GERANIUMS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 15

GERANIUMS.

s Oh, I can be happy here, where elbows > I touch, I Tho clang and the clatter! do not mind i much; ' | But there's whiles I look with lonflino ' i beyond the window sills, I And think about the quiet of the great f green hills. . ] Up with the breezes, about the grind s SMid grime, | The clean hills and the green hills I I long to climb; ■ But I smile across to neighbours, who | ? rub their windows clean, | ' And bless the gay geranium for looking I | so green- f f DOUGLAS HURN. I !_„ .. , , . i

(?), Bellevuo road. Lower Hutt.—That's what lias tv happen when you forget to tack your name on the end. . . But perhaps H was 'cos you wanted a specially nico urctciid one, and cpuldn't think in time? Hard luck abeut Tim. "Rose-of-the-Mist," Uw«r Hutt.—You'll liayo to ilsh with, greater success than I do for that answer, "Kosovof-the-Mlst" I There are bits gf It rcudy aud waiting, but they Just won't glvp us trip full Dago und. five small columns «ould never holt) the soa. . . JVoffi could It? Do you Unoyr 'Total" out of tlif> Iting? Pat Nelion, F«ath«rston,—A lieu filled with chpcolatcs and sitting on a. cako pounds the very thing, for a seveu-year»old'3 party, I'atl Of course, you pan porno! Ceollle Nlcholls, P»ton?.7-rWclI, if wo cirn't flud a Eopd Straus O|je, Cccilfp, get thoso gnomes on tho job (o mafco some jnoro! "Rpbjn Hppd,", Kurpri.^rltather, Uobin, wo'd lovq you tpl T«ll US all about the spaniel for neat's week's pet Thlngff, c|>'/ Is Jlar. iPrie coming w|t): ypu? . <(Lp.n?h>" l,ow«r Hutt.-r-I do fight hard, "Ito.nah," for space for all our fun . - • and I'm aa sorry us you aro about that Se» Pago, but we'll, manago it yet, perhaps. I(Miok," Wolllnston.—No "Miclc," I'm not "Auutlo Uot." Lots of you socm to . think Unit. It'a funny. Basltetliall's tho jolltest thing for thoso cold days >. . . isn't the tingle after a stiff match good I Desmond Wright, Island Bay.—Where's tho dousing' place, Desmond? You'll have things to toll ua of your doings thoro. The picturo Hounds wonderful. There's a specially-special weo stool for Lois, "80-peep," Miramnr.—But, yes, of coiirso, little one .. . that's tho very namo for youl Toil us all about Star Talos and why it is so prucloun. . Valorio • Ward, Evan* Bay.~-Uo you know, 1 saw that boat coining in nt tho Heads as 1 lay in my verandah bed watching tho morning grow , s , and I wondered why she

' waa so curious. Nearly smashed in ice-packs ■ sounds a big sliip adventure , , . how glad slio must be of your bay! "Petor Pan," Wadestown.—Not one thousand ■ . . but two I What d'you. think of that! Bid you guess you belonged to sucli an-enor-mous family ? I know tho stream ana the path that winds. Even such a little while ago I slithered down tho waterfall! "Joan of Arc," WelNnnton.-^Vlwe's firaftnn road, "JoanMf There wan v rainbow like that at the corner of Boulcott street to-day . . . much too beautiful to bo just oil in the rain, Lorna Macalister, Mssterton..—lt sounds almost as though he might be' a little escaped canary, doesn't it, Lorna? . . . and if that's so, he'll hato to be out in tho chills of the wide world I So glad you're .all well again, small thing. "Pollyana," Kelburn.— l nearly wont . . . and then suddenly thought that anything too funny would make me cry I Sometimes it's tlio other way round, top, wjileh Is silly, of course 1 Horrid about those orphans, wasn't it? . . . and I did wnnt to.tell you about them! What would we do to tho mushroomer that picked our 'Ring I Juno Birch, Khandallah.—Yos, of course . . . just as often as you like to come. What about n snap of Totttlea ; . . does such a thing exist? Joyce Donnelly, Island Bay.—Thank you so much, Joyce, for tho Sweetmakers . . . we had nearly come to the cud of them and . you saved their life,