A WOMAN’S DAY '

She read in her Bible Proverbs 31.

“I’ll be a virtuous woman too” she vowed. Yet ’ere that day was done Children fought and screamed. A salesman came to call. She broke her favourite plate, her husband came home tired and hungry to a burned din- ner. The children fought; some more tempers flared, her own the worst of all.

Yet that night as she climbed the stairs.

Alone, weary, defeated,

She found a note upon her pillow. ,

“We love you Mom,” it said. Tenderly she clutched the crayoned scrawl

and wondered about Proverbs 31.

FIRST WHITE CHILD ON P. E. I.

On October 27, 1764, the first white child was born on what is now Prince Edward Island, but which was then St. John’s Island. He was John Frederick Holland, son of the famous Samuel Holland, soldier and surveyor. His parents’ marriage was a romance in itself. Holland had fought beside Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, and after a return to England had come back to Quebec, where his knowledge of French was of much value to the _ government. He met and loved Marie Josephte Rolette but the girl’s father refused to permit her to marry anyone who had fought'against'the French. They eloped. It is said that they were married by an obscure priest in a suburb of Quebec, who was a sort of a'Gretna Green’solemnizer of marriage. The marriage was probably perfectly legal, but years afterwards, when the Hollands had a big family, they were married a second time so as to leave no doubt as to the transaction. “St. John’s Jack,” as the father described the boy in a letter to General Haldimand, was born at Holland’s Cove, four miles from Charlottetown, and spent nearly all of his life on the Island, though mak- ing occasional long visits to Quebec and doing his bit in the army. He died at Charlottetown with the rank of colonel. He had six children.

LITTLE THINGS

Life is made up of little things. He who travels over a continent must go step by step. He who writes a book must do it sentence by sentence; he who learns a science must master it fact by fact, and principle after principle.

What is the happiness of our life made of? Little courtesies; little kindness; pleasant word; genial smiles; a friendly letter; good wishes and good deeds. Once in a lifetime you may do a heroic action. But the little things that make up our life come every day and every hour. If we make the little events of life beautiful and good, then'is the whole life full of beauty‘ and goodness.

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