SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

NEW YORK detective agency that specialises A in tracing missing persons has been employed by more than 70,000 wives to find their husbands, but only 15 husbands to find their wives.Writer in American Journal. ae % a ‘T HE Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.-George Santayana. : BS * ms P , igse otra age strange things that men have forgotten, the most universal lapse of memoty is that by which they have forgotten they are living on a star.-G. K. Chesterton. us ue Ba AR will disappear, like the dinosaur, when changes in world conditions have destroyed its survival value--Robert Andrews Millikan. at % % | F women would watch the slow progress of a Persian cat into a crowded drawing room-the delicate tread, the tail held at exactly the right angle, the sudden pause, the glance over the left shoulder, and then the final exquisite nonchalance of the attitude in which it curls itself by the fire-they would receive a perfect lesson in poise. If they could enter restaurants like that they would break even the headwaiter’s heart--Beverley Nichols. ~ * x ue I F you saw the film "The Good Earth" you'll have some notion of how the Chinese peasant livesthough no Chinese throws his arms about as awke wardly as Paul Muni, nor would his wife make soulful eyes at you like Luise Rainer-James Bertram, in an NBS broadcast talk. * * F you and I must say this to Marshal Goering: "Your conception of civilisation is an animal and not a human conception. If you talk this 2@p language to us we shall, much against our will, have to Teply to you in zoo language."-Harold Nicholson, M.P. * x * BYRON was exceedingly fond of animals. At one time he owned ten horses, eight huge dogs, three monkeys, five cats, one eagle, one crow, one falcon, five peacocks, two guinea hens and an Egyptian crane, all of which-with the exception of the horses -he allowed to walk about the house.-This Week. * * * "THERE is nething so degrading as constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income, half the possibilities of life are shut off. -W. Somerset Maugham.