MAGAZINE TIT BITS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 108, 25 April 1908, Page 4

MAGAZINE TIT BITS.

how to mo happy Tiioniii MARRIED. Wives, make much of your husband. Hatter him discreetly, laugh at his jokes, don't attempt to put down his club, never tell him home-truths, and never cry. Husbands, praise and admire your wife, and let other men admire her, too; don't interfere in her department; be reasonable about money if you cannot be generous, and not overfond of your own voice. Aud lioth of you: lie very tolerant, expect little, give gladly, put respect before everything, cultivate courtesy, and love each other all you can. If you do all this you are sure to be happy, though married.— .Maud Churton in The Grand .Magazine.

WHAT ISIXOMES OF 'BUS CONDUCT ORS?

Shop-walkers and •'bus-conductors, it seems to mc, disappear immediately they

reach middle age. Old 'bus-drivers yon may see on every other 'bus that goes by,' but a whiskered conductor is so great an incongruity that one almost starts to behold him. Where do they go to, these men who vanish from their accustomed [daces with middle age? — The Strand Magazine.

A GOOD CVCUXC STORY. A country parson was one day gniiig his usual round of visiting, when he was stopped by one of his congregation, an old farm hand, who said, "An' boo be ver darter this niarning, ver reverend V' "My daughter!" exclaimed the parson, rather surprised; "oh, she is quite well, thank you." •■What!" cried the rustic; " quite well! Why, I heard she had a cycle accident yesterday an' busted her inner tubing!"— The Captain.

THE DEMOCRATIC GREEK. A characteristic feature of Greek society is its democratic tendency. Such may be expected in a nation which has not enjoyed corporate existence long enough to permit the assumption by an> one class or section of society of especial prestige, and in Greece the doctrine that all men are socially equal i.- very frankly observed. The result is both 'pleasing and otherwise. Many advantages are gained, but greater opportunities of presumption are also all'orded to the illbred.—The Wide World Magazine.

TKSTINC ITS At'CI'RACY. The mistiess of an infants' school was giving a class of little Ixvys a lesson on the cave and providence of Cod, and she dwelt especially on those words of .lesfls. ■• Kven the very hairs of your head are all numbered."' Thsee word,., quoted over and over again by the lady, would seem to have made a great impression on one of the little dots, for, after the io-snn was over, he twitched a hair out of his head and. holding it up. cried out. - Please, teacher, what number is dis'oner—The Sunday (strand.

THK (imCIXAIi OF THE CIISSOX cn:r*

[ have been asked many limes who tin l original (.'ibsnn Hir) was, lint [ can honestly say there never n» any " original " Cilison llirl. 11l other words I hail no one model for my ideal. Sinwas my idea of what a woman should li", and the conception was formed after drawing many women from many models.—!'. Dana Cibson, in Woman's Life. C. I!. KJiY (I.N CKIAKKT'rE-SMOKINIi. I am aware that there is a vast and powerful crusade against cigarette-smok-ing, and I always snippet that they are on !he wrong lines. What the crusade ought to 1),. against is inhaling. There i- a very real and insidious harm in inhaling tobacco smoke: hut the crusaders, probably because most of them do not smoke, and never have smoked, make no distinction. They direct their energies against, cigarettes, rightly enough, because, one cannot without difficulty inhale smoke excepting from a cigarette; but they ought, I think, to make, the distinction. It always seems to me that to smoke a cigarette, if it be of pure and good tobacco, is the surest way to get the solace that smoking brings, without taking in alien unpleasant ness such as a foul pipe provides.—Fry's Magazine.