A Little Girl's Good Fortune

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 407, 26 March 1909, Page 2

A Little Girl's Good Fortune

Miss Marjorie Roberts, of the district school, Rozelle, Sydney, is the most expert of at least 200,000 Australians at solving picture-puzzles, for the March number cf the New Idea 1 announces her as the winner of tbe I contest that bas been running in chat magazine for the past 12 months. Each of the pictures represented au author, and Miss Roberts succeeded in unravelling all but two of the 10b problems, Her reward (or this performance is a trip to Japan and back by firs’ class saloon. In the same number there is a delightful illustrated interview with Marches!, done by an enterprising young Australian lady journalist. A first of a series of illustrated articles on the Government Houses cf Australasia contains a fine collection of photographs taken by Lady Dud ley’s permission in Federal Government House, Melbourne. Perhaps the most interesting of these two pictures taken of the school-room, showing the Dudley youngsters at work and at play, fiction is strong, and to balance it there are a number of practical articles which contain directions for making all sorts of -useful and ornamental things for the home, ranging from a stencilled set cf window curtains to Teddy Bears for the children. The departments are replete with good things, as usual.