THE WINNERS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 October 1920, Page 2

THE WINNERS

Have you read the helpful stories which are printed now and ;then, dishing up the dazzling glories of the big, successful men ? This one made a million dollars, that one made a million seeds ; so the awestruck author hollors as be celebrates their deed, This one's living in a palace, built of pink imported rock, and from out a golden chalioe he consumes his private stock. And I think it rather funny, and I think it rather odd that the measure's always money, alwayi in the big man's wad. For there are some four-time winners yog have heard of once or twice, men who went without their dinners when they couldn't raise the price; and I hold them great successes though they never had a roll, though privations and distresses kept them always in the hole. And I'd rather stagger under the renown of Edgar Poe than be burdened with the plunder of the biggest plute I know.- And poor Bobbie Burns was busted till they put him in a crate, but I'll surely be dis,--gusted if you say he wasn't great. We Should captious be in choosing thqse who, win and those who fail, for the gent who's surely losing may be loaded down with kale.