THE WENDY HUT

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 20

THE WENDY HUT

FROM WENDY’S ARMCHALK. My dear Unuu...., Our beloved “Seventy-seven" has written again and said ' enough wise and humorous things to keep us amused for weeks! “Seventy-seven,” you know, is a dear lady who is really and truly geventy-seven years old; yet she is as young in spirit as the tiniest of our Tinies, and she is one of the Hut Folks' most loyal friends! In a letter she wrote specially to the Billikins (somehow tho Goblin always gets special things for himself!) “Seventyseven” remarked: “Hints are gorgeous tilings, funny thingw, horrid things, loving things!’ Aren’t they? A hint is perfectly gorgeous when offered by a true friend who wants to help; it is very funny indeed l ' from someone who hag “got hold of the wrong end of the stick”; it is Lorried when offered spitefully to remind you of some fault or failing; and it is the most loving thing in the world when it comes from someone who wishes you well! Be careful how you give hints and offer advice, won't: you?. Both are dangerous, unless you really want to help and not hinder. Funny, isn’t it, how 'most everyone likes to give a hint or offer advice, yet hardly anyone lives to receive either? You just ask mother if this isn’t true! If I were asked to give one big hint for the happiness of our land, I would say: “Let everyone try his hardest to make other folkn happy first!". Because you simply can’t go wrong if you adopt our Billikins’ war cry,-“I want to be happy, but I can’t be happy, till I make you happy too!" If a hint is going to help someone to be happy, give it! If'it is going to make someone miserable, for goodness’ sake keep it back! Easy? No, it isn’t! We’re all made a "~”“bit queer” in some ways, and occasionally even the nicest • . of us are rather glad if we can get in a pin-prick of spite towards eomeone who doesn’t quit© please us! Ask mother if that isn’t true as well! This sounds awfully like a lecture, children—but it isn’t really! ft’s only a hint on making life easy! Bestest love from, WENDY.