Your Hobby

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

Your Hobby

My Hobbies VMy favbimte hobbies are swimming. knitting, and gardening. I j have several gardens of my own, : and some of the flowers'! grow are -y daffodils, forget-me-nots, primroses.

match heads, tulips, and a few others whose names I do not know. -> ~„Other hobbies are sewing, stamp- . 'collecting, and bicycle-riding. —COLLEEN RAMSDEN (aged 11), Ellesmere. i Stamps : My principal hobby is collecting (tamps. I have two books—one with

M2 - stamps in and the other with ' : M, making a total of 451. A hobby which 1 have just started is making icrapbooks. I have one huge scrapbook nearly half full, but I can- ~ aot make any progress as I am Stuck &r glue. —PAUL McLEOD, LJBJSv (aged 9), Fapanui. M” Oarden

Yesterday I dug my garden. The laffodils and catmint are out in lower. I have just planted some (rape hyacinths and some snapiragons. —RACHEL. ARMSTRONG. Mount Vernon, Akaroa.

Riding

I have thr_3 hobbies. My first is riding, and my next one is playing golf, my third is knitting. I like riding ahd playing golf very much. • . 1 have .knitted a lot of scarves and bed socks and other things lately. j—JANICE MULLIGAN. - f Ashburton. Rounders, Too

My hobbies are knitting, swimming, and playing rounders. I have knitted three jumpers and a pair of bed socks. I have won races in swimming. —MURIEL JONES, Allenton. My Favourite Hobbies My favourite hobbies are knitting and reading and collecting. I am

knitting a cardigan for myself. I also collect Shirley Temple pictures.' -FAY BLAKEMORE, Springston. Sewing and Reading My hobbies are sewing and reading. Every week I take a' book out of the school library. My favourite writers are I. Id. Peacock and

(MfOMS iniy pixy this maze game. One must start at the righttel earner of the maxe. and the other at the left. The game is to see tnU af fan can reach the engine first, but remember yon must not end any Hack lines when yoe are tracing out your path.

Angela Brazil. I have read many books by both authors.

I am also fond of letter-writing and I write to girls in country tpwns. —MIGNON WHITFORD ' (aged 12). HOBBY CLUB RULES What Is your hobby? Is It collecting books, stamps, dolls, coins, stones; making things with tools or witb your needle; learning to cook; making special scrapbooks, studying nature, music or dancing, taking good care of pets; taking pictures, drawing or painting; giving plays or making puppets? Or have you some other hobby? Write a letter to Lady Gay telling her of your hobby. Limerick

There was an old lady of Norway Who became caught in a doorway. When the door squeezed her flat She exclaimed: “What of that?” That Tunny old lady of Norway. —VERA YOUNG, Hinds. May Visits Fairyland Once upon a time there was a little girl whose name was May. One night after her mother had put her to bed, she fell asleep very quickly. She dreamed she was at a ball in Fairyland. As she was flying through .the cold frosty air she came to a little pond. A little gnome had left her a note telling her what to do if she wanted to come to the ball. This is what was written: “Turn around three times and jump into the pond with your eyes shut.” May didn’t like the idea of having to jump into the pond,' but she wanted to see what it was like in Fairyland, so she shut her eyes and turned round three times and jumped into the pond. She did not feel the water but just found herself standing in the middle of a crowd of fairies and gnomes. Wondering what to do, she said;

AN ANIMAL ALPHABET A is tor animals, of many we know.

B is tor bear, close to him don’t go. C is for cat, who’s fond of much

D is tor dog, who rounds up the sheep. E is for elephant, biggest of all. F is for fox, not big, but hot small, G is for goat, I hope you’re not one. H is for horse, now for some fun. , I is for ibex, with two horns on hie head. J is for jumbo, or elephant, I should have said.

K is for kitten, who plays with a ball.

L is for lion, big, stately, and tall, M is for monkeys, who chatter and shout. N is for nothing that I can find out.

back. P is for pigs, good manners they lack. Q is for quagga, I hope I am right. R. is for rat, who comes out at night. S is for squirrel, who has nuts to eat, T is for tiger, whom I don’t want to meet. U is for unicorn, with one horn in his head.

V is for vixen, with cubs fluffy and red. W is for walrus, who lives in the sea.

“They are all dancing, so l am going to dance with them.” When their dancing was . finished they all sat down to a supper of a cup of dew, and lumps of honey. After her supper the fairy guide took May by her hand and they flew away home. » With a bump she was in her nice warm bed and she found that it was only a dream. —ELIZABETH SMALE, Parnassus.

X is for something 1 some day may see. Y is for yak, whom I’ve never met. Z is for zebra, who’s not made a pet. —-MATE JAARLEN, . - Rotherham. XpOR SALE—A motor-car by a • x - man in good running order. —KEITH FRAMPTON,