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A LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA Darwin, NT. Australia Dear Mrs. Johanson: I have just received a copy of your letter sent to Miss Perkins of Tasmania and as 1 am the International Officer for our branch of C.W.A. I'm sending you a few lines from us with good wishes to you all. Darwin is in the north part of Western Australia. about 2000 miles north of Perth. the capital of WA. where the A.C.W.W. Conference is to be held next year. We have only three branches in the immediate city and suburbs. These three branches are known as the Top End Branches for we are all in the Darwin Area, but as you travel from Darwin down through the North- ern Territory to Alice Springs. a distance of 1000 miles, we have numerous other branches. To name a few, there is one at Pine Creek. 140 miles from Darwin, one at Katharine. 220 miles. at Tennant Creek, Wanabei and so on. We are all part of the Country Women‘s Association of the North Territory. In Australia, we have the State of Western Australia. State of South Australia, New South Wales. Victoria and Queensland. We are a Territory and not a State yet but that will eventually come. Darwin is the capital of the North Territory with a population of about 36.000 and growing all the time. I have lived here for 21 years and both my husband and I would never think of leaving. We have a tropical climate. and a free and easy way of living. We have only two seasons. wet and dry, Maybe the Wet is a bit hard to take with its excessive humidity and tropical storms. but wherever you live you have to adapt to. seasonal changes. For instance, my husband is a German by birth, but has been in Australia since 1940 and he was a Prisoner of War and after the war he chose to remain in Australia because he found the cold winters in Germany harder to take than the tropical cliâ€" mate. If you don't receive any information re- garding the way the women of the Outback Stations used to have their C.W.A. meetings by radio. let me know and I’ll write again for it is most interesting. Meantime. our sincere wishes to you all. Mrs. B. Pitcheneder. P.O. Box 516. Darwin. NT. Australia. 24 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS or " HUMAN RELATIONS 1. Speak to people. There is nothing as hire a cheerful word of greeting. 2. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to for» only 14 to smile. 3. Call people by name. The sweetest music anyone‘s ears is the sound of ‘his own namg, 4. Be friendly and helpful. If you have frient. be friendly. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything do is a genuine pleasure. Be genuinely interested in people. You ._ like everybody if you try. 7. Be generous with praise â€" cautious ti criticism. 8. Be considerate with the feelings of Other-5. will be appreciated. 9, Be thoughtful of the opinions of others. Th. are three sides to every controversy ~â€" 30. â€" the other fellow‘s â€"â€" and the right one, 10. Be alert to give service. What mums mm; life is what we do for others. saw "If you walk as a friend, you will find a frit Wherever you choose to fare; If you go with mirth to a far, strange land fl You will find that mirth is there. For the strangest part of this Strange old u. Is that like will join with like; And who walks with love for his fellow-man An answering love will strike. If you walk in honour then honest men Will meet you along the way; But if you are false, you will find men false Wherever you chance to stray. For good breeds good and bad breeds had. We are met by the traits we show, Love will find a FRIEND at the stranger‘s dw Where hate will find a foe." FALSE PRETENCE You tell what you are by the friends you seek, By the very manner in which you speak, By the way you employ your leisure time, By the use you make of dollar and dime. You tell what you are by the way you walk. By the things of which you delight to talk, By the manner in which you bear defeat, By so simple a thing as how you eat. By the books you choose from the well filled 511:” In these ways and more you tell yourself So there really is no particular sense In an effort to keep up false pretence. Author Unknow' * - t * HOME AND COUNTRY