THE LITTLE INVALID

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 175, 14 October 1927, Page 5

THE LITTLE INVALID

STAVING OFF BOREDOM There is one never-failing source of amusement for small kiddies, whether boys or girls, who have reached the convalescent stage after a trying iIL ness. It is one of those simple joys, too, that is available in every home, consisting of sheets of brown paper and any old fashion books and other magazines. Let the small folk cut oui the coloured figures—the men, women, children, animals, birds, and so forth — and play their own game of “Happj; Families” with them. Mother will find it a heartening sight to watch the eager fingers pasting up these homemade ‘stories,” and to see the ingenuity exercised by young minds. As, fox instance, the clever crayoning of ordinary black and white sketches when the coloured pictures are all used up And some of the youngsters weave th-c most wonderful romances round then pasted-up “families.” The game is certainly one of the finest sick-roon: stand-bys that ever came to the aic of a harassed mother! There is evidently one blue vogue despite the wane of this somewha overdone hue, that is to persis throughout the coming season. Am that is the blue lace dinner-gown mode One world-famous house shows thes creations in an exquisite new blue the. is a mixture of blue and mauve; am alternatively in a blue called verdi gris, which, as its name implies, is mixture of blue and green.