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Children's Gifts.

Many gifts come rom children, who get the money in all sorts of ways, some of them very unexpected. Here are some of the ways used in the last fovir months, with the names of the places, and the amounts of the gifts. Selling Christmas cards (Dewsbury, io/-), carol singing (Malmesbury, 7/6), selling jam jars (Ipswich, 12/6), a beetle drive and selling d'oyleys and calendars (Sheffield, £i. 5. 9), painting and selling cardboard V's (Witney, 2/6), a museum, admission 2d., and a garden fete aad sale (Gerrards Cross, £5. 10. o), making weol dolls and selling them at Id. and -gd. (Croydon 2/6), collecting and selling bomb splinters (Manchester 4/6), bazaar (Hereford io/-), sale of work and concert in the back yard (Walsall i6/-), writing, producing and acting a play of the Holy Nativity (Cuffley 12/6)..