PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21904, 3 October 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)

PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

FROM CANADA One of my hobbies for the. last three summers has been gathering moths, butterflies, and all kinds of insects. I have about 300 specimens, and some of them are beautiful. 1; also gather and press wiW flowers, and one summer I had 80 varieties. ‘We have a fish pond at our camp on St Joseph • Island, which is fed by water from a, spring,, anti in it we keep goldfish and small trout Round this pond some pet frogs like to sit on the stones and get their' hacks scratched with a small twig or your finger. It is marvellous what interesting things one can find in the fields and woods in the way of flowers and insects. I also have a stamp album and like collecting stamps. —JEAN WORKMAN (aged 12), Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. SYRIA I live in a town called Dehel:Zor in the interior of. Syn** Euphrates River passes trough the town. The women wear veils when they go out of their_ houses. They wear anklets with bells on them. Every Sunday we gd to the deSe -ANNA GRACE OGDEN. American Mission, Deirel-Zor, Syria.

A VISIT TO PORTUGAL I would like to tell other readers about my visit to Portugal. _ . a 1 first went to I have never seen such a beautiful bay as that one, full of little sailing boats, warships, and trans-Atlantics. The boats* rails are red, others black or white and sometimes brown. They have big ferry, boats to from one side of the river to the other. It’s a lovely sensation, when yoii are in the middle, because you can see land in' front and behind sT>u, but at your sides just the sea. One side it is really * the sea, but not the

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other, because it is where the river begins to go inland. One can imagine that one Is crossing straight* I next went to Coimbra after I left Cahas de SOnhorim. There is a hotel that has little, cottages nearby for, thpse who prefer being jalone, to staying in the main building. We had a cottage called Pehheiro. It was in the middle of 12 or 14 pines. Each cottage is called by the name of the tree that happens to be beside it, like .Mimosa, Eucalyptus, and so forth. When one talks of a person one doesn’t mention the person's name; One says the name of the cottage he is living in. It has the most beautiful umbrella pines all round, a golf course, tennis courts, and a swimming pool. —PILAR TRAVESEDO (aged 13), Plaza Salamanca 6, - Madrid, Spain.

NEXT-WEEK . Next week there will be a special article lor Pen-friends written by Miss Webster, who has spent 40 years inf China. Don’t miss this number.

Please keep up your correspondence regularly. Many are still overdue. ■ „ ■ Stamps wanted—King George issue 2£d, 2s, 6d and Bd. , ■ , Country now being studied—ltaly. Italian stamps are now being collected by members. Special Stamp Page and prize stamp essays next week.

A New Book "What a Diet” By Henry-et-a-Snail. —LINDSAY KOLLO.