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The West AUSTRALIAN
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1912
The inimitable G. K. Chesterton HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE MILLIONAIRE WHO DOESN'T SMOKE.
The Catholic Art and Book Depot 534 HAY
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DOOR CELTIC CLUB.
Miss M. J. McDERMOTT Proprietress
Goods just oeened -Statuary, A Large uonsignment of New men's judgments I can only ,suppose Brass Candlesticks, Stations of the Cross, Crucifixes, Hymn of the or speciality subtelts that the Books, Floats, Incense, Charcoal Ta pews, and all Church and Catholic thing, lies not in the Man. but in the English, and American Newspapers, and All Irish, School Revieites. to incline And I really substance. Magazines in stock. Agents for all Interstate Papers and Magazines. think there is some truth in this. Good Magazines for *e home circle- Ave Maria and Catholic Fireside. say That is what I mean when I COUNTRY ORDERS REOEI VE PROMPT ATTENTION. be fetish-wormight almost that it ship. It does seem as if there was a mystical materialism in men's minds, TELIPFIONE 767. a worship or abhorrence of stark ists, succeed much better than anysubstances ; as if smoke were an body else, because no man can be at abominable incense Invcdning idola- ease in the presence of his own ne°GANN' NEWCASTLE AND try; or as if tobacco were too sacred glected ideal. Men are alwas fidget STREETS, PEIVFM. a .body to be burned. Just so, of course, they deal with mans other Ling and shifting, a little nearer to taboos of the same type. Just so the high seas where the fanatic site. HOLMES and THORPE they, by some occult intuition, con - When once a Than has been called an impracticable visionary, be is practi- GROCERS, TEA. AND PROVISION Bider billiard balls as dangerous as cally hound to be a success. The AND canon halls, but croquet balls' as DEALERS, WINE, EMIR, moment a thing has been definitely There are, SPIRIT MISCSIANTS. innocent as dumplings. indeed, rationalistic objections to to- called imposaihle, something sportAE ASK A. TRIAL OF YOU. ing in the soul of man immediately bacco, hut, like the rationalistic, artake; the bet, and resolves to bring if meats for teetotalism add Saliba CO. healthy popular sympathies, and no tarianism, the'. will generally in the the thing about. Twenty sears ago R. Douglas Jones pretexts people last, merely as werel saying that Socialism resort appear rew. J. CLARKE, Manager taste for toadying millionaires), not was Utopian ; was "contrary to, humarked that the millionaire in ques- It is true that tobacco, though TUIDER MERCHANTS, AND UMa man nature " would be "all very an intoxicant, sense is in some Now what tion was "too idealistic." PLANNING ANI drug but so is tea ; and these well if we were angels," and so on. DESTAKERS. could this mean' What can idealMOULDING, MILLS GIIIIIDFORD: do All not, feel the same black was through that time Socialism People ism have to do with not happening guard atmosphere about tea. It is taking gigantic strides addirg thouAll kinds of Mouldings and Joiners to like the smell of tobacco ? true that tobacco, taken out of sea- sands to its clubs, thrusting its prokept is stook, aeasoaed J arras SEE NOT DO I THINGS OF LOTS phets into Parliaments and councils. Flooring, a speciality. All orders son and reason, spo'ls your appetite; THE FUN OF. but so do sweets ; and these people Bet now people have found out that massive Prompt attention. Funerals There are lots of things I do i.ot do not feel the blackgi and atmos- Socialism is inevitable ; and it is soadueted in any part of coastal "see the fun" of, but I never was phere about sweets. It is true that drifting further off us every day. districts of West Australia. TEL. credited with any soaring aspirations it is a luxury, a mere keen and 21, Guildford. LET US ADOPT THE RIGHT When the passing titillation or pungency ; but !or not seeing the fen. METHOD. waiter at a dinner remarks, "Kid- so are pepper, and mustard and a & I reply "No, thank hundred other blameless gifts of the When you call a man *too idealisnays, Sir ? " you," because I do not like them. good housewife. It is true that it tic" you admit that he has found Valuators, and ComAuctioneer', But the waiter does not say, in a ends in saw e ; t,it so do all world- the road, and in the end you will mission Agents. deep, low voice, "Sir, von are too ly powers and pleasures. It is true always be dragged after him. That ESPBRANCE, WESTERN Alifflyou are that it falls into ashes good for this low world but so do is why the lowest fanatics succeed TEASJI. sent here as an example rather than we. 'Perhaps, after all, this is some to some extent as well as the highManagers of the Standard Salt Co. as a fellow -sinner." If a barber sug- part of the mystery of the million- est. I apologise to the Socialists gests that I should be happier if I aire ; and that those who have built for; so much as comparing them to Md. The Bsperance Land Co. Ltd., sail bad Mugg's Marmaline on ms hair, themselves strong habitations and millionaires ; but the process is, in The Bijou Theatre. I reply firmly that I do not want heaped up gold upon the earth are one sense, the same. The journalist Mugg's Marmaline on my hair. Yet reminded by this slight and swiftly who thought the millionaire too Anita : The Melbourne Steamship bow seldom does the barber answer, wasting little pleasure that man's idealistic is more likely 'to have his Co., Ltd., Suit Insurance Ce., Eta. "Such is the conduct of saints and body drops like an ash and his soul pipe taken away by the millionaire those who are well-nigh angels ; but ascends like a vapour. But I do not than he is to thrust another pipe infor us of the earth and the common thine that is the feeling ; as I say, to the millionaire's mouth. Now, I dr air, such 'things must be ideals rath- I cannot conjecture what the feeling suggest that, whether, the thing' be a OFF 746 WELLINGTON STREET. er than attainable things." I do not really' is. noble fad Bee Socialism, or a base see the fun of liquorice, or parlour fad' lake Anti -Tobacco we should Wood and Coal Merchants THE .GODS OF PURITANISM. volt, or broiled kidneys, or collectadopt the right method of denouncor But there is one way of.looking at ing it ; the method that weakens. ing stamps, or blanc-mange, Agesta for Howard Smith's A..I., wearing gloves, or keeping a man- it which does a little more justice not the method that strengthens it. servant. to the. fanatics. I think the predom- Let us say plainly that Socialism is Newcastle Coal, Collie Coal, ObarOpeeial quotes for tr'.*h for not a thing fit for angels, but simp- seal, etc. imagine of the Puritans is bad I might also suggest,' with all tendDry Je.rrah Blocks, 128. bd. erness for the millionaire's feelings, moralits ; far worse for mor- ly a thing unfit for men ; not be- lots. that I do not see the fun of adding nifty than for pleasure or art. cause, men are below Socialism, but Per lead. TELEPHONE 1702. up noughts in a ledger when you are But I "think there is a sense in because they are above it. Because an old man, and can never tern w hich they have earned their pre- honour, and lordship of a little them into, anything else hut noughts. dominance. They have earned their place, and defence of the family, and & Co. it these are matters of taste, and nredominance bessese %thole masses rational defiance of the powers of it certainh never occurred to me that of o'ir strange society, masses who the world, are not things of whirl' I would he astonished if s ou' called .we are ashamed ; they are not weak they were matters of idealism. 73-75 LIVERPOOL ST., CITY. indulgences, but natural rights. And never felt 'my head among the stars them Puritan, yet worship secretly Louis Gille & Co., of 73-75 Liverwhen I refused liquorice, or soared the gods whom the Puritans worship do not let us say of a man who diePool -Street, Sydney, and 300-302 comely at morning or noon. Evi- spi*a tobacco that he is too idealto a spiritual peak by declining Lonedale Street, Melbourne, have JUIN finaneminent dently, the If there are numbera of people hlsne-mange. istic, but that he is much too ner- completed their Jubilee year, being did enjoy he that like the said who journalist Mr. thought tier had vous about nothing. Such' varieties 25 years established in Australia, smoking hut proeosed to abstain Carnegie "too idealist's," eho do in and luxuries are in moderation, a and it Is a great tribute to the enhis greatof their memor-' hearts believe that tobacco Part of idealism ; a land without terprise and general business managefrom it in, Inuit, or out of respect for the desecrates the ideal of life, but take hedges is not more like paradise, ment of this great Catholic Firm, Heliopolis, of Hilarion advantage of the plea that they pro- nor a s'ty without clouds more like that they have retained for a quarshrine of St. thought his he fess no heroic virtue. Now, when heaven. re- merely because ter of a Century the patronage of way, success will was perilously weakening, I could people plead in that the vast majority of the Catholie idealism called being its in understand goes where it generally does go Smith Premier Typewriter Religious, Clergy, and Hierarchy, of the ascetical sort. But if he does a convict between the heroic and the throughout Australiasia. It is alunheroic, between faith and feeble not like smoking then abstaining No- 10 VISIBLE ways a treat to inspect this Firm's from smoking is merely a very sen- 'mindedness. Personally,. as I have Intending Purchasers are cordially immense and valuable stock, embracsit-de sort of self -in litleence. I have said, I can form no more conception used in our Holy far too much toleration for the of what it can possiqy mean to say invited to inspect the above Machin. ing every article Religion, either for private use, or aried pleasures of mankind to oh- '3'ou think srro'cing wrong than to before Purchasing any other rcWc for the furnishing of Churches, from ject when the millionaire enjoys a say too thin; sneezing wrong. But This is the machine which after OT the smallest Orators or Country smo"elessness. or the treat of if a person thinking it wrong reiects !must've trials in New South Wale. r linking a cigar. it, he is likely to he in the true resulted in 6o being placed in the church to the largest Cathedral. The departments include Church plate. eense of the words) a holy terror to Telegraph Branch alone. N...1 INT IS THE REASON OF THIS Altar fittings, Vestments, Stanley,' all 'the pecrele who, thinking it STRANGE DISTINCTION ? Repairs executed by an expert. Pictures, Books, Music, and small it. Such anti -smoking wrong, r-tain Supplies at lowest rates. What, however. is the real reason r-lieion is lower. than mon'-ey-worReligious articles. It would be imet the strains distinction felt here possible to enumerate all the artimonnen-worship shin ; but even SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITE? 'I etween the tobacco and the Haimcles in this large end varied stock. belierfe in the man who really AGENCY, rice ^ As it would he contrary to We would advise our readers to pay believes in the monkey v erY nrincinles of an awe of cal BAIRD'S ARCADE. ths Firm a visit when in Shlee, r That is the blunder of the cynics and rriere.s to sunpose for a PERTH Melbourne. or write fora Catalogue -ui-ment that a man's heirs; a mil- when they say that i 'ealists do not TEL 1'724. succeel. Idealists, consistent iieal- Catalogues posted on e.PPlieation. liorAre couli ira'e any diff ence
The modern world noee not wear its heart upon its sleeve, but rather up its sleeve, like the cards if a sharper, or the hand terchief of a Guardsman. For a variety of reasons, not least becat.se of the very multiplicity and miscellaneousness of its out -put, it remains very 'nesterlolls about its root -notions of right and wrong. Re commandments are carved in very entangled hieroglyphs on very dark tablets of stone ; and one is constantly finding phrases and comments which make one wonder whether, superstition. or despair, is resin at the hack of people's minds. For instance, a famous millionaire, addressing sonic students the other day, said he could not see the fun of pulling smoke into your mouth and puffing it out again ; or words to that eiTect. Whereupon a newspaper la good newspaper, too, with
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