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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)

If you will be fcrua ta the best; at yourself, living up ta your nature, standing boldly by die truth, of your word and ( satisned therewith, tii an you ■ will be happy.. j —Marcus Aureiiua.

23.13 BOY 3 A2TD GI3L3: Eera we are, well inta.l934, and tile summer aim dinning brilliantly once mare* as if ta make belated amends far those precious- wasted holidays, when a biting southerly chilled our bones and campers all over the: countryside shivered forlornly and waited for the clouds to rail by! But that is just holiday luclf,. and I can only hope that aa you yniiTTr folk stiil have :3everal weeks of holiday-making before you. there will be plenty of warmth, and brightness ahead. "I have been very interested in reading all the holiday letters, some of which are printed to-day, and snail be pleased to receive more;: also entries for the new holiday contest announced to-day.. It is quite an easy one, for I Snow boys and girs are' not very smnaus ta put an their thinking caps in holiday time! Wa shall be having i special holiday page soon, ao those who feel sufficiently anerastic ate invite! to aend in entries, original or copied, sketches, verse, sto'cies ar letters. [ was ziad to receive this week many letters of thanks front boys and girls who were awarded prizes in the Christmaii contests, and to know that you were all so- pleased with the books we Hen;. Love to you. all, from,

CHRISTMAS FUN Dear Miss iCorttnx, —Cirristmas Day"With a imp and a jump I eagerly ran. over to tha window and gazed autaiae. What a dismal sight confronted me!. The sky was Banked with heavy dark clouda and a strong: wind wan blowing. Wa were expecting a. party from, fifty-three miles away to spend Christmas Day, but L thought that aureiy they would not venture out in this. Wall., it was beat to be prepared, ana «veocything was ready at eleven o'clock, about the time that, they 3iicruld make their arrival. My two little. cousin 3 and brothers were eagerly discussing- tha contents of their stockings. Quarter-past eleven came. Sureiy they would he hem any time now? Perhaps a puncture had caused the delay. By this time the sun was shining, but was hindered, now and yigain. by heavy showers of rain. It was ncanng dinner time, and still no relations. Xa it was getting late we sat down for dinner, and our downcairt countenances did not look a bit " Christmassy. So sooner had I eaten two pens, I heard the honking- or a motor-horn! Hastily putting our dinner an the racic we all rushed out ta the gats. J*oy they had arrived!. * _ After a substantial. lunch,, Gwen ana i directed tlfc children, eight ra. numuer, to the boy's bedroom, and surprised them, ail bv the appearance of a trt -* e ; With merry snouts and the sounaa or parcels being undone in an exceeuing.y great hurry the children eagerly taoit their l presents.. / Alter thie wo played several ' games. Blind Plan's Buff being the most papular. Amidst all these games we would pause a while and. commence cracking; nuta with the poker. After several .hours run went insitia and iia«i a deiicioua tea. Seeing that it was getting rather lata and they had two hour's ran before them it was time for our relations to depart. With tno Hff»gon and u> happy £t«w a* a. farewell tile oars drove away. Laua in tiiin way we apent a v??ry happy Llirißtina?. —I remain, your sincere pen-jxionfL, Betty Soar' afge 14 years), PiriuJta Jfaeiaa.

at the ssach Dear iLiss iLurtun,: —I thank, you very much tor- the prize book you sent me and was very nleased that X won a prize. 1 thought tha stories m the book were love!?. Dad save mo 43 clirysant.hemuma to tend and they aia getting on all right. We have been to the bench svo times but C will tell you about Nmv Year* Day. On ZTvw Year a Dav my father, mother and two anrt I went fa' Qr«re Bench. It is five miles down there and wa walked. When wo got down r.here wa had a swim. Wuen we came out she tide was beginning to go out. In front or where we were staying a big rock lay by itself; Dad,. Doroeu. and _ t paddled, through the water with, our tishincj lines tm to tha other side of the rock where it was deep, ao we started ffsluna. In a little while dad caught a fish, and we went bac«. When we found that we noula got over to a rocky point: we went over ana had onr lunch. After lunch we wont. fishing_ again of? this point. We fished for a while and then C cui/ght a sr,h and I could not g~t the hook out of its mouttt for a goori hiifl. Wh»tt w were going to go home we round a SBHgull'a riosr. The nest, was in jollow on top of the ground among all the rooiso and had no grass or feathers in it. In it was an eg# a.4 large an a ben « e«ff. I» wal » whit'e with hi nek stripes on it. Dad «iuu to. leave the ™cg .ilone. When "i got. baen to where mum was it. wan getting lata so we went . home.—Tour loving nen-fnen<t. Marion Sfartley, 0.0. Cashmere and Sons, Orare. ClevjSdon Sage ft).

the nsxcons o? T*S YEA3S Dnar Mfes 'Star on.—The holidays ire iytT»r; Hip friends ar«» gone. and are alone a gam. Bur that is no* "in worst. Lang since 'am have ibiy disposed of turkey. 'iinm. cake. and. pudding So we must Liv" nu the m"munm» of. thin festive a«tson un'/il next, Chriatmas. JJve.iv Year has passed, 'no. It is now TUto customary to write 1984: But. what da, those figures imply? Have we evwr thought? Those figures constjiiite a record of the ~°«rs that" hart) pussed since the Fiver., where we pitched our camp, and when the '* kingiy stranger" first saw the light' of f.tay. [t is beautiful, it is wonderful, fehnfe "'aid. old' story." whiofi conu-rns us nil so deeply. Nearly two. thousand' ynors has*» parsed, since that birthday, and etiil it» anniversary ha» been kept,.. But. what t do not; know is, this: H: it is nineteen hundred and thirty-four years since Christ's birth, why m- not' Hie 3T«w- Tear celebrated mi Christmas Eve- 7 Why are fclia nvo <W» different", when. seemingly. they rtriajuate at: the- same time?. Ii would like •".to* know-.—Your tmaafeti' cenrfriend., Gweo. '■ft ; .Srahnni. (iff» IS)'. : j|f. . OT«Il matft ot. owe- cMee readers olmee --• / **owy- trwi}*. with taw iatonoatiiat?— ®thl ■

SY THE HIVES Dear ill as Morton, —Boxing Bay dawned bright and clear. The sun was far up in the azur a sky, which was absolutely free of any eland, an we made our way through the myriad holiday-makers who thronged the streets. Away we wont from the streets, away from the cluttering throng, aver the rough, bumpy road toward the banks of the Waipa River, where we pitched our camp, and retired after a joyful day's travelling. Wa wore up early,, and after a wash in the river, wa took a walk along the mossclad banit3. * Shiail insects, such as kiennts, nang their summer praises. Gay butterflies spread out their gauzy wings as they darted hero and there. Bees hummed lazily aa they flew around the huge clusters of pennyroyal. Birds twittered in the trees, and in the distance one could sea a small canoe gliding peacefully down-stream. The almond-green, weeping_ willows dipped their leaves m the cool, refreshing water. Tha nest day we had a hatha in tho pure, cool water Wa ducked one another and raced, while the others made aandcastlea until tea-time. 3Foan nest „ day found un back in tho bustling, throng ajfam, after a happy, carefree, holiday.— From your sincere pen-friend. Khthl-en 'jrracß Ugo la yearaj. care G.P.Q.. Hamilton..