“Merilyn”

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 2

“Merilyn”

fjpHINK how short a time there is before spring is with us again! Only another month, and we will bo studying the summer pattern-books and buying moth-balls to secrete in . the gloves and suits we will be tucking away for next winter. Only a few short, weeks, and wo will be back to I long hours of sunshine, week-ends on the beach, tennis, swimming, healthy outdoor exercise ... so short a time is it, in fact, that we are even getting behind in our preparations for it. It will be on us before wo know where I we arc. Let us face the remaining weeks of: i winter so busily planning for the sum-; mer that we will have no lime to grow I gloomy or mournful as the weather. It will amaae you what a difference It I will make. Ids all In' the state of mind. Keep your mind on summer, flowers, sunshine, happiness, and you (will find sunshine in your heart even in winter. And. like sunshine, too. its radiation will touch other people, and ultimately rebound to yourself. So that the more sunshine you have in yourself the more you receive back from others. That is a fine thought in itself, and if it is put into practice there should be none of us bemoaning winter's chilly animosity. Gone will be that bad temper. Gone, 100, will be those harsh words and grumbling complaints that make us so miserable, and so j often cost Us friendship in the dark i month?, Look ahead, think ahead, plan ahead, dream ahead, make to-

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morr./w what you would have today! i And the outwardly approaching sumi mcr will find a ready appeal in the heart that has been inwardly glowing even in the-dullest weather. I've just been reading about a woman who brought a magic touch to dish-washing and potato-peeling by memorising a poem. When tiro page lay open at Wordsworth’s: ‘•Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Little wo see in Nature that is ours, she resolved to walk to the grocer's instead of phoning her order. So. with head thrown back to savour the wind. [ she left behind, the mundane things | and entered out into a new' world. How much easier if would make the little unpleasant tasks around the house if we were to "make believe" we are acting a poem. Friends, supper and fellowship round a lire are wonderful things, 1 think. How could we do without them, and j live a lonely life, after tasting of their j sweetness. Solitude is good for the j soul, they say. and I believe it. 100, to j a certain extent. Wo need it for our development, in form opinions, think i things out. Bui we also need com-, panionship. growing to know people.'— i humanity. !fs a real adventure. We’ve got a row of soldiers standing j guard in our front garden. Such ; straight, upstanding little things they! are. in their bright orange uniforms, j Yes. the lachenalias are out again, mak- j ing a vivid splasn or corour. 1