GIRL-GUIDE CORNER

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2311, 15 March 1930, Page 2

GIRL-GUIDE CORNER

Dear Guides, Rangers and Brownies, — Here arc some new riddles for you, Brownies. Ask father if lie knows them: — 1. What is the easiest thing for a nigger to do? 2. When was beef the highest? 3. What is the difference between a farmer and a dressmaker? 4. Why is the centre of a tree like a dog’s tail? 5. Can you tell me the difference between a black cloud, and a lion with the toothache? Colours. What does colour mean to you? Colours have played a veiy important part in history. In the French Revolution the tri-colour pome into being. Green has always been associated with old Ireland, red, white and blue comes to be counted as a British possession. The Chinese in the days of their empire said that purple m-ust ■ only be worn by those who were members of the Court of the Emperor. Blue is. a historical colour that has throughout the ages stood for principle, loyalty and friendship. Long ago in the days of Rome the Justinians showed their loyalty by a badge of blue as distinct from the followers of Anastasius, who favoured green. In later times, the Covenanters in the 17th century chose blue as their badge in opposition to the more lively scarlet of the merry monarch, Charles I. But it is to the days of commerce that we look for the rise of the expression of “True Blue.” True Blue first saw light as the name of a newly invented dye in the year .1 SOB, and for over a century now it has ex-pressed quality and perfection with loyalty and friendship. Catches. Try these on; — 1. Now! I will show you something. Take any coin you like out of my pocket, Bill, and I’ll tell ypu the date. (Answer: It’s the loth of March, or whatever the actual date is). 2. There are three donkeys at the Zoo. The first one is called Doh, the second Ray, and—l wonder what the third one is called). (.Just listen to the family calling “Me.”) 3. From outside call everyone to come and see the striking object. (Produce a hammer of the axe). Laugh. Laugh and be merry! Remember, better the world with a song, Better the world with a blow in the teeth of wrong. Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span, Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.

The Immortal Frenchman (Victor Hugo).

When Victor Hugo was six weeks old his father was sent from Besancon to Marseilles. What anxieties and fears disturbed his mother we chn only imagine. Could this delicate child bear the journey. But Marseilles meant sun and a good climate, and so the change was made. Then General Hugo was sent to the island of Corcisa, then from one island to another,, until the family found it impossible to follow him. Madame Hugo and her three sons then moved to Paris, and it was here that Victor Hugo received his earliest impressions. He remembered that his mother sent him to school and that one morning he was taken to the schoolmaster’s daughter, Rosa. He also remembered that some kind of play was given in which lie took a part, but as he understood very little of it he contented himself on the stage by kicking Mademoiselle Rosa's legs, until just at the most pathetic part of the play, the spectators were surprised to hear the heroine say to him, “Will you be quiet, you naughty boy.” —(ToJoe continued) . Cheerio!

BIRDIE,