' in a complete chaos of domestic afflictions with tho s.ige and stoic advice. " Not to worry."—Woman.• ' ' ,> - , COUNTRY" HOUSE VISITING. Country house visiting of to-day is far removed from that of, say, a decade ago, and the trend at the present moment is independence of action and freedom from restraint; indeed, in some houses : the guests,; might consider themselves to be staying at a fashionable hotel, without the drawback of paying the bill, so broad is the "do as you like" principle.—The Queen. A GROWING SPORT ' Sea-fishing with rod and line has become very popular of late years. Around our western shores, especially, there is grand sport to be had with silver bass, that equal the salmon in both beauty and plucks To kill-an; eight or ten-pound bass on a light rod 'is by no mei'ns the child's play that some • people—-who ':■ have never done . it—'would' imagine.—Sporting and Dramatic... News. ,' . ■' .. -, : , . " WAS IRVING DESERVING?■ - - The view of the Spectator that the late Sir Henry' Irving did not reach "anything approaching the level" which deserves the supreme' honour of burial;: in Westminster Abbey will net, 'we think, meet with any sympathy fiom the public. >:\ For one who has, within a short generation, sensibly raked our artistic ideals, the honours of the Abbey are no unfitting reward.— Obseiver. • MONEY IN PIGEONS. At the auction at the poultry-show at Belle Viie, sensible, and even acute, persons were contending with «.ne another to give £30, £40, and £50. for a pigeon. An Unaston gentleman said he had pa £75 for a bird -A the Dragon variety, and in three years he disposed of progeny from it for '£150, and then sold the parent for £45.— Manchester Courier. \ , , ROYALTY AND NAUTCHES. 3 '~\ * It. is assorted and repeated (that at Madras it is proposed to include nautches in the entertainment to be given to the Prince and Princess of Wales on the occasion of their visit to that. city. This is to be done in spite of the protest of a portion of the committee. Why force their Royal Highnesses to witness a. • demonstration of a. questionable character or decline to fall in with publicly announced , plans?—lndian Wit - ,'ness. . . .... , .. , .... ' ~■ ALADDIN BADLY BEATEN. , The wonderful lamp enabled Aladdin to carry off the Princess Badroulboudour, and the "wicked undo to transport the palace. But electric traction has carried off whole neighbourhoods out of cities into suburbs, and, by transporting hundreds of thousands daily, has helped to solve the problem of housing the, working class; while electric distribution- of power has discovered, not caves of buried jewels, but waterfalls of ever-flowing wealth.Professor Ayr ton, in Nature.