A PAGE for LITTLE PEOPLE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 38, 27 September 1923, Page 39

A PAGE for LITTLE PEOPLE

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My dear Little People,

I hope v you will find the poetry I am sending you interesting and that some of you will guess what it is that is in all these strung places. Next week we will have some “snaps” again; I have a few new friends for us all to look at. A few children are still writing in pencil; what am I to do with them? Quite a number of .Little People are sending subscriptions for the orphanage; our list is growing.

Already acknowledged, £9 11s; Anna Daley, os; John O’Brien, 2s; Kathleen Egan, 2s Gd; total, £lO Us 6d.

—Anne.

’Twas whispered in Heaven, ’twas muttered in Hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of Earth ’twas permitted to rest, And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. ’Twill be found in the sphere when ’tis riven asunder, Be seen in the lightning and heard in the.thunder. ’Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth and awaits him at death, Presides o’er his happiness, honor and health, Is the prop of his house and the end of his wealth. In the heaps of the miser ’tis hoarded with care, But is sure to be lost on his prodigal heir.

It begins every hope, every wish it must bound, With the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned, Without it the soldier and seaman may roam,

But woe to the wretch who expels it from home! la the whispers of conscience its voice will be found, Nor e’en in the whirlwind of passion is drowned. ’Twill not soften the heart, and tho’ deaf be the ear It will make it acutely and instantly hear. Yet in shade let it rest like a delicate flower, Ah! breathe on it softlyit dies in an hour. (Catherine Maria Fanshawe). Dear Anne, — 1 join your happy band. I am Ten years of age and I am in standard four at School. I am going to St. Gerard’s, Convent at Alexandra, 1 go down in the train in the morning and home at night. There are about Seventy-four children attending the Convent also five Nun’s —My teacher’s name is Sister TJsurla. I have three Brothers and three Sisters. Four of us attend school, one of my younger Brothers will start school on Monday next. I would like to see my letter in the Tablet, I think I am the first to write Anne, from Clyde. I hope you escaped the Flu Anne. I will close now with best wishes from Eileen Keane, Clyde. (Yes, Eileen, yours is my first letter from Clyde. I’m sure you found it very cold this winter going to school. I had the ’Flu but am well now. —Anne.) Dear Anne,—l do not think you have had any letters from Hastings yet so I thought I would write to" you. I am in Std 2 and I go to the Convent and I learn music. I have two brothers in Saint.. Patrick’s College in Wellington. Have you ever been to Hastings Anne It is a lovely place but it has been very wet and cold here this winter. I am just getting over the influenza and I have been in bed for a week but I am nearly better now. I have a little kitten, can you give me a nice name for him. This is all for this time so Goodbye Anne from your new fond friend, Agnes Hempseed, Hastings, H.B. (Yours is the first letter from Hastings Agnes, glad to hear from you. No. I have never been to Hastings but have heard much about it. Call your little kitten “Buster.’’— Dear Anne,—This is my first letter to you so you will not expect much from me. I would .like to ask you can I 5® °! e ,? f your litt,e fri ends. My father and mother get the lablct and I like reading the little peoples page/ I

am nine-years Old, and I am in std 2. I go to the state school as there is no convent near. My sister goes to the Ashburton convent to learn music. 1 will write more next time. Yours truly, Teresa Morgan, Mount Somers. (Yes, Teresa you can be one of my friends and I’m right glad to hear from you. —Anne.) Dear Anne,- —Seing so many letters in the Tablet from children I thought it would •be nice to write to you. I am nine years old and go to tho New Plymouth convent and am in the, third standard. I have been to thirteen schools don’t you think that is a lot. I have no brothers or sisters and my mother and father live a long way in the bush but 1 live with Mrs. Smith and her Three children. So I just say she is my other mother and the little hoys and girl my sisters and brothers we are very happy and often go for picnics and have lots of fun. In the school holidays 1 go to see my mother and father. I do hope dear Anne you will find room to print my letter. Yours sincerely, Ray Giles, New Plymouth, (Glad to hear from you Ray but you mustn’t write in pencil again. What a lot of schools von have been to Anne.) Dear Anne.—l an going to be one of your friends, Be get the Tablet from Grannie. I an ten'years of age in standard 3. I have four sisters and three brothers I go to the public school as there is no Catholic school near. 'ii seven cows, eighteen hens, and three cats. I would, like to see my letter in the Tablet. I like reading lie Little 1 eople s Page. As this is my first letter I will HaTdiimIfc\rTi 1 fc \rTi fr T a U our lovin « friend, Kathleen ™ &«& rak ”’ H ° k,anSa - P - S '--V WrtMay » _ I J W (- e,cnme Kathleen, glad you want to join us. What a lot of animals you have. Love to you Anne.) ' would HkeT Anne, This is ™- v . first letter to you and I vnuld like to be one of your friends. .1 an. six ™?s old my birthday ,s on 13th "March. I live with “ ”randmotlier and Igo to the convent school here every day T have one sister and two brothers I am send .17 vol 2/8 tor the orphanage fund. Goodbye now Anno with lot. Of love from your little friend, Kathleen C Vi,} toons Wjst* the IS an awful place for mud Tbti lmea . P !ains - It thirty miles in length -ind ~i, I P- 3 , 111 ■consists of about and 'is surrounded 'by hin s ‘ T Jf„ j S1 | teen I " ,les in width side are simply loveh- if +i, o , hlI ' s on . ? 16 north-east white frocks of snow Anne fu i P eSentl Wlt 1 their lovely I had one for breakfast ™d 1 /SI VF , ea f *ST «** to eat any more for'? .^c, 1 s «" be «We the orphanage fund. Your friend Anna Dalv p if ' ° r gooi hank ami Anna for the S '- V 0 ‘r n'evor did eat a Th. Wa and idtw^,«„^ 0,,c did eat a Tl,, P1.,,',,, do S O,„.d K a M bi t y °" C 3 ’ o " ~teto become oiiTof vm?re' S fr'ienlf *° yo "> 1 like « Std I I have twoS if’ lam Seven ™ xrs old m is five vears old and- nonh • o S ’ utirah. mary it h,r; ,;sj r iV- Mg ias rs t: bdi2r s ff ± f z TSFh the to Mary and Norali.—Anne.) P a d lnk Love

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