“KEEP SMILING”

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 176, 13 April 1923, Page 9

“KEEP SMILING”

MISS BUTLER’S ADVICE TO COLLEGE BOYS. “There are no two words in the dictionary that I love better than the ‘Tommy’ of England, and the ‘Digger’ of Australia,” said Miss Lily Butler, C.8.E., “the Digger’s Mother,” when addressing eight hundred pupils and their teachers at Wellington College yesterday afternoon. Miss Butler soon won the hearts of the boys with some wonderful realistic reminiscences. She toldl tfiem that the New Zealand soldiers were the best in the world; they were ao splendid, so clean. Never once did one of thgm come drunk to a "Corner of Blighty.” She did not say this because she was in New Zealand. She had maintained thff opinion right throughout England, Australia, and Canada, and the soldiers there had agreed with her. Mentioning that she had helped in a strong plea for a soldiers club in Wellington, she strongly urged the boys to support it as much as they could. It would be somewhere to go for the Diggers and cripples, somewhere for them to take their mothers, wives, and sweethearts and overseas visitors. Selfishness was the wicked giant strolling the world to-day, she said, and she urged the boys to cultivate the spirit of helpfulness and thought for others, beginning with their parents. “The world is a mirror which reflects everything you do, so don’t forget to smile,” she said in conclusion.