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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8028, 15 January 1906, Page 3

Quito a large number of people visited Western Park, >'cw l'lymuulli, on Sunday, where they were regaled with some eboiee musical selections by the Taranaki Garrison Hand. A collection, nLicli was taken up to help defray tbe content expenses, was very satisfactory. "Says ljC " standard " : At tbe Greytown Court tbe oilier morning claimant in a debt ease said tliat d-jbtor gave as a reason for not being able to pay,that she was buying .1 motor e::r and a baby. The latter was purchased at a cost of £so—an adoption. A final reminder is given of the lecture to be delivered in the Yvhiteley Hall, >'cw Plymouth, to-night, by Mr J. Goodman. The subject is "'lhe Law of Mental Healing," or "The Power of the Mind in the Cause and Cure of Disease." The "Wangauui Herald," in a lengthy report of a /e----cent lecture given by Mr Goodman, said that the Museum Hall was crowded, and the speaker was listened to throughout with rapt attention, and the discourse proved both interesting and instructive. A collection will be uiade, the nett proceeds of which will be handed to tbe hospital funds. Any man, whether young, middle aged, or elderly, Who thinks o£ entering the marriage state, may need reminding about the " King!' "f isn't likely the lady will forget Here on our counters and in our safes, are. showing the choicest designs in engagement and wedding rings. The prices are so low and reasonable at J. H. Parkbr's, the Jeweller and Optician, next a'lwav crossing, in Devon street.

But within tho last, ten years it is undeniable that Loudon lias been running Paris hard <i.i a pleasure city. Theatres, concerts, and restaurants are not noticeably inferior to the best French models; all kinds of 6port are easily accessible; climate docs not much matter to people who have plenty of money; and English society opens its doors freely to any decently accredited stranger. —" Standard." Mr. Henry Murray, addressing the Dilettante Clnh, 011 the early lifo of Mr. George Meredith, gave some information that will bo news to many of tho novelist's admirers. Mr. dith, ho said, bad only a guinea in Jiis pocket when ho begun his career. With this ho bought n sack of oatmeal, and, being too poor to buy fuel, subsisted during the whole of the time he was • writing "Evan Harrington'' 011 a most unpalatable drink of oatmeal and water. Even when ho bad achieved freat tamo 110 never, according to Mr. [urray, received moro than £4OO for or 3 of his novel?. Lovers of Rembrandt will l>e interested to hear of .the reported sale of his house to the municipality of Amsterdam. The house, considerably altered since tho 17th century, if not rebuilt, and standmg in what is now called the Jews' quarter, is a brick and stone structure, before 'which there parsed in Rembrandt's day tho endless procession of ragged types from which he so often drew his inspiration. Here, after his marriage with Saskia Vylenburg, he lived for two decades, ft period of unwearied land successful activity, until upon the death of his wifo and the loss of all his fortune lie was obliged to betake himself to low sumptuous quarters, and sank into obscurity. An American has arisen and proposed A rational system of courtship. That w tho eort of thing no 011 c but an American would do. 'lf you want to know " how to bo happy through married," yon have your temperament estimated and registered, you aro measured up and down and cross ways, including your skull, and then, armed with this gruesome catalogue of yourself, you examine the official register in which young gentlemen are like yourself est int»t?d. You go on until you find one whose temperament. • skull and so 011 seem to match your own. What you do next the rational .system fails to explain. The old familiar procedure, preoumably, is still indispensable. One recognwefl, however, thai n courtship in which the murmured endearments wore concerned with cfftnifll cnoacity "would be novei and interesting. But it 111 be a fiore rfubjeofc with some people, riu wcrld i« not yet educated up to t sort of matrimonial register. Every lent is an elaborate machine, using tho air as material to work upon. From it'- first emergence from the hud it is a partner with the sun, living its lifo in tho closest relation'* with the twfl great forces in tlie universe, the element:; of light am) air. Krom tho kiui it drnw; enerji.v, and from the air material to huiM up the plant or the tree. distinguished from the tree. it another lite, our" <:•} tens, thousands, or myriads of lives that every year urn born fror, the 5-amc mother" to livo out tluir brief season It i:i doubtful whether we should lion our tho tree and its vigour so much a: wo <io. while looking on the leaves :v iiith enihlems of what is frail anc fleeting; for it is these same leaven thai maintain tho flow of lif-j in the ties' nnd aro tho active and magical sup pliers of daily growth. The troe is hki tho earth, and the loaves the cbildrei of earth, wliieh are born of it and re turn to it again. But while tho earth liko the tree, is the ultimate source o lifo, so tiie children of eaith, or tin i 'fcaveS, the children of the tree, are th active "lives" in which tho living prin cip!« it maoiferfc.