FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 158, 6 July 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

PAPER VERSUS STRING

WENDY IN A FRIENDLY DISCUSSION

My Dear Girls, — . A friend of mine blew in the other day just a. I was tying up a b. f brown piper parcel. "Hullo!" .he said, "Is that a birthday present for the 'Budget' family?" "Not vet" I laughed, "You are a little too soon, this is for sweet charity's sake." "I thqjight it must be something important, as you hav. •pared one of your beautiful pieces of brown paper! There is a joke between my friend and I. Everyone in this world ha* their own little "funnyosity"--thi ß is a word we have corned ourselves—and she knows I simply can't bear to see a sheet of good brown paper wasted; I always fold it up and put it away carefully. tW boxes of it! "Well," I answered, "Paper is so much more important than string. My friend's "funnyosity" is collecting string She simply can't resist a piece of string, and I knew she had enough in her pocket at the present moment to go twice round Auckland. "Nonsense," she said rather sharply, pouncing upon the end of string I had slipped off the parcel. She rolled it up neatly, and il.pped ,t » he,; ' pocket. "Suppose you want your favourite dog out of the way for a wh, f , Jou can't wraj> him up in paper and put him away. You simply mu.t ti. him up with string or a rope." "I admit paper has its limitations," I .aid sweetly. 'We are all familiar with the parcel which the shop assistant, in a sudden fit of economy, has failed to give us enough paper to cover, and the string refusing to do its duty, we are filled with embarrassment. Weve all had these moments. But you cannot write a letter with string, or mend a broken window, neither can you catch sharks, kmgfish or eels with paper; ,fc would be merely silly to say you could. You cannot paper the walls of your house with string, but with the modern designs of paper craft one* home becomes a thing of beauty. By one's own choosing one can U transported to Arcady, and pretty shepherdesses may smile from the wall* of one's bungalow. Phyllis and Strephon dance for you upon the daisied grass, dear quaint little He and She. Perhaps you may prefer Italy with its skies of blue, its dark-eyed maidens, its fragrant orange and lemon groves with fruit hanging warm to the sun. 0 "Yes. You may have it all, anything you wish on paper. While string —string is merely string. Again paper is more romantic than-strmg—. magazines, books, papers, the magic of the printed page, the .jolly crackle of the cheque you get from Peter Pan for your prize story. We cannot conceive a world without paper. "You cannot convey good wishes: to the little bride with string; certainly string plays its part in a surreptitious manner to tie an! old shoe to the bridal car for luck, whereas paper, bright, gay coloured confetti, is as winged wishes bright as a butterfly's wing. Yes, paper for me everylime," I finished. \

But my friend was not convinced. I believe I will write to Peter Pan myself, and aek him if . » he will have a competition for I ijfL^y^^^ "Budgetites" on the virtues of string ; versus paper. So we left it at that.