New-York tribune., 1902-10-11
A WO.MAN'.S WIT,

EPIGRAMS BY JOHN OLIVER HOBBIES.
From Love and the Soul Hunters"
4 patonc friendship is an unhealthy lie"
Love may not last long. hut while n lasts
there Is nothing amazing"
To he beautiful In an uncommon way is the
rareSt distinction possible"
That is the tragedy ~ every woman's life
She rs pretty for a few years and old for
great many II YOU want 10 be happy. you must
love some one who takes love In solemn way"
women should wear as much lace as they
can afford II makes young ones seem ethereal
and the old ones sublime"
Men VIII forgive any fault in a person so
long as she can make a meal pass pleasantly.
They don't want wonderful characters- Ike
people who are civil at dinner"
'Lucie Is the kind of woman who will always
deceive men, They respond to hypocrisy as rep
tiles DO 10 music. and they love paint They
think % means "A heart"
i want 70 ask every woman who is mean to
line Tell me this-does your husband know
You as well as the devil knows you? Answer
me that l want 10 see just how / stand and
where I stand
4 must say she admitted. that n there is
one thing despise il is social tact. But cour-
t'Sy IS another matter
Nh-n want the brutal rhetoric Of common
sense listen 10 ladies OF blameless virtue
And tell me this Was there ever at any time
a real note Of the Grandose In anything one
HtdrS ihat religion once able To invest
hypocrisy with a kind Of grandeur. Hypocrisy
however. IS slowly. dying out. and the candor OF
i''4'lH Souls would be sublime n the souls
themselves were not. for the greater part
squalid One would prefer them 10 be less truth
II used 90 think that marriage made men old
sour and suspicious. I find was mistaken II
Is not tho wife-it is the money market"
People say that business men are hard
ma lhtm. as matter ol fact far more tender
hearted than artists and others who are sup
posed 20 be above commercial affairs"
Men who concentrate their intellect on great
projects. financial, imperial and otherwise will
ideas
There are two ways Of IoyinC-one is iovous
SeuNe sane, without questonings and without
tltterness-the young and beautiful love which
makes life charming and is its recompense Tba
"lhtI' sardonic. agitated, complaining. more fulI
OF tears thaA laughter, makes its victims idle
eoMardly. cruel and capricOus."
Ihe Princes secretary had no sense Of
humor' ana, however precious this particular
gift may be. IL is "a question whether those Who
possess II love the best or make the truest
friends Terror OF the laugh and a knov,Iedga
that the laugh can be- justified Is often a par3-
Tying misfortune. oftener still a restraint op
conhdences but oftenest Of all II gives an ironi-
cal sting 10 sympathy"
other peoples failures"
Honesty is not enough A bishop for in
stance, ought To be VirtuOus but he mus H. =
good administrator unless the diocese is to 90 10
pieces So in financial matters. Employ a tPust
any event" ''e III
When the science Of economies and cor,r,.r.
deSenerates into the game Of politics the or, 80
decadence usually Is recognized"
am a quaker. ~ said Rachel. 'but altboucb
my people rarely spoke of money. / am sure thai
he5 thousht about little else They were All
rich and In earnest and kind. we lived ner
petually with the value Of money and the faar
ot God before our eyes. Looking back / ses 49,,
dull and calm IL was. But sane? Too sane 7,
was Saner than life 1t made every emotion
seem oNer-vlolent and unreal by contrast
lie suffers from moods he said sr,ii
ana ana ms manners are bad. / have told him 50
he coesnt mind He declares that r1snrsr,
were invented as refuge Tor the malicious s,'5
an easy game Tor fools" anu
. "h-h was younger / wasted much snao,,Ia
- III vlI Nhat 'heologians call the interior Iifa
- -, ca -. ,I8l ur bIult pour une omeleJte There
- ,'o liiu'h russ about motives scruples doubts
l--sulioeIs standings, and so on Tell me vrbat a
man uoes and viii tell YOU what he Is W.,
& r.u % ho' u" or intended 90 DO. is inconsider-
~ Is often held that Il Is better ~ ha,.a
tp'olr IN ones youth than In ones middle aea.
is nedrI' IL Is thought, is stronger TO hear
st4e4- but inns IS not the case A fresh beart i.
@tSo an immature one; II is tender innression
aole uhseasoned-altOgethe too delicate for
mar uio"s No sorrow is so bitter becausa 10 A. |
so Hltle expected or so unmitigated because a. |
$50 - 20 HtIe Understood as the sorrow In a vouno
lsiiIIu- ne world AT once seems squaIid pro,i
-, UNJUST. ana when the sense OF SUFFERING
III Justice begins 10 dominate a soul NJ its a.,
WIN unknown terrors, ana the ultimate goal is |
desolate" MY ''u'' anu