FOUNTAIN PENS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 3

FOUNTAIN PENS.

A SOUND PHILOSOPHY. div Safcd. the Sage). There, lie two kinds of men who borrow' Fountain Pens from their neighbours. The wicked borrow, ami return not again, hut put the Ecu in their own Pocket and go home with it ; the righteous hand hack the Pen after they have used it. but even t 1 icy I,aye sometimes to be reminded of it. Tlicreiorc do I carry Two Fountain I’ens, one, to use and mm in lend. And I have one more reason, namely, that there is no one kind nt Pen which answereth unto] every need. j For if a Pen he a Seli-lillor, then , must much of the Darrell !*’ "'’oiipieil j wiih the Works, and the easier the j Ren he to Operate, the less ink doth it ] bold. Wherefore must one Pen he carried that it may be swiftly filled, ami another that it may carry ink enough to last until the owner cometh back home again. And this also have I noticed in filling a Pen. that he who would fill it too full, increaseth not tho capacity of the Pen to hold ink. but gotteth Ink upon bis Fingers. Ami there was once a wise man who told me tbat a Fountain Pen sheddetli its Ink most freely when it is nearly empty, even as men talk most who have Least 'Wisdom. j For men speak little of those things *hat lie deepest within their souls. Vet. 1 like it little when a mail doth tell me on Short Acquaintance tho whole story of Tli < Doniestiek Relations. Neither do T like it when a man whom I have never seen cometli unto me to waste an Hour of my time, and desireth to begin the Interview with a Season of Prayer.

For I am .suspicious of the man who thus npproac-heth me. and who then prod licet h Mining Stock for Sale, or desireili me to invest my money in Oi) Wells. T like not the freeflowing of his first dip, and r fear for the honesty of the man who lalketh too freely of his soul or of his Faith in tho Power of Prayer as a preliminary to a Commercial Transaction. The Full Pen ffoweth not so freely, and the soul that hath real depth is not the one that easily spiUcth over or drippeth so as to make a black Spot in the Vest Pocket nigh unto the heart. Theso things and others I remctnlier when J till my Fountain Pen. —Tite ’•Congregationalist."