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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20930, 8 January 1938, Page 15

DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE: Some of our girl Circlians have written and asked if I could tell them an interesting game to play on a wet day when the rain and wind keep them indoors. One of the most interesting indoor games I know for little people is called "A House in a Book.” Would you like me to tell you how you can make the jolliest wee house of your own —a house you can furnish all by yourselves and fill with pretty little doll-people?—Well, fiirst of all take an old exercise book and paste on the first page the picture of a house. It can be a big house, a wee house, a cottage or a castle—just the sort of place you would choose for your very own if you lived in the Land of Make-Believe. When you have pasted in this picture, turn the page. The next two pages will be the Hall. Find a picture of a stairway, perhaps a table with a mirror, or whatever you think should go in a hall. The pages of the book are the walls of the room. The next two pages will be the living-room, and so on through the house. If you look in the advertising sections of magazines you may find so many coloured pictures of furniture, rugs, curtains, and so on. that your house may be furnished entirely in colours.

When you find a chair or a sofa to paste in, cut a little slit round the arm of it. This makes a flap in which you can place the dolls. The chair, of course, is pasted only round the edges. Each bed will make an envelope in which you can place the doll when you want to put your House and little dollpeople away for the night. I will tell you how. Paste the bed only round the edges, and then make a slash at the bottom of the pillow just large enough to slip in a paper doll. She will look exactly as though she were tucked up in bed for the night, her blankets pulled up almost to her nose.

You will find this a fascinating game, and you have no idea how interested you will become in furnishing this House of yoqrs, even though it is only a House In a Book. This game is a good one for amusing little sick-a-beds, and they will find that the usually-so-very-long hours spent in the Land of Counterpane pass ever so quickly when they are making a beautiful house for their favourite paper dolls to live in. Ever so much love to you all, FROM YOUR OWN • IVrL