BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 4, 27 July 1910, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

«lf mistresses were themselves trained in housewifery there would probably be a great improvement in their servants,— “Contemporary.” The youth who, in criticising some temporary fair one, demands of himself, “Would I like my sister to behave as she does?” is a civilised being exercising his judgment and free will.—“ The Sketch.” An automobile enthusiast proposes the building of a motor road from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with road-houses and garages every five miles. Why omit hospitals?—“New York Evening Post.” A can of succotash beneath a bough, Some turnips, beans, and peas, for me and thou! The while the Meat Trust howls in futile woe We’re learning to eat vegetables now. —“Boston Traveller,” U.S. The temptation to be led blindly by. Fashion must be enormous. It is not only in the question of dress that humanity takes the line of least trouble and responsibility. Every department of life/ holds its inducements to leave to others what we cannot do easily ourselves. —- “Madame.” Life is a comedy to those who think—a tragedy to those who feel. —“G. R. Sims.” A man must be a fool who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her.—“ Balzac.” To set up our own standard of right and wrong and to expect everyone to conform to it is a mistake.—“Rentoul.” The curse of the British theatre is that it is patronised by Philistines and monopolised by Israelites. — T ‘Hannen S waff er.”

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a deg and a man.—Mark Twain.

Fine weather has sometimes a bad effect upon Londoners. They are not used to it, and it unsettles them. It makes them regret their bondage to work. —“Daily Mirror.” Thousands of voters still think of a member of Parliament as a kind of small Providence, to be tapped at intervals for local mercies, and do not seriously disprove of the means he takes for “getting there.” —"Nation.” A medical paper has made the statement that business worries are responsible for .bad play at golf. The idea is not new. It is years since the Scottish golfer in “Punch” decided to give up the meenistry.—“Glove.”

Flattery, however, gross or insincere, is always a tribute to our importance. Though we know that the flatterer does not mean what he says, still he would not flatter us at all if we were not worth flattery; and by doing so he confesses his own inferiority.—“ Times.”

Dressing well tends to a general refinement of character. A girl who, from her own sense of what is fit and appropriate, discards cheap jewellery, loud styles, and elaborate modes, will insensibly adopt an easy carriage, graceful manners, and a pleasant speaking voice.—“ Daily Chronicle.”

Brains are now almost as important as beauty as far as social success is concerned.—“ Gentlewoman.”

The only question now is whether Col. Roosevelt will abolish the House of Lords or merely reform it. —“New York Evening Post.” Nature is just in all her gifts. The only animal that has the power to blush is the only animal that has occasion to.— “ Co-operative News.” Loyalty to friends moves many to treachery against the State; loyalty to self is at the bottom of nine-tenths of the crime and evil in the world.—“ Daily Dispatch.” A party of well-dressed women of a certain maturity of age is encircled with an atmosphere of awe which bears witenter among them requires a bravery of superiority. For a complete stranger to enter amngst them requires a bravery of which mere man, unless driven by absolute necessity, is often incapable.—“ Black and White.” The woman who faces her years with courage will find them not such bad friends after all. They have brought her ; experience, confidence and tact, the joys of mental independence, the right to choose her own friends, and sanction in the doing of many satisfying things that were forbidden in her girlish days.—“ Daily Sketch.”