THOUGHTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 24 (Supplement)

THOUGHTS.

It is curious how men with the keenest sense of humour often lose it where they themselves are , concerned.—Mr;. Stanley Baldwin. " , .

The highest joy is the consciousness and use of one's forces.Schopenhauer. Children, should be taught to live dangerously. By reducing life to a business of insurance and safety first parents might produce long-lived children, but they will have no character. Crichton Miller. The man who will venture something in a big cause, even if he fails, is the man who rises above ordinary human stature, and surely the difficult failure is more honourable than the facile success.Sir A. Conan Doyle. Life, real' life, consists in developing one's personality and gifts, in doing useful work for the joy of it, and not for pay, and in doing good because one likes it, and not in order to get to heaven.— Frank Crane.

Authority wielding of the power to order the comings and goings of our fellow creatures—is a right insisted upon by the commonplace mind of the "nou veau riche" but never, wielded bv the leal leader of men. e J

about half as much claret or burgundy (or marinade liquor). Pour it over the cooked onion, and when boiling' replace the venison, cover, and keep' just beloW simmering for nearly two hours;: Half an hour before serving stir in in small . pieces "-- a ■ level tablespoonful of flour mixed to a soft paste with butter. It is better when the flour has been previously baked to a ' fawn colour and passed through a fine strainer.'