Home Jewels

New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 10

Home Jewels

. v< A vain\Campanian beauty once called upon the noble Roman matron Cornelia. The visitor made aT display of her/ jewels, and entreated her hostess to do like'wiseY"' Cornelia immediately called, in hen two sons. ''These ', said she to the Campanian, .'are the - onlyj jewels of which I can boast '. Among women of "the 1 smart set ' these brightest jewels of the home are no linger in vogue. Still, • even the shrivelled hearts ' of ! the female- degenerates of * sassiety ' must have their - domestic, idol.' It -has long been the Poodle* But His. Majesty the Poodle has .proved' himself incapable of 'fil- r ling the void- that .ought to be occupied by the little lives "that bring their \own love with them when they" come *'. • So the Poodle is being gradually deposed from his. lotty- pedestal asJthe, kihg and god of the- ohildles*s "smart-set? home. Over his, waning cult beginneth how - the^ worship -of. the miniature bull-pup. _, The ,ris-~^ ing of the new sun-god will not be much delayed .by the latest society fad— worthy of the days of Caligula: birthday parties and solemn, receptions for fashionably dressed and bejewelled poodles. And this within -a stone's throw of quarters where children are starving for lack of bTeadi Well, God is long-suffering. The circling year is filled to its circumference with His

mercies. But such things set one a-wondering when the bolt of His dread justice will fall, upon a generation that hath corrupted its way. >