Hobbies.
A contemporary remarks:—lf we over became vindictive towards a fellow man, and desired to punish him, we would deprive him of his hobby; without that, he would be lonesome in a crowd, and crowded in a wilderness, and would seek what he had lost and find it not. The business man with a hobby thai he rides is a happy man; but if the hobby rides him, the business) will suffer sooner or Inter, The man without a hobby will be found in the Club room, the billiard room, or card room. The hobbyist, with his loft of pigeons, his bird skins or eggs, bugs or beetles, takes more substantial happiness than all the members of the highest toned Club in a city combined. Besides that, home and Dame Nature are all the world to him and all the heavonhe ever aspires to. ...
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2859, 28 March 1888, Page 3
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144Hobbies. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2859, 28 March 1888, Page 3
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