ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4370, 6 February 1909, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

■ « Little May (in great delight ovpi - the arrival of a new little sisterd “ I’m to glad we’ve got a new baby. I’ve been asking God to give us a piano ana He’s given us something ever so much better.” “ When the rain ruineth, and the goose winketb,” “ Little wots the gosling what the goose thinkcith ” It is curious to notice the various ways in which our mountain impresses different people One young lady described it as “ Nice ! ” Another visitor, walking one day out along the Paeroa road came to a haystack with a ladder leaning against the haystack, and she afterwards said that the sight of that haystack, that little human board, with its little ladder alongside struck her as almost pitiful in its insignificance, *‘ ‘ I suppose it was because the mountain had left the impression of its hugeness so strongly on my mind ’’she said.

An exciting incident occurred at No. 2 bath-house the other night Attendant No. 2 turned off the light and proceeded as he thought in the direction of the door, but mistaking his way in the darkness contrived to take a header into the bath. No. 1, who was standing outside, hearing the splash, proceeded into the bath Rouse to investigate, whereupon there was a second ] lunge into the pellucid depths of the bath, aud a third person coming upon the scene found our two friends wading about like Bunyan’s pilgrims in the Slough of Despond

The following scene lately occurred in one of the courts of justice in South Africa between the juclpe and 'a Dutch witness:

“ What is your native language ?” “Ipe no native. I!m a Dootchmau.” “ What is your mother tongue ?” “ Oh, fader says she pe all tongue !” “ What language did you first learn ? What language did you speak in the cradle ?”

“ I speak not any language in de gradle ; I only cried in Dcotch.”

There is no more of personal merit in a great intellect than in a great estate. It is the use which is made of the one and of tbe other which should found the claim to respect ; and the man who has at heart to make the best use he can of either will not be much occupied with them as a means of commanding respect. THE OLD AND THE NEW. Where is the old-fashioned mother who used to tuck us up in bed at night, after we had said our prayers ; wh > spanked us when we needed it, and then cried with us over the pain ; whose charity for our faults was infinite ; and who, as we came up more and more into a consciousness of life, was an unfailing receptacle for all our troubles ? . . Now, however, that we are educated so early, and there is so much enlightened I method about everything, we really don’t need,lielp from home. The newly-born infant will soon be able to rise from his crib and go himself to the hospital, where he will have his tonsils removed, be properly vaccinated and inoculated with the latest serums, and go back to his push-button and radia'or all ready, for business.-T.L.M., in ” New York Life.” A ROYAL BRIDE’S GARIER. The Kaiser and the Danish Ambassador have had a lengthy interview on a matter which relates to a marriage custom which obtains among the Hohenzollems. On the marriage morning the friends of the Royal bride seize her hands, while a friend of the bridegroom approaches and discreetly detaches one of her garters. This is cut into small pieces, which are distributed among tbe guests, who keep them a l * mementoes. Princess Dagmar, who is about to wed the Emperor’s third son, has expressed the wish that this custom should be dispensed with, and her parents support her request.