The Junior Dominion

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 26

The Junior Dominion

Dear Boys and Girls, I am so glad you all enjoyed the show so much. What happy crowds you were with your presents and whistles and gay balloons. It was almost like Christmas, wasn’t it?—even to the small boy who rode in the chairoplane so many times that he felt as though he didn’t belong to the world when he came back to it. And the great wheel you wrote about. It must need the bravest heart to travel up there • in the dark above all the lights. But shozvs are not held just for fun and fancy, and I suppose you found plenty of lessons to learn. Lessons about flowers and electricity and all the new wonderful things that the world is making. A show, I think, zvith all its gaiety, must be something like, the fair of early England. Once a year village maidens took out their frilliest frocks and rustic youths zvashed the dust of fields from their hands and journeyed to town to gaze in wonder at the marvellous goods from far and near. Here zvere zuoollen cloths from Flanders, and there costly spices from the East, with silks and velvets of wondrous hues. From Gascony came wine, from Norway tar, and from Germany furs and amber. Crowds of noblemen and peasants zvatched. zvith azve the skill of jugglers and tumblers, and the little children laughed merrily at the Punch and Judy show. A week of merrymaking passed before the vagabond merchants packed their wares, and almost everybody sang, "Heigh ho, come to the fair!!’’ —KIWI.