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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1927, Page 2

‘ Dreary weather ” its gloom imparts, Dreary weather makes dreary hearts, Dreary weather and drenching rain Alake us sigh for tho Spring again. Dreary journeys to town and back Dreary duty with business slack, Sore-throat, chills and colds to endure Welcome Woods’ Great Peppermint Cu'e

WHO REALLY COUNT? An age is materialistic whoso interest centres in material things. Rut anyone who is at all alert knows that the interest of the present age is precisely not in material things, hut in something far more important, far more precarious. Things, after all, are comparatively harmless, compliant affairs. We can do pretty much what we please with them. They neither answer hack nor stir up trouble. A\ hat really gives us concern are people. Men and'women, we discover, are the stuff out of which most of life is made. If they are politicians, they have the fate of millions in their hands. If they are parents. they can make or wreck the lives of their off-spring. If they are teachers, they can twist and darken the souls of their young charges, or can build them, straight and luminous. If we marry them, wo soon discover they can make heaven or hell. Tilings, of themselves, are singularly impotent. It is men and women that mostly count. —H. A. Overstreet in “The World To-day.”

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