Untitled

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1790, 28 September 1874, Page 2

What Literary Ladies Ought to Wear.—Book muslin. —Punch.

Habd Swearing.—Hood called^ the slamming of a door by a person in a passion a " wooden oath." ; " The human fiend in plum-coloured kids who spit tobacco on my hat is marked for death," says John Lane in an advertisement in a Memphis paper. The Geeatness that Nevek Descends to Bead ETewspapebs.;—A respectable man has been defined as one who keeps a gig ; but a cut far above your respectable man is the man who does not read a newspaper. Members of the House of Parliament never read newspapers. They vrouldnot, indeed, touch * newspaper with a pair of tongs. No great man, no one pretending to importance, ever avowed that he read anything of which he had to complain, or upon which he had to comment, in a newspaper. It is always "brought under his notice," or his "attention was drawn to it." Never does it come naturally in his way in the course of his daily reading. The fact is always brought to his knowledge, as his articles of dress and use are brought to his hands. Ho is waited oh with the news Jconcering himself, ard would no more think of learning it by the use of bis own eyes than he would think of brushing his own clothes or cleaning his own boots. All great folks have not friends who read for them. We are always mightily impressed when we see or hear that some one " has had his attention drawn to tertain comments," which everyone «lse has read with his own eyes.—Albany Fonblanque.