The Waipawa Mail. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Thursday, April 14, 1908. HOLIDAY RELAXATION.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5247, 16 April 1908, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Thursday, April 14, 1908. HOLIDAY RELAXATION.

During the last few days the crowded trains bore evidence that residents of the larger towns are escaping into the country for a brief holiday. Country poople, on the other hand, have been seeking relaxation by visiting the centres of the Dominion. It is not a little suggestive of our national youthfulness to note how almost all of us succeed in throwing off the worry and responsibility of the workday world and in abandoning ourselves to the emotion of the moment with something like the boisterousness of boyhood. It would be very unfortunate for us if we had not this happy faculty, and the fact that we can join in the pursuit of pleasure to-day with so much zest is perhaps, a very good indication also of the strenuousness we are able to resume when the holiday season has passed us by. We have luckily no reason to keep a string of our lyre at fret. The nature which surrounds us is instinct with the virility and joy of life, and the imaginative poet can easily hoar her heart-boats. There is no reason why we should shiver in the cold light of the intellect, or permit the hurry of modernity to break us on the wheel of fortune, when we can find relaxation in the flowers at our feet or in the surge of sand and surf. And the mere fact that life has become so dynamic for us gives an enjoyment to relaxation it could not otherwise possess. Wo do right to look for guidance rather to the future than to the past. But it is well that all old customs do not die, and we may well hope that the holiday season may achieve immortality.

And this relief from the stress and strain of daily work puts in an insidious plea for a view of life which perhaps wo do not recognise as consciously as we should—a plea that Plato long ago put before his world with so much beauty, and therefore with so much truth. It asks us to cease awhile from struggle and find rest; to make life for others and for ourselves a fine art rather than a pitiless occupation. If we follow its touch we may stray far away from the sound of the insistent modern note out into hushed and shadowy lands, and come now and again upon clear open spaces where the sunlight lies voiceless and vivifying. Wo might then remember that the bright and beautiful is very likely also to be the good, and escape from a not wholly healthy divorce between the sense of

duty and the sense of enjoyment. Modern life presents us sometimes as though wo were toilers in a deep mine far removed from light c-f day ; but it is still possible for us to ho rather performers in some perfect musical exercise. Life may still, we may well hope, be set to music, and to a music that is not built of discords; and dreary as the day may sometimes be we may still catch sight of life and love through magic oasements opening on the foam of perilous seas.

Articles entitled “ Cannibal Revival ” and “ Married at 68 ” will b > found on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page consists o( News and Notes.

A little girl, aged 5 years, has just re coived a medal from the Humane Society, Massachusetts. While trying to save a little playfellow from being run over she was struck and seriously hurt by a motor oar. Sho is said to be the youngest, person who has ever received the medal.

A reminder is given of the lantern sorvice which is to be given in the Methodist Church, Waipawa, to morrow night, when a number of fine slides will be shown. During the evening snored foloß will be bud£ by Miss N. Muudell, and Messrs Dixon and Venables.

A weight-guessing competition was hold in connection with tho Harvest Home at Hatuma, tho prize being two fat lambs, weighing respectively and 3911 b. Mr F. O. Polhill and 39flb) and Mr A. E. Thomason (29ib ami 411 b; guessed tho oorrect aggregate weight (701 b). We have authority for stating that the Government has decided to vest in the Waipawa Borough Council, ten acres of the reserve ou the south Bide of tho river. Tho Town Board have consistently pressed the claims of the town for this reserve aud it is g atifying to iiud that they have been successful. The canvassing committee id connection with the fancy fair in aid of the Waipawa District High School improvement fund, report that they ure meeting with gratifying success. The sewing bees, held weekly, are being well attended and a considerable amount of work is put through each evening. The committee are also arranging to hold a dance on the 29th May.

A local resident who is frequently on the road north and south of Wanganui informs the Wanganui Herald that the pastures northwards are in a very advanced state, and give evidence of a plentiful supply of winter feed. The stock, he considered, were in a much more forward condition in and around the Waverley district than south towards Marton, where feed was not abundant.

.Although the Wellington centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association declined tc endorse the proposal to send Murray and Kerr to repreßeut New Zealand at the Olympian games in London, there is reason to believe that the scheme will yet succeed. Each man’s expenses are estimated roughly at £IOO, and athletic enthusiasts in Christchurch are reported to have already collected £6O. At a meeting of the combined hockey clubs, held last night, it was decided to hold a social iu aid of the Sub-Associa-tion on Wednesday, 29th April. It was suggested that each affiliated club be asked to guarantee the purchase of 12 tickets. Tenders are to be called for the supply of mueio. The oarrying out of arrangements iu counectiou with the refreshments was loft' in the hands of the lady members. The price of tiokets was fixed at 4s for double tickets and 2s for extra lady. A committee consisting of Misses Furness aud A. O’Reilly and Messrs Carue, Wills, Corbett and E. Mulindor, with Mr D. O’Reilly as secretary were appointed to carry out all the details.

Further testimony to the statement that bee-keepers are never subject to rheumatism was given by Dr Kennedy in a lecture at Hastings last week. The lecturer (said the Hastings Standard) accounted for the immunity of apiarists from rheumatism by stating that when a bee inserted a sting the poison injected, known as formic acid, had a direot oounter influence upon the uric acid in the body. He had been a sufferer from rheumatism before he became interested in bee keeping, but since then the rheumatio pains had completely disappeared. Mr Hopkins, the Government bee expert, reoorded a similar experience.

A Waimate beach fisherman, to overcome the difficulties of casting a line far enough out, made a large kite, and after several experiments got it to work perfectly, oarrying out a large number of baits. A few days ago (according to an exchange) he paid out no loss than 850 yards of line, joining up line after line. Just oue miscalculation was made, and that was in regard to the drag of the line in the water when it was desired to pull the kite down. When pressure was applied the line parted at a knot. The curious part comes next. Held by the line which trailed on the water, the kite kept Bteadily going, and at 300 yards in the air was visible for four hours, when it was lost to sight. A meeting of the Takapau Ploughing Match Society was held in the Town Hall on Saturday night, Mr J. A. McLeod in the chair. Mr W. Cuthbertson, secretary, reported that the committee had oollected about £3O in subscriptions. It was agreed to have two classes at the ploughing raatoh, open and local, and that £32 10s and gold medals be given in prizoa with extra prizes presented by tho following gentlemen for incidental contests-. Messrs 4- O. Hansen, W. M. Beckett, W. C. Gavin, R. T. Knight (Longburu), and A. Jones and Sons, Limitod (Hustings). A field has been kindly lent by Mr W. Hobson for the occasion ; it is about half a mile from the railway station. The match will be held on Wednesday, May 13th.

A largely attended meeting of the Dramatic Club was held on Tuesday evening, when the balance sheet in connection with the production of “Jane” was presented. Tho receipts were £3l 19s and the expenditure £ll 19s, leaving a balance of £2O to be handed over to the school improvement fund. The principal items of expenditure were, rent of hall £3 10s, printing aud advertising £2 Bs, scenery £2, C. H. Nash 19s 10d, caning 12s 6d, and music for the orchestra 12s. It was decided to stage “Betsy.” Two new members were elected. Votes of thanks were accorded Messrs Li mb rick and Co. for the loan of furniture, the Salvation Army for the loan of seats, Mrs Raynes, and to all others who had given assistance.

The mother who has acquired t* habit of keeping a bottle of CM®' berlain’s Cough Remedy on hand *•* herself a great amount of uneaiiDS* 1 * anxiety. Coughs, colds and oroßpi* which children are susceptiblyif quickly cured by its use. It ooudHJJ any tendency of a cold to result iuP®** monia and if given as soon as tbi® symptom of croup appears it will P rt , the attack This remedy is frse f ro ® . ( poi(£>s, which makeß it the « favourite everywhere. For sale bj'jj Sutherland, Waipawa.