EASTER IS OVER

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 47

EASTER IS OVER

To Young Listeners, ASTER is over and most of the eggs and BE chickens seem to have left town. We hope that you each had at least one of the magnificent golden and silver eggs which have been glittering in shop windows for the last few weeks, If you didn’t, then perhaps you were luckier still and had one of the old-fashioned kind that hens lay. Perhaps your mother took Anut Daisy’s advice and wrapped an egg in onion skins before she boiled it. Or perhaps she boiled it in gorse flowers, or put cochineal in the water, so that you could have a yellow or a pink egg which children used, to like . even more than you like your golden chocolate egg. It’s spring at the other side of the world where Easter began far more than 1941 years ago, and hens are hatching out chickens, and trees that have seemed to be almost dead have burst into leaf, Pri are out and lambs and calves and rabbits and daffodils. The birds chirp and burst into song because things that have seemed — have come alive again to live forever,

Box of Thieks Timothy wants a trick for his party next week. Not one of those silly ones that anyone can see through, but something pretty good. Here’s one out of the Box. Get a sheet of brown paper and a glass tumbler. Put the glass on a corner of the paper and mark round it with a pencil, Cut out the round and paste it neatly over the opening of the tumbjer, When it’s dry, cut off any edges. Make your sheet of brown paper tidy. Put the glass upside down on the sheet. Get a sixpence and a big handkerchief, preferably a Pirate one. The party will begin, and when it’s time for the trick, Timothy must put on a very important look, and talk rather importantly, too. "Now you see that sixpence?" "Yes," they’ll all say, breathlessly. "Well, you just watch." And he will then put handkerchief over the glass and mutter some my: terious words as he lifts the tumbler with the hands kerchief and places it over the sixpence, then with & flourish he will flick off the handkerchief. The party then will all gasp with wonder, because the sixpence has quite disappeared, and they don’t know that it is hidden by the brown paper pasted on the glass-they don’t even know that there is any brown paper pasted on the glass. .