OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 796, 31 March 1894, Page 18

OUR LETTER BOX

Kate, Pabhell. — Afraid you will have to wait till leap year.

Abgus.— We received your letter, and have forwarded same to Mr Biss.

A Waibangi Corbespondent. — Letter reoieved too late to alter item. Quite harmless, anyway. A Daisy Flat Cobbespokdent. — We cannot deal with the shortcomings of another paper. You should address your correction to the paper concerned. Nugget, Cobomandei,. — The verseß are, as you well express it, ' rather water-worn.' Stills there is promise in them. Fancy you can do better. Why don't you try ? Ktbosh. — A four-line item wandering about in two columns of words. Learn the art of ' boiling down ' if you would win the author's crown, and a place for your effusions in our valuable columns. A Port Fitzeoy, (Gt. Babrieb) Correspondent — Thanks for notes. Par about the ' reaction ' was especially good. We put amongst our • Fretful Porcupines ' —a sure sign that it was appreciated. Glad to have such pars at any time. Cbyil, Dunedin.— Your lines on ' Death the Tryant ' moved us, moved us very much. But not to tears, Cryil, not to tears. These deathless lines should be framed and glazed, and hung up, as a model for young poets, sucking TennyBons, and Brownings,— a model of what they should avoid. Poetry is evidently not your forte.

Nellie, Wellington. —Exoessive blushiog is caused by self-consciousness, and extreme nervousness. Oar prescription is : go out more. Foroe yourself to accept all the invitations you can get. In three months you won't blush half so often. In three years, the chances are you won't be able to blush at all. C.A.P., Chbistchoech. — Sunday-sohool pars of a moral and improving nature are of no use to this paper. And the soulful young curate with the hectic flush, and the golden hair, and the gentle voice, who gets his feet wet and catches cold while distributing tracts, and fades away and dies of rapid consumption, we have met before — in print. We never expect to meet him in real life, and we are not particularly anxious to. Basket.