A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 26

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

WINGS “VOU know, Dawn Lady, I’ve been thinking, and it seems to me I that most people have wings.” “Yes, I think so too Little Thought, but many of them do not even suspect it.” “That’s just the funny part about it. They don’t know that they can go wherever they want to. They think when they are away from people that they are really parted from them just because they can’t see them and talk to them.” “Perhaps you have come to this way of thinking because you have a pair of rainbow wings yourself,” remarked the Doorkeeper. “I defy you to find any wings under my serviceable jacket.” “You don’t understand,” said the Little Thought patiently, “for even you have but to close your eyes to be anywhere you wish.” “He means,” said the man who keeps the Joy Shop, “that by thinking of a place we can be there. He is talking about invisible wings.” “The wings of thought,” said the Dawn Lady, who had understood all the time. “Yes,” went on the Little Thought, “that is why Sunbeams can come to Happy Town even though they live hundreds of miles from Tiptoe Street, and that is why the sick ones can come too. The sick ones have the swiftest wings of all. They come to us on the wings of thought for the seed of the Happiness Tree. Several sick ones have come to us this week. All the well ones should do what they can to help these Sunbeams. The days are long for little people who have to spend them in bed.” “I heard a wise person say the other day,” said the man who keeps the Joy Shop, “that numbers of people are just concerned with making children good. They do not realise that to keep them happy is the very best way to keep them good. Don’t you think so Dawn Lady?” “I have always thought so, Mr. Wiseacre. And now I must tell you about the competitions. Jean Mclndoe has woir the essay prize, Fitzie Morris has come first in the poetry section and Audrey Reid has topped the list with her fine drawing of ‘Three Little Sunbeams.’ Let us give them three ringing cheers. One, two “And.so say all of us,” concluded the Doorkeeper.