PETER PAN’S LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20388, 31 December 1937, Page 18 (Supplement)

PETER PAN’S LETTER.

J)EAR GIRLS AND BOYS, Such excitement there has been in the homes of all small people since Santa’s visit. Did you all wake early hoping to see the last of his long boots as he crept softly out to fill more stooklngs. The Twins were so excited on Christmas Eve that Peter thought they would never go to sleep, but Jenne murmured sleepily that though she always hoped each year she’d stay awake she Just couldn’t and would have to try again next year. And Tony with no one to talk to became drowsy, too, and those rascals were both fast asleep at last. Then Just when the the rosy sun was peeping in Peter’s room the Twins burst In and Just sat all over the bed and with great glee emptied their stooklngs for him to see. And as Jennifer said “Nearly all our best wishes came true” and Peter hopes that lots of your dream toys were In your stockings on Christmas morn. And Wendy and the Sunshine Girl found the threepence in the pudding and Peter remarked that he never had any luck and Wendy was so sorry she gave Peter hers. But he is sure that next Christmas pudding time he will find two to make up. Such brown little people there are now after our beautiful sunshiny days. Peter has seen them with sunhats and bathing suits and bright little buckets and spades making their way to the lake and river and he thinks how cool It must be In the water and beneath the shade of the trees. ‘But the Sunshine Girl, who knows Just what he’s thinking of, tells him he can’t have holidays for weeks yet and makes him awfully busy and he gets hotter and hotter and has hardly any time to think of swimming. And then Wendy says it’s good for him because he’d only get very sunburnt and cross anyway. To-night another New Year will be ushered In. It Is a nloe thought, Isn’t It, that we have a whole new calendar of days to fill with happy thoughts and deeds. All those good resolutions made Peter hope you will endeavour to keep and make the coming year as happy a one as you can. It is a time to think of our motto 11 The way to be happy oneself is to make others happy ” and through the days ahead to try to do so. The sunshine with the gardens a’bloom with flowers makes a picture for us all this Chrlstmastlde. Peter has carnations of rosy pink and still the deep blue of Canterbury bells and larkspurs. Sweetpeas grow up the garden wall and It’s flower time everywhere. Peter hopes you will write us Jolly holiday letters of your doings at the seaside and in the towns, Happy holidays to you all and a New Year full of joy, From a Peter making good resolutions. Your Own