"Now div me my dolly." If baby were able
To talk in plain fashion, he'd certainly say,
"I think you are awfully mean, sister Mabel,
To trouble and tease me and vex me this way."
But baby can only let grieving lips quiver,
And lift little hand in an angry protest:
Come, sister, from trouble the wee one deliver,
'Tis naughty to pain him so, even in jest.
LITTLE SHOPPERS—"A VERY DOOD SMOOFING-IRON."
OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. New York City. I like Young People very much, and can hardly wait from one number to another, I am so impatient to get it. All the stories are very interesting, and the pictures are beautiful. But I don't like the advertisements after the Post-office Box, because they keep out something I would like to read. I like "Old Times in the Colonies" very much.
Carrie M. Our correspondent will see that her wishes have been anticipated. Henceforth all advertisements for Harper's Young People will be printed on a neat cover, as in the present number, and will no longer appear in the body of the paper. This cover will also serve to keep the paper clean, and the bound numbers at the end of the year will form a perfect book.
East Hampton, Connecticut. My sister takes Young People, and I like it very much. Eight of us girls have a society, which we call the Y.L.F.S. We have singing, readings, and charades, and have lots of fun. We meet around at the members' houses once in two weeks, on Monday evenings. Next time we meet we are all going to make speeches on politics. I am fifteen years old.
Violet S. We should like very much to have a fuller report of the doings of this society. Now that the long winter evenings are approaching, societies of this description bring about much pleasant recreation, and if any systematic course of good reading is followed, enlivened by music, recitation, or discussion of any given topic, the benefit to the members becomes of an importance beyond mere social enjoyment.
New Orleans, Louisiana. I have taken Young People since No. 36; papa subscribed for me then. I like "The Moral Pirates" and "Old Times in the Colonies" best of all, and I am very fond of reading the letters of the little boys and girls in the Post-office Box. I go to a large private school one block from my house. I speak French and English, and I am learning to play the piano. I have a splendid black cat, named Beauty.
Virginia S.
Mayersville, Mississippi. I have taken Young People from the first number, and am perfectly delighted with it. My subscription will soon be out, but I am going to renew it. We have a very nice time here playing on the riverbank in the sand. There is some beautiful grass growing on the sand-bar in the river opposite our town.
Della R.S.
Wyoming, Illinois. I am eleven years old. I have no pets, except a canary named Freddie, but I have a play house, and I think it is a very nice one. I have four nice dolls, and a doll carriage, and in the play house I have a bureau, table, chair, cupboard, blackboard, and a very nice set of dishes. The house is carpeted, and the rain does not get into it. I have a girl's velocipede, and I ride on it to school. I have some plants of my own.
Hattie G.S.
Canton, New York. I have a black dog named Jet. He will sit up, sing, speak, shake hands, stand up and beg, and lie down when I tell him. I have an aquarium, and I tried to get some sticklebacks, but they all had five spines. Are they the kind that make nests? I have two turtles, and would like to know how to keep them through the winter. I am making a squirrel cage, and am very anxious to catch a gray squirrel. And I have a collection of birds' eggs. I get nests and all. I am twelve years old.
Mark M. All kinds of sticklebacks, so far as known, build nests. Set your turtles at liberty in the yard before the ground freezes, and they will take care of themselves until spring. Or if you are afraid of losing them, give them a tub of earth to bury themselves in during their long nap.
Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. Here are some directions for making a pretty decoration which some reader of Young People may like to try. Take a carrot, the largest and smoothest you can find, and cut off the pointed lower end. Then make a cup of the large upper part by carefully hollowing it out, leaving the bottom and sides a quarter of an inch thick. Bore some holes in the sides near the top. Three will do. Through these pass strings by which to suspend the cup. When it is finished fill it with water, and hang it in a sunny window, and it will soon send out leaves from the bottom, and become a very pretty hanging basket. Never allow all the water to evaporate, but put in a little fresh every day. If the carrot is large enough to allow the sides and bottom to be left thicker, the green leaves will last longer and be more abundant.
Daniel D.L.
New York City. I thought perhaps you would like to hear of a plan we have made. It is this: We are going to have a club, each member of which takes Young People, and every Friday we meet to read the stories and work out the puzzles. I wish other children would try this plan, and write to the Post-office Box how they succeed.
N.D.
Watertown, New York. My papa has taken Young People for me since the first number. I read it all through. I think "Mirthful Magic" is very funny. I have two pet bantam chickens, and they are very tame. I hold them as I would a kitten. I have four caterpillars that I am feeding on apple leaves, and one that has spun a cocoon. I am seven years old.
Z.C.
New Haven, Connecticut. Since my request for exchange was published in Young People I have received no less than ten letters every day. My time is pretty well taken up at present, but I wish to say to all correspondents who have sent me postmarks that I will answer them as soon as possible.
James A. Snedeker.
I wish to inform the egg collectors with whom I have exchanged specimens that I have changed my residence. I would be very happy to exchange some of my eggs for Indian arrow-heads, as well as for other varieties of eggs. My new address is
I. Quackenboss,
169 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Toledo, Ohio. I have received so many letters in answer to my request for exchange of minerals that I can not answer them all immediately, as my school duties keep me very busy. I will answer them all in time. I have no more specimens to exchange at present.
Carrie Thorner.
I have a great many different kinds of Iowa postmarks, and will send one hundred to any reader of Young People who will send me some pretty thing in return. I have taken Young People ever since it was published. I am almost eleven years old.
Lucy Henderson,
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa.
I would like to exchange stamps of all kinds with any boys or girls who take Young People. I will also exchange a piece of cedar of Lebanon for a reasonable number of stamps.
Samuel McMullin, Jun.,
Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.
I would like to exchange rare stamps for foreign or United States coins with any readers of Young People.
Sidney Abenheim,
127 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City.
I have a large number of foreign postage stamps that I would like to exchange. I have also a large collection of mineral and Indian curiosities. I think Young People is a splendid paper.
William Harris,
226 Fort Street West, Detroit, Michigan.
I have gained about one hundred and fifty stamps by exchange since my letter was printed in Young People. I am collecting sea-shells and curiosities, which I would also like to exchange.
Vernon L. Kellogg,
P.O. Box 413, Emporia, Kansas.
I have taken two copies of Young People ever since it was published, one of which I send to my cousin, and the other I keep for myself. I am collecting minerals, shells, animal and vegetable curiosities, stamps, coins, and relics, and would like to arrange an exchange of these articles with any correspondent.
Louis N. Brown, care of Ph. Hake,
155 William Street, New York City.
I have a large collection of internal revenue stamps which I would like to exchange for foreign stamps and postal cards.
William H. Pike,
20 Edinboro' Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
My brother has taken Young People for me since the first number. He says it is a splendid paper for children, because it contains no trash. We like it so much we are going to have it bound. I have two pet cats. Dick is the name of one. He is seventeen years old, and was born in the barn on the same day that my brother was born in the house. I call them twins. The other cat I call Kitty. She was born about one week before my other brother, and is fourteen years old. She is getting very weak now, and we do not think she will live as long as Dick, who is still very lively. I would like to exchange slips of fern grown in New Jersey for fern from any other State with any girl. I wish to get a specimen of fern from every State and Territory if possible.
Julia D. Moore,
1107 Locust Street, Camden, New Jersey.
I take Young People, and I think it is the best paper I ever saw for little folks. I expect to take it till I am grown up, and that will be a long time, as I am only eleven years old. I would like to exchange flower seeds for geranium and fuchsia slips, or ocean curiosities. I have many kinds of seeds which I raised myself.
Annie Sidney Duffie,
Princeton, Arkansas.
I am twelve years old, and have taken Young People since April, when I received a year's subscription for a birthday present. I always look forward with pleasure to its coming. I, too, am making a collection of postage stamps, and would like to exchange with readers of Young People. I have several hundred, among which are Danish, Norwegian, Japanese, and other foreign issues.
Nellie Hyde,
162 Third Street, Oakland, California.
I am making a collection of stones, one from each State. I will exchange a stone from Iowa or Missouri for one from any other State. If Jessie I. Beal will send me a stone from Michigan, I will gladly exchange with her.
Lotta R. Turner, P.O. Box 705,
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa.
I received several very satisfactory answers to my request for exchange of stamps. I would now like to get a Chinese and an Italian stamp. I will exchange for them French and German stamps, or morning-glory or double-hollyhock seeds. I will also exchange these seeds or postmarks for new postmarks.
Willie D. Vater,
Office of the Daily Journal, Lafayette, Indiana.
Since my request for exchange was printed in the Post-office Box I have received over one hundred letters, and have gained about four hundred stamps. I have now thirteen hundred. If any other readers of Young People would like to exchange with me, I will be very glad to do so, especially if they have any duplicates of rare stamps.
Lewis S. Mudge,
Princeton, New Jersey.
I wish to exchange postmarks with any boy or girl in the United States or Canada.
H.L. McIlvain,
120 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.
I am studying natural history, and am very fond of it. I would like to exchange specimens of minerals and insects, especially with "Wee Tot."
Frances M. Heaton,
Flushing, Long Island.
I am making a collection of minerals, and would be glad to exchange petrified wood, celestine, satin spar, chalcedony, fossil shells, or concrete sand balls for other minerals, or Indian relics. I am a reader of Young People, and like it very much.
Herbert E. Peck,
P.O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mabel C.—We suggest "Agate Club" as a pretty name for your society. In the language of gems agate signifies prosperity. Take each letter of the word as the initial of another gem, and let the sentiments of these gems be the mottoes of your club. You can give the name this interpretation: agate, prosperity; garnet, constancy; amethyst, love and truth; topaz, friendship; emerald, faith. If you wish for a club pin, you can have an agate in a simple setting, which would be a very pretty ornament, and not expensive.
Boston, Massachusetts. I would like to know if the story about Captain Cook's goat is true.
Willie W. We only know of one goat connected with Captain Cook. This travelled beast twice circumnavigated the globe—first in the ship Dolphin, with the early discoverer Captain Wallis: and secondly in the ship Endeavor, with Captain Cook. After the goat arrived in England for the second time, the Lords of the Admiralty granted it the privilege of a residence in Greenwich Hospital, and a silver collar was put around its neck, inscribed with a Latin couplet composed by Dr. Johnson. But the goat, like many other old sailors, did not apparently thrive on dry land, for it died in April, 1772, as it was about to be given to the old seamen at Greenwich for a pet, and less than a year after its return from the long voyage with Captain Cook.
C.B.M.—Postage stamps, if they are clean and in good order, will be received in payment for the covers of Harper's Young People.
"Bill."—We refer you to the advertisement of toy steam-engine in Harper's Young People No. 53.
Ernst H.—Your insect from Colorado answers the description of the caddis-worm. This worm, which is a soft, white creature, lives under water in a movable house which it makes for itself out of bits of stone, pieces of shell, and grains of sand. It feeds on minute particles of water refuse. When its life as a worm is ended it forms a chrysalis, from which issues a fly with hairy wings called the caddis-fly, of which there are many species. The caddis-worm is much used as bait by fishermen.
The following communication is longer than those we can, as a rule, admit to the Post-office Box, but as we are sure it will be interesting to other little mothers of doll families, we make an exception in its favor: My family of dolls are unfortunately all orphans. I had the parents of the four girls named French, but my brother Jack sat on the head of the papa, and hopelessly crushed it. The mamma I left too long in a sun bath, and her beautiful wax complexion melted all away. Dora French is the oldest girl, and has auburn hair like the Empress Eugenie. Her hair comes off sometimes, but I use a sticking stuff for tonic, and fasten it on just as the ladies do their puffs. Dora is very graceful, and turns her head beautifully. She wears blue, to suit her hair. Sue French is a brunette with handsome black eyes, long black hair, and bangs. She is very beautiful. My uncle sent her to me as soon as she arrived from France. She is named for my aunty Sue. Lizzie French, the third girl, came over in the same steamer with Sue. She is the sweetest blonde, and is called for my own mamma. Both Sue and Lizzie are very fond of dress. Louise French is the intelligent one of the family. She talks beautifully, and is always calling for mamma and papa; but, poor thing, they never answer her. Perhaps if they were alive, and had the strings in their sides pulled as hard as I pull those of poor Louise, they would answer lively enough. Louise has lovely teeth, but by an accident one was knocked out. The baby is named Minnie. She is an American, and the pet of all the dolls. A lady found her in a doll's orphan asylum, or rather a big store. She is just too lovely for anything, and has lots of long clothes, like a real baby. She has a cradle with sheets, blankets, pillows, and quilts; a pretty baby carriage; a baby basket, lined with blue and trimmed with lace, which holds her brush, comb, sponge, soap, towels, nursing bottle, and rattle. She has caps, cloaks, and an afghan for her carriage. I have almost forgotten dear Gretchen. She is not the little Dutch Gretchen who sat in the kitchen eating her cold sour-krout, but is a cousin to the Misses French. Her trousseau came in the box with her; and such queer satin and white Swiss dresses, funny little aprons, quaint slippers, fine stockings, and dear little hats you never saw, unless you have been in Switzerland. Her hair is light, and braided in two long plaits. I tell you she is a beauty; and although she is the youngest of all the dolls, except the baby, she is as tall as any of them. Then there is Ho Shen Chee, the Chinaman. He is the only boy in the whole family. Mamma picked him up at the Centennial. He looked so forlorn and lonesome that mamma felt sorry for him, and brought him home. We do everything to make him happy, but he still has that same sad look, and his head wobbles awfully. His clothes are a great trouble to us, for we can never make any like those he had on when he came. The French girls have everything elegant. Their Saratoga trunk is filled with lovely dresses, shoes, bonnets, fans, stockings, gloves, jewelry, parasols, hats, dressing-cases and travelling bags, writing-paper and desk, watches, perfumery bottles, books, and everything that young ladies need. Their furniture is very handsome, too. Their bedstead was made to order, and has a mattress, pillows, shams, and everything. They have a large bureau, a lounge, tables, chairs, and a cabinet filled with bric-À-brac. They have a small work-basket, with little scissors that open and shut, thimble, needles, and all other work-box necessities. Olive, or Aunt Olive, as the dollies call her, is the very smallest, but the beauty of the family, and the richest. She lives in a large house with her adopted daughter Pussy, and a great many servants. Her house has five rooms—parlor, dining-room, bedroom, kitchen, and bath-room, where real water runs from a faucet. All these rooms are furnished too lovely for anything. The windows have real glass and curtains; the doors have curtains too. We have a large barn (when I say we, I mean my brother Jack and myself, for he loves dolls as well as I do), which has horses and a dog-cart, in which Olive rides. We have a Park phaeton too. We build our farm-yard in one corner of the room, and our fort in another; these are the summer resorts. We move the things on Jack's big dray and cart. We play the figures in the carpet are lakes, rivers, and ponds. The dolls ride on these in our boats, which go on wheels. Away off in another part of the room we put up the tents. We build the railroad, and the dollies go out to the camp. When we want to take them to amusement, we build our theatre, which plays Cinderella. When they get tired of that we take them to the dog show, which is Jack's collection of beautiful china dogs. We have a race track, where the dolls go to the races on the elevated railroad which we set up. When they get hungry we put the cooking stove on the fender, with the pipe up the chimney, and make a fire, and really cook. Of course we do the eating, using our pretty blue and gilt dishes. We only know one other little girl in New York, and she does not care to play with dolls; so Jack and I get in a room all by ourselves, and put up all these things, and I tell you we have a splendid time. When we get tired we put the dollies to bed, and get out their wash-tubs, boards, and irons, which we heat on the little stove, and wash and iron their little clothes. Next to reading Harper's Young People, this is the best fun we have.
Bessy Guyton.
Favors are acknowledged from Percy Schuchardt, L.P. Wilson, Willie E. Billings, W.L. Bradley, Belle Sisson, Cass K. Shelby, A.G. Norris, John Moody T., Daisy May B., Annie Quinn, Bertha A.F., Frank A. Harmony, Abbie Parkhurst, Jessie DeL., Hattie Cohen.
Correct answers to puzzles are received from Bessie C. Morris, Florence Nightingale, Isabel L. Jacob, Clara B. Kelso, Lizzie, "Freeport, Illinois."
The following names are of those who sent answers to Wiggle No. 14 too late for acknowledgment with the others: Maggie and Harvey Crockett, Lucy P.W., Estelle R. Moshberger, Jackson, Bertie, Helen C. Edwards.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. No. 1. ST. ANDREW'S CROSS OF COMBINED DIAMONDS. Central.—In Westmoreland. A margin. A despicable person. Bipeds. In Ireland. Upper Right Hand.—In game. Obscure. One of a class of laborers. A sea-fowl. In sport. Upper Left Hand.—In grapes. Devoured. Something dreaded by sailors. To blunder. In melons. Lower Right Hand.—In general. At present. A bird. Humor. In captain. Lower Left Hand.—In amethyst. A tropical vegetable. A nobleman's house and lands. A tumultuous crowd. In emerald. Owlet.
No. 2. ENIGMA. | My first is in mat, but not in rug. | | My second in wasp, but not in bug. | | My third is in red, but not in blue. | | My fourth is in false, but not in true. | | My fifth is in wren, but not in owl. | | My sixth is in bird, but not in fowl. | | My seventh is in calm, but not in rough. | | My eighth is in shawl, but not in muff. | | My ninth is in poem, but not in ditty. | | My whole is a European city. | Mamie.
No. 3. EASY NUMERICAL CHARADES. | 1. My whole is a beautiful sheet of water composed of 13 letters. | | My 8, 13, 5, 3, 9 is a river in Europe. | | My 6, 2, 11 is a domestic animal. | | My 4, 10, 7, 8, 12 often wakes the baby. | | My 3, 13, 1 is always fresh. | Little Sister. | 2. My whole is composed of 12 letters, and is always in motion. | | My 11, 2, 9, 6 can never be trusted. | | My 4, 7, 12 is a fluid. | | My 10, 3 is a musical term. | | My 8, 5, 1 is much used by the Japanese. | Julian.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 50. No. 1. | | W | | | | | H | | V | I | A | | | | B | A | G | | W | I | T | C | H | - | H | A | Z | E | L | | A | C | E | | | | G | E | M | | | H | | | | | | L | No. 2. | J | U | R | A | | | H | A | N | D | | U | R | A | L | | | A | G | U | E | | R | A | A | B | | | N | U | L | L | | A | L | B | A | | | D | E | L | L | No. 3. Wood-box. No. 4. 1. Mustard seed. 2. Rhinoceros. No. 5. Boston.
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