Result of the Third Ingenuity Competition.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue X, 8 September 1900, Page 470

Result of the Third Ingenuity Competition.

You all seem Io be fond of the Ingenuity Competitions, and I was highly delighted at the number of replies sent in. So much was I pleased that I have determined to give a second prize, though none was prom’sed. FIRST PRIZE. The first prize for making a sentence out of CHILDREN goes t o COl SIX ELSIE WHYTE, Oneliunga. who sends the following: — China Has Important Legations I>a lint lessly Representing Every Nation. SECOND PRIZE. COUSIN ILA FABIAN. Children Have Impressively Lt-amed Drink Ruins Every Nation. O l’ll ER SENTENCES MADE FROM “CHILDREN.” I have only room to give very few of tin- other sentences sent in. Here are some of them: Cousin Hilda Intends Learning Dancing Regularly Every Night.— Cousin Newton Andrews. (Tonje Having Imprudently Left Doornspruit,•Roberts Entered Natal. Cousin Lulu Browning. By a coincidence—an odd chance, Unit is Cousin Sydney sends exactly the same sentence. Children have ideas little developed, rendering education necessary.—Cousin Charley Hobbs. Chinese Hute Integrity, Love Dark Repellent. Evi! Natures.—Cousin Adelaide. Careless, happy. innocent little darlings, rarely ever naughty. Childish hours induce long dreamy reveries each night. Children happy in light, Dreading robliers each night. These three are by Cousin Victor. The first would certainly have taken a prize, but there is no verb in it. The second I should place for third prize had there been one.

COUSINS' CORRESPONDENCE. Dear Cousin Kate. — It is such a long- time since I wrote, that I feel ashamed to write now. I have such a lot to tell you that I don’t know where to begin. I have had my little dog a long time. We call him “Buller." after General Buller. He is such a dear little fellow, and one day when mother was cleaning the grate, she missed her broom, and when we had searched everywhere for it. we found that Buller had it at the top of the garden. Our school flag was hoisted last. Wednesday fortnight, and although it was very wet we enjoyed it very much. 1 must now say goodbye.— From Cousin Lucy. [Dear Cousin Lucy,—l am glad you have commenced to write again, and was much interested to hear of Buller. It is a very good name for a dog 1 think, but if lie lives up to his name he will be a terror to fight. All the schools have flags now I think. Do not leave me so long without a letter this time as you did last.—Cousin Kate. | ® ® ®

Dear Cousin Kate, —I can only write a few lines just now as 1 am in a hurry. Will you please send me another collecting card ami I will try and get some more for the cot fund. 1 am going to dress a doll and send it. in lieu of the one you sent by mistake. I am going to have my photo taken. I think, and if so I will send you one as soon as they are finished. I think the compositions on a “Ship on Fire” and “John Flaxman" were very good. I am afraid I must now close, with love to all the cousins and yourself. 1 remain. Cousin Winnie. Wellington. P.S.—l wrote a composition on "Spring." but it was too late to semi it.

| Dear Cousin Winnie, —Thank you for the note and for the promise to try and collect more. You are very good indeed to do it, and I am truly grateful. Thank yon also for dressing the doll; in fact my whole answer to your letter is nothing but thanks! - Cousin Kate.] ® ® ®

Dear Cousin Kate, — I was so pleased when I saw that you welcomed me to your band of cousins, and I thank you very much for the pretty badge you sent me. I suppose you will be thinking that we have forgotten to send you back the card, but you must not think that at all. as we have collected one pound ten shillings, a-t’.d we are waiting for someone to go to Pokeno. about eight miles distant from here, where they can get a postal note. I am going to go in for the geographical competition, but I do not know if I have got the right places or not. aS we have no post office guide. My sister and I have five calves to feed. I feed the two youngest, and they are such lively little things, ami whenever I let them out of the shed they run round ami round the paddock until they are tired out. What a number of competitions there are now. tire there not? We have a Hower garden in the front of our house, and the flowers are all beginning to come out. — I remain, your affectionate cousin, Alice.

[ Dear Cousin Alice. — I was indeed astonished and most delighted to have so verv large a sum returned with vour cards by Cousin Bertha and yourself. You must indeed have worked hunt, anil I am proud to have such energntic and kindly cousins. You have just as good a chance of being right with the imines as any other cousin. Five eaiv.s must lie rather a trouble to feed I should think. What Howers are you planting now for the

slimmer? I put in some petunias this week, but the snails have damaged them sadly.—Cousin Kate. | ® ® ® Dear Cousin Kate, —'.Many thanks for your welcome letter, which I saw in the “Graphic.” It has been very wet and rough weather here lately. It was raining very hard all day on Saturday, and the creek, which runs through the valley, rose up very high, and the plank on which we cross going to school was washed away, so now we have to go about a quarter of a mile further round to be able to cross the ereek. Our eat Tiny, though she is getting so old. she is not getting blind. She can see as well as our other eats. I am going in for the geographical competition. Seeing in the “Graphic” all the letters from the different cousins, you must have a great many of them now. you must have a lot of writing to do to answer all the cousins’ lletters. 1 received my badge and collecting card quite safely. 1 think the badge very nice. 1 have collected fourteen shillings and sixjienee, which I am sending.—l remain. your loving cousin, Bertha. [Dear Cousin Bertha, —As you will see from the answer to Cousin Alice’s letter I was both surprised and delighted at the great success you have had collecting, and I warmly thana you as well as Alice. At a house in the country where I sometimes go there is a plank across the creek, and it is fastened on either side by a swinging chain so that the floods cannot wash it away. It is rather a good plan, is it not?—Cousin Kate. |

Dear Cousin Kate, —1 am writing a short letter to tell you that those five sentences for the "Mafeking" Competition which had no name with them were mine. I sent a letter with them, but I did not put my name on the paper with the sentences. 1 am glad you thought some of them good. It is lovely weather here just now, the days are getting much longer and warmer, and the spring flowers are beginning to come out. Will you send me a collecting card, please? 1 asked you for one in my last letter, but have not received it. I hope I shall till-it. We have had thirteen invalided soldiers returned from the war. Such a number of their relatives were so pleased to welcome them back to Wellington again. Wellington has been full of people from all parts of the country. As the large shops have been holding sales of drapery the people were like liees coming- out of a hive. The sessions are on too, but 1 have never been to the House. Did you see “The Geisha?” I went to see it, anil liked it verymuch. I also went to the kinematograph and saw some wonderful pictures of the London Fire Brigade at work. There were such awful scenes, huge buildings on fire, and the men were ascending the ladders to the topmost stories, and rescuing women and little children. On one high ladder there was a dog walking up in front of a fireman, leading him up into a room where a child was supposed to be. He could not see the child at first for the dense smoke which filled the room, but at last he found it on a ehair and saved its life. 'The brigade gets so quickly to a fire, as they (the men) harness the horses by electricity, and when a certain bell rings the horsts put themselves into the shafts, and are really to start, and soon subdue the Are. I think the picture 1 like best of the fire scenes was one where a fireman. after saving several lives, went back for a dog which was in the burning building. Many other pictures were shown, but they were chiefly alKiut the war in Africa, and the Isittle of Soreal, such sad scenes flint 1 was quite pleased when fighting the Boers was over, as far as the kinematograph was concerned. How sad it was the Duke of Saxe-Coburg dieil so suddenly at his castle in Germany, and what a shocking occurrence it was when King Humbert of Italy was assassinated. 1 am afraid that many other lives of great, personages will is- in danger from the Anarchists. Now. dear Cousin Kate, I think I have told you

all the news, so I will now conclude.—With best love to you and all the cousins, I remain your loving cousin. At hie.

| Dear Cousin Athie, —1 hope you will see this letter as soon as it is printed, for I hate to think of your being disappointed about the badge and card. I want to semi them ever so much, but by some mistake your full name is not in my address boot, and you only sign yourself Cousin Athie. Send me a letter with your full name on a little scrap of separate paper. Mimi you don’t forget. Your letter is mist delightful. 1 quite enjoyed it.—Cousin Kate.] ® ® ® Dear Cousin Kate, —1 am sending you two sentences on the word “Children” and the four words in the “Geography” competition. What have I to do to become a cousin ?—1 remain your loving cousin. Charley. [Dear Cousin Charley,—l have placed your answer in the hands of the judge. I do not yet know the result, but it will be printed on the same page as this next week. You have only to send me your full name if you want to be a cousin, and then you have to write whenever you feel inclined, which 1 hope will be often. Also, if you like, you can have a card and help collect for the Hospital eot.—Cousin Kate.] ® ® ® Dear Cousin Kate, —1 am very glad you were pleased with my letter, and I am going to try this week, and 1 hope I will be more successful. I am going in for the geographical competition and so is my brother. I like reading the other cousins’ letters, and some of them are very interesting and nicely put together. I see in some of the cousins’ letters that they are expecting badges and cards, and I wondered what they were for, but now I know. I would like to have a card and iiailge too if you wouldn’t mind. We had rain for eight days without stopping, and we nearly’ had a flood. We are going to get the “Graphic” every week now, and I am going to try and write every week. I will send my geography- on another page. 1 must not take up too much of your space.— 1 remain your loving cousin, Daisy. Paeroa. | Dear Cousin Daisy,—l hope you will not lie disappointed, but it takes a whole week after I get your letter before it can appear in the “Graphic.” I am really very pleased indeed to have you for a cousin and to know you like the children’s page and the letters. We are getting so many new cousins that perhaps we shall soon have a third children’s page. I 'will send a card and badge.—Cousin Kate.] ® ® ® Dear Cousin Kate, —I am going to be a. cousin and try to do the best I can with the competitions and essays. We are getting the “Graphic” every week now, and so I will write whenever 1 can. In this week’s “Graphic" I saw in it the geographical competition, and I started at once to do it. After some hard work looking through the maps 1 managed to find some names, and then I wrote them down on a piece of paper.—With best wishes, from Cousin Erie, Paeroa.

| Dear Cousin Eric,- —I hope I shall be able to provide you with some fun in the “Graphic” and make you glad to have it regularly. I have placed your answers to the competition in the lx>x with the others. I wonder who will win. We shall know next week. Cousin Kate.] ® ® ® My Dear Cousin Kate,—l am writing you a short, note. Last, Saturday 1 caught a goldfinch, and put it in a cage, which I made myself, for it seemed quite lively at first, ai d hopped from rung to rung, |>eeping till rough at me. I gave it some grass with a tiny seed on it, and it pecked at that, but in the evening it seemed to droop, and I put it in my bedroom. But when I looked in the cage next morning 1 found it on its back in a corner of the the cage dead. I was very sorry indeed, and hope I will lie able to get another some day, but not to lose. There was a b’g flood in the river near our house the other day. 1 saw big logs coming down the river. There are plenty of goldfinches about now. flying about our house. I think I must, close my letter, with love to all the cousins, anil vou. —I remain, your loving cousin, Norman.—

I will be glad to have a collecting card and badge. (Dear Cousin Norman, —It was a great pity you lost that poor little bird. 1 expect he could not endure captivity. 1 should like to see a big Hood on oue of the larger rivers. It must be a fine sight.—Cousin Kate.] ® ® ® Dear Cousin Kate, —I am sending you three solutions of the geographical puzzle. I have never entered for anything of the kind before, and so will not be at all disappointed if 1 am unsuccessful; indeed, T should be very much surprised should I gain a prize, for the competition is not nearly so simple as one might, believe it to be, there being so many places in New Zealand the. names of which commence in that way.—Cousin Ethel Ada.

[Dear Cousin Ethel Ada,—-I am glad you have entered for the competition. As you say, it is not nearly so easy as it looks. Good fortune has indeed something to do with it, I think. Don’t you?—Cousin Kate.]