BITS FROM MAGAZINES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 54, 22 February 1908, Page 3

BITS FROM MAGAZINES

KEEP Cool, .\ centenarian oil".-' remirkcd tint I"" wav to live a hundred years was to ke-p the head cool ami the feet warm. Very s.»uud indeed. It is the man who keeps cuol that emerges most triumphantly fi<>ii) the crises and difficult position*! that confront most people at intervalon their way through life. Endeavour not to he Hurried: endeavour in moments of cxci.ineut to keep your wits ahoiil you. It isn't ea-w hut it'-worth trying—"Thi' Captain."

ANOTHER RELIEF EXPLODED. I am verv much afraid that a s.'" : '' d,al ol the role:- which has gathered like a halo round the names of -m-li men as Dick Tnrpiu and Claude Dnvil. and the re-t of the kniurhts of the r.n.l. is to be traced to fertile imaginations and to book-seller- „,, the look-out for sensations. Tnrpiu and -nine of the others perhaps did a few rather pleaant things in a neiierou- opcn-liand"d way. but you couldn't relv on Iheiu. After all. they wt>ri' not in the highivaeman business for pleasure.—" Fry's Magazine."

THE KAISER AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.

The Kaiser is not only drawn towards England by natural inclination, but he pavs great regard to what is said and written about him in Great ISritaili He estimates Hritish opinion and critici-iu of himself next to the good opinion of hi- own subjects; and I may illustrate this by stating that one day', when told tliet 'people in England held a high opinion of England and of the English -aid proudly, in my hearing. '' I hope they have: for I have a very high opinion of England and of the English people.''—" The Strand Magazine."

TRIFLES THAT C.\f SE TRAGEDIES. Pin- have accounted for many cleat!.-. At a dance given in February. IiMK), by the officers of the garrison at GothCiburg. a young lady slipped and fell on the well-polished lioor. A hairpin penetrated her skull, and -he was dead within an hour. A very similar case occurred ill Munich. Whilst getting olf a traim-ar a young woman caught her foot in her -kir't and fell olf the back of her head. Although the distance was trilling, tin' teeth of her aluminium haircomb were driven into her head, and -li-' died in hospital the same day. -"The Grand Magazine."

NO IIIDlN't! THE FACT TIIKIIE. Thiircli services in thi- country nre ofleu punctuated liy the announcement of coining marriages. Imt Imw would yon like your engagement to Ik' proclaimed in ilie public street fur all nn.l sundry to hear ulniiit anil comment ti]i<iur Yet thai is what happens in Switzerland. If vim are engaged to lie married, you niu-t not merely -iitl'er It to la-come known liy a notiee pinned lip in some obscure registrar's ollice. where it is seldom Keen, lint voti must lie prepared to have it posted ill the full bla'O of the sunlight on the front of the municipal building, where the thousands of people eontimially passing are ali'.e to see it and stop' to read •t.-'".'he Hide World Magazine. TIIK "CITE'MAP.

It is the ambition of every up-to-date dap to learn English at the lir-t opportunity. At one or two of the hotels I was rather puzzled and a little Mattered by the eager and almost anxious politeness with which Japanese vouths otl'ered to come for a walk with 'me. But I discovered that they only wanted a free lesson in English.—" The Stindav Strand."

A PROFITABLE CAHEER FOB WOMEN'.

There is a great demand lor really good window-dressers, and no higli-cl.v;s linn cares what it pays for the services of one. Of eouive, it is a Hung which everyone cannot learn. There must !>e. in the first instance, a natural artistic "ifl as well as business acumen, and. although some women may wake a fair

salary as assistants, there arc not wi many who can make a really good thing out of the profession as heads.—" Woman's Life."