FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

WENDY LOOKS FOR SPRING

AND FINDS THE FLOWER BABIES. My Dear Girls, — - , Wh , ml y° u *Wnk? I found the fir«t primrose. to-day I delighted when 1 spied them lifting their innocent pale fac. .*"• their soft crinkly green leaves. t0 a ' Y » U » braV ® , bab ' c *'". 1 cried, "You reaily should not he her. a August. A tiny breeze stirred their pale yellow kirtles, they . heads wisely as though they were saying, "We know, we know but wJ r?: to keep faith. Faith, yes! like the primrose candles we have b»on k . lately, thought I. These little flowers have faith that the winter is ail b and that old Mother Nature is preparing for her carnival of sprintr B f the damp and sodden soil around them they felt faint stirriMj whisperings, the throb and murmur of other green things growing them. So they just burst out to see, to cheer us and remind us. ... 1 cou,d ha PPy in * garden all day long, just to be amour the flu, babies and the birds that visit, or make their homes in my think I love the homely humble flowers best, the daisies which will -- spangle our lawns, the violet, the snowdrop, and the dandelion, too how many of you, I wonder, take any notice of. There is a about the dandelion. p etty ***** Once the dandelions were disobedient baby stars, they lived ia tU» Milky Way, and they would not leave their places to shine. The Kia* the Heavens was very angry, so they were seat down to the earthTull other little stars took their places. But Father Sun comforted <L disobedient stars in their misery, and when they said they were sorry U shone upon them, and made them grow into beautiful bright flowerciatka grass. _ The children have given them second place in their hearts, mh—, the daisies. ™I There is also an old Indian legend about them. A young prince M in love with a dandelion maiden, and wished her to come to kW. from the far north to the south. But she could not come to him till her hair turned white, when the wind J » brought her. * . Yes! I could tell you lots it about my flower babies. V**