GIRL-GUIDE CORNER

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2308, 8 March 1930, Page 2

GIRL-GUIDE CORNER

Dear Guides, Rangers and Brownies, — I suppose quite a number of my Guide friends visited the Agricultural Show : and perhaps noticed an exhibition there of Chinchilla and Angora rabbits. Seeing the rabbits brought to my inind this little poem by Billy Brown. Billy Brown's Bunny. I do wish my daddy would give be a bunny .And a hutch with a door in it, where I could peep; When I asked him to-day he said, “Rabbits cost money! And who will look after it when you're asleep." That's just like my daddy; lie’s ever so funny! At dinner to-day this is just what he said: ‘•'Must he lufvc whiskers, this wonderful bunny? What would you feed him on—buttons . or bread?" It's my birthday to-morrow. I do want a bunny! And I think when my daddy comes in to his tea He'll say, “Here’s a bunny for for Mr Brown's sonny." That's just like my daddy—of course he means me. “Good Humour and Good Health are two important steps in the stairway toward happiness and sifccess." . The Immortal Man of Prance (Victor Hugo). There is hardly a corner of France where w t c do not come across the memory of Victor Huge. We find him in the many houses in which he lived, in the buildings he .wrote of, in the quarters lie peopled with the heroes of his books, in the theatre where his dramas where played. Paris is his own town; lie - 'loved it; he'’sang of. it; he glorified it. His shadow is more fugitive at Besancon, where he w r as born; but few men have bothered less about their ancestry than Hugo. “A man is what he lias made himself," lie wrote; “should I choose my ancestors I would prefer for my grandfather an active shoemaker than to a lazy king." Hugo’s father was a general of Napoleon 's army. The boy v r as born in circumstances at once painful because of his weakness, so great as to cause fears for his life; dramatic because as he came into the world at the time when Napoleon led his triumphant colours across Europe, his childhood warbound to be spent in camps, with the flourish of trumpets and the whizzing of bullets. — (To be continued). Divine Parade will be held on Suuday, 9th. Guides and Rangers will meet at the Town Hall and parade to St. Andrew's Anglican Church. A Guiders meeting will, be held in Hamilton at the Guide room, the business being arrangements for the Field Day, which is to be held in Morrinsvillc on the 29th of March. The Brownies of the Ist Cambridge Pack welcome their Brown Owl, Miss McKee, back again to the Pack. Miss Clark, our Ranger Captain, is on hob day at Wairakei.