Lady Gay's Scrapbook

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

Lady Gay's Scrapbook

f TICK, TOOK I One night when I was lying in bed and everything was still, I heard our dining-room and bed-

room clocks striking together. They were ticking " together and it made such a noise that I wondered what it was. —MARY GOLDSMITH (aged 10).

“TWO OF US”

TWILIGHT TALES

In the cool twilight When the sea winds blow, Come the sound of voices Soft and low. Perhaps from distant lands Where busy people dwell, Or from ancient churches Where ghostly voices swell. —JOAN PEARSON, ' • Diamond avenue. DON’T FORGET

Don’t forget Roderick Robert Remember. Turn to Page 1.

DRIFTING Drifting onwards through the moonlight, Drifting down the rippling stream, As the moon shines through the As this twinkling starlets gleam. Nodding trees and swaying grasses, Dainty ferns bent o’er the stream, [Whisp’ring to the-breeze in-passing. It all seems like a lovely dreairi. Floating slowly through the darkness, Drifting gently round the bend, Till the dawning of the morning. Drifting to the journey’s end. —LYNNE O’CALLAGHAN (aged ID.

VISITING DAY

There will be NO Visiting this morning (Saturday,, Sep-, tember 24) , but next Saturday there will be visiting hours fromTO a.m. till 11.30 a.m. Lady Gay will be pleased to see Shippnates and Sunbeams next Tuesday, from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Country girls and" boys any time.

Got News

Look for news of our Cholmondeley Home cot next week. Our funds are creeping up and up again. For nearly two years now we have had a girl or boy in .this cot. That is a pleasant thought, isn’t it?

What has hands but cannot feel? A clock.

THE INDIAN

TRY THIS

Which switch is the right switch for Ipswich? —RAYMOND RICH.

Original Riddle When is a .boat not a boat? When it’s a-float. —’MATE OKUTL ■ i

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ABOUT ARABS J ' T Harry has been in Arabia, an£ here •he writes' something about Arabs: — “I want to tell you about Arabs* You see Arabs everywhere in tha East, and alsb iri England, but most of them are in Egypt, Palestine* Syria, Arabia, and Africa. Picture a man with a dress to the feet and a red cap. “The Arab likes the hot desert sands. Bread and salt are evenrj where. When you come to tha Arab and he gives you salt, he will not kill you. “One thing I want to talk about it the desert policeman. He work* for England. His life is sometime# very hard. "The Arab language is very hard for Europeans.” —HARRY KRANZ, Christchurch.