PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 31 August 1907, Page 3

PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY.

The events that shape our lives are seldom ushered in with pomp or ceremony. They st.-al up6u us unauuounceu, and begin their work without giving ..ny premonition of their importance. A woman's heart is very talkative, and requires little to make it eloquent ill Its own wav.—Amelia E. Barr.

Nature is so clear in lit teaching that lu who has lived with iirr for any time can be in little doubt as to the "better way." What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and 1 know of no objects of love that give such substantial am! anfailhij; returns as ..hooks a-.J a garden.—Author of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden.'

Whatever one may have done, it is not ilifl thing itself that affects the character; it is the use we have of it. The man or woman who sins—to use the old word—and "afterwards repents is on a higher plane than those who have never known what wrongdoing or repentance inea ns.—Adcl iue Sergei lit. From the things which fret and wony

ourselves, from the people ivlio fret and worry us, from ourselves who worry ana fret ourselves, we can at least turn to Nature. There we find our right plaee, a resting-place of intense repose. Here we lose that troublesome part of ourselves, our own sense of importance.

'hen we rest, and not till then.—Beatice Harradcn.