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Western Star, Issue 1389, 14 September 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

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He who begins and does not bish loses his labour. They that will not.be counsel ijd cannot be helped.—Franklin. The great art of life is to play for much and stake little.—Johnson S An unkind criticism is like a pin—the better the point the more it hurts. | We always find wit and mer|Lin those who look at us with admiration. m Little chips suffice to kindle i large fire, and little brooks grow intogrea; vers. There is nothing so bad that 11 not admit of something being said in its d nee. The man who can’t be angry a fool; the man who will not allow himself be, is wise. He who, with good health has a true friend, may laugh adversity to s lm and defy the world. Religion is the most gentlem ly thing of the world. It alone will gentili 'if unmixed with cant. i An ounce of generous praise ill do more to make a man your friend tha a pound of fault-finding. He who receives a good turribboald never forget it; he who does one Should never remember it.—Oharron. To an honest mind the best erquisites of plaee are the advantages it gi’, ss a man of doing good.—Addison. People who fish for complin ants do not need long lines. They wil get their beat bites in shallow water. Sorrow, in some instances, iardens and narrows the mind but in all we -constituted characters it softens, enriches, ei lobles. Speak kindly of absent friends to those who are present, that they may nc, think you unmindful of themselves win i they are absent. A hundred times more trouble is caused by men who cau get work but tvon’t work, Chan by the men who want wdrlf but canaol get it. Men are not merciful to women’s tears as a I rule ; and when it is a woman belonging to them who weeps they only go out and slam the door behind them. So completely does the success of a man’s work depend upon the success of his life that it is worse than useless for him to attempt to secure the former at the expense of the latter. In America there is said to be a growing disinclination to employ woman as clerks. It is said that they want mor > frequent holidays than men, and in general much more attention. It was Reycier who said, apropos of soup, that it is to a dinner ‘ what a portico is to a palace or an overture to an opera; it is no only the commencement of a feast, but should give an idea of what is to follow,’