WENDY CHATS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

WENDY CHATS

Dear Girls,— What a lovely sunshiny day it is to-day. I keep trying to give ail my attention to this letter, and instead I find myself gazing through the window at the sky, which is so blue and cloudy, and the patch of harbour just visible in the distance. It is quite wrong of me I know, but, oh dear, how hard it is to stay indoors when the sun is shining and the breeze is calling.

I remember when I was a little girl at school—our school was on a sloping hill overlooking the open sea. So close was it indeed that when the wind came roaring in from the sea and the rain and the hail and the lightning came, we smaller ones would shiver with dread listening to some senior girls, in teasing mood, telling us that “one never knew but our school just might be blown away to sea.” When we grew older, of course, we grew very brave girls indeed, and I used rather to like to press my nose to the window pane and watch the waves as they dashed their fury on the shore.

But on days such as this—lovely days—how hard it was, how dreadfully hard to have one’s class room window overlooking the white sands and the blue waves. And it is just as hard to-day—so hard that I believe I shall finish this letter, my Sunbeams, and skip off and try and persuade Peter Pan that the one thing we should . do in the whole wide world is go for a walk in the sunshine. It) Love from (A 7