The Annotations of Annabel

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 August 1928, Page 13

The Annotations of Annabel

DEAREST: throng of Patient Peris, and waved

Amid the storm and stress, physieal, political, ecclesiastical, that of late have assailed us, ’twas a pleasant interlude to lean back on the hard chairs of the Wellington Concert Chamber and listen to the doctrine of endeavour according to a recent visitor to. our Dominion, whose lectures on matters of metaphysical moment were eagerly mopped up by numerous and admiring satellites. ANY modes there are of reiterating the dictum of Henley that a man is captain of his soul. Trine in his day fed the public with: "The mind is everything; what you think you become’; and we continue to absorb similar mental and spiritual pabulum, set before us with simplicity, tinctuousness or ambiguity, as the case may be. Many talkers cannot kill interest in the ego, however, as was evidenced by the crowds .. that nighty hung on the words of the ‘latest exponent of practical psycho‘logy. Witi restraint and dignity, using sonorous voice to excellent advantage, possessing few mannerisms and perfect deportment-to employ an ancient and expressive substan-tive-Dr. Fennelly set forth an attractive creed of the government of our spiritual forces, which, rightly controlled, would lead us unerringly to whatsoever things are good, whatsoever things are lovely, a blissful existence for the mind and the body. " (PHOUGHTS — Words — Action."’ There, we were assured in mellifluous accents, lay the secret of success in a nutshell. Right attitude of mind, translated into the daily deed, the common task, would bring to us the gifts of the gods, lead us up the Path of Parnassus straight to the land of heart’s desire. OT so easy as it sounds, however, and if lived up to perchance would prove as exhausting as the continual Endeavour and Endurance jpelauded by the Victorian Sage of Chelsea; but the psychological campaign is an altruistic one, and caleulated to assist in irridiating the grey face of the world. Profitable also, I reflected, as, queued up with a

back from the door of our desire by the temporary Peter, I admired rivulets of silver coin rattling from collection plates into bags neatly arranged in piles by the admirably poised, entirely agreeable and eff ient female factotum of the tour. FLAGERLY we listened and learned, going forth very conscious of spiritual aura, determined to placate fate by undaunted adherence to Right Thought, and so attain poise and balance approximating to that of those Olympians, in the uniform of the Force, who with God-like caln stand poised at the four corners of the city amid the surge and welter of traffic, throwing beneficient aegis around bustled and hustled humanity. HINTIRELY unversed in horticulture lore, yet greatly daring, I plan a window-box to gladden the long summer days that will come. Forlornly for the moment flap a few shoots in the icy breeze, sadly at variance with brilliance of gay purple and yellow of ‘dear daffodils and violets in windows that shed a glow on weary wayfarers hastening to their ain fireside, over slippery pavements, in the cold dusk of a winter by no means past. JN arctic atmosphere diaphonous garments displayed, though of amazing chic, fail to entice. But one fine day the sun will shine, revealing unsuspected discrepancies, and the realisation will flash upon the consciousness, as invariably it does in sweet September, that ’tis time to embark on the adventure of the spring sartorial campaign. Charming and immensely useful, en passant, are supple silken coats, in tawny shades of sand and bronze, and a blue that is not the once ubiquitous "navy" or royal, but an attractive blend of the two. With these coats will be worn those coloured shoes that are to descend upon dull pavements like a fluttering flock of butterflies, quite ousting the vulgarised reptilian variety that for so long have literally held the floor. Your

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