DON'TS FOR TALKERS.
Don't say thai '•Cleanliness is next Id godliness." a statement which would be utilrue. if it were not unmeaning. If you must gauge the value of the excellent quality, quote the original correctly, ami say that "Cleanliness is next to goodliness," meaning thereby that a clean and well-kept person has an attraction as well as a comeliness only second to actual heaulv. Never talk of "the worst coming to the worst "—an impossible occurrence, since it is already there! The worse may come to the wor.st —as, alas! it often does—but when the worst has coii!<: there is no more to be said. do not speak of a •'mutual friend." If A is a friend of B and C, A is not a mutual friend, but a common friend. But, above, all, if you would be blameless, never talk of "common-sense" as though it were, or could be, an exeeptional or rare possession of a favoured 1 tew. Common sense is the sense com-| mon to all, which long may wc all enjoy-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 228, 19 September 1908, Page 4
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176DON'TS FOR TALKERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 228, 19 September 1908, Page 4
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