ON THE CARPET
\\irlO of us lias uot been “on the carpet”? And being on the j carpet is not confined to the young person—boy or girl. On the whole, it may be supposed more boys ; get on to that carpet than girls. All of us can recall that sinking feeling when we were called into the presence of our schoolmaster, or hailed before that cold-eyed employer. or taken to task by a pained father. Any youngster who hasn’t been on the carpet has missed an essential experience in life. It does good in a roundabout way; for it j is a milestone, a finger-post, so to speak, in life. Of course, if we come away from the carpet a little more hardened than we went in, then, indeed, we are likely to make a failure of life. And as time passes, there come many occasions when we ought to go on thp carpet, but our shrewdness helps us to avoid the admonition. If we’ve an ounce of character iu us, we ought to put ourselves on our owu carpet, and be honest in our admission of fault. The result should be some sort of penance—real penance—and a frank determination not to fail again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 642, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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204ON THE CARPET Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 642, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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