THE MAIL BAG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE MAIL BAG.

Alice Hirst—You now have 55 marks toward your third hundred. , <■ Stanley Calder.—That was a very nice little "Bedtime" poem, and I will use it. I am glad you learned the little goodnight prayer..

Victor Driver.—Tliank you for your congratulations, Victor. The campaign has indeed been a. success, thanks to the generous sympathy of our .leaders.

Ethel Baker.—" Fog-Bound is very well written. You are developing a good style, and training your powers o£ observation. Bathia Luttrell.—Your letter was well written, but rather too much of an advertisement for the picture you describe. Morna Hovell.—Your name ia not in my membership book, so evidently you have not joined our Circles yet. A form is printed to-day. You did not mark either your poem or story "original" or copied.

Betty Molesworth.—Senior members may contribute up to their nineteenth birthday. Eila Darby.—l wonder if that queer bird could have been a magpie? They have various markings in black and wlnte, or it might perhaps have been a paradise duck.

Zola le Vaillaint. —Your letter about Sunday School at liorne reminded me of my own childhood day|. in the country, when mother held a class in our wide front hall. I hope you will be able to have your Sunday afternoons together again soon. Elsie "Waring.—-I was very sorry to learn you had been ill. Elsie, and hope you are quite well again now. I think it is delightful the way you and your mother do Nature 6tudies together. Elma Lee.—Many thanks for your contribution to the fund, Elma. I am so glad you still enjoy our page every week. Ihe Comfort Ship cargoes have been very good this winter, and our Comfort's Fund a great euccess.

Colin Andrew.—lf you' fill out one- of the forms printed to-day, you will be enrolled.

Mavis Padget.—l am afraid there is not much of a market for pooms, Mavis, as the supply always exceeds the demands.

Joan Hill.—"Why not call your pony "Star," as she has one on her forehead? Hilary Gale. written, but you should avoid expressions like "the heralds of dawn," and "monarch of day," for clouds and sun. These are used so often in descriptions of sunrise that they have become hackneyed. LETTERS, SKETCHES, ALSO BECEIVED FROM:— Cynthia Vaughan, Kathleen Grace, Ronnie Dixon, Norma Holmes, Kathleen Odey, Joyce Burt, Gordon Symes, Clare Sutton. Bathia Luttrell, Hilary, Gale, Clifford Eales, Flossie Grice, Lucy Fyers, Nora Fulton, Phillipa Poole, Joan Davies, Wallace Evre, Flossie Carlisle. Alice Aston, Veda Byrne, Estelle Morton, lan Verry, Mollie Bell and Margaret Walker.