FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

THE LILT OF A SONC.

STAR UGHT. STAR BRIGHT.

My Dear Girls, — Our stay at the seaside bach was A ■ end. Only three more days remained to u^Y" 15 lo «* myself a. I sat on the verandah that evenijt 'i 1 here were four ot us grouped at th. «***. ti» .h«. JiL g v. " p £l'& o £"£s: wonderful plans, which each knew full w*H w if 01 *®* carried out—for was this not HoUday House. ,!?* 004 U hour came a. a delightful surprise a„d one minute what would happen the next* W?"* house party was made up there had been am* , it was to be Come-and-go-ac-you-please-PUr* . "•'j; happening pre-arranged. I smiled to myself *• as surelya, they decided upon a p !cnic we should swim all day instead or ramble ikT W#w explore the magic caves. rro b or From within I could hear the chink of crocV~_ musical enough sound as 1 listened at a uf» * the verandah. Again I smiled to myself thU^*" 88 °* the infinite Content of one who know, it'i. to wash up. The two on duty were sinein* »l! *** j blended in an ancient lullaby. Through it Lm ~ °i ce« inic rub, rub, broken by an occasional cleaning the pots," was my unspoken thought f«, I every one of those sounds off by heart. ■*■! "They must be nearly through now," said one ,i grown-ups. She was right; a familiar scratch!-! ™" announced that, task over, they had put a ***** portable machine. There came out to us the latest popular song. Have you ever listenedtT record on the verandah of a seaside cottage 7 witchcry in the sound. It was a haunting mdod^l* played one which brought me thoughts of , palms and all the romance of the tropics; throJh i»S steel guitars whined an eternal sadness. I„ the Kh song there is enchantment; melody, be it i>« I i . holds magic which few can resist. We temng to every note, awaiting each rememberJiLs!! to the music. It died away on a minor note tT* changed the record, and the spell was broken. "Let's go for a walk along the beach," was .n----body . suggestion A similar idea seemed to have the inhabitants of every cottage there; young and JT2 bad emerged for that final promenade. The till half out, leaving * belt of hard sand, which made an aldL lent highway. Here and there a bather had venturrfS a solitary dip before daylight finally died. nrare « h* A glow over the headland made us hasten fa> _ fire could be there. "It's only laughed our youngest member; "don't you know to be full to-night ?" A whOe later, Jd the lady £ S ti°n had appeared; large and round and red she wsafW surprisingly different from the pale princess who rides so high. Again the youngest member spoke. "Lna? There s the first star." One moment she stood stodTS lo recite a line or two of Terse: • "Star light, star bright, You're the first I've seen to-night; Would I could, would I might Have this wish I wish to-night!" The eldest grown-up laughed. "I think I'M t_ aj again some day myself — if your's comes true," - 1 — remarked. 'Tn tell you if it does," was the gay promise; "the twf **7 " to want things that you know will happen—thes you're sure to get them. But you must never tell a anal what you're wanting, because that spoils everything." We, returned then to our Ter- J . andah and our . gramophone. I hope /l her wish comes true, don't you?