WHEN MAZIE CHANGED HER MIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHEN MAZIE CHANGED HER MIND.

It was a horrid day, llazle was quite sure of that. To begin with, it poured with rain. Then llazie had been going to tea with Granny, but Granny had a bad headache and had sent word "Anotner day." So Mazie had to stay indoors and play alone. And then she discovered she hadn't any nice toys to play with. Everytning in the play box looked shabby and dull. Two cups "of her tea-set were broken; the gamboge was missing from her paint-box. Teddy bears .arm was loose, and Belinda, her best loved doll —oh, Mazie was so tired of Belinda, whose frock badiv wanted washing! .

She held the doll up to the light and scornfully compared her with Essie Smith's lovely new Rosa belle. Rosabelle was twice as big as Belinda and had much, grander clothes. "I hate all my toys!" said Mazie, very crossly. '"Anyone can have them. They're no good to me!" '"They'll love them at the hospital," said Mother, briskly.. ""I daresay the sick children can paint pictures without gamboge. I can easily mend Teddy's arm and wash Belinda's frock." She carried all the toys into the kitchen and Mazie followed her forlornly. "Come and help get the toys ready for the hospital," suggested Mother. So while she washed and ironed Belindas frock and sewed on Teddy's arm, Mazie arranged the tea-set with coloured papain a pretty box so nicely that you d hardly have noticed there were two cups missing. And how sweet the mended Teddy and the clean Belinda did look! Mazie burst into tears. "Oh, Mother, Ido love the in! They're «o nice. Most tiiev go away?" " Mother smiled. "Then they are some Tood to TOU, after all. dear? \ery well, now tou are content with them, you may keep them a little longer hetore they go to the sick children.' GOOD THINGS PAY. "What is worth doing is worth well" might almost be the motto or the Bov Scouts, whose jamboree fulfilled both requirements. It was done so wel that the whole world wondered at it and applauded. It was so well- wor , doing that a profit of £10,000 was made. It has always been the pride of the Scout that he pays his way. The Scout is a gentleman in that way as in many another, and we rejoice that the British public should so well have supported the jamboree as to afford it this handsome surplus. Good things done boldly always pay.

DRAWING CONSEQUENCES.

This same can cause lots of fun. Players sit round a table, and all start off "by drawing a head; the papers are then passed on and the next person draws an arm, and the next the other arm, and so on until all ha've had a turn. If there are a lot of you playing you have one turn putting on a hat, another shoes, etc. The people you will draw will be so odd-looking, as some people can draw well and some can't draw at all!