“Grandaddy's” Holiday Wish

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

“Grandadd y's” Holiday Wish

• My Dear Grandchildren. ' I did not intend to put pen to paper this Letterland Day, but i felt i could 1 not allow the occasion to pass by without wishing you all the very happiest time on your holiday. I hope every moment will be one of 1 joy for you, and that before next • sebeo 1 day comes, you will have ar.qcjred an abundance of new energy during the recess, to attack your duties in no half-hearted manner. The early years of your life, dear grandchildren are. if you know it, the most important in your whole life. 11 is now' that, you prepan* yourselves for your careers and the. may 1 hope, long life to be yours. Everything will depend upon good hard work now, so, ,vhile playtime hours are your lot, now, just keep in mind my little message. You will not. lind your old “Granddaddy” wrong, for 1 speak from a long and varied experience that is mine. I have almost reached the end of my allotted span, children, and I often !o*>k back to my earlier years. Could lhe.y have been more fruitful? No. L think j not, for in my heart there is a great 'peace and contentment. Evon although j one may not be richly endowed with . worldly goods, yet can one be happy nevertheless. Strange though it. may seem, riches sometimes cause people 10 be \ (*ry unhappy, and there is a story in one of my old school books I can still remember, and which concerned a shoemaker who worked and sang all day. His hammering, however, disturbed a rich man living nearby, who gave to the cobbler till the money he wanted, just to cease ’iis work, but after a time the cobbler became so unhappy and miserable because of his idle hands that he went to the rich man. and gave nip) back his riches, and at once began his work. Thereafter he sang happily the long day through. Oh. but, dears, I should not rob you of your play, so off you go! —Your “GRANDDADDY.”