The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1963, Side 27

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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an Idler is. I can assure those that they will not find in these notes a
characterisation. That would be the greatest paradox; for an idler try-
ing to describe himself would by virtue of his audacity have turned a
busybody. There are a few persons that can, however, be entirely
eliminated from that class. The professional gossip; the pink tea
enthusiast; the fellow who would rather polish a bar-room table than
the plow-handles; the chap across the street, who simply must read
Michael O’halloran and the Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail. These are
no true idlers. Least of all the last one. He must be eternally busy try-
ing to spy the next “best-seller”, and wondering whether it is going to
cost one thirty-five or one fifty.
And just a word in passing about the lines from Keats at the top
of this column. The strangest thing about a real idler is, that he is so
busy taking his leisure that he cannot possibly attend to the ordinary
pleasure of the busy man. Your man of action can, if he tries, snatch an
hour now and then and listen to what other busy men are doing: their
songs and their frolics; their wedding bells and their funeral dirges. But
the idler is often alone with his musings and meditations; and happy,
indeed, is he who has learned to catch an occasional strain from un-
heard melodies, and knows that the great things of life are not heard at
the hustings or bartered for in the market place.
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President of Lutheran Women's League
At the annual convention of the
Lutheran Women’s League of Mani-
toba (Icelandic) Miss Mattie Halldor-
son was elected President. The other
officers are: Immediate Past President
Mrs. Archer Goodridge, Vice-Pres-
idents, Miss Kristin Skulason of Geys-
ir, Mrs. W. G. Johnson of Winnipeg,
Mrs. B. K. Johnson, Cypress River;
Mrs. C. H. Scrymgeour, recording sec.;
Mrs. Gissur Eliasson, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. T. H. Freeman, treasur-
er.
Miss Halldorson is a past President
of The Icelandic Canadian Club and
present secretary of the Magazine
Miss Mattie Halldorson Board of The Icelandic Canadian.