OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17735, 4 January 1926, Page 8

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

ADVANTAGE OF LACK OF STATURE. I believe that in the modern life the small mail is the best. —Sir Arthur Keith. THEY ARE FEMALES! In examination girls always write three times as much as boys.—The Hon and Rev E. Lyttelton. LONDON FOR THE SANE. Let us prevent London being a city of the foolish, and keep it, as it is now, a city of the sane.—Lord Jcsscl. WHAT DO. It is a mercy that we have to wear clothes; they conceal a multitude of blemishes. —Professor Arthur Thomson. MAN ANd'iIIS DOG. Why will everybody assert that his ! dog has an intellect, still more her dog, without noticing the anomaly that no other animal has?—Father Ronald Knox. FOR AND* AGAINST. There arc two spirits at work in the Labour movement—the spirit of Christ and the spirit of anti-Christ. —The Rev R. J. Campbell. USELESS TIME. The time spent sitting in a railway train is in most cases useless for the purposes of business, pleasure, development or repose.—Lord Monkswell. * * * 4= CHRISTIANITY’S TESTING TIME. Christianity will stand or fall by what it accomplishes in the amelioration of the physical, as wclPas 'the an oral, condition of the people.- —Mr Lloyd George. SPORT SLAYS MISCHIEF. If it were not for football and cricket and horse-racing, thousands of us would spend our Saturday afternoons cither in making revolutions or in putting down revolutions that weren’t there.— Mr Robert Lund. “FOOLISH” MALE ATTIRE. Modern fashions, whereby women expose arms and neck to the sun, are to be commended whole-heartedly. We men are fools in this respect. We go on covering ourselves from the neck to the heel. Dr R. Yeitch Clark, Medical Officer of Health for Manchester. UTOP) A B E YOND REACH. My philosophy, after all these years, is that this is a complex and not a simple world, and that you cannot hope to reach Utopia, where there will be no evil and no suffering, but that the world, in the process of evolution, is always making progress- sometimes tragically interrupted—towards a higher condition of mankind, and that every man and woman can do something to relieve unhappiness. —Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P. * v IN STORE FOR US. We have many reasons to suppose that there are beings in the universe much higher than man. Indeed, I know that there are, and that we are surrounded by a multitude of helpers, a multitude of beings with power and will to help, interested in our struggles. I believe the Higher Powers have in store for man—both as an individual and as a race—something beyond anything we can imagine.—Sir Oliver Lodge. v H MUSIC AND HOTEL LIFE. Think what a different thing our lives would be if there were at hotels, as we travelled out the country, people who would willingly unite in singing choruses and part-songs instead of, as at