THE CHILDREN’S RAINY DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2394, 8 January 1909, Page 12 (Supplement)

THE CHILDREN’S RAINY DAY.

Tears outside and in ! Poor mites ! How miserable they are ! Flattening their poor little noses against the window-panes, and poor mothers and purses, too, tehy sadly need then share of sympathy. In many nurseries such days are hailed with delight by the little ones. ‘Hurrah! It s a wet day. Wo can paint.’ For on such days only are the pant boxes permitted to see the light. No aniount of coaxing should induce a nurse or mother to allow them out on fine days, so the children never grow weary ©f the amusement, oven when we have a long spell of wet weather. Care should! bo taken to keep a stock of old periodicals on hand, and pieces of discarded ribbon. When t picture is finished to the . satisfaction of the small artist, it is cut out, bound with some ribbon, and hung iu the nursery Avail until the sun chme again. For the very little ones provide a feiv penny boxes of crayons. A child of three, awer less, can use these, kith a little-help from the elder ones. A couple of pmrs of scissors-without points vnj l .be “found a very useful addition to the -play should be taught to think of the little ones less placed than themselves, and to this end it is well to keep a box for broken toys. Mother o xnurse can direct and help with tho and put them aiv ay until Christmas, when* they can be distributed anion o the-little ones to whom toys- are- almost an unknown joy. fetia y leavm from colored picture kooks can b sewn together and made into small books Avrth brown-paper covers. X s ka'itl/‘kk r u^ C S happy mother and .nurse can get thiough, no ond of mending and solving.