PERHAPS YOU ARE ONE OF US?

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 8

PERHAPS YOU ARE ONE OF US?

To those who are getting middle-aged, Books come as a priceless boon. They bring to us all the fieryness of youth with its wonderful, passionate, glorious breathless time. But they give us the ardour of youth, without youth’s restlessness. No strenuous hiking after adventure; no wild pursuits of pleasure. Here, in our armchairs, Books bring us luxurious entertainment. Books —wonderful things—gain for us, cushioned and at ease, pleasures we could gain in no other way. In their pages we see musty, haibitual things turn to marvels and splendour. In them the most com-mon-place things become invested with beauty. The glory of a book produces the “light that was never on sea or land.” Books—choice friends—give us the sense of living more deeply, purely, refinedly, wonderfully, vividly. If ever we middle-aged folks said—“We don’t want a Xmas Present”—please don’t heed us. Give us a book. WHERE’S A BOOKSHOP?” 1 You get pure sound ripe Tomatoes flavored with simple spices in Sharland’s Tomato Sauce. It is wholesome —appetising and delicious. 4