Under the “Totem-Pole”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 7

Under the “Totem-Pole”

Letters to Redfeather are answered as follow: —Dreaming Noon: I was glad to hear again from this Brave. What a pleasant time you have been having. . . . Harvest Moon: Your story is full of charm, Harvest Aloon, and it has added to your list of successes. 1 can see a feathery white cloud fleeing before the wind at this very moment. Perhaps Fen knows something about it. How is Silver Wing? Please give her my greeting?. It is quite a time since I had an arrow from her. . . . Swift Runner: Greetingt. Swift Runner. There is always room for new members in the Wigwam circle. 1 wonder if you are interested in competitions? . . . Flying Beetle: It wasn’t quite up to publication standard thi.- t time, Flying Beetle, but I hope von will soon see another of your tales In print. I am returning it as you desire. . . . Green Bough: Very dainty. Green Bough, and it has won a prize for you. When story time comes I always know there will b»an entry from this Brave. . . . Flying Cloud: So those puffs of thistledown that drift in out of the sunshine are really wind kisses? That is a quaint fancy, and it made a pretty theme for your story. lam delighted that you are abl»» to cast off the shackles of town and be a maid of the Great Out-doors at th-week-ends. There is always your blue sea to look forward to, isn’t there? Aren’t you glad that you don't actually live in town? . . . West Wind: I had a good laugh over those jokes. West Wind. In the pen-name competition, the lists should be made up of 20 names—lo suitable for girls and 10 suitable for boys. Yes, you may send another entry if you wish. . . . Red Star: You have been having an exciting time, and your tepee has echoed to many voices since last you wrote. A portable gramophone makea splendid present. I have one, too. 1 wonder if you have any Maori records? Redfeather and the Dawn Lady put theirheads together over a certain passage i-.; you letter and came to a mutual understanding. Some Wigwam wishes for Red Star. A HUNGARIAN PAUPER Eugene Tomarv, the Hungarian author, lived without attaining much celebrity in the world, and he had even less money, but in dying he became famous. In the nursing home to which he was taken they found that he had been starving himself so that his two children of six and seven might have enough to keep them alive. He had only about ten shillings a week to keep ; them all. i His works on Philosophy were j highly valued by philosophers. but • they were little sold. It was his j humanity rather than his boots which ! made him famous at his death, and ' Budapest gave him a grave of honour. ! PATIENCE The restaurant was not noted for the rapidity of its service. “Has your order been taken, sir?” asked the proprietor of a man whose face seemed familiar. “Yes,” said the would-be customer. ! resignedly. “And so was my photoI graph when I was a child.”