SPRING-TIME.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 17

SPRING-TIME.

D-'ir Editor, —Spring-time is beautify", tlie fields and weeping willows i jok so delightful that one feels one must write or tell somebody about tWm. The scent of the hawthorn as ye drive along, makes us feel as though V r.» W e r e in-a foreign land. I mean,, tut soeae seems to take you away for <Ik' time being from this petty world. ]•■<>:■ while one looks at the beauty and li:i:-;no:iy of Mature, one can't help but lirnk the world, or rather the people i-i jr. potty. . . . " it ould bo beautiful., I often think Id' much better the world would be wei * tii-?re no such thing as money in k. For instead of hustling and fc'-:\i:n!)]ing and lying, all for the sake o; i s. cl, people might stop to wonder :»':-j odinire and revel in the beauties of Kiture. It makes one foel glad to see th? innocent little lambs frolicking e'rxv.t-. The same with the little childiv\. who are almost as innocent as the bm'is One almost feels sorry to think t'ii* those same children must grow o' \>r and awake to find the world not b> good and smooth and innocent as Ufv had imagined. I think it a groat pity that sadness furl "loom and melancholy exist at all, ■ V; j f think the world would be a much |r!--iitor place wore it not for the mi ".•■■■- It seems strange, too, that in tV --.Ti-inp'-time and summer-time there bV)-!-:'1 be so much more work to b* <i,v» and in the winter, when the v )■■'! is not looking quite so pretty, 1 ■~.•■■> is rot nearly so anich work. Vi'iv th» world eonld bo made almost ei'-iv and rimming as .summer, if women would only be comI' !"..-,»• some girls who won t be my commons, because I.rcfiise to go and 1:, i".. v stuffy church on these beauti-f-V' days. I prefer to find a nice .YiiVmwk by some overhanging wil?v'o,,dread "The Worker and the .•fiiirioi." and I'm sure I got twice as „ :;:>, onjovment out of my favourite T \;;'< (and knowledge) than I would }."] "iMened to a hundred sermons. f;,;': 'if these girls prefor to go to cV;-ii 1 aoii'f quite sco why they v'.vt't ho friendly. But thorn seems to X,' , ! r-iQf or something between us, a- i'.-/"n if they are of my own sex. 1 A;.-! nuice like to discuss ever, subAkh one naturally likes to disci« sometimes. ■ ,- V,.? M- Editor, it is a funny world in •,.'.,■>', we live. It is both funny and b-vri'Si!. EK-erything sonms to go «(.,../ vt smoothly and consistently, but Ir'-v"- lioiucs who seem to leave all t•!•■•'i-vii alone and just live to ,;.,. > i,,» can get more JJ s. d. than his I sit wriliiiß here I can &.,-,•■ *!'■> merry whistle of the little t, : vJi ' They don't cheat and quarrel ti'V'i o-i. , another, ami yet the human 1,,, i, ,x u'-e supposed to be so much if.,vVii:teUigontl I wonder are we. I <-:it.-i-ed" a house the other day, %•■ i 'iiv eyes rested on a picture tacke'l (.) the'wall. It was a picture of a f : '-,M:n running through a meadow. In thii meadow some 50 or 60 sheep were c-i "''i 3, - iying on the ground W7th hie fj:: , '..':?! d"i by his side was a boy of «',,■; 111 sumnicrs gazing, with a far-ev-'iv l'->ok. into the stream. I could ».•-: ';■ ■!;> but ailmire the j)iclure. It y>< vxh a tranuil scone. The she-op. t'f i >j, the fields, and the stream all 6-- :;• ...ft.) be such'close friends. Them o'liy !-.i-"d-'d (to my mimb a woman a:-. 1 ;\ ni.in, dressed in tlie height of f i.;.:■-<}<. with cigars belwiwii thoir !:;>> t'i spoil the tranqiiility of the Hut 1 suppose it is of no use to g■•:;■.:•!)!,• at the world. Mr. Editor. The ©•(I, 'hiiiji to bo clone is to alter the c>;; ii' J0 : ,..* which inako men and women Hi i■■■ Like machines thsui roal men and w *::;■•:) May the clay soon come.— »■•-;:■•;. «jtc..' . TUKLMA.