BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 October 1910, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

From a country newspaper: “WanteC —a Young Man, able to cook, scrubs paint, drive, look after a pair of horses, clean a carriage, feed cattle, elean boots, windows, etc., and make himself generally useful.” It is lucky they put in that about making himself generally useful,- er they might “have got hold of a regular slacker, who would have spent the quarter of an hour’s rest which he got every day in loafing about and idling.—“ Globe.” An indiscreet man is an unsealed letter; every man ean read it.—Chamfort. Practice makes perfect, but one must practice perfectly.—M. L’awrence-Weth-erill. He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labour.— G. B. Shaw. If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed.—Pascal. A privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.—Mark Twain. A woman is always prepared to lay down laws of conduct for the opposite sex whose standards are as remote front hers as the customs of Fiji from those of Lapland.—Duncan Schwann. Your credit never will get so poor that you cannot borrow trouble. —“Syracuse Journal.” Nothing is more ridiculous than a tendollar hat on ' a two-dollar man. — “Chicago Record-Herald.” A lot of lighter-than-air stuff is being written about heavier-than-air craft.— “Judge.” New York. If a man could fool his wife as easily as he ean his conscience, there would be no limit to his behaviour. —“N.Y. Press.” There is grave danger that a strengthening of the law sufficient to suppress the neurotic and erotic novel would have the effect of putting literature into a straight waistcoat.—“ Daily" Graphic.” A man is proud to say he has been able to preserve health and youthful looks during the journey of life, and beasts of how many milestones he has passed; while a woman, no matter how much credit her years should be to her, is always humiliated to be known as older than twenty-five. —“Madame.” Those of our readers who are thinking of swimming the Channel will be glad to know that the skirt is made in corsage fashion, and that the bodice part is smartly braided and slightly kimono. There is an overdress, through which the belt (also braided) is taken, and the feature of the centre front is a large silk anchor. If you can’t manage twenty miles in that vou must be hopeless.—“ Black and White.” Forbearance is a domestic jewel.— Confucius. The secret of happiness is not to expect it.—D. McClymont. No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women—not even to his own.—Balzac. The merely logical masculine mind doffs hat respectfully before the superiority of feminine intuition.—Richard Dehan. Human daws who ean consent to masquerade in the peacock shams of inherited dignities and unearned titles are of no good but to be laughed at.—Mark Twain. Nobody ever attains eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.—C. K. Adams. Weak mothers are those in whom the mother is too strong. —Graf Douglas. Our friends, by their hope and confidence in us, bind us to integrity.— Bernard Snell. Intellectual culture has no necessary relation to excellence of character.—• Samuel Smiles. To be born obscure and to die illustrious are the two extremes of human felicity.—Luther. If a woman were raised from the dead, she would straighten her hat before any-, thing else.—F. Marion Crawford. Speaking truth is like writing fair F and only comes by practice; it is less a matter of will than of habit.—Ruskin. Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes’ palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.— Webster. The greatest thing in life is to spread as much happiness an possible among those with whom we live.—Judge Ron* to ul.