Children's Corner

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 422, 9 April 1919, Page 7

Children's Corner

*g Conducted by UNCLE TED. ' 18

Dear Ijltle Suiibtfain-'. (.■ireetuigs , . L.i i.-'-le ' Sn iiljv-hiu-.. ; TlJuilgUls ->'c 'tilings l.i'.'.lr .-'l:.|l><-;.:n"'. .Send Oiuod J ' LjmUylit.s *il lH;i' J Send Uv.uU Thought, ie, paddy VWbb. j , .Send Good 'I'liougl.'- i > d*-..r A Lim Leila. , TUuUjjbu., arv Hiiugr, .sin.U-uius, uud ; tWv tfu oil and on uiid nil. Jr you drop i\ pebbly in'a pijiul .'iml wureli Uiv £" °»<- i' Lul t,IU au<J ""■• ; until clie> are lo~t ou tf>i» other .shore, - so rliought.~. "Little .SunUeums. will yo out and out and oul. LiMle Suabi-ams a* you slow older and older, many t'liJiß* will be revealed unto yon. KnowWfje i- p*ower. Little Sunbeams, nud if you ui't> to remain t.riu> i<> your naru« you inu'ii get knowledge. Jusl. look in your mirror, UlUe Sunbeam*: jvi-t look at tliat little lifciid ot' your- and u»t wliut is the ilifi'ewuce between itiiit htad and rii? iieud m' a .Dubb. Ho you want to j be :i. Dubb. IJtUe Sunbtjiu: it! not. get knowledge. All jsuubeauis. grownup*'ji tiny Sunbeam?, .must do everything iv their power for education. So Sunbeam must oppo&e anything which will ■advance education. YYHI then. Little iuobeuin >, look at that JiiriV head of four*. .Now ye will luku v san and cut around just abow your, eye*, around. And we will oul jusi a. tiny little way in about a giste-fcnth part oi'j an iui-h. Then, we "ill lift ■ this bony shell or tap oil , , v, you do look fiinuy without your scalp and your pretty hair, but put rhat on on? skio rtiiU we will put it back again and no one will know v, e na-»> had your lid orf Now, watcii Ui ttixi" jiUSi, I.itcie tecause v! ii* going 'to se -jome wonderful sums. This is the ruosi won.dert\il part ci yovu machmtry. The htart is good and grtat and oi importiince but you can huve a good Iwarr rind an fmpt.y iiead. You uin b-e healthy and well developed in other parts but if your ! iuteliigeiice departmeat :s ta<:king you aro almost useless. 'A story is told of gome men who were working l for the Government. They some picks and shovels to do., «om« vwik on the rsilwaj. So the i'orfuiau wired io the F.W.I), \that is the Public- Works Department) "PleavSe send •six picks and -;H shovels." The P.W.D. wired back; ' explain what the ' six pick; and six required \ Hot." Th« foxenian replied, by wire, I "Six picks and (six shovels Tequired. ' to picfc and shovel.'- . The P.W.D..' wired;, I "piTiase eipUiu what the sis pick 9 and' i the 5'- shovels are required, to pick i tiid shovel. , ' So file i'oreman wired j "Dirt," and tte PTV'.D. replied "ap-.: I proved." • ■ You -see. Little Sunbeams...the mtc-l-;. j ligentt- department of the P.W.D. was ! a little weak. Now we have got that, j little bony covering off your intelligI enoe department. Here is the .motive i of all yout iii-ichiiiery. Open up your I watch,. Lir-W Sμnbearas, und . look at , that • little • restless wheel going half i ro«nd and iiaii back. Look at that tiny ! lutle spring <:3lled a nair spring. If I you touch .'that little spring and bend it \ riie jlighteit bit, you will rUiti your I v.iti.-li. In gpite of the faot that fall the i oilier wheels and the main spring i.s ti-; rigkt as ever, th c watch is useless as a watch .if you injure that little spi*3u|r. ! Just the same Little wiVa, ■, that funny looking head of yours. \R«;> member we have got tW lid off. . ■Ifi you injure any part of that funny look 1;; ing mats, although your' heart, your Jungy, your legs, and your hands and other parts of the body are, all right, if you injure tliat intelligence rlepart- ; nitni. you are .done. When yuu bay* I taken that bony cap oft', you will iitid ! your braina are in it wo parts. .That. is. : there is a split right through from ' front to back, On each side »r<? a lot I of rolls looking like sausages. A'ow if ' you could take the earoc bouy cap off I a monkey (mind he -will scratch) yon : would not. find so many rolls as you j will find in your head. That means ■ Sunbeams, thait tliese. rolls o r convolu- : tions are record? stored up. What you call memory. Jt may be that your forefathers gave you some of the* re- : cord?. it may he thai; your school teacher gave you iif tl>'>s*> records, buj , jt is a fact. LibUe Siiiibea.ins. that you difte-r from the aniraftlg because you have these records. So nil th-e know> ledge you up is stored up in these i record?. When you tiist get on a bicycle yon wobble *nd wobble, all over .the place, Then gradually you learn to bal-, 1 ane-e and then to steer. That is, yW' I remember that when you aie falling :'-to ( the right, you lean, over to [.he l*ft to ! upright ' yourself. Thai 15 experience 1 and when you have learned you seldom forget again, because you have a record' of how to do it. That is memory. When you learn a. piece of poetry or -a recitation, you keep on saying it over again until you have got it firmly impressed on one of these records. Now, rh e Dubbs, Little Sunbeams, have not got many of these recor.is. If you , , bur 1 ti cheap phonograph with choap records ! it means that, the was the records) are made of fa inferior and soft. And after two or three timeg on the machine they ! weur out. So witn th*, Dubbs. Their I record* ure soft. Thait is what j's itieant , when you hear them say "O.he is a bit soft," or 'he is i< softy." \' O w a horse, or a donkey has certain records. They i have the records of food, und they ! Hie hand that fee-Js them. Fowl?, sheep, ; bird?, anything 'hat has life has these I record?-. But they have little e ]se. The? •cannot fide :•• bicycle because they c-an- ' not reason from memory. So ,-i Dubb ' is a man ur woman who cannot reason j for themselves. Tbey have no memory records except about food. .And ihe Cap- : ira.li.-ft. Little b'unbeani-;. lik e tuis Dubb | clas-j, because Dubbs tire like donkeys. ; Now, Little Sunbeams, are yoxt going ! ro become- Dubbs or remain siunbeunis?' i If yoti are to remain Sunbc-ams, you j nnur resolve to store up knowledge. : Store up records- because every record : liftj> you a bit higher than the donkey. ! You mustn't say 'things cannot be done i because you cannot do it. sjeai'ch into ! history for the reason of failure?;, riet j •' knowledge from everywhere. Become i thinkers. Don't b*Li«ve a thing just be- : cRU.-io Vi.ut rey.-l .'T iv si aewspapeT , . : Searc-b and thiuU out these ihiiig* for ' yoiir.*eli. I

Nuw. }ii"i (hat bouv <-v p oti agu.in, smooth your luiir and go dowu and kiss niorhvr and cell her, '"Well Mum. 1 may never beei»iit- rick but .1 will never bo jl Uubb. , ' And then s< , nil «"od Thoughts j to Lli.i-li' Y-.'ii. ijfiu- Lull,. Siiiibp.'uti^ ? --Tlii-j Hwk .■juiiljtj.ni .U'--;ie Hum 1 liy 'VVf»t I ■*t'.ul 111- for that Siinbwiin mullifi- who In-! li«-r children's father during itift f pittfiiiJC. .And iioullifir Sunbeam s-eul sum* clothes for Hie nine children. Sooi\ this mother j.s to get iiuother UU'Je j Sunbeam and she a=ked m<? to tluuik all i those who sent Good Thought*. It Her | ti<?w baby is v girl 1 will a= k ln-r to oulll it Sun bean iin memory of the. way our j Satibeums stood b y her, during her •trouble. " J \Vn have a new .Sunbeam 'his neck, ; •VJadtTe from 'IV N'ainii. .H*>e i s our I Suub.-aiu'* U«!(ei-; Dear Uncle 'JVd, —A* J would very j much Ike in bivume one nf your Sun- j beams. I tliuughi I' would write ai.dj u-L it you would kuulh let iue joui?; W'liiit a !:irg*> of .Sunbeaujs yon h:ive already; I do t'ujoy reading thfjir len-ei* cvry week, ] am eleven vttirs old ami I liaw lour s^t*> v yiid oiily one brother, mid' w t . "II Jive oil ;i j'u i-iii in r'ie country. We have a niie ijiiie! iwny on vvhicb vvii oX'tea go toi-. loiig fides. Ai-t- yuii foiio uf rid'njf :•" We liOvi.- not vfi'r far f o go j to siiliool -<-) we attend legulai ly. Well, ljiifle l>d, I must do* hoping you will accept mc as another Swubea.iii. — A--would-be-Sun beam, AIA DGK. Xiiiliy Sunbeam Madge. ] have your card and the H°d Flug. ifou now Iwlonjj- to that splendid band of lig-l.it tiud love —tli<v Sunbeam , -. Sunbeam Cou. writes again 'from Wor-dend. Coa. ,\ rfgulur writer to our *..'orni l r, and wtv are always very pleaded |o hear from him. tjiir Suabeaui s;iVs : Hoar TJuclt-. T-ed, — Ju-t a tew Uuf.'% to .-ay ihat I have not forgot ten you. V\f nave not been getting Thy Worker lately. C>u Friday we hud our &cbuojl " picnic. We hud it at i.b« Woodetid bejih, aud I hii<l a jolly t.iijje at batlinij.' rud re-ing. (.)n«. of my school mutes gav c mc a yaa , . H was »'V birthday l>ad's to-morrow, and oW of ivy-sister's on Tuesday.: There wag v big bike rae« a wtiile back, and two Woodeud' boys came third aud i. i-'parlh. -IVow, ■ I will close with Good ' b> 'ali the Sucbeaius, Aunt ! vLeila. dnii■■ yourself.—From .Sunbeam ".--. Our . next; LettCT is ii'om auother Suiitwatff' who nevea- forgets us, .Snnl>eain fcju&y. oi Waddington ; , ,« ... .Dear Uncle Jl'ed, I am writing to ■you again as it is » long - -, tiiue sijac© l.Wroite lasi. I. hope you and Aunt Leila art well. VVe have had a lot o-i ■ dry and \v indy weather, . but it .litinod a little yesterday afternoon. I iiko reading The Worker ?very vr«*k. '■The hard wind blew nearly all the I'ruit off the trees; all the flowers ai*e dying ptf bwouse it is g-et'ting near Winter. I wi\\ close now wHh Good Thoughts at niti«* from yonr lovipg ■ SUjiibeaTu, 'LUCY. ~ Th.ig slory was sent in for our Competitiion by..Buubeatn Bessie of Fairlield. , ; \i ■ -is,-tgititled.'' \\.y-V[--i*fmu EMEEALD RING" 'i'<*"; ! Ohd» upon a time a ooy named "Bubii, fouud the Princess's ring and wtittn he took the ring to he r she turned away and told him to give it to her page. E-obin then, thonghv, that it she (-ould not rake t h-e ring she would not g-et it until she asked for it. So R.obJii went away. When *h« Pi-iucess h-eard what Robin, had c*aid sh«| >ras- very angry and sk© made up her mind not to ask. for the ring. 0«e d-ay her jjodcioiher came to her a-nd, asked her where her ring was ami when the princess told her she s»aid that the ring was en-cbanted and as lou'g as it was out of her bands she would be miserable. So the Princess wen* to "ttobiu and asked him for the ring aud of course he was glad to. gire it up. Wheu the .Princess got home ft prince was waiting to tell her that ~he wanted to marry her. They w«re ■ after-wardg inarri-ed and Hred happily «ver after. The Princess was after wards glad ...for what.Eob-in had done and if she • 'tad nerer asked for her emerald ring she would have remained a proutl and haughty Princ€se. The following was sent in toy Sunbeam Kathleen of Ivapier, and is taken from Charles Kingsley's "At Lasit." CALLING CRABS . Conceive a moderate-sized crab, the front of whose carapace js very broard and almost straight, with a channel - along it in which lie, Tight and leit, iiis two. ey*s. each on a footstalk half 4*3 long as the breadth of his body; ho that th e crab, -when at rest, carries his eyes as and peeps out at the joint of «a<Mi shoulder. But when, business is, to be done, the eye.ftalks jump bolt upright side by side, like a pair' of litU-e 'lighthouses, and survey the field of W'*te in a tashron utterly ludierou-,. Moreover, as if he w«re not ev«uth.us, he is like a small ruan gifted with one ami of Hercules, and another of Tom Thumb. One- of his claw-arms, generally the left, has dwindled to a mere nothing, and is not seen; irhile along- th* who]« front of his shell his folded one mighty viglvt aiju, on which ho trusts, and with that arm, when danger appears, he beckons the t-ueiuy Ui come, on, with such wild defiance, thut h e has gained therefrom 'ho name of Gelasiinus Vdeans (The* Calling , Laughablf). H<? is, a> might be guessed, a shrewd lighler, aud uses the true old 'Bristol Guard' in boxing holding his long arm across his body, and fencing and biting therewith swiftly and sharply enough. AJ oreover, he is a respectable animal, mid has a wife and takes core of her; and to &cc him in hie glory, it >aid, he should be watched It.ijiy in Hie mouth.of his burrow, his spou.se packed safe behind him. inside, while he fo-eckons and brandishes, proclaiming •o nil passers-by tW . treasure which Ut> protects, while h e deti-es tlieui to touch , if.