FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

PANDORA'S BOX. HOW HOPE SWEETENS THE WORLD. My Dear Girls, in the Golden Age, everybody Way down the stairway Y the wor ld was filled with was good, and ,. eVery^°f^s Merrily as things do in the Neverland to-day. laughter. Indeed, I believe r-e hayfi fun> for horn d things there was nothing to d y the A i ovely gir l called Pandora like troubles had not en brother whose name was lived in those happy tunes She had Thfius Qne Epimetheus —a mouthfu o » upon his back called at their day a very tired M' ™ V,^?.that way asaia. Ot L°»::eTht".aid yes- Aa.he o,d ... J* dayT" ;L P r=fld* ."u d» e .; xdoth away in a corner. Pandora often looked at it longi gy, richly wrought and tied with a great golden cord. "I wonder what is in it,?" she would say. "Come away from the box," said Theus. "You know it is not to be opened. , "I think it was mean of the old man not to let us open it, said Pandora "I'm sure so beautiful a box must contain something lovely; fust one little peep couldn't do any harm." Pandora s fingers were already undoing the golden rope. Theus protested no longer, for he too was really curious to know what the box held, g reat knot easily cariie undone under the girl's fingers. "Now, said Pandora as she lifted the lid. Immediately there escaped a mulhtude of the world s troubles —war, famine, envy, hate, selfishness, revenge, P ai "* out of the doors and windows into every corner of the earth. Ihe girl, terrified at what she had done, slammed down the lid of box, but one small living thing was still imprisoned within. It called to be let out "Nay," said Pandora, "I have wrought evil enough to last for ever; if I can keep but one trouble out of the world I may be forgiven for my fault." "Let me out," again cried the small living thing, "I will heal tho .pain and sting of the troubles you have let loose upon the world." Pandora opened the box but a crack, and, looking in, saw it was Hope who lay at the bottom. So to this day, whatever evils are abroad, hope never entirely leaves us and Ji 1 no amount of trouble, with hope i sweetening the world, can make us t. utterly unhappy.