COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 22345, 9 June 1934, Page 18

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My Dearest Cousins,—

None of you can possibly realize how absolutely thrilled I am! I had not been to my office for two or three days and when I came back I opened the door and WHAT do you think I found? My dears-big paper parcels, small paper parcels and a great big dress basket! All these were addressed to Cousin Betty and each of them is just full of bazaar contributions. What wonderful cousins I have! If only we had not decided to have a Left Over Page this morning I would write you such a long letter that it would probably fill at least a page. As it is you will just have to wait patiently until next week when I will have just piles of things to tell you all. Firstly, there will be the results of the clan markings for May-and I can assure you all it is going to be most difficult to decide which clan has done the best work for last month. Then I will have lots of bazaar plans for you all and also there will be the answers to Mind Sharpeners and the next sharpeners. This week, the Between Ourselves column is very brief because we must keep all the room possible for our Left Over stories. However, I want you all to know how much I loved this week’s letters and also to realize how marvellous I think it is the way our mail-bag is increasing each week. There is nothing so exhiliarating as enthusiasm, my cousins and enthusiasm is one of the most joyous things about youth. When we are young everything is exciting. We derive pleasure from the merest trifles and our life is' one long succession of thrills. You, my Little Southlanders, seem to be possessed with a double dose of enthusiasm and I only hope you will never never lose it. There is nothing so pathetic as boredom and it is so easy to let it grow on you. Remember, my dears, that life is what you make it so do promise me you will continue to make your lives worth while ones. This is all for the moment. Mr Printerman is getting very anxious in case I meander away all our valuable space so, until next Satuiday, goodbye, my "dears. Your loving and proud

Do you know, my dears, that I have received a donation for the Rata Clan from R. W. McCreath, Esq., of Gore. Per Cousin Pat Henderson he sent in a guinea and on behalf of all the Little Southlanders I want to thank him most sincerely.