Birthday Greetings.
August 15. —James Lindegreen, Otto White, Eunice Thomas, Dorothy Sanders, Stella Mavis Norrie, Betty Doreen Hardie, Zeta Neale, Dorothy Merriman, Patricia M’Dowell, Edgar Collins. August 16. —David Clarkson, Lawrence Clarke, Frederick John Whitchurch, Alfred Vernall, Betty Keen, Joan Anderson, Lysley Rae Wendelkyn, Mervyn Wyatt. August 17. —Douglas Shepherd, Nancy Harrison, Dorothy Eileen King, John Shanahan, Joyce Gibson. August 18. —Lois Shrimpton, Irma Jessie Philpotts, Ismay Savage, Marjorie Simon, Percy Jackson, Fonda Sangster, Ngaire Campbell, Norman Fletcher, L. Haworth, Joy Harding. August 19. —Noel Duggan, David Hugh M’Kenzie, Noeline Crawford, Clifford Douglas Wright, Alan John Ingham, Una Lower, Pat Heer, Jean Cassin, Joyce Alexandre. August 20. —Enid M’Cracken, Eileen Williams, Daphne B. Parker, Elaine Ethel Barnett, Arthur Terry, Iris Fanny Dunford, Francis Cope, Douglas Hawtin, Robert Wilson. August 21. —Kathleen Cottrell, Ena Agar, Jean Sheward, Jack Stevens, Edward Buckingham, lan Stubberfield, lan Gloistein, Lawrence Hutchinson, M. F. Lyons, Leslie Scott, Audrey Stiles, Howard Pool, Lois Marie Kennedy.
A teacher at a women’s college had as her guest for a few days a nephew aged three. Having no rival there, he seemed in danger of being spoiled by his*many admirers among the students. When one asked him if he would like to live there always, he shook his curly head in a most decided negative, and exclaimed with a sigh; “ Such a l9t of women and stairs 1”
Good Scribes, 15 :8 :31— Edna Wilkie, Olive Bennett, Lynley Bruce, Maudie Comfort, James Robertson, Merle Mountford, Gwyneth Cross, Frank Prebble, Rona Campbell, Ken Pitcaithly, Jim Smith, Virginia Winduss, Pax Reeve, Desmond Walker, Joyce Erikson, Nora Stephens, Molly Croy, Iris O’Connor, Wendy Browne, Gypsy Browne, Doris Staples, Bruce Syme, Nancy Shankland, June G. Thwaites, Jessie Beech, Mildred G. Ferguson, James Stapleton, Idie Mairs, Violet Walker, Eileen Tyson, Joan Alleway, Jean Anderson, Malcolm Anderson, Phyllis Jones, Betty Robb, Kathleen M. Boon, Pat M’Cahill Cannon, Jack Robb, Bobbie Allen, Sidney Thorpy, Mavis Hansen, Joe M’Callum, Ellen Kempthorne, May Kelly, Evelyn Little, Mildred Ferguson, Eunice Lemon, Jean Hffrvey, Joe Bell, Ethel M’Glinn, Nancy Low, Frances Henshaw, Avis Hutchinson, Joyce Bridgman, Joan Mackey, Olive Jones, Jean Sinclair, Jean Fentiman, William Jackson.
Circ&p Artists, 15 :8 :31 —Rona Campbell, Iris Nunan, Joe M’Callum, Bobbie Allen, Joan Alleway, Evelyn Little, Lesley Cockerell.
BETTER THAN MOTHER. I’m glad I’m small. Yes, I am glad I’m small. Why? you ask yourself, and I will undertake to answer you. In the first place grown-ups talk so learnedly, and children need not be so particular in using the big words. Grown-ups have business matters to attend to and they cannot attend to the games and sports of youth. We can plan new ideas for our games, how to make new kinds of vehicles out of boxes after our usual duties, while mother still has to toil on with hers.
My greatest regret is that I shall have to resign from the “ Star ” Circle after my eighteenth birthday, for that is one thing the elder child regrets. Sylvia Zimmerman.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 193, 15 August 1931, Page 8
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