Mr. and Mrs. Ali Ahmed Siddiqi
request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Farid Ahmed Siddiqi’s company at
the marriage of their son
Razi Ahmed
to
Mahnaz
on 11, E-Block, Model Town, Lahore
on Sunday, June 11, 1993
at 8 A.M.
Dear Saqib,
You know my daughter will be soon completing three years. She is almost of the same age as your son, Pervaiz. Where should I send her for schooling? Where are you sending Pervaiz. It will be nice if both of them could go to the same public school. Please advice.
Yours sincerely,
Manzoor.
Mr. and Mrs. Farid Ahmad Siddiqi
thankfully accept
Mr. and Mrs. Ali Ahmad Siddiqi’s invitation
to attend the marriage of
Razi Ahmad
with
Mahnaz
on Sunday, June 11, at 8 A.M.
Dear Siddiqi,
Very glad to receive your invitation to attend Raiz’s marriage on June 11 at 8 A.M. We shall reach punctually.
Yours sincerely,
Farid Ahmed.
Mr. and Mrs. Rehman Khan
request the pleasure of the company of
Mr. and Mrs. Salamat Ullah Khan
for a
Dinner
at Empire Hotel on March 1, at 8 P.M
R.S.V.P
62, Ferozepur Road,
Lahore.
Mr. and Mrs. Salamat Ullah Khan
Thank
Mr. and Mrs. Rehman Khan
for their kind invitation
to a Dinner at Empire Hotel
but regret their inability to accept the same
an account of their earlier departure for Karachi
the same day.
Ratan Street,
Sibbi.
January 6 1994.
Dear Hafiz,
I find you are very soft with children. They are getting out of hand. You know the ancient saying, “Spare the rod and spoil the child>>!” No need to write more.
Yours sincerely,
Pirzada.
Rose Villa.
Quetta,
January 7,1994.
Dear Pirzada,
Spare the rod and do not spoil the child. Do not think the ancients were always right. I do not mean to say that the ancients were always wrong. Their sayings were conditioned by their circumstances. Let us not forget the modern circumstances demand new approach. Let us learn who is best in all the ages. Our maxim should be. “Gather ye the wisdom of East and West.” In modern times more children are spoiled by using the rod than by spraying it. If you want to bring up a child well you must treat him as your equal. You must not beat him for everything. Rather beat everything into his head. You must win him over to your ideas. You must convince him about the rightness or wrongness of an action. It will be more fruitful than mere violence. You can force a child to follow you, but you cannot make him your follower by force. Only when he is convinced of the rightness of your advice will he do as you tell him. Logic alone than love. You must always appeal to his heart rather than to his head. To appeal to the long stick in education is to destroy education. It is like burning the house to drive out to rat. Maybe, the house is burnt and yet the rat is not driven out. He sleeps snugly in a hole below the floor and at last burrows his way out of the ashes. So use your head rather than your stick in dealing with a child. Verily, he is more afraid of your tongue than your rod. Even more than the stick, a good tongue can succeed. A gentle understanding eye does ever better than a talkative tongue. A sympathetic silence is the real part of education. An ounce of example, as they say, is worth of ton of precept. Think! Think! Think! Help the child to think and bring out his best.
Yours sincerely,
Mofiz.
76, Neelum Park,
Gujranwala.
January 8, 1994.
Dear Rifat,
Nazia, my second is very intelligent at home, but at school she does not seem to have her heart in books. Her heart seems to be only in dance and music, paintbox and flowers. What should I do, I do not know?
Yours Lovingly,
Sadia.