PETER PAN'S PAGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20153, 6 July 1935, Page 22

PETER PAN'S PAGE

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DEAREST CIRCLIANS. Isn’t it fine to realise that the shortest day is already a fortnight away? It is time we began thinking about our Winter Page, because, although Old Man Winter is not a bad old fellow, we want him to leave us early this year; and as I know he always lingers until he has read and enjoyed the Page we make for him, we must have that Special Page just as soon as possible. Start preparing your Winter poems and stories now, little people, and send them all to me by July 20th; for we shall have our Page for Old Man Winter on the last Saturday of the month. I am printing the list of Special Competitions to-day, and the Circle Rules will be reprinted next Saturday, for the benefit of new Members. As you will notice, the Special Prizes for Letter-Writing, Verse-Making, and Story-Telling are being awarded in November this year. You will have only five short months in which to compete for these Prizes, so do not wait too long before you begin. Do you know what Bluecap said to me yesterday? He said. “Several times lately, Peter Pan, when I have been passing the homes where Circlians live, I have heard such' a funny, faint little sound. At first I couldn’t think what it was. It sounded a bit like crickets chirping, and it also sounded a bit like a band of fairies practising the newest tap-dance. At last I became so curious that I stopped and peeped through an open window. And what do you think it was?” “I don’t know,” I said. “It was the clicking of lots of knitting needles!” “Splendid!” I cried. “Yes, I thought so, too,” continued Bluecap. “One of the little girls had organised a Knitting Bee, I think it is called, and there were about twelve Circlians seated in a semi-circle round a cheery fire, and all busy knitting “Peggy” squares and lovely children’s garments.” “I think that Knitting Bee was a wonderful idea,” I said, “and I hope the jolly “clickety sound” of busy needles can be heard in every Circlians’ home.” “Peggy” squares have already arrived from Dorothy Hastings, Temuka, Ronald Brown, Timaru, Dorothy Rich, Cave, and Joan Mary Thomson, Timaru. . . . Who is going to be the first to send in a knitted garment? sA/) Love and “thimbles,” /o // FROM YOUR OWN / /