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''By the streets of By-and-By one arrives at the house of Never," says the fantastic hero of Cervantes. ''Poor Richard" improved Don Quixote's epigram by warning us never to put off till tomorrow what we can do today. But Franklin 's advice is not much heeded these days, and many of us have a habit of always putting off till tomorrow what we dont have to do today — particularly the collector. Verily, procrastination is the thief of time, and we will never accomplish much if we keep waiting for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day when the idler works, the debtor pays, the drunkard reforms, the wicked repents, and the habit-slave turns over a new leaf. But, unfortunately, Tomorrow never comes.
It is a question which causes the more marriages — the desire to be married or the fear of remaining single. There seems to be no doubt that most marriages are happy. We dont hear much about the happy ones, but the unhappy ones are on every tongue. Somebody has likened marriage to a beleaguered fortress : those who are within want to get out, and those who are without want to get in. Socrates and Milton both had cruel wives, and while Socrates took poison, did not Milton write "Paradise Lost"? Marriage is the proper and natural state, and the home is the cornerstone on which the peace and happiness of our nation rests.
It is well to criticise and to point out the defects of a play, so that the films of the future will profit by the mistakes of the past, but it is important that we do not fail to give due credit for the good as we give blame for the bad. To reject and frown on everything with a flaw is worse than that excess of credulity that swallows everything.
"We believe easily what we wish or hope for earnestly, and we discard easily the truth that gives us pain.
A friend in San Jose, Cal., informs me that the Sunday-schools are preparing to install Motion Pictures in every church in that city. Similar reports have come from various quarters elsewhere. Is then the Motion Picture so bad, when the churches and Sunday-schools are adopting it ? If Motion Pictures are good enough for the Sunday-schools, they ought to be good enough for the theaters. Right here in Brooklyn the St. Marks M. E. Church has just decided to raise money to pay off its debt by erecting a tent at the rear of the church and conducting a regular Motion Picture show.
"There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. Nonsense, in the bad sense of the word, is very fond of bestowing its own appellation, particularly upon what renders other persons agreeable. But nonsense, in the good sense of the word, is a Very sensible thing in its season, and is only confounded with the other by people of a shallow gravity, who cannot afford to joke. These gentlemen live upon credit, and would not have it inquired into.*' — Leigh Hunt.
This superb writer has said but little, in some eighty essays, that every person is not willing to subscribe to, and this paragraph is no exception, provided a more suitable word than nonsense be substituted. Nonsense is "no sense; an absurdity." That which has no sense is not sensible. Even a joke h