FITFUL FANCIES

Southland Times, Issue 20897, 5 October 1929, Page 23

FITFUL FANCIES

—Senior Club— HOBBIES. During the long winter evenings, or whenever we have leisure hours, we do not like to be altogether idle. Certainly we like to have a spell from work, but we would like some pleasant occupation to while away the time. That Is where a hobby is useful. Of course most of us learn music and so practising will take at least one hour every day. To some people, however, that is sufficient and they do not trouble about anything else—indeed, some don’t even learn music. There are many pleasant, useful, or even profitable hobbies, or sidelines as some of them are called. Take for instance stamp collecting,, cigarette-card collecting, and even making a scrap book. The camera too, makes a pleasant hobby especially if we do our own developing of the snaps we take—of our home, our friends and relations, the places we visited during our holidays. When we grow up, and perhaps leave the district in which we lived when we were young, we look at our snap album and think of the “days that have been.”

Then there are the more useful hobbies, such as needlework, knitting, raffia work that are useful as well as pleasant to make. Then there are the profitable sidelines that country and even town people, too, can have. There are fowls to be kept and their eggs can be sold, after enough have been kept for the house. Flowers can be grown, and vegetables too, which can be sold. There is a lot more to be said about hobbies, whether for pleasure or for profit. Hobbies—such delightful pastimes that they are—should be encouraged in every home.

—Cousin Molly Emmett,