BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 12 October 1910, Page 47

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

Hope springs eternal in the patient husband’s 'breast. Wife always is to be but never is quite dressed.—“ Life." No man has any right to paint as well as Raphael if he is not Raphael, especially if his handwriting is indistinct. — “Black and White.” The world is full of people who are miserable when the sun does not shine, and who, when rt does, complain that it is spoiling the ca,:pet. -“Glob?.” Laziness is not the brother of stagnation: laziness lie* passive, and lets life, life within and without, play upon him; perhaps it is only in moods of laziness we grow.—“ World.” Perfectly groomed, exquisitely polished in style and manner, the woman of fortyfive is a thing of beauty in a very real sense of the word; and she knows her power. —“Gentlewoman.” In school we learn the rule of three; in court ship the rule of two; in marriage the rule of one. —“Judge.” Many a charming actress is a charming wife, and many a charming wife is a charming actress. —“Lippincott's.” In sport, 'the iiqxl best thing to wining is losing, Unless you realise tha l . sport for you is a word without signifieance.—“Sunday Ch ronic le.'' Polite tolerance surely should b? our attitude towards the week-end weather that our ungraceful summers bring. The only decent thing is to say nothing a I mnt it.—“Dailv Sketch.”

The fact that Korea has one handled and sixteen paying gold mines goes a long way towards explaining win the rest of the world is taking such an interest in civilising it. —“Denver Republican.” If we had less deep-rooted ideas about •the “sacredness of property” drummed into us by our older political economists, we might be all the more easily led to think more about the sacredness of life. —“Co-operative News.” America spends a lot of money on its daughters, but it gets a vast amount of entertainment out of them. From her babyhood until maternity sets her -also in the audience. the American daughter is on show. “Daily Sketch.” Greek philosophy and logarithms are not potent enough to make girls indifferent to a man’s tonsorial attractions, or blind to the fact that he has matched his tie <and his socks to a shade, and chosen a suiting that “goes with his eyes.”—“Lady’s Pictorial.” What in youth is passion, in old age is vice.- Joubert. The basis of good manners is self reliance.—Emerson.

God created the coquette as soon He had made the fool.—Unidentified. To rise in the world, veil ambition with the forme of humility.—Confucius. It’s what you are that counts—not what you are going to be. —Hugh Leslie Dobree. The original and primitive being wit> in is ever trying to make itself manifco., and to usurp the place of conventions? ism.— D. MeClymont. There are two unpardonable sins in the world—success and failure. Those who succeed can’t forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can’t forgive him for being a success. —G. H. Lorimer. London is the only place in the world where neighbours do not trouble one too much. —“Daily M irror.” The man whose affections fluctuate according to finery is but a poor creature, of whom emancipated woman takes :-'O account. —“Gentlewoman.” Lawn tennis is a curious game. You may play it in a backyard, with a clothes-line for a net cord, and the -week’s washing for a net—and a very good game it is.—“ Morning Leader.” Marriage upsets a woman’s morals; she takes a uew code on her wedding day. Man is capable of preserving friendship, and, at the same time, entertaining love. Woman not so.—" Daily Dispatch.” Unless ti;e very rich give to the body of the people all that the people would have had if no privilege had been given to a few, they have not paid their fair share or their honest dues to the public. —“New York American.” We shall never abolish the evils of poverty and unemployment and the moral evils they inevitably involve until we earnestly set about the business of organising gettrng-a-living for every member of the nation.—“ Clari on.”