FOR THE GIRLS

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS

WENDY'S GREAT SURPRISE. DRESSING OUR SUNSHINE DOLL. My Dear Girls, — Isn't it just wonderful the difference a little sunshine makes in the world? It makes folk smile, and little birds sing, and flowers grow tall and gay—"And it keeps Wendy warm," Tink. has interrupted mischievously. She is getting quite dreadful—that naughty Tink. Peter Pan and I don't know what to do with her. Well, my very dear little Sunbeams, I hope you all like the competition I have arranged for you and have lots of fun dressing dolly. 1 have called her "Heather," because Heather Smith was the first Sunbeam to send a patch this year. Don't you think that is a nice idea? Well, anyway, to dress her you must first of all paste the entire illustrations on thin cardboard or thick paper. When quite dry colour with paints or crayons' and cut out the figure and clothes around the outside heavy lines. Now dress dolly in the clothes you like best, gumming them into position by means of the little tabs. When that is done all that remains is to pop her into an envelope and post to me before Saturday next. I hope you all have lots of fun with your paints and scissors, Sunbeams, and that the "over twelves" enjoy Peter Pan's competition. I think it is very exciting. Doesn't time simply fly by when you are enjoying yourselves? By the way, here is a game to' play indoors on a wet day. Peter Pan and I played it the other day (whisper it softly) and had great fun. Each one of you must take a pencil and paper and on it write as many words as you can think of beginning with the letter A. But remember they must all be things you can see in the room. The one who has the longest list of words reads his first, and every word that he reads the others must cross out if they have it also. Of course the winner is the one who has most right. I can hear my Sunbeams saying "Don't be silly, Wendy; what time have we to play games when we are all knitting, knitting, knitting just as fast as ever we can?" Ah, that has a lovely sound, girls—it warms me even more than this glorious June sunshine. I told Janet yesterday that our Sunbeams were knitting her a cosy winter rig-out, and she cocked her little fair head on one side and said anxiously "Davy too." You would love our little Janet, girls. There is a big temptation to linger here in the sunshine writing to my Sunbeams, but all sorts of I. A A neglected duties call, so I must away. Work hard, Sunbeams mine.