CHILDREN’S HOME

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 76, 11 March 1933, Page 10

CHILDREN’S HOME

“Stella”, my dear, And so you arc back again. Baek to the daily toil and in bed most of your holiday. Again, my dear, how too devastating. Really I do think you have a grievance against the powers that be. 1 have not anything like the news either this time to cheer you up. I am not feeling so exhilarated this week. 1 suppose one cannot always expect to live on the top of the world. In fact my life seems to have been bounded by good works this week and, you know, my dear, they can be dull, whatever may be said to the contrary. I feel very much like the small boy who .was being read an improving book by his mother in which goblins did good acts. “What are acts!” asked the small boy, and on it being explained that a good act was something done for some one else, like getting the chips for mother, “Ugh!” said he, “I hate acts.” That’s just what I feel like, but I must not say any more about it .for it will need to be a week of good acts if this drive for funds for the Children’s Homes is to be a success. Have you ever thought how much food alone is wanted to feed over one hundred children every day for a year? You know it takes some money to keep that family going. My modest affair of fourteen seems attentuated beside it. Anyway we are hoping to have the most marvellous “Paddy’s Market” next Saturday. I sec someone said we are out to sell anything from a bullock to a button, which was quite a neat way of telling people that any gift would be acceptable that was saleable.

The Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union and the Hastings Women’s Community Club are putting in their weight and collecting all sorts of delectable dainties for the produce, cakes, odds and ends, meat, jumble, flower stalls that will be functioning that day.

The “younger set,” too, are coming up to the scratch as they always do and are running a street collection, and we hope the Scouts arc organising a copper trail. In fact, you might say that Market street just next to the Farmers’ will bo the scene of great activity next Saturday. If buyers arc as active we shall be happy. A mock court will add to the general gaiety of the function and that is where wo hope Rotarians and Orphans will be doing their darnedest. As I tell you all this I am getting quite exhilarated again and I am beginning to feel that good works can be quite fun after all. I hope I have made you feel like that too and that you will tend the dahlia and the gallardia that you have promised for the. flower stall with extra care all this next week! Enough of this, however. You will be bored and I’ve not had time to tell you any more news. Please forgive me —a family like the one in the Children’s Home is absorbing. One can think of little else. Yours, MARIS.