MORE LIGHT FROM OUR LEADERS.
By way of a supplement to the Candle-shade epigrams recently contributed by various distinguished men and women of light and leading, we have been fortunate to secure the following sentiments for St. Valentine's Day from several luminaries who were conspicuously absent from the list.
Mr. Harry Lauder, the illustrious comedian, poetizes as follows:—
"Let those wha wull compile the nation's annals, And guide oor thochts in strict historic channels; Ma Muse prefers, far fra these dull morasses, To laud the purrrple heather and the lassies."
Mr. Stevenson, the incomparable cueist, sends this pithy distich:—
"Big guns are useful in their way, 'tis true, But nursery cannons have their uses too."
Miss Carrie Tubb, the famous soprano, writes:—
"Butt me no butts. Though carping critics flout us, What would Diogenes have done without us?"
A distinguished actor gives as his favourite quotation the couplet from Goldsmith:—
"A man he was financially unique, And passing poor on forty pounds a week."
Mr. Bernard Shaw contributes this characteristic definition of genius:—
"Genius consists in an infinite capacity for giving pain."
The Air Candidate for Mile End sends the following witty and topical epigram:—
"Mid war's alarms there is no time for cooing, But Billing may prevent our land's undoing."
"We are all familiar with the poetic words: 'There's many a gem that's born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air.'"—Kilmarnock Herald.
Our own ignorance of this gem makes us blush (unseen, we hope).
"How To Keep Warm.—In Great Britain I think a shirt, vest and coat enough covering for the ordinary man. I wear no more."
Reynolds Newspaper.
No one who follows this advice need fear a chill. The police are sure to make it warm for him.
"When Sir Stanley (now Lord) Buckmaster succeeded Mr. (now Sir) F. E. Smith in the chief responsibility for the Bureau he made a point of betting on friendly terms with the representatives of the Fourth Estate."
Bristol Times and Mirror.
Several of them, it is well known, have been charged with book-making.
"Lady (Young) seeks Sit. in shop; butcher's preferred; would like to learn scales."
Morning Paper
Why not try a piano-monger's?
She. "And are you only just back from the trenches? How interesting! You will be able to tell us the real truth about the Kaiser's illness."