Vagrant Fancies.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1915, Page 2

Vagrant Fancies.

(Hy Hio Kditor.) Levin's weather induces bounteous verdure, tat htoclv, lull purscs( here and there), mud and slush (everywhere, just now), and widespread growling. Hut we'll all Ice! happy when the .sun shines. The moral <>i' this observation may prove elusive Iα uw pessimist, but the optimist will .seme it readily.

Festive gatherings have gone out <n fashion since the wn and its sacrifices brought us face to face with the sombre aspect of existence. .Vone the. less, there inuist come again a tiino when social intercourse will roMinie its former characteristics, the present cause for grief be assuaged, ami the pledging of our friends ovor a sociiU glass lie le.s* infrequent than is now tho ease. Then the old facility for toa.stgiving may be found elusive. Fortunately there are a thousand rendy-mado toasts io be seen in books written to help thotse who consult them on thi.s subject. Hut they are all-old and lv-01l worn toasts, ami an original one should iili what some original ]>TTra<so-niaker one termed "a long-left want. ,7 So we give, for the first time. The Editor's Toast: "To sill my friends good luck: to those who are nol my friends, the luck (hey deserve."

Money is the trouble of everyone these da.v.s. Some are troubled as to investing if; .sonic because people won't ii vcfit it with tlioni: some because they have none to invest : some beean.se tbev have none to spend ; sonic because t-li«\v spend too much: others because they upend too little for their own To raise money is the great need of most men in Liusiness; tTie iinii.s" creditoi-K must be paid, but .some of their debtors tail to reuard the issue in that light. As Biilner Lytlon observed, "It's a very good world that m>. live in, to spend or U> lend or to give in ; but to borrow or beg or get a man's own it's the very worst world that ever was known." From Lytton to Shakespeare is (in this case only) an appropriate transition. The bard ol -Avon lias atssine<l us that "Who -steads my purse steak trash. ,. Trash may be: but no great amount of trash in the majority of cases; the pur.se* arc "trashless" for the most part. To bring Shakespeare up io date avc add to liis dictum the words of an old -song, and make the phrase "Who steal.s my puiw steal.s trash -there's nothing in itl"