HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18349, 29 December 1927, Page 14

HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

NEW TEAR MESSAGES FROM MEMBERS AND FRIENDS. Our President. Just a pinch of salt makes or mars a stew, and just a pinch of character makes or mars a home. —E.den Phillpotts. Every bond of life is a debt. The right lies in the payment of that debt: it can lie nowhere else. —George Eliot. Keep on Smiling. The following paragraphs are from an English magazine:— “If only all the people who have gardens in front of their houses realised what joys these gardens could be to the passers-by, they would cultivate them with the utmost care. I can’t begin to tell you what pleasure I get out of the gardens I pass. “ It seems to me that just as these little gardens I love cheer the passersby, so we human beings can cheer our fellows by being as sunny and gay and bright as are those beloved little gardens. It takes.some doing, but I am convincd that wc can all be little gardens if we choose. Doesn’t it all resolve itself into thinking of your neighbour’s woes rather than their own, realising how detestably dreary it is for other people if you are always on the grumble and groan? Smiles, cheery words, kindly glances, a gay outlook, a serene turning of the worst into the best, are all like so many bright little garden plots which make the traveller’s way a pleasure and not a fatigue—which hearten the wayfarers along the dusty road of life.

“ The hopeful attitude, the gracious little act of courtes}’, the tender word of sympathy, the ready helpfulness—all of which is the exact opposite of the doleful and critical and glpomv—these make you into a sunny garden patch gay with flowers, and all who pass by will gather comfort and courage because of you. Who was it that said, ‘ We are not living rightly unless we are making life more confident and joyous for other people’? We can all do it. Every one of us, wherever we are, whoever we are, can help our fellow’s by cultivating the art of being 4 little gardens by the way.’ ” Obedience. The following beautiful poem is from a recent number of the 44 Bookman So many ways lead up to God— The saints so many roads have trod; And who, if w’e choose that or this. Can say that we the goal shall miss? The road that you serenely go May differ from the road I know, Yet afterwards, at God’s dear feet, Shall not our souls, enfranchised, meet? For every road the saints have trod May lead up to the stars, and God. Grannie.— Old age must catch me up one day, And gaze into my e> r es; And I shall have to bid him stay, With half-afraid surprise. O, I must love with heart ablaze, And dare w’ith strength supreme; O, I must live that in those days I shall have dreams to dream. ..Margot K. M. Brown. Rhoda. Who are the men who succeed in a noble manner? They are those who can rise out of failure and shake it off; who, when they err, accept their error and say, “ Now I know where I am weak, that I will never do again ”; who look their sin straight in the face, and say, 44 It is bad and vile, but it can be redeemed by effort, lived down by perseverance in good ”; who do not despair and hide their faces in a cowardly remorse; w’ho make their mistakes, their failures, the stepping stones to their success.—Stopford Brooke.

A.A.L. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.—George Eliot. Original Member. There is no falser proverb than that, devil’s beatitude—“ Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.” Say, rather. 44 Blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he enjoys everything'once at least, and if it falls out true, twice.”—Charles Kingsley. Pass It On. For our lives here are mostly in the power Of other lives, and each of us is bound To be his brother’s keeper. —Harriet E. M.‘ King. Susan P. No man (or woman) can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.—J. Ruskin. M.H. We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance; and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.—T. H. Huxley. G.M.D. T"am sorry that I do not know the author of the following lines, but hope that } ou will think them worthy of a place in the 44 New Year Messages” column: We go our ways in life too much alone! We hold ourselves too far from all our kind; Too <sften we are deaf to sigh or moan. Too often to the weak and helpless, blind ; Too often when distress and want abide. We turn and pass upon the other side. Scotch. Lassie. I like the following lines by George MacDonald so much that I think they are worthy to be included 'among the New Year Messages:Alas, these are such little things! No glory in their birth ! Doubt from their common aspect springs— If God will count them worth. But here I am,hot left :o choose. My duty is my lot*; And weighty things will glory lose If small ones are forgot. Forget-Me-Not. A true woman will not believe unkind things about her dearest friend. She will always look for the good points in a person’s character, and will fix her attention on these. A true w'oman is gracious to everyone. The shabbily clad and those low in the social scale receive as much attention from her as their more fortunate sisters. A true woman is unselfish. She rejoices with others in their joys, and weeps with them in their sorrows. She does not; envy those more fortunate than herself, and is the first to offer congratulations on good fortune. A true woman is broad-minded and tolerant. She listens patiently to the arguments of others and seeks to find the good in what they propose. She recognises the possibility of two sides to every question and seeks the truth with earnestness. —English "Good Health." Hep# Ever. " The past, is as a story told— The future may be writ in gold.”