OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 5

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

If curiosity is the source of all scientific discovery, it is the very stuff of which dramatic emotion is made.—Mr A. B. Walkley. THE MARRIED MAN. Everybody knows that married men are best.— Rev. J Glass. VOICE AND VIRTUE. I like the London male, choruses. They are real men.—Mr Alan Dale, USA. A KINDRED " SPIRIT.** The Scotch love Americans, and T am encouraged to think that the Americans love the Scotch.—Lord Dewar. STILL, WATCH! I would say to my English friends: Do not think that the United States is impolite.—Mr J. M. Beck. GENERALLY AGREED. The word “ Ellis ” in “ Ellis Island ” ought to have the letter “ h ” tacked on to it at both ends.—Sir W. Watson. BRITISH GASTRONOMY. M. Judet (the French Socialist) admired everything in England, even the cooking, detestable at it is.—Professor Rene Quinton. GLOUCESTER AND VACCINATION. Let us hope the anti-vaccinators will decide to save the ratepayers of Gloucester the cost of providing their coffins —Miss V. Martineau. USE OF THE BIRCH. I recall with some gratification that when a boy in school I received as man 3' as three whippings before breakfast.—Mr E. F. L. Wood. OUR SPORTING SPIRIT. One thing that makes and keeps our Empire so great is that unselfish and sporting team spirit, which is our precious heritage.—Lord Milford Haven. NEWS AND DIVORCE. If the Divorce Courts were wiped out as far as the newspapers are concerned, I think there would be an immediate and alarming increase in divorce cases. —Sir E. Hume Williams, K.C. THOSE TERRIBLE WELSH. Welsh people will indulge in any form of gambling. Police-Superintendent Evans. WE MUST HAVE PEACE. I hope the British and American Navies will always march towards the glorious accomplishments of peace. President Harding. THE AWFUL ALTERNATIVE. What is the alternative to the Christian principle of the Golden Rule? The Ruhr across the breadth of the world. —Dr Mott. READING PSYCHOLOGY . I would like to get hold of every person and minister in this land and make them read psychology for a solid year.—Principal W. B. Selbie. SOMETHING BETTER LEFT UNDONE. Almost all the people who do anything in England have got something better to do. The tragedy is that they so rarely do it.—Mr Philip Guedalla. THE CREATIVE WORD HELD BACK. What is ,it that keeps France from saying the creating word, the “ let there be light” for which we all yearn? . . . It is Fear, it is the inability to forget, it is the unwillingness to forget.—J. A. Spender. THE BUSINESS OF THE EQUCATOR. The business of the educator is to educate ordinary men and ordinary women, and it is the ordinary man and the ordinary woman who get most good out of the educational process.—Mr Fisher, the ex-Minister of Education. •' AND OBEY.'* In the case of couples happily married the question of obedience never comes in at all.—Mrs Creighton. LONDON’S *LIBR ARY. If the Devil were in want of fresh information with regard to the annals of hell, the only place where he could find it is the London Library.—Mr St. Leo Strachey. BUNYAN AND MILTON. Sanctity, not Intellect, is a note of the true Church, and consequently the humblest saint must always rank higher in the congregation of the righteous than the nimblest of wits or the most solid of secular reputations. It is just because John Bunyan possesses this saintly note that he is more of a credit to the Baptists than can John Milton ever be to the Independents.—Augustine Birrell. MUGS AND TIPS. It is only mugs who buy these racing tipe.—Old Street Magistrate. A FAMILY TIP. Mr Neville Chamberlain is the second great asset of the Government.—Mr A. Chamberlain. THE RUHR AND COMMERCE. Whoever holds the Ruhr will inevitably become the commercial masters of Europe.—Mr H. A. Van de Linde. MUSIC AND *PUBLICITY. You will never have a revival of English music until you do what you want to do without the least regard to publicity.—Mr J. L. Garvin. A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. No thoughtful observer of English life can fail to be aware that at the present time a religious ferment is working, unparalleled as regards activity and power since the Reformation.—Canon Barnes. HUSBAND AND WTFE. The Church should have taught that the -wife's feelings should be consulted in marriage, and her will accepted at ;east as often as the husband’s.— Maude Royden. POSSIBLY! The United States Supreme Court is possibly the greatest forum of intellectual debate of which civilisation has any knowledge —Hon. J. M. Beck U S Solicitor-General. OVERCOMING EVIL. It, is not by bemoaning one’s fate, or being discontented with one’s lot that evil i® overcome or a wrong set right—Sir Berkeley Sheffield. Curiosity is the source, of all discovery.—M„ Flarnmarion. LEARN. Nothing can make up for being born a dunce.—Dean Inge. SOME* TASK. 1 cannot imagine a more awful thing than n. club that discusses prohibition and the League of Nations.—Lord B Cecil.