COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 21193, 20 September 1930, Page 22

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

QUOTATION FOR TO-DAY.

Words ivithoiit thoughts never to heaven go.

—Shakespeare.

COUSINS, MY DEARS, Here I am back again, full of good cheer and my only grumble that there’s no room in which to talk about the Island. And why? Because you sent me in so much competition work that my only hope of making room for a fair representation of it is by cutting my own words as short as possible. Now that’s not much to grouch about, is it! But then I always was one to talk and there’s so much of our lovely third island I wanted to put into this letter. Never mind, next week ....... And I’ll be seeing all the play people this afternoon, won't 1—2.30 p.m. in the Orphan's Hall, isn’t it. I hope you are coming replete with ideas for an awfully jolly party. There’s one Little Southlander who hasn’t been as lucky as most of us these holidays—Cousin Margaret Jaquiery broke her leg at Otakaro, and she is in the Southland Hospital bearing the pain of it so bravely. I hope lots of other Cousins will go and see her and lend her books to read. She’s in Ward 2. Good-bye, my dearest youngsters. Let’s, none of us, grow into oldsters ever! My love to you all.