A GAY PHILOSOPHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)

A GAY PHILOSOPHER.

" Sugar and Spice" (The Bodley Head), is the very appropriate title chosen by Lady Kitty Vincent _ for her latest collection of journalistic squibs. Lady Kitty possesses, under a protective axmour of cheery flippance, both a brain and a hifiart and her gay charm will be best illustrated by a, few quotations from the book itself. " Man has always wanted a listener since the beginning of things. . . In those far-away days he boasted about how he had killed a mammoth, . . and now lie wants to tell you how he beat Jones at tennis. Listen for all you are worth, it is your job." " It is such a tragedy that so many excellent women love in terms of caper sauce when their husband's minds run to morning dew and violet bloom.'' . "Hie Day of Judgment will break many a .Journalist's heart because it will be topical and they won't be able to use it." g "I don't believe agents want to let you houses. There is more joy in their offices over one person who is prevented from taking a house than over ninety and nine people who succeed in extricating a residence from their clutches." It is better to be killed by a motor and to have walked in the sun than to creep along in the shadow of the hedge and die in a quiet ditch." " Pray Heaven that at the very last wo recapture the old pagan courage and to go out with the tide singing and ready to meet the gods with laughter." " Meanwhile there are roses in the garden, thank God, sunsets and dawns, the welcoming touch of a dog's cold nose at home-coming and the smell of wood. I smoke in the evening. Good luck and let, courage be your companion."