2000 BUTTONS
The work ing-girls of a village in Engiand, needing a place for rest and recreation, planned a fine hostel, and the Queen sent £100 toward it. After a time the Queen asked how things were getting on, and wus told that money came in slowly. She scut tho,hostel builders £GOOO, the money learned by tho exhibition of the Queen's | Doll's House at Wembley. | Later she inquired again and found ■hat the scheme must fall to the [ground unless a further £2000 were raised.''Money was wanted for so many other charitable causes that it ;oemed as if the girls of Hoxton must ;ose their hostel. Then tho Queen opened her cheque-book again and sent £2000. . The hostel was finished, at last, | thanks to tho Queen, 'and she was asked to open it. She chose a certain day convenient to herself. But a social worker whispered in the Queen's ear that to come on this day would ruin the street hawkers. So the Queen changed her arrangements for the costermbngers. No wonder they turned up in hundreds to cheer her when sho opened the hostel. No wonder the Princess of" Hoxton, Eose Phillips, in a dress gleamling with 2000 pearl buttons, had a bunch -of-.'flowers -and a smile for the Queen.''-'-->,.-:.-.-'.-' ": ■•■ ■■"'
=.aoli of the three poor fowls has lost her jggs. There are three eggs for each of them, as you can see. Can you draw ines from: each egg to its proper owner .yithout having any of the lines cross? Jf course, you must riot go outside tho jortiers of the, picture, or behind any of :hc fowls or eggs that touch the border.
, ". .. A MIST OF EAIN. " To-day a very funny thing happened. I was walking up tho street witlv a friend when I saw a mist of rain coming towards us. Then.it stopped,/and I found we were standing whore there waa not a drop of rain falling, while about four or five feet in front of us two other girls were getting drenched! But, then, suddenly the rain decided to move on and we put up our umbrella prettyquick, I can tell you! GOLDILOCKS. Island Bny.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 84, 5 October 1929, Page 18
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