CASUAL PHILOSOPHY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 12 (Supplement)

CASUAL PHILOSOPHY.

FROM A COMMONPLACE PERSON. What one goes into debt for. nine times out ol ten, is a luxuxj. Bossips have no use for people who refuse to furnish material for them. A man always making excuses leaves himself no time to make anything else. They say there’s a snare in good looks but it usually catches those that haven’t the looks. Business based upon friendship threatens both; friendship based upon business strengthens both. That man can best ignore the enmity of those who don’t understand him, who goes home to La wife who does. Dishonesty, in its last essence, is the forsaking of permanent advantages for those that are merely temporary. It runs in a circle. If trouble drives you to drink, drink leads you to trouble, and there you are. . It’s a good deal easier to pray for men’s souls than to pour balm into their wounds— not to mention that it costs less. The supreme court hus not yet decided which is the weaker man ho who is not able to see liis own weakness, or lie who- has no hum in himself. The millionaire who lias caught up with fortune by turning sharp corners is much poorer than the bankrupt who failed doing bis honest best. That much talked-ol “armor ol suspicion”, may protect the wearer once in a while, but, visual 1> if is as much help as a winter ulster m a hundred-yard dash. From an intellectual point of view, that time of one’s life is most wasted when ho tries, in a spirit of dumb loyalty, to admire all those things that are popularly considered admirable.