PEACE AT ANY COST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3743, 23 February 1891, Page 2

PEACE AT ANY COST.

"Sthop yer rumpus, will jet," shouted, an Irishman at a . social gathering which was somewhat demoralised.

"Phwat the divil do ves want, Dennis Doolah ?" returned One oi^hftCompi^jjr. "Peace, begorra! I want* peace; and Qi'm goin' to have. it if I have to Ucklvery mother's sonin theparty.'"

T "<■» THE LAWYER'S ADVICE. A sharp lawyer was consulted not tote ago by a young'man 'Who had speculated with the funds of a bank, and was /a,ooo short in his accounts.'jThttUwyeirjJwMjned attentively to his story, and then asked whether there-vpuraoy ipore to which he could gain access. The qlient said then was. 1 :',1: ,Vfi ' "How much?"

" /8,ooo." , ... "Take Iti tuid ttWihe;' ftfa the advice. He did so, whereupon the lawyer went to the directors with .the usual for', inula—

" Gentlemen, yon have been robbed of /lo.ooof The young, man who bu dona tM "conies of 'a'good famllyV'wbbwill be overwhelmed by his They art not' rich, but to 4w6id shtae they i Will raise what they can, in fact, they Jiave done to, and .they, offer, you ;£4,oo«pThis willba much better 1 than nothing foHhe mopey hasdlsappeared irrevocably, and if yon accept it'tne youngmirivrtirhave a chance 10 reform." . ; The proposltldns'weni{(66eded' the lawyer smilingly handed to the young man /a.ooo, and said to him; • j ".I nave £2,000, here is £2,000 for youi go away, start afresh, and be a better man.',"J THE MOST ECONOMICAL PEOPLEi The Chinese.are .pre-eminently economic cal, whether it be in limiting the number of wants, in preventing waste, or in adjusting forces in such a manner as to make a little represent a good deal. Their universal diet consists of rice, beans; millet, garden vege? tables, and fish, 1 wito a little meat iafalgb festivals.

r Food costs them less than a penny a da* for: each andjnfamiqe tipe thouanas of persons' have been' kept' alive' fot ihbnthf on about a halfpenny a day each. This im* plies the existence of a high degrteof ary skill in the Chinese; their modes of preparing'food are. thorough, and, .variousv There is no waste ; everything 'is made to) doasmuchdutyaapossible. , What l& left is the veriest trine. * '" : '* " " j} Th<i .physlpal 1 condition of the Chiaew dog or cat which lias to live oh thelttivlnga of the family.shows this: itisclearly kept on starvatlon allowanoo. 'rTbpfChinese ar* not extremely fastidious'inVegard to food a all is fish that comes to their net, and most; things come there sooner or later. " I Chinese women carry economy into thelQ dress ; nOtliing comes amlss tof them. If if is not used in one place it is in wherelt appears.ft thing of ,beauty. Foreign: residents'who give their cast-oft rfrtlfes to Chinese, maj be to commence. r _ .

FICTION AND FACT. Or modern CoTllhs cidedly had the most remarkable series of encounters with the class of people who Identify themselves with purely imaginary, personages. 1 " A bourgeois of Paris," he himself has told us, " reading ' The Woman in White.', in a French translation, wrote to say that he had flung the book to the other end of the room on disbovering that Fosco waa an absolutely perfect likeness of himself. He naturally insisted on receiving sjffbfaction for the insult, "leaving the choice of swords or pistols to me, as the challenged person. Information on which he could rely had assured him that I meditated a journey to Paris early in the ensuing week. A hostile, meeting might, in such circumstances, bo easily arranged." ' Arrived in Paris, Wilkie Collins looked for his honourable opponent in vain. Again, Mr Collins invented a character who was so careful about the quality of 'Ws food .that he weighed it in little scale/at' (able. Shortly after the publication of this novel a gentleman called upon the author.'-' "You have ho right, sir, to caricature me!" exclaimed the caller to the astonished novelist. 41 1 weigh my food in little scales,! sir.vHeife are. sir.''l atways carry; them -about with me by the my physicjap, but .is (hat any' reason'why I Should be hpid ftp to ridicule, sir?" 3 And the gentleman refused to be pacifiedj though Mr { Collins protested that he had never before heard of such a habit. ( On another occasion a reader of" Arma> dale" called upon him and upbraided hirai for putting his house into print. ThedesJ cription.it is said: was exact, although tha ■ popular writet M never se» '