WINNERS' WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1932, Page 16

WINNERS' WORK.

Below are printed the winning entries for the hobby competition, which was conducted in these columns a fortnight ago. Girl readers will, I know, be interested in Joan Forbes' novel hobby of making dolls, and it would be a happy .idea if other readers followed Joan's example and made these little toys, which are so appreciated by smaller, and perhaps less fortunate children. DOLL-MAKING. (By Joan Forbes.) I have a hobby with which, I am sure, very few girls ave familiar. It is dollmaking, and I can assure you thfit I find it a very fascinating pastime.. 5 There are two ways in which I make the dolls. With soiue I make the "skins" of strong material and stuff them, thus making them soft and cuddly for babiee and little children, but if they are to be for older kiddies I make a frame of wood, pad it well until solid rounded limbs are formed and then fix a stuffed head to the top. Sometimes I buy the faces, but as often as not I starch a strong piece of linen very stiffly and paint the features on it. Well-combed wool makes ideal hair, but sometimes when I have my hair cut I eave the longer pieces and use them for my dolls. When they are finished and dressed in woollies, which I knit myself, they look almost as real as bought ones, and my little sister who has just reached the "doll" etage just loves them.

FOSSILIZED SHELLS. (By Stuart Cross, age 15.) One of my favourite hobbies is the collecting of fossilised shells. I have a good collection, and some of them are rare. Amongst these is a Imge oyster shell. I found this embedded in a eoft limestone rock on top of the Tararua Ranges, near our farm at Mangahoe. Finding this shell on the ranges proves that Now Zealand was once part of the ocean bed. I have also a fossilised fan-shaped shell, which Wendy referred to in her article which appeared in the Budget of May 7. This shell I found in the very same rock as the oyster. It is in a perfect state of preservation notwithstanding its age, and its partial exposure to the weather. Near the rock, too, I found a big mother of pearl shell in a twenty foot cutting alongside the road. Tlie pearl shell is very brittle and crumbly. The region from which I obtained these specimens proved to be very rich in fossilised shells, and I gathered many other varieties. I advise readers who wish to take up an interesting and fascinating hobby to try, if the locality permits, palaeontology, or the collecting of fossilised shells.

Barber (to cheery customer who seemed quite at home): I must confess, sir, I don't remember your face. Customer: You wouldn't —it's healed up quite a lot now.

Barber (to cheery customer who seemed quite at home): I must confess, sir, I don't remember your face.