LADY ASTOR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 July 1924, Page 3

LADY ASTOR.

SMART EPIGRAMS, Lady Aster’s recent tour in America, which was a brilliant success, was practically unreported, in our newspapers, states an English writer. The current number of the National Review, in an attempt- to tide over this error, prints two of her speeches verbatim. Lady Aster is one of the .smartest epigram writers of to-day; and lvelow are a few taken from those speeches. ,

Never judge the people of England by the people who wrote diaries during the war. . 1 We have tried materialism, and it has very nearly wrecked civilisation. The only thing worth loving is unselfishness. 'lhe onlv thing which mars life i.s selfishness. Women ace young at politics, but they are old at suffering. f Those who hark the loudest in America are those who least understand the best and most real people in America, and very often are not Americans at all. All nations can have great futures, hut all greatness can only be founded on what is truly great. Education i.s a dangerous tiling unless it. is started on the- right lines. The more I see of life, the more I see that the only way is the narrow wav and the broad view. We know that neither the law nor the State can make a man. Jt seems that all countries must go through periods ot political corruption. Between spiritualists, who see what the dead think, and the psycho-ana-lysts who see what we don't think, one lias to he up and doing.

Pandora never let loose. a batter angel tiling than when she let loose the angel of hope. A mind that hates is a mind which is sick, and a mind which boasts of itself is as a frog which puffeth itself •HPJust now the human race needs human things, and not boss politicians.