PRECIOUS YOUNGSTERS,

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18617, 12 July 1930, Page 12

PRECIOUS YOUNGSTERS,

% Our Christmas Shift has returned from the Bay of Dreams- * ♦J» Come-True in the far-away Neverland, and this morning she has ❖ 4* sailed into Our Page for you all to see. She is just as beautiful and X ❖ strong-looking as she was a year ago, when a Circlian Artist brought T ❖ her from the Land of Make-Believe, and our wonderful plan first 4* X started. % *:* Do you remember what I said to you in my letter just this % X time a year ago? .... £ <♦ **...• You see Our Page Motto every Saturday, but do you X *> ever stop and think what it means? Just, say it slowly to yourselves % X —“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it * from themselves.”—lsn’t it a lovely thought, and isn’t it true, too? 4« % When you have been specially unselfish, or cheered others by some X X little act of kindness, don’t you feel all glad and sunshiny inside? jj* ❖ It is a very beautiful feeling, but it never comes to those who are % % selfish and thoughtless, and go through life without ever tryipg to % help those who are sick or in distress. £ 4* There kre lots of little people in Hospitals who have to spend % ♦j* Christmas—the happiest day-in-all-the-year—in the Land of Counter- ❖ pane. Will Christmas be the best-day-of-all for them if they are % 4* unable to run and play in the sunshine, let off crackers just as dark- X* X ness is falling on Christmas Eve, or do any of the hundred and one X *> things most boys and girls love to do at Christmas time? You can * ❖ help to make their Christmas ever so much happier, Circlians of 4* X mine, ahd I will tell you how. We are going to have a “Christmas % ❖ Ship,” and I want you all to club together and try to make toys to 4* fill her with, so that, when she sails on her Voyage of Happiness, 4* «•> she will be weighed down almost to sinking with a wonderful cargo X *;* of toys you have made to cheer the hearts of little sick-a-beds. ...” X X 1 thought that, if you liked our new idea, we might be able to % *> send toys to a few of the small children in Hospitals—and that jjj ❖ shows how little I knew my enthusiastic Circlians. For you entered 4* X whole-heartedly into our splendid plan—your jolly, cleverly-made X toys and scrap-books came pouring in—and I began to feel more like * ♦> “Santa Claus” than “Peter Pan.” At Christinas we had over five 4* 4* hundred toys, and, as you know, on her voyage to the Public Hospital X X < - >ur Ship was able to call in at the Orphanages, the homes of sick ♦> Circlians, the Talbot Hospital, and the homes of little sick children 4» 4* and poor wee people whose Mothers and Fathers were ill, and whom % *£ Santa Claus might not have been able to visit. It was a splendid X ❖ record, wasn’t it. I was ever so proud of my Toy-Makers and Sun- 4* ♦> shine Scatterers, for every single toy that reached me was good X § enough to find a place on the Christmas Ship, and I felt that each X X little Toy-Maker was a real Circlian, and one who had lived up to J the beautiful Motto of Our Page. And now that the Christmas Ship ♦ X is here again, will her second voyage be as wonderful as her first? X ❖ I am sure it will. Quite a number of you have started making scrap- J books and toys already, I know, and one little girl wrote to me and % 4* said:—“l want to join your big Circle, Peter Pan, because I would X* X love to make toys for the Christmas Ship.” f 4* Y There are ever so many toys and pretty things you can make on ❖ a rainy day or during the long winter evenings, and I will tell you ❖ about some of them next Saturday; for, though I would love to write + •i* on and on about your Toy-Making, and Our Christmas Ship, my S % letter is already far too long. Here are the Circle Rules and the list £ §*> of Special Christmas Competitions. ♦;* What about cutting them out and £ * keeping them? ICIJi- iCLS t | / JM*- [ cun | I % * *s* * *:♦ ****** *** **> *> *> <> *s. «$• * * * <s» *** * * <s« *♦* *♦, *♦« ♦s, * * *♦. <s, «$, .t.