THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13202, 13 June 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

DAY OF THE NICE GIRL. Thk nice girl is in favour just now, and there is a pleasing tendency towards simplicity in all that concerns her. That pert*)ess and knowingness and independence of manner which were acceptable a while since are no longer so.—World. . AN M.P.'S PROPOSALS. In the name of common sense, why should the House of - Commons not be run 011 up-to-date business lines? A time-limit is badly needed for all speeches. And a paded room for every member who persists in talking when he really ha.s nothing to say.— J. T. Macplierson, M.P., bi Weekly Dispatch. PARLIAMENTARY SEA SON . It is a crime, from the public health point of view, to spend the health-giving days of summer in Westminster. Now that we have a House of Commons not wholly devoted to hunting and shouting, perhaps there may be a chance for the more rational plan of work in winter and holidays in., summer.—British Medical Journal. ; OFFICERS' RETALIATION. Army officers regard the. ways of the War Office as essentially fraudulent, and some of them think it 110 wrong to chestthat detested institution in return, whenever the rather rare opportunity presents itself.Lieutenant-Colonel A. Pollock, in j Monthly Magazine. j ' 7 A TERRIBLE CALLING. It you take a scholar and a gentleman and make him do the work of a nursemaid for the wages of a bricklayer's labourer, coupled with the treatment of a dog, you then get that finished product of civilisation, the assistant master at an English private school.— Barry Pain, in Tile Tattler. MODERN MORALITY. A quarter of a ventury ago the Divorce Court stained the reputation of , all who came into contact with it; now it causes them generally only a little annoyance. "We are all co-respondents here," said, a. facetious man at v. recent • fashionable dinner party, and the remark caused general laughter, lwcauee it was absolutely correct.—Truth.