THE CHILDREN'S DAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12883, 17 June 1913, Page 8

THE CHILDREN'S DAY.

THE WAIL OF A MOTHER

fWHAT^S THE MATTER WITH ■-. ~;■' . - ■': FATHER?'f f -iV-^l

-VnJt )e ]P lly glafl when that bleSmcT, -'attleship -leaves Nyiv; rZeaJahd^'^icl ,11.p00r,, irritated mother, ' yesterdar* morning;.. She had evitteiiily'lbst'tw^ - .?W R>sfceft:. when- S ome of her ytfuh.* I fopef^ ;u:ent to^ollington, *rid sbS :^ad practically another all night vigil -■- »n -Sunaay. night Wttfde* that her voit '$SPA*mhs might be. in time to f catch ™#^raih for Castlecliff station. What s tho matter with father?" r>omopne might oxclaim. The truth'uai, *ather did not "care who won the boat race. The morning was cold, arid he van rot .in a patriotic mood or a bit intaresfod in the Dreadnought at that I!mo of the morning. He said:he would read all iabout it °in the "Chronicle." That--was good enough for him. Mothf.;, liaworer. determined.that her Mag'^lo was not going to ■■ btT<leharred from 1 seeing and inspecting the .battleship, ;md so she made the sacrifice 'involved m getting tho youngster\,well off to • time. When Maggie reached the starion at n. littlo after 7 alwut, li miles' walk, she waa gvooted with tho chorus, "Hello. (Maggie,-fancy yba i.einp; up to time." "Yes," replied JVlnggiP. " mother was •up nearly All Jjight. I think, waiting to get me away ujiilo father sftored." This is only ono vi hundrt-ds of similar experiences yesterday imoniing, Tho conditions iv Wiang-anui wero certainly severe f-ncnc;h but what must they "have been "i th:.i places far distant, where very early trains had to be caught in order tha(; Wanecamii might be reached la. :rood time!