Shrewdness, rather than anything deeper, is shown by the following maxims, "Never apply for what you see very little probability of obtaining. "It most. mistaken rule to auk for everything in order to get something." Tt never, toute, scourred to ChesterSeld' thet 12 gentleman does not oak for things for himself. Men of his type ano by no means extinct, even in the Church. I have often wished to vay, to the Prime Minister for the time being: "In making Church appointments, remember that in my profes sion cadgers are never any goods"
"There is no surer sign in the world of a little weak mind then inattention. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and mothing can be done well without attention."
"Never talk of business but to those with whom you are to transact "Those whom you can make Tike themselves, better will, I promise you, like you very well."
"An injury is much sooner fore gotten than an {nsult. Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and imperfections known than their crimes, and if you hint to 'a man that you think him silly ignorant or ill-bred or awkward, ho will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that' you think him a rogue."
"Diogenes wae a wise man for \despising other people, but a fool itor showing it. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not toll [them no. never in my"Iife killed my own meat, but left it to the poulterer and butcher to do it for me." Personally, T agree, and am content to avow that I never killed anything larger than a wasp, and that in self-defences "Pulteney was fixed in the House of Lords, that hospital of incur ables."
My last quotation is delicious. "Tu matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice, because 1 will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next Laid to my charge."
These aphorisms, and here are hundreds more of them, seem to me quite as good ab those of La [Rochefoueauld and Bruydre, Reanens must be rather weary of reading of the epidemic of suicides of maidens born in the unlucky ino-e-urna yenr, sighs the editor of {the Japan "Chronicle," Why they should all select the age of 20 fas that of despairing of getting husband does not appear. At that lage most girls do not find spinster bood at all unbearable; but it is only this summer, when the girls whom superstition credite with ing fatal to three husbands are al! about 20, that, they have taken committing suicide. Apparently, however, there is something in the anticipation of difficulty in finding husband, for Dr. Sakuma, Prine cipal of.' the Women's Medical College, Kanda, says that of his 249 pupils, 77 are hina-e-urna girls, A notable instance of the working: of the superstition is that of. Miss 'Tékonami, daughter of the former Home Minister, who, 20 this year and therefore an (bride, is going in for, kindergarten'
feminine independence,
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