"I WISH”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 February 1927, Page 9

"I WISH”

TT is recounted of the Prince ot 1 Wales that when he was asked[ wh,at he would choose if he had one Wish to be fulfilled, he replied: ‘ A dav entirely to myself.” 1.P., m Cassell’s Wecklv. has gathered n collection of confessions from a number of distinguished persons in reply to the same question. ... ~ i Shane Leslie. —The abolition of the telephone. Sir John Martin Harvey. — lo be able to build and endow a National Theatre. ,T \ p Cairns. —1 should choose for ouV wish:’ “The faith and fatalism of the poor.” . , Gilbert: Prankau.—There is only one tiling in the world worth wishing for . an 7i that is Abounding Health. Sir Barrv Jackson. —If you had one wish in tlu* world, what would it be? I 0 pass out of it —leaving as much or uiv work behind as is worth anything. Arthur Mac hen. —There is only one wise wish: the wish that wo may like it when iI comes; whatever “it” may -In 1 . . H do Yore Staepoole.—To be made .rnvemor-general of all the animals—ami the men who so often, mishandle them. , , Owen Nares. —I think if I could have one wish granted to me it would be that the internal (or infernal) combustion engine should be entirely abolished. Warwick Deeping.—l would ask for that youthfulness that is never without something to wish for, and that I may grow old still wishing for the right things.

DESIRES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE

Arthur Waugh—lf 1 could be granted onlv one wish, .1 would ask for Peace at Eventide; but that is a wish that none of our generation will ever see fulfilled.

St. John Adcock. —There are so many things T would like to have that I. think, if I were allowed only one wish, I. would wish to be so placed that there was only one thing I could wish for.

H. Gordon Self ridge.—lf I could have anv one wish gratified, it would be that I might have three lives instead of one, :i'll running consecutively—one for work, one for study, and one for

plnv. Sybil Thorndike. —l can only say that I am entirelv in agreement with the Prince of Wales. I think his reply is the most in accordance with .ray own feelings that T have ever heard —“A dav to myself.”

Edith Nepean.—lT in t-lie magic mirror of the snowy hills—the star-lit waters of :> frost-jewelled lake —I saw one of the Tylwvth Teg, a fairy, beckoning, t n me and calling: “Choose one wishp ’ 1 would shout my wish back —tu be always happy! - .Marie Tempest.—A day to oneself! Outside a desert island is there such a thing? f suppose to the middle classes Sun dav gives an opportunity for the nearest approach to this sort of thing. There is no work to do, no necessity to go anywhere, do anything. There are a thousand things to fill up the day, with all ones’ sins of omission calling 1 loudlv for notice. . ■ . _L ■