THESE HOARDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 5

THESE HOARDERS

To begin with, it is as well to say that hoarding is a quite incorrigible habit. it is an insidious, aggravates germ, buried deeply in one’s blood. causes one to spend an amazing amount of time pursuing rare china, beautiful fine linen, and so on, which, secure in one’s rapturous possession, Pass out of mortal sight, never to be heard of again. My °wn little stock of odds and ends ls Precious, but thankfully small. For instance, I have some exquisitely Painted crepe de chine. Year after >ear j have promised myself that I have it made up: and yet still it in its box. as alluring and °\eiy as ever. A sufficiently outstanding occasion on which to wear t never seems to have come my way. I have a morbid fascination for e-narding an old embroidered shawl. n ,.^ ver Wear it. and I never hang it inuf ? y bed; but itL is as likely to fall as° n . Cay - in its mothproof packing or my biankets kinS turns on my bacß Be Strong-minded wL Course * 1 talk ab °«t it. I never to i, 1 to the extent of omitting ° n that lam the pride-bursting comno»°!- something so lovely, and so ♦: para tively rare. My noble inten- «.■ ® Pitting it into use fail me feist 1 Pull ur »done the packing and tan to eyes on its silky folds. After iSS}™?* myself so pleasurably. I T. y tle up the string. Pec t 8 ?. PPos ® the best that one can exit wa « a T l&orous turn-out very often, to dis«f n * su ®ciently strong-minded beloved P tiffl OUr energy in turning our But xcVio*” es lnto practical account, "'hen o u a tu S at the heartstrings treasure li? a 5 der by instinc t sees the ion" S i,i,- hat sbe has cherished for so daily to the rude usages of injr hnMi e mus t he firm, but hav*4 what U /? e - ° UrselVeS into firmt°? \ f « « there to look forward "e havft °t >lle ction, of course, when secret* poße( l round and brought our lo an everyday, useful light.