OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 3

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

The happiness of a. town depends in a great measure on shop windows. — lord Riddell. ENGLAND'S DOOR. I sometimes think England is on the verge of a great catastrophe.—• Canon L. C. Ueadiam. SCIENC‘E AND SOCTALISM. If our politicians cannot find an answer to Boleshevism perhaps science can. — Air A. Noyes. A X E X EE (KY ST AR T. I have never heard of a case where a widow starting business out of com--1 eusation :noncy has succeeded.—.fudge PRICE OF BUSINESS. There is no bottom to German prices to-day ; the price that will get business is the only price.—Air Godfrey CheesHFS ONLY HOPE. T only hope when I go to another world there will be no Canadian cattle there.—-Sir A. G. Boseawen (.\rim.stCT of Agriculture). .) V V'ENTT it: INTELT A G EM■ E. Children are never too young to misunderstand.—Dv -Margaret Tbackrah ADVICE TO BOYS. Boys l Speak the truth, think of others ; don’t dawdle. —Sir AY. RobertE AITH OF ' i H E GO V EI I N AIEN T. f wish the Government. had less faith in this mimda.no world.—Air BoydCurpcnter, ALP. FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Jvi days, tha.r- knew not the erotic novel. the talk of our ancestors was apt to he frank unto coarseness.— -AI iss Cicely Fla mil ton. TH E N ATrG'N’S TR E A SI7R ES. It seems a great pity that someone does not step in to save some of our fast vanishing ait treasures.- Sir C. J Holmes. AN ECONOMIC TAf POSSIBILITY. It is an economic impossibility for any one section of workers to isolate

themselves r and retain a. position very i;ir above the rest of the working class. - Mr C. T. Cramp. SGIEXCE AND V OLITTCS. Polities and science cannot work to- I rot her. - Sir A. Alayor-Robson. A DOG'S DKYOTJOX. We have humanised the dog, and made it in some cases more than human in its faithfulness and devotion. Sir ,7. tintcher. AGP. *.» CHORUS (MRLS 1 BR-AVKRY. | The bravery of chorus girls when out of work in. turning IheLr hand to allying and everything i~> really wonderful. | - Bishop of W illesden. SOME DISTINCTION. T do not think there is very much c.ifiV* pence in private life between a dog dancer and a judge.—Mr H. F. Dickens, K.O. (Common Serjeant). value of thus chorus. There is not one of our fine presentcay actors and actresses tv ho- bus not at some time or oilier owed success to the churns. —Mr A. Boureliicr. AN NO Yl NG V ÜBLICITY. To many criminals tlio publicity of the dock is the serious punishment. - Mr Justice M’Cardic. M.P. LOAFERS. 'I lie ordinary tendency in the House uf Commons, unless there is a personal squabble, is to loaf.—Air T. I\ O'Conic r. AN UNAIUSICAL CRJTTC. ’I cannot profess to distinguish with certainty any times except “God Save the. King' 5 and •’John Peel.'*—Dean Inge. OLJ> AGE BENEFITS. The beauty of old age is that it does not. matter whether one neglects conventional duties or not. Sir JT. Hop1. in sun. K.C. WHAT IS Dim? Dirt has been, described ns matter ni the wrong place.—Sir John Parsons. HEALTH. AND CAP IT AT.. Health is the only capital of the working man.—Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter. I TAP PI X ESS AN D HA TREI >. A great many people are quite unhappv without their 'hatreds. —Lord Henry Bcntinck. POOR 01.1) E NGL AN D. Have we not heard enough of this “conservative old England' 5 argument;-'- Mr Q. Selfridge.

USELESS CONFERENCES. I have no f.*ith in conferences either in Genoa or 10, Downing Street, or anywhere else. Sir Frederick Ban- > ary. OUT OF DAIE. -Th© economics of Karl Marx are as i much out of date as the sailing packet j in which he bad to reach our country, i - Lord Burnham. AV AR ’ S A FTKR Ar AT H. YA T c are threatened with an outbreak | of licentiousness like that which fol- j iowed the Civil War and the Napoleonic j w ar.—Don n T ugc. AVKLL-OFF R A ILWAYAIEN. Riailwaymen arc the- envy of scores of other trade© in this country.-- Mr J. H. Thomas, AI.P. EA’E'S AIISFORTUNE. AVomen ‘have lieon made lu«>l through centuries of man-made civi ih’ation.-—Aliss idnda-f-Ilageby. THE ACTIVE HUN. In Germany there is not an acre | lit for agriculture not being cultivated. | -Hon J. Al'AVhac (Victoria Agent General). RAILWAY RATES. In the '©vision of rates railway com- j ponies are trying to upset everything given against thorn in the courts in the past twenty-five years.- Air H. Parkcs.