MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3613, 21 September 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Recently a lady had to be conveyed out of a ball-room in a complete state of prostration, which tnraed cut to have been caused by the Soisonous particles emanating from a green ress that she wore. Powerful antidotes had to be employed to revive her. The most powerful was a whisper, by a friend, that her false hair was coming off Tbt latest precocious saying is by an infant of the Pacific Coast. She had tom one of her nails to the quick, and going to her mother, while the pain tilled her eyes with tears, said, ? iiv* «P her wounded finger, “ Mamma, I hall have to go up to heaven and dit auozzer sut on.” Under Criticism. Many thousands o workers will rise this morning to pursue their work; many thousands of critics (their natural enemies, as the workers would say) will nso to pursue their work. Without undervaluing criticism, we may admit that a great deal of needless pain is caused by it; and that as a general rule we all sympathise more with the doers than the critics. The object of this short essay is to aid the cuticised in bearing criticism. The first thing is not to pretend not to care for hostile criticism. That form of insincerity never helped any man. One of the pest comforts in this case of hostile criticism is to remember the proverb, “Many men, many mmds. • Any man who has done anything which provokes much comment will tell you that it is astonishing how diverse are the opinions of persons whom you would admit to be equally qualified in criticising. That which pleasM one _ disgusts another; and visa vo'sa. Ihis diversity of opinion in mankind might alone suffice to comfort those who furnish matter for the criticism in the world. But unfortunately, the worst part of criticism is misrepresentation. No man can pretend to be m , dlfferent that. You, the person i™*®. ° ut to have this, thought that done the other thing: and in wahty you did not say this, think that, or do the other thing This in undoubtedly a great grievance. But look at the whole matter as a question of forces. So much force is lost bv this representation ; but do not take the matt.r at heart, as if misrepresentation were a circumstance that belonged to you alone. It besets all human effort. Look at the whole matter as a merchant would at any separate venture of his, of which he calculates the gain or loss by double entry. There are such and such prosperous winds in favour of the good ship Mary Anne, and there were such and such adverse winds against the good ship. She came into a port where there were no British goods, or she Mime into a port which was ovei stocked with them. In a word f seperate the venture from yourself, and consider it all as a distinct trans*c™n ' Vain and retrospective persons suffer most from hostile criticism. Go on working. When you have done—what has been said about it soon moves into the region of .he past, and it moves much more quickly for you when you give yt.ur mind to attempting something cririmVm' general rule, never reply to hostile T* r 8 ** y ,° ur fir * by returning y ° U f f om behind a stone walL This, of course, only applies to anony motts criticism, which is now the principal public criticism of the world P 6 pal A Snuff-takers Toast— “He that is not a friend at a pinch is not worth a snuff ” Whv are dogs like Joe Miller ’-Because thev furnish wags with (heir tails, y

loctor 1346 ” ° f intcrior -— The cook and the Only by labor can thought be made healthtnl; only by thought can labor be made hapi>y. A ext to Go.—A family passing through Detroit lost their tom-cat. “ Come, children.” said the father huskily, as he tamed to the waggon. “Johnny died of scarlet fever, little Mary went with the whooping cough, and ? now wave lost Sardinus. I shouldn’t wonder if mother or I be the next to go.” Quiet, but Firm.—Wanted by a strong German a situation in an eating-homo. He understands the business.

A Dish for a Lawyer.—Suet. Pe Present Day.—Your Birthday. A New Definition.—A nun is now get down as an organised old maid. Which is the oldest tree’-The elder, of course. *

All lives have their prose translation as well as tnelr ideal meanidg.