OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 10 July 1915, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

B.—Unsuitable. O.R.E.—Declined. U22.—Excuse us—we're busy. Pierre.—Poor stuff —but your own. W.P.F. —Try a typewriter for your complaint. S.I.E. —Excellent a Sunday school story book. M.B.—Ray of light shot from the firmament of your intellect hidden under a bushel-basket. D.F.—The best way to help the gentleman you name is to remain dumber than a pipi on his account. Red X.—ffhe same slander against nurses is levelled in every war, and delightedly accepted by mean people of your stamp. O.McA.—The Canadiani Scotch regiments are really Scotch, and no recruit who does not claim at least one Scottish parent is admitted. p.0'8.-Yes, yes, but you can't expect to run' Cairo from Ponsonby, you know. Why not go to Cairo and see the wounded if you are alarmed. V W.—-You chill us to the marrow with your jaundiced 1 view of the partition of the Empire. Won t you even spare poor little New Zealand to us? Etienne.—Excellent, Etienne! For six months of swat your English is exceptionally'good. In one year, mon ami, you shall teach politicians their own language! Vi —Machinery insufficiently powerful to cope with inevitably increased circulation, should your "epic" be published. Ring ma patent medicine line and try the wholesale chemists.