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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1712, 29 June 1874, Page 2

Apbotos Heee.—lt is averred that the reason why girls refuse to enter domestic service is that they object to anything, approaching menial employment; what they seek is hymeneal. Fate of Modest Men.—The world generally takes men at their own apparent estimate of themselves. Hence, modest men never attain the same consideration which bustling, forward men do. It has not time or patience to inquire rigidly, and it is partly imposed upon and carried away by the,man who vigorously claims its regards. The world also never has two leading ideas about any man. There* is always a remarkable unity in its conceptions of the characters of individuals. If an historical person has been cruel in a ~ single degree, he is set down as cruel and nothing else, although he may have had many good qualities, all not equally conspicuou*. If a literary man is industrious in a remarkable degree, the world speaks of him as only industrious, though he maybe also very ingenious.—Dr. E Chamber's. Scrap Book. Nice Peesent.—Our housekeeper is certainly a most generous women. She . has just volunteered to give an eye- to a young domestic who has lately joined the establishment. Hectoe's daughter (to Sunday scholar) —-" Oh, you have an elder brother ; well how old is he P " School-boy—" Dunno, miss, but he's just started o' swearing." Ve.hicu.lak.—A facetious young -lady wickedly remarks that the reason that the peculiar equipages kept by many young men are called dog-carts is that puppies generally rid© in them.