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Temuka Leader, Issue 1998, 23 January 1890, Page 1

The author of a book on marriage says that a silent woman is a stupid woman, bat it is an easier matter to praise this teacher than to be his disciple. The cleverest women are often silent when in the company of women, and those who are stupid and silent among men are often the reverse when with their own sex. Generally speaking, it is true of women as of men, that those who usually think the most say the least, just as frogs stop croaking when a light appears on the bank of a pond. Further, women's talkativeness is the result of her sedentary occupation. Tailors, shoemakers, and weavers —all men who sit at their work—have in common with women, not only hypochondriacal fancies, but also a tendency to great talkativeness, Monkeys, say the savages, do not &peak because they are determined not to work. Certainly many women talk twice aa much as others just because they are working.—Jean Paul Richter. It appears it was Mrs Moorhouse, the wife of the Bishop of Manchester, and not the bishop himself, who made a vigorous defence of bazaars when opening one recently in aid of the Rochdale parish chnrch. She had read, she said, in one of the church papers an article condemning church bazaars because it said that " the gift of Grod cannot be purchased with money." Of course it could not, and she did not suppose anyone imagining for a moment that it could. Surely, however, it was equally true that the work of a church like any other institution could not be carried on without money. Did not every church and every institution appeal constantly for money ? Churches could not be built without money, Clergymen had bodies as well as souls like other men, and they could not live without money. Although it might seem to some people easier to collect subscriptions than " to resort to bazaars, yet surely so lonoas there were people who possessed time and skill to devote to the service of the church, but not money, it was right they should have an opportunity of contributing when a sale of work , took place.