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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2689, 20 December 1909, Page 7

Sir J\ Bridge confesses that he tries, under all circumstances, to be cheerful and tells a story of how.he greatly benefited one pupil by advising him not to grumble. “This pupil,” says Sir Frederick, 'was an inveterate grumbler. He obtained a very nice appointment in the country. I went down to .see him, and asked him how he was getting on. ‘Oh, pretty well,’ he replied, ‘but the place is so inartistic.' He had a nice-lot of illuminated texts on the walls of his room, which h© said had been drawn by a young lady. ‘So you are going to b© married?’ -I suggested. Dolefully h© replied that he hoped so. ‘Look here/ 1 said, ‘if I give you a text, will you get the young lady 'to work it? It will do you more good than all these Scriptural subjects.’ H© said he would. Th© text I gar© him was ‘Don’t grumble.” I wont down to see him a few years afterwards and he told me the text had done him a lot of good. This happened years ago. He has now a wife and five or six children; he has nothing to grumble about/'' You never have headache? How fortunate ! Some of your friends are less lucky no doubt. Do them a service—tell them Stearns’ Headache Cure stops the pain quickly. Is a box. Jack McGowan lost the title of lightweightT champion of Australia to another Victorian, Hughie Mehegan, at Melbourne, on November 30th. The now champion won by his superiority at in-fighting.

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