AUNT HILDAS LETTER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 18 (Supplement)

AUNT HILDAS LETTER .

ONE BIG WHEEL. The Hub, the Spokes and the Rim. J)EAR LITTLE PEOPLE,I hope you all slept the clock round last night after the great party and that your memories are only happy ones. Isn’t it wonderful to be one of a great laughing, merry throng and to realise that you have so many friends? I often think our Circle is like a huge revolving wheel; the page is the hub, the spokes that go out to the children are the messages each week in the letter-box; and the outside rim is the circle of happy laughter-loving girls and boys. It is alive, this wheel; alive with human interest and the best of human emotions. And every year the circumference gets larger and larger as more and more girls and boys come arid join the glad throng. Didn’t you all feel the happiness yesterday that radiated through all the crowd? Oh, and I remember yet the noise of those hundreds of whistles, the clicking of hundreds of tin crickets and all the other party fun. No matter what hardships the grown-up world will have to offer you in the future, you will have had these happy days and you can turn the pages of your rpemory book back to our Starlet parties and then do YOUR bit for the children of that not too distant time. All the world goes forward on unselfish effort for others, and the person who lives for himself gets out of life what just he puts into it—nothing. Oh, dear! These are solemn thoughts after a party! But perhaps the Weary Sprite has been paying me a visit! Aha! And didn’t Old Mother Worry regret she had come visiting to the wrong place? She’s sure to think twice before venturing again! So now we have successfully disposed of the Depression Bogey and Old Mother Worry. Surely only glad days lie ahead! Elsewhere in the paper, j r ou' will see the report of the party and you will enjoy the thrill of seeing your name in print! Now, little people, Aunt Hilda has the “ after the party” feeling, so I know you will not look for more to-night. Happy thoughts tb you all and my sincerest thanks for your wonderful response. Ever } T ours—