A Railway Complex.

At holiday times even adults anxiously scan the skies and the weather reports to judge whether their important fixtures will be blessed by good or marred by bad weather. To children, however, a holiday outing is often a matter of supreme importance, and many a little prayer goes up for the sun to shine on such an occasion. Doubtless the intimate dialogue written by 13-year-old Ruth Sanders, of Wellington, and reproduced below, will appeal to those who believe in co-operation, even among the elements, for the common good-at least whenever a railway excursion is run:-

Dawn: Who is going to the earth, today?

Sun: I will bring sunshine on the world to-day.

Rain: Be not selfish; I will rain, and help farmers to make fortunes.

Sun: What about older people? They like sunshine.

Rain (scornfully): Old people! They have only a few years to go, while some young farmers have twenty or forty years before them.

Sun: What about picnickers? They want sunshine.

Rain: Pleasure-seekers!

Sun: People want pleasure.

Rain: Do we?

Sun: Yes; we see other people happy. Besides, there is a railway picnic, and think of the people that would be out of work if it were not for railways. Also, a railway is cheap and comfortable.

Rain: If that is so, it will be sunshine.

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