It Makes Men Heroes.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 50

It Makes Men Heroes.

! Said a gentleman who some years ago, as a volunteer in the service of another country, liad seen not a little fighting : "People unused to and terribly dreading war " often wonder how . men can have the courage to face the bullets and the screamiDg shells of an enemy. With death staring you in the face it does seem, at first blush, that retreat is the most natural course. "But if you have ever been in action you will know that at a certain point a—la — I won't say courage — but a recklessness comes to you that makes you almost forget that flight is possible. "All of a sudden a surge of fierceness sweeps over you and your companions m arms, fear of hurt you despise, the peaceable instincts that have all your life governed you vanish completely, and you find that a demon has risen within you and usurped your entire being. There is an intoxication of fighting, as of alcohol.

— The total number of women over the age of 18 employed in factories and workshops in the British Islands is a little over 1,000,000, of whom about 11 per cent, belong to trade unions. — Mother : " Were you good at the party?" Six-year-old: "Yes." Mother: " You didn't ask twice for anything at the table?" Six-year-old: "No, I didn't. I asked once, and they didn't hear me, so I helped myself."