COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 23942, 7 October 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My Dear Cousins,

. Our next excitement is Hospital Day, when we visit the,public hospital with Father Christmas and distribute presents which have been contributed by my cousins, or bought with the money seiit in for the Hospital Fund. There will be a competition this year for the best Christmas stockings made by my Little Southlanders. Do you remember the lovely ones sent in for this competition last year? This time I want to see just as many entries. Start now to collect small toys and odds and ends to go in the stockings, and save a piece of netting for the stocking itself. Home-made ones can be much more attractive and contain more surprises than those bought in the shops. Age will be taken into consideration, of course, and there will be prizes for seniors and juniors. Christmas will soon be here sd start collecting for your stocking now. ’ Also, my cousins, there will be prizes for the best article suitable for a grown-up person, for there are patients of all ages in the hospital, and we must provide for them all. Have you any ideas?

The library will be open for only one more month this year, so all the books will be back on the shelves before the term holidays to be strengthened and made ready for another strenuous year. Those who have had books for. some time and do not intend taking any more this term, please return them as soon as possible. Could you remember to put your name, age, and address on your Art Club entries, or if there is not room, on a piece of paper attached to them. To simplify the judging of so many kinds of competitions your Cousin. Betty has to be methodical and put each type on its own particular pile, so the contributions you send become separated, and if your name is not on each one we all have to puzzle our brains trying to decide to whom the entries belong. Sometimes I can recognize the writing, but with x paintings there is no means of indentification. So, my cousins, remember to put your name, age, and address on every entry you send.

Your loving,