LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 June 1928, Page 4

LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Surprised! “You here, James!” exclaimed the slum-worker, visiting tho gaoL‘’“Yes, ma’m,” replied the new priwAer/who was in for burglary. “Well, well, I certainly am surprised,” x*!Bo was I, ma’am, or I wouldn’t be here”-?: *#.* • . ; He Knew! a , - l “Blease, sir,” faltered the office boy, “I would like to get off to attend the football game next Saturday. 11 No, you don’t, ” snapped the boss. “You have no more intention of going to see the game than I have. You want to get off to attend the- funeral of grandmother. You can’t, fool me.” .*■ * • • • Some Name! ... sir, Constautine Pappadimitrakopoulosija* fused to change his name when he np.r peared before the Paris Courts to file his citizenship papers. The clork suggested to Mr Pappadimitrakopoulos that a new name would go well with a new citizenship, but the applicant said Pappadimitrakopoulos is tho name which his parents gave him, and that he is proud of it. M * *' ■* 'O. Recalling! ' Doctor (to patient, a golfer, suffering from insomnia): “Well, and how did you sleep last night? Did you follow my instructions aud recall the strokes of your round?” Patient: “Yes.” Doctor: “And then you fell asleep?” Patient: “No, then it was time to get up.” • * • • A Big Man’s Humour. Mr G. K. Chesterton is one of Lhe stoutest men alive to-day, but he is not sensitive about his size. At a rec/K meeting of a society of which he member, it was announced that the membership was to be increased by 50. When Mr Chesterton addressed the gathering he apologised for having been absent from several previous meetings, and expressed a hope that the proposal to admit fifty new members was not suggested with the idea of filling the gap caused by his non-appearance. * * * *

Relics. “A sense of proportion should be kept, and we ought to come to some conclusion as to precisely what relics we wish to keep at any price, and what we think about the things which, at a price, we are welling to let go,” says Mr J. C. Squire, in the “London Mercury.” “We may begin by assuming that America is £ a buyer’ of anything that we care to let her have. Westward the course of Empire goes, and the interest of the rich in antiquities is nothing new.* America as a rich country is naturally dominaut in the international works of art. There are things for which you will rather die than sell; there are things you will sell price. A man would not sell his miwer, but, at a sufficient price, he might sell his mother’s favourite tankard. The question'is whether the wild American collectors are not already offering for our manuscripts prices at it would, be foolish not to let thqtoy, go. Some things we must keep;. theWJ : are others which, if sufficiently attractive bids are made, we might as well l c t go —in the certainty that their authors would agree with us. ”

Changes in Turkey. * Since 1923, striking and. far-reaching changes have taken place in all phases of national life in Turkey.' With the abolition of the Sultanate and the Caliphate, the Wakfs and the Medresehs, the Dervish orders and the tekkes, with the disappearance of the fez and the veil, with the replacement of the Muslim Friday with the Christian Sunday as the weekly day of rest, and of the Islamic-code of laws with a mixturemf the Swiss civil code, the German cSßmereial code and the Italian penal code, and with the revision of Westernisation of the calendar and religions holidays, and now with the disestablishment of Islam as the State religion, religion has ceased to be a phase of national life, and has become purely a private concern. These changes, however;V great they are, do in no wise imply the disappearance of Islam from Turkey. If, after the disestablishment of Christianity in France as the State' religion, : France still remains one of the greatest strongholds of the faith of Jesus Christ In Christendom, liow could the separation of the Church from tho State in Turkey possibly disintegrate tho faith of Muhammad in that country? The religious instinct in man is too strong for State enactments, Government statues, and even from the lash of the tyrant. * ..