THE LUMBER ROOM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 4

THE LUMBER ROOM

"PAUL PRY."

— Harold

Nicholson.

— imenaei

Arien.

— Henry

James.

- — -Thoreau,

By

Liberty. Liberty, if it shall eement man iuto political unity, must be something more than a man's conCeption of his rights, much more than his desire to figbt for his Own rights. True liberty is founded upon a lively sense of the rights of ^others, and a fighting conviCtiou that the rights Of others must be maintained. Only when a peoplo have this love of libeYty, this militant belief in the sacredness of another man's self respect, can they achieve the miraele of national unity and strength, — William Allan White." Father. When I was a boy of 14 my fathe* was so ignorant I could hardly staud to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, 1 was astonished at how much the old man had learned in the seveu years. — -Mark Twain. A Billboard. I think I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. -Perhaps, unless the billboards fail, I'll never see a tree at all. — Ogden Nash. There Is A Garden. Where there is oue Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be threOi The club will have oue, too. — A, W. Smith, All Magicians. All magicians agree that the highly intelligent persons are the most readily deceived. They try to explain what they see according to their wide knowledge of cause and effeet. If a sequence of movements seems logieal to them, they fail to observe the deception from which it distracts their attention. Children, lacking adult knowledge and habits of inference, rely on direct Observation. Point your finger at something^ across the room aud aia adult looks in the direction you indiCate, but a child looks first at your finger, That is why a magiciau, when asking for volunteer assistance from the audience, tries to piek a highbrow type rather than a moron who would •use his eyes instead of his:mind. _F."C. Kelly. Inttnortality. It has always seemed to me a mtjov. tragedy that so many people go throngh life haunted by the fear of death, only to find that When it comes that its as natural as life itself. Something strange and beautiful happens to men and women when they 'Come to the end of the road of life. All fear, all horror disappeais. I have often watched a look of happy wonder dawn in their eyes when they realised this was true. -It is part of the goodness of nature and, I believe, of the illimitable goodness of God. — A Yeteran Nurse. The Greatest Foe, The greatest foe to a comfortable ola age is selfishness, The woman who talks. continuously about her operation or the crick in her back or the indif-> ference of the family phyeician, who is probabiy bored to extinction with her complaints about her small aches aud pains, is headed for a lonely, f retf ul old age. . „ Speaking from very satisfactory experience, I say to all women of 50 begin now to grow old gracefully. Be your age, but be it rightly. Look your ags if you must, but don't let it rub tlie "smjle from your lips or the laughter from your eyes. — Anua S. Richardson. Talking of Bicycles. Now thafc it is rumoure.d thafc ths 60,000 bieyclists of Christchurch are to be registered, it may be of interest to note that the city of Go°peuhagen with a population of 800,000 has 350,000 bicycles. During the busy hours the streeta are SO crowded that when traffic is halted, eaeh rider steadies himself by placing his hand on the shoulder of the one next to hihi. Another distinctive feature of life in the Danjsh capital is a hotel that is piped for beer ae well as water, and can advertise running beer in all rooms. Is Christchurch likely to follow this idea as wellJ ' Said the Spider. We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our,ideals, others by their aets.

She not only expects the worst but makes the worst of it when it happens.

She felt in italics and though m capitals.

If you have built eastlea in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.