Our Letter Box.

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 19 September 1896, Page 28

Our Letter Box.

Nemesis.— Next week. Jaok. — The yarn is good, but antique. SwoßDPrsH.— Splendid. Any more like it ? M.J.— We cannot write you privately on the matter. Spook.— A very good story, and very like a yarn that appeared about twelve months ago in Truth. S.S.A. — Don't you thick your initials have got mixed ? Are you sure you haven't got them wrone way on ? Lilt Dale.— What a pretty name. Is it your real one ? Do tell us. Sorry to have to disappoint you. Try again. Inquires. — Buy a sixpenny arithmetic and look it up We are not running an elementary school. Colonial ( Invercargill). — Your letter came to hand too late to use this week. Will deal with it in next issue. Btjnthobne— Handed your MSS. to the office boy. He kindled the lire with it. That's the way he * edits ' poems. New Chum.— Yes. September was the month that snow fell in Auckland, two years ago. There wasn't much, but enough to swear by. Mabie M. — Your praises make us blush. If we get many more such nice letters we shall have to set apart an hour a day for blu«hing. Safety. — The inventor of the bicycle is believed to have been a Scotchman named McMilson, who rode a velocipede made by* himself in 1840. C.F.— We cannot publish anonymous letters. If you are afraid to attach your uaue to a letter, it shows you are ashamed of it, and such letters we must decline. Subscriber (Maungatoroto). — You can send in your coupons for the Prize Distribution at any time. Enclose with the coupons an envelope, stamped and addressed, in which your tickets will be forwarded. A special notice to this effect appears directly under the coupon. D. B.— Your argument that ' public opinion should be aroused against large families unless their parents are able to support them ' is all very well, but it is generally the tnirtyBhibingsa week man who has the biggest show of youngsters, and public bentiment isn't in it.