Week-end Chat

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 10

Week-end Chat

"AEBOB."

"L,

,L."

"D1M."

COUNTRY AND TOWN.

Dear Everyone, — It is cheering to have private notes saying that readers enjoy this colnmn. Thank you all for writing. But there are many people who have definite ideas on subjeets and are anxious to put them before the readers, yet they are too lazy (sorry to use the word) to write a letter. Anyone who can express themselves well in speaking should have * no difficulty in putting their ideas in writing. That brings up a point often commented on by those who think deeply and try to stir us up to do things for ourselves in New Zealapd. Is the average person too much in a- groove to bother doiug things? Are some of us too content? Ambition, if it does not harm 'others, is good. Bead what Jerome K, Jerpme says and then ask yourself if you suffe* from an ihferiority complex that is partly the fault of inertia. A good motto for such is "Energy begets energy" and another is "It is better to wear out than rust out." This writer says: — "To the ambiticus man, life is a brilliant game— a game that calls forth all his tact and energy and nerve — a game to be won, in the long run, by the quick eye and the steady hand .... I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet. But do not, for goodness ' sake, let them go, strutting ubout, as they are so fond of doing, crying out that they are the true models for the whole species. Why, they are the dead-heads, the drones in the great hive, the street crowds that lounge about, gaping at those who are working. ' ' • • • * I hope all those who so energetically joined the Hastings Progress League a year or so ago wiil remember that the annual meetiug takes place next Tuesday night. The information sent for about the "Men of the Trees" Society has not yet arrived, but several names have been sent in and some letters xeceived from those who are tree-lovers. To all theso I would suggest that they attend the meeting mentioned in the previoua paragraph as an outlet for useful activities, and when the information is here (as sent for) those of kindred spirit may do great things for their district. Would "L.L." kindly send her address for an answer to her private letter sent in. All letters lnust have the sender's name attached, not for publication. Dear Cousin Bose, — I shall bo delighted to join the "Tree Preservation Society" about which you wrote last week. As Arbor Day is in next month, August II, perhaps we could make some demonstration in planting trees. In the past the coloqists oi this Dominion have acted mOre as though they were an enemy in a foreign country than inhabitants of a land which it is necessary to conserve for ourselves and our children. Let us then now push forward with renewed zeal. The need is urgent and vital to the future of this land. Our prosperity and that of our Children goes witli our native forests and our native birds. — Yours, etc.,

w w 9 Another tree enthusiast seuds this little story: — BLANTJNG FOE THE FUTUBE. Cecil Bhodes was a great tree-lover. Supervising the plaiiting o an avenue, he was inclined to hurry the workmeu on the job. , A friend standing by said, "Why the haste? You will not see those trees grow." Bhodes 's reply was: "No, but years after I am dead and gone men and women will live and love and children will play in the shade and beauty of those trees. It is for them I am plantmg. " And this is the Grand Idea behind it. Tree planting is not to be a haphazard, here to-day and gone to-mor» row sort of business. To-day a man or a group of men "Plan" and "Plant." To-morrow a man, or a group of men, -tTan and chop down. Our planners and planters must do their work with vision. Not for to-day or for any immediate to-morrow, but for all fne tomorrows that reach out into the comiug years. A tree is a magnificent tning, the very symbol of life as it should be lived. Spreading d-ownward, yet ever thrusting forward and upward.- The perfect type of man is he who has his feet in the solid eartK and his head in the clouds. And the tree is his perfect model.

bpace does not allow of the weekly article on "Food." Next week one will be printed on "Starchy Foods." This letter is from southern Hawke's Bav and Cousin Bose will be delighted to receive other useful hints on health as given in it: — Dear Cousin Bose, — I am very interested in th6 letters by "Natural Food" for the "reason why" 3,3 given^ but I was disappointed to see wh-te flour recommended for steamed or suet puddings. Wholemeal makes a much lighter and more palatable pudding, but to overcome the objection to usmg a coarse meal 1 WouM suggest sifting out the very coarsest of the bran and using the fine meal— that is if the very fine 100 per cent. wholemeal is not obtainabie. For a cold in the head a gargle of dilu|ed lemon juice and one or two drops of the juice in a teaspoon of warm water sndffed up each nostril I have found most beneficial.— -Yours etc., '

* « it 1 hope tliose who aro buruiug to travel liko theso linea by iMilton: "And now "by some strong motiou I am led Into this wilderness, to what iutcnt I lcarn not yet, porhaps 1 nccd not know; For lvhat conccrne n>y 1'iiowlodgo God reveals. ' ' Your .Friend,