COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 20664, 20 April 1929, Page 22

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Dearest Cousins, I am glad, you are all so enthusiastic about the bazaar, now that plans have definitely been made.' I should like to say heaps to you about it, only you can see how I have already had to cut “Between Ourselves” terribly short, on account of the wonderful amount of original work you are sending in. That’s the way, my dears—keep it up. About the bazaar we will talk to-day, when I hope to see large numbers of you at the Orphans’ Hall, Earnslaw Street, at 2.30. I do want to quote a little of a letter one boy wrote me :

I’m beginning to feel jolly ashamed of the boys. We have 160 or 170 boys and only two or three bother with the competitions. Regarding the “Nuisance” competition, I think it is jolly hard, though I will have a try at it. I like one-word competitions; they seem to give more r ope. “Traitor” was good. Revenge! Death! Fool! Coward! They are all good, in my opinion. But it is not much use if the boys will not write. If the competitions become monthly there has absolutely got to be ructions, and I’ll be one. (I wish I was a girl), but only for that reason. You’ll get my opinion later, re the girls. . Well, I will close, hoping we may have some decent boys in the Page. There’s one for the boys, from another boy, too. And I wonder what the girls think of being called “ructions”? I wonder if that will spur them on to answer back in next week’s competition? Fond love to you all—r l/U -i P.S.—And please don’t forget about the bazaar competitions published last week. All entries can be sent in any time now, and April 30th closes the first one, you know. —COUSIN BETTY.