No matter how far you live from Christchurch, there is no need for your children to be deprived of all the pleasures town children are deriving from our Children's Week. The mails can bring you endless books and toys that will give your young folk endless hours of fun and pleasure. "Children's Week" by Post Give children the right books from the first if you wish them to be lovers of books. Children who read happily become the men and women who think wisely. The following Southern Cross Story Readers, graded for various ages, already include choice examples of fairy-tale literature, adventure, and historical romance, are ready. BOOKS FOR EVERY AGE AGES 6 TO 7 YEARS The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids Jack's Holiday Little Red Biding Hood 5d 5d 5d The Pied Piper • • ££ Snowdrop The Rainbow The TJgly Duckling Jack and the Beanstalk AGES 7 TO 8 TEARS The Tailor and the Giants .. .. • • 6d Story of Lady Greensleeves 6d Wonderwings •• •• ®, Little Make-Believe Too Bad .. ■ .. • • • • ■ • • • Grateful Animals 6d AGES 8 TO 9 YEARS Granny's Wonderful Chair Little Tom and the Water-folk Cross Purposes . - • ■ • • The Giant's Heart The SwisS Family Robinson Tales from Grimm Tales from Andersen AGES 9 TO 10 YEARS The Plant Hunters The Cottage in the Forest' .. '' Coral Island Teddy Bear's Birthday Party .. Fuzzy, Wuzzy, and Buzzy .^ Robinson Crusoe ' The King of the Golden River The Guinea Pig that Wanted a Tail Masterman Ready AGES 10 TO 11 TEARS The Treasure of Monte Christo Martin's Adventures in Brazil David Copperfield's Youth The Boy Heroes of France The Three Calenders Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput 6d 6d 5d 5d 6d AGES 12 TO 14 YEARS The Last of the Barons Geoffry Hamlyn in Australia Ivanhoe Pickwick Papers Westward Ho Cast up by the Sea 64 « d S' «4 104 VV 6 VS V 5 New Educational Toys and Games ABC of Biirds on Blocks .. .. 3/6 (9d) Parlour SpeUing Game .. • • 3/6 and 7/6 (6d) Cut Out Alphabet Play Box .. .. 6/6 (9d) Spelling Box, Flowers and Fruit .. 6/6 (9d) SnelUng Box, Animals and Birds .. 6/6 (9d) Noah's Ark —At 23/- 30/- 35/- and 40/- .. 4/- (6d) .. 5/6 (6d) .. 6/6 (9d) .. 6/6 (9d) .. 6/6 (9d) 63/6 and £6/10/1/6 and 2/6 <6d) .. 6/6 (9d) Pictorial ABC Animals ABC Dissected Maps of Europe England The World Clockwork Trains . • 30/English Drawing Slates Cut Out Alphabet, Wood Jig-Saw Puzzles, 160 pieces ~. ~ 6/fyM) Jig-Saw Puzzles, 260 pieces .. ... 8/6 {jj{ ; Puzzling Pastimes, clever and interesting fa , Parties .. 2/6 each, with 12 cards friths Favourite Games— Snakes and Ladders . . 2/_ (Mf. Winkler Wedding g/_ Scouting • 2/- (Sflt Aerial .Derby ~ 2/-(«{•; Tidley Winks .. 2/- (J4) • Ludo 2/- (3d) Blue Bird . . 2/-(snf Parchesi - .. 2/- (3d) " Add Id. each postage for books. Other pottages are quoted in bracket!.. CASHEL STREET, CHRISTCHURC] 111
William Lee, an American, whose height is 6ft. 4in., and who weighs 17 stones, won a wager by demonstrating that hp. could eat as much as six ordinary men at one sitting. With the two friends who doubted flis word, sa3's a Philadelphia journal, he went to a restaurant, and first ordered a 121b. turkey with stuffing. This he disposed of in forty-five minutes. He next ate 53 oysters, two pounds of pOrk chops, a dozen eggs, two Blices of ham, a large beef Btew, three loaves of bread, and drank twelve cups of coffee and six bottles of soda water. When he attempted to rise and found that he could not do so, a doctor was sent for, and the diner was removed to his home to be treated for indigestion, from which he quicklv recovered.
Hugo logs of dO' J diameter and 20' ee beinjj cut into 3m by. panjU^ hydro-eiectric wiring thgt'l' The industry is so have an immediate wood supply- one fa. tbe WP^Li has taken a contract a million feet heart of «»*. price. Children iike Safe and certain remw / .
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17460, 22 May 1922, Page 10
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