SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11360, 12 April 1915, Page 4

SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

When she lottoth thee reeklessly hpend, Ami. laughoth to see thee, go broke, Thou inayst jolly her on without tmd, For tsho takctli thee but as a joke. But whan fcbo deuiurreth at price. Aji/1 chidetli for what thou hast KptiJlt, Thou art treading on treacherous ie<v. For tlio maiden hath solemn intent. • Fro never caught a four-pound has*, I'm very frank to sav; TV. fish that big J've lmoked, aJas! Have always got away. I.Vo never caught a seven-pound trout And had him. stuffed and draped; I'vci booked full many a. one, no doubt, Jivit always lie's escaped. Awl as in fishing, to it seonis, In life.l've plodded on; I've hooked up many splendid .schemes. But never landed' one. . "•* History doesn't tell us how those brave male 6. who tackle wild-cats barehanded when they walk on the clean door with muddy shoes, or let tho baby bump its no«e. —'•' Macon Telegraph." The reformer can never be content whilst he sees the worker tied to the machine from morning till night, in the best days of his life, and " scrapped" in his old age. Tho working classes do not live to-day; they exist. * » » Love, above all the businesses of life, is ono in which you must bo bold' --bo bold—and evermore he hold; delay is nearly always fatal.—Mary E. Mann.

A woman doesn't care what a man looks like. They'd rather a man wouldn't bo handsome., so he'll think about them instead of about himself, tho way to please a, woman is to help her to think of nothing but herself.— David Graham Phillins/

The farmer marvelled greatly when ho read about his son. And of tho football battle that tho stalwart lad had' won; '•'l guess,'-' ho said, "he's learned to work, that lazy boy o' mine: He never did at homo; but now bo's ploughin' through the line.'' --" Philadelphia Ledger.-' •» *

The beakfast table is the'place where mast honeymoons go down with a crash. It is never 'fair to look at a woman before she lias gotten all the kinks out of her hair, nor to listen to a man before he has smoothed all the kinks out of his temper.—San Francisco " Bulletin.''

It may be true that Nietzsche and the other German philosopher are responsible for tho war, but there is a prevalent idea that a, party named Knipp had something to do with it.— "Nashville Southern Lumberman."