PETER PAN’S LETTER

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20504, 21 May 1938, Page 21 (Supplement)

PETER PAN’S LETTER

PETER PAN'S

“The Way to be Happy Oneself is to Make Others Happy

POST BOX.

|)EAR GIRLS AND BOYS, What lovely sunshiney days these have been for the Holiday people, Peter and the Twins have been having such jolly times in the golden sun and the Wendy Person and The Sunshine Girl have been spending long hours In their gardens till, as Uncle Andy said, they looked as clean as new pins. But now the Holiday Ship Is very, very close to the shores of Happy schooldays once more and very soon the cargo of little folk will be busy telling their friends of all the jolly adventures they have been having. The mailbag is chuokling very loudly these days too, and Peter knows that he Is thinking of all the fat holiday letters that will be pouring In very soon. Did you all go to see the Ooronation Robes last week? The Wendy Person took the Sunshine Girl, the Twins and Peter on Saturday afternoon and such a jolly time they had looking at all the lovely robes and flags. Peter and the Twins liked the flags best of all as they were so smart and colourful, but the Wendy Person and the Sunshine Girl thought the Queen’s robe, with It© golden embroidered fern frond, thistle and shamrock, rose, lotus Illy, maple, leek, acorn, wattle and protea designs was the loveliest of all and Peter could not make them leave It until a policeman arrived to close the display. Such lots of lovely flowers Peter has found this week. The Wendy Person came to Peter the other day looking very excited and pleased with herself and said, ‘‘Ooh, Peter do you know that I have the loveliest golden jonquil In bloom and a pretty paperwhlte too, so you see you don’t always have the first blooms after all,” and the Sunshine Girl found her pale pink camelia tree In bloom, while the Twins discovered a little white snowdrop blooming amid a clump of tall green grass. But the loveliest flower of all was the delicate mauve tree dahlia which is so beautiful at present and Peter loves it when their petals are shining in the early sun after a visit from Jack Frost. The Twins and the Sunshine Girl are very busy saving up all their pennies for the Show days ahead and Peter expects that lots of his little members are doing the same. Peter Is longing to have another ride on the merry-go-round and the chalr-o-plane, but the Sunshine Girl wants a monkey-on-a-stlck, so she Is saving every penny she can find and when Peter arrived at the office the other day he found a large red money box on his desk which the Sunshine Girl said was for all Peter’s spare pennies, so that she could buy her monkey on the very first day of the show. But here comes the Printer Man again, so lots of love to you all and hopes for sunny hours and pennies to save for monkeys-on-a-stick and Jolly rides on the merry-go-round, From yours, very busy saving pennies,

Peir Pan

Myra Murray, Hamilton. —Such a tiny" lieu... Hum .Mira, and I’eter hopes you will write us a longer one next time. Did you enjoy your holidays? Thank you very much lor the riddles.—Peter Pan. Peggy Chalienor, Matangi. —Such a big welcome we send to you, Peggy, and Peter hopes to have lots and lots ol' interesting letters from you each week, lie Is sorry but Goldfinch Is already taken for a penname. Is there any other you would like? What lovely pets you have, do write and tell us more about them—Peter Pan. Bookworm, Frankton. —Yours was a very welcome letter this week. Bookworm, as Peter thought that you had forgotten all about the Circle. The Coronation Robes were lovely Peter thought, and he loved the white ermine tails, too. The seasons seem to be very muddled at present, don't they?—Peter Tan. Maurico Gawn, Frankton. —Peter sends you the biggest welcome he can find In the welcome box, Maurice, and be hopes to hear from you often. Yes, you may have Morris 8 for your pen-name. The budgies sound such Jolly little chaps; what do you call them, and what are the names or your sister and brothers?—Peter Pan. Norma Waite, Hamilton. —Peter sends you a big welcome, too, Norma, and be hopes that you will enjoy the Circle even more now that you are a member. He Is sorry but Hippo Is taken; Is there another name you would like? Do write and tell us about your holidays in Auckland, won't you, and Peier hopes to have lots and lots or jolly letters from you.— Peter Pan. Camillia, Hinuera.—You are such a stranger. Camillia. and although your letter was such a liny one Peter was so pleased to see that you had not forgotten u-j altogether. Your baby lamb was very lale. wasn't it? Are you keeping it as a pet? Don’t forget us ror so long again, will you?—Peter Pan. Prize Crop, Horotiu. —Such a welcome letter yours was. Prize Crop, anal Peter was pleased to receive it. The weeks are hying past, aren’t they? Basketball is such a jolly game, isn’t it? Peter loves playing very much, ami he thinks it is lovely to warm up these cold mornings, don’t you?—Peter Pan. Joyce Vincent, Cambridge. — Peter is so sorry to hear that you have been so ill. Joyce, and he hopes that you are better again now and that your knee lias completely recovered. Holidays are not at all nice when the days are wet. are they? Do write to us again soon.—Peter Pan. Wildflower, Pukeroro. —Such a busy time you must have with your schooling and your music. Wildfiower. but Peter hopes that you will not forget to write to us occasionally. Do write and tell us about .your holiday adventures with your little little cousin, won’t you?—Peter Pan. Cazna Leader, Hamilton. —Peter is sure that the picture was very exciting. Cazna, and peter was so pleased to receive a letter from you. Aren't the mornings becoming cold, now? Do write lo us again soon and tell us all about your holidays, won't you?—Peter ran. LIVING BY THE SEA Dear Peter Pan.—Please excuse my writing as 1 broke in.v lert arm and 1 cannot bold my pad steady. \Ye are living in Raglan now. It Is nice living by the sea and we go down to the beach whenever we reel like It. On Sunday we gathered some pretty shells and threaded them on a string and hung them In our room. Haven't we had a lot of rain lately? ft gets very tiresome when ft rains several days on end and we soon look for the sunshine again. One day we went down to ihe wharf and we could see some big trevulli reeding on the shellfish which were clinging to the piles. As it is nearly tea time 1 will close with love from Little Dot (10), Raglan. Such a stranger you are, Little Dot. that I'cter thought \uu were never going to write to u* again. Peter thinks that it must be very Jolly to live beside the sea all the time; there are such lots and lots of preity shells to be round on the beach, aren't there? Don’t forget us for so long again, will you?—Peter Pan. SIGN OF KING WINTER Dear Peter Pan,—l am sorry I have been so long In writing to you, but the time nics so quickly. Winter Is not far away, tlie days and nights are getting much colder. The evenings are longer but so far we have not had any open fires to warm our bands and feet. The leaves have all been blown off the fruit trees, which look very bare. They make such a mess on the lawn, and have to be raked up and burnt. Our chrysanthemums are still b'ooining, but some look bedraggled with the wind and rain. The roses are beginning to burst into bloom, and the scent from them is lovely. One or two of tlie Jonquils are in bud and will be out any day. Did you go and see the Coronation Robes when they were in Hamilton? It is wonderful to think that the people out here in .New Zealand who were not able to be present at the Coronation would be able to have a peep at Their Majesties’ robes. I was looking forward to seeing them but have spent my holidays In bed. The Queen must have thought or all her dominions overseas when she had the emblem or each embroidered on her train. I have told you all the news now. Peter so will stop. Prom Glands, (13), Taupirt. You are a stranger, Glamls and Peter was very pleased when he round your letter among his mail this week. The mornings are becoming very cold, aren’t they, and Peter’s garden is beginning to look very bare too. The Coronation Robes were lovely, Peter thought.—Peter Pan.

A NEWSY LETTER near Peter Pan, -Only a week lert nr nur term Holiday! Time seems to fly oast so swiftly that one hardly knows It lias (tone. have finished our term examinations and 1 rame third out or 2 9 pupils. On the last day or the term the nos (rave a eoncert and at the finish w" broke up for our holiday. All the that are deciduous around about Hamilton seem to lie so hungrry-looktng and hrown. Already piles or dead leaies aro being- swept up and burnt. My sistei and niv brother and l have been busy Trench-knitting. It is or Tun and 1 am making a mat. I Have made one before and I think they are lm ely and ''aim to put red on on a cold, frosty morning. \ non-mend in Australia seat me a ntaga Zine to Show me what their I'ann shows are like. People exhibit their hoi’ses fow?, etc. It also ?hnwed chopping , - or J , P PU,l '?’\ s and horse judging. Don't you think tho\ must lie interesting? At the pictures this afternoon we saw the same thing’, hut in action. Well. Peter Pan. goodbye ror tbe present.—Greek Shepherdess. (1 fete!' 1 a Milks that you must have been] working very hard to come third in 50111 1 ..u,; (irppk Shepherdess, and he is sure ?h»t you are a erv pleased with the results, j •me ’tree’ are beginning to look ' er > hare present, .rfnn they, now that all tiie leaves have talien. —I’etei I an. THE CORONATION ROBES Dear Peter Pan, —Nature seems to ha'e brought Spring back again Here —two or our apple trees and a plum tree are flowering and sending Torth some tiny wee leaves, and tbe grass is looking like a sort green carpet stretching lor miles. Yesterday, we went to town and after, we bad done all our shopping we went and bad a look at the King's robest, winch, were used at the Coronation. They were | In a big glass rrame, the King’s robes at the lert, the Queen’s at tlie right and the princesses’ in the middle. The robes were beautirully finished. On the train or the Queen’s robe, which was about seven feet long, all the emblems of the countries of the British Empire had been woven into a design with gold thread. The canopv, and samples or the gold and blue carpets were there, too. Along one wall were the flags or the Empire, the one I liked best being Canada’s, which bad a green maple leaf on It. Did you see them Peter? It won’t be long before people will be sitting round blazing nies, will it? Well, it is getting near to bedtime so 1 will close now, for this week.— jumbo (12). Ohaupo. Such a lovely neat letter Trom you this week. Jumbo, and Peter was so pleased to bear from you again. Peter thought the Coronation robes were beautiful, too, especially tbe train or Ihe Queen’s. r l lie nights are turning very cold, aren t they? —Peter ran. ___ TONGUE TWISTER Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt a piece of felt that felt the .same as that piece of felt felt when I felt the felt of that felt hat. —Sent by Candytuft.

woman helped her, were vague to the last degree. She was too tired in mind and body to notice details: all was blurred, but even so she dimly recognised that everything was primitive in the extreme. That mattered nothing; the atmosphere of guardianship was all that mattered, and she fell into a profound sleep soothed by a sense of enveloping sympathy and kindness that was like a benediction. (To be continued)