“SUPPOSE.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, 24 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

“SUPPOSE.”

BA' ELSIE BLOMFIELD. "You did not have just everything you wished on Christmas Day? Come, let me see a pretty smile chase all those, tears away! However tiresome things may be, they might be worse, by far. They might be much more trying than they ever really are!

“Now, jn*t suppo e that Santa Claus (of course, my .dear, for fun), Had rilled your stocking full of holes; pray, what would you have done? And if, instead of Christmas cards, the envelopes for you Had all Ireon full of treacle and jam and stick-fast glue?

“Suppo*e they’d stuffed the turkey with cricket balls and corks; Suppose that, for potatoes, you’d had boiled knives and fork’s; Suppose instead of custards. Cook sent up cups of blacking ; Suppose that tlie plum pudding were marbles wrapped in sacking;

‘And if you had no tumbler, and they poured the lemonade Into your serviette ring all hot, as soon as it was made; If ycu>- Christinas tree were nothing but the garden prop, my dear, Hung round about with all the toys vou’vc broken this last year; And when at last so wearily you crept upstairs tn bed, If you d found it made-of i>i:ik blancnmngc. now v liat would vou have said?

“Ah. now I see you’re smiling—my d-oar I’m very Had. It, is I,ottm- t 0 bp hannv, than mi.serab'c and sad. When you are d-’snppointed, look on the cheerful side. For th’ngs are never quite as bad as they might be if they tried! THINGS I THINK. AVhat c’unt’ess thoughts occur to me When mistletoe I chance to see! I tbi’ik of prettv eirls. and how | They'd look beneath the mvstic bough, j., ■ = | Ha. hi! <>xeus'- my hanpy laughter! | 1 <1 kist them first and ask them after. ; Aiid. renllv. it's a man’s first duty ’io bring true happiness to Beauty. And should no mist’etoe be ni di. Eown-liearrc-d would I be? Not I! f don’t Aeneml on any tie? For Christmas kisses/ no, not me! And now permit me just to «av. i i-'oar girls, a Happy Christmas Day! _ May Ynleti’de make you gay and bright. And L’riiig to each voiir Air. Rightl Peter the Poet. "TTmv sav Miss Oldcdrl is gnin" to l>e vnr"^ detorn:wed this Christmas. ’’ “A r es She has even hung bunches of uSstletce under her touring car!’’