THE SIN OF OMISSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 15 February 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE SIN OF OMISSION.

It isn’t tlie things you do, dear, It’s the things you leave undone, Which gives you a bitter heartache At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The (lower you may have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts to-night. The ,stone you might have lifted Out of your brother’s way; The hit of heartsome counsel A T ou were hurried too much to say. The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone, That you had no time nor thought for, With troubles enough of your own. These little acts of kindness, So easily out of mind, These chances to he angels, Which even mortals find. They come in the night, and silence Each mild, reproachful wraith, When hope is faint and flagging, And light has dropped on faith. For life is all too short, dear, And trouble is all too great, To suffer our slow compassion That tarries until too late. And it’s not the things you do, dear. It’s the things you leave undone. Which gives you a bitter heartache At the setting'of the sun.

HERE AND THERE. The calculation has been made Unit, on an overage, English princesses marry at about, the ago ol twentytwo. In the production of boa util ul lain* Franco is without rival, and every country in which women dress well imports fans from Franco. Engaged girls in Denmark sometimes wear a plain gold ring on tlio third finger of the left hand. When thev got married tho ring, is moved to the third finger of the right hand. MlllO. Sarah Bernhardt never permits herself a nap during the day. “To sleep during the day and then go out,’ says tho great actress, “is 0110 of tho s tores t ways of catching cold.”

Tho West. Indian island of Curacon. having recently passed through a period of severe depression, certain well-to-do ladies have lonrnt the art of straw In-aiding in order that they might teaelio it to tho poor. Nowmany men, women, and children of the island are profitably bard at work braiding hats.

It is reported that what may bo termed “marriage epidemics” sometimes occur in some of tho large American stores, when, following 0110 another’s examplp, perhaps its many ns twenty or thirty of the young ladies there employed resign their situations in order to got married.

Princess Victoria Louise, the daughter of the German Empress, is reported to bo fond of State eeromony. On important occasions the soldiers at the Royal palaces wear helmets instead of caps, and for any ceremony in which she herself is concerned tho Princess is said to bo a sticklor for helmets.

The crown worn by Queen AYilltelniina. of Holland on State occasions cost something like £120,000 sterling. It was stolen by burglars in 1820, and could not be traced for two years. Then some of the precious stones belonging to the diadem wore discovered in the United States of America, the remainder being recovered on Belgian soil

Although her fortune has been csliiiited tit £9,000,000, the late Baroness A. do Rothschild lived it most simple and unassuming life. The most exquisite dishes were served at her table and the rarest wines set set before her guests, but she scarcely touched them. In later years slio hardly even made use of her equipages. It was quite the usual thing to see her take the tram which passed Iter gato, running from Geneva to Versoix. The guards all knew her, and used to point her out sometimes to the other travellers. After she had seen all the splendor which wealth and a high social position can secure, the Baroness seemed to ( lie more convinced that any one of tho vanity of riches and earthly magnificence. Her desire seemed to be to live like the humble, wilio find peace and happiness in the routine of their ordinary lives.