The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-06
Correspondence Column

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Manual Trimming Work.
Dear Editor.--r amply can't let another
day pass without thanking you for tile nns
post album you sent mo as drawing
rrizo. I certainly should have written Inst
week but for an unusual amount OF school
Work. ! am going TO try to all the album
entirely with cards from T. D. g. G. mem-
bcrs II any members wish TO exchange
| with mo shall DO moro than glad TO send
then, cards have already about two
dozen In tho book. Perhaps as i am new
member you would like to hear something
about me. Maybe my sister has told you
that wo 1.-Two horc In philadelphia, but go
to Virginia In the summer time Most OF
It Ii tho best state there Is; don't your II
was last summon that we first saw your
page, and wa were interested In IL at once.
Fanny Joined then. but. as you know, am
Ing high school in this city. Tho stop-work
we set helps to mako school lens OF
drudscry. Last week finished a picture
franc in the woodshop. II lie mudo OF
chorry wood. stained black. I also finished
sheetiron lamp l was making. IT has .
hinged door and pointed roof with a loop
wall-plecc made. Tho black pain led sheet
iron and grccn glass make a very pretty
contrast II 70 hung UP In our han corner
downstairs above the ssttes. know you
arc horribly bored with all this sclf.talk
friend. EDGAR MAnBURd. JR.
S5l3 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia. Pa
From Our English Member.
Dear Editor.--t am very sorry that have
not written before now. have received
several Mica letters from my r. o. e. c..
friends. and think that Miss Lizzie Mason
Miss sallio Cary Finch and Frederick Wat
son Shepherd write very good letters. The
people OF England are nearly mad on poll.
ties. a great fight is waking for suprem-
acy- in Parliament between tho rival par
ties. We have had plenty OF snow, and we
hayo boen tobosganns down Cowclin Hill.
we can start at the top OF the hi. and run
Norman Road. which ia another slope on
tho other side OF the road. Tho corporation
put cinders on the track but 1t showed
again on top Of 1t. The ground las ihawcd
now and It Is raining. From your English
member JOHN HAYwOl., IIAWs.
$50 Halifax Old Road. IIuddersneid, York;
shire. Eng.
Love ny Mountains.
Dear EdItor.-Wiil you admit me into
YOU club? I've always wanted 10 become
member but have put of writing. Please
send me a badge: I do so want 10 see ono.
a good many or the members live In tho
country as do. and reckon they have a
nnc time coasting; do. We have a right
sled and away VIC CO. Ono place you feet
like you can't get your breath It's so steep.
It's just dandy. ioyc myS~nountains.
Sometimes in winter tho sun is shining on
one part. another part IL in the shadow. !
aud the rest Is white with snow. Id like
all tho T. u. c. C.'s TO see them then. I'd
like TO be a member OF tho postcard cx-
change. and Will try 10 send something IN
very often. Your new member.
Madison. Va FRANCES B. HAY.
Reading tho .'rhrcc Sistcrs.'
Dear EGitor,--1 have just finished reading I
our page. i think 4, Is very good this week.
Yesterday tthc soti) was my birthday ana I |
went visiting. ] enjoyed II very much. Last I
week went walking with my teacher
twice. She Is very sweet lady. and I |
take music lessons too but haven't Cotton
very far yet. l enjoyed my walks very |
much. found very curious looking rock; |
~ has faces on II. wonder IL any OF tho
club members get tho st. Nicholas Maya
zine :? II Is very NICE and has somn real |
good stories in II. and the Chiidrcn's Maya
Zinc is nice too am reading n book call
cd Tho story OF Three Sisters" 1t is very I
good. There are three sisters in my family.
am sending you n puzzle drawing and
hope Will win prize. Best wishes for I no /
club. Your member. I.iIsA V. RANSOM.
Masonic Home Va.
Getting Better and Better.
Dear Editor,--I guess YOU think ! am al
most new member again. as II has been
nearly Two years since have written to
you, bit still have my badge. Inclosed |
you NH ma n poem entitled tho TT. D.
" u. wnlch l hope VIII escape tho waste
basket. The last time wrote you / was
Wiling in Charlottesville. va, hut my home
Is IN ltichrnond. think that tho page Is
getting botter and bct,ertcyery week, and |
horc after awhile that We will not only |
have one page. but viii have two or three
Also y, inc9scd You VIII find some jumbad
counties In Virginia. Wishing the club
much success. ] remain. your true member |
MERA DEAN. "a
231i NJ Street, City.
Uncle Jcff shields.
Dear Editor.--I send a picture q, ,,ncle
Ictf Shields. who, ] am sure, is known All |
over virginia as the cook OF General fncL
son during the war wish 10 become a
tell mo how to do 1t? hope to have a pins
turc for tho Y. D. c. C. In q fcvv wopls
Hope tho picture is worth publication Your
member, GEORGE ~ trttr,rE
Lexington, Va. - -
Enjoys Chidrcn's Page.
Dear Editor.-efandpa gets Tho Times.
P pa Ia ten En- always enjoy The chiIdren's
years old and I live near rcderclsb,irr
Va. My post-officc Is Falmouth. Va. ( <
?. No.. Please lot me join The II. d. c. G.
goods Your little friend.
MARGUERITE Il. MoScuRE
Kirkwood. Va : -
a Snake IN the Nest.
3 Dear Edtor-I'm going to tell you about
scare had few summers ago. one
day day mamma sent me out to set somo eggs.
went there first. Tho nest was on thaj
ground, and knelt down. u had cotton
one or two eEgs out OF the ncs,. when Il
heard something that sounded like a horse =
fly huzzing. glanced around ana saw a
great moccasin snake, nll coiled up with Ills
head lifted up and his tongue sticking out
rain and told papa. and he got the pistol
and camc out and shot It. Valentines NdnvI
has passed, but Easter VIII soon DO hero.
cercly, %}aS ANNE MABEL JIIsr1rm
Jarratt. Va.
Just Cotton Home.
y Dear Edttor,--I have Just returned from, L
visit 10 Richmond and Washinrton. ~ III