An Open Air Page

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 65, 8 June 1927, Page 14

An Open Air Page

For Big Girls and Boys

THE LIGHT OF FRIENDSHIP TIIE Chiefs and Braves will have further opportunity to test their mettle in the coming fortnight and I hope these competitions will be as popular as the last. For the essayists there are three subjects and for young ppets an open competition. Those of you who know the thousand joys of the artist, will, I hope, let me have many samples of black and white work. The drawings may cover any subject suitable for the Wigwam page—from landscapes to Totem-Poles. To-day the world is grey with rain and the Great Out-doors for the moment lias lost its charm. Little twinkling beads of water are coursing down the Totem-Pole and trembling at the apex of every leaf. The earth has that moist, forlorn scent that comes with the change of seasons, but under the stout covering of the Wigwam a cheerful atmosphere prevails. Somewhere I have read that “the light of friendship is like that of phosphorous—seen plainest when all around is dark.” The grey days can not touch us here. * It is pleasant to think that the light of the Wigwam glows steadily week in and week out and calls the Chiefs and Braves from far and near. Recently I have been visited by several of my young followers who were among the first to join the Wigwam. It was

a joyous moment and one that I shall not soon forget. Among those who have crossed the mystic threshold are Eyes of the Morning (the first Wigwam Brave), Way of the Wind, Sun on the Mist, Red Leaf, Little Feather, Rising Torrent, Little Buffalo. Silent Warrior and Big Brown Bear. The last named was the first Scout Chief to become a member. L'ntil next Wednesdav, my loyal young Chiefs and Braves. REDFEATHER.