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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 13

DEAREST CIRCLIANS, Outside, Winter is white-washing my garden with crystals of frost, and decorating my trees with sparkling gems. Inside, I sit by my fire and am cosy. The flames lick the logs and disappear up the chimney, laughing. I wonder where the flames go. Surely they do not just disappear and lose themselves completely and for ever. ..Perhaps they return to the Sun, the giver of heat. I seem to remember reading somewhere that all the heat that comes out of a log, at some earlier time went into it from the Sun. It is fine to think of all the trees of the forest storing up sunshine for people like you and me, and to think that the trees that are growing to-day will be releasing little portions of sunheat to warm cold hands and feet some day in the years to come. We hear a good deal about planting trees. Wise people tell us of the added beauty that the trees will bring to our landscape, of the joyful songs that come from happy birds, and of the wonderful uses that trees are put to. These are all true, but because I am sitting beside a fire and it is Winter time, I like to think that the trees we plant are store-houses for sunshine. Perhaps that is a good reason for doing so much treeplanting in Winter, the season that reminds us of the delights that the Sun can give. And this reminds me that there are other things that gather sun-warmth—Peggy squares made into warm coverings for cold wee people, and little woolly garments knitted by boys and girls with warm hearts can give warmth when the Sun is hiding behind grey clouds. Perhaps, if my keen little knitters will be Sunshine Scatterers for one more week, by the time the Competitions close there will be no cold wee people in Timaru, no matter how lazy the Sun or how biting the frost. ,/N nUvLjto*. P.S. —Twelve gay Peggy squares have arrived from Colin and lan Hewson, Bluecliffs; eight from Ivey and Maureen, Totara Valley; two from Dorothy and Penelope Rich, Cave; and four from Joan Mary Thomson, Timaru.—P.P.