RETRENCHMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 7450, 20 February 1888, Page 3

RETRENCHMENT.

TO THE EDITOR, Sin, —Sometimes in the evening, when mamma is in the garden and I am supposed to be learning ray lessons, I take a look at the Star, which lam very fond of reading. For some time back I have been puzzled with a big word that I have often seen; it is the word “retrenchment,” winch the dictionary says means, among other tilings, a pat in" away. But what I want to tell you is that our School Committee arc trying to retrench by paving away a part of the school expenses, and I would like you to tell them that they are a mean lot to stop the usual supply of pens and ink. Now, do they think we can learn to write if they give us nothing to write with '! It is not so much the penny that the master told caeh of us to bring, but it breaks in on tho ■sixpence that I was saving up to buy a ticket for the concert in aid of school prizes at Easter. But if they are mean enough to stop the pens and ink, they may bo mean enough to stop the prizes also. If you would be kind enough to toll them that the children here do not want retrenchment, and that we do not care to have to write with our fingers cn the desks, I think they would see the folly of their ways, and return to the old custom of giving us pens and ink. By doing this you will bo conferring a very great favor on your very humble servant Margie Lauder. Wakari, February 17.