Children's Corner

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 421, 2 April 1919, Page 7

Children's Corner

SB Conducted by UNCLE TEB. 18

j Dear Little Sunbeam*, f i Glorious Little Sunbeam , ?. ! J Happy Little Sunbeams. ' | ] 'L'tjonjhii ,;re Tliir.g- ■ j i tj yuu and ,fuui'«, J Send. • Qoed Thoughts tfuiibtisai;.. Send Good Thoughts to all the world, i Love j-;, life Sunbeams. O wtrtf tbpr i into your books, Look in your inuiher'; eyfes Sunbeams. For years and years you will remember those eyes. ; Remember it was love that brought you forth. It wae love that .brought yon into the world Suribfeamv. J. wish 1 could iu«l you all. I v.-i?h i J tjoutd yvi you all into a firtl t . and J talk to you of mother love. 1 am ! thinking of a little woman now who jis the mother of children And she haf : a big boy, and -&c is very/ selfish. He will watch his mother clean his boocs and-Trait on him hand a.ud foot. And ! I Lave watched het eye*. If-i the mother lore -tuat fesps Lsi to n«r tasfc. Listen, Little Sunbeams, i am gfcuiiij? Jan old n an. My grandchildren are ! around mc asking questici:. Questionj ing life and all the puzzles ct' lit* I !am getting- an old man. I have travdltxi ! i nearly around the world. I s««si j the African in Africa. , The Chinaman ;in China. Australian Black in. the bush, ■ but during all these travel? there 1* one little incident that stands out in my. memory. . , J was fourteen yi.-ars. of a?* 7 . 1 just started -work.- l was a num. 1 "knew I was. a man. Wag I not earning money? Was I not rhr- same as D3.cl" I didn't want to be- tied to mother's 'apron strings, 1 was a man. We were ! very poor. There were twelve children nnd mother and father. LUd's wages woro twenty-seven and sixpence per ! week. I was c*t"rUng" two ".hillings and ! sixpence. 1 ha-d worked overtime and I bad got a pinny halfpenny for the overtime. I claimed that as my own. J I bought' threehalfpence north of lollies. ! I rave the eleven children one each i I forgot Mum.. Mum iras out when I j brought, my lollies home. They were I all gone when she canio in. The children told her of the lollies and she looked ■on th* mantlepwce and. ?aid where is mine? Snnbeams that quesj tion has followed mc through, lite. 1 ; had forgot Mum. She never said a /word. : She would not call mc- mean, but li' ! I live for ever I shall never forget I the hunted httrt. look, in her eye?. I Don't store up, Sunbeams, some ! memory like that. Only a little thing but it's tlie little things that count. j Just n flower for Mum and you help I her carry the load.- Look into Her eye. , *. i Try to "see in her eyes the time when i you were drawing milk from her bosom, j j Look invo her eyes and try to see t^, ; time which she tended you in sickness. ! She ottered Uf'e for you, vrhat are you • giving her in return? Love is iJie. Little Sunbeams, and you as Sunbeams must be different to ! all other children. You must radiate \ Sunbeams. You must be kind, consideri ate, and patient, because you ar« a i Sunbeam. 1 We have Sunbeams mow iv almost , I every town in New Zealand. • Wβ hare 'Sunbeams in Australia and. we have Sunbeams in England. O we are getting a big band. Because- we. are founded on love. Our obligation is simply to send "Good Thoughts." Send Good Thoughts to all the .world. To China/ Japan, G-ennany, everywhere Good .Thougrhta. We -.vill- not seed hat* thoughts. Love is life. ■I went to see a lot of little Sunbeams . yesterday, and they crawled all over ' mc. I had on© on eacb side, and one \' on each knee and they siid "'Tell us a i ; story. Uncle Ted/ and then I had to . tell them about the good Parry, and the ' bad Pairyj but .he good Fairy was the best and always came out all right in the end. And their big round, eyes were bigger and bigger au the conflict between 1 ' Good and bad went on, but when Good ' ! won out, t hey gave a sigh of satisfaction ; that showed mc they preferred . Good ' to bad* Lot© is hS» t Little Sunbeams. Learn ;to love. Learn to loys Good, but don't hate bad. Simply show by. your coe- , duct that you lore <Jcod. And send L A.tini- Leila Good Tbmignts aad to Unole ] T^d. i -r.':. have quit© a wxmber cf letteia i i'u.is week, and to sate spaoe wiil put . Lji-c , -.;; iiii together • ; Dear Aunt Leila and Uncle Ted,— ; Just a few Ujies hoping they find you : quit© well as it leaves u« all at pre- *; sent, I was v«ry glad to see mf piece \ i of poetry and letter in tie paper. JL did not £0 to school. to-day aa.i* Das ' been raining herd. Dad has jttst W* to go and milk the cows, we milk 6 nov. I always look fOTWaTd to the Worker coming ©very week. I am i sending 3 shillings for the CO. fand. I j I will be eleven next September , . TMs i. J is all the n«W3 this time so will ; close, with love to all th« 'ether Sunbeams. Aunt Leila and yourself.— .CLABICE, P.S. Good Thoughts at 9 all over " j the world, i i De-Tv? Uacis Ted.—l »~ould like to j! becciE© one. of your Sunbeams, please ';■ s«nd mc a card of membersn'ip also bj rrorda and mtisic of ■ the 2<d Flag-, for i which find (Stamps enclosed, I also: e&xxd. Good Thoughts to all' th-a -TTOTld.—» BEE.KLEY/ Deaf XTra-le T«d, — Jusfc a few lines to let yoit know 1 urn gofting; oo all Wβ spend th*.- week ends at Eedcliites where we have a bach. Last ' Sunday my father and I vent foi *i a , t-ramp on ••iho hill?. On the way we I 1 past several govgea where nature hatl *! planted her choicest trees and ferns. 1 : Dad said it was a good thing it was I i ont of the people's reach or they would •' soon destroy it. 1 hope you <■ j will scon have another competition, I 1 • Thinking I have told you all, I will ■ j ciose, sending -my yov* to all the 3 1 Sunbeams including- A'ant and yourself.—SlT.A. ■ [' " Dear Uncle Ted, —This 19 the- ft" l j letter T have written to you. I 'hay« , \ hot. written since "Uncle Merry wen.* 'f a way, lam 14 years of age and I hav e just commeaoed my second year [ at the Graramar School. Aβ my ' ' geta the "Worker" erery week I 'read . the Snnbeam, columns regularly., Last Sunday night T&?> Serople M.i><, gave [ a lecture in the Lyric Theatre, so I t went with my sister o.n<i t,wo of her fronds io hear 'him. Xhe £ou?e wat " crowded* and Is ervtj respect it frae a splendid ineeriaf. Well this is all I can. say this time go with love " to Aunt L«*ila. and yonr<relf. I will * close.-—.Levris. ' * * >'•'• * This .week's j* fi-om Con. of VWoodend, and it.is called. A PLUCKY E.OY Some ye.arg ago a farmer named Mr, . Wilson lived on the. banks of a large » rivej Ifl. America. Sometimes river ' Overflowed an,d made the valley intp an , inland eea. There had not been any . floods for a few year"* su Mr, Wilson » went to a distant town on buain.es?, '. JJofo ~5.3 left in charge cf his two little eist9ss, 3&s£ fiigbt Bob pxii his sietert

'to sleep ami w*nt 4o bed. A* soon *3 Bob woke he rushed to win.dow 1 win iaw the flood. Be, roust-d tt >s sisters iiiui £aye th<?ni sonif breakta**. theu lie jjot a good place in uu elm U'-ee Olll_ side out> of irbe window-. AJ- soou as j tliei'e «a<. euougb ' food and blaukets lie gin. lii-i sisters .--;ai<?ly into the i'oik. !Oe wrapped then) vi blanfcois and did his to either them so- thai, they wer# soon asleep for hi* sisters were in his ctiar'go. About ton o'clock the .voung-e-d =uid. "See, Bob, U*re's a boat." They wire very gl-rt for wroe men hud spied itiivn. ivi)d LitiPr great effoit* saved Bo'> ami hi» Soon afterwards Mi". U'ilson returned with hU wife .itul wae very gla'i that fl'eir children were sa-i-ed. ■-.;: :'.: :": * THE SrNBEAiJS' OAVX P.APRR . Dear Sunbeam?. —t doiv't know whetli*r UAcLe Tw-J will find --pace ior this, but I v.ill try, anyhow. T uuderit&nd all about iMv,papers. 'haviug b>s«ii in xh« bu-iiitir for years, and I thinJi if "time yon l.&d a small ?sp*i of your oivn. and I en ptopwse-' L'uel* #Ted as your editor, and Auuv l>»la a? editr«s>, '■•aiad iiif«t you conduct your owu paper, and Lunt up new subscribe!••* to it at school and and write J ust what yon like* fur your own ■ n<?W3pap«r, the pri<?* to be on c pentiy, in betUr still, as it irould I>J> .your owu -paper, how woxild it b« for you all tt> win" in suggestions about it to the conductors or. this ■.•oliimi!. i'ou see: when you liavtj read your journal you can s«nd it to 'some ■' other child -in any Englishspeakiiig- part nf the world. c3T e ol it? Socialist parent*, and by-nnd-by yoiit paper would be copwd other suibeam papers could spring'up. You &**• you iiave two columns m tho ,"\Vork«t t'hia wfr*k, and will have two next w«ek. Well, if they w€t« pur together in short vr.liunns and published #very fortnight, you would ho\v a "dandy" Jittie r.«ws.paptr, about th« .-ize ,of the Water. .-id-*-, which ii publisned monthly. What aboi>t a -f«w advertisements I- , ';. Mt idea is to Ist the. grown" boy and girl" into this Sunbeam ' business. - Anyiwv\ this idea. ha.< been in my head a good while now, nnd 1 pas? it: iuie yotifa to thick it over. Mind you, J go in for a fair amount of study on the nw» f ter, and believe in a life to court and all tlmt, but it. will b* some , good tim o coming for us, and how would i> be to make this life one of sunshm« and pleasure for all in th-e njeantinae; W«U, le* us get: busy!—SinoeTfly your well-wisher, A.P. Dear Sunbeams,—l am perfectly i' l accord with this suggestion and it i* only the very high price of ps«.per that has kept us back from publisUing "O'u Sunbeam,"—TTXCLE' Tt-D.