Month: June 2016

Gour

Saturday’s Piece

Men cannot read women’s characters from their faces. It is well that they are denied this faculty or the race would become extinct.

(Sabine Baring-Gould, 1834 – 1924)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
26th March, 1971

Gour

Friday’s Piece

What is that I feel, Fanny? Why am I so weak in body that I cannot take exercise? Why cannot I keep my mind on a book for one moment? Why can I not write two sentences together? Why should every mouthful that I eat stick in my throat? Oh, Fanny, is it his legs, think you, or is it his title?

(From Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope, 1815 – 1882)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
25th March, 1971

Gour

Wednesday’s Piece

Es ist nicht so fein gasponnon es komut doch das Licht der Sonnen.

(There is nothing so finely woven, it comes to light in the sun)
(or, Everything comes to light in the end)

German proverb

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald, 23rd march 1971

 

Gour

Sunday’s Piece

Marriage is a very good thing when two people are so poor that they depend on each other, mutually, for daily bread, or if they are rich enough to live apart.

(Francis Marion Crawford, 1854 – 1909)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald, 20th March 1971

Gour

Saturday’s Piece

He never will marry, I’ll tell you the reason.
One love at a time is all he can control,
And he loves himself so, he would think it high treason
To give any woman a share in his soul.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th March, 1971

 

Gour

Thursday’s Piece

Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a very pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

(From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870)

John Lentell
17th March, 1971