OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 10

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Then* is no better equipment in thei ait. of living than the knowledge and | love of groat poetry - .—Lord Chalmers. CHARM OF FIAT LIFE. Quito three-quarters of the l-ondon servants who apply for situations ask for fiats rather than houses: the work is easier and the hours arc more hsed. -■ Mrs Arhnthnof. BRITAIN'S TONNAGE HOLDING. In spite of war losses Great Britain now owns only three and a quarter million tons less than one-half the world's tonnage.— Sir Owen Philipps. LONDON’.* STYEETEST LAUGH. On, the anniversary night of a ’popular play a princess of our Loyal family lid riie management, of the theatre that she. had enjoyed the play and that it was ■■ flip sweetest laugh in London. OSTHAC [SING THE HUN. No hu-uness firm in Germany should be allowed to canvass for business rn She British Empire nenv.—Agent-Gene-ral tor (south Australia. FOODSTUFFS EASY. There ip no reason to anticipate amconsiderable shortage of essential foodstuffs, though one or two articles may continue relatively scarce.—Mr G. H. Roberts. MISCHIEF MAKING. Tlmre. is great danger that the most important bearing in the engine, r, berc there is friction between Capital and Labour, should run hot. Many a mischief maker lias tried to put sand into the hearing—what i? needed is cil.— Bishop of Exeter.

L WOMEN WHO SWEAR. • A woman who frankly admits herself i to be ‘‘one of the swearers,” alleges that, the habit is due to the poverty of the vocabulary. She agrees that it is foolish, but doubts whether the habit ran be broken. Like smoking, it has probably conic to stay.—A" Modern Eve. ! OUR UNWISE POLITICIANS. In Parliament thev think ail people are idiots, and legislate tor them as lif they were babies. West London j Magistrate. | THE HOUSE OF WELCOME. I I look forward to the time when every man and woman, however poor, will regard the university as a house of personal welcome.—Sir M. Sadler. | TOO PREVIOUS OPTIMISM. However much we may wish to have total prohibition, the tune is not ripe for it.—Bishop of Liverpool. WHEN SILENCE IS GOLDEN. I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.—President Wilson. PUTTING ON THE BRAKE 1 The old policy of the .Board of Trade ito let things drift mu.ft now stop. — Sir I A. Oeddcs. ! | POWER OF POLITICS. The successful politician is sometimes an poor as a rat. but he can dine with a millionaire even' night if he pleases —Lord Haldane., GOVERNMENT AND TOE TRAMS. The Government, is not prepared to fake temporary control of tram and ’bus traffic, within the metropolitan areaSir A. Geddes. THE OVERWORKED HOUSEWIFE. If is high time we gave serious at- | lent,ion to providing shorter hours for j housewives—easily the most overworked j class in the coram unitv.—Sir Robert I Hadtiehl. | CHRISTIAN UNITY, j A snail is an express train compared i with the rake of progress towards Chris- | turn unity.—Rev .1. H. Shakespeare. | A GOOD JUDGE. ! The whole world is my province, but ) England :« rav home. Dame Melba. | OUR LITTLE~FAILING. I The average Englishman never proj perly opens his month and never properly shn*.s it. so that one never hears half of what ho savs.—Prehendarv Gough. FEED THE SCHOLAR. Children attending school should lie fed properly. We cannot have a healthy nation when children have to study on empty stomachs.—Air Lloyd George. BUT MANY OASES. One never realises what an awful desert London is until one finds oneself a. stranger within its vails.— General Feilding. GLORIOUS YOUTH. AH fbnr 1 know | learnt, after J was th irty.—M. Ge inonccan. DEATH AS A XTRSE. 'Ac have sometimes seen a nurse wheeling a child along in at bassinette. On the way the child falls asleep. It wakes to find itself at home. So with the Christian journeying along the road ol life. He falls asleep, ihe sleep of death, only to wake to find himself at home. Death is the nurso which lakes him home to his Father—God.-—Dr J. H. Jo wet. t. WHAT’S IN~A NAME? No man is so well known as lie thinks ho is.—Enrico Caruso.