Featherston Library.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1721, 17 August 1885, Page 3

Featherston Library.

A To the Editor of the Standard. Sir, —In our little town we, Featherstonians, are highly favored. We lie snugly under the hills, close to one of the passes in the famous Himutaka, through whxh the wind thistles and shrieks as if the purification of our surroundings was the “one thing needful,” There is a notion, however, getting abroad that we have been torpid too long. We want a little mental rousing. The drowsiness engendered by the carbonic acid of the beer va l , c "ipled with the effects of high living, is settling down upon ns, and without doubt we are mi the incline to a veritable “Sleepy Hollow." Mr Editor, can yon help us ? Wo have a cipi'al Libraty and a m ist attentive and well-read Librarian ; and for tin-so blessings we ate disposed to sing the To Deum Is it possible for ns to have a Ilea 1 ng-romti, to-. > Bur perhaps I'm asking too Hindi, as it would never do to have Feath-r-oon in any degree rivalling (Irey-town. Tim pubs are very well and may suit so .m—the L'censing Committee for instance ; but I'm nervous and dislike t ia “sounds of revelry ” m the pmximby of the tierv e •mpnunds of the liquor .seller. Fathers of Feather-ton, awake! See to your sons I Provide a counter attraction to the fatal billiard room. I am, Ac .