THE LUMBER ROOM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 11

THE LUMBER ROOM

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■ aaiHiBiBEaeaiBaeaaaeaiHiHiaeHMMMHiHiMHMiMa It Usually Works Like Magic. Eeal, genuine enthusiasm almost always works — and it usually works like magic. E'alph ' Waldo 'Emersoh ' said. "Ev.ery great movement in the annals of history is the triumph . of enthusiasm." Do'you know.what the word enthusiasm comes fTom? It* comes from two . Greek words en theos meaning "the God withi'n," and the man who is fired with enthusiasm does have a gdd within him . . a god that will help him get ahead . . a god that. will help him perform miracles. No one can develop it for you. You've got to do it for yourself — and you can do* it by will power. " Shake yourself awake every morning . . say "To-day I am, going to be physically aud mentally alive. I am goihg to put energy and spirit and enthusiasm into my worlc. I am going to live enthusiasm and be enthusiasm." — Dale Carnegie.. These Correspondents. • "In my opiqion, ' ' writes a correspondent signing himself " Traveller, ' ' "the most adorable women to' love are the Austrians, then the Prench, the Italians, the Germans, the Eussians, the Spanish, the Belgians the Norwegians and the Swedish. I place our owu . . British . . next on the iist, followed by the American. And lastly those of the Near and Far East." Well, Traveller, you seem to have got around quite a lot, and, what ever your disappointments may have been in China (or was it Japan?) nobody could • accuse you of being repressed. . Nathaniel Gubbins in "Sunday Express." Our Mistake. Many religionists are still smarting from the attacks of "science." Many can still only see psychology as destruetive to their well beloved orthodoxies. only the other - day a clergyman said that science was making the world a neighbourhood instead of a brotherhood. Psychology has been mistaken for the delivery, not only of man from man, but the delivery of man from God . . . this is a fallaeious interptetation . . . psychology is' the delivery of man to God. • — Beatriee Eosling. Five Nations and an Elephant. Pive men of different nationalitiqs each write a book about the elephant. The Englishmau goes to India, organises a hunt, and composes a thick travelogue, "How I shot my Pirst Elephant." The Frenchman casually visits the Zoo and promptly produces a yellow back, "L'Elefant et ses Amours. " The German plunges into research and emerges some years later with' a five volume work, "Introduction to a Monograph to a Study of the Elephant." The Eussian gets drunk on vodlca, retires to his garret and issues a slim philosophical treatise, "The Elephant: Does it Exist," The Pole sits down in the national library and turns out a fiery pamphiet, "The Elephant and the Polish Question." — William Le Quex. Who Created Ohaos? A surgeon, an architect, and a politician were arguing as .to whose profession was the oldest. Said the surgeon: "Eve was made from Adam's xib, and that surely was a surgical operation." "Maybe," said the architect, "but prior to that, order was created out of chaos and that was an architectural j°b" * ... "But," interrupted the politician, "somebody created the chaos first!" Do You Agree? It is said that it is the young men who see visions and the old men who dream dreams, but I am coming to the conclusion that it is the old men who see visions and the young men who go to sleep without even dreaming. — Yiscountess Astor. The purest and, most thoughtful minds are those that love colour the most. — Euskin. As soon as a man aquires fairiy good sense, it is said he is an old fogey. — E. W. Howei. Some women are temperamental , ninety per cent temper and ten pcr cent mental. — Irving Oo'bb. In America, twenty years back is History, and more than twenty is Myth. — Shane Loallie.

Tliis Repellent Age. The world's becoming-an enormous fog, inhabited by millions of pigmies. The're isn't a prize worth the winning. The greatest honours go to the greatest slave. An age of cripples so in love with deformities that the only god left is general paralysis. ■ • - They are afraid of life and they are r.fraid of death and they loathe and fear anyone whose stature compels them to reeognise their littleness. "I am Jonathan Scrivner," — by Claude Houghtoni Clever Men. Clever men Like Christopher Wren ' Only occur just now and then. No one expects In perpetuity. Architects of his ingenuity; ' No, never a cleverer dipped his pen Than clever Sir Christopher— Christopher Wren, With his ciaste designs, On classical lines, His elegant curves and neat inelines. Por all day long he'd measure and limn Till the ink gave out or the light grew dim, And if a Plan Seemed 'rather baroque or too " Queen Anne" (As plans well may), He'd take a look at his pattern book And do it again in a different way. — "Kings and other things," Hugh Chesterman.