PROVERBS TO SUIT THE TIMES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 1 November 1900, Page 20

PROVERBS TO SUIT THE TIMES.

A record is the only thing that improves by breaking. A bare cupboard always furnishes food for thought. The organ-grinder's vocation appears never to be played out. Every time you look at a twelve-year-old boy he needs a new pair of shoes. Some people spend enough time grieving over spilt milk to buy another cow. You never find a man who owns a diamond scarf-pin wearing a long beard. It never seems to occur to some people that some things ara none of their business. If a man licks the hand that smote him, it is because he can't smite the hand that licked him. Always getting into hot water — Tea leaves. The washerwoman's motto — Let's soap for the best. The hatter and the shoemaker go to extremes in their business. There are many men who are afraid of ghosts who are not afraid of spirits. If ignorance is bliss, the wonder is why bo many people complain of being miserable. The discouragement in mending one's way is that there is always someone who will call attention to the patches. A health journal say.s you ought to take three-quarters of an hour for dinner. It is well alno, perhaps, to add a few vegetables and a piece of meat. If wet-p< nt more of the time doing the things we can that we devote to wanting to do the things we can't, we should find that we could do more things.