CHILDREN’S HANDWORK.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 193, 15 August 1931, Page 8

CHILDREN’S HANDWORK.

Aunt Hilda did manage to pay a visit to the Show, and was just delighted to see the wonderful sewing of the girls and the beautifully finished woodwork of the boys. It is splendid to think that boys and girls will take the time and trouble to finish articles as beautifully as these were. There was a unique exhibit made by one boy, a perfect model of a railway station and yards, correct to the last detail. Several very well finished articles of furniture were the envy of lots of the spectators. But, really, isn’t New Zealand a wonderful little country? Where was any sign of depression among those loads of riches which our native soil has produced in the hardest of many years? The rosy apples, the wonderful butter and honey, the huge root-crops coupled with all the mechanical and constructional perfection must surely inspire a feeling of confidence in our commercial future. I suppose the boys all saw the glider which will pioneer that sport in Canterbury shortly. And now you’ll want to know what I had to eat! Popcorn? No! Ice cream? No! Pink candy floss? No, again. But a most delicious waffle with cream dripping from its golden brown ends! Yum, yum! If you havori’t tasted one, do! And eat it in the crowd like I did, forgetting everything but the delicious nutty flavour of a wonderful piece of cooking. Tell me in your letters all you see and think at the Show. I am always interested. Ah, that waffle! A GOOD GUESSING GAME. A guessing game can be played with a thimble, or a sixpence or other small object. Girls take seats on one side of the table and boys on the other. The girls start by putting their hands under the table and passing the thimble or the sixpence from one to another—unknown and unseen by the boys. When the boys, after a few minutes’ interval, call “Hands up," all the girls place their hands, closed on the table. The players guess in turns in which hand the thimble or coin is hidden, but after one player has guessed and failed, the thimble should be “ reshuffled." The player may guess directly if he feels certain he knows which hand contains the thimble or he may tell certain players to remove their hands from the table, until he comes to the hand holding the thimble. When one of the boys is successful the girls have to take up the guessing.