WHAT SHALL WE MAKE?

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

WHAT SHALL WE MAKE?

Helping Santa Claus Once Again. As I promised, here are some suggestions for those who cannot make up their minds easily what to do for the common good at Christmas. , First you have to decide to enter and every Starlet will love to rally to Aunt Hilda’s call. If the Circle has helped and encouraged you, you owe it a debt, which you can pay by helping the Christmas work all you can. If you only cover one empty tobacco tin for someone else to fill with sweets, it will be one step nearer our goal. Now a knitted toy will be easy, for there are lovely penguins and ducks and rabbits that are easily and quickly knitted. Humpty-Dumpty is simply made by two knitted ovals sewn together and with plain knitted legs attached. The knitted toy section ought to be easy. Any kind of home made toy is a more elastic class still, matchbox furniture, trains made from old tins, a spade for the beach, almost endless ideas suggest themselves. Felt articles can be made from the clean pieces of old hats. Needle-books and babies’ slippers are both simple and effective. Now what of old stockings? Cotcovers, golliwogs (these are always very popular), garments for small children, dozens of things can be made from old stockings; a kettle-holder or oven cloth is easy also. There is such a wide range pf classes that I expect some Starlets will want to enter for every one. Empty tobacco (round or flat) tins can be made very attractive and will be filled with sweets. If very pretI tily made they could do for puff-boxes, or if you glued a bone stud on the lid it would make a dandy stud-box for father, or big brother. We hope to receive hundreds of very pretty tins. Anyone can cover them with paint, cretonne or pretty wallpaper. You could decorate them with seal-ing-wax, barbola work or just pretty pictures pasted over and then sized and varnished. The very wise people will start now and have time to do their work well and truly.

CIRCLE ARTISTS. 26-8-33. Patsy Donnelly, Gwyheth Cross, Nora Neame, Nola West, Patsy Phillips, Allan Burney, Cliff Green, John M’Whannell, Kathleen Turner, Ray Baker, Celia Elliott, Allan Elliott, Lila Hoatten, Donnie Pearson, Roy Elliott, Raymond Elliott, Lorna WoocPward, Beth Ashby, Ina Hoatten, Jack Bisman. QOOD SCRIBES. 26-S-33. Lydia Laraman, June Carey, Dorothy Aitken, Kola West, Eileen Murnani, Margaret Cochrane, Roy Searle, Beatrice Glentworth, June Chappie, Bill Parsonage, Willie Findlay, Patsy Donnelly, Tom Parsonage, Dolly Quartly, Betty Harris, Leslie Page, Joyce Eyans, Cliff Green, Russell Maguigan, lan Maguigan, Cissie Docherty, Kathleen Douglas, Joan Joyce, Percy Foster, David Guild, Allan Burney, Rita Burrowes, Renee Rosier, Joan Stirling, Doreen Gibbs, Raymond Glenn, Myrtle Glenn, Madeline Stidworthy, Audrey Clark, Gwen Momo, Margaret Colville, Trevor Seabourn, Nancy Harvey, Peggy Morton, Edna Kulsen, May Kelly, Allan Elliott, Celia Elliott, Roy Thomas, Daphne Dickie, Idie Mairs, Euan Retallick, Kathleen Turner, Ona Baxter, Elspeth Mairs, Leslie Mason, Milly M’Key, Edna Borlase, Ronnie King, Mary Crimmins, Yvonne Watson, Dorothy Stanton, Noel Borlase, Jack Bisman, Patricia Donovan, Evelyn Jury, June Biain, Ina Hoatten, Beth Ashby, Mavis Jones. ABOUT YOUR MARKS. December Ist is the closing date for all marks’ lists. 100 marks gained before then wins you a nice book, and the count for the Premier Prize will show who is the most diligent worker in all the Circle. PEN-FRIENTS WANTED. BILL PARSONAGE (Mace Street, Reefton). TILLY DUNCAN (fourteen-fifteen years; 7, Lyttelton Street, Westport). MARY CRIMMINS (Kotuku).