PETER PAN’S LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 21 (Supplement)

PETER PAN’S LETTER.

GIRLS AND BOYS, Hasn’t the Weather Man’s temper been changeable lately? One moment he Is very cross and then we have black scowling skies and torrents of rain which make the street below look very wet and miserable and then he is very bright and smiling and the sun shines through the clouds and the sky turns to a lovely 4 8pringy’ blue and the streets glitter with millions of diamonds as the golden rays catch the puddles of water and make them sparkle and shimmer. Indeed Peter never knows when It is going to rain or when It Is going to be really fine, so he has to carry his ooat everywhere with him and the Twins’ Mummy Insists on their wearing their mackintoshes and gumboots too, and although they growl a terrible lot about It, they simply have to do as their Mummy says. The other day Peter was given the loveliest bunch of gaily ooloured balloons, all shapes and sizes, and with nearly every oolour you could think of among them. They made suoh a gay “party” ploture all bunohed together and the Twins and the Bunshlne Girl thought that they were beautiful. But the Wendy Person said that Peter was getting too old to have such playthings and he might as well give them to the Twins to break as to keep them for himself. Peter thought that Wendy wanted some too, but of courso he didn’t say so; so he gave one each to the twins of a lovely rose colour, the colour of an early morning sunrise, Jenne called It, and the Bunsh,lne Girl could not make up her mind as to whether she would like a blue one or perhaps an orange one so In the end she had one of each. Then the Wendy Person said that she would like a green and a red please, but the Twins thought she was far too old to play with them so Wendy said “If Peter can have them then so can I; he needn’t think that he can have all that lovely big bunch to himself!’ So now they are all satisfied. Smutty, the Mischief, put his claws Into his large fat one and looked so surprised when It burst with a simply huge Bang! and the Twins had a game of football with theirs until the rosy balloons alighted on a rose tree and met the same fate as Smutty’s. But Wendy’s, the Bunshlne Girl’s and Peter’s are still hanging on the wall and on the eleotrio light switch and look very gay and ‘‘Christmassy” especially at night when the lights are lit and the curtains are drawn. And now for some garden newa! This week there are the loveliest red hot pokers blooming with their warm reds and oranges making such a pretty picture against a background of emerald lawns and golden dafTles. And Peter saw a wonderful tree of rhododendrons In suoh a lovely shade of flame and he could Just see the delicate petals of the flowers hiding among the deep green, shiny leaves. Not far away a bush of Jessamine bloomed with soft blossoms of a deep rose pink which looked very beautiful. Everything seems to be warm reds and pinks with touches of gold and blue, Peter thinks; blue skies and violets, golden sunshine and daffies and red and pink flowering shrubs and trees and such a truly wonderful picture they all make. And now sunny smiles, blue skies and lots of love, From, yours with “Spring fever,” . — — ilium uiimiii mi