SHADOWGRAPH

Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHADOWGRAPH

will be more marks for April. After your meeting the others might like to earn some marks for their clan. Will you let me know when you are coming to town? I shall look forward to seeing you. Cousin Lily of the Valley: I am pleased to hear that you too are saving the Chronicles. Are you colouring any of the puzzles and illustrations? Are you finding the stamp hints each week useful? They are by a Little Southlander who is as keen a collector as you are. •Cousin Clematis: Could you space the writing better in your stories? The writing is small, and rather difficult to read by artificial light. If this winter is as cold as the ones you speak of, you will be able to go sliding once more—or are you too old to slide with the school children now? Cousin Yum Yum: I wonder how you will like working away from home? Are you coming to town before you go? You will be able to show those older Little Southlanders our Chronicle, and the

stories and poems written by younger cousins. Are your niece and nephew very young? Thank you for the painting. Cousin Silver Star: I have not heard from the Dunedin Cousins recently, either. Perhaps they will write soon. If you work hard this year, I think you could quite easily become an A.C. That is an Able Contributor, and when you have fifty marks you are entitled to write those letters after your name. Cousin White Rose: I hope that this letter is the first of many. Are you coming to see me one day after school? In your Marks Book is kept a record of all the marks you earn for competitions, Sharpeners, and Art Club entries. When you haye fifty competition marks you become an A.C. (Able Contributor), when you have fifty Art Club marks you are an M.A. (Master of Art), and when you have 750 Sharpener marks you take the degree of M.M.S. (Master of Mind Sharpeners). The marks for a degree and prize must all be earned in the one year.

Cousin Joyce Howden: Your entry was too late for last week’s competition. It is Highly Commended with two marks. Could you send your entry a little earlier in future? This one was almost too late, too. Cousin Pat Henderson: Congratulations twice over, Cousin Pat You have won a prize in an essay competition open to all Southland children, and you are the second this year to earn a prize for fifty competition marks. You certainly deserve two lots of congratulations, my cousin. Cousin Cushla: Did you send a card for each one you kept? I will pest yours out to the cousin who sent the others. One of the Little Southlanders who came to see me this week has a stamp album like yours. It is a very good album, isn’t it? Thank you for your newsy letter. Francis Cournane: Are you a Little Southlander, Francis? I will post jou the badge, and if you are not already enrolled, send me a sheet of paper with your name, age and address written on it.

Cousin Cyril Whitaker: You would not be feeling at all happy with a sore foot, would you? Perhaps there will be another poetry competition soon for which you can enter. Would you send your entry a little earlier next week?