Points From Letters

Southland Times, Issue 22074, 22 July 1933, Page 19

Points From Letters

Cousin Iris Tuffery writes that 45 I stitches are required for each “Peggy” I square knitted on No. 8 or 9 needles ! in coarse wool.* * * “Little lan was here the other night ■ and he came outside with me. When he J saw the moon, he said, ‘We have got one of them things, too, up at our place’! Isn’t that good?” —Cousin Aileen Henderson. “Don’t you think it would be a good idea if every Little Southlander who won a prize during the year gave a pillow-slip or towel. They would last for years a memento of that little Little Southlander’s win.” —Cousin Aileen Henderson. • * ♦ » “I am knitting myself a green jumper. It is to have a diagonal-collar and cuffs. I shall have to hurry so that I can knit “Peggy” squares. Dorothy has finished one already. It is a lovely idea; what a lovely time the children must have in the Camp. I have two uncles near Pounawea and I am sure it is an ideal place for a holiday and we can feel happy if we .know we are helping to keep some of them cosy at night.” —Cousin Margaret Jellyman. “The daffy bulbs are tight and important, S 3 though they are nearly

bursting with a lovely surprise. I expect great things of them. The peonies which I ruthlessly dismembered have not taken offence, but are pushing up tight little knobs. Don’t you thing a Spring Page would be nice. I’m sure it would hasten spring along, anyway. I always think the sky is most beautiful on a winter night. The stars, are so clear and bright, while the air is like a douch of cold water, only a lot pleasanter.” —Cousin Chrissie Ross.

“Waikana is a little valley seven miles from Mataura. You come up over a very steep hill for four miles through hilly country and not a house to be seen and then you suddenly drop into a valley where we live. There are only nine families living here, and a little school. There is a very steep hill covered in native bush and tussocks opposite our place, and smaller hills all round. The nine houses are from one to three miles apart.” —Cousin Aileen Henderson. *

“'The wind is sighing softly and the curtains are blowing in and out of the various windows. The sky is very dark and cloudy giving promise of more rain which we need. Except fox' the birds, geese and the calves all is quiet. My sister and I are alone in the house, so we are having a lovely quiet afternoon. All is quiet, as the lull before a storm. Our garden is looking very new just at present as it is being dug and the currant and fruit trees have all been shifted, a part of the large vegetable garden having been turned into an orchard, whereas before the fruit trees were just here, there and everywhere.” —Cousin Doris Todd. » * ♦ *

“I have a chilblain on my big toe! The nasty thing itched until it awoke me in the middle of last night, and I had to dive under the blankets and at-

tack it quite savagely until it learnt sense. We have a teacher who once told us about the one and only chilblain that visited her! She used auto suggestion, and persuaded the chilblain it wasn’t there until it became quite confused and passed away. It seems to put teachers on a much lower level when they too have such afflictions. Makes them almost human, in fact. I hope you don’t get chilblains, anyway.” —Cousin Chrissie Ross.