HAPPY LINES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 20

HAPPY LINES

BIRDS. (Copied.) Of all the colours God has made, I love the pretty yellow shade, i Colours of canaries' wings, Of baby ducks, and fluffy things, I think God must have split the sun,.. Upon the darlln?s every one. '■•; ■ > ■■■ "MAYTIME "FAY" (7).' j. Brooklyn. ' ' > ■ ■* ♦> IN GRANNIE'S DAY. When Grannie was a little girl, : i... . Such funny clothes they wore; I think.her dresses were rather tight, And sho kept them.all so snowy white. Grannie says, when', she was young, They were mucli more' polite than the girls of today; '. :: \ .... When she was a miss they were taught that "innocence is bliss." —From "VEKITr." Island Bay. ' , ♦ •> * ■ JUST WISHING. I'd like a lot of useless things: : An evening gown with silver wings, : A pair of shoes not made for wear, With shiny "bufkles and never a care, A saucy hat with chevalier air; So all the folks would turn and stare To saunter, out :as\ a. princess .might.. Leaving the kitchen' look :a sight! ' ; By LOUISE HERCUS. j1 ■ •'-■' ■■.-;*■(* ;■■.' * ' •.':■ ;; ; "CHOOSING SHOES." : ' New shoes, new shoes, ■ . ' : ■■ .'< Red and pink and blue, shqes. ;■. . ' :l Tell me. what would you choose ' If they'd let. us buy? Buckle shoes, low' shoes, Pretty pointy-toe shoes, Strnppy, cappy low shoes, Let's have some to try I ; ■ . But— Flat shoes, fnt shoes, Stump-alonfr-llke-thnt shoes 1 Wipe thorn on the mat shoes. Oh, that's the sort they'll buy! geut by. "PIXIE JOHN.'' Brans Baft _ '

"UPHILL." Does fee ronfl wind uphill all the way* ' Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long dayf. From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place When; the.slow, dark hours begin? May not tho darkness hide If from my fac«T. ■fou cannot ;imlss that inn. ■ Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weakf Of labour you shall-flnd the: sum. . Will there bo beds for me, and all who seek! Y«s. beds for all who come. • Sent by I'BAYMOND." Evans Bay,