OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16740, 23 May 1922, Page 9

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

I began to write at the age of four. —Mrs Champion de Orespigny. PULL TOGETHER. These are times when wo must all pull together if we are going to pull through.—The Prince of Males. EVERYBODY HEALTHY. I am confident the time will come when there will he no necessity for a Minstry of Health.—Sir Alfred Aloud. WOMEN AND THE FRANCHISE. There is no greater delusion than to think that the women’s vote can be swayed effectively by mere men.—Sir D. Maclean, ALP. AA'OR KKR S NOT PA R TXER S. AVe have to get rid of the idea of a large section of the community that they are not partners in the community, but its tools —Professor Muir Mackenzie. STILL SNOBBERY. There is still a good deal of snobbery in old England.— T>r. Lyttelton. SET AN *KNAAiPLE. Don’t let us try to be like men, but let us try to make men like us.—Lady Astor. R EVOLUTION MAKERS. Plutocrats and profiteers are the real makers of revolution.—Mr Clynes. A XOA r EL-R T DDF.N RA C E To-day the English people are the most novel-ridden people in the world. —Lord Ernie. LACHRYMOSE WORDS. Afr Balfour’s words at AYnshington brought tears to the eyes of all who heard them.— M. Briand. A DIFFICULT JOB. We must give up all hope of the working classes being able to throw down the capitalist system in one effort. —Trotsky. NEVER ? There are just as many brainless men as women.—Aliss Florence Underwood. BRAINS AND HOUSEKEEPING. The educated woman undoubtedly makes the best wife.—Airs H. AY. Nevinson. TDO HIG H AY A G ES. Wages of farm workers must come down further.—Sir A. Griffith-Bos-cawen, M.P. THE LEARNED SCOT. Scottish belief in education is the secret of the unpleasant pre-eminence -of Scotsmen in every field.—Air H. A. L. Fisher. M.P. A ST R ONG STRICTU RE. School methods ato prison methods intended only to rescue the parents from the horrible persecution of the continual com pan v of the voting. —-Air Bernard Shaw. FATHERS’ * CHAAIPIOX. There ought to be someone to fight for fathers. Commander Edwards, M. DEATH AND HEALTH. Probably the edath-rate offers the best all-round test of well-being.—Air C. E. Fell. AGREED. A'ery few people can say that all their ancestors have been English.-—Air Justice Darling. A VAIN HOPE. T hope and Ixdieve that one hundred years hence there will be no British Empire—Air H. G. Wells. THE CAREFUL PROPHET. A prophet who knows his business is careful to fix the date of his predictions not too soon —Dean Inge. STILL IN THE AYOOD. So far as social unrest is concerned, we are not yet out of the wood.—Air Shortt (Home Secretary). BETTER TIMES AHEAD. We are facing times better than those which our forefathers had to face at the end of the Napoleonic wars. Lord Leverhulme. SPECULATIVE BEAUTY. If a man marries a woman for beauty alone he is making a very speculative bargain. Airs H. A. L. Fisher. LOOKS AND THEIR USE. English women are the best looking in the world, but when it comes to the use of good looks I can’t pay the same compliment. M. Lesage. AN ANALOGY. What the typewriter is to correspondence. the dailv Press is to conversation- -Sir E. Wild, K.C., M.P. AN ERA FOR PEACE. The Quadruple Entente creates an absolute bulwark against war. Viscount, Takahaslii (Japanese Premier). A GOOD SYSTEM. The voluntary hospital system iy essentially a British system. We are proud of it, and mean to keep it- —Sir W. Col hue. LOOK AHEAD. AVe are too apt to rely on our own self-confidence to pull us through difficult times; wo don’t think ahead enough.—Viscountess Milner. R ECKLESS AIOTORING. T have no patience with motor-car accidents in daylight.—Air Justice Bailhache. PA YAI ENT BY RESULTS. A man demanding the right to work should l>e willing to be paid by Jesuits.— Sit* H. Austin. ALP. TEMPER AND GLIA I ATE. 1 have long felt that the climate of Ireland is the main cause of the curious temper of the people.—Dr. .L M. Bullock.