PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

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FROM CHINA [Have you" ever seen- Chinese characters? ' .My correspondent in England '■ has 'great interest in it. tyow she can write her own name

very well. Our writing set is quite, quite different from yours. We use a brush dipping 'into a brazen box, which is filled up with cotton, and ink is. poured over it. English pen , and *ink cannot be . used in writing on. Chinese-writing paper- which 'is absorbent sM>w I enclofeea piece of, Chinese Do,you like it? Ne*t time Sf.con- , vfenient I.Will send ybu.a *£tvof in-

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' To study Chinese is harder than | English, I think. There is quite a ! difference in language and writI ing, but after the Revolution in 11912. in. order to make it easy to i study, Mandarin is used both in ' language and writing. Now it is 1 quite wide-spread and it is sure that within 10 or 20 years every Chinese will know Mandarin, and there will be no difficulty in con--1 versation between two Chinese 1 coming from different provinces. —CHENG WAN HEUNG, | • Hong Kong. FROM ENGLAND | We usually spend our summer .holidays at a little place called j.Colwyn Bay in North Wales, about 150 miles from Redcar. I enjoy holidaying in Wales, especially when father drives us right out into the -country. Most of the country roads round Colwyn Bay have, steep hills and mountains on either side, on the. slopes of which' feed flocks of small Welsh sheep.' I have not | been to South Wales, but I believe i the rugged scenery is more beauti-ful-ui the North, although Snowdon,

3570 feet, the highest mountain in Wales, would look quite small against • some of your giant mountains, I suppose. From Mae Bushell's pen-friend, who lives in Redcar, Yorkshire, England.

FROM HOLLAND I am a scout, or strickly spoken since two months I am no longer an active member, sufficient time failing me to attend the regular meetings weekly. Rotterdam is a sea port of 600,000 inhabitants. Various foreign vessels are calling here. lam engaged in a shipbrokers and forwarding agents' office. —PETER SLIJK, Rotterdam, Holland. FROM IRELAND Lurgan, like most towns in northeast Ireland, is engaged in the linen trade. During the war the trade went up to unheard-of bounds, because of the construction of "aeroplanes; but in 1920 the trade began to decline. In 1925 a coal strike made the manufacturers lose heavily and in 1929 many mills closed down. Owing to the great

. Many of you have written to Lady Gay asking for penfriends overseas. If ( you wish to write'to a boy or girl abroad watch the lists which 'appear in eachPPe r Friends' : League page and choose your 'friend.

demand from the United States ot America things are looking up today and. many factories axe -working overtime. * - All of us are eagerly awaiting your All Black team who are at Belfast and Dublin. Written by Betty Mealing's penfriend. THREE GUESSES •Mate Silver Dew, P.8.H., who has several pen-friends abroad, made this puzzle specially for the Pen-friends' League. Nine cities are hidden. Can you puzzle them out? If not, turn to page 7. Example: part of" a boy's name and part of the leg. Answer: Sydney. 1. Cleaning and 20cwt. 2. Crazy and to abolish. 3. Grown on shady banks and i kept on a farm. r i 4. A deep hole "tag'* and 22401 b. t ' 5. A sack and short for father. .6. Take "g" from long, and short for Donald. "' 7* Part of a girl's name, and .something used to keep clothes on a line. 9. Crazy, and take the "hj" from rash. »*- *"*" ~ ■ —--