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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1067, 6 May 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

What is Happiness ?-Aro sensual enjoyments happiness-the wholesome latiguo, tho healthy appetite appeased, the desiro for sleep gratified? Is society happiness—a conglomeration of hot liWdntoms pressing jealously on ono another, hating, fearing, fighting, exorting what Byron called the strongest passion of human uaturo, malignity? Is lovo happiness-a madness, a fever, a slavery, a dream, here to-day, gone to-morrow, leaving nothing but a tangled memory ? Is ambition happinoss-a lifting up to the skies, with a fall like Lucifer, never to rise again; a heart-sickness, a gnawing disappointment; a toiling for objects which, when attained, lead but to tho grave? Is it possibio that the absence of happiness bo happiness—a paradox which shows that two negatives make an affirmative, two poisons mixed provo harmless, two acids opposed counteract ono another? Iu tho Epicurean life of tranquillity perhaps the soerot lies, or in the Buddhist notion of "Nirvana." Or is happiness a myth, invented, liko any other, by the desire to explain the inexplicable, to givo utteranco to a mysterious longing of nature?— Time. Value op Snj,NCE.-In Solomon's judgment a multitude of words is the sign of a fool's voieo; and tho prattling and chattering of silly poisons, both male and female, has been a subject of porpotual complaint in the mouth of philosophers over since the timo whon tho talk of the fair Beatrico was declared to be followed by '' all disquiot, horror, and perturbation." Yet Beatrice was not silly, nor can tho charge of excossive folly be urged against many of those characters whom Shakespeare has ma'lo most loquacious. The greatest master of languago this country has produced was also the best acquainted with the virtues and merits of silence; and a stage inanagev ajono knows how much has to be done, in presenting a Shakespearean play, with tho characters who remain on the stago without having anything to say. The poet has, however, done more than merely illustrate in this practical way the uses of a mute actor. Ho has personified tho taciturn character in tho role of Mr, Justice Silence— Qloh,