Peter Pan's Corner

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22935, 4 July 1944, Page 3

Peter Pan's Corner

DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE. That mischievous sprite Jack Frost lias been up to all sorts of tricks lately. He. has blackened, my chrysanthemums and frozen my laps. I expect he has been after your fingers and toes too! But there's one thing he hasn't managed. to touch! This morning I parted the stiff umbrella-like leaves of my Christmas roses, and masses of snowwhite flowers looked, up at me, more beautiful than any picture Jack Frost could paint. And now, a word about, this week’s competition, which is not quite so easy as it looks. I wonder if any of you will find the whole seven words. Remember that all of the six letters must be used, for each word. So put on your think caps, my Circlians, and see your thinking caps, my Circlians, and see who will win the 5f- this week. Lots of love to everyone, . From, Your Own PETER PAN WINNING MESSAGE (General Eisenhower) General Eisenhower now expects real Allied loyalty. English invasion .soldiers entering Normandy have officially won every round.—Evelyn Abraham, Willowbridge, age 13. Other Good Messages Were: Going excellent. New equipment reinforcing Allied lines. Everything satisfactory. Enemy now hopelessly overwhelmed. Weaker engagements resulting.—Noeline Brosnan, Hilton, age 13. Germans entering Nantes evacuate riverbeds and lanes. Expeditionary force invading soon, exterminating Nazis honourably on western regions.— Brigit Unwin, Timaru, age 11. Great English navy engages routed Axis Luftwaffe. English invasion should end Nazis hold on western European races—Betty Morrison, Morven, age 12. Great energy needed everywhere. Rally Allied leaders. Every inch saved ends Nazi horror. Our warships effectually raiding.—Vera Evans, Timaru, age 12. NOTICE BOARD Winner of “General Eisenhower’ Evelyn Abraham, Willowbridge. Winner of Printing- Competition Mary Rose Unwin, age 6, Timaru. This Week’s Competition Using all of the following six letters each time, it is possible to make seven different words. U E S L R T. How many can you find? A special prize of 5/- will be given. Entries must be in by July 18. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS June 28: Jocelyn Caird. June 29: June Paterson, June Hedstrom. June 30: Russell King, Doris June Cross, Mary Lenihan, Doris Bailey, Stan Saunders, Margaret Oddie, John Dwyer, Bill Unwin, Barbara Bray. July 1: Aileen Taylor, Peggy Dyson, Edward McConnochie, Claire Campbell, Garry Mitten. July 2: Pamela Rickman. July 3: Mary Gibson, Margaret Winter, Margaret Golumb, Belinda Gresson. July 4: Edith Tripp, Lorraine Lang. WINTER The cold winter Is here Snow is on the bare ground Glittering white everywhere No flowers to be found. The little birds are quiveringin the leafless trees And small calves are shivering Where cold winds do freeze. (3 marks to Marlyn Davis, Albury, age 11)

PADDLING Here’s a lovely paddly pool, With little pebbles in it! Let’s leave our shoes upon the bank, And put out tootsies in it. The water is so smooth and cool, I simply love a paddle pool! (Gordon Alexander, Waikawa, age 9) PYJAMAS I’ll sing you a song Though it's not very long Of a pair of my Daddy’s pyjamas, For it may be as well, This summery spell, Is nearly as hot as Bahamas. Oh Daddy’s pyjamas are really a scream, They are torn at the side and they are gone at the scam, So I went to the warehouse Last night in a dream, To get him a pair of pyjamas. No more can be got For the warehouse has not Permit to import any more. So we’ll have to niake do With the same pair or two At least until after the war. The leg of one pair Is simply not there And the coat is all torn at the shoulder, And I really don’t know What my Daddy will do. When the nights become very much colder. I’m half dead with fright, For thinking “Some night I’ll wake up and find there’s a fire” And Daddy will beat - A retreat to the street, In his delapidated attire. Oh. Daddy's pyjamas are really forlorn They’re tattered and battered and terribly torn, And the little white suit in which Daddy was born, Will soon be his only pyjamas. (Sent by Evelyn Alexander, Waikawa, age 12) THE SILVER HOUSE There’s a silver house in the lovely sky, As round as a silver crown, It takes two weeks to build it up, And two to pull it down. There's a man who lives in the silver house But what his name is, no one knows, Or no one likes to say. Yet when you go to bed to-night, Just draw the window-blind, And peep out at the silvei- moon This lonely man to find, But if his house is taken down, And all the sky is bare, Then go to bed, because of course, The poor man won’t be there. (Sent by Noeline Seeler, Temuka, age 9) WHO’S IN “The door is shut fast And everyone’s out.” But people don't know What they’re talking about! Says the fly on the wall, And the flame on the coals, And the dog on his rug, ’ And the mice in their holes, And the kitten curled up, And the spiders that spin—- “ What, everyone’s out? Why, everyone’s in!" (Sent by Maureen Ryder, age 10, Timaru). JOKES Mother: “Have you washed behind your ears Jimmy?” Jimmy: “I don’t have to because I've been moved to the back seat.” Dick: “Why did you wake me out of a sound sleep?" Jack: "The sound was too disturbing.” i ‘T've not had a sleep for Tom: “What, are you ill, Mr Hippo?" Mr Hippo: “No, I. sleep at night.” Mother: “Everything I say to you goes in one ear and cut the other.” Betty: “is that why I have two ears, Mummy?" (Sent by Jill Newton, age 10, Timaru) RIDDLES What are fine animals? Ground mice. What room is it impossible to enter? A mushroom. When is a fish like an aeroplane? When it rises and takes a fly. (Sent by Jill Newton, age 10, Timaru)