The Junior Dominion

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 19

The Junior Dominion

Dear. Boys and Girts,. These windy days of falling leaves and racing clouds are the greatest fun, really. Although [ think that special hats should be made for the winter winds. To-day I watched someone’s hat blow along a path, over the gutter, across the street, and under the wheels of a heavy dray. 1 did not wait to sec the unfortunate ozvncr’s face, but I can guess how cross it must have looked. Wind! And you think at once of that jollicsi of all wind games, kite-flying. I have not seen many kites yet, although many of your letters tell about them. If you zvent to Japan, you would discover that the Japanese children arc even fonder of their kites' than you are; and you would be awaited and delighted at the colours and variety of shapes that are the kites of Japan. Fearsome dragons, crimson and gold, seeming to breathe fire from huge open jaws, strange fish and beasts which you had never seen before, or heard of. And such a glow and gleam of colour, vivid eastern colour in every flying shape, that you would cry out with delight and wonder. Such arc the kites of. Japan; and'although the kites that you fly may not be so rarely beautiful, they arc just as much fun.There is one thing, though, one danger of which you have all probably been warned—the danger of your kite-string coming into contact 'with the high-tension electric wires. If your string should be damp and should touch one of these wires while you are holding it, then you will be cither terribly burned or electrocuted. So, you sec, it docs not do io ignore danger even in your fun. I zvas very disappointed at not finding more people who attempted those “potted’’ rhymes I told you about some time ago. They really are not so very hard.' Here is one which shozvs you zvhat a potted rhyme is. The example is a new version of the old song, “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son”' 1 Pig stole Boy beat After zvhich Pig zvas eat, IPe simply -will not be able to escape from “wind” for the next fezv weeks, because there zvere so many clever drawings and poems sent to me about zvind that I am going to print_ them all. Nearly everyone preferred that subject to holidays,” and I zvas not surprised. Oh, dear, here am I forgetting that so many things must go in the page. If J zvrite much more to you,' Mr. Printerman will think I am greedy. My love to you all, KIWI.