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  2. Children's Corner conducted by Aunt Mary.

    Dear Aunt Mary,—I hope you and all your Cornerites are well. It is a very long time since I last wrote to you. It is a very windy and wet day to-day. All the ...

    Article : 248 words
  3. OUT OF THE LETTER BAG.

    Dear Aunt Maty,—I am very sorry that I haven't written to you for a long time, but I have not forgotten you. I have been intending to write for some time, but this seems to be ...

    Article : 814 words
  4. MAKE A MODEL MOTOR CAR.

    Toot! toot! Here comes a jolly motor car which you can make from a matchbox and a postcard. Just read these paragraphs carefully, and you will see how ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 281 words
  5. AUNT MARY'S LETTER.

    Dear Children,—As I write this letter to you I am sitting in the glorious King's Park, and the sun is shining overhead, while the birds are singing around me.It is a delightful scene that I see before me. The trees seem to make a frame for a perfect picture. The river is calm and blue, and in the ...

    Article : 306 words
  6. PRECIOUS STONES.

    Dulcie King wins a point for sending this puzzle for other members to solve. Hidden in the following sentences are the names of fire precious stones. Send your ...

    Article : 108 words
  7. HONOUR LIST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 words
  8. NEW LINK.

    Dear Aunt Mary,—I am enclosing a shilling and I wish to be enrolled as one of your nieces, I am nine years of age and in fourth standard at school. Every week ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. Wild Flowers of W.A.

    With "The Western Mail" each week until further notice there will be given free a coloured supplement depicting one of the wild flowers of Western Australia. ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. DID YOU KNOW—?

    That Australia was named before it was discovered. It was originally called Terra Australis Incognita, or "The undiscovered land in the South," by the ancient ...

    Article : 325 words
  11. A LITTLE NEPHEW.

    Dear Aunt Mary,—Will you please enrol me as a nephew in your happy Corner? I am enclosing a shilling's worth of stamps for my subscription. Will you please send ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. RING ON THE STRING.

    Here is a good trick which is very puzzling, and yet is quite easy to carry out. For the purpose you will require a ring and a long piece of string. Get ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 199 words
  13. CAN RABBITS CLIMB TREES?

    A fire came raging swiftly Among the silver grass, A bunny searched for, vainly, A hole down which to pass. ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. ANOTHER NIECE.

    Dear Aunt Mary,—Will you please enrol me as one of your many nieces? I am sending you 1/ in stamps for my subscription. I am ll and am in second class. It ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. HAPPY PUSS.

    Dear Aunt Mary,—I am sending in the puzzle, which I hope is right. We have a lot of lambs, but no pet ones. My cat has been thinking for a long time, and she has made up her ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. AN ANIMAL GAME.

    Here is a very amusing game which you can easily make for yourself. From magazines and old newspapers cut a number of pictures of animals of any kind. With ...

    Article : 163 words
  17. GARDEN GOLF.

    This is a good game to play in the garden. Arrange a clock-golf circle—i.e., sink a good-sized pot in more or less the centre ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. ALL THE ALPHABET.

    All the letters of the alphabet appear in each of the following sentences, which are often used by typists when practising:— ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. PICNIC.

    Dear Aunt Mary.—I am sending in some puzzles for which I hope to win a T.T. Next Friday we are having our half-yearly music reictal. Lately there have been two children's ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. PENFRIENDS WANTED.

    Joy Eatt, of Malvern, Orchid Valley, via Kojonup, asks for a penfriend over 12 years of age. Joan Gudgeon, 7 Malvern-road, ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. PETER, POLLY, AND PATCHES: Peter's Buttonhole.

    "Smell my oarnation," says Peter, who has Just finished his home-work. "Where did you get lt? Isn't it lovely!" says Polly, when she sees the lovely white flower In Peter's buttonhole. Now, Polly should know Peter well enough by now to guess he is up ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
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