TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

C'liKmi irvi s> is a beauteous blossom giown fiom pun 1 'seed. One c.umot, by building or giafting, nu(>i o\ o upon, or ennoble it. Any attempts to do mi only pioduee .1 flower of hjbnd chaineter tli it fails not, however much its apparent giandour may tcmpoiai y captivate, to, in the end, disappoint one with its florid s|)iiru>usne-*s. Cheerfulness is healtli, wealth, and happiness. It is health because it nourishes health, and would meiiilv chase away the unhealtliful doldiuins of those who fret at the cues of life with a n ijrgmg lamentation tint induces illness, and which s ion assumes a sallow lengthened faced c'noiiic petulance, winch is, not <>nh pain ful to those stiffming finm it, but di-agioe able to all otheis within the leich of its whining tango. Want of cheeif illness exhausts wtahty, and dcci easing Mtabty will dun the bum ing candle of existence until the acuinui l.ited ash of its glutted w lck falls on the feeble flame below nnd extinguishes it. Cheei fulness is wealth because it fosters health. Its power, like wealth's, is neail\ supreme. Its funds aie inexhaustible, and all drafts upon it are honomed u ith genial promptitude. Its very name me ins brightness and comfort, and the blithesome ling of its pleasantness, which is ever generously inclined, is wealth, far beyond the possession of riches, lepiesented by oxen, sheep, land, houses, and money. Cheerfulness is happiness, because happiness is cheerful, and cheerful happmoss pie\ cuts all tho.se foolifh, careless, selfish woids or actions which, testily spoken or pcrfoimed, reflect discredit upon the jiersons from which they emanate, and which pio\e them to be shrivelling up to that selfish miserable condition of being, so reproachful to human naturo and antagonistic to o\ery one of its purer instinct*. Cheei fulness encourages cheerfulness in others, while grimness or austerity repels and ices o\er, and seals in with a cold stamp all those generous impulses which gladden life, and by the mutual association of which man is dr.iwn closer to his fellow. Cheerfulness is love, but love with ml cheerfulness is only a selfish affection. Cheerfulness is contagious, and the toilers and moileis of life who welcome and cherish it will, by so doing, escape much of the anguish they inherit by being under the ban of the cuise of perspnation pionounced on sinful Adam and his seed for ever. Theabove lemaiks hate been diawn from me by the cheerful appearance of Te Avvamutu, especially on Saturday night last. The people were chatty and cheei ful ; the moon shone cheerfully blight;l ight ; the stoics seemed cheerfully busy, and theii waies and windows cheerfully glistened beneath the extra light of verandah lamps. There is some talk of faim property adjacent to the town being cut up into sections for the purpose of giving the increased " hurly burly " of Te Awamutu a little more " elbow room." Flint tree planting i«. being industriously carried on. This place produces splendid apples, and that fruit will yet become a sample commodity of the district. In a former letter I sud the pavements of Te Awamutu weie usuiped by self-important equestrians. They aie still so usurped, but the impoitancy of the usurpers can only be denved fiom the noble animals they hesttide, foi out of the saddle theie is nothing in their appeal ance out of the common. Besides apples this frontier city produces splendid babies, and pleutj of them too. I have just cinceived a giaud idea, ami [ give it to my readeis foi nothing. A baby show in Te Awamutu. Pit/.es to be given for the handsomest, the ugliest, the biggest, the .smallest, the heaviest, the lightest, the quietest, the noisjest, the fattest, the leanest, the merriest, the gravest, the best and the wickedest little darlings in it. I cannot except any office in the entci prise, as my tune is too fully engaged, besidi-s I occupy .w isolated, unprotected state of simple blessedness, which it would be foolish of mo to di.iw attention to.