A WEENY HOUSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 27

A WEENY HOUSE

I dreamed I had a weeny house. I made it all myself: I lived in it all. all alone Next to the Mushroom Klf. We had the very jolliest games. I taught him all I know: I was so sad I had to wake. I did enjoy it so! SOAP BUBBLES THAT LAST I am sure you all love blowing soap j bubbles, but they burst so auicklv, d>* j they not? For a second they gleam ; in the sunlight, showing such lovely colours, and then, before you can say | Jack Robinson, they burst. But if you ask mummie to let you I have a little gum arabic and some glycerine. I can tell you how to make soap bubbles which will last some minutes. Get ready your little knob of soap land a pint of warm water. Share ap ! the soap into the water, and stir it till j it dissolves. Then mix in one dessert - j spoonful of gum arabic and let that dissolve. You know which is the desi sert spoon, don’t you? It is the middle j size which comes between teaspoons and tablespoons. Then add one teaspoonful of glycerine. Lastly, pour in one and a-half pints of cold water This will make enough for your brothers and sisters to blow bubbles, too. This mixture will blow the loveliest and most lasting bubbles you ever saw. NO NEED Mother: I hope you didn’t ask for too much cake at the party? Willie: Oh. I didn’t have to ask. The - cake stand was just in front of me. A duck met a frog, who cried “Ho!" C But the bird wasn’t frightened, oh.* no! She reduced him to pulp With a snap and a gulp— Frogs should always say nothing, ami

THE WRINKLY, BROWN OLD WOMAN When you and I are fast asleep, And all the stars are bright A wrinkly, brown old woman comes To wash the world each night. She gathers all the rubbish up That yesterday left there, And brushes all the bushes’ coats. And combs the grass’s hair. She washes every flower’s face With honey-soap and dew. And gives the sky a coat of paint To make it look like new. The yesterdays she puts away. And smooths them one by one; Then takes a new to-morrow out And hangs it in the sun.