Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21
WISE SAYINGS

the past and | shall be here in
my office at my usual hours. I
shall give out all the prizes which are
delinquent. and see all the pleasant
boys and girls who come in to the Of
flee to call upon me.
1t always seems to me that one of the
incest things about a vacation is gel
ting back to work again, and work
will be doubly pleasant now that l have
had this little breathing space. 1 am
sure that you will all try as hard ;
possible to make the work easy for
me. You can each do something at
that, you know. by remembering the
rules of the contests.
For instance you can remember
about writing on one side of the paper,
and about signing your name, address,
school, grade and age clearly to each
contribution you send in. All these
things will take you only minute, but
they take me many minutes when /
have to correct from ten to twenty
papers each week.
Many of the Juniors could improve
the appearance of their work by a lit
tie more care as to spelling, punctua-
tion, and most of all by leaving suffi-
cient space between words so that II
would be possible for me to make the
alterations 1 consider necessary.
That is enough sermonizing now, and
I will give you a little bit of an excuse
myself. Several of the writer's of ex-
cellent limericks will be disappointed
at not seeing their contributions in the
paper this week, but l can promise
them that they shall be published next
Sunday. Trying to do my work with
the assistance Of Uncle Sans postal
service and rather uncertain trains
caused the trouble, and 1 cannot say
how much l lament the happening.
shall remember the names of those
writer's, however, and shall take par
ticular care to favor them when next
there is any close decision in the linn
erick contest.
The new topics will no doubt prove
interesting. The first one has already
brought many excellent replies.
What l saw in the park or play
grounds" may be a description of some
incident, some game, word-picture
of some statue, peculiar tree or re-
markable shrub, or even description
of some person you have seen. The
topic will be an easy one to write
about, while affording great variety
of viewpoint.
Many of the boys and girls will en-
Joy telling which of the many adage'
or maxims is their favorite one. II
fact. there are so many that possibly
some of you will find it difficult to de-
eide which is your favorite one. Many
girls have heard the old saying about
a stitch in time saving nine, un'
til perhaps they will decide that, how
ever wise a saying it is, it is too dis
agreeable to be a favorite. Boys, too
have no doubt heard that "WhateVel
is worth doing at all, is worth doine
we'll" Probably they do not think Il
a nice thing to hear especially wher
the task is particularly uncongenia
one. But we win all enjoy discussing
the various sayings, and l am sure
shall have many pleasant letters.
With next Sundays paper shall re
sumo the comments about the pictures
These have been discontinued during
my vacation as something least i'm
portant, but | have already received
many protests about the absence Of
those little notes, and l dare say thai
more of you artists will be disappointed
this week when they see that there il
still nothing about the pictures which
did not receive the recognition of re
production
l promise that it shall not happer
again and send much love to you all
AUNT LAU4,IE.