Mildred.—Your writing is too large and coarse-looking. Slope it a little from left to right, and reverse the plan in reference to the light and heavy strokes, the downwards heavy, the upwards light. It will be more graceful and artistic.
Dear Mr. Editor,—I have begun making a collection of photos of bridges, and am very anxious to get some from everywhere (except Australia), especially Norway and Russia. Would some of your girls kindly lend a hand? and in return, I could send, not bridges, as I live in the bush, but hornets, beetles, or stamps. The bridges must be named, unmounted, and not more than 8×6 inches, as I put them in a book.
Yours faithfully,
Aunt Scis.
Mrs. Geo. Barnard, Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Rockhampton, Queensland.
[THINGS IN SEASON, IN MARKET AND KITCHEN. DECEMBER.]
One glance round the markets and shops in any week of December tells us that Christmas is the prominent thought in the minds of all who have anything to sell, and that royal bird, the turkey, is very much en evidence. But we cannot eat turkey all the weeks of December, and every day is not Christmas Day. Let us, therefore, take a look round with the object of seeing what else there is that is peculiar to the month, and that will help us in compiling our daily menus, as well as to make variety on extra occasions.