SATURDAY NIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 249, 22 September 1883, Page 2

SATURDAY NIGHT.

THE FIRESIBE.

It is of .ho use trying to stop sport among tbiev young. 4Y<>u might as iweU; labor to keep the dog from careering round you, the lamb from frisking, and the colt from gamboling. It is all from the life whichrthe author of our being hath plant, ed m bur framed ) The .oldlmayvnot^be able to enjoy it themselves, but if they are not sour.and crab.bed.they will rejoice m the enjoyment of it by others.' The boy leaps and" runs. The girl hops and dances. The young man betakes himself to Cricket "or* base.ballr"oiv if he has opportunities, to fishing or shooting. You cannot stop this is you would. The wise man will not seek to stop it. If he could do so he would not thereby render his son more moral or pious: He might shut him up m his house and debar him from all amusements, but ih the repression secret vices might be gendered and fostered, and I inthe end break out m open acts.

They were talking about the destruction of oysters beds and planting anew, when an old lady m the back seat behind leaned forward and asked : ' Were you talking about planting istersV «Yes, ma'am.' .5 Going to plant much of a patch V * About^ a hundred acres, ma'am.' ' Purty good ground?' 'Yes: all bottom land.' 'Look a-here,' she continued as she got a little | closer, 'my old man can hoe more corn m a day than any two men m New Jersey, ; antt if you want to let any hoeing out ; by the job this summer, he'll give you perfect satisfaction; or break his back.' Post cards should hot be employed if yon have anything df an unusuf.l.or am** biguous nature to communicate. An American newspaper contributory (evidently writing of an personal experience) B^y ß — < A newspaper man once punned a story m whicn a* lady unhappily married .was to sue a; divorce^ and; to make surbi "of being^pbrrect,^wro|e^ stating the case aVhe meant to describe itv Back came a post card-p Ypu cddld inpt? ! get a divorce on the gounds you i mention m New Yor_ ; you might m Connecticut or Maine.' This card .handed' in by the carrier to Mrs Newspaper-man one for^e* rioqn when her husband was away at busi- r ness raisVd a breeze m the household, ' which was not allayed for some time.' ' I A professional beauty of Melbourne has been m the habit of receiving handsome, presents .from her . admirers. This ' has*, been done with'h9r husband's knowledge and sahctiony for there are husbands even m that part of the world who' believe that money has no, odour. His appreciation of the gifts of his wife's admirers! received ' a rude, shock,, tbie other day. A person ( occupying a high . position m Melbourne gave a professional beauty a handsome diamond necklace* but when next day her husband went to pawn it, he 'discovered that the diamonds were not • *eaU His faith m hnmau nature is greatly shaken since then. . Takativi-B»kin, a Japanese novelist, introduced so many personages m his novels that m Order not to get his char* aoters inextricably mixed, it was his habit to surround himself with a number of itiny dollsii appropriately attired, and .'named- after . his heroes and heroines. When ■ he had tied a couple he ikneAV; that he had married them, v When Ihe abut them m a box, he remembered them dead and buried. When ne had* put them :ma corner of his chamber, he could see they had gone on a journey.