A TONIC.
.Those who suffer from the doleful complaint of pessimism, or any other “Ism” that causes them sleepless nights, should read the following remarks which were uttered by the representative of a Swedish firm at New Plymouth a few days ago:—
“Why, you people are the best off in the world. You don’t know what trouble or worry is. You should see the conditions*in my country, and in England, whence I have just come. They are simply awful. They are face to face with want, with privation. Thousands —nay, hundreds of thousands —do not know where to get the next meal. Times are not only had in Europe; they are desperate. And you out here are happy, can raise a real laugh— I’ve not heard spontaneous laughter of late until I came to New eZaland —and go about as if nothing ails you, your country, or the world. Happy New Plymouth, happy Taranaki, happy New Zealand! Would that 1 could bring out some of my people to see, if only for a day, the smiling faces of your people, and hear the laughter of the children! It’s grand; it’s a tonic to me. Surely there must still he some hope for the world.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2343, 18 October 1921, Page 2
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204A TONIC. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2343, 18 October 1921, Page 2
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