SAVINGS OF THE WISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 36, 1 February 1908, Page 4

SAVINGS OF THE WISE.

SOCIALISM AND THE FAMILY. The man who learns devotion to others and the need for self-sacrifice in the family learns at the best school the lessons of patriotism. It is because I want to see a nation of strong, selfrespecting, and independent men and women, not because I am nervous as to the rights of property, that 1 desire that the family may De preserved from the assaults of the Socialists.—J. St. Loo' Straehey, in the "National Review." BUBBLE REPUTATION'S. The life .of a reputation is ]i' ■ life of a plant, and seems in the.- ■ I to lie like the life of an annur'.. uumd tiosse, in the •■Contemporary.' DICKENS A.\D CHRISTMAS. On the never-to-be-forgotten summer day, when London was robbed of Charles Dickens, 1 was walking disconsolately down Driiry Lane, when I heard a girl with a shawl over her bead, standing at the corner of one of the side streets and talking to a companion, exclaim: •• Dickens dead'! Then will Father Christinas die, too?''—Theodore WattsDimton, in the, ••Nineteenth Century." CLOTHES AND THE MAN. lie Hint as it. may, the followers of

the arts, with one 'precious exception, have bowed the knee lo Baal. Save, the most ancient of ti.etu all, the executive musician, each one uas stripped himself of his symbolic ornaments before the altar ot Hie drab, Conformity. Not to appear literary seems to be the aim of the literary man, and the painter desires to pass tor nn ordinary citizen. It has, indeed, almost come to this, that to appear immediately to the eye what you Lire by profession is to brand yourself lis either verv voting or irremediably sec-ond-rate.— C 1!..!., in the '-Albany 11cCIT.KK OF I>I;OFKSK|OXALISM. ' Thank Heaven, our neld sports remain untouched, or we might be treated to the spectacle of two millionaires matching and wntcliing their keepers shoot I their birds.—JJluo Vinny, ill " Rally's Magazine."