BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 2 November 1910, Page 48

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

“The fair hair of the Anglo-Saxon,* we are told, “is disappearing/' But w« are not going to worry. It will come into fashion again right enough befora long.—“ Punch.” ■Poets and infants are wonderful beings, mostly because no one ean understand what they say.—“ Judge,” New York. If you want to see a man when ha is perfectly and completely happy, watehi him as he cleans out his pipe.— “Queen.” To be honest is to set all knaves against thee. —Tennyson. Nothing will suffice for youth and love, —D. AfcClymont. Pew of us ean stand prosperity—another man’s, I mean. —-Mark Twain. Speech is a mirror in which the soul reflects itself. —M. Lawrence-Wetherill, There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.—Gv Bernard Shaw. Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. —'Philistine. A man who can really think for himself will go far, for he may rest assured that he is one hi a thousand.—“ National Telephone Journal.” Social reformers would do well to worry themselves less about the birthrate and devote their efforts to a furtheit reduction of our still needlessly high death-rate.—“ Daily Graphic.” A jewel is one of the most beautiful things in nature, and it is indestructible. It is one of the world’s imperishable possessions, and how can it be displayed to better advantage than on the person of a woman’—“Argonaut,” San Francisco. These are hard times for heroes. It is true that the policeman, who showed such pluck in rescuing a man from the! Thames, has been awarded £5, and ha? been publicly commended by Sir Albert de Rutzen. But, on the other hand, he has received several serious threats of marriage.—“ Black and White.” It is one of the privileges of foreign! travel that the Britisher, on. returning to his native land, is able to gaze upon the women of his own race and admit, with no small satisfaction, that no other; Clime can boast such perfect complexions, laughing eyes, cherry lips, and healthy; skins as can this deal - old land of England. —“Vanity Fair.” To enjoy doing nothing is probably the best test of holiday happiness. Td lie on the sands, or in the heather, and stare up at the sky, and to have nd desire beyond this, is bliss enough for many people.-—“ Madame.” A Supreme Court justice has decided that prunes are not pastry, while a jury has held that rice pudding is pastry. What if the prunes were combined with the rice.—“ New York American.” To set out to correct all the mistakes -and inaccuracies to -be found in the’ American Press about England and English society would be almogt as hard a. task as to attempt to teach the average Englishman anything about America and Americans.—“ World.”

Accuracy is the sign of a well-ordered and well-balanced mind; mistakes are! the result of slovenliness and laziness, and they necessitate a life of apology and excuse. The man who makes mistakes is he who does not take the trouble’ to avoid them.- —“Organiser.” Marriage itself is a concession of the’ individual to tho general welfare, but to ask for indissoluble marriage is asking for more than human nature can afford to concede To human society.—“ Daily. Chronicle.”. Smoking by women is essentially at question of taste and not more indicative of lax morals, weak nerves, or a desird for alcohol, than the wearing of storm skirts, common-sense shoes, or eyeglasses.—“ New York Herald.” Flirting, to some extent, keeps girl? from committing matrimonial follies. If they did not work off “emotive delusion’* in this way they would probably marry the first man who came along.—“Commentor.” We rush about the streets, almost! choke ourselves over “quick luncheon/* go to noisy musical comedies for recrea.* tion—and then send missionaries to the effete East to show the Oriental how ta live.—“ Canadian Magazine.” Why not convince ourselves that it H far more restful to stay in town than to go to the sea or mountains? Why not? regard the continual roar of traffic «• a gentle lullaby? It is true we should have less to talk about, but maybe this! would not be a disadvantage.— “Lady’ll Pictorial.” , . .