Birthday Greetings

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)

Birthday Greetings

August 18. Lois Shrimpton Irma Philpotts August 19. Noel Duggan i David Hugh M'Kenzie Noeline Crawford August 20. Enid M’Cracken August 21. Kathleen Cottrell Ena Agar Jean She ward Jack Stevens Edward Buckingham lan Stubberfield August 22. Harry Simpson Angus Donaldson Leslie Donaldson June Anderson Robert Francis Rose 1 Alan Eyles August 23. Thelma Cecilia Morrissey Charles Raynor Shann Haakon Bergh August 24. Lesley Cossgrove Lilian Sinclair . Constance Calloway Nancy Doreen Britton THE LOVELIEST WORD. - Of all the words of tongue or pen, 1 Of all the thoughts of mortal men, There is no word, there is no thought , So dear to me as that one taught 2 At childhood’s dawn, Long year agone: That precious word, with visions t fraught, i Is MOTHER. The days are many since she’s pressed My baby head upon her breast; The months have gone with flying feet: y But calm and clear ii I still can hear The voice of her—than life more ” sweet — * My MOTHER. Not always have I walked the way v She taught me, from day to- day; ]' Sometimes I may have scorned her rare, r And made her burden hard to bear; r But there this hour—u God grant me power! I’ll walk her way. I’ll heed her prayer—- ° And make her glad—My MOTHER. s e THE PLAN OF LIFE, i. Our lives we cut on a curious ’plan, cl Shaping them as it were, for man; f But God, with better heart than we, Shapes them for Eternity.—Anon.