AN EVERYDAY WONDER

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 21

AN EVERYDAY WONDER

Have you ever thought how very wonderful are some of the simple things which we use every day ! A story is told of a British engineer •who went out to Africa. He saw that the natives had to work ver” hard to bring water to his and their own houses from the lake., So be had a pipe laid from the lake to the village, sb that instead of going long journeys to fetch their water, they could get it by turning on a tap. . This was the most wonderful thing the natives had ever seen, and even an aeroplane passing overhead they did, not think so wonderful as this way of getting water. Some of them would sit all day long playing with the tapturning it on and off! For ages they had had to walk and carry the water for a long distance. Now, they said the water "walked” to them. They felt it was very wonderful. Many of our everyday things are just as wonderful, only we have got so used to them that we think nothing of them. One day we’ll have a talk about another of them.