CHILDREN'S CORNER

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 4, 14 June 1928, Page 1

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Dear Kids, 1 very much, hope that none of you mind being called "Kids." Just let me know if you object of course and I will try to think of something else. I have just eaten seven hot iscones for morning tea and am feeling very happy and good tempered. Mrs. Uncle Bill says she hasn 't seen me look so pleased since the time when she and 1 had been spending the winter with the Eskimos, and a very kind old friend of ours sent out a very large treacle pudding. You see we had been very b«sy up in Eskimo land eplaining to them what very fine blankets were made in Petone and them were so pleased with them that they used to make us a present each day of 12 big cod-iish. Now, if is only natural that after eating cod-fish for several weeks without .stopping, you feel as if you really would like a nice treaeJy pudding. So you can imagine that I WAS pleased. Nearly as pleased aa I'm going to be over all the letters that are going to lie sent to me next week. This is the plan 1 thought about on the night T had cold feet. We'll all work together and make a ]argo doll's- house. At the end of the year -we'll take it up .to one of those very fine homes for youngsters like you, but who have no mother nor father to look after them. j At the same time Mrs Uncle Bill in- j forms me that we'll be doing a very great service to a young family she knows of who have very few clothes to wear and no home to live in. There are three children in the family but I'll tell you more about that later on. With the winter beginning in such a very cold way, we should really do something. I'll build the house but I don't know much about furnishings so I'll need your help. Will you please, young ladies, write and advise me about curtains i and clothes and you young fellows give me a few hints about furniture and ■motor garages, paint and -wall paper. Next week's "Hutt News" is going to have a whole list of young people's names who have sent me a few suggestions. Then we '11 really get going and show Lower Hutt what we can do. To«rs, UNCLE BILL. Hero is a poem'that is very good for a young lady of 11. Perhaps you know her, though she is too shy to give us her full name. ! ! i <; I love to watch the Fairies Who play about the Pi re, There's one whose name is Twinkle-Tip And one whose name is Briar. I don't know why they call her that, She isn't like a rose, She's much more of a wicked sprite, As in and out she goes. Her feet are always dancing, Her hands are never still, Like a little elf a-prancing, She bows to no-one's will. —Marjorie B. CALL. A HAM DOCTOR. '' Waiter, this ham is not good.'' "It ought to be sir, it was only cured last week.'* "Well, then, it's had a relapse." WITHIN THE LAW. Teacher to late boy: "Why are you latef" Bobby: "Well ,a sign down here— Teacher: "Well, what has a sign got to do with it?" Bobby: "The sign said:—'SCHOOL AHEAD—GO SLOW." DID YOU KNOW.— That the giraffe is the only animal that makes no noise at aIL That there is a moth that squeaks like a mouse and steals honey out of bee hives. That there are plants that live on beetles, moths and flies, i I wonder if any of you young people could write mo a little story telling how the giraffe lost his voice. He must have had one at some time ot other, I think. Don't forget Uncle Bill's- address, P.O. Box 19, Lower Hutt. Her© are some new verses for Old Mother Hubbard. She went to the garden To get-him a Pippin, . .

! 1 When she came back, ! Tho Dog was skipping. She went to the door "*" To see who was ringing, . When she came back " She found him swinging. Perhaps some of you could draw -these verses for me, in pencil or crayon. 'Some of you may ibe xeal artists and not know it. Try any way. If they are very good, I may get the Editor to give me a little anore space and write in the names of the clever people who drew thorn, a-young lady of 11. Answers to last week's puzzles: The Laddergram. BLACK SLACK SLAKE STAKE STOKF A SMOKE SMITE SMITH The Wine Problem: The wine in the small glass was onesixth of the total liquid, and that in j the large glass-two-ninths of that total. Add these together and we find that the wine was seven eighteenths of the total and tho. water eleven-eighteenths. The problem regarding the first man to be aware that the shot had been fired Biggs, who -saw the smoke would be first, Carpenter would be second, and Anderson would be last. ■, PUZZLES FOR THTB WEEK Note: The painter has borrowed the ladder to assist him in papering Uncle Bill's dining room ceiling, so there will be no laddergram this week. Sir Edwin de Tudor, mounted on his 1900 model Douglas, is going to rescue his lady-love, the fair Isabella who is held captive by a wicked baron. Sir Edwin calculated that if he rode at fifteen miles an hour he would arrive at the castle an hour too soon, while if lie rode at ten miles an hour he would be an hour too late. Now it was very important that he; shoxild arrive exactly at five o'clock when tho lady would be "having tea. How far bad the gallant knight to ride 3 We went, for a motor ride through the Taita Gorge yesterday, and we found that we had attained the enormous spec/1 of ten miles per hour. On the return journey there were not many cars about and we managed to go fifteen miles per hour. What was our average sped? N.B. You aro pretty certain to be wrong. A man recently bought two aeroplanes but after a while he found that they would not answer his purpose, and sold them for £600 pounds each. He made a loss of 20 per cent on the first and a gain of 20 per cent on the second. Did he uiake a loss or a profit on the whole transaction? I.BTTEBS. .J.F.—Many thanks. Watch next issue. R.P.—No, the "All Blacks" have a slogan —it is. "Hasten Slowly." P.K.—Yes, we shall be having a fairy talo soon. Marjorieß.—Poem printed this week. You do very well for a small girl.