A Page for Little People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 37

A Page for Little People

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My dear Little People, How is the competition getting on, are the scrap books nearly finished I wonder? You haven't long now to be ready, so hurry up and get your books sent in to the Tablet Office. Send them.c/o Anne, same as my letters. Try and fill the books nicely, and wrap them carefully in strong paper so that they'll not be broken in the post. Now for our March birthdays, we have such a lot of them. Unfortunately as we had so much other business last week we are a few days late with our good wishes and some of the birthdays are past. Never mind, we'll wish them Many Happy Returns all the same, in fact even a little more so. Here is the list:— Callaghan and Kathleen Byrne, same date; Paul Brennan, Dan McOormack, and Luke Mullany, all same date; Margaret Hyland, Kathleen Rourke, Molly Murphy, and Kathleen Crowe, same date; Maureen Welsh and Francis and William Thornton, on same date; Maggie Black, Kathleen Egan, Jean Smith and Kathleen Byrne; Eileen O'Donnell and Patrick Byrne, same date; Josephine Smyth, Connie Dodunski, Winnie Fitzgerald, Kathleen Green, and Fanny Murphy, same date; Jack Carroll, Baby Archer, Doris Tunbridge, and Maureen Fitzgerald, same date; Tom Dixon, Greta Blyth ,and Betty Phelan, same date; the Murphy Twins and Joan Gallaher, same date. A happy birthday to all of these, and I'm sure some of you should find birthday mates in this lot. L.P.L.C. BUSINESS. By a very sad mistake, I sent the wrongbundle of letters to press last week, and all the Little People who sent stamps for badges will find their letters in this week's page instead. It was shocking, because when a person receives anything that thing should be acknowledged at once. I did put the list in, but meant your own letters to be with it. Never mind, just forgive your sorry Anne this time. Here are the letters now: Dear Anne, Enclosed please find seven stamps. One for postage of L.P.L.C. Badge, and six for paying for it. From Agnes Emerson, Wellington. (Thank you for stamps Agnes. You'll have your nice new badge in no time now. Anne.) Dear Anne, It seems a long time since I wrote to you. I am having a very pleasant holiday. We live out in the country now in my grandfather's house, and it is lovely. I write to Ileen O'Callaghan. She lives away down South. I think it will be very nice to have badges Anne, and I am enclosing sixpence in stamps for one. I got a lot of nice things in my stocking at Christmas time. Amongst them being a crochet hook, and some skeins of lovely cotton. I am going to make some pocket handkerchiefs and work around them. I will send them to you for the little children at the Orphanage. lam going to start my scrap book this week. I have a nice drawing book and mother is going to buy me

some glue for pasting in with. Well Anne, I must now say good-bye. We have a fortnight longer holidays on account of sickness. I like holidays but I don't like people getting sick. So good-bye. Love from Zoe Howarth, Palmerston North. (Thank you for stamps Zoe, hope you'll like your badge. Glad you're writing to someone and hope you'll get an answer.—Anne.) Dear Anne, Will you please excuse me for writing in pencil as I have a very sore hand. My birthday is on Wednesday (February 4), and lam having a birthday party. I have quite forgot when the competition —will you let me know? I will have to close now as I have to get my hand dressed. Enclosed you will find 1/- in stamps for a badge for Pat and myself. Your friend, Mollie Campbell, St. Bathans. (Thank you for Badge money for yourself and Pat. Hope you had a nice birthday party and that your hand is well again now. —Anne.) Dear Anne, I was very glad to see my letter in the Tablet. I have just returned from a holiday in Christchurch. I had a lovely time with my cousins. I have one correspondent writing to me from Martinborough. I have written to Lorna Carroll in Victoria but have not had an answer yet. In last November Bishop Brodie came down to lay the foundation stone of our new church. I think it is a grand idea of having badges and I enclose six penny stamps for one. I remain, yours, Yvonne Londringan, Little River. (Thank you for stamps Yvonne, glad you . had a nice holiday. You'll get an answer from Lorna one of these days, but, Victoria is a long way off. Anne.) Dear Anne, Being a very interested reader of the L.P.P. for a long time, I decided I would write to you. I enclose six penny stamps for a badge. It is my own money because I made £2 10s picking raspberries. I would like to correspond with somebody about my own age. My birthday falls on August 13, when I will be eleven years. We get the Month, Tablet, Garland, and Far East. My sister Julia wrote about a year ago, but 1 do not think she will write again, because she is too busy. Wishing every success to your page. Yours truly, Annie Hannifin, Waimate. (We're glad to welcome you Annie, thank you for the stamps. Think it was fine of you to work so hard in raspberry time. I've got a birthday mate for you, but I have only her name, no address, so perhaps she will write first this time. Her name is Mary O'Leary.Anne.) Dear Anne, It is such a long time since I wrote to you that perhaps you have forgotten me. My twin brother and I were 13 on New Year's day. We both passed our examinations in

December. My brother Pat also passed/-; We did not go, away from home for our Christmas holidays but we went for plentyof car rides in the holidays as Dad has a car. We go to Raetihi to Mass and Vespers as it is only nine miles from Horopito. There is a lovely new church built in Raetihi, The Raetihi Catholics are holding a • bazaar in March to pay off the debt of the church. I am selling art union tickets and I have sold £5 worth. I hope to sell another £5 worth. Our school may not open this month, on account of the sickness that :‘s goingabout. This is a very healthy place to live in. My sister, Norah, is getting a big girl and can say almost everything. She will soon be three years’ old. I think it is a lovely idea to have badges. I am sending stamps for one. I like reading the L.P.P. We have nine cows milking. Now, dear Anne, I will clolse and I hope to write to you again soon. Your little friend, Doreeh Haddock, Horopito.

(I was wondering what had become of you Doreen and am glad to hear from you again. How is Pat getting on and can you drive the car yet? Hope you will like your badge, and that you will sell loads of tickets for the bazaar. Anne.)

Dear Anne,

Just a short note to ask you if you would forward two badges : one each for my brother Terence and myself. I am enclosing a shilling in stamps. Have you received the letters that Terence and I wrote to you last week. Well, I have been trying to help the little; girl put her circus together that her brother broke up, and I have managed them all but three, and I have tried all ways, but T: can’t get them at all. Well, Anne dear, I think I will bring this short note to a: close, hoping to receive the badges when you get them, with love to the members and your self. Your loving friend, Trephena Quinn, O’Kains Bay. :

(Thank you for stamps Trephena, hope you and Terence will like your badges. You did very well with the circus, did you see it after it was in going order again? Anne.)

Dear Anne,

It is a long time now since I have written to you, so I am writing now in my spare time to let you know I have not forgotten you. I see Kathleen McCormack is writing to you now. I know Kathleen, she just lives about a mil© away from where I live. I am giving you 1/- for the Nelson Orphanage. That infantile paralysis is a very bad sickness Anne, don’t you think so? We would have gone to Hokitika for our excursion picnic ’ today if it was not so bad, I hope none of our Little People get it or any one else also:! I have gone for plenty swims this swimming season but I cannot swim without a log. My two aunties and my four cousins were -up at our place for their holidays. They live very close to the sea beach at Paekakariki. When they went away my mother and I went to Westport for a week and I enjoyed myself there. I have no more news now Anne, so I will close my short letter. From?

your old friend, Len McMahon, Oronadun. P.S.— you get a boy about my age (11 years) to write to me please Anne. • (Thank you for .the stamps Len, I have put you down for a badge and the other sixpence will go into our "Treasure Box." Glad you're swimming well, even with a log. Some boy will be sure to write to you when your letter goes on the page. I'll put a postcript.—Anne. P.S.—Will someone please write to Len, he'll answer for sure. Anne.) Dear Anne, Just a few lines to let you know that I should like to have a badge as I think- it is a lovely idea. I have nearly finished making my scrap book which I made out of brown paper because I could not find a suitable drawing book. Will that kind of scrap book do, Anne? We are very busy on the farm now with the harvesting. At present we are stacking wheat, and when we are harvesting a good way from the house the dinners have to be taken out to the paddock. Besides the four recently mentioned members of the L.P.L.C, I am writing and receiving letters from Teresa Patterson so that now I am writing to five Little People. As I have no more news I shall close, with best wishes. From your loving friend, Pearl McNeill, Lauriston. (Thank you for the stamps Pearl, I'm glad you have so many letter friends. Yes, I'm sure the scrap book will be very nice indeed.—Anne.) Dear Anne, I think it is time I wrote to you. I sent three post-cards to Edward Prendiville. Everybody round about here are all got their crops stocked. One day as we were having a swim, my brother brought a round tub down to the creek. I got into it and got two paddles to work the tub, and it went along smoothly. I am reading a book called Cook's Voyages Bound the World. Have you read it Anne? One. Sunday afternoon dad, my sister, brother, and I went to the plantation at Conical Hill. I must close now. Yours truly, Jack Scott, Pomahaka. (Hullo Jack, that was a fine trip you had in the tub. Wouldn't you like to make a voyage round the world like the hero of your book did.—Anne.) Dear Anne, Please find enclosed one shilling in stamps for two badges for my brother and I. My big brother banked up the creek which runs through our place and we have a good time swimming in it. Please Anne could you give me a name for a kitten. My vegetable garden has peas, potatoes, lettuce, turnips, Kohl Rabi, and Brussel sprouts in it. I have a dolls house and it has a sofa, chairs, table, pictures on the walls, and a little vase of flowers on the table. I have four dolls. The dolls table is set. I shall close now with a few riddles. Yours truly, Frances Scott, Pomahaka. (Thank you for stamps Frances, hope you and Jack will like the badges. What a fine garden you must have, and I'm pleased to see you grow a lot of vegetables. If you eat plenty of them they'll make your eyes shine and your cheeks rosy. Call the kitten "Snooky."—■

Dear Anne, I thought that I would write! to you today to kindly ask you if you would please send me .a badge. I think it will be lovely for all the little people to have badges. Anne, are you going to have a badge too? I think it would be nice for Anne to have a badge too, as well as the Little People. I got a letter from Betty Phelan in the holidays and I answered it. A good while ago I wrote to Mary Agnes Carroll but I did not get a letter from her. Anne, where did you live when you were a child. Our little baby Lucy is nine and a half months' old and she has got two teeth. I will close now. With -love from Ida Archer. (Thank you for stamps Ida, hope you'll like your badge. Of course I'll have one too so that you'll know me when you meet me, because I'll be the only grown-up wearing one. When I was a child dear, I lived on land and sea, in the town and in the country.—Anne.)

Dear Anne,

I am writing to you to ask you if I may become a member of your L.P.L.C. I am 13 and I am in Std. 6. My birthday is on 28th of June and I go to the Public School as there is no convent here. I would be very pleased if you could get me a mate about 14 years of age. I will close now, wishing your club every success. Your new friend, Alice Mundy, Kaitangata. P.S.—I am enclosing 6d in stamps for a badge. (Thank you for the stamps Alice. I have no birthday mate for you but I’m sure some girl of your own age will write now that you have asked. Anne. P.S. —Will someone be a mate for Alice and write to her. Anne.) Dear Anne,

I am sending you a shilling in stamps for a badge for my sister Irene, and myself. It has turned very cold -up here too, and I have a very bad toothache so I can’t tell you much more. Your little friend, Mollie Hanrahan, St. Bathans.

(Thank you for the stamps Mollie, hope you and Irene will like the badges. Is your poor aching tooth better Anne.)'

LETTERS TO ANNE. Dear Anne,

It is nearly a year since I wrote to you last. We get the Tablet every week and I always read your page first. I am twelve years old. My birthday is on 29th April. Could you please tell me if there is any other girl in the club with a birthday on that day, and would you please ask her to write to me. I went for my Proficiency in November and I passed. I have two brothers and two sisters. A new church-school ’’s being built at Linwood. I think it is a good idea about the badges. As this is all I have to tell you now I will close wishing you every success. From your friend, Eileen Byrne, Linwood, Christchurch. P.S —Could you please give me a name for our black cat?

(So glad you wrote again Eileen dear, and I have got a birthday mate for you Eileen McCarthy, Anzac Street, Takapuna, Auckland. Don’t you want to join the L.P.L.C. and have a badge too? Call your black cat “Lucky.” Anne.)

Dear Anne,

As I do not write to many girls, I thought I would write and ask you if you would let me join the Little People’s Letter Club. Hoping that you could get a girl of my own age to write to me. I am twelve years of age, but I will be thirteen on the 3rd of September. I go to the public school and I am in Std. 5. Hoping to see my first letter in the Tablet soon. I have two sisters older than myself. We have a black and white collie dog. Could you please give me names for two cats. From your new friend, Clara Mundy, Kaitangata.

(Welcome Clara, we want every member who wants us. I have a birthday mate for you—Veronica Kane, 72 Molesworth Street, Wellington. Perhaps someone else will write to you. What about calling your cats “Pip” and “Squeak.” Anne.)

Dear Anne,

I often read the children’s page in the Tablet, so I thought I would write. lam ten years of age. I go to Waimate Convent School and am in Std. 3 My birthday is on the 15th of August. I have been staying out at my Auntie’s at Morven for five weeks and have been having a most enjoyable time. They gave me a little black kitten and please would you give me a name for it. I have two brothers and one sister. Sister Alton teaches me at school and she is very nice. Now dear Anne this is all the news for the present so I will say good-bye with love from your little friend, Kathleen McDonnell, Morven.

(Glad you have joined us Kathleen clear. Would you like to be a member of the L.P.L.C. Sorry I have no birthday mate for you, but perhaps one will come .along soon. Would you like to call your kitten "Dusky"?—Anne.) RIDDLE BIN. We haven't had room for riddles lately, have we? Perhaps we'll manage a few. now. First we'll have the answers I promised you. ANSWERS.

No. 1. From house to house he goes, etc. Answer: “A Path.”

No. 2. When is a hat like a thumb ? Answer: “When it is hanging on a hat peg.”

3. What lesson, can a boy learn from a fountain? Answer: “Writing.”

5. Why is a donkey looking over a gat like a penny? Answer: “Because his head is one side and his tail on the other.”

6. Why is a black hen smarter than a white one? Answer: “Because a black hen can lay a white egg but a white hen cannot lay a black egg.

I cannot give the answers to Numbers 4 and 7 yet, as they have not been sent in to me.

Good-night Little People. Sleep well and rise early, before the sun even, if you can manage it, —Anne.

—Anne.