COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 22

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My dear Cousins,

One of my Little Southlanders has suggested that if I smile my very brightest smile at Mr Weatherman, he might send us some fine days, just to show us that Summer has not quite deserted us. I think it would be much much better if all my cousins joined with me to make such a big smile that our friend Mr Weatherman could not possibly refuse to send Mr Sun. When you walk along the street, do you keep your eyes wide open? Do you? I know you think that you do, but how many of you have noticed signs that Annie Autumn is coming? What messengers does Annie send to show that she is preparing to visit us? If you have been very wide awake you will be able to tell me without hesitation. If you have not had those clever servants of yours open and observant, then speak very severely to yourself, and next time you are outside, look about you, and see what you can see. How busy you will all be this week. Every home will have a school room, and all the distant relations of Percy Pencil, Penelope Pen, Isobel Inkpot, Ronnie Rubber and Patty Paper will be brought from drawers and cases and set out on Timothy Table’s cousin ready for work with a very big capital W. Just look at all the lessons ts be done! Perhaps after your long holiday they will not seem like work after all. You will be so glad to see your old friends Jimmy Geography and Harry History that you will really enjoy answering those questions and solving those problems. Do not forget that the second Art Club competition closes next Tuesday. Already there are three brightly coloured paintings in our Art Gallery, and next week others will join them on the wall of my room. My eyes often stray to our artists’ corner. Please remember to mark your name clearly on the entry. Alice Album has come to stay, and is waiting for her visitors. She has numbers of clean empty pages ready for the photographs of Little Southlanders. Gertie Gumpot is waiting, too, for she thinks she might be able to help. The first of the Clan Note-books has been sent in, and I hope to see the others shortly. Have my business-like secretaries made a note of all the February marks? Don’t forget,'secretaries, that any items of interest to clan members will be published in Clan Notes and News.

Your loving

COUSIN BETTY.