IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

The essential thing about life is _ its quality, not quantity.—Dr. F. W. Norwood. The woman of to-day knows more about the planet Jupiter than sho does of law.— Judge Crawford. It is generally recognised that the physique of children is improving.—Professor Winifred Cullis.

There is no fear of a shortage or the cessation of our natural petroleum supply.—Professor A. W. Nash. The chief purpose of education is to give mankind something really to' believe and live by.—Sir Michael Sadler. I think I may say that all roads lead to the Mansion House and from the Mansion House. —Lord Mayor of London. The sight of short skirts irritates me, and I think it is dreadful for girls to smoke. —Mrs. E. Thomas (age 104). I do not believe America went into the Geneva Conference meaning to reduce her armaments. —Rear-Admiral E. A. Tayjor. Nineteen centuries have passed since tho Prince of Peace came to dwell among men, yet we seom very far from peace,— Tho Bishop of Southwark. Then tendency to-day is for a materialistic influence at home to provide a very barren soil for music teachers to work upon.—Mr. Geoffrey Shitw.

If I were dictator of this country every girl should be married at eighteen, and every man at twenty-one—if necessary, by compulsion.—Mr T. P. O'Connor. Too old at thirty-fivo is becoming liter* ally trufl of the male bookkeeper who finds himself out of a job.—Mr. Andrew Bcid, London secretary of the Scottish Clerks' Association.

Women's inferiority in games of mental skill is still greater than in games of physical skill. That is to say that a woman chess player is much inferior to a man player.—Mr. A. D- Seares.

A dilettante as wo were lately reminded, is a person who learns less and less about more and more, while a specialist is a persoo who learns more and more about less and less.—Lord Hewart.