HELLO, CHILDREN!
"Woman's Illustrated" Office, The Fleetway House, Farington St., London, E.C.4
Dear Boys and Girls,
This week we have a story which Molly Blake has written for you.
It tells you about Prudence Kitten and how she invited a seal called Celia to come and stay with her.
I won't tell you any more-I'll let you read it for yourselves ! How sweet Ming looks wearing Dr. Gnome's socks and her new football boots. For once it's Dr. Gnome who does something wrong and not Ming !
I do hope you will all enter for our colouring competition this week. There are lots of lovely prizes and I do hope you’ll win one.
Lots of love, from PAMELA (Chief Gnome)
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DR. GNOME OF GNOMES' LAND
" I'll put on my new football boots
"And try them out," said Ming.
And with a pair of Doc's old socks
She really looked "the thing."
"I'll keep goal," cried Doc, and Ming
Kicked off with all her might,
But missed the ball and fell down fiat,
A very funny sight!
"You're no good," laughed Dr.
And then be gave a shout, [Gnome,
For right into him flew the ball
And nearly knocked him out.
"I'll get my own back now," he cried,
"You see how I can do it."
Above the greenhouse soared the ball
And then fell down right through it !
Illustrated by Ern Shaw
If you would like to become a member of our GNOMES CLUB, or enrol a friend, all you have to do is to cut out the badge shown here and post it to Pamela, with 1s. (about 14cents) in postage stamps, at "Gnomes Club," P.O. Box 682, The Fleetway House, Farrington Street, London, E.C.4. Also enclose your NAME, AGE and ADDRESS
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WIN AN OIL-PAINTING SET!
HERE is the opportunity to win one of the two exciting Oil- Painting-by-Numbers sets, the prizes in our colouring competition! Each is complete with paints, brush and canvases marked to show you just where to put the colours. All under 16 may try for a prize whether Gnomes or not !
To enter the competition, first cut out this picture and paste it on a postcard. When quite dry, use water paints or crayons to colour it as carefully and imaginatively as possible. Add your full name, age and address, ask a grown-up to sign the entry as being your own work, and post it to "COLOURING COMPETITION," "Woman's Illustrated," 3 Pilgrim Street, London, E.C.4 (Comp.), to arrive not later than Tuesday, February 25th, the closing date.
Oil-Painting Sets will be awarded for the two best entries received, age being taken into account, and Paint Boxes for the six next best. Pamela's decision is final.
MYSTERY PRIZES have been sent to these winners of our" Christmas Parcels" competition: (click image to enlarge and view).
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CELIA COMES TO STAY
Written and illustrated by MOLLY BLAKE
WHEN Prudence Kitten and her nephews were at the seaside in the summer holidays they met a baby seal called Celia. Prue had promised to invite Celia to come and stay with her, but somehow she had been so busy that she had never sent her invitation to Celia.
Now it was January, and as Prue lay in her cosy brass bedstead under her patchwork quilt, she could see a row of icicles outside her bedroom window, and hear the north wind moaning in the chimney.
At the seaside now the waves must be leaping angrily at the tall granite cliffs and roaring in and out of the caves, while down by the jetty her friends would be sitting snugly in their white- washed cottages with the shutters barred, keeping an ear cocked for the signal which would tell them that a ship was in distress and they must launch the life-boat.
Then Prudence remembered little Celia, and the invitation she had never sent. Of course, Celia was used to the cold weather, and she had brothers and sisters to keep her company, but the winter must seem very long, and she must be wondering if she would ever see her kitten friends again.
Prudence jumped out of bed, put on her bedroom slippers and her red flannel dressing-gown, and ran straight to her little desk in the sitting-room to write to Celia. When she had finished, she was so cold that there was an icicle hanging from her whiskers, and she had to go into the kitchen and have some hot milk.
Some days later, Celia the baby seal was lying at the entrance to her cave gazing out at the angry sea, when a large seagull suddenly appeared in front of her out of the grey sky, dropped a rather wet letter on the sand, and before he could utter one squawk was blown away again into the distance.
Celia took the letter to her mother because she couldn't read, and you can imagine how excited she was when she heard that her invitation had arrived at last. She didn't have to do any packing, because she wears her fur coat all the time, so she said good-bye to her family and dived straight into the sea.
SHE reached the jetty and got a lift on one of the fishing boats which was taking its catch along the coast to the big town. They arrived at the dockside and when the big crane swung a load of fish boxes ashore, Celia went too! Then they were loaded on to a train, which went chuffing off inland, and eventually Celia and some of the boxes of fish were unloaded at the station of Much Purring, which was where Prudence lived.
The skipper of the fishing boat had given Celia a box of fish of her very own, so she sat on the box and waited patiently until Alexander Water Rat, who had been keeping an eye on all the trains, arrived with his carrier's cart and delivered her and her box of fish at Prudence's cottage.
Soon I will tell you some more about her visit.
Here is Celia going ashore
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