OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16749, 2 June 1922, Page 10

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Black and white should never marry. —Bishop of Exeter. THE DIFFICULTY. The worst of unintelligent piety is that it suggests that all piety is unintelligent.—Canon Barnes. ,1U VENILE* D A NGER S. Among tho rocks a boy has to avoid I include horses, wine, women and highbrows.—Sir Robert Baden-Powell. FR AUDU LENT* LITERATURE. The most successful literary frauds have unfortunately been connected with ecclesiastical history.—Dean Inge. OUR EASY LIFE. As far as raw intelligence is concerned, most of our doily occupations are well within the reach of a boy of ten. —Prof. John Adams. IN THE LAPS OF THE GODS. No present expressions of s goodwill, however sincere, can control the future. —Air Balfour. THE DIFFERENCE. It is all verv well for individuals outside tho walls of the prison to sing “Noel, Noel, Noel.”—Pentonville Prison chaplain. CATCHING ’EM! I defy any Government in countries which have been at war to ballot their people on war before entering into it. —Air Robert Smillie. WHEN STUPID. There is an emotional as well as an intellectual stupidity.—Professor T. HPear. OH, THOSE ! I have twelve children in my house, and it is just like a monkey house.— Lady Astor, AI BABEL’S* CURSE. The curs© of Babel Is really very serious in handling international business.—Professor Gilbert Murray. OUR FINANCIAL BURDEN. The State must realise that people cannot spend so ns to make fresh work with taxation as heavy as it is ijow.— Bishop of Birmingham. HARD ON THE JURY. In my opinion the only use of a grand jurv is to afford a guilty person a chance of getting off without being tried.—Judge Green well. GRAMOPHONES AT SCHOOL. T look forward to the time when the absence of the gramophone from the school will be as extraordinary as the absence of a piano would be considered extraordinary to-day.—Mr C. Armstrong Gibbs. WE HOPE SO. Tt is absolutely untrue that food for relief of the Russian famine areas is being consumed by tho Red Army.— Dr Nansen. BURSTING TO SHINE. In tho home country there are tens of thousands of young fellows with abounding life and energy pressing for an outlet. —Commissioner Lamb. KNOWING HIS COUNTRY. The only geographical book on which I could have any pretence to pass a decent examination would he Bradshaw’s Railway Guide.—Lord Robert Cecil. * FASHIONABLE FOOLISHNESS. To poke fun at prophecy is a. very foolish fashion.—Rev Dinsdale T. Young. THE THIRD SEX. There seems to be three sexes—men, women, and parsons.—Bishop of Bir raingliam. . x »** WATCH YOUR PETS. The danger of infection by domestic pets is very real to children.—Dr. Stevens (Grimsby medical officer). LAUNDRY LUXURIES. As a result of excessive charges laundry is becoming an upper middleclass service.—Miss Ellen C. M ilkinson, BURDEN OF TAXATION. Unless the entertainment tax is removed a large number of entertainment places will be unable to exist.—Sir A. Butt. A CHARMING TRAIT. It is very charming to see people so enthusiastic about work these days.— Mr Denman (Mu rlborougli-street magistrate). A LCK >HO LIC *IN FLU EN CE. When a Frenchman is drunk he is gay, when a German is drunk he snores, and when an Englishman is drunk he fights.—Dr C. F. Harford. JURY ISM AND JUSTICE. T have never known the intervention of a grand jury to bo in the interests of justice, and l have sometimes known it to be mischievous. —Sir R. D. Aluir. COST OF IGNORANCE. For every pound spent on education £lO is paid for tlio result of ignorance. —Prof. Pollard. DON ’ T GFT * TROUBLED. Tear and anger, and any violent emotion, tend to stop the secretion of gastric juices.—Professor Winifred Cullis. LIFE’S CORNER STONES. Fresh air, food,* light and restful surroundings are tho four corner-stones in the life of Alan.—Dr D. O. Aluthu. SCIENCE v. NATURE. The scientific progress of tho lost hundred years has not made the world more beautiful.—Canon Mastcrman. MISAPPLIED KNOWLEDGE. It is far more certain that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will wield enormous powers over Nature than that they will uso them wisely.— Lord Milner.