Enrolments

Southland Times, Issue 19966, 4 September 1926, Page 22 (Supplement)

Enrolments

The following have been enrolled dui the week:— Cousin Joyce Bruland (13) Waianiwa.

Cousin Kia Ora: Being able to read (and appreciate) books is quite an accomplishment, my dear, and you can cultivate it by taking care in the selection of your reading. That is quite an important accomplishment, believe me, and one which goes a very great deal in one’s education. lam sure you will find the gramophone a source of constant enjoyment, and you won’t take long to learn to dance, either. I’m sure of that. And once you start you’ll get ever so keen. I do hope you recover your purse —five pennies and one or two sixpences and three-pences sounds a very great deal to

Cousin Winiform: The flattering things you say about me in your letter, my dear, please me very much, although I am sure you know I don’t really deserve them. And about the bazaar, it was the Little Southlanders, for the most part, who achieved its success. I hope your sister is not suffering any ill effects from her visit to the dentist. You must have enjoyed taking the little baby out—did you wheel her, or could she walk? You must write and tell me all about your holidays, please.

Cousin Jolly Jack Tar: I am very glad to receive anything at all from you, my dear, and the fact that you can only write in pencil at present mustn’t worry you in the least. If you can manage to come and see me, I will be very glad. But if not, I shall just look forward to seeing you another time. Ido hope your big sister is better soon.

Cousin Silver Phoenix: I wish you had come up to see me while you were in town. I didn’t see much of you at the bazaar, did I! Your father must have been ever so wellliked and respected to have received so many gifts from bis friends. The country is certainly best in this weather, I agree, with the birds and the flowers and the sun and, the trees. But I must stick up for the town, too, it also .has its advantages, you know. I think it all depends on what one is used to, don’t you? Cousin Goldstream: If you go up two flights of stairs, after coming along to the “Times” Office, in Esk Street, straight up from the station, on your right hand side, and ask the first person you see when you get up, to direct you to me, you will have no difficulty at all in finding me, my dear. Let me knuw when you are coming, and I will make a point of being in. I am glad you enjoyed the bazaar so much—the tray cloth you made has been ever so much admired, and the lady who won it was ever so pleased with it. Cousin Smiles: What a popular little girl you must be, my dear, to have received so many messages and gifts from the Cousins. Well, little Cousin, you must have deserved them, and by coming out bright and cheery

and well again, everybody will be amply repaid. You must thank your Auntie very, very much for the lovely lot of things she sent for the bazaar. She must have gone 4o a great deal of work, and everything sold, as soon as t*ey were on view! I am looking forward to that photo very, very much.. It will be a lovely thing to have. Next time you are not going to do anything as silly again, are you! Cousin Mellow Moon: I do hope you have a lovely time at the ball, my dear. I remember going to the last one held here — it must be four or five years ago now. You two Cousins will seem quite “grown up” after attending a real ball! You will please write and tell me all about it, won’t you, please? I am so sorry about the mistake in your age, and am glad you realised it was really a mistake, and not done intentionally! I hope you read my comments of the competitions.

Cousin Hazel Nut: However did you burn your hand, my dear? That was a most unfortunate thing to do, especially in the holidays. Ido hope it is getting well and truly better by now. You write exceedingly well with your left hand —I tried* and I couldn’t make sense out of what I wrote at all! You must have been proud of Peter when he caught his first rabbit and I can just imagine how proud Peter must have been. Despite its one eye and 34 legs, I think you had fairly conclusive proof that it had been alive! Cousin Molly: What a lovely thing you found in your dip, my dear! And your writing is eveUso much better with the pen, too! Please don’t give in when you think the ’Sharpeners look hard, my dear just keep on trying, and make yourself do them! I think the arrangements for your new meetings are splendid, don’t you ! Cousin Somebody’s Sweetheart: What a lovely holiday you must be having, dear, and what lovely weather to enjoy it in! No, I have never been there but like your account of it very much. Are there any bush flowers out yet?

Cousin Rita: Thank you ever so much, my dear, for the beautiful violets, which reached me on Wednesday night all fresh and fragrant. What big ones to be grown outside! The big ones generally seen here are imported, and are never so well perfumed. I appreciate your thought very, very much. I am so very sorry that you were ill, my dear, and unable to be present at the bazaar. I did so want to see you again after such a long time. But the very first time you are in town you will come up and see me, won’t you? It was very good of your sister to paint the cushion for us. If you have any means of sending it in to me, I will arrange a guessing competition later on, with it as a prize, so that quite a lot of money could be made on it, to be put into the funds.

Cousin Brownie: I do hope your father hadn’t gone without you on Monday, dear! I suppose I would have heard from you if he had. I hope, too, that you di<l well in the other competition you entered for. I suppose you will gain a second place, at all events! You have been very industrious this week, and are doing splendidly. I notice a marked improvement all round. Cousin Sailor: I am so glad you really did enjoy the bazaar so much, both of you, and I hope it won’t be the last we have, don’t you? I am glad, too, that you are not losing interest in the Page, but keeping up your work for it. Don’t ever let that slacken, will you!

Cousin Sunflower: I am sitting back and waiting for the “fit” to “take you,” my dear. I do so hope it is going to take you soon, and often. I should like to speak to you about your drawing, too. So will you, one day, come up anil discuss it with me—or, rather, be discussed at? I do hope you have a good time at the ball—l’ll say you deserve to do so for the good girl you’ve been all the year. I shall expect to hear all • —everything—about it, mind! Cousin Snowflake: Thank you so much for naming the doll after me, my dear. I hope she will live up .to her name! You certainly have an advantage over the other schools—when they are going back, you will still have another week of holidays; And what lovely weather you are having for them, too!

Cousin Dympna: At the next bazaar, my dear, I shall hope to see you, if not before. We’ll forget about this one, and look forward to then, eh? What have you been doing during the holidays?

Cousin Peter: It was a pity that it was so wet on the morning of the bazaar, and again in the evening. It certainly would not have been worth coming in to get soaking wet. Would’nt it be lovely to really go to school, in a little launch, or even a dinghy! Cousin Kamahi: There is a basket and a serviette here belonging to you, my dear. Will you come up for them this coming week, after you have returned from your delightful holiday? I think cricket is a splendid game, tom-boyish or not. I can quite see you will not want to Come home again! As you say, one is always learning as one reads, providing, of course, that one chooses what one reads with some care.

Cousin Apple Blossom: I am sure you must have been tired after the very strenuous work you did for the bazaar, you and the rest of your hard-working clan, and I was not in the least surprised at not hearing from you immediately. I am sorry that you are unable to continue going to the meeting on Saturday afternoons, as you, of course, were the organiser of the clan. But perhaps the clan will be able to come to