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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 13 (Supplement)

DEAREST CIRCLIANS, I am delighted at the ivay you have welcomed our Christmas Ship again. Your knitting needles are going clicketyclick and your scissors snippety-snip already, and I am just longing to see the results. It is splendid to have something worth while to work for, isn’t It, and our lovely Ship is very much worth while. Why, even the sunbeams themselves will be envious of all the sunshine scattering you are going to do this Christmas! And now for those four Competitions we did not have time to discuss last Saturday. Rainbow Balls are wonderful playthings for tiny sick-a-beds or very small boys and girls, and may be made in several different ways. Try to make them as soft and colourful as you can, and attach a piece of elastic or plaited wool to them so that their proud little owners will be able to jump them up and down. A Circlian’s Mother told me one of the jolliest ways to make a Rainbow Ball, and I am reprinting her directions today. A Home-Made Animal is one of the most popular toys of all, and should be soft and bright and cuddly. Our Ship hopes to carry home-made bunnies, pussies, ducks, puppies, frogs, and ever and ever so many other attractive creatures when it sails on its Christinas Voyage, and instructions for making some of these animals will appear in our Page from time to time. And now we come to the Best Original Toy made by a Girl Circlian, and the Best Original Toy made by a Boy Circlian. What these toys are going to be you must choose for yourselves, and the more unusual and original they are the better. Boys, and girls, too, could make jig-saw puzzles, or dolls’ houses, or little farm-yards with toy animals in them. Girls could make dolls’ cradles, dolls’ furniture, or gay worked aprons or clothes for tiny people; and boys could make aeroplanes, hobby-horses, ships, motor-cars, and lots and lots of other things. I hope you will all enter for as many Christmas Ship Competitions as you possibly can, for the bigger our Ship’s cargo, the bigger will be the smiles on the faces of poor children and slck-a-beds when Christmas morning comes again. So, Toy Makers, all together:— Sew, sew, no time to waste, Snip, snip, scissors and paste. Bang, bang, hammer and saw, For we are working as never before. Knit, knit, fancy or plain, Sew, sew, start the refrain: Bang, bang, snippety snip, We’re all making toys for the Christmas Ship. Love and Best

W ““' FROM YOUR OWN

P.S.—The S.P.C.A. has promised, from time to time, to send us articles about our animal friends. The following article, by “J.H.H.”, is about that quaint little fellow, the hedgehog, and is so interesting that I know every Circlian will enjoy reading it.—P.P.