“Merilyn” says...

Northern Advocate, 23 July 1938, Page 2

“Merilyn” says ...

j j SUPPOSE you are all literally i * swamped with bits of curtaining and remnants (that will just do for a blouse for Mary!) ribbons, elastic and laces, gloves Cl'll use them in the garden!), table centres and d’oyleys (less ! than half-price, too!) and perhaps (some imitation jewellery knicknack ! ornaments or picture. l^ ! “Such bargains your know my dear !“ I Yes, I suppose I'm the same—can’t ‘resist them. We wouldn't dare admit 1 though that we don’t know what to do with our “'bargains’’ when we act- ' ually arrived home, and perhaps had time to take a saner view of things. Then we put them away in a drawer and take a mental note of the previous contents. There were those little pants to make up for Billy, and some i cottage weave for a dumpty. . But, •'that was six months ago. I Of course, there was the woman who ! spout all her husband’s wages at a sale 'in gay abandon not realising what she i had done. , , . I saw a picture of a kingfisher sit- j ting on a post gazing down at. the ground. Beneath it was this inscrip- ' ; tion: “‘Victory comes with Patience.” ;It certainly does in the case of the 1 kingfisher, and it really does work I with humans, too. Giving up in the)

[middle of the struggle will never win it for us. Let us have that extra patience to carry us through. The beautiful things in this world are so numerous aren’t they? Bare trees, lifting their arms to the sky; the grey, curled smoke of a train, the pulsing breast of a singing thrush; a sunset sky after a dull day; two trees and a star reflected in a pool; the wind waving long grass; flowers after rain; a lino of rugged hills silhouetted against a morning sky; so many beau[iiful things, but often our busy selves | are so crowded up with "things to do" , that we don't 100k —or when we do we take no notice. It is lime we learned to take every I day as it comes, without worrying | about the future so much. We need to cultivate this “good humoured every dayncss." because it is the trivial little daily things that we don't , quite succeed in. When it comes to | something big and courageous, we do i it easily. i The spring clothes question will have to be answered soon. too. Why. it is nearly the first day of spring already. August the first is usually acclaimed the advent of spring. ; although quite often it is only her ; breath, and she herself does not arrive j until a week or so later. i