Aunt Hilda's Letter Box

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 18 (Supplement)

Aunt Hilda's Letter Box

Gladys Levy: As it happened, I did just have time to get it in. I hope Gloria is pleased. Love to you.—A-H. Daphne Dye: Thank you for new address. It will sooa be- the concert. Love to all. and I hope you are all coming.—A.H. Reta Campbell: Tou did very well, Reta. That was just the right kind of present, wasn’t it? Love.—A.H. Seppran Rowe: If you buy a book (Is 3d> you can start after the holidays. Can you come to the social which you see on the notice-board? You would meet the others then. Lovte.—A.H. Andy Chambers: I couldn’t believe that was the same boy who used to scribble so. Look at the laurel! Well done.—A-H. Mary Crawford: What about trying to paint? Just send in what you think will be nice for the page. Love.—A.H. Dole Collins: I will be very pleased to receive any little Christmas gifts. Why not call the kitten Mascotte? “Tiger” is a bit rough, I think. Love.— A-H. „ _ Colin Swanson: See “Notes or the Week” for answers. Pleased to hear from you.—A.H. Joan Collins: Welcome in to a trier and your entry was only just in time. I hope to seo lots more of your work. Love.—A.H. Colin Kemp: Give me a few days notice when you come, Colin. I will love to take you out. Happy times.— A. IT. Eileen Kemp: I wish I had been there to share the chocolates! If I know you are coming, make it Thursday or Friday. Lots of love.—A.H. Ngorae Carter: Will try to place jokes in Comic. Love to Ngarae.—A.H. Raster Port: Well, I hope you will work hard and stick to that standard. You will do it if you work hard. Love to you.—A.H. Alix Murfitt: Oh! you will play quifie well some day, I know. Do your practice every day. Love.—A.H. Patty Stratford: Just the very things we needed, Patty. Thank you so much. Love to you.—A.H. Phyllis Nielson: I hope you will enjoy your new pen-friend. Wasn’t that encouraging Love.—A.H. Colin Chambers: Your name as an artist will appear next Saturday. I missed it somehow. Love to all.—A.H. June East: What a happy re-union you will all have. Many happy thoughts to you.—A.H. Graham East: Did you have a happy birthday? 1 hope you did. LoW».—A.H. Maxie Caldow: Thank you for trying, dear, and if you do not feel satisfied it shows you can criticise your own work, and so you will progress. Lots of love and I return your good wishes. —A.H. Joyce Johns: Yes, when our members draw'the pictures, they are more interesting to paint. Glad to hear of you. Watch how you spell “niece.” Love.—A.H. Plorenoe Falconer: So glad to hear the cake was such a success. I have never had a failure. I have two made. Love.—A.H. Betty Brodie: The silver paper fund is closed, Betty, but we are always glad of the cigarette cards. Thank you for jokes. Love.—A.H. Constant Reader: Thank you for the reminder. Don’t know how I missed itHave rectified it. Good wishes. —A-H. Joyce Bradbury: Aha! How nice to get this pretty little letter from Joyce I wonder if Father Xmas will come to me? That was a nice man you drew, iwasn’t it? Love to little Joyce.—A-H. Minnie Bakes: Thank you. • dear, for your little suggestions. They sound very pretty. Love to you.—A.H. Betty Wood: I like to see that neat careful writing coming in. May use poem in Comic. Love.—A.H. Phyllis Rail: The next marks com petition will start in February. You will see it in the Page. When you get 100, you win a book. Love.—A.H. Kyra Richards: I will be so happy to see you at the concert. I just love to have all my family round me, like a hen and her chickens! Love.—A.H. Bsme Rorsley: Yes, you always learn if you try at every competition. That was a nice long letter, wasn’t it? Love to Esme.—A.H. Marcella Connelly: Welcome to another "Westport niece, I have quite a family there now. How kind of uncle to bring you the paper. Love to Marcella.—A.H. Irene Norrie: What a lot of work those boys must have been! I hope you have a very happy holiday and so glad you have work. Love.—A.H. Roy West: Will see what I can do, Roy. Would like to see better writing. Good wishes. —A.H. Jean Ellis: So glad you tried, Jean. That is a lovely gift for Christmas. It was just fine to hear of you again. Love. —A.H. Doreen Chinnery: Watch the paper for foreign addresses. I always print them as they come in. Did you have a happy picnic? Love to Doreen.—A.H. Deo Newell: Have posted card and badge, Leo. Hope you like them and being in the family. Try hard to rear the magpie. Love.—A.H. Jack Richards: Welcome to another friend from Little River. Bees are a ![||in!llll!ll!l!ll!llllllllll(illllllillll!)l)lll(lll!lllllllllllllllll!llilinilllllllllll(llll(!HIIIII

dreadful nuisance when they get lnte chimney. Happy holidays to Jack.— AJan Hewion: Welcome in, Alan, and I do not think the family will ever cease to grow. Writing is neat. Love. —A.H.Bob Miller: Both jokes have been printed. Bob, so I cannot use them. You are welcome as a nephew. Love. —A.H. Joan Smith: Thank you for the snap, and I will use later, but am full for some weeks. You will get a surprise some night in the Page. He is a darling little fellow. Love to Kingsford and Joan.—A.H. Iris Anderson: Posted tickets and hope you can sell a few. I hope the concert is a huge success. Good luck to the tomatoes.—A.H. Marjorie Preece: That is a load off your mind. Which High School are you going to? All success in the future. — A.H. Audrey Thompson: Thank you for taking so much time over the poem, dear, but it is too well-known to print. Love. —A.H. Joan Batle: Fancy you big enough to ride a bicycle! I suppose you can help with the ironing at times, too. Happy days.—A.H. George Cummings: Welcome In to a new nephew, and we hope you’ll be very happy in the circle. There are lots of members down at Lyttelton. Love.— A.H. Faith Harrington: Poem too well known to print, but it is a very beautiful one. Love to a little artist in Wellington.—A.H. Jessie Franklin: Quite a good attempt* but use only one side of the paper, please; then Mr Printer may know you. Love.—A.H. Raney May Clark: Is for mother and 6d for you. Glad you will be there! Cigarette Exchange is on Saturday mornings. Love to all. —A-H. Gladys Bevy: I seem to remember hazily the name and am glad to see you taking up the Page once more. Love to Dolly Dimple!—A-H. Prank Grade: Glad to receive your entry, Frank, and wish you succeea. This weather will suit you, won’t It? Love and success.—A.H. Cora M’Kenzle: Cannot remember the little girl’s name. Can you? Then I will forward the address. I would have chosen “My chief likes and dislikes,” but they ■fi-ere all good subjects. Love. —A-H. Mary Thompstone: Ha! Ha! I’d like to know the why of that, too! You may find it in the Comic. Love.—A.H. R. Orme: Always pleased to help you when you send in neat and punctual reports. Good luck to the club for next year.—A.H. Helen Powell: Well, I know you have always heaps to interest you. You had a very happy birthday evidently. Love. —A.H. Colin Kemp: Be plesed to see you when in town. Love to Colin. —A.H. Phyllis Rielson: Ambition, I think. Is the brain’s growing pains; a reaching out after higher and bigger things. How did you fare in the exams? Poem a little tragic. Keep on believing.—A.H. Blaine Slmmon&s: I hope your birthday was your happiest day this year, Nice to see you interested once more. Love.—AH. lan Turner: Be pleased to see you at the Stamp Circle, next year. We have jolly fun there. Thank you for poem. Love.—A.H. Prank Dixey: The entries for the Xmas page had to be topical, Frank, 1.e., about Xmas, so that puts your poem out. But I will use it one day soon. It has quite a good swing to it. See Comic next Thursday. Good wishes.— Brenda Blackburn: I am so pleased you will be at the concert, dear. I hope to see many hundreds of my family there. Love.—A.H. Bucy Darling: I hope Father Xmas gives vou your best wish, dear. I would have liked to have seen your curly hair after the summer shower. Love.— AH. Joan Darling: Half a mile is surely a long way for you to swim. So glad you enjoy what I write for you. Happy days.—A.H. Hamilton Dunlop: If you did your beßt, you oould not do any more. I hope you have done excellently, but if you haven’t, you have tried. Thank you for the jokes. Best wishes. —A-H. YAWNING. Any polite person, when yawning, covers the open mouth with his band, but it was not politeness that led to this practice in the first place. The custom is centuries old, and in .vneien*times, when superstition was rife and the air was supposed to be peopled with evil spirits, men and women and boys and girls were afraid that if they opened their mouths some evil spirit might enter and go down into their bodies, so that they would become demon-possessed. When, therefore, they were compelled to open the mouth, as in yawning, they covered it with the hand. The superstition has died out, but we still continue the practice out of mere politeness. That we do not cover the open mouth merely that other persons may not see it *.» clear from the fact that it is not the custom to put the hand before the open mouth when,singing or talking The actor believed he could act, and he let the world know it. “ When I am on the stage,” he deslared, “ I lose sense of all about me, the audience completely disappear# “Yes,” said his candid friend. “And who can blame it?”