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Show LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Butte City. Sept. 30. Mv Dear Aunt Busy: i have not written to you for over three months. 1 am going to school pvery day, and I study very hard. When you went to school did you like geography? I cannot learn it and I just dread when the class is called. I expect to be promoted after Christmas. My teacher is very nice, and although I want to be promoted still I will hate to leave her. Well, good-bye, Aunt Busv. From your loving niece, FLORENCE DESMOND. Aunt Busy was pleased to hear from k you again. Florence. You are a dear, ' good child to study hard. Some time you will be glad that you made good use of your time while a school girl. Now, about the geography! Aunt Busy I is sorry to hear about your trouble 1 with this interesting study. Perhaps j you make the mistake of trying to T memorize. The only way to study i f geography is to read it as you would I an interesting story, and then repeat j in your own words all that you can f ' remember about the different countries. Of course you will have to read the ! lesson over more times than you would j a story, but you will find it an excel- I lent way to prepare your lesson. Try this method for a week, and if it is not successful ask your good teacher to help you out of your difficulty. Above all things, dear child, do not memorize your lessons. Study to understand them, and then recite them in the best language at your command, but do not repeat word for word only parrots do this. Write soon aeain. Denver, Colo., Sept. 29. Dear Aunt Busy: This Is my first letter to you. and I hope I will be welcome. I have several Fchool friends, who write to you and they like you very much. I go to school every day and have to walk nearly three miles. Don't you think this is pretty hard? But I like school and it ; seems fine to be promoted each time. , . What study did you like best. Aunt! ' Busy, when you went to school? I like : reading and geography best. I hope j you will put my letter in the paper. I Good-bye. Aunt Busy. I will stop now j with much love and many good wishes. tYour loving niece. AGNES MURPHY. A glad and hearty welcome. Niece Agnes! Aunt Busy is glud to know j that her nieces speak well of their fat old aunties. Yes, you have a long distance dis-tance to walk, but thank God every day, little girl, that you have the health and strength to walk so far. and that walk will do much toward making you grow up a strong and healthy woman. Aunt Busy's favorite study was arithmetic arith-metic when she was in the lower grades, and when in the advanced grades she liked geometry and botany ' the best. It is better to try to like all your studies equally well. becT-use being deficient in one or two often keeps a pupil from advancing. Write soon again, Agnes. 4-, Salt Lake City. Oct. 1. ' Dear Auntie: 1 I am only a very little boy, but I f want to write to you. I can only print, 1 but I hope you won't mind. This is 1 my Erst year in school. I was only 6 years old last August. I like school and I like my teacher. She is real good to me. I hope ynu will like my letter. My big brother says I cannot write a j good enough lettpr. He says you will 'nk I ana stupid. My brother is real big; he. is 23 years. Good-bye, Aunt Busy. Your nephew, HOWARD DUNNE. Very pleased, indeed, was Aunt Busy to hear from the little lad who is just beginning his school life. You are a very good boy. Aunt Busy knows, and j your teacher must think so too, as she I is kind to you. Your little letter is very good, and Aunt Busy hopes to hear from you often. Aunt Busy dearly dear-ly loves little boys like you. and she always finds the boys of 20 the stupid ones rather than the little lads. Write soon again, Howard. |