COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 22146, 14 October 1933, Page 18

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My dearest cousins, . Well, now, what do you think of it? The drawings are excellent, aren’t they? I think Cousin Annie Lawrie’s squirrel is a darling and she thoroughly deserved a prize for it. The poems are splendid and I want to congratulate all those who sent in entries for that section. Buck up with your prose, my dears. You can use your'imaginations better than this surely. I think an animal story has such possibilities—you know, fights in the jungle, fun at the circus, the cats concert and numbers of jolly subjects. None of you seemed to let yourselves go sufficiently. However, on the whole it is an interesting page. Well done ! Isn’t this weather delightful? It makes me feel how really worth living life is. Do my cousins get that feeling-all bubble and brightness and love and laughter? The lambs are the ones to make the most of youth. Happy and carefree they just rollick along with never a thought for the morrow well, that’s where my Little Southlanders differ from our four-legged friends vou must think of the morrow, and, remember that the little seeds of kindness which you sow to-day are going to be the giant trees of love to-morrow. Be full of goodwill, my cousins, and keep this world the jolly old place it is. ' I want some more Peggy Squares, please I I feel really greedy for lots mor? huge bundles. What are you going to do about it? And, by the way, how are'the Christmas Tree gifts progressing? I will answer all your letters next week and have the Mind Sharpeners in the page. • In the meantime Au revoir, my dears, and my very best love to you all.