MR, CROOK'S "DON'TS."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 8

MR, CROOK'S "DON'TS."

AN ENTERTAINING ADDRESS. Mr. Will Crooks, tho British Labout M.P., delivered an entertaining address in Melbourne last week. In the course of it he laid down a few "dont's" as a guido to make life happier and better. "Don't get angry"—nobody else cared. The man who was angry wa-s tho only man annoyed. "Don't arguo when you aro tired. It could not bo done. Lawyers receiving big fees would not do it. They postponed it till tho morning. Going home from a meeting he met two of his daughters. They said, "Look, father . He replied, "Enough, I am tired." When he reached home Mrs. Crooks said, "Did those girls ?" But ho answered, "Tomorrow ; I'm tired." In the morning Mrs. Crooks said, "Those - girls must apologise." Ho replied, "It shall bo done," and he told the girls -so. They apologised. "And from that day to this I don't know what the row was about," added the speaker, amidst laughter. "Don't tako the workshop borne with you," advised Mr. Crooks. The wife had enough shop before the husband got there. Don t talk about trouble before the children. Don't-worry about what you can't help to mend. Don't busy yourself about the future and forget the duties of the present. Don't think yoa have a constant job—the man in the cemetery had it. (Laughter.) Don't treat tho wife in any other way than that of a partner—tho man wlio did differently would get tho worst of it. Don't swank; the world hated tho syporior person. Don't think you aro too'dever to be "done." No man was. If bo thought he was he should go, to Fleniington and find out. (Lamghter.) Don't think tho breed of the British race depended on their half-dollars. (Laughter.) It did not. Ho had often seen young fellows open the papers, to find they bad backed a loser, and they say, "And I was on the winner till I,met a chap this morning who put me off." (Laughter.) That was not sport; it was luimbug. (Applause.) Don't think that they could get spiritual gain without worldly sacrifice. It could not be done.