PINK CURTAINS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 26

PINK CURTAINS.

The little pink curtains peeped shyly through the window; this was their chief amusement. Every day, if you happened to pass that way, you would catch a glimpse of them.

The flowers that grew just underneath tbe sill could not understand it. at all. "Why," they argued, "should they be so seclusive? We do not mind them, so why should they hide from us?"

But, in.spite of what the flowers said, the two little curtains remained in their hiding places. They were very Happy, and you never saw them look discontented and blue. Maybe this was because they were dyed pink —but certain it is they were always happy. And why not? They lived in the dearest little room you ever saw, and they could watch everything that went on both in the room and on the road.

But there was one very strange thing about these curtains. Every evening, when the flowers were nodding their ,ileepy heads and the birds were twittering as they settled to roost for the night, these little curtains, instead of going to sleep, were drawn out from their hiding places and stretched right across the window..

Anybody who-happened to pass that way would see them, pink and smiling in all their glory, .with the lamp-light showing warmly through. What would the flowers have said if they had seen the pretty sight?,