FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

EASTERTIDE

A SEASON QF GLADNESS.

Mw Dear Girls* 1 . , . ( . t ~1 l time when you read this letter. lam thinking of « I you who live in the North, or away down South Island, in Australia, or the far distant States of U.S.A.—and wondering, too, if this Easter is paving to each and every one of you the joyful one I would wish. _ What a Pity it is that we in New Zealand have no quaint Eastert.de What a pity i h hot cross hun. on Good Friday—why, customs. We do, ot coutm, na w}thout them> But oh, in England, Easter would not "J® e , crowding eac h other for space to breathe! And "n of London, just a. in days of old, men carrying baskets of fhese big brovm currant buns sing out in the cr.sp morning air; One-a-penny, two-a-penny, hot cross bunst , ' If your daughters don't like them, give them \o your sons. If by chance, years and years ago you had happened to be in a little Sussex village in England on Good Friday, can you guuss what you would have been expected to do? Play marbles, no less. In fact the villagers considered it. wrong not to play marbles on Good Fnday fust as Xy considered it wrong to omit the eating of plum pudding at Christmas time. Or, again, had you lived in the village of Brighton, what do you 3impose you, your sisters, your brothers—yes, even your mother and father—would have done all the live-long day on Good Friday. N °thmg short of skipping—just skipping and skipping and skipping, until the day itself would fairly skip and spin by. Small children in Washington each Easter Monday have tremendous fun, for on that day is held the big Easter egg rolling contest. Can t you just imagine how gay Pennsylvania Avenue must look with hosts and hosts of little Americans and jolly little darkies all tumbling over each other in their eagerness to spin their eggs along and win the coveted prize. Peter Pan has just gazed at me in frank surprise and asked me whatever am I chuckling about? I did not tell him so, but as a matter of fact 1 was thinking what fun it would be to witness next Monday scores and scores of young Aucklanders tripping down Queen Street, their Easter eggs rolling merrily before them. I hope ypu all have lots'of nice Ef* te r egg *J J.) « girls, and if by chance you don't—well, after all » it doesn't matter so vpry much, does it? Sm«e f 1 and be happy, and may your Easter be a joyful