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Gleanings.

Nursery Rhymes.

From a ‘ Novel ’ Point of View. : Corelli Mary, quite contrary, How does your novel grow ? With splasbes ofgor;,jftid spooks galore all in a row. Ouida, Ouida, now iudeed-a, How does your novel groyv ? With a Princess shady, a lord and a lady, And Guardsmen all in a row. Miss Edna LyaU, now no denial, How does your novel grew ? With a rake reformed, a o-ld atheist Jprmed, And goody girls all in a row. Mistress Ward, with critical sword, How does your novel grow ? With souls forlorn, and phrases outworn, And clergymen all in a row. O all ye writers of penny soul-smiters, How do your novels grow? With endless chatter of amorous matter ; And wedding rings all in a row.

Labour is Life.

• Labour is life,’ said Sir Andrew Clark, in a lecture, ‘ but,’ he continued, ‘worry is killing. It is bad management that kills people. Nature will let no man overwork himself unless ho plays her false—takes stimulants at irregular times, smokes too much, or takes opium. If he is regular and obeys the laws of health and walks in the way of physiological righteousness, nature will never allow him or any other person to work too much. I have never yet seen a case of breaking down from mere over work alone ; but I admit that it is necessary above.aU things to4cultivate tranquillity Try to your patients to eicercise their wills in regard to this—xorwill counts for something in securing tranquillity—to accept things as they are/ and not to bother about yesterday, which is gone for ever; not to bother about tomorrow, which is not theirs; but to take the present day and make the best of it. Those affectionate women who will continually peer into what lies beyond never have any present life at all—they are always grizzling over the past or prying into the future, and this blessed today, which is all that we are sure of, they never have.'

A Large Cargo Steamer.

/ The Star liner Cevic, which has just been built by Messrs Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, and which claims the distinction of being the largest Tsargo steamer in the world, left Belfast on Saturday for Liverpool. She has bee.i built specially for the Liverpool and New York cattle trade. The new vessel is 500 ft. long, GOft. broad, and 38ft. deep, and she has an estimated registered tonnage of 8,315 gross, 5,336 net, with a total capacity of holds of 15,089 tons. Her fittings comprise accommodation for 800 head of live cattle on the upper bridge deck, and, in addition permanent safety stalls for 20 horses in the centre of the upper deck, where the motion will be least felt. The Cevic is provided with twin screws of manganese bronze, driven by two complete sets of triple - compound expansion engines. Every improvement which experience suggests has been adopted for ventilation, water supply, etc.

The Oldest Milliner’s Bill.

What may well be called the oldest bill in the world, seeing that it dates back to 4,700 years ago, has just been unearthed by the learned men who devote themselves to the finding and deciphering of the Chaldean antiquities. The people of those days were in the habit of writing the letters, bills, etc.,

upon clay, which was afterwards baked, and thus rendered indelible. This document (?) seems to be a record of articles delivered for use in the temple and some of the items are very curious, showing the vanity and fashion in dress was as prevalent then as today. Whether the garments were intended for men or for women, or both, is not quite clear, but mention is made of ‘l2 white robes of the temple ; eight robes for the House of his Lady ; 10 collars for the same; 10 pure gold collars; two wide robes.’ And in the further description of some of these garments mysterious technical terms are used for which even the most gifted cuneiform scholar cannot find English equivalents, so very probably they referred to the tailors’ and dressmakers’ art. Later ‘ four scented robes ’ and ‘ two winders ’ occur in the bill, showing that the latest of the moment, that of perfarsing one’s everyday apparel, is by no means original ! But what could the mysterious ‘ winders ’ have Ibeen ? A writer in a contemporary suggests that they might hare been the earliest development of the corset of modern days, while the robes ’ were doubtless forerunners of the crinoline, or the accordion-pleated skirt-dancing robes! How curious it is to think that even in that remote period the art of weaving was no mystery, as shown by the costly linen and silk robes, while some of the decorations on statues of that time reveal a truly wonderful skill in embroidery, and gold and silver work was long ere that art. I his being so, it is not much wonder that modes and fashions should prevail then as now, for human nature is much the same in all ages.

The Woman with a Grievance.

You all know her. You have been upxed by her tedious plaints and wearied wi.h the repetition of her ‘ tales of woe.’

All countries are hers. She is indigenous to every clime, from bleak Kamtcbatka to the blue Canaries. Some man has said that all women love to be martyrs, or, rather, to pose as much. This is far from true. There are thousands of women all over the world, who, though weighed down with sorrow and struggling against misfortunes of all kinds, yet bear their burdens bravely, almost cheerfully, ever ready to put aside their own sorrows and comfort others with helpful sympathy.

But of our woman with a grievance, it may truly be said that she enjoys martyrdom ; that is, the appearance of it. She really loves to be miserable, to nurse her little worries, to revel in them, and you need not try to soothe her, to show her the roses of life. It would be a waste of words; she does not wish to be relieved of her imaginary woes, for it is of imaginary and not real woes I speak. Her troubles with the servants form one of her favourite themes; their carelessness, their laziness, are topics of which she never tires.

She dwells upon her .manifold cares as mother and housekeeper, while, perhaps, her listener is silently wondering how any one can be so thankless for the blessing of home and children, which she has not.

But it is in the house of grief her presence is most galling. Even before tho s greatest sorrows her petty trials never shrink nor diminish. She has not the delicacy to efface herself, to allow herself to be forgotten a moment. Her sensibilities are protected by the burnished armour of Self. Through this the barbs of others’ woes can never penetrate.— Detroit Free Press.

Among western nations tea making, if not tea drinking, is considered an essentialy feminine accomplishment. In Japan*it has been for centuries the recreation of Shoguns, Buddhist priests, and the masculine portion of the aristocracy.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 693, 27 March 1894, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
1,175

Gleanings. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 693, 27 March 1894, Page 2

Gleanings. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 693, 27 March 1894, Page 2

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