Under the “Totem-Pole”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 843, 11 December 1929, Page 15

Under the “Totem-Pole”

Letters to Redfedtlier axe answered as follow:—Lone Dreamer: Your flowers made a bright splafh of colour in the Wigwam, Lone Dreamer, and I could picture my Brave out in the garden filling that large box. Every layer had some fresh surprise. Thank you very much indeed for your kind thought. . . . Flying Beetle: I am glad you have found my criticisms helpful, Flying Beetle, and I was pleased to see some further competition entries from your per.. That Injured hand of yours is taking a long time to recover. . . Hawkeye: Greetings ana thanks. Hawkeye, and my best wishes t-* First Gordon. The Maori name for the shining cuckoo is Pipiwharauroa, but l am not quite sure whether they answer to it. . . . Singing Stream: My best thanks. Singing Stream. What a gay time your company has been having lately. . . - Fl' mg Cloud: Examinations should be abolished, Flying Cloud, and then my Braves would have fewer worries, how have still a week in which to write a stor-c. A good wish for Flying Cloud. . Still' Woodland: Your second Ota huh u news made exciting reading, Still woodland. I hope you will all have a happytime during the holidays and that your Paddv’s Market will be a great success. . . . lied Star: Your poem is very sweet 11. d Star. There is still time to finish your story. 1 am very sorry to hear that Gliding Moccasin is ill. and I hope she will soon be out of hospital. Please give her mv kind wishes aid also my regards to Keeper of Fires. I saw Sitting Bull the other day. Red Star, and he was glad to hear that you are so much stronger. Lone Singer: .Ping! An arrow from Lone Singer, and it is weighted with a i story. Many thanks, faithful one. THE WORD “JOURNAL" A curious word Is journal. We speak of a weekly journal or a monthly journal, but such expressions are contradictions, for the word journal, which comes to us from the Latin through French, simply means daily, and a weekly journal is therefore a. weekly daily. The earliest newspapers or journals were daily news sheets, but the word gradually came to have an extended meaning. If we use it in tho later sense, we have to add the adjective daily, and speak of a daily journal, which of course means a daily ; daily. It is said that the growth of childr< taxes place almost entirely while thf ; are asleep. n some parts of India the water lily is largely used by the natives as food.