SUNBEAM COLUMN

Grey River Argus, 27 May 1922, Page 8

SUNBEAM COLUMN

Greetings to all.’ Good thoughts Io all the world! Good thoughts to Uncle Ted! Good thoughts to Te Wihoi and Had! tlere I am, Te V ihoi. to help a <»»i in your thoughtful task of trying io gel Uncle Tod to write us a letter. 1 hope all Sunbeams will help. 1 know they will, so now all together; with good thoughts to Uncle Ted. Keep on, Sunbeams. If he does not write to-day he surely must next Saturday; and if not next—well then the next. Now, do not lag; do rot ever weary of sending them good thoughts and 1 know he can’t keep away. Our dealest. Sunbeam ■was brought back to us by good thoughts, so surely our founder I nch' ■ Ted will respond to the bombard of good thoughts. Its so good of you to start out on Uncle Ted when T am almost, sure Uncle Ted has never ceased from sending you good thoughts. Let us hear from you, Uncle Ted; fur Hie love you bear our Sunbeams. Tell us how you are and if all the world is well with you. I am glad you like school Tommy; your are quite different from most boys. Let me hold your botli hands Elvina and welcome you a thousands times to our circle. 1 am sure you love your little brother; yon will write often, won’t you, dear/ Dear little Jim, over the seas I. waft to you our sweetest good thoughts. What a darling mother you have. When you grow big you will grow proud of her and she will be proud of you: for she is brim full of love. Not only for you, but for all children. You should not dislike your school Claire, for by going to school you gain knowledge, and when years have passed by, you are educated and can take your place in the front ranks of Labour’s army. ..e need every one educated to enable them to take the leading parts in the future which is ours dear one, and I know ; you will try, won’t you.’ I think we all missed Dad’s letter, Annie but he could not write when his heart was troubled. My brave Eddie, you think Aunt Flora will get weary ami leave you. Not just now. 1 could not possibly desert our glorious page when all tlio Sunbeams bombard me ev< r ? with their love and good thoughts could I? 1 am held like a prisoner in the prison all of good thought ami I. can see no way out, and, what is more, 1 do not look to see even a liny hole to get away by—not just yet. Oh’ dear no! 1 wish won good luck and much happiness Winnie, wherever you go Do not let your change ot residence stop you from writing >o Aunt Flora--1 am sure you love all your pet- especially Fluff, Bose. Do not forge! to write often will you. Dear little .lean; how wonderful you are to be able to write me such a lovely letter and you only in Trimmer IL You have quite I a lot to do Willie when you milk tour j cows after your school is out. Kia | Ora; we must not only send Te W dioi good thoughts but we must write and tell her we do and let her see we are glad of her returning, dark you must keep on sending the other Jack -/"I thoughts, and he will come btp-k again . for sure. Yes, Enid, I hop. 1 May and Charlie start again. You must, try and write often, as Aunt Flora loves to hear from everybody if only two or tlnee lines. Te Wihoi has asked us all Jo storm the ramparts of Uncle Ted s heart and capture him just for one letter to his Sunbeams and 1 know Gladys and Madge will be two of the lies' at helping our dear one. J am going to write you a few lines I saw in a book I am reading that was written by a schoolmaster:' —■ "To-night after by bairns had gone a'way, I sat down on a desk and thought —What, does it all mean. What am 1 going to do! These boys are going out to the fields to plough; these girls are going to farms as servants. Lf I live long enough the new generation will be bringing me notes of the "please excuse Jones as I was washing” type, and the parents who will write them went out of that room five minutes ago. I ean teach them to read, and they will read serials in the drivelling weeklies! I can teach them to write ami they’ll write pathetic notes to me bye and bye; 1 can teach them to count ai " they will never count more than the miserable sums they will leieivc ‘if wages. The present system is to pioduce the same kind of man as tve see to-day. And how hopeless he is. -Most of the stuff I teach them will be forgotten in a year or two, but an attitude remains with one throughout life. 1 want these boys and girls to acquire the habit of looking honestly at lite. Ah! I wonder if I look honestly at bte myself! I try—and that is II”’ '■ point. I hold that self-knowledge must come before all things. \\ ..en one stripped off all the conventions and superstitions, and hypocrisies, then one is educated. M Good thoughts io every one, good thoughts to Uncle Ted. AUNT FLORA. W estland. Dear Aunt Flora.—No lelter from Te Wihoi this week. Love and good thoughts to you aTi. From SUNBEAM “TE W’luOl.” Te Na inn. Dear Aunt Flora, and I ncles all.- — Greetings to you all. There was such a lovely lot of letters in Ihe “Argus” last week; and I am sure Aunt I'lora was pleased. I am very sorry I missed writing last week, but T left it too late, and so missed the mail. Love aid good thoughts to Te Wihoi and Dad. They missed writing last week, ami I hope they will keep writing. Mum made Alice and 1 a lovely play house

yesterday, and wc have good fuiTiu ii. Good thoughts to all the world IroiubUNBEAJJ. LILY. Millerton. Dear Aunt I'lora.— Good thoughts, Aunties, to yuu and Dad and de Wihoi, and all our I ncles and Sunbeams. 1 thank you all lor your good thoughtI will try and uo as you sav; ami nvw 1 1 know you alt have to pul up with Iho| same things, I wiill not- mind unc little | bit. Te Wihoi; mum says 1 must tell ! you she. owes all >o you that I have | stuck to my post, and some day she hopes to tell you and Curie Ted how you lifted her out of a bug and she feels that life is worth living — if only to light for our right, to live as we should. We send love and good thoughts to Uncle Ted and Ned at nine always and to you a’i good Ihoughls. , SI’NIiLAM EDDIE, j | Mananui. I Dear Auntie and Uncles. —Greetings to you and all our Sunbeams; also to Dad, ami Te Wihoi. Sunbeams .Rose, and 1 are going to spend the week-end i in Hokitika. As wc start school again I on Monday. 1 think J will close now with good thoughts to all the world at nine. From SUNBEAM ELVINA. | Newton Flat. I Dear Aunt Flora.—Good thoughts to ■ you, all the Uncles and all the world. : L haven’t seen Saturday -s ‘ ‘ A rgus ’ ’ yet. but .1. hope my letter was in time for it. 1 am so glad our dear To "\\ ihoi is writing again The column did not seem the same without her letters, i hope she will keep on writing. .1. send her good thoughts, aiid good thoughts ‘ to all the Sunbeams, and all the world at nine. SUNBEAM ENID, i I Blakctown. j Dear Auntie and Uncles: —Greetings' to all. J. was pleased to see a letter in this week from Dad and Te M ihoi. ! What a lot of lovely letters we had! last week. You must lind it hard work, Dear Auntie I'lora, answering all our Sunbeams’ letters, but wc would all. miss you if you did not write. We get the “ MaorilaYid Worker’’ every week, we sec lhe Sunbeams’ letters in that, paper also. We started school last Mon-• day, after having a fortnights’ holiday, l which wc all enjoyed very much. J will now close with good thoughts 1o all the world, ami the poor little Bus-j sians. From MN BEAM ANNIE. Millerton, i Dear Aunt flora. — Good thoughts to i 1 ncles and all Sunbeams. What a lovely lot of letters this week. I am sure | those Tc Namu Sunbeam:'- are a. happy crowd. They tell us such interesting tales <>f their farm life and their little [kittens. I often envy them. What do i you you think of Sunbeam .Jim’s sugi gestion concerning ages? 1 think it a | good idea. 1 was pleased to see a more i cheerful letter from Tc Wihoi thb week and my Alum ami I .join in sending our Uncles special good thoughts, and v.e hope they will both remember | I the Sunbeam circle and write a tew i lines. We had a concert up here on Friday night in aid of the Russian Famine Fund. Needless to say, there was a good crowd and it was a good concert. Good thoughts to Dad and Mary Ann ami everybody and yourself. From TOMMY. (aged seven years). T.S.- I was sorry for Dad’s Grandma and I send her good thoughts. Te Namu. Dear Aunt Flora. Uncles and Sunbeams. —Good thoughts ai nine to ah the world. Good thoughts to Te Wihoi and Dad. We did miss you so much Tc Wihoi; the page seemed lost without you. We wire till very sorry you gave up your farm, for now wc will not hear any more about your pet animals. Also Alary Ann and Rosemary they used to write nice cheery letters. I went up io Sunbeam Claire’s place yesterday and she came home with me io stay, she went home this afternoon. We have seen unite a lot of each other lately. 1 also saw Sunbeam Leila, but 1. do not know why she does not write-1 Sunbeam Jack; 1 think you were right when you said Te Wihoi was our guiding star. Sunbeams Richard and Gladys j 1 am pleased to sec you have Written j again and hope you will write regularly. I Sunbeam Eddie; I lived on Alillerton a. I few years and .1 know the boys fairly | well. I think they just say things to | tease you ami 1 don’t thing they mean < it. I. think if we scud them goo-1 | thoughts they might try Io see things I in the right light and will not dis-I hearten you. Well Sunbeams 1 w ill con-| elude now wHh greetings to you all. [ SUNBEAM MADGE. Stillwater. Dear Lucies Ted ami Ned and 'Aunl Flora.—Good thoughts to ail the world at nine. This is my first letter, and 1 wish Io .join the Sunbeam Column. 1 live i on a farm, and I have about a mil;* lo' walk to school. I think I will close, with good thoughts to nil the world. SINJ’.EA M J I ’d M V. Blakclow it. Dear \untir arid I’mlrs.- Greetings to you Auntie, io the Sunbeams, ami al so to I mde ‘Ted. J rea<l Sunbeams Te Wihoi’s fetter on Saturday, and she said to send good thoughts to our Uncles and then we would have them back with, us again. 1 was glad to see a letter from Dad, also from Sunbeam Jim. The competitions are starting on Saturday, but 1 am not going, bectiuse . it is a waste of money. I would rath-

er give my money to the pour Kussians. | 1 was also glad to see *ho Column ; full on Saturday. Dear Auuf ie, if I had known that you had plenty to do I •) me, 1 would have come, but I did nut like going on my own. 1 must close nowy with good thoughts to all the world at nine, also to the T'Oor Russians. From SUNBEAM HAZEL. Oma kau. I Dear Aunt Flora, —Now that, the cold weal her has come the hills are covered with snow; and as we get very little rain, nearly every morning' the ground is white with frost. In wet W’cather wc do not go to school, because we have two miles to walk and rm old shaky bridge to cross, ami the river rises very .high. Good thoughts to all the Sunbeams from SI!NBEAM SNOWDROP. | P.S.—l am sending 5/- for the starving children of Russia. Omakau. Dear Aunt Flora.—Greetings to yourself, Uncles Ned and Ted, and all the Sunbeams, and a hearty welcome to clear i'l e \\ ihoi. Every letter of last Saturida.v's column was sending forth a Wellcome, ami f tec] I, too, must hold out my hand in welcome, t<o our dear sister, : i®r whom wo liave yearned so long, and I whom more than ever I would like to meet personally. But who knows, girlie? We may meet some day. When ret in ning from a short holiday last week, I was leaving the boat at Lyt- ( telton when I was told a gentleman wished to speak to me and on turning round who do you think I met? No oilier than our worthy veteran, Sunbeam I'mde Ted, ami as 1 proudly shook : bands with him, my thoughts rushed I back to our Sunbeam Column in the | “Argus’’ and I. wished that all you I dear little mites, were there to meet, 'him, too. 1 had a very pleasant talk ■with him, and although he is a very : busy man, he doesn’t forget his little • • Sunbeams, whose simple letters appeals to his beautiful mind, the reflection of which is revealed on his pleasant free. hat a lot of new names are appearing in the column. It is a jduasure to see so many ami a compliment to Aunt Flora. Dear little •Gladys from I'aroa, i am pleased to sue ’a letter from you. Tell your mother a frieml of her girlhood sends her j best wishes. Ami what has become of Sunbeam Pansy? I was very inti rested ’in her letter, but I have never seen anol her from her. Do write again, Sunbeam Pansy, and tell us more about those Labour socials you attend, and I your good work on t.luit behalf. Good I thoughts to all—especially the poor starving people of Russia that they I 'may nu\er hunger again. From A LITTLE MOTHER. West land. My Dear Aunty, Un« les, and Suni beams,—l i reef i ugs to you a l ! —greetings jto Hu- coming better world. Aly dear jMinbcnms, the butler wi r’d is coming; ■ Irhecr up. Things are improving every ; I week and our j» .;«• is look ing brighter. , I Such a fill' 1 lot of letters a’’ loaded v ith Hove ami good thoughts. Aty, but this ’ is fine, and poor old Dad is reaping stieli a rich harvest; heaps of ;?md thoughts pouring in all the while and l.u storing them .all away carefully in his hu.arf, smiHng ail the while, and not mi much thank you. No, Dad eoald never make up his mind Io use that expression as pavunml tor such precious gifts. Thank you is too cheap .ami worthless. Dad is paying in kind t:-' is sending you all )o\c and good thoughts always. But, dear one.-', I. • takes one little J.uek of Millerton tn lay his linger on Dad A l n.der spot, il was only the other week ; he little chap said, “ami our own Dad needs good thoughts.” .lust think of it! i’o bcalled, “our own Dad,” why it’s th-' promlebt. title on earth, all other titles but this are worthless to Dad, “Onr Own Dml.’’ My goodnes, but it’s grand and will be remembered w’hen 1 Dml is lire;.’thing his last. Yus, dear 1 little Jack, he is your own Dad, and ; all little ones, he owes you all a duty— i a duty he will never be able to pay ae- | cording to his wish. Dear Aunt Flora, you are tired, do not over exert yourself. Remember, you have got to hold I the fort for us; and see wh:-t our Sun- ; beam said last week, “jf wc do not. tall keep a tight hold on Aunt. Flora,’’ she may also go. And we are going to I keep a tight hold on you, never fear. W’e art' going to assist you all we can. •Aren't you listening little ones? We I Im vo got to make our Auntie’s burden <a jdoasant one and you may know what II hat means; more letters, dear ones, and still more letters—ail tilled with lox . IBiing them up In the late Christie..’; number—about 30. And never come jiiack from that but keep going. My, • but our Auntie will smile. SShe will never be done singing; she will be ' hi ppy. I-'arewell to you all for another : i week. Lovu and good thoughts to you •'from < DAD. I’ 'l’c Namu. ' Dear Aunt Flora and Lucies All, — .Gih>i| thoughts to all the Sunt,earns, :ml * ■Tu W ill'd ami Dud. Welcome Tc W ihoi. Li reel ings and good ihoughls Io you all. I cannot tell yon how pleased I was . al seeing a letter from you oa<-e more. ; I was sorry Io hear that, you hail Ind occasion Io leave, the farm you belli : loved so mm-b; but i hope that .Dad : will mil grieve oxer i', but .vill soon ' find somoih'iig else to occupy his mind as phasanlly as the farm did. If ’ good thoughts will cheer, .1 do no; tliink , you wiil remain downhearted ioag. ?Suiibeani Eddie, I think you arc verv, vei v brave to keep on the way you do, with <*Jl those boys making fun oi’ you. 1 know what, those bovs at Alillerton are

ike, so you must not be hurt at anyhing they say, but keep bravely on nd send them good thoughts everv lorning, and then, in time, they xvill ■crimps come to think the same as you. t is as your mother said that you rould hurt our dear L’ncels and Aunt ar more than a few nasty words hurt ou. Just think Eddie of that handill of men who are fighting for us in he House of Parliament, and how they :ecp on w'ithqut being discouraged. So beer up and keep on sendiibg good houghts. Good thoughts to all the voild al nine from SUNBEAM OLIVE. To Namu. Dear Auntie and Sunbeams, —Grceings to you all, greetings !o Dad and e Wihoi. Sunbeam Arthur and ’h; rl;e when are you going to write gain? "We have had wet w’oather lie<o itely. 1 have, not caught any more els hero for this last niont'i I think t is getting too cold for <hem now. iome people say that you c.- n catch els only in the months with ‘‘R, ” in hem. It. will bo a short, 'alter this •eek because there is not mm ii to talk bunt. So 1 will close now. With ood thoughts to rll the wochl from. SL'NBEAAI WATTIE/