"STAR" PARS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11027, 16 March 1914, Page 4

"STAR" PARS.

HORSE SENSE. Have you ever really thought As, perchance, you may have sought Your way along a- path of sand r.r gravel, Strange as it may appear, The fact is very clear, That the softest road's the hardest road to travel. V NATURE NOTE. , Ethel: "What is a firefly?" Egbert: "Oh, it is just an ordinary bug that goes about in the summer evening twilight carrying a pocket flashlight." FOQD FOR THOUGHT. A cooking school comhi-encement Ts not easily forgot. For instead of ribboned essays Tim young ladies bring a lot Of pies, croquettes and puddings Which all present will declare Are more filling than a thesis On " The Whenceness of the Where" * * * RICJ-IJSS. I am not poor though I possess Of lands, nay not a rood; And though of chattels 1 have less, It may'he. than T should, For riches T do not depend On such as these: I own a friend! Good lands are not to bo despised Since thrift is in the earth; And Rold 4 and gems are to he prized According to their worth: But he who owns a friend owns more Than lands and gems and golden store. V THOSE DAUGHTERS. "Two heads are much better than one." so they say,— And those wise" saws—who doesn't adore them?— But it's hard for the father to deem them that way When he's buying fine millinery for them. COMMON PURPOSE. Astronomers and managers Of theatres, they, say, Where'er they are, for a bright new star, Are looking night and day.