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1900~ Letters CIRCLE OF GOOD COMPANY, Family Herald and Weekly Star December 20, 1899 Dear Hostess: Will you kindly permit an Outlander to join your charming circle? But please do not laugh, G.C., if my English is a little bit crude. I am only eighteen years old, and trying to improve it, if slowly, because I have very little time, being a farmer's daughter, with plenty of work to do. My father takes the Family Herald and Weekly Star, and we like it very much. Now, I always read the war news first, for I know no rest till I have seen how the British are getting on in the war with the Boers. I hope they will be victorious; indeed, I can not believe it will be otherwise . I am unlike my forefathers (the Vikings), who liked nothing better than warfare, for I am wishing the nations would settle their quarrels by other methods than these dreadful wars. Will you please tell me, dear Hostess, whether stenography can be successfully learned at home, by the correspondence method, as some schools offer to teach by? I enclose a two-cent stamp for a book, please send me "Lorna Doone," if you have it in the library? With all good wishes to you and G.C. Manitoba ICELANDER Icelander's English is by no means crude. I hope she will write again. Will not some of the stenographers in the Circle correspond with Icelander and give her the desired information? I doubt if one could become an expert stenographer by studying without a teacher, though undoubtedly great headway can be made by private study and practice. GOOD COMPANY, Family Herald and Weekly Star February 28, 1900 Dear Hostess: I live near the lovely Turtle Mountains of Manitoba. In the summer they are beautifully dressed in living green, the wild morning glories climb and trail over every shrub and bush, but alas! they are all gray now. The wild hops are so thick one can hardly climb through the flowers, hundreds of different kinds. The prairie was very lovely last summer. I am 21 ...

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