CRUMBS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 2

CRUMBS.

One of the most remarkable characteristics of the age is tho intelligence of the working man's wife. —Rev. Geoffrey Ramsay. A woman is a puzzlo to tho man sho rejects; and is apt to prove a riddle to tho man she accepts. To be interesting to-day you must (if you are a woman) be at least 42; and if you happen most unfortunately to be 17 the sooner you grow old Hie better. —Ralph Straus. Nature herself has drawn a dividing line between what is appropriate for men and what for women. There is no question of superiority or inferiority. —Lord Chancellor of England. It is not until we have passed through the furnace that wo are made to know how much dross is in our composition. How difficult it is to be wisely charitable) —to do good without multiplying tho sources of evil! To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. A littlo thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a grear deal of money. The only aristocracy worth cultivating is tho aristocracy of great minds; and no one can deny us fellowship with these. ''The advantage of being a woman" consists chiefly in tho opportunity of taking advantago of some mere n.an. A true and noble home-life calls oat all the powers and qualities which the world needs for its work and its progress. Affection can withstand very severe storms of rigor, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference liove will subsist, on wonderfully littlo hope, but not altogether without it. — Sir Walter Scott. In Austria women teachers are paid equally with men, tho principle being that the Stato pays for the work (Tone, not for tho sex of the worker. Tho men teachers, asking for an increase of salary, are agitating for the abolition of tho law in favor of more pay to men and lower rates to women. Little W T illio took a mirror. And he licked the back all off, Thinking, in his childish fancy, It might euro tho whooping cough. On tlie morning of the funeral The neighbors said to Mrs. Brown, 'Twas a chilly day for littlo AVillio When tho mercury went down. Dr. Jean White, the clever woman who is at present lecturer on botany at the Melbourne University, has been appointed by tlie Queensland Government to tako charge of tho experimental station for the purpose of conducting experiments for prickly pear eradication.