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CATALOGUE FREE - - -CANDY! - -Send one, two, three or five dollars for a retail box, by express, of -the best Candies in the World, put up in handsome boxes. All strictly -pure. Suitable for presents. Try it once. Address - - C. F. GUNTHER, Confectioner, 78 Madison Street, Chicago. - - - - -WIDE AWAKE. - -_A Look Ahead into 1888._ - - - The Christmas (Dec.) number will open with a noble - Christmas poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman, entitled - =The Star-Bearer=, with superb full-page frontispiece - and text illustrations by Howard Pyle. - -[Illustration: Edmund C. Stedman] - - The Holiday number will also give a poem by the witty - English author, Andrew Lang, entitled the =Ballad of - a Bad Boy=—which is to be received as an amusing bit - of autobiography, for Mr. Lang writes: “It is true—and - I hope moral!” The “bad boy” will be drawn by W. L. - Taylor. - -[Illustration: Andrew Lang] - - A third great feature of the Christmas number will be - a complete African Serial Story by H. Rider Haggard, - author of the famous books, “She,” “King Solomon’s - Mines,” etc., etc. The story is called =A Tale of Three - Lions=, and will have thrilling full-page illustrations - by Heywood Hardy the English lion painter. The holiday - number will be much enlarged to include this serial - entire. - -[Illustration: H. Rider Haggard] - -=Farm-Life for Young People=, by Ik Marvel (Donald G. Mitchell), -_Out-of-Door Papers_ by John Burroughs, together with _Walking_, -_Rowing_, and _The Training of Dogs_, three papers by Louise Imogen -Guiney, will form a delightful phase of the coming volume. - - =My Uncle Florimond= is a beautiful and romantic - Serial Story for boys by Sidney Luska, author of those - popular novels of the day, “As It was Written,” “Mrs. - Peixada,” and “The Yoke of the Thorah.” It is the first - story which he has written for young folks. =My Uncle - Florimond= is quite a new kind of magazine serial, - and handsome Gregory Brace is quite a new kind of boy - to be met in a story-book, though fortunately for the - world there are some like him in real life. Fathers - and mothers will like their young folks to make the - acquaintance of this chivalric young fellow, and also - of the true girl Rosalind. The illustrations will be by - George Wharton Edwards. - -[Illustration: Sidney Luska] - -=A Painter of Child-Life.= (First Art Paper.) A beautiful art-paper for -children, by the English art-writer, T. Letherbrow, about the English -painter, Warwick Brookes, who was once a little “tear-boy” in the -Manchester cotton-mills, and afterwards rose to great eminence in art. -This remarkable article is to have twenty exquisite illustrations of -child-life from photographs of the artist’s paintings and drawings. - - A brace of sparkling Serial Stories, =Those Cousins - of Mabel’s=, and =Double Roses=, will be contributed - by Mrs. John Sherwood, author of Harper’s standard - etiquette manuals, and of “Royal Girls and Royal - Courts.” In these stories she does good service to her - young countrywomen by showing them what a pleasant - and comfortable thing it is to be acquainted with the - usages of refined society and to conform to them. The - loveliness and nobility of Mabel will render her the - ideal “society girl” of young readers, and everybody - will follow the experiences of the brilliant Phyllis - and the piquant little Wilhelmina, the two girls from - Haffreysberg, with blended amusement and sympathy. - The life Mrs. Sherwood describes exists in all large - cities, the same embarrassments entangle young - strangers to social forms, the same heartlessness, over - against the same loftiness of character, is found among - people of fashion; and the counsel given to Phyllis and - Wilhelmina will be as helpful to thousands of other - girls—and certainly this social counsel could come - from no higher authority than Mrs. Sherwood. Charming - pictures will be drawn by W. L. Taylor. - -[Illustration: M. E. W. Sherwood] - -=Daniel Webster in New Hampshire.= (First Historical Article.) -Reminiscences, anecdotes, and gossip about the great statesman, given -to the author, Miss Amanda B. Harris, by Webster’s early friends and -neighbors in New Hampshire, or gathered from unpublished letters. With -portraits from life-photographs, and many sketches. - - =Plucky Small: His Story=, is a serial by Mary - Bradford Crowninshield. “I was a wharf rat,” begins - Plucky. Plucky’s friend, “The Tinker,” was another; - “why ‘The Tinker,’” says Plucky, “he don’t know, nor - I don’t know.” Plucky does a great brave deed, and - on account of it he gets a chance to enlist “in the - apprentice-service of a United States training-ship,” - and so does “the Tinker,” and away they go on a long - cruise, down around the south of Europe, into the - Mediterranean, with stops at Marseilles, Gibraltar, - and Havre—a whole ship-full of prankish boys; and how - realistic the story is may be guessed from the fact - that the author is the wife of Commander Crowninshield, - now of the U. S. School-Ship _St. Mary’s_, and has - cruised with the boys on other U. S. training-ships. - Pictures by Frank T. Merrill. - -[Illustration: Mary B. Crowninshield] - -=About Rosa Bonheur.= (Second Art Paper.) This charming account of -the wonderful French woman who has painted the finest animal pictures -since Landseer has been written for WIDE AWAKE by Rosa Bonheur’s friend -of many years, the American artist, Henry Bacon. The picture of her -in studio dress painting the famous “Head of a Lion” was drawn by -Mr. Bacon; the portrait of her at eighteen is from a painting by her -brother, Auguste Bonheur. Full of anecdote and with many pictures. - - =Children of the White House=, by Mrs. Harriet Taylor - Upton, is a series of articles of national importance - and national interest. It is a wonder that this work - has not been undertaken before for the pleasure and - information of young Americans. Starting with the - little Custises, the adopted children of Washington, - this fascinating series, giving a chapter to each - Presidential family, comes down to the present - administration, gathering up delightful details of - family life, and tracing the after histories of the - Presidential children. Mrs. Upton for many years - has had rare privileges of ransacking old annals in - Washington, and interesting family reminiscences have - been kindly recalled for her, and precious relics, - portraits, and paintings furnished for photographing. - -[Illustration: Harriet Taylor Upton] - -=The Story of Boston Common=, by Edward Everett Hale, is now complete -in _MS._, and the long-expected series, touching much of early American -history, will be given, in three or more chapters, with historic and -modern pictures, during the coming summer. - - Certain old authors, certain old books, certain old - nursery stories, have become household words and - household treasures the world over. Under the title of - =Dear Old Story-Tellers=, Mr. Adams will relate all of - interest that is known about these dear old authors, - books and stories. The series of twelve papers embrace - Æsop, Arabian Nights, Mother Goose, Perrault, La - Fontaine, Defoe, Madame de Genlis, Brothers Grimm, Hans - Andersen, Laboulaye, La Motte-Fouqué—with authentic - portraits, when such exist, and other illustrations. - -[Illustration: Oscar Fay Adams] - -=The Medal Children of the Renaissance.= (Third Art Paper.) An art -article for young readers by Frances H. Throop about some high-born -children of the fifteenth century, whose portraits were sculptured -or cast in medallions; these lovely medals are preserved in European -museums and collections, being regarded as precious art-treasures; -and Miss Throop has made casts and drawings from the originals to -illustrate her paper. - - =Around-the-World Stories= relate a dozen unique - personal experiences—some diverting, some perilous—of - the adopted daughter of Secretary of State, William H. - Seward, on his journey around the world after he had - recovered from the attack on his life at the time of - the assassination of President Lincoln. Miss Seward is - a born story-teller, and whether she is describing _A - Dinner at Kensington Palace_, or _A Visit to the Great - Wall of China_, or _Experiences as a Lion-Tamer_, or - _Adventures in the Streets of Pekin_, the interest - is always breathless, the story always novel. - Illustrations by Wm. T. Smedley and others. - -[Illustration: Olive Risley Seward] - -=An Old House on Royal Street.= (Second Historical Article.) This -delightful paper about old New Orleans and early Louisiana by Mrs. M. -E. M. Davis (author of _In War-Times at La Rose Blanche_), written -in the old house that was General Jackson’s headquarters, abounds in -reminiscences of Indian, French, Spanish and Creole days, of Jackson, -Galvez, the pirate Lafitte, Bienville, Pere Antoine, Don Almonaster, -and other famous men of the Southwest. Full of portraits. - - =Eurania’s Boys= is the title of a story by Margaret - Sidney: Mrs. Eurania Stebbins and several members - of her family being called away suddenly from home, - her two boys keep house—not exactly according to her - methods! - -[Illustration: Margaret Sidney] - -ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS will contribute a series of practical papers for -young people embodying suggestions helpful to them in their desire -to get on in the world. The papers will be a departure from the -customary “Letters to Young Men.” They will be, rather, in the spirit -of appreciation and comradeship, and will endeavor to indicate and open -toward the possibilities that exist for the boys and girls of America -in these busy days that are merging into the twentieth century. - -In a series of informing articles about the =U. S. Naval and Military -Schools=, Mr. Peale tells the boys and their home friends explicitly -what applicants must know and do in order to enter any of the U. S. -Government schools, exactly what is expected of them during the years -of training, what obligations to the Government they thereby take -upon themselves, and what the schools and the Government do for the -boys. While full of picturesque interest for the general reader, the -series form a manual for boys aspiring to enter the army and the navy. -Illustrations. - -[Illustration: Louis T. Peale] - -=For Business Boys= will be pithy, unforgettable, lifting words, -straight from man to boy, as felt and said by a man whose business -writing is even better known than his name—a companion paper to Mr. -Brooks’ series. - - Our Asiatic Cousins will be the subject of a series - of illustrated articles running through the year, by - Mrs. Leonowens, who was for some years governess in the - royal family of Siam, and who has travelled extensively - in the East. - -[Illustration: A. H. Leonowens] - -=Among Sir Walter Ralegh’s Homes.= (Third Historical Article.) Sir -Walter is everybody’s hero, and Mrs. Raymond Blathwayt has written a -charming paper about his birthplace and his young days, and she has -sent over many beautiful photographs of his old haunts made expressly -for WIDE AWAKE; the manuscript itself has been prepared under the -friendly supervision of Dr. Brushfield the English antiquarian and -great Ralegh authority. - - =The Cruise of a Coverlet=, being the adventures of - an embroidered counterpane in the U. S. Navy, will be - related by Mrs. Frémont. Illustrations from photographs. - -[Illustration: “Jessie” Benton Frémont] - -=Typical Children of England=, by Julia Cartwright, will be a notable -article, illustrated with most charming pictures of English children -of the present day, all from life studies—the aristocratic type, the -peasant type, the athletic, the spiritual, etc. - - Brilliant additions to the preceding serials and - specialties will include ballads, poems, and the - following - -_Interesting illustrated articles:_ - - =Some Chinese Dragons=, by Prof. Robert Douglas of the British Museum. - - =About Sea Serpents=, by Dr. Samuel Kneeland. - - =How Jew’s-harps Grow=, by Prof. Otis T. Mason of the Smithsonian - Institution. - - =The Ramona School for Indian Girls=, by Rev. Dr. Horatio Ladd. - - =An Ant of Annisquam=, by Harlan A. Ballard, President of the Agassiz - Association. - - =My Friends, the Dogs=, by Maud Howe. [With portrait of Miss Howe and - Sambo, from Porter’s painting now in the Corcoran Gallery.] - - =The Wild Cattle of Chillingly=, by Amanda B. Harris. - - =All Around an Old Meeting-House=, by Frances A. Humphrey. - - =The Old Ballad of London Bridge=, by Susan Archer Weiss. - - =The Boyhood of Paul H. Hayne=, by Margaret J. Preston. - - -_Interesting illustrated stories:_ - - =The Little Captive Chief=, by Miss Owen. - - =Two Girls—Two Parties=, by Susan Coolidge. - - =A Piece of News: Aunt Ray’s Cat=, a humorous dialogue, by Margaret - Sidney. - - =Puck and Puppypult=, a singular story, by George Parsons Lathrop. - - =Cat Isabel=, by M. H. Catherwood, with many funny pictures. - - =A Stray Shot=, by Hartwell Moore. - - =A New Birthday=, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. - - =The Squire’s Sixpence=, by Mary E. Wilkins. - - =A Night in a Beaver Town=, a curious account by Edmund Collins. - - =Sabot=, by Katharine S. Macquoid. - - =The “Shut-Ins,”= by Mrs. Peattie. - - =The Bull and the Leaping Pole=, by Charles G. D. Roberts. - - =Saved on the Brink=, by J. Macdonald Oxley. - -Further papers about =Famous Pets= are in preparation; =Tangles= will -have new novelties; =The Contributors and the Children=, and other -departments, will grow in interest; the artistic features will continue -to delight young and old alike. - - [Pointing Hand] Now is the time to subscribe, and to obtain valuable - Premiums by getting your friends to subscribe also. - - _Wide Awake, in spite of unprecedented attractions, will still be - $2.40 a year._ - _Address orders and inquiries to_ - - D. LOTHROP COMPANY, Boston. - - - - - BABYLAND _What Babies and Mammas - may look for during 1888._ - - -The twelve numbers of BABYLAND for 1888 will be like twelve Christmas -stockings stuffed full of delights—the choicest nuts, candies and -raisins of jingledom and storyland; and there will be three special big -delicious bon-bons besides. - - =Me and Toddlekins= is a story told by “Me,” whose - other name is Mew-mew, and written down by Margaret - Johnson, with cunning pictures of “Me” and Toddlekins, - and their doings, drawn by the same Margaret Johnson. - - =Six New Finger Plays= will be contributed by Emilie - Poulsson. The instant popularity of the first series - of Finger Plays, among little children, mothers, and - kindergarten teachers, has tempted Miss Poulsson to - prepare six more; the verses are delightfully amusing - and graceful, and the pictorial instructions showing - how to play the Plays, and the pictures themselves, - will be by the same artist, Mr. L. J. Bridgman. - - =Allie and the Crickets= will be the subject of six - dear little stories that the crickets told to Baby - Allie—some on the hearth as she sat in her mother’s lap - at twilight, some when she was at play out in the sunny - fields—very cunning little stories all of them (which - Clara Doty Bates overheard and has related for other - babies). Many pictures. - -BABYLAND will be full of pictures, too, big and beautiful, little and -funny; and it will be printed in large clear black letters, as usual, -on strong fine paper, and have pretty pink covers. All sent by mail for -50 cents a year. - - - - - OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN _A glimpse - into 1888._ - - -This magazine for youngest readers will be even more entertaining in -text and pictures than in the past, and in the stories will be hidden -bits of wisdom as well. There will be seventy-five full-page pictures. - - =Stories of Captain John Smith and Princess - Pocahontas=, twelve of them, will be related by Frances - A. Humphrey; they will be accompanied with many - historical pictures. - - =Laura’s Holidays=, a serial story in twelve chapters, - by Henrietta K. Eliot, will relate what one little - girl did in a year of holidays. Full-page pictures by - Elizabeth S. Tucker. - - =Tiny Folks in Armor= is the title of twelve talks - about beetles, by Fannie A. Deane. There will be - pictures of the beetles. - - There will be a set of =Twelve Flower Poems= by Clara - Doty Bates, whose bird poems have been so popular the - past year. - - =Buffy’s Letters to his Mistress=, six in all, will - be published by the kind permission of Elizabeth F. - Parker. Buffy is a coon-cat, and his doings will be - pictured by L. J. Bridgman. - - =Little People of the Plaza= will be told about in six - Mexican stories by Jennie Stealey. Some Mexican animals - also. - - Adapted from the French there will be =Susanna’s - Auction=, in six funny chapters, each chapter with - funny pictures. - -Besides these serials and series, there will be a treasury of short -stories and verses, bright and interesting, and full of pictures as -a Christmas pudding with plums. The best magazine for home and school -reading. $1.00 a year by mail. - - - - - THE PANSY _Pansy’s Own Magazine. - Something about 1888._ - - - =Up Garret= is the title of Pansy’s new serial, and - readers of “A Sevenfold Trouble” will be glad to know - it is a sequel to that story, and to continue their - acquaintance with its people. - - The Golden Text Stories for 1888 will be given under - the title of =We Twelve Girls=, and they will be the - actual accounts of how twelve girls tried to live by - certain golden texts. - - The “Little Red Shop” has roused such interest that - Margaret Sidney will relate more about Jack, Cornelius, - Rosalie, and the baby, in a sequel to be called =The - Old Brimmer Place=. - - =Treasures: Their Hiding and Finding= is the title of - a new serial by Rev. C. M. Livingston, full of wise - entertainment. - - [Pointing Hand] The Pansy Society will have a special serial. All - departments will be continued, some new features added, - and stories, poems and pictures will have ample place. Mailed for - $1.00 a year. - - _Address all orders and inquiries to_ - - D. LOTHROP COMPANY, BOSTON. - - -=A Midshipman at Large.= - -By CHARLES R. TALBOT. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. - -An escapade of a bright young fellow who “shipped” for a yachting -cruise in vacation. - -The story has nothing to do with the question whether it pays to know -one’s work and do it and “be,” as the phrase goes, “a gentleman”; -but, if the reader chooses to think of them, he will find plenty of -stimulant. - - -=Storied Holidays.= - -By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS, author of The American Indian, In Leisler’s -Times, In No-Man’s Land, and others. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. - -An historic tale connected with a holiday in every month of the year. - -There is the snapdragon Christmas quarrel of James I. of England with -his sons about the release of Sir Walter Raleigh; a New Year’s meeting -of Margery More with Henry VIII; how William Penn got his motto “Be -true, be leal, be constant,” on St. Valentine’s Day; how the Earl of -Kildare kept St. Patrick’s; the wise men of Gotham fool King John on -the first of April; and so on through the months. - -These stories out of history practise one in the times they take him -back to. - - -=Eighty-Seven.= - -By MRS. G. R. 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LOTHROP COMPANY. - _November 5, 1887._ - -THE PANSY. - - -[Illustration: THE CAT THAT COULD OPEN DOORS.] - - - - -“WE TWELVE GIRLS.” - - WHOSOEVER, THEREFORE, SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN, - HIM WILL I CONFESS ALSO, BEFORE MY FATHER WHICH IS IN - HEAVEN. - - HE WAS A BURNING AND A SHINING LIGHT. - - COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, - AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. - - IT IS LAWFUL TO DO WELL ON THE SABBATH DAYS. - - -I SHALL have to begin the story for you, or you would never understand. -It happened that the twelve girls in Mr. Shepard’s Bible class were -very nearly of an age; were class-mates in day school, as well as on -Sundays, and were very fond of one another. - -They lived in different parts of the country, but were gathered in -Clayville at boarding-school. - -It came to pass that on this year of which I write, they were to be -widely scattered; only one was to return to the school in the fall. It -was because of this fact that the thought grew up, out of which grows -my story. On the last Sabbath before they separated, Mr. Shepard gave -to each a tiny book of texts; one for each week, with the hint that he -would like them to live by those words in the coming year. - -This set them to thinking and to talking. After many plans, it was -finally agreed that they should each select a month in which to write -a letter that should give some account of an experience connected with -one of the verses for that month. These letters were to be passed by -mail from one member of the class to another until each had read them; -and I, being a particular friend of several of the girls, have the -privilege of reading them, and of making a copy for you, my Blossoms. - -Cora Stevens had the month of November, and, without more introduction, -I give you her letter: - - MAPLEWOOD, _Nov. 18_— - - YOU DEAR GIRLS: - - I hope you every one miss me as much as I do you! - Really and truly, I am dreadfully homesick for school! - But this is my special letter, so I must not take time - for anything else. I’m sorry I promised to write the - first one, because I don’t know just how to write it, - and I have such a mean, silly little story to tell, - that I’m ashamed of it, anyhow. - -I chose that verse about “confessing before men,” for the one to write -my letter on. And I meant to go to the young people’s meeting, and to -the Band, and confess Him in some way that would be nice to tell; and I -didn’t do anything of the kind. - -Don’t you think my story is about a cat! Who would have supposed that a -cat would get mixed up with a verse like that? - -We went to grandma’s, as usual, for the month of November, but things -there were very unusual, for aunt Kate was married, and the house was -full of company and confusion. - -It is about the wedding day that I’m to tell you. I wish you could have -seen the tables after they were ready. They did look too lovely for -anything! The central table was magnificent. All the old silver and -queer, quaint china which have been in grandma’s family for ages, had -been brought out for decoration, and people say that the tablecloth -was the finest piece of old damask that has ever been used in this -part of the world. If I had Nettie’s descriptive powers, I could give -you a picture of the whole; but as it is, I want you to confine your -attention to one dish—the loveliest cut-glass beauty that was ever -seen. It was amber-colored sometimes, with little threads of crimson -running through it, which reminded one of a sunset. Besides, it was a -very peculiarly-shaped dish, and as frail as a cobweb. Uncle Fred found -it in Paris, and brought it to the bride. Uncle Fred, you understand, -is the bridegroom. - -Well, it was on the special wedding table, just before the bride’s -seat, and was filled with the most exquisite flowers. - -Grandma did not want the dish used, because it was so frail and so -rare, but aunt Kate insisted that it should be placed just there, and -be filled with orange-buds. - -Grandma had just seen that the very last touches had been put to the -table, and had taken the children in for a look, and then had said, as -she shut the dining-room door: “Now, don’t one of you children open -that door again. I wouldn’t have anything go wrong in there for a great -deal.” - -Then she went up to take a last look at aunt Kate, before she became -Mrs. Fred Somerville. - -Just at that moment little Sallie Evans came running down the hall, -her eyes full of tears. Her mamma had called her just as grandma took -the children in to see the tables, and she had missed the sight. - -“And now I sha’n’t see them at all, till everything is spoiled,” she -said, “for they aren’t going to let the little bits of cousins come to -the first table.” And she sobbed outright. - -Now it never entered my mind that grandma meant me, when she said, “You -children,” because—well, because, you know, I am thirteen, and there -are three at home, younger than I, and I’m used to being trusted. So I -said, “Never mind, Sallie, I’ll let you look at them; but you must look -fast, for it is almost time for the wedding.” - -So, in we went. And Sallie, who is the most beauty-loving little -creature of eight, whom I ever saw, seemed to have eyes only for that -lovely glass dish, which she had never seen before. She clasped her -hands together with an eager little “Oh!” and ran towards it. I don’t -suppose she would have touched it, but I was excited, and so afraid -she would, that I ran after her, calling out, “Don’t touch anything!” -and put out my hand to prevent it. And then, I don’t know how it -happened—does anybody know how such accidents happen? The lace from -my sleeve caught in one of the points of the glass, or in one of the -stems of flowers, or somehow,—I don’t suppose I could do it again if I -tried,—but over that glass went, the water pouring itself out in the -most disgusting way, on the damask cloth, and a long crooked piece -snapped from the upper edge of the dish! - -O, dear! Don’t ask me how I felt. I couldn’t describe it, even though -I were sitting on the dear old bed at No. 7, with half a dozen of you -beside me, and the rest cuddled around close at hand. - -There wasn’t any time to do anything. I heard them calling, at that -moment, for I was one of the bridesmaids. I just had to force back my -tears and my fright, and run and take my place in the procession. We -all got through it somehow. I hope aunt Kate heard what the minister -said; I didn’t; but it is safe to say that she was not thinking of what -I was. - -Immediately after the ceremony, we went to the dining-room, and then -the awful accident was discovered. I don’t know which I was the most -sorry for, grandma or myself. I didn’t mean to tell about it then, -because I thought it wouldn’t be the proper time; and then, of course, -it would be dreadful to have to speak before them at all. - -But what should grandma do, after we were all seated, and the eating -had begun, but lean over to aunt Kate and say in a low tone: “That is -some of Jill’s work; if I don’t get rid of a cat who can open doors, -before I am a day older, it will be because I am not smart enough.” - -Now, Jill is the cutest cat that was ever born, I do believe; there -isn’t a door in grandma’s house that she cannot manage to open almost -as well as though she had hands. - -I never thought of her blaming the cat; and now the story came out, -just as they guessed it had happened, and all the people at our end of -the table talked it over. - -Even then, I don’t know whether I would have spoken, because Jill is -only a cat, you know, and her feelings couldn’t be hurt by bearing -blame that didn’t belong to her for a few hours, until I could see -grandma alone. But, just as I was thinking that, I heard grandma say: -“The fault rests with little John. I charged him a dozen times to keep -watch of that cat, and not on any account let her out of the barn -to-day; and that is all the good it did! I think I have given John a -lesson on obedience that he will remember.” - -Now John is the little errand boy; a real nice chubby little fellow, -who was very fond of aunt Kate, and who had never tasted wedding cake, -and he was to drive one of the carriages to the depot that very day, to -see the bridal party off. - -It all came over me like a flash—how grandma would forbid his coming -in to the wedding supper, and how she would not let him drive to the -depot, but would send him to bed; and I felt just as though I should -choke! - -Even then, it didn’t seem to me that I could speak out then and there; -and I don’t believe I could have done it, but for the verse. - -Girls, I know you don’t see how the verse is coming in, and I can’t -explain myself how it seemed to fit; there was certainly nothing about -“confessing” Jesus in my telling of what I had done. And yet, you see, -I knew I ought to tell, and I know it is what Jesus would do in my -place, and it would be showing that I wanted to copy him, and—well, -anyhow, it seemed to fit exactly, though I can’t explain it. And I -spoke right out, loud and fast: “Grandmother, it wasn’t the cat; John -didn’t let the cat out; it was I did it.” - -My voice sounded so loud that it almost seemed as though they could -hear me down at the church; the people at our table all stopped -talking, and I just knew they could hear my heart beat. - -“You!” said grandma. “You let the cat out?” - -“No, ma’am,” I said, “I broke the dish.” - -Then she questioned, and I answered, until somehow, she had the whole -story. - -I don’t think any tears dropped, but my eyes and my throat felt full -of them. It didn’t seem to me that I could say another word, and then -grandma said: “Well, well, child, there are worse things in the world -than broken dishes. Eat your wedding cake, and think no more about it.” -And I heard her call one of the waiters, and say to him: “Tell little -John that he may dress himself again in his best suit, and come to the -dining-room as soon as he is ready.” Then I knew that I had been none -too soon with my confession. - -And the bride, my dear, sweet aunt Kate, leaned over toward me and -spoke low, “There are better things than glass dishes,” she said; -“there are little nieces who are true.” - -And papa looked across the table at me, and nodded, and smiled. - -And in spite of the lovely broken dish, and the tablecloth, and my -being ashamed, and all, I never felt happier in my life. - -And as for the verse, if you girls can’t fit it to the cat story, I -shall not be surprised; for I can’t explain it myself, but I know they -fitted when the time came. Good-by! - - Your loving, lonely - CORA. - -========== - -WATER that flows from a spring, does not freeze in the coldest winter. -And those sentiments of true friendship which flow from the heart -cannot be frozen by adversity. - - - - -A THANKSGIVING DINNER. - - -THERE are four of us young people at home: first I, who am sixteen, -then there is a long gap, and next comes Katie, who is eight, and -Bessie, who is six, and last of all baby Harry, who is not yet two. But -we were all a year younger when what I mean to tell you of happened, -for that was a year ago. - -I spoke of Katie and Bessie and Harry and myself as the young people, -because I think I am rather too old to be called a child, and I didn’t -know how else to put it, but I don’t at all mean to call father and -mother old. It is true father has a great many gray streaks in his -hair, but I think that is more from care than from age. - -It makes me sad, however, very sad, to see father’s hair changing -color; but when I speak of it, he only laughs and says: “The whites are -gaining the ascendency, and the aborigines becoming extinct.” - -Father and mother have not looked like themselves since the summer -mother was so ill. That was the most dreadful period of my life, I am -sure. For a long time we thought she couldn’t recover. She was ill, -of course, to begin with, and then the expense of having a doctor and -nurse preyed on her mind and made against her. I really believe mother -minded that more than the pain she suffered! At one time she got so -nervous with thinking of it, that she said Dr. May’s visits did her -more harm than good, and declared she wouldn’t see him again; but Dr. -Armstrong, our minister, happened to come in just then, and he soon -reasoned her out of all that and made her see things differently. - -There couldn’t possibly be a nicer minister than Dr. Armstrong,—I can’t -begin to say how much I love him; better, indeed, than anybody in the -world, outside of home, except a dear friend, Miss Judith Hepburn. -Miss Judith lives next door to us; she is old and very poor; she has, -in fact, nothing in the world but the house she lives in, and so she -occupies only one of the rooms on the first floor, and lives on the -rent from the others. But Miss Judith is as happy as if she possessed -all this world has to offer, and happier, too, for that matter, and -this is because she is such a true Christian. “Whatever befalls us is -good,” she says, “whether it comes in the shape of prosperity or of -adversity, because everything is bestowed by a loving Hand.” - -[Illustration: AMUSING BABY HARRY.] - -I forgot to say, all this while, that my name is Annie—Annie Gray—but -Miss Judith never calls me anything but “Martha.” She commenced this -when mother was ill, because I kept so busy, and perhaps, too, because -I was “troubled about many things,” for indeed I was all during her -illness, and for a long time after, too, for the debt we owed to the -doctor and nurse hung like a black cloud over the household. It is -different with some people, but debt has always seemed a very serious -evil to us. I believe father has dreaded it almost more than anything -else, and up to mother’s illness, he had always avoided it; but the -demands which sickness makes are very great, and can’t be easily -disregarded. - -Ah! how often I have heard father say: “Owe no man anything,” after -which he would always add, “whether this is a Divine command, or only -loving counsel I cannot say, but, in either case, I shall not willingly -disregard it.” - -Well, it was right funny, but soon after mother’s illness, Dr. -Armstrong commenced his Friday evening lectures to the congregation “On -Secular Matters,” as he said in his notice. Father took me to the first -one, and I couldn’t help giving his hand a squeeze when he gave out -the subject, “Debts: How They are Made, and How They May be Paid.” I -can’t remember the words he used, which is a pity, but Dr. Armstrong’s -words, as well as his thoughts, are forcible, but I know the sense -of it all was that debts are generally commenced in a small way, -little by little, little by little, they are added one to the other, -till presently an account is presented to us of such overwhelming -proportions that we despair of ever wiping it out. “But I trust,” he -added, “that none of my friends who find themselves in this unhappy -situation will give way for a moment to a feeling of discouragement. -Step by step have we been led into trouble; let us retrace our way in -like manner, step by step. Begin from this moment a system of judicious -retrenchment; lay aside sums, never mind how trifling, toward the -liquidation of your debt, and little by little it will melt away, till, -almost unconsciously to yourself, it has disappeared, and you, again a -free man, ‘can look the whole world in the face.’” - -“Ah, that was practical! That was what I needed!” said father, as -we came out after the lecture was over, “and I, for one, shall not -‘approve the doctrine and immediately practice the contrary.’ No; from -this very moment I shall begin to retrench and put by. Ah, Annie, ‘a -word in season,’ how good it is! I was almost ready to despair till -now.” - -And that was the beginning of our saving. First, coffee was given up; -mother always drank tea, and so no one was inconvenienced by that but -father; then butter was dispensed with, and the cheapest meat and -vegetables in the market were selected, and mother decided that so many -things were unnecessary about our clothes, that Katie declared after a -while mother would think we could do without buttons on our dresses. -But my happy part of the day, during all this anxious time, was the -twilight when there was no work for me to do and I could run in and -sit by Miss Judith’s bright little fire and talk over things with her. -It was on one of these evenings, after Miss Judith’s usual greeting of, -“Well, Martha, how has the work come on to-day?” that I said, “Indeed, -Miss Judith, I wish I were not such a ‘Martha,’ and that I might -‘choose the better part,’ like Mary. But then, what can I do? Wouldn’t -it be wrong for me to throw things on mother when she isn’t strong, and -don’t you think our Saviour would think so, too? Then, besides, mother -would have to be a ‘Martha,’ for the work must be done. I am sure it is -all very puzzling to me, anyway.” - -“I do not wonder that you say so, dear,” said Miss Judith, “for older -heads than yours have puzzled over the same question, and certain it -is that were it not for the ‘Marthas’ in the world the whole system -of society would come to a stand-still. But, then, Annie, we are told -that Martha was ‘_cumbered_ with serving’; she allowed her work, it -would seem, to absorb her faculties to the exclusion of other and more -important things; we need not do that, need we? Has not each one of us, -even the busiest among us, leisure sufficient to consecrate his work to -God in prayer, and ask His blessing upon it, and His help in it? Then, -my child,” she continued, “observe the words of our Saviour, ‘Mary -has chosen the better part’; that is better than Martha, but perhaps -there is a ‘better part,’ still, or the best part, in which labor and -worship are united, in which, while ‘not slothful in business,’ we are -still ‘fervent in spirit serving the Lord.’ This would seem to me the -best part, and surely the best example is that of the blessed Saviour -Himself, who ‘came not to be ministered to, but to minister,’ who -‘went about doing good,’ and ‘followed up days of toil with nights of -prayer.’ Yes, my dear, the necessity of serving is evidently laid upon -you, and you have not the choice of your part in life, but the manner -in which you act your part is within your power. Don’t forget, dear -child, that you ‘serve the Lord Christ,’ and ‘whatsoever you do, do it -heartily as unto Him.’ He has taken a journey into a far country now, -but he will come again to inspect your work; be faithful, dear Annie, -and watch and pray.” - -That little talk with Miss Judith did me real good. My little talks -with her always do, and mother says that she is the greatest possible -comfort to her, for she shows her how useful one may be, even where one -has only sympathy and counsel to bestow; and father says that there is -a healing and strengthening power in her words, which is far better -than a gift of silver and gold, for it enables you to “rise up and -walk” under the burden of life. - -The children certainly did bear the privations we underwent well, but -Katie said to me privately one night, “I never did want something -good to eat as badly in my life. I am real glad Thanksgiving Day is -so near.” But when the day before Thanksgiving came, and mother asked -if I should get anything different for dinner next day, father shook -his head with such a decided “no” that there was nothing more to be -said, but it was undoubtedly a change; we had never known what it was -not to have turkey and pudding then. I was most grieved, however, at -the thought of not having my usual present for Miss Judith. I had -always, on that day, carried her in her dinner, and on the waiter a -five dollar bill; but as I went up stairs at night, father slipped five -dollars into my hand, saying, “This is for Miss Judith, Annie. We must -not forget, in our efforts to retrench, the debt we owe our Heavenly -Father.” - -That was enough to put me in a proper frame for the next day, even if -I had not already had sufficient to be thankful for. I had quite made -up my mind that mother was to go to church, and let me mind Harry, but -there was a great deal of persuading necessary to get her up to the -point. However, I succeeded at last, and after they were all gone and I -had washed up the breakfast things, Master Harry began to show symptoms -of sleepiness, so I tucked him in his little cradle, and began rocking -him to and fro, singing all the while one of Miss Judith’s favorite -hymns:— - - “One by one thy duties wait thee, - With thy whole strength go to each, - Let no future dreams elate thee, - Learn thou first what these may teach. - - Do not look at life’s long sorrow, - See how short each moment’s pain, - God will help thee for the morrow, - Every day begin again.” - -Over and over I sang it, till at last the white lids closed, and I was -getting up softly to slip away, when ting-a-ling! went the door-bell, -with such a sound through the house that Harry stirred, then opened his -blue eyes to their fullest extent, and I was obliged to get him quiet -again before answering the bell. When at last I did go down, lo! not -a creature was to be seen: only a hamper-basket covered with a white -cloth with a paper pinned on top, on which was written: “For Mr. Gray; -from a friend.” - -It was just as much as I could do to get the basket into the kitchen, -and then, oh! the good things that met my eyes. First of all, a turkey -ready dressed, then a roll of golden butter, then several jars of -sausage-meat and jelly, then a bunch of celery, and last a great iced -cake. This completed the contents, but no; as I lifted out the lower -cloth there lay a sealed envelope directed, as the basket had been, -to father. This I laid aside till his return, but what to do about -the other things was puzzling. They are clearly intended for father’s -Thanksgiving dinner, I thought, but unless the turkey is put to roast -right away it won’t be done in time. Shall I, or shall I not? I said to -myself. Then I remembered how feeble dear mother looked when she set -out; how she feared the services would be too much for her strength. -Yes, I said decidedly, by way of answering my doubts, a warm nourishing -dinner will be just what she needs, and so, without more ado, I set to -work. The baby (bless his little heart!) was real good, and let me, get -well “under way” before he waked up. There was no keeping the secret -of the dinner, however, when the front door was once entered, for the -savory odor of the roasting turkey told the tale at once, and the whole -party hurried into the kitchen to find out what it meant. - -“O, father!” I said, when the exclamations over the first part of my -recital had sufficiently subsided to admit of my getting in a word, -“there was a letter for you in the basket, too.” - -“This will give us the name of the donor,” said he, as he opened it. -But, no indeed, there was no name inside, only some notes neatly -folded. “Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five dollars,” said father, -counting them out on the table. “God be praised for all His mercies, -and God bless the giver!” said he, fervently, while mother turned away -to get Miss Judith’s dinner ready, and hide her tears, for poor mother -was actually crying. - -“Take this, too, Annie,” said father, putting another five on the one -already lying on the waiter, when at last it was ready for me to take -in. Of course I had to stop and tell Miss Judith the wonderful news -about the basket, and when I got back again mother was putting the last -dish on the table; then, going to our places, we stood with bowed -heads while father said the grace I had always been accustomed to hear, -but which seemed to have gained new meaning and beauty,— - -“Supply the wants of others, O Lord, and give us grateful hearts, for -Christ’s sake.” - -We never knew the secret of that Thanksgiving basket, nor did we ever -inquire into it, but we all had a notion that Dr. Armstrong could have -thrown light upon the subject if he had chosen to. - - G. S. W. - -[Illustration: TRYING THEIR NEW KNIVES.] - - - - - _Volume 15, Number 2._ Copyright, 1887, by D. LOTHROP COMPANY. - _November 12, 1887._ - -THE PANSY. - - -[Illustration: THE BABY THAT’S NEVER CROSS.] - - - - -A SEVENFOLD TROUBLE. - -(_Told by Seven People who Knew of it._) - -BY GRACE LIVINGSTON. - - -MARGARET threw an old shawl over her head and went out the side door. -This had been a hard day. Weston had been very cross, and insisted upon -having her run a great many errands for him, some of them unnecessary. - -This, too, was the first day of the fall term of school, and Margaret -had so wanted to be early at school to secure her old seat; for she had -heard that Helen Marcy was going to try to get it first. She had almost -forgotten her new resolves in the morning when her step-mother had told -her she would have to stay home to-day and help her. - -As the tears came into Margaret’s eyes, Mrs. Moore had remarked: “Now’s -a good time to show your religion. A girl that’s joined the church -shouldn’t go around pouting all day because she’s asked to do a little -work; especially when she’s been off doing nothing at the seashore.” - -It was all true, Margaret knew it, but it seemed so hateful of her to -say it. It had been so hard to bear. - -After tea she walked down to the gate and stood staring out into the -darkness. - -It was a very hard life, all just as black and unlovely as that dark -autumn evening. - -She glanced back at the house. There was Johnnie bending over his -books, the gaslight above him brought him out in clear relief against -the dark room. Naughty Johnnie! How he had teased her every time he -came near her that day! Nobody cared for her much. She gazed down the -street. Here and there a light gleamed out. Across the way there was -a bright fire in the fireplace, and the family seemed to be having -a happy time, sitting around the table, sewing, reading, laughing -and talking. The little girl was sitting in her father’s lap. How -Margaret longed for such a pleasant evening in their home. She turned -involuntarily back to the house. Her father and Mr. Wakefield, the -minister, had gone out just after tea, and Mrs. Moore had gone to her -own room directly after the dishes were washed. The house was all dark, -save Johnnie’s one gas jet. It was just unbearable. No other girl in -the world had such a hard lot. It couldn’t possibly be any worse. - -Yes, she really thought so, this poor silly little girl. - -But she did not altogether forget her Heavenly Father. She remembered -presently, with a glad thrill of joy, that she belonged to the rich -King of all the earth. He could help her. She would ask Him. - -Down went her head on the gate-post, and she told her Father in Heaven -all about it, and how she could not possibly stand it. - -Then she raised her head with a confident feeling that now all would be -well, and fell to planning different ways in which her prayer might be -answered. - -She didn’t exactly want her step-mother to die! She was rather shocked -at the thought. That was a very wrong thought for a Christian girl to -have. - -Poor little Margaret! She thought she loved Jesus, and was trying with -all her might to serve him, but she still had to learn the command: -“Honor thy father and thy mother.” - -Throwing that disagreeable thought aside, she went on. How _could_ -it all be changed? Perhaps some rich, unheard-of relative of her -mother’s would die and leave a vast fortune to her as her mother’s only -daughter. Then what would she do? She would give her father enough so -that he wouldn’t have to work anymore. She would—yes, she would show -a very Christian spirit toward Mrs. Moore. She would re-furnish the -house, and hire several servants for her, and give her enough to buy -beautiful dresses. The boys should be sent to college, and she,—she -would go off to boarding-school and study as much as she liked, and -never have to stay home and wash dishes. She would have plenty of money -to give away. She would buy a great many flowers to give to poor sick -people. Her room should be beautifully furnished, and she would invite -all the poor girls in school there and give them nice times. - -She was just treating those imaginary girls to chocolate creams and -marshmallow drops, when she heard her father’s step coming swiftly down -the street, and his voice say: “Margaret, you should not be out in this -chilly night air.” Then she turned and followed him into the house. -She had to give up her musings for a while and help Johnnie with his -arithmetic lesson, but she promised herself more castle-building when -she went to her own room, before she slept. - -But presently her father called her. “Margaret,” he said, “I have a -letter here from your Aunt Cornelia. She wishes you to come and spend -the winter with her and attend school. Would you like to go?” - -Margaret’s heart bounded with joy. Not alone with the pleasure of going -to Aunt Cornelia, but with a sort of triumphant feeling that her prayer -was answered, and that so soon. She resolved complacently that she -should always pray for everything. Poor child! She thought her faith -was very great. - -It was quite dark in the room and Margaret could not see her father’s -face as he said this, but his voice was very kind. The door into the -hall was partly open, and the streak of light which came from it fell -upon the sofa, and showed the dim outlines of Mrs. Moore lying there -with her head bound up in a handkerchief. There was a faint odor of -camphor and vinegar pervading the room and Margaret’s conscience smote -her as she remembered her hard thoughts out by the gate. Perhaps Mrs. -Moore had been suffering all day from a sick headache, and that was why -she was so severe. The little girl’s heart softened and she resolved to -pray that the headache be cured, which, however, she forgot to do. You -must remember how full her heart was of excitement, and pity this poor -young Christian. - -It was all settled that evening that she should go in a week, and she -went up to her room to write a letter overflowing with thanks to dear -Aunt Cornelia, and then went to bed to dream of the new life. - -How easy it would be to be a Christian, living with Aunt Cornelia, she -thought, while she was dressing the next morning. God must have seen -how utterly impossible it was for her to serve him truly here in her -home, and so planned this for her. But her thoughts were interrupted -by a knock at her door, and Johnnie called out: - -“Say, Mag, _she’s_ sick, an’ father’s gone for the doctor, an’ he said -you must come an’ get some breakfast, an’ West’s cross, an’ it rains -like sixty, an’ the wood’s all wet, an’ I can’t make the fire burn. -Can’t you come quick?” - -Had Margaret known all the trials that were to come to her that day, -she would have stopped, in that little minute that stood between her -bright hopes of the night before, and the unknown future, to ask her -Heavenly Father for strength for what was to come. But she did not. -Perhaps it was some shadow of coming trouble that made her reach out -her hand and push the letter she had written into her upper bureau -drawer. Then she hastened down-stairs. Desolation reigned there. -Johnnie’s books and slate were scattered over the dining-room table, -just as he had left them the night before. Weston had added to the -confusion by spending his evening in cutting bits out of several -newspapers for his scrap-book, and little white snips were scattered -thick over the floor. Margaret remembered that the dining-room always -before looked nice when she came down in the morning. It _did_ make -a difference to have a mother around, even if she _was_ only a -step-mother. - -Out in the kitchen Johnnie was rattling the stove and the smoke was -pouring out of every crevice. - -It was late that morning before the new minister got his breakfast, -and the steak was smoky and the coffee muddy-looking, but he smiled -pleasantly at Margaret’s red face and told her that she had done well -for the first time. - -While they were at breakfast, Mr. Moore came in with the doctor. - -They went directly up-stairs, but soon came down again, the doctor -taking out his medicine-case and calling for glasses and water. Mr. -Moore looked anxious and worried. Margaret tried to hear the doctor’s -replies to her father’s troubled questions, but she only caught words -now and then: - -“Inflammatory rheumatism.” “System completely run down.” “Rest for -several months.” - -These were the bits of phrases that came to Margaret through the open -kitchen door, as she stood by the faucet drawing water for the doctor. -The rest of the sentences were drowned by the rush of the water, but -Margaret could easily imagine it, and her heart stood still. - -She knew that this meant many things that the doctor did not say. - -It meant that she could not go to Aunt Cornelia’s; that she must spend -the winter at home; that she must be the one who must constantly wait -on the sick woman. She could even now hear the irritable words which -she imagined her step-mother would use to her when she didn’t do -everything just right. - -Then a great rebellion arose in her heart. - -[Illustration: SHE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN HER RESOLVES.] - -“God hasn’t answered my prayer at all,” she said to herself, and the -great disappointment made her hand shake as she set the water-pitcher -down before the doctor. - -Mr. Moore didn’t think his little girl had heard the doctor’s words, -and he looked after her with a troubled sigh as she went back to the -kitchen. How should he tell her? Would she storm and cry as she had -been wont to do when her will was crossed? He decided that he would not -tell her that day. - -The breakfast dishes washed, Johnnie at school, and her father -up-stairs, Margaret betook herself to the kitchen to wail out her -sorrow and pity herself. She dared not go to her own room, lest she -should be heard. Rebellion was in her soul, and the more she cried the -more she pitied herself and cried again. Mr. Wakefield, coming to the -kitchen to ask for some warm water, found Margaret with her arms on -the table, and her head on her arms, sobbing great angry, disappointed -sobs. He stopped in dismay. - -“Why, Margaret, what is the matter? Is there anything I can do for you?” - -“No, there isn’t! God hasn’t answered my prayer! You said he would! Now -I’ve got to stay at home and wait on _her_! I don’t believe he heard me -at all!” - -Margaret fairly screamed this out. She had worked herself into such a -state that she scarcely knew what she was saying. Was this the gentle, -humble Christian he had received into the church but two days before? -This thought passed through the minister’s mind, but he was too wise to -express it to the excited little girl. He only asked quietly: - -“Margaret, does your father always say ‘yes’ to you when you ask for -something?” - -“Why, no; of course not!” she said, in surprise. - -“And suppose you should ask for something, and he should say No, would -you come and tell me that your father would not answer you?” - -She did not answer this time, and Mr. Wakefield went on: - -“Suppose your father knows that what you ask would be very hurtful to -you, would you think him cruel to refuse you?” - -“But this isn’t hurtful! It’s best for me! God wants me to be a -Christian, and I never can be one in this house!” she burst out. - -“Margaret, which do you think knows best, you who know so little, or -God who made you, and who sees all things that ever have happened or -ever will happen in your life? My little friend, I am afraid you didn’t -pray in the right spirit,”— - -“O, yes, I did!” she interrupted eagerly. “I believed. I thought of -course He would give it to me.” - -“But believing is not the only thing. You forgot to put one little -sentence in, ‘Thy will be done.’ If you had put it in words your prayer -would sound something like this: ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, -hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Margaret Moore’s will be -done,’”— - -At this Margaret couldn’t help smiling through her tears. - -“Your kind Heavenly Father didn’t give you just what you asked for, -because he saw that it would not be best for you. Perhaps he saw that -his servant must learn patiently to serve him at home, among trials, -before she would ever make the right kind of servant out in the world. -He will answer your prayer in some other way than the one you had -planned, Margaret. He loves you a great deal better than you love -yourself. Can’t you trust him?” - -And then the minister went away without his hot water. Went back to his -room to pray for the poor little troubled disciple down-stairs. And -Margaret sat and thought. She saw now just how foolish and wicked she -had been. She had a long struggle with her rebellious heart, kneeling -on the bare floor with her head on the kitchen table, but she conquered -at last, and the peace of God filled her heart. She was resolved now -to give up her own way and try to do God’s way. “But, dear Jesus,” she -prayed, “I’ll have to be helped a great deal, for I can’t do it alone, -and I know I shall cry if they say much about Aunt Cornelia.” - -Margaret had found the right way to do all she could herself and trust -in Jesus for the rest, and to give up her life, her will, her whole -self into his keeping. - -But she remembered that she had other duties and that her father might -be down-stairs at any moment, so she hastened to her room to wash away -the traces of tears. - -Half-way down the stairs she paused. “Would not it please Jesus if she -were to knock at mother’s door and ask if there was anything she could -do?” - -She retraced her steps softly and gave a very gentle knock. Her father -came from the darkened room, his face so careworn that it almost -startled her. “Father, please don’t look so worried. Everything will be -all right. I can keep house,” she said. - -Her father regarded her with a tender, sorrowful look. - -“Does my little girl know that she cannot go away this winter?” - -“Yes, sir; I know it. Never mind that. It’s all right, father.” - -Mr. Moore was so amazed and pleased at this new character exhibited by -his daughter that he scarcely knew what to say. - -“I am very sorry it is so, Margaret, but your mother is very sick. She -has been under a great strain this summer. You will have to wait on her -and be a general help. I would hire some one else to do it if I could -afford it, but I cannot. Your mother’s sister, Amelia, who has been -living in Brierly with her brother, will come, I think, and keep house, -and then the minister need not go away, for we need all the money we -can get now to pay the doctor’s bills.” - -[Illustration: THERE SAT JOHNNIE.] - -Margaret’s face fell. - -“Must we have her? Isn’t there some one else we can have?” she said, -lowering her voice. - -“Not without paying for it,” said her father, sadly. - -“Couldn’t I do the work?” she asked. - -“No, Margaret; you will have all you can do to wait on your mother, -and,” he added, “I am afraid you cannot even go to school here at -home,—for a time, at least. I am sorry, but I don’t see any other way -out just now.” - -Margaret felt very much like bursting into tears again, but a glance at -her father’s worn face changed her feelings. - -“Never mind, father, I’ll do all I can, and be as good as I can.” And -she wound her arms around her father’s neck and kissed him. - -If she only could have known how much that kiss comforted her father. -He went back into the darkened room with a lightened heart and a -feeling that there must be something in religion, for it had changed -Margaret wonderfully. - -Margaret snatched the first hour that came to her to write a letter -to Aunt Cornelia, telling her how impossible it was for her to come -to her, and how very sorry she was, and soon there came a long, -sympathetic, helpful answer, and with it a little book bound in green -and silver. “To help you when you feel discouraged,” the good auntie -wrote. - -On the first page Margaret opened, her eyes met these words: - - “God’s will is like a cliff of stone, - My will is like the sea. - Each murmuring thought is only thrown - Tenderly back to me. - - God’s will and mine are one this day, - And ever more shall be, - And there’s a calm in life’s tossed bay, - And the waves sleep quietly.” - -And they sang a little tune in her heart as she thought of all she must -bear that long winter. - - -THE FIRST LOAD. - -IT was a warm, sunny Sunday morning, and consequently Robbie Ellsworth -was allowed to go to church. This was quite a luxury to him, because he -had but recently recovered from the measles, and his mother was rather -afraid to have him go. - -The notices were all given out, at least so the people thought, -when the minister announced that there would be a meeting of the -congregation the next day, to raise money for a new church. That -building, they saw, was altogether too small, and he did hope they -would get a new one started very soon, as a lot was donated in a fine -location. - -Then came the sermon. It was about little things. Robbie listened -attentively, as the minister told how many great things had been -started and helped by little boys and girls, and by people with little -money or talent. - -At the dinner table Robbie’s father remarked, “How anxious Dr. Sullivan -is for a new church! But he won’t get it—not very soon, anyway. The -people don’t care enough about it, though I’m sure they need one badly.” - -“Dear me!” thought Robbie to himself, “I do wish Dr. Sullivan could get -the new church. I’m sure he ought to have it if he wants it.” - -“He wants a brick one,” Mr. Ellsworth continued, “but in my opinion a -frame building would do this time. Brick costs too much.” - -“I wish he could have a brick church,” thought Robbie. “It would be so -much nicer.” - -Then he went to thinking about what Dr. Sullivan said in his sermon, -and pretty soon he began to wonder if he couldn’t help with the new -church. All the afternoon he thought about it, and finally a plan came -into his little mind, which he thought of so much that he could hardly -sleep that night. But he didn’t want anybody to know anything about it, -so he went to sleep as fast as he could. - -Fortunately for his plans, Monday was as pleasant as Sunday, and about -ten o’clock Robbie went to Mrs. Ellsworth. - -“Mamma, I want to go take a walk,” he said. - -“Why, Robbie dear, you would get lost.” - -“But I only want to go around to Uncle Will’s,” pleaded the little -fellow. - -Now Uncle Will was a doctor, a great favorite with his little nephew, -and he lived only around the corner, in the new house which he had just -built. - -“I think you may go, then,” said Mrs. Ellsworth, “as you don’t have to -cross the street to get there. I am going down to papa’s office, and -will tell him to stop for you when he comes home.” - -“No, mamma,” said Robbie, “I’d rather not. I have a very much reason -for wanting to come home alone.” - -That was his way of saying he had a very good, and, in his eyes, -important reason, which he didn’t want to give. So his mother agreed, -kissed him good-by, and he started out, first getting his little green -wheelbarrow from the hall closet. - -He trudged along down one street, up another, till he stopped on the -stone steps of “Uncle Will’s house,” and gave the bell such a pull as -only a boy of about Robbie’s size knows how. - -Aunt Flora greeted her small visitor very warmly, laughing at his -wheelbarrow, but he pushed right by her, and trudged into Uncle Will’s -office, pushing his wheelbarrow before him. Uncle Will was engaged in -discussing the cholera germ with a brother physician, but he turned and -welcomed his nephew cheerily: - -“Well, my man! What can I do for you to-day? Will you cart a -wheelbarrow of books around to the library for me?” - -“Mamma wouldn’t let me,” said Robbie. “I came to see if you would let -me have one wheelbarrowful of the bricks that were left over—out in the -back yard.” - -“Certainly,” said Uncle Will. “You can go right out and get them.” - -So Robbie turned again, too eager to even thank his uncle, pushed his -wheelbarrow through the dining-room, and was soon taking down bricks -from the pile by the back stoop. - -His barrow didn’t hold but about a half-dozen, and soon Irish Mary was -lifting it up the steps, and he arrived again before his uncle’s door. - -“Are they my very own, Uncle Will,” he asked, as that gentleman turned -to look at his load, “to use just as I want to?” - -“Your very own,” said the doctor, “to do what you please with. If you -wish, you may throw them in the cistern. But what are they for?” - -“I would rather not tell, Uncle Will.” - -“Very well, sir. Success to your project, whatever it is.” - -Down the steps bumped the wheelbarrow, with its owner behind, and -down the street they went again, though this time on the other side -of the block. There were not many pedestrians on the street, but the -few Robbie met smiled at him and his load of bricks. He looked at all -the houses attentively, and finally mounted the steps of one with -difficulty, all the time afraid his bricks would fall out, and rang the -bell a little more gently than he had at his uncle’s. - -The Rev. Dr. Sullivan came to the door. He knew Robbie. “Good-morning, -young man!” he said. “What can I do for you?” - -“Nothing,” said Robbie. “I’ve brought you the first load of bricks for -the new church.” - -“The new church!” said the doctor. - -“Yes, sir. You said yesterday you wanted one, and papa said you wanted -a brick one. So I’ve brought the first load. They’re my very own, sir, -to use just as I want to.” - -“Well, well!” said Dr. Sullivan, “I am very much obliged to you,” and -Robbie thought his voice sounded almost as his did when he had the -croup. Moreover, he took out his handkerchief and rubbed his eyes. Then -he took the wheelbarrow in his arms, and having deposited the contents -in his backyard, returned it to the owner. “The bricks shall be used, -young man,” he said, “every one of them, for the new church. Thank you -very much for your help.” - -Then Robbie returned home, jubilant at having been able to help his -minister. - -As for the minister, he took a paper, and went out. The first man he -met was Mr. Lawrence, the wealthiest person in his church. - -“Mr. Lawrence,” he said, “we have started, and the first load of bricks -for the new church has arrived.” - -“Indeed!” said Mr. Lawrence, and after a little more talk he put down -his name for quite a sum of money. Dr. Sullivan went on telling every -one that the first load of bricks had arrived, and it was astonishing -how encouraging those bricks were! When the congregation met that -afternoon, their pastor announced that some hundred dollars had been -raised for the church, and that the first load of bricks had come. - -Of course it was a good while before the church was really built, for -there were architects and masons and carpenters to be consulted; but it -was really built, and it was not till then that the minister told who -had furnished “the first load of bricks,” and how he really started the -whole thing. - -And the six bricks that Robbie had brought in his little wheelbarrow -were built into the wall of the church, and everybody thanked him for -his part of the work. - -Now the best thing about this story is that it is all true. The -minister’s name may not have been Dr. Sullivan, and the boy’s name may -not have been Robbie Ellsworth, and his wheelbarrow may not have been -green, but it brought the bricks that are in the “Brick Church,” as it -is called, of one of the largest cities in the Eastern States. - - PARANETE. - -[Illustration: NOVEMBER WOODS.] - - - - - _Volume 15, Number 3._ Copyright, 1887, by D. LOTHROP COMPANY. - _November 19, 1887._ - -THE PANSY. - - -[Illustration] - -A WORLD OF LITTLE PEOPLE. - -BY PARANETE. - -FROM the further corner of the fence, one end fastened to a bush near -by, hung a spider’s silken web, regular as if made on geometrical -principles. In the centre of this sat a good-sized spider, the -proprietress, who had just finished devouring the most of an unwary -fly, whose bloodless remains lay at her side. Up to the spider came two -ants—Zed and Zoo. - -“Excuse me,” said the spider, looking at them suspiciously, “for having -any doubts as to the safety of making your acquaintance. But you have -just been communicating with my greatest enemy, the wasp, and have been -watching with heartless interest the destruction of one of my family. I -am sure I hope you have no personal designs upon my life. The wasp is -such a very daring foe, that I fear you, even though you are so small.” - -“I assure you,” replied Zed, “that our interest in the wasp’s doings -was wholly due to ignorance, and we are no friends of hers, nor have we -any design against you.” - -“Very well,” replied the spider, whose name was Luxz, “I am very -glad. I feel in a pretty good humor this morning, having just finished -a most delicious fly. I say finished, or I would offer you some. All -spiders like flies. I had a most unpleasant disappointment yesterday. -I was over on the window-sill of the house yonder, and saw a large fly -resting on a piece of paper. Of course I sprang after him, but there -was no fly there! I walked over and over him, too! One of my neighbors -suggests that it was a picture; as if an intelligent spider couldn’t -tell the difference between a picture and a fly!” - -The two ants nodded their assent to this highly probable statement. - -“You spin a great deal, I suppose?” asked Zoo. - -“O, yes!” said Luxz; “I am as busy as can be. I can spin little fine -threads, and coarser ones, and dance and swing all around on them. But -of course the most of my time is occupied with work. It is a good deal -of work to make a web, although you might not think so. There were some -boys coming past here to school as I had just finished a nice web, -quite a while ago, and they knocked it all down. I built another, then -another, but every time those wicked creatures would destroy it, and -then laugh at my dismay. Finally my pockets were as empty as could be, -and I was all out of silk, so I had to go and kill another spider, and -occupy her web for a time. But this I built myself.” - -“You catch a good many flies?” - -“Yes, indeed. They are not very sagacious animals, though sometimes -I will find one that I can’t entice into my web after the greatest -endeavors. We are all very cunning, but we have to look out for some -of the birds. A neighbor of mine was swinging one morning, as fine as -could be, and a swallow came along, that had his nest up under the -eaves, and—well, that was the last of her. The wasps, as I have already -mentioned, are very bad. If one of them gets caught in our webs, we -unfasten the threads as quickly as we can, and let her go, fearing that -if we don’t, we shall get the worst of it. - -“Our threads are very convenient,” Luxz continued, after a moment’s -pause, “for we can let one end of them float out, and they stick to -anything they touch, making a thoroughfare for us. I remember once -those same boys put me on a chip in a large tub of water, and again -laughed at my discomfiture. But I was equal to the emergency, and had -soon spun out a thread the outer end of which a draught of air floated -to the side of the tub, and when my tormentors were not looking, I -escaped along it. We can fasten the end of our thread to the top of -anything, and let ourselves down by spinning out more, or rise by -pulling it in.” - -“Have you any children?” asked Zed. - -“O, yes!” replied Luxz, “I have some just hatching. As you go around -the corner of that board you can see the nest—all fuzzy, like cotton. A -few are just crawling out. They are very small as yet.” - -Then the ants bade the spider good-day, and went down the fence, -stopping as they passed it to see the nest, where the little wee -spiders were just taking their first few steps among the delicate filmy -threads surrounding their eggs. How many there were! - -A fly was the next insect which absorbed the attention of our -travellers, as he was poised on a grease-spot at the edge of a board -along which they were walking. It was just a common house-fly, but -as they were not very familiar to Zed and Zoo, he was an object -of as great interest to them as any which they had met in their -peregrinations. - -“Good-morning,” he buzzed, “I am searching for something to eat. I have -just been driven out of the house yonder, by some immense people with -great cloths in their hands. They have put up frames in the windows -with wire ropes in them, and I can’t get into that well-filled table. -There is a man there with a bald head, too,—just the place for an -enterprising fly. But these people do hate us!” - -“Too bad,” said Zed sympathetically; “but if you lazy flies would -make homes of your own, as ants do, and not go about where you’re not -wanted, you and others would be far more contented.” - -“Well,” said the fly thoughtfully, “I’m sure I don’t see why we don’t. -Possibly no fly ever thought of it. It doesn’t seem to be intended -that we should. I never could work out in the hot sun the way you do. -The people don’t molest very often,—not as much as they’d like to; we -have too sharp eyes, and too many of them. We each have hundreds and -hundreds of little eyes, and every one moves and looks in a different -way. It’s rather difficult to come up behind us, as the elephant did.” - -“How was that?” asked Zoo. - -“Don’t you know? - - “‘A grasshopper sat on a sweet-potato vine, - Sweet-potato vine, sweet-potato vine, - A great big elephant came up behind, - And knocked him off that sweet-potato vine.’ - -“I’m not sure about the story; it’s just possible that it may be taken -from the New York paper, but, anyway, we believe it, and often laugh at -the grasshopper.” - -“What do you eat?” asked Zed. - -“Anything I find, almost. Flies are not at all particular. We can enjoy -anything that any one does. Our mouths are hollow tubes, through which -we suck whatever we wish to eat. This is a very convenient way.” - -“You have enemies,” remarked Zoo. “We have just been calling on a -spider who is longing for a taste of some of you.” - -“You don’t say so!” cried the fly. “She is not very near here, is -she? Those spider-webs are the great torment of our lives. I have had -several friends caught and eaten by the spiders. The way they wind -their fine, yet strong threads about one, is something remarkable. I -know a pretty good verse about them, too: - - “‘The spider wears a plain brown dress, - And she’s a steady spinner; - To see her, quiet as a mouse, - Going about her silver house, - You’d never, never, never guess - The way she gets her dinner.’ - -That’s real pathetic, isn’t it, now?” - -“Very,” answered Zed and Zoo, together. - -“I met a Southern fly once,” continued the talkative fly, “and they -have more enemies down there than we do in the North. Take the lizards -and chameleons, for instance—” - -“Oh! we know about them,” cried the little ants. - -“And then the walking-sticks,” continued the fly, not pausing at the -interruption, but rather looking severely at his visitors; “now, a man -up here couldn’t hit on one of us with a walking-stick if he tried -all day. But it’s quite different down there! A walking-stick is not a -stick by the aid of which people walk, but a walking-stick, that is, a -stick that walks. It is a very strange insect, and is so exactly like -the broken twig of a tree, with the little branches and all, that the -most sagacious person can’t tell them apart, without seeing them walk. -They are called ‘devil’s walking-sticks’ by some, and we flies think it -very appropriate, for they are dreadful for us—that is, for Southern -flies. The people will put a walking-stick in a room full of flies, and -in a short time he will have killed them all! Think how dreadful!” - -“Do you know any more poetry?” asked Zed, who was rather of a literary -disposition. - -“Well, now, I do know a real cute little song about a fly, written by -some man or other, who evidently had a baby. I will sing it for you.” - -And the fly buzzed: - - “Baby bye, here’s a fly: - Let us watch him, you and I. - How he crawls up the walls, - Yet he never falls! - - Don’t you think, with six such legs, - You and I could walk on eggs? - There he goes, on his toes, - Tickling baby’s nose. - - Spots of red dot his head; - Rainbows on his back are spread; - He is laced ’round his waist: - I admire his taste! - - I can tell you, if you choose, - Where to look to find his shoes: - Three small pairs, made of hairs; - These he always wears. - - But, though tight his clothes are made, - He will lose them, I’m afraid, - If to-night he gets sight - Of the candle-light. - - In the sun webs are spun: - What if he gets into one! - —That small speck is his neck; - See him nod and beck! - - Tongues to talk have you and I: - God has given the little fly - No such things, so he sings - With his buzzing wings.” - - - - -THE POPLAR ST. PANSY SOCIETY. - -BY C. M. L. - - -CHAPTER I. - -THE Poplar Street Pansy Society began with a large membership and every -other flattering prospect. The leaders were wide awake, bright boys and -girls who meant success, come what might. Everything went on finely for -the first year. Meetings were held regularly; the attendance included -nearly all the members every time, in bad weather as well as good, and -no matter what invitations were given elsewhere to parties or rides. -The members, with rare exceptions, were thoroughly loyal to their -society. - -[Illustration: JENNIE.] - -This became so well known that, at length, when entertainments were -about to be given at the same time of the society meetings its members -were passed by when the lists of invitations were being made out, for -it was commonly said you might as well invite the man in the moon as -one of the Poplar Street Society; that they would not leave that dear -society to see the Emperor of China pass through the city. Some were -cruel enough to say that these Pansies just worshiped their society. - -In spite of all the outside parties and sneers the society kept right -on its way. At last it grew to be such a power, so many of the young -folks had joined it, that ladies, wishing a company of the youth at -their homes, were compelled to consult the convenience of the Poplar -Street Pansy Society. - -If there was to be a meeting of the society at a certain time, -particularly if it was to be a public one, everything must needs yield -to it. Thither the fathers and mothers would go, no matter what other -attractions offered. - -Thus this Poplar Street Society came to be known as the popular society. - -But the Roman Empire had its decline and fall. Why should not this -society? Certain boys and girls had come in who cared more for place -than for progress. They wanted to be highly thought of and to receive -the offices. On one occasion four of them insisted upon being chosen -president. Of course three of the four were offended and declared they -would withdraw. - -Some others said they must be appointed on the programme committee and -be allowed to manage things generally or they would establish a rival -society. A few insisted that the time had now come for a change; that -the old programme of singing, recitations, games, etc., was poky; that -a little dancing and card-playing ought to be allowed a part of the -time. - -To this it was answered that the Poplar Street Pansy Society was -established for mental and moral growth and not for a dancing-school -or card-party; that those who must have such things could find them -elsewhere. - -Thus a division came. Two parties arose. The matter was discussed -in the schoolroom and three times daily in forty or more different -dining-rooms. Many bitter things were said. The meetings would -sometimes break up in confusion. Then some parents interfered by -refusing to allow their children to attend. The dance and card portion -withdrew. Several who wanted the offices or wished to have the most to -say, came no more. Some had moved out of the city. - -So there came a time when a very few attended the meeting. The many -empty seats filled the few present with sadness. Then came a motion to -dissolve the society; it was seconded, put and lost by one vote only. -Then it was resolved to appoint a committee who should confer with some -wise ones and see what could be done and report at the next meeting, -or, if they thought best, adjourn the society till better times. - -The committee consisted of two boys and one girl, this girl being the -very one whose perseverance had brought the society into being and held -it together at times when it seemed ready to go to pieces. - -She invited her two friends to meet at her father’s house to see what -was best to be done. Meanwhile she had done a deal of thinking for -herself and had carried the matter to her mother for guidance. - -Things looked dark enough for her dear society. Her mother even doubted -if anything could be done while there was such an opposition, and the -best she could say was to let matters rest for the present, till the -dancers and others had had their round of fun. - -This brave girl had seen too much good in the society, and hungered for -more too deeply to easily give it up. - -She had a great Friend to whom all her troubles were carried. She took -this one to Him. - -The committee came together,—two doubting boys and one true girl,—full -of faith and purpose to stand by the society. The boys had settled the -matter in their minds to let the society die as things then stood; -that further effort would but result in failure, and make them a -laughing-stock,—to be laughed at was not for a moment to be thought -of,—unless there should be some most favorable turn of affairs. - -Thus the conference opened, two to one against the life of the P. S. P. -S., as the society was sometimes called. - -“I’m glad you’ve come,” began our little heroine to the two, after they -were seated and the moment had come for business. “These have been -pretty dark days for me; I’ve been on the point of crying nearly all -the time.” - -“So have we,” came from the boys, “but what’s the use crying for spilt -milk! The society’s as good as dead. Every one we’ve met says so, and -now all that’s left for us is just to bury it respectably, and try -something else. Guess you’ve come to that conclusion, too, haven’t you?” - -“No; not I,” was the firm answer. “Our society began with one member -and here we have three to build it up on again. I’m sure three are more -than one.” - -“Don’t know how you make three. You can’t count upon us. We see no -chance now, and are ready to vote to end the P. S. P. S.” - -“I am not ready.” - -“But we are two to your one, and you know majorities rule.” - -“And you, who have stood by the society so long, are surely not going -to desert it when it needs you most?” - -“Nothing left to desert. You see, Jennie, the thing is gone up.” - -And Jennie’s answer was a look of pain. There was silence, then a sigh -and audible sob heard in the next room, where were Jennie’s father and -Uncle John. Uncle John had come from a distant town for a visit of -some weeks. He was a lover of the boys and girls, and when he knew the -object of the meeting of the committee was to discuss the life or death -of the Poplar Street Pansy Society, and that Jennie’s heart was bound -up in that society, he immediately set himself, without telling any -one, to devise ways and means to come to Jennie’s rescue. - -So he had caught every word from the little committee folks in the -next room, and when the crisis came and poor Jennie was about to be -out-voted, he spoke out: - -“Jennie?” - -“That’s my Uncle John. I wonder if he’s heard all we’ve said,” and -Jennie’s voice was in a whisper, and quickly her handkerchief stole to -her eye to brush away the tears that had been starting. He spoke again: - -“Jennie?” - -“Sir?” - -“Cannot I counsel with your committee?” - -“O, yes, Uncle John, do, do!” and with the words the door flew open, -and Uncle John was introduced to the two boys. - -After a few cheery remarks, the committee was asked not to take any -action just then, but to call a meeting and talk the matter over once -more, with as many present as could be induced to attend, Uncle John -asking permission to be present and make any suggestion that might -occur to him, remarking, with an assuring nod of his head, that the -Poplar Street Pansy Society need not and should not die yet if the -girls and boys would let him keep it alive. - -The committee looked at each other surprised; the two boys somewhat -ashamed of their part of the conference, Jennie ready to cry for joy. - -That night at her bedside she said: “I thank thee, dear Lord, for -hearing me in my trouble. I thank thee for sending Uncle John just at -the right time.” - -The boys went home in silence; but the brave girl dreamed of a good -time coming. - -========== - - NOVEMBER, you’re almost too dull, - And cold and damp and drear; - The turkeys say - Thanksgiving Day - They dread through all the year. - —_Selected._ - - -GAS. - -AFTER a time wood became scarce. In some parts of the country it -could hardly be had for love or money. Then what? Ah! the Lord always -provides, as he did the lamb in place of the lad Isaac, you remember. -Some men were looking about one day among the hills of Pennsylvania, -and they found a piece of a—wood house, sticking out of the ground with -a bit of wood in it, though it looked no more like wood than a stone -painted black does. But it shone so brightly that somehow they took it -home and somehow, I can’t just say how, they got it to burn. Then they -went back to the “wood house” and began to dig, and the more they dug -the larger the wood house grew, until they could find no limits to it. -Then many of the neighbors went at it with pickaxes and spades; then -nearly all the people of the country—and now how many think you are -getting wood there? A hundred? Ten thousand? Guess again. And can you -guess what sort of wood it is; do you know of any one that knows how -many cords of wood are in this house, and who piled it away there, and -when? - -It does seem as though an army of children would have starved or frozen -to death but for that fuel; found just at the right time, you see. - -But then, the great and loving Heavenly Father had such a wonderful -Christmas present to surprise the world with, something better and -cheaper than this black wood. - -Some say there is no God to take care of the poor working men and -women, and they think one of the ways of doing it is by burning up -the property of the rich, by strikes, and such things. Meanwhile the -blessed God, whom these persons deny, often by one little word or act, -opens up millions and millions of treasures for the poor workers, and -alas! so many never thank him for it. “What was the treasure?” - -I was just going to tell you. Another big wood house bigger than all -the barns, meeting-houses, opera-houses and mills in your country! - -The logs must be chopped and hauled; the coal must be mined and carried -on the cars, but this new fuel just _comes_, and comes faster than -the fastest train you ever heard of! All that is necessary is to bore -into the earth in certain places from one hundred to fifteen hundred -feet and place an iron tube into the hole, long enough to reach -your—fireplace, and touch a match to the open end of the tube; then -look out for one of the hottest fires you ever warmed your fingers at. -But be careful lest a lot of this new wood gets out into your room and -away goes the top of your house and—yourself with it. However, I guess -your pa will see that a first-rate plumber puts in the fixtures. After -that, no danger need be feared from an explosion. - -Right in the hearth will come the little flames, by turning some screws -and touching a match. There are broken pieces of stone lying in the -fireplace. These will become hot, from red to white. Then you’d better -not handle them. - -Now bring your cold fingers and feet, or go to the kitchen stove and -see how beautifully your dinner is being cooked by this wonderful wood. - -There it is, too, heating all the stores, banks, schools, churches, and -everything that will give it a chance to come through the iron tube. -Now what say you? I guess this is _gas_. - -Yes; I knew you’d ask that: Who found it first, and what does it cost, -and how does it look and smell, and when will it be all used up, and -how far will it travel? However, if I should tell you all I know about -it, that would save you the trouble of finding out yourself, one of the -very best things for you, trouble besides the joy of finding out some -things without bothering any one to tell. Now see if you can answer -those questions yourself. This, I will say: that Pittsburgh, Penn., -knows a great deal about this gas. Ask it. - - UNCLE C. - - -INTRODUCTIONS. - -CHARLIE HOLLAND, at your service. A well-dressed, well-mannered, -pleasant-faced boy. You feel sure you would like him? Everybody who -sees him feels just so. - -“His mother must be proud of him,” is a sentence often on people’s -lips. Look at him now, as he lifts his hat politely, in answer to a -call from an open window. - -“Charlie,” says the voice, “I wonder if I could get you to mail this -letter for me? Are you going near the post-office?” - -“Near enough to be able to serve you, Mrs. Hampstead,” says the polite -voice. “I will do it with pleasure.” - -“I shall be very much obliged, Charlie, but I wouldn’t want to make you -late at school on that account.” - -“Oh! no danger at all, Mrs. Hampstead. It will not take two minutes to -dash around the corner to the office.” And, as he receives the letter, -his hat is again lifted politely. - -“What a perfect little gentleman Charlie Holland is,” says Mrs. -Hampstead to her sister, as the window closes. “Always so obliging; he -acts as though it was a pleasure to him to do a kindness.” - -Bend lower and let me whisper a secret in your ear: it is not five -minutes since that boy’s mother said to him: “Charlie, can’t you run -upstairs and get that letter on my bureau and mail it for me?” And -Charlie, with three wrinkles on his forehead, and a pucker on each side -of his mouth, said: “O, mamma! I don’t see how I can! I’m late now; and -the office is half a block out of my way.” - -And the mother said, well then he needn’t mind, for she didn’t want him -to be late at school. So he didn’t mind, but left the letter on the -bureau, and went briskly on his way until stopped by Mrs. Hampstead. - -What was the matter with Charlie Holland? Was he an untruthful boy? He -did not mean to be. He prided himself on his strict honesty. - -It _was_ growing late, and he felt in a hurry, and he hated to go -upstairs. Of course it would not do to refuse Mrs. Hampstead, and by -making an extra rush, he could get to school in time; but the other -lady was only his mother. Her letter could wait. - -“Only his mother!” Didn’t Charlie Holland love his mother, then? - -You ask him, with a hint of doubt about it in your voice, and see how -his eyes will flash, and how proudly he will toss back his handsome -head and say: - -“I guess I _do_ love my mother! She’s the grandest mother a boy ever -had.” - -Oh! I didn’t promise to explain Charlie’s conduct to you; I am only -introducing him; you are to study for yourselves. Do you know any boy -like him? - - PANSY. - -[Illustration: LOST.] - - - - - _Volume 15, Number 4._ Copyright, 1887, by D. LOTHROP COMPANY. - _November 26, 1887._ - -THE PANSY. - - -[Illustration: A LARGE FAMILY.] - - -THE OLD BRIMMER PLACE. - -BY MARGARET SIDNEY. - -CHAPTER I. - -THE air was clear and fresh; a slight fall of snow just conveniently -stopping at the point of becoming higher than the overshoes of the -pedestrians, lay on the ground. It was an early fall, as the old -farmers say when there is snow at Thanksgiving, and every sign gave -promise of winter shutting in rapidly. - -The old gray house set back from Cherryfield high road, had its chimney -smoking by break of day, for Mother Brimmer tied on her baking apron as -soon as she had told Rosalie how to prepare the simple breakfast “to -hurry forward those pies,” as she said. - -“All that can be done to-day, Rosy,” she observed, in the midst of -the bustle that now ensued, “is clear gain toward to-morrow. Always -remember that, child; don’t leave a lot of odds and ends to do when -you’re going to have company, thinking you’ll have time. You never do; -and the last minute catches you before you know it.” - -“It’s such fun,” hummed the one girl of the family, stirring the -cornmeal mush in the kettle vigorously, “to have company. I don’t ever -remember having any before.” - -“You forget the parson coming to tea,” said Mrs. Brimmer, bringing out -her pie-plates from the pantry. “Let me see; I shall make four mince -ones.” - -“He isn’t company!” cried Rosy. “Mr. Higginson isn’t; I ain’t a bit -afraid of him.” - -“No more you should be,” exclaimed Mrs. Brimmer, setting down her -pie-plates; “and then again, child, there isn’t any call to be afraid -of any one, so long as you haven’t been doing anything wrong.” - -“But it scares me to think something don’t look nice, or I don’t know -how to do things,” said Rosy. - -“Well, that’s very silly,” observed Mrs. Brimmer, going for her -pastry-board; “do the best you can, Rosy, and then let it go.” - -Rosy turned her little anxious face toward her mother, and smiled. -“Anyway, this company is to be nice, and the things will be nice, too, -I guess, ma.” - -“We’ll try to make ’em so,” declared her mother, energetically stirring -up her mince-meat in the stone jar. - -“What will Miss Clorinda say to see the goose that I’m going to roast -all myself?” cried Rosy, deserting her mush-kettle, to go over with -this important question to the baking-table. “Say, ma?” - -“I’m sure I don’t know!” cried Mrs. Brimmer, with pride. “She’ll say, -‘Was there ever such a goose!’ like as not, though, Rosy.” - -“Do you suppose she really will!” cried the girl in delight, the color -coming into her cheeks. When she looked like this, the boys, her -brothers Jack and Cornelius, always called her “Wild Rose,” and it was -their secret delight to summon the lovely bloom in as many startling -ways as they could. - -“But you’d better fly back to that mush,” said Mother Brimmer -presently, “and get breakfast as you’d ought to, and not look ahead to -to-morrow. That’ll take care of itself.” - -“So it will!” cried Rosy merrily. - -Jack and Cornelius, now hurrying in to breakfast, the small -maid-of-all-work had to desert her delightful anticipations of -to-morrow’s good times and fly to the work in hand. It was presently on -the table—the steaming dish of mush, the baked potatoes, and the large -pitcher of milk, and Mother Brimmer being summoned from her work, wiped -her hands, took off her apron, and joined the others at their simple -meal. - -For the good woman, although her children were “in business and doing -for themselves,” as she proudly expressed it, observed the same -frugality as when times were hard and the future looked dark. “We won’t -give up our plain breakfasts; they’ve always done us good, and we don’t -need any other food,” she would say when the boys urged her to have a -“bit of meat for herself, at least.” - -“No, no; I don’t want it,” she said, “mother’s tough and hearty. As -long as I’ve such perfect health, you needn’t worry, children.” - -So the money that would have gone into the butcher’s till for the -beefsteak or mutton chop, went instead into the bank to Brimmer -Brothers and Company’s credit. - -And the economy observed in the matter of breakfasts went into all -the other details of daily life. The only thing in which the family -indulged themselves was in the matter of books and magazines; and -occasionally Mrs. Brimmer would send the young people off of an evening -to a good lecture or concert in the Town Hall, or she would go with -some of them, one always being obliged to remain with Roly Poly, who -was called “the baby,” although rejoicing in the dignity of five years. - -The business conducted by Brimmer Brothers and Company was a grocery -and general trade carried on in a little red building on their grounds, -that had formerly been an old tool-house, in which the farmer who then -lived in the big gray house mended up his farming utensils, and kept -his tools when he had done the jobs. The business was started because -the little money left by Father Brimmer when he died had, despite all -the watchful care of it, dwindled till now there was only a pittance -left. The old weather-beaten house would last them their lifetime, and -the ground was theirs, but the growing family would need more each year -to support them, and make them able to take their proper place in the -world. And the children, who had silently worried over the problem, -how to help the mother they had seen working for them early and late -ever since they could remember, were at last one day helped out by the -little old red tool-house. - -“Here I am,” it seemed to say. “Your mother has given me to you for a -play-house; now use me to help her.” - -It was an inspiration in the first of it, to be followed by hard and -grinding work, much of it in the face of half-laughing opposition -and downright sneers of friends and townsfolk. But Brimmer Brothers -and Company having begun to face the world never once thought of -shirking any of the duties which they met there, but just the same as -if everybody believed that they could make a success of the business, -they determined in their own minds to do so, and behaved accordingly. -And Rosy, the most timid little thing before strangers, forgot all her -fears now, and as Company of the new concern developed a resoluteness -and self-possession that amazed the boys. - -All this was two years before this Thanksgiving; and now Mother Brimmer -and the successful business firm and Roly Poly were to have a party! - -After the breakfast dishes were cleared away, the boys hurrying off -to the shop, as they anticipated a rushing trade for the day, the old -kitchen began to assume the aspect of getting ready for some great -festivity, while it smelt of spices and boiling sweets clear out -beyond the lilacs and down to the front gate. Every passer-by must -have known that it was Thanksgiving, and suspected pies and such other -accompaniments of the national holiday at once. - -The stoning of raisins and buttering of cake-pans fell to Rosy to do, -who was excused from shop duty for the morning to help the mother in -her unwonted tasks; and patiently the little girl performed it all, -secretly planning, as she waited on the busy housewife, taking the -thousand and one necessary steps in and out the buttery and pantry, if -one of her little wood-gardens remained unsold in the shop, to take it -to dress the dinner-table on the morrow. - -“They can’t all be sold,” thought Rosy, almost wishing for the -moment that there was not quite such a demand for them. “If the red -partridge-berries could only stay at home, what a party we would have!” - -But when Cornelius ran in to dinner, Jack staying behind to mind the -shop, he shouted out gleefully, “Rosy, every single one of your gardens -is gone, and we could have sold two more if we’d had ’em!” Rosy gave a -great sigh, and then reproached herself for even wishing it otherwise. - -“Rosy’ll make more money than any of us,” declared Cornelius, generally -called “Corny,” between his mouthfuls. “How I wish I’d thought about -fixing up roots and ferns and such things in old cracked saucers.” - -“But you help me,” cried Rosy. “I couldn’t even dig the roots without -you, Corny.” - -“And me, too!” cried Roly Poly, or Primrose, which was her real name. -“I always go with you, Rosy, you know,” and she laid down the little -bone she was slowly picking to regard her sister gravely. - -“So you do!” cried Rosy and Cornelius together. “I’m sure we couldn’t -ever get along without you, Pet;” whereat the baby of the family felt -happy, and smilingly resumed her bone once more. - -But that night a rap sounded on the outer door, sharp and decided. - -“Run and see who it is, Jack,” said Mother Brimmer, looking up from her -stocking-mending. - -Jack came hurrying back, a large parcel with white paper loosely folded -over it, in his hand. - -“It’s for Rosy,” he said, setting it down. - -“For me?” cried Rosy, too astonished to open it; but Cornelius helped -her, and at last the paper was torn off. - -“It’s your old red wood-garden!” exclaimed Corny, dreadfully -disappointed, at least expecting a big cake. - -“Oh!” Rosy clasped her hands, and took an ecstatic little spin in the -middle of the floor. “Now it isn’t wicked to want it!” she cried, -dreadfully excited. - -“If I’d known you wanted to keep one,” said Jack slowly, “so bad, I -never’d sold it.” - -“Who bought it?” asked his mother. - -“Mrs. Higginson.” - -“I wonder what other people do who haven’t got such a minister, and his -wife,” observed Mrs. Brimmer, wiping her eyes, as Rosy fell to oh-ing -over her treasure, and fondling each leaf. “Folks ought to be good who -sit under their preaching,” she added. - -“We’ll be good to-morrow, anyway,” declared Cornelius. “My! don’t it -seem funny to go to church in the middle of the week!” - -But on the morrow, wasn’t that a festive scene? The table was laid in -the keeping-room, whose door opened into the kitchen; knives and forks -were laid for seven guests: Mr. and Mrs. Higginson, the minister and -his good wife; Miss Clorinda Peaseley, a staunch friend of the family; -old Widow Tucker and her spinster daughter who went out tailoring, -and lived down in the Hollow; not because they would be such pleasant -additions to the party, as that Mother Brimmer felt sure that no other -invitations would be sent to them, bidding them to a Thanksgiving -dinner; and lame Joey Clark and his sister, for the same reason, and -because the children had begged to ask them. - -Rosy’s wood-garden had the place of honor in the centre of the table, -and it did seem as if there never was such a number of bright little -berries to cast a glow over the neat cloth, done up in Mother Brimmer’s -best style! How they shone among their green leaves! - -And the goose! The cheeks of the little maid who cooked it rivalled -her partridge berries in coloring, at all the compliments that were -showered upon her; while the chicken pie, and spare-rib, and plum -pudding, and pies, were declared the best ever eaten; and the hickory -nuts and butter nuts, cracked by the boys, received most honorable -mention. - -And old Widow Tucker’s thin face began to lose some of its worn lines, -and she forgot to make any uncharitable remarks about other people, to -which she was a little prone, and her daughter, Miss Mary Jane, seeing -her ma so happy, came out from behind her spectacles and began to be -pleasant, too. - -And the minister told the most delightful stories! and when he got -tired, then there was Miss Clorinda to set the ball of conversation -to rolling again. Everybody laughed, even lame Joey Clark, and, -altogether, there was no family party in all Cherryfield so merry and -festive. - -And as they at last arose from the table, everybody protesting that -they could not eat a bit more, Rosy pulled her mother’s gown and -whispered, “I want to send a basketful of goodies down to the Four -Corners boys; may I, ma?” - - - - -DON’T GOSSIP. - - -CHILDREN, avoid this evil. I am pained every day at seeing the -work which mischief-makers do. Some one has compared this evil to -pin-making. “There is sometimes some truth, which I call the wire. -As this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a -point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is done.” -The Bible speaks much against mischief-making, and I would advise you -to collect all the verses in this book, bearing on this subject, and -commit them to memory, and then I do not think you will ever be guilty -of this sin. Remember, my little friends, that you can never gather up -the mischief you may do by gossip. - - R. - - - - -WILD ANIMALS AND THE TELEGRAPH. - - -SOME interesting facts have been brought out in a paper by M. C. -Nielsen of Christiana, on the impression produced upon animals by the -resonance of the vibration of telegraph wires. It is found that the -black and green woodpeckers, for example, which hunt for insects in the -bark and in the heart of decaying trees, often peck inside the circular -hole made transversely through telegraph posts, generally near the -top. The phenomenon is attributed to the resonance produced in the post -by the vibration of the wire, which the bird mistakes as the result of -the operation of worms and insects in the interior of the post. Every -one knows the fondness of bears for honey. It has been noticed that in -mountainous districts they seem to mistake the vibratory sound of the -telegraph wires for the grateful humming -of bees, and, rushing to the post, look about for the hive. Not finding -it on the post they scatter the stones at its base which help to -support it, and, disappointed in their search, give the post a parting -pat with their paw, thus showing their determination at least to kill -any bees that might be about it. Indisputable traces of bears about -prostrate posts and scattered stones prove that this really happens. -With regard to wolves, again, M. Nielsen states that when a vote was -asked at the time for the first great telegraph lines, a member of the -Storthing said that although his district had no direct interest in the -line proposed, he would give his vote in its favor, because he knew -the lines would drive the wolves from the districts through which they -passed. It is well known that to keep off the ravages of hungry wolves -in winter the farmers in Norway set up poles connected together by a -line or rope, under which the wolves would not dare to pass. “And it -is a fact,” M. Nielsen states, “that when, twenty or more years ago, -telegraph lines were carried over the mountains and along the valleys, -the wolves totally disappeared, and a specimen is now a rarity.” -Whether the two circumstances are casually connected, M. Nielsen does -not venture to say.—_Nature. - -[Illustration: SEARCHING FOR SWEETS.] - - -THE BATTLE OF IVRY. - -IN 1590 the armies of Henry the Fourth, of France, and of the Duke -of Mayenne, assembled near Ivry, which is not far from Paris. It was -in March, and the weather was very stormy. As night came, the vast -hordes of soldiers dragging their cannon through the deep mire, took -position for the awful conflict about to open. Henry had about twelve -thousand men, and the Duke nearly twenty thousand. Before the dawn, -Henry mounted his charger, and, riding along his lines, addressed -them in words of cheer. He urged upon them fidelity to France and to -themselves. In conclusion he said: “If in the turmoil of battle you -lose sight of your banner, follow the white plume on my casque; you -will find it on the road to victory and to honor.” - -Oh! what a conflict did Ivry see that day! My dear little friends, I -never could understand why men love war. I never could see any good -it has ever done, but, on the contrary, war and intemperance have -made this world a sad and gloomy place. Read a full account of this -battle, and I think you will agree with me, that war has no charms. -Maddened battalions rushed over the plain, crushing the poor wounded -men. Grapeshot mowed down whole ranks, and shrieks of anguish echoed -over the field. In a single hour the plain was baptized in blood. -Henry came off victorious, but it was a victory dearly bought. In the -fearful retreat two thousand were put to the sword, and many captured. -I imagine that all France was hung in mourning after that awful day, -and thousands of homes were robbed of their treasures. Do not you think -it will be a happy day when warriors’ steeds shall be forever chained -in olive groves, and all men shall love each other? I trust so long as -we live peace, with dovelike wings, shall brood over our beloved land! - - RINGWOOD. - - -PANAMA. - -ALTHOUGH so much has been said about the Isthmus of Panama, and the -works now being carried on there, very little mention has been made of -the town from which that district takes its name. Englishmen should, -however, feel some special interest in it; since the old town, founded -in 1518, was destroyed by Morgan, the celebrated buccaneer, who started -from our shores on his romantic expeditions. The new town was built -by the Spanish Governor, Fernandez de Cordova, at some distance from -the old site, on a rocky peninsula, which was raised artificially and -protected from the sea by a huge stone rampart, flanked on either side -by solid bastions, and so fortified by the famous engineer, Alfonso -de Villa Costa, as to be considered the strongest place in the New -World after Carthagena. An account of the place now given by the -_Exploration_, a French paper, relates that these stone defences are -now crumbling into ruins, with the exception of the southeast bastion, -which is still used by the inhabitants as a favorite promenade. On the -land side, where the defences would have been most useful in modern -times, they have been purposely destroyed; and now the town is exposed -to periodical attacks by the people of the suburbs, who are from time -to time stirred up by some aspirant to power, and led up to the hill of -Santa Ana, which dominates the town. Having gained this vantage ground, -they engage in skirmishes with the townsfolk, and if victorious, -seize upon the government, which they retain until subverted by -similar proceedings. The town was, toward the end of the last century, -opulent and handsome. But its commerce was ruined by the wars; and its -inhabitants, by their carelessness, have allowed many fine buildings to -be burned. The railway has, it seems, restored some of its importance -to the place; and much more is, of course, expected from the canal now -projected. - - —_Selected._ - -========== - - IF scorn be thy portion, if hatred and loss, - If stripes or a prison, remember the Cross! - God watches above thee, and he will requite; - Stand firm and be faithful, desert not the right. - _Norman M’Leod._ - - -DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. - -THE subject of our sketch became one of England’s most learned men. -He was born in Lichfield, in 1709, and died in 1784. He once made a -dictionary of our language; he also wrote “The Rambler,” “Rasselas,” -and “The Idler.” - -I want to relate to you a little story of him when a small boy. His -father kept a bookstand, and one day he said, “Samuel, I am so feeble, -I want you to take my place at the stand.” - -But the proud boy refused, and the sick father then started off, only -saying, “Well, if you can treat your sick father thus, I am sure you -will think of it when I am dead and gone.” - -His conscience, however, soon began to trouble him. All day he saw -his poor father, sick and feeble, sitting at the stall, and he said to -himself, “Poor father! how his head will ache. I am so sorry I did not -go.” - -This unkindness the boy never could forget, and years after, though -surrounded by the great of England, it would often recur to him. - -Many years passed by, and one day an aged man made his way through the -market crowd at Uttoxeter. He stopped at the place which fifty years -before had been occupied by the book-seller, and the old gentleman was -heard to say: - -“Yes; this is the very spot—the very spot!” - -It was the great and illustrious man of England, in whose heart still -lingered the remembrance of his cruelty to his poor father. - - R. - - -[Illustration: BABY ELIZABETH.] - - -BABY’S CORNER. - -IT is time for Baby Elizabeth to go to bed. She does not want to go to -bed. She shakes her head and says, “No bed! No bed!” Her little mouth -is puckered up like a round O; here is a big tear in each blue eye. -Does Baby want to stay up all night? Shall mamma leave her sitting on -the floor all the dark night? No, no! Little mice stay up all night, -and run about and nibble and squeal; but dear babies must go to their -soft beds. - -See! the sun has gone to bed. The little pink clouds are lying down in -the sky. The white lilies have gone to sleep. The birdies have gone up -in the tree to bed. They are singing a little song to baby. Hark! What -do they say? “Go to bed, bed, bed. Good-night, little E-liz-a-beth! -Good-night!” - -Now baby smiles. She is good. She will have on her long white gown. She -folds her little hands and says, “Now I lay me.” Mamma puts her in her -white crib. In one little minute her eyes are shut. Little Elizabeth is -asleep. - -In the morning early the sun will get up quick. The white lilies will -wake up and wash their faces in dew. The birdies will open their eyes. -They will say, “Peep, peep! Good-morning, Baby! Get up, up!” Then -Baby’s eyelids will open; she will smile and show her six white teeth. -All day long the sun will shine. The lilies will grow. The birds will -sing, and little Elizabeth will be sweet. - - MRS. C. M. LIVINGSTON. - -[Illustration: A GERMAN HOUSEWIFE.] - - -SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. - - The address of Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy) is Winter Park, - Orange Co., Florida. All contributions for THE PANSY - magazine should be sent to that P. O., and _not_ to the - Publishers, D. Lothrop Company. - - -[Illustration] - -ALL ALONG THE LINE. - -_Conducted by_ - -R. M. ALDEN. - - I wonder if any of the Pansies ever wanted to be - missionaries? I wonder if any of them ever said they - would like to be, but didn’t like to leave their home - and friends? Now let me say just a word: You can all - be missionaries this very day, and go no farther than - the inkstand to do your first work. Every reader of - THE PANSY who knows of anything interesting in church, - Sunday-school, missionary or temperance news, anywhere - “along the line,” will be helping us by sending brief - reports, and will feel that he or she has been doing - a bit of missionary work. Address all, for this - department, to R. M. Alden, Winter Park, Orange Co., - Florida. - -LAST year there were in Iowa fifty-five counties without a single -occupant for their jails, during the twelve months. It is in Iowa, you -know, that they have the prohibition law which “does not prohibit.” It -does seem to make a difference. - - * * * * * - -SINCE some towns in Georgia have succeeded in getting the prohibition -of the liquor traffic, a minister from one of them writes, “The results -are marvelous. The trade of the town has been more than doubled. I -do not know a single merchant who would not vote against the liquor -traffic purely on business grounds.” - - * * * * * - -A LABORER was recently fined for allowing his dog to drink beer, which -made the animal savage. The judge thought it was the man’s fault for -allowing his dog to drink. Why shouldn’t a dog have a right to drink -beer if it’s given him? How can appetite be controlled? This question -has been asked: “If that laborer was under obligation to keep his -dog from drinking beer and hurting people, ought we to permit men to -receive liquor, and injure themselves and their fellow-men?” - - * * * * * - -I WONDER if the Pansies have been posted about “rubber grapes”? Little -rubber bags made to look exactly like large beautiful grapes; but -what do you think fills them, instead of the delicious fruit which -God has made? Why, brandy, or whiskey, or wine, or whatever liquor -the buyer prefers! Think of it! The circular describing them says one -great advantage is, “that travellers can refresh themselves in this way -without exciting observation.” Can they? Suppose we make that part hard -for them; thirty thousand Pansy Blossoms with their eyes wide open are -not going to be cheated by rubber grapes. Of course every boy and girl -will see to it that no miserable humbug who pretends to be a “fruit -dealer” gets any of their money for his cheating grapes. But isn’t -Satan smart, and cunning, and busy? Really, it becomes us to keep our -eyes very wide open indeed. - - * * * * * - -WHO among us has ever visited the school for Indians in Carlisle, Pa.? -If any Pansy Blossom has been there, I wish he or she would write us a -letter about the school. It is a very interesting place; four hundred -and fifty scholars, boys and girls; the girls in navy-blue dresses and -cloaks, the cloaks lined with scarlet, the boys in military dress. With -their very bright eyes, and their very black hair, I think they must -make a handsome picture. - -Industrious people are they; the cooking is done entirely by the -pupils; the clothing is all made by them; they even make their own -shoes! They are very good scholars; some of them really brilliant. - -You wonder how they get time to study, with so much work to be done; -that is all nicely planned for them. Half the pupils go to school in -the morning, while the other half are at work in the sewing-room, the -pantry, the harness shop, the printing office, the carpenter’s room, -and the like. In the afternoon these two divisions change places; the -students work, and the workmen turn students. - -Think what a little while ago these boys and girls were roaming through -the forests, sleeping on the ground, their only dress old blankets -wrapped about them; learning to be dangerous enemies to all the white -race! Now some of them are Christians, and all are well-behaved and -industrious. Who will remember to pray daily for the Indian School at -Carlisle? - - - - -[Illustration: The P. S. CORNER] - - - -MY DEAR BLOSSOMS: - -I have a very nice plan for the year. I wonder who of you will join me? -A Bible Band. That is what I now want to form. I will select and have -printed in each PANSY a list of readings for each day in the month. How -many of my Blossoms will engage to read the day’s portion with me, and -write out in little blank books prepared for the purpose, answers to -the following questions: - -1. What is there in this reading that I ought especially to remember? - -2. Is there a direction for me to follow, if so, what? - -3. Is there something for me to avoid, if so, what? - -How can I make these verses help me through this day? - -Now the way I am going to plan it is to read over the verses, and -make my report in my little blank book before I leave my room in the -morning. Perhaps that will not be a convenient time for all of you. -Perhaps the little people who cannot yet read nor write, will have to -wait for mamma’s or papa’s or sister’s leisure hour, to get help. But -I wish all who could would join me in the morning before going down -stairs; then, after the reading, we will kneel down and ask God to help -us remember the verses all day. - -I would like to have each member of the P. S. who will join this Bible -Band, send me a letter addressed to Winter Park, Florida, giving his or -her promise to obey the rules of the Band as given here. To all such I -will send a little card for their Bible bookmark with the name of the -reader written on the back, and the date of the pledge. I shall keep -a roll of all members of the Bible Band. At the end of each month I -should be glad to have a copy of what you wrote in your little blank -books. If you like, you might get a large sheet of paper, the first of -the month, and make a copy for me each day, sending it to me at the -close of the month. - -I shall keep a list of those reports, and, at the close of the year, I -will publish the names of those members who have reported each month, -and send them each a little token of my pleasure because of their -faithfulness. - -Now I wonder how large a Band I shall have? Of course I will keep you -informed through THE PANSY of its size and growth, and send you words -of greeting. I think a great many of you will join me. I hope so. It -will be very pleasant to think of my Blossoms reading and thinking each -day about the same Bible verses. Who will be the first to send in his -name, and receive the bookmark? - - Lovingly, - PANSY. - -P. S.—If any of you know of something unusually nice, which happened at -Thanksgiving time, write us an account of it. - - -READINGS FOR THE BIBLE BAND ADOPTION. - - Nov. 1. 2 Cor. 14-18. - “ 2. Gal. iii: 25-29. - “ 3. Eph. iii: 14-21. - “ 4. Eph. vi: 11-18. - “ 5. John i: 9-13. - “ 6. Gal. iv: 4-7. - “ 7. Heb. ii: 10-18. - “ 8. John xi: 41-52. - “ 9. Rom. viii: 14-18. - “ 10. 1 John iii: 1-3. - “ 11. John xx: 19-22. - “ 12. Heb. xii: 5-10. - “ 13. Phil. ii: 12-16. - “ 14. Matt. v: 44, 45, 48. - “ 15. Eph. v: 1, 2. - “ 16. Matt. vi: 25-34. - “ 17. Matt. v: 13-16. - “ 18. Matt. vii: 7-12. - “ 19. Matt. v: 9-12. - “ 20. Matt. vi: 12-15. - “ 21. Luke vi: 35, 36. - “ 22. Matt. vi: 1-4. - “ 23. Prov. xiv: 26. - “ 24. Num. vi: 24-27. - “ 25. Is. lxii: 2, 3. - “ 26. Matt. xiii: 43-46. - “ 27. Matt. vi: 9-13. - “ 28. Gen. xlviii: 5-11. - “ 29. Ex. ii: 1-10. - “ 30. Ps. xxiii. - -_Lucy May Quint._ If all the Pansies were as busy as my little friend -in Whitefield how very busy I should be adding names to THE PANSY roll. -Many thanks, my dear. To make your meetings good will require a busy -Lucy, thinking, reading, planning, conversing with parents and others, -praying Jesus for guidance and comfort, never despairing, no matter -what happens to spoil your meetings. - -Keep gathering for your meetings, a crumb in this book or paper; -another from a talk with some one; and so on. Thus you will always have -something on hand. - -You had a “nice,” “splendid” time in the church on Children’s Day, amid -flowers and singing-birds, evergreens, and, best of all, a good sermon. - -It is right to join the church. Now be true, dear, to your covenant, -for Jesus’ sake. Don’t let any one who knows you doubt as to whether -you are a Christian. - -_Christiana Lacy._ No, the Editor did not forget Sevenfold Trouble, but -“Uncle Sam” somehow forgot to get it from the writer to the printer. -The mail does not always behave as it should. - -Yes; I have read some of Miss Alcott’s works. - -You and your friend Jennie seem to have a good standing in school. I am -glad to hear good things of every Pansy. - -_Alice_ of Minn. “At the farm.” No wonder you like it ever so much; in -the orchard, where you have a swing; down at the brook, where you try -to catch a speckled trout; among the sheep and cows; riding on hay or -wheat from field to barn; then sweet bread and sparkling butter! - -As for the dishwashing, how you three girls do chatter while you are -at it, and boast as to whose cups and saucers are wiped cleanest. If -you will send a copy of the Queer Story, corrected, I can tell if it be -right. - -_Ruth Kimball._ Hunting eggs; boating among pond lilies; at Cedar Bend -Farm; with such a dear companion as Alice must be, what a happy girl -you are. Well, child, make other hearts sunny, too, won’t you? - -_Gertrude Burgess._ None but perfect ones on the Queer Story appears in -my report. Many come within one of it; that is a failure all the same -as one hundred. See? “A miss is as good as a mile.” So, look your work -over and over and over before you send it. Thus you will certainly do -perfect work some day. Meanwhile the effort will be a—school to you. -You are a blessed girl to be fighting so bravely against that fault. -Have you learned how to lean your weakness upon Jesus’ might? - -_Lydia Sewell._ The pansy on the card is larger than many, but no -larger than some I’ve seen. By careful culture they grow to great -size. Your corrected Queer Story is well done, yet with a few errors. -It would be rather unusual if every particular had been right. Still, -if you are a girl of good metal, you will certainly tug away at this -spelling business till you will know the right as readily as you now -know your mamma’s face from five thousand others. Keep on and show -yourself a true Pansy soldier. - -_Lydia I. Boring._ Your Queer Story is within one of perfection. So you -need not be cast down. Some have made a dozen mistakes. I guess you -will be A No. 1 one on the next Queer Story. - -_Adella F. Coy._ Am glad you are pleased to think so kindly of your -Pansy picture. I wonder if you have the picture of the Lord engraven on -your heart and often look tenderly upon it through the eye of faith and -love. Let’s never grow too old to delight in leading and blessing the -little ones. You rejoice me in what you say of the badge. Many others -say the same thing. If you will send me a corrected copy of the Queer -Story I will examine it. - -_Helen S. Sloan._ See above about the Queer Story. You “Busy Bees” made -$127. The hospital will think that sweet as honey. You must write D. -Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass., about the “prizes.” They will explain. - -_Mary E. Simpson._ At your request, I hand your letter to R. M. Alden. -I guess he will not throw it into the waste-basket. - -Charlie Compher lives in Leesburg, Va. He will be glad to get a letter -from you. - -The country is a blessed place. Isn’t it queer that so many country -boys and girls don’t think so, but are discontented and want to get to -the city, feeling sure that the city will make them happy? Contentment, -my dear Mary, is a precious possession. - -_Nannie Johnson._ You are eleven years old. Now if you live to be seven -times that and each day “grow in grace,” what a beautiful old lady you -will be. Of course you will outgrow “carelessness” the first month, and -have plenty of time to pick up after mamma, instead of her doing it -after you; and the “pony” and “parrot” and “dog” and “dear little baby -sister,” and everybody else, I guess, will be glad. - -_K. G. Boring._ A capital account, yours, of your Fourth of July. I can -almost see you at the parade, and I’m so glad you got home safely from -the crowds and the tramp of horses and that your fingers are not blown -off. Rockets and Roman candles seen from the house-top! Balloons, too! -Happy child! But what will you say when you see the great Lord coming -in the clouds? How rejoiced you will be if you are His at His coming. - -_May Cameron._ Let me commend you for finding so many mistakes in -the Queer Story. I must see your work to determine its correctness. -As to faults: Many are temper faults; many, disorder; many, teasing, -answering back; “wait a minute;” biting nails, etc. - -Remember me to Mr. Doane. You seem to be a wide-awake Band of Hope, -with your meetings, “Mizpah,” flowers, and care of the sick. To be busy -for the Saviour is to be safe from Satan. - -_Charlie M. Ritter._ You are very kind to remember the organ. I wish I -could say something to make everything green and beautiful about you. -But your turn will come. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage. He hears -the young raven when it cries. What a delightful time you must have had -on Children’s Day. - -_Elma Holmes._ And while you wear your badge here and there, be sure -that you so live that your mother and all the dear ones at home can -say, “Our Elma does what she professes.” - -_Edith G. Grant._ I shouldn’t wonder if your Queer Story was correct. -Let me see a copy now. Allie will soon learn other good things besides -“cutting kindling-wood,” perhaps to read PANSY or Bible stories when -mamma is tired. How I should love to visit you in your summer home in -“beautiful Tullahoma.” Instead, I went to beautiful Ashville, N. C., in -September. - - -IN MEMORIAM. - -ANOTHER Blossom transplanted into the garden of God. Herbie Baily -of Madison, Wis., at the age of ten, July 6th, passed away. With -his parents he was attending a Fourth of July celebration, when an -accidental ball struck him. Nothing serious was feared till two days -later, when, at 8 P. M., he rushed into the house, screaming: “My head! -My head! I shall die!” At 11 he breathed his last. Now, can you wonder -that this dear boy, “so tender and quick to sympathize with any one -in trouble and pain,” to whom “nothing was so charming as the ‘Story -of the Bible,’ who delighted in everything pertaining to the life of -Christ”—do you wonder that the mother says: “It seems as if I cannot -bear his loss?” - -Maybe now some loving heart will be prompted to write a word of -sympathy to Herbie’s mother, Mrs. A. S. Baily. - - -WHERE ARE YOU? - -Sylbil L. Anderson, Gilbert Anderson, Lizzie Carnes, Addie R. Crane, -Estelle Duncan, Edith R. Foster, Mrs. Joshua Gowing, Josie ——, of -Amesbury, Mass., Carrie I. Glauche, H. H. Hass, Jessie M. Hatch, John -W. Holland, Marcella McDougall, Mabel A. Morse, Rose Price, Christine -and Ollie Seely, Alice Stone, Rena B. Williams, and H. G. Shattuck, A. -S. Willick, S. Willard Wood, Norma E. Wood, Mary W. Wells, Nellie M. -Merritt. - -To nearly all these names letters, with badges enclosed, have gone and -returned. Most failed to give post-office, State, county, Street, or -number. Write me now and say just where I may send these letters. Be -plain and particular. - - -MIRZA ALI’S LETTER. - - MY SPIRITUAL TEACHER: - -_Dear, magnanimous Mr. Wright_: - -FIRST: I hope your existence is safe and you have no bodily ailment. -Second: If you wish to inquire my health, I thank God, I and my mother -and my sister are very well, and we are thanking to our Lord and -Saviour in return for His gifts. My words will not be finished if I -want to count the gifts of our God. It is only sufficient to write -that He gave His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and saved us from death. - -If you wish to acquire of circumstances of gentlemen and ladies, the -missionaries, thank be God, all they are safe and busy to cause to -reach the good news to the multitudes. - -Their families and ladies are safe. Our school and the teacher, Baroon -Wahan, and the scholars are safe; every day is Baroon Wahan busy to -teach them. They learn the means of holy books. - -I, ownself also, every day in the mornings am busy to give lessons -in Turkish to my dear Sir Mr. Whipple, agent of the American Bible -Society. Other times I am in telegraph office. There I write the -subjects; there I am busy till night and night we finish. These days I -give lessons in English to the son of chief of telegraph, and both the -son of Aga Mirza Abdul Ali, the doctor. I am sorry I have no dictionary -from Persian to English. When I want to translate a book from Turkish -to English it is not possible. I remain unable and become unequal. If -I have this dictionary I hope I will spread English abroad. You are my -benefactor; you are my kind and merciful friend. - -If you have not any more Dictionary and you have one only and it is -necessary for yourself also, you cannot send (it) for me. You promise -to me that you write to Constantinople or America. They send for me. -You calculate it present, given at Festival time to me. I hope you -desperate not me, but you will help me.... I am expecting for answer. -I hope you will send me that book and you will make me glad and happy. -If you have order, write me. I will execute and perform it. I will obey -to all your commands. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. -Amen! And God may increase your love for Jesus, His beloved Son. Amen! -If you find and see some mistake shut your eyes from my faults. Excuse -me, sir. It is the first letter I wrote in English. - - MIRZA ALI, - _The teacher of Mr. Whipple_. - - -THE QUER STOREY. - -WEN the Pansy Socity begun, thar was a boy, whos name musent be given. -His mother tride to purswade him to plege his-self aganst useing -sigars. He had became a grate smoker. The supertenent of the sundy -schol of wich this boy was a nenber tride two. But he dident want a -bage or too have his apetite controled. He became verry bad, folowing -anny and evry boddy abowt too git a sigar. This brout him into the -salloons, whar he lernt two drink lagger bier and sware and tel storys. - -If all the sigars, wich he has smoked sence that was lain end too end, -thay wood reech neerly one fifth of a mile! - -How menny galons of bier he has drank and how menny oths he has swoar -woold take too larg a peice off paper to rite them all onto, i am sory -two hav to anounce, he is not giting enny beter. - -[Send a corrected copy to Mrs. Alden.] - - * * * * * - -THE following persons have mastered the Queer Story. A few others may -have done so, but not having sent their copy for examination it is -impossible for me to know: - -Glenroy L. Black, Lucy Dickerson, Charlotte Fitch, Louise Hosmer, Cora -J. Russell, Margaret Hoyt, Jessie Strengle, Hallie Edwards, Daisy -Vaughan, Lydia Boring, Agnes Oliver. - -Several others came within one or two words of perfection. - - -NEW BOOKS. - -(_Published by D. Lothrop Company._) - -SOLDIER AND SERVANT. By Ella M. Baker. Price $1.25; to Pansy Society 75 -cents. A thoroughly good book for girls, with not a dull page in it. -The young Christian cannot fail to be helped by the story of Lisle’s -pure true life as soldier and servant. - -AFTER SCHOOL DAYS. By Lucy Wheelock. Price $1.00; to Pansy Society -60 cents. It is a thousand pities that the sensational fiction which -constitutes the chief reading of many of our older girls could not be -replaced by such simple, charming stories as this one. It is bright and -healthful, and filled with good lessons, both practical and spiritual. - -SWISS STORIES. From the German of Madame Johanna Spyri. By Lucy -Wheelock. Price $1.00. To Pansy Society 60 cents. A lovely book within -and without; just the thing for a gift. It is not simply amusing; every -child who reads it cannot fail of being helped by its pure, sweet -lessons. We quote a few pages from “Lisa’s Christmas”: - -“The next day the great question was, what the lamb’s name would be. - -“Lisa proposed calling it Eulalie, for that was the name of her -friend’s cat, and it seemed to her an especially fine name. But the -boys did not like it. It was too long. Kurt proposed Nero, as the big -dog at the mill was called. But Lisa and Karl were not pleased with -this name. - -“In despair they went to their mother, who suggested he should be -called ‘Curlyhead,’ and Curlyhead he was from that forth. - -“The little creature soon became a great pet for the children. They -took him out for a frolic whenever they had a few spare moments. -Sometimes they went to the pasture and Kurt and Karl would search for -rich, juicy clover leaves to bring him, while Lisa sat on a bank with -the little creature’s head in her lap. - -“Whenever a child was sent on an errand to the mill or to the baker’s, -the lamb must go, and he listened so intelligently to all the -conversation his companion addressed to him that it was evident he -understood every word. He grew round as a ball, and his wool was as -white and pretty as if he was always in his Sunday dress. - -“The beautiful sunny autumn was drawing to a close, Christmas was -coming, Kurt and Karl disclosed all their cherished dreams to -Curlyhead, and assured him he should have his share of holiday presents. - -“Lisa had a particular friend, Marie, who lived in the great farmhouse -on the way to the Zillesback. Lisa was very anxious to visit this -friend, for she could talk over her prospects for Christmas more fully -with her than with her brothers. She had permission to go on her first -free afternoon, and when the time came she was so impatient to start, -that she could hardly hold still long enough for her mother to tie on -her warm scarf. Then she ran bounding off, while her mother watched her -until she was half-way down the hill; then she turned and went into the -house again. - -“At that moment it came into Lisa’s mind that Curlyhead would enliven -the way if her brothers had not already taken him. She quickly turned -around, ran back to the barn and took out Curlyhead. Together they ran -down the hard path where the bright autumn leaves were dancing about -in the wind. They soon reached the end of their journey, where Lisa -and her friend where quickly lost in deep conversation, walking up and -down on the sunny plot of ground in front of the house, while Curlyhead -nibbled contentedly at the hedge. - -“The two friends refreshed themselves occasionally with pears, and -juicy, red apples, which grew in great abundance on the farm. - -“Marie’s mother had brought out a great basketful, and Lisa was to -carry home what were left. When it was time for Lisa to go home, Marie -accompanied her a little way, and they still had so much to say that -they were in sight of Lisa’s home before they knew it. Marie quickly -took leave of her, and Lisa hurried up the path. It was already dark. -Just as she reached the house the thought flashed through her mind like -lightning: ‘Where is Curlyhead?’ - -“She knew she had taken him with her. She had seen him nibbling the -hedge and then she had entirely forgotten him. - -“In a most dreadful fright she rushed back down the mountain again. -‘Curlyhead, Curlyhead, where are you? Oh, come, come!’ - -“But all was still. Curlyhead was nowhere to be seen. Lisa ran back -to the farmhouse. There was a light already in the window of the -sitting-room, and she could look in from the stone steps by the house. -They were all at the supper-table; father, mother, Marie and her -brothers and the servants. The old cat lay on the bench by the stove; -but nowhere was there a trace of Curlyhead to be seen as Lisa peered -into all the corners. Then she ran around the house into the garden, -around the hedge, again into the garden, and along the inside of the -hedge, calling ‘Curlyhead, come now, oh! come, come!’ - -“All in vain; there was no sight or sound of the lamb. Lisa grew more -anxious. It grew darker and the wind howled louder and louder, and -almost blew her from the ground. 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PARKER, Lynn, Mass.= - - - AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKS AND - UNEXPECTED HELP IN PICKING THEM OUT. - -Sunday School books have been growing better and better for many years; -and yet we think they are scarcely keeping pace with the general -forward movement. Indeed the improvement in Sunday School books has -been largely brought about by mixing with them books designed for wider -use. - -Why not then widen the word to cover the fact, and get such other books -for Sunday Schools as are fit for rising young people, books to help -them rise? - -That is the direction in which D. Lothrop Company has been working -for several years; and its Sunday School books are largely made up of -reading and pictures by no means confined to religious subjects. Now it -goes still further in the direction of the popular tendency, and offers -for Sunday Schools a separate list of books not often thought of for -that purpose. - -Everybody knows that children, especially boys, are apt to prefer a -library where all sorts of books are within their reach. Such browsing -unrestrained is apt to lead downward rather than up. But why not let -the Sunday School library have the attraction without the danger? Why -not afford the delight of inspiring, instructive, helpful literature in -some of the books and religious teaching in others without the popular -trash? - -So two separate lists of books for the Sunday School library: one of -modern (not “goody-goody” or stupid) Sunday School books, the other of -secular books for the rising young. - -These lists are arranged according to the relative acceptability of the -books as shown in the main by the numbers called for. (1) religious -Sunday School books; and (2) secular Sunday School books. - -The books in both lists are arranged in the order of their -acceptability. And so the lists are a help in choosing books. The -majority vote may not be an infallible standard; but is there a -better, especially when the voters are well-informed about what they -are voting on? - -The man who makes and sells a thing is the man who knows its quality; -for the opinions of those who use it get around to him, and that very -promptly. These lists are made with just that knowledge. - -First and foremost of the decidedly religious books are the Pansy -books. Pansy herself is a leader of children. She opens her mouth—they -are eager to catch her lightest word. She raises her hand—instinctively -up go theirs. The secret of such a power as that is sympathy, feeling -together. - -So in her books. She enters into their smallest experiences. The boys -and girls of her books, the children of her brain, are just like her -readers, natural flesh and blood; not life-like but real, just as real -as you are yourself. They live in their world with the rest of us; have -their ups and downs, perplexities, such as come to us all; and they -win. So shall we who read! - -That is inspiration. The reader becomes the actor, the hero, the -heroine. Happy the writer who uses such power as that for helping, -guiding, building up. - -There are more than a hundred “Pansy books,” mostly by Pansy herself, a -few by one or two helpers, a few by others altogether. They constitute, -we may fairly say, the very highest class of traditional Sunday School -books. They belong to the highest order of Sunday School work. - -D. Lothrop Company, Boston, is just now getting out these lists of -religious and secular Sunday School books, arranged with a view of -marking their relative popularity. The Pansy books are at the top of -the religious list, and Arthur Gilman’s History of the American People -heads the secular list. - -Send for the primer—sent free by the publishers. - - * * * * * - -BABYLAND is so good a diversion for baby and help for the mother that -it ought to be in every baby family. Pictures and jingles and laughter. -Baby will study in spite of you. - - -PREMIUM LIST - -The Things you are going to have your choice of—you who look about -among your neighbors and help them pick out their reading and pictures. - -It is a neighborly act. And the time to begin to be careful of reading -and pictures is when the baby can understand them. Let them come in the -following order: - - _Babyland_: nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for - the little one; $0.50 a year. - - _Our Little Men and Women_: delightful hours and years - for beginning readers; $1. - - _Pansy_: the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy; - $1. - - _Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_: for studious young - folks; $1. - - _Wide Awake_: library, study, play-house, life at home - and abroad, companionship of the wise and good; $2.40. - -Think of a life not only unhurt by wrong reading and pictures, but -helped by right reading and pictures all the way through! It _is_ a -neighborly act! - -We make such Terms as you never heard of—for work. - - D LOTHROP COMPANY - PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES - BOSTON - - -Who Skips This Page Will Please Skip All - -[Sidenote: What premiums are and to whom they are due] - -Premiums are pay for work and nothing else. That work is getting new -subscriptions. It is done when you send the names, addresses and money. -Then you take your choice of the things in the List. - -[Sidenote: Why we pay so much] - -This work is of great importance to us, no matter how little there is -to be done in your neighborhood. We pay for it _all the money there -is_; we pay in such a way as to make it more to you than it is to us, -especially if you happen to live where good new things are hard to get, -where the stores are stocked with things that are going out of use -instead of with things that are coming into use. - -[Sidenote: The best things in the list] - -We put in the List the best we can get and the best we can get for the -money: some things because it is worth your while to know about them; -others to answer wants we know exist—we put in nothing to be ashamed -of. Some things are commonplace; not all are new or hard to get; but -those we emphasize are worthy of careful study. - -To be in the List at all is commendation. To be described is high -commendation. - -[Sidenote: When premiums are due] - -Premiums are due when the names and money are here, and may be taken at -any time thereafter, the sooner the better for us. You can have them -right along as you earn them, or wait a little and have more together -and save a part of the cost of transportation; but the sooner you take -them the surer you are of getting them. Some will be gone by and by. - -[Sidenote: Who pays for transportation] - -All costs for freight, express and postage are paid by receiver, except -postage on books, magazines and a few small things on which the postage -is only a cent or two. - -The postage on mailable things is stated in the List except as above. -[When the postage is not stated: if the thing weighs only an ounce or -two, we pay the postage; but, if heavier, it must go by express.] It -is often true that mailable things go for less by express. We send the -cheapest way, if we know it. - -Some things are sent direct from the makers to save expense. - -Everything over four pounds, too big for the mail, or for any reason -unmailable, goes by express; and you pay the freight on receipt. - -[Sidenote: How much the cost of a package is by express] - -You can generally find out about how much by guessing the size and -weight and inquiring at your express office. - -You can economize freights to some extent by having several things in -one package. - -[Sidenote: Who is responsible] - -We pack with care and deliver to carrier in good condition. That is all -we can do. Beyond that the risk is yours. We register packages going by -mail if you send the registry fee, ten cents a package, in addition to -postage. - -[Sidenote: What is a new subscription] - -We pay for new subscriptions; not for renewals. What is the difference? -A new one is that of a family not on our list before. - -We pay premiums in good faith. We expect them to be earned in good -faith. A subscriber may stop one magazine and become a new subscriber -to another; but change of a magazine from one name to another in a -family is not a new subscription. Your own subscription (if new) may -count with others (not alone) for premiums. We have got to draw the -line somewhere. We don’t reckon too closely, nor suspect bad faith too -readily. We prefer to deal a little generously; but we don’t intend to -be really imposed upon. - -[Sidenote: Direct to D. Lothrop Company] - -To be entitled to premiums you must send subscriptions direct to the -publishers, not to another agent. We don’t pay twice for the same -subscription. - -[Sidenote: Whose agent you are] - -You are entrusted with money for us by the subscribers you get. You are -their agent, not ours. Be faithful to them. Send their names and money -as soon as you get them. You are responsible to them till we get the -names, addresses and money together. Then you are free. - -[Sidenote: When a subscription begins] - -Subscriptions begin at any time. If you neglect to name a date, we -guess as well as we can. - -The volumes begin as follows: _Wide Awake_, December and June; -_Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_, December; _Pansy_, November; _Our -Little Men and Women_, January; _Babyland_, January. - -[Sidenote: Requirements] - -No deviation in prices; no credit (send name, address and money -together); remit by post-office money order, by American Express -Company’s money order, by registered letter or by bank check (postage -stamps may be sent in registered letters for change); write plainly and -fully; give subscribers’ full addresses (they may be different); sign -your name and give your full address in every communication. - -The foregoing relates to premiums sent within the United States. - -[Sidenote: Beyond the United States] - -To the British North American Colonies other premiums have to be sent -by express, the receiver paying whatever costs the tariff may impose; -but magazines and books may be sent to these colonies by mail. There is -a duty on books; not on magazines. - -[Sidenote: Premiums for sale] - -Things in the List are also sold for money, payment in advance, no -discount, no charge for packing, sent at receiver’s cost and risk. - -[Sidenote: Delays] - -Wait for return mail and a week besides before you conclude your letter -or our reply has gone astray; then write particulars: date of your -sending, how you remitted, how much. - -[Sidenote: The first thing to do] - -The first step to take is to send us 15 cents for specimen copies of -all five magazines, subscription blanks and other helps. - - D LOTHROP COMPANY - PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES - BOSTON - - -PREMIUM LIST OF THE LOTHROP MAGAZINES - - -[Illustration] - -Jack-straws, two sets. Prices 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. One set contains more pieces -and also more sorts—ladders, spades, hoes, mallets, arrows, etc., of -variously-colored wood. - -Cultivates delicate handling and ingenuity. - - * * * * * - -Puzzle Map of the United States, on oblong paper blocks to be matched -together. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 -cents. - -Teaches what we elders need to study—where the States are. - - * * * * * - -The Frisky Cow. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 44 cents—express may be less. Size 6 by 8 by 12 inches. - -For little people. Johnny rolls the ball and hits the knob on the -right, rings a bell and counts 10. Susan hits the middle knob, counts -20, and the cow jumps over the moon. - -[Illustration] - -One of the jolliest toys we know of. - - * * * * * - -Shadow Transformations. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 6 cents. - -Figures cut out of cards cast shadows from any sort of light. The -shadows are silhouette pictures. The combinations are hundreds. There -is more fun in them than we can put on paper. - -Stimulates invention and design; for nobody stops with these cards. - - * * * * * - -Toy Money in a cash-box. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The coins are printed card-board copies like the picture, only full -size. - -“Playing store” teaches the little merchants a great deal more than -arithmetic; and how can they make change without money? - - * * * * * - -Historiscope. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -[Illustration: BRADLEY’S HISTORISCOPE] - -A panorama of scenes in American history, with a brief “lecture.” You -turn that little crank, and the “lecture” explains the pictures. - - * * * * * - -American Toy Village. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage -12 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The buildings etc., which are painted wood, may be arranged on the -lithographed “plan” as in the picture, or on a table, or lawn, or sand. - - * * * * * - -Words and Sentences, a game, variations of which are known by several -other names, Logomachy, War of Words, etc. Price 25 or 50 cents; for -30 or 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents and 7 cents. Two -styles, one more substantial than the other and in wood box. - -[Illustration: N A M E] - -A family game by no means confined to children. Cultivates knowledge of -words and facility in their use. - - * * * * * - -Checker Men. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Thirty double-face pieces 1¼ inches diameter. - - * * * * * - -Halma. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 22 cents. - -[Illustration] - -“The only important board game purely of skill invented since checkers -and chess.” Introduced two years ago and said to be very popular. Large -flat folding paper board and box with men and instructions. - - * * * * * - -Chess, Checkers and Halma in one. Price $1.75; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Goes by express. - -Checker board on one side, halma on the other, with cherry frame and -trough for the men, 19x19 inches: chess, checkers and halma men and -directions for halma. - - * * * * * - -Carpet Bowls. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 32 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Like quoits, except that the balls are rolled instead of tossed, and -the hub is a ball that gets moved about as the game goes on. - - * * * * * - -Snap. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 -cents. - -Teaches quickness. - - * * * * * - -Social Hours. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -A pamphlet of games, tricks, illusions and puzzles, with a box of -requisite things to play with. A very large number; too many to count. - - * * * * * - -Matched Pictures, scenes in the far West. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Forty oblong pieces go together in a great many ways and make as many -different pictures. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Dressmaking Bazaar. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents. - -Paper dolls’ heads, arms, legs, dress-stuffs, laces, ornaments; an -immense variety. Patterns to cut by. Instructions. The figures are -handsomely lithographed on varnished paper. - - * * * * * - -Interchangeable Combination Circus. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 20 cents. - -[Illustration] - -A set of sectional pictures. The circus performs whatever part of the -programme you choose amid the huzzahs of the spectators. - - * * * * * - -Evening Party. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents. - -A boxful of games, puzzles, charades, rebuses, tricks, conundrums, -etc.; a houseful of frolic and fun. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Checker and Backgammon boards, hinged boxes, with dice-cups and men. -No 1, 8x14 inches closed, price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents. No. 2, 7x12, price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 20 cents. No. 3, 6x10½, price 50 cents; for 60 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. They differ also in wood -and finish. - - * * * * * - -Kindergarten souvenir-material (Bradley’s). Tinted card with diagrams -and colored illustrations, by which children are taught to cut, fold, -embroider and make a great variety of beautiful useful things. A -generous boxful. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 26 -cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Chess Men. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -10 cents. - - * * * * * - -Building Blocks. Price 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 and 60 cents. Express may be less. - -[Illustration] - -As many blocks as cents; not painted. - - * * * * * - -Fascinator, balls and cues, indoors or out. The boys will know the rest -from the picture. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: FASCINATOR] - -Teaches skill with eye and hand. - - * * * * * - -Kindergarten Occupation. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 32 cents. - -[Illustration: MILTON BRADLEY & Co SPRINGFIELD, MASS. - -GEMS FROM THE - -Kindergarten - -FOR HOME - -OCCUPATION] - -Weaving, embroidering, ring-laying, stick-laying, etc. A large box of -materials with instructions. - - * * * * * - -Pitch-a-Ring and Ring Toss. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 40 cents—express may be less. - -[Illustration] - -The rings are made pretty and soft with plaiting of colored cotton, and -the box they come in serves for base. - - * * * * * - -Go Bang, Tivoli, and Fox and Geese. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 33 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Leather-covered two-book-shape box, 2x7½x14 inches, turned wood men. - - * * * * * - -Parcheesi. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. - -[Illustration: HOME] - -Size of closed board 9½x18½x⅜ inches. Brass-bound paper men; dice-boxes. - - * * * * * - -Checkered Game of Life. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Size of closed board 8x16⅜ inches; wood men; counters; teetotum. - - * * * * * - -Set of Games No. 1 containing each in a box: A lot of puzzles; Old -Maid; Round Up; Five Senses; Old Salt’s Yarn; Auction; Scramble; -Steeple-Chase. Price 15 cents each; any three for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents each. - - * * * * * - -Set of Games No. 2 containing each in a little box: Old Maid; Jack -Straws; Fortunes; Seth Spook’s Visit to Chicago; Beast, Bird, Fish; Go -Bang; Selected Authors; Riddles; Optical Illusions; Tortoise and Hare; -Siege; Historical Dates. 6 cents each; any four for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents for the four. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: GAME OF - -OLD MAID IMPROVED - -MILTON BRADLEY & Co SPRINGFIELD MASS] - -Old Maid improved. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents. - - * * * * * - -Solitaire. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -25 cents. - -[Illustration] - -With bowls for marbles in play and a drawer. - - * * * * * - -Perfection folding table. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -By express. - -[Illustration] - -Top 19x30 inches and adjustable to eight heights between 23½ and 29 -inches. Half-yard inch measure and checkers on it. - - * * * * * - -Postage-stamp album with classified spaces for 2400 stamps and 264 -engravings. Price 50 cents (cloth binding 75 cents); for 60 cents in -new subscriptions (cloth binding for 90 cents). Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -One hundred postage stamps to begin with; price 25 cents; for 30 cents -in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Savings Bank. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 17 -cents. - -[Illustration: JIG DANCIN - -ONE CENT] - -The music and dancing last half a minute after a penny is put into it. -Goes by clock-work. Well made and not likely to get out of order. The -music is imaginary, except the clatter of the dancer’s feet. - - * * * * * - -Printing outfit. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: FAVORITE - -FAVORITE PRINTING PRESS AND OUTFIT - -CARDS INK TYPE PALLET FURNITURE GOLD - -THE FAVORITE PRINTING PRESS & OUTFIT] - -Consists of a practical press of the slightest possible character, -roller, one font of type, one case, leads, furniture, ink and fifty -cards. Weight of the whole in a box about seven pounds. A boy with the -requisite printing wit can do small jobs with it. Size of chase 2x3½ -inches. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Woods Air Line Gun. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage -30 cents. - -The “barrel” is a straight wire; the bullet a wood spool; the force a -coil of steel wire. Target with pocket to catch the bullets. Also a -torpedo target. - -Bullets for the Woods gun; 25 for 10 cents; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Britannia Tea-set. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. - -[Illustration] - -About 20 pieces, teapot 3 inches high. - - * * * * * - -Sand-mill, that is, a water-wheel driven by sand instead of water, with -a wooden man pretending to turn the crank outside. The mechanical boy -will rig a pulley and get a good deal of work out of it. Sand play is -the chief amusement of children at the seaside. - -Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Toy scales 6½ inches long. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 17 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Geo. H. Walker & Co. Boston.] - -Locomotive and tender of malleable iron japanned and gilt. -Connecting-rods work, wheels turn and bell rings. 20 inches long, and -weighs seven pounds. None so substantial and life-like ever made before -for anything like the money. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. -Western orders filled from Chicago to save express. - - * * * * * - -Whistle. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Celluloid; looks like ivory. Trills. - - * * * * * - -Musical top. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -4 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Reeds inside of it, sing as it spins and change their notes with a -touch. - - * * * * * - -Locomotive 12-inch. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -35 cents. - -[Illustration: WHISTLER] - -Goes by clock-work. Gong in the cab rings loudly. - - * * * * * - -Locomotive engine 10 inches long. Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 cents. - -Goes by clock-work. Bell does not ring. - - * * * * * - -Weeden engine. Price $1.25; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 -cents. - -[Illustration: RUSSELL & RICHARDSON S C] - -Quite an elaborate, handsome and well-made engine, 8½ inches high, -with safety-valve, whistle, smoke-stack, thumb-screws to let steam on -and off and to whistle, heavy fly-wheel and double pulley. Goes half -an hour with one firing and watering. Made of nickeled tin and brass. -Power enough for a great variety of play-work. - - * * * * * - -Engine. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 -cents. - -[Illustration: HERO] - -A little rough; but a boy can whittle it smooth; 5 inches high; with -all the necessary parts. Goes as long as the water and alcohol last and -drives a little light machinery. Even this is enough to find out a boy -with mechanical bent. - - * * * * * - -Propeller “Neptune,” an iron boat 10 inches long with a working engine -strong enough to drive it briskly across the mill-pond for 20 or 30 -minutes. Not really iron; mostly brass; the hull painted black with red -stripe along the gunwale. A saucy craft, but not at all dangerous. - -[Illustration: NEPTUNE] - -Price $2.25; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - - * * * * * - -Revolving Wall Blackboard and desk slate. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents -in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Size 16½x17 inches, including frame and trough for eraser and crayons. -Outline designs on frame for drawing. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Folding Chair. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Natural cherry, surprisingly well made and smooth. The seat is of -pretty cretonne. Total height 11½ inches. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s High Chair with table-leaf and wood tea-set. Price 25 cents; for -30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 11 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Daintily made of fine white-wood printed to imitate cane seat, etc. - -It comes “flat;” and dolly’s maternal uncle puts it together. -Foot-and-a-half high. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Chamber Set. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Cherry, four pieces: bedstead 17x8x9 inches, bureau with bright tin -mirror, pretty folding chair and table. All come “flat” and go together -beautifully. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Doll’s Carriage. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents. A folding easy chair on wheels; fine white-wood; -pretty cretonne seat; arms of bright silk cord. - - * * * * * - -Dolly’s Own Album of nearly two hundred transfer pictures; 7 cents; for -10 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Folding Desk Blackboard with rolling sheet of more than a hundred -designs for drawing. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Height 3 feet; blackboard 14x18 inches. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Cradle. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -White-wood, 7½ x 8½ x 16 inches. Comes “flat.” - - * * * * * - -Sliced Animals. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 12 cents. - -[Illustration: ZEBRA] - -Colored pictures of animals on strips of card-board with letters on one -end. When the strips are put together right the animal’s name is there -too. - - * * * * * - -Sliced Objects. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 12 cents. - -Yacht, engine, boat, car, fort, church, house, dam, bridge, coach, -fountain, statue; all on strips and mixed together. - - * * * * * - -Sliced Birds. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 12 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Britannia Collapsing Cup in a tin box. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Nickeled Collapsing Cup in a watch-case. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - - * * * * * - -Dominoes. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 -cents. - -In neat and substantial wood box. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Triumph toy Clothes-wringer, handy for small pieces as well as for -dolly’s things. Rolls three inches long. Works perfectly. Price 50 -cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Doll, No. 204, 20½-inches high, undressed, except chemise trimmed with -lace and ribbon, bisque head, arms and legs, washable. Price $1.25; for -$1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents. - - * * * * * - -Dressed Doll Nellie, 14 inches high, in full summer dress set off with -lace and ribbons, hat, lace hose and leather shoes; bisque head, arms -and legs. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. - - * * * * * - -In-door Ball. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Very light rubber, 3¼-inch blown up. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Tea-set. Price $1.25; for $1.60 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -China, gayly decorated, 20 to 25 pieces. Cups about 2 inches across; -tea-pot 5 inches high. - - * * * * * - -Drawing Teacher. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Thick paper stencils for pencil drawings; designs; a supply of suitable -paper. - - * * * * * - -Drum. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Hammered brass body; sheepskin heads; red-white-and-blue cords and -belt; 13 inch. - - * * * * * - -Daisy Ten-pins. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The pins are lithographed figures of boys and girls in holiday dress -and the balls are solid gilt. - - * * * * * - -Tin Kitchen. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -30 cents. - -[Illustration: BREAD] - -Size 7x12x4 inches; about 20 pieces; pump pumps water. - - * * * * * - -Fire Engine. Price $6; for $6.50 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Pumps from a reservoir, and at the same time throws a continuous -stream. Consists of boiler, engine, force-pump, water and steam gauges, -air-chamber, hose and hose-pipe. Size 5x10½x9 inches, exclusive of -pole. The machine is an excellent one; the engraving is not a good one. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Head No. 38-24, bisque, 3 inches across shoulders. Price 30 -cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: No. 710] - -Doll’s Head No. 710, bisque, 3½ inch, closing eyes, fine curls. Price -75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents. - - * * * * * - -Doll’s Wash-set. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Tub 9 x 5 inches. The wringer does not wring. - - * * * * * - -Fairy Sewing-machine. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage -35 cents. - -[Illustration: FAIRY] - -Actually sews, and is really useful to put in one’s trunk for a summer -trip—the best of hand sewing-machines are silly at home. - -This isn’t silly, because it teaches dolly’s mamma to cut and make her -own dresses. An excellent play-thing for an industrious little girl, -though we suppose it is made for serious use. Size 5x6 inches. - - * * * * * - -Japanese Tivoli, Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Jap lies on his back, heels up, with a marble in the bowl on his boots, -Tommy touches the spring and counts according to where the marble goes. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: TOLEDO BLADE] - -Large Jack-knife. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents. - - * * * * * - -Bull’s-eye lantern. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. - -[Illustration] - -For hand or belt; 3-inch lens. - - * * * * * - -A good photographing outfit complete for $2.50—Horsman’s “Eclipse”—for -$2.75 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: HYPO - -HORSMANS ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPH OUTFIT - -CAMERA, DRY PLATES CHEMICALS, PRINTING FRAME —SENSITIZED PAPER— CARD -MOUNTS &c. &c. &c. —COMPLETE FOR $2.50. - -RIPLEY PLATES CARDS TRAY 1 TRAY 2] - -There is no better for less than $10. It is not good enough to take -portraits. It is good enough for views containing persons or groups. -That is, it gives attitudes and aspects perfectly; not the fine -details of expression and feature. For ten cents we send two specimen -photographs (largest size, 3x4 inches) taken with it. - -An average boy or girl of twelve years can use it successfully and make -about as good pictures with it as with any $10 camera. - -The outfit consists of a small camera covered with imitation morocco, -six rapid dry plates, two japanned-iron trays, two bottles of -developer, package of hypo-sulphite of soda, printing-frame, six sheets -of silvered and six of blue-print paper, bottle of toning solution, -dozen card mounts, plate-lifter, sheet of ruby paper, directions for -making a cheap ruby lamp, and full instructions for every part of the -work. Weight about 3½ pounds; postage 60 cents—express may be less. - -After supplies—Particulars in a circular sent on request. - - * * * * * - -Foot-ball, two sizes, 6 and 9 inch. Prices $1 and $1.50; for $1.25 and -$1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage on either 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Made of heavy canvas coated with rubber, stout, blown up with key. - - * * * * * - -Village Blacksmith. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The blower works the bellows and the blacksmith wields his hammer. -Worked by the engine. - - * * * * * - -Fishing outfit. Price $1.15; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 -cents. - -12-foot jointed rod, brass tips and ferrules, bob, sinkers, 36-foot -line, dozen assorted hooks, pickerel trolling-hook, ganged hooks with -hair or gut snell, flies, and bait-box. Neat and substantial. - - * * * * * - -“Winchester” double-barrel Rifle. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration: WINCHESTER RIFLE] - -A rather easy gun. Covered-rubber spring. - - * * * * * - -Wilcox target Gun. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 -cents. - -[Illustration: WILCOX] - -Covered-rubber spring; removable cross-piece; bayonet; breech box for -darts and targets. - - * * * * * - -“Dr. Carver” Gun. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 17 cents. - -[Illustration: DOCTOR CARVER PATENTED] - -A savage rubber-spring gun adjustable as to force. - - * * * * * - -“World” Type-Writer. Price $8; for $10 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -It is with gratification as complete as it was unexpected that we put -this machine in the list. - -It prints more neatly and perfectly than the Remington; not so fast and -not so easily. A scholar’s type-writer; a type-writer for business not -requiring speed or amount of work. Whoever wants a type-writer but has -too little use for it to justify paying a hundred dollars for it, he is -the man or woman, boy or girl for whom this machine is exactly right. - -Nobody wants to take the time to acquire facility with a type-writer -that amounts to nothing after he has learned it. The limit of the value -of the “World” is its speed; which is from twenty to thirty words a -minute. We hear that sixty words a minute has been attained. We are -sure of thirty. Weight in box 5 lbs. - -We are not permitted to sell it for money; only with subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Wringer with folding bench. Price $6; for $6.50 in new subscriptions. - -Better than a tub wringer can be; handier; more substantial. Altogether -the best of wringing devices. Folds into small floor-space. The proper -place for it is where the family does its own work and wants the best -facilities. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Wringer. Price $2.75; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. The simplest of -all the wringers. You put it on the tub; and the wringing pressure is -on. Take it off the tub; and the pressure is off the rolls. For this -reason the rolls are less likely to be injured by careless or ignorant -treatment than those of any other style of wringer. - - * * * * * - -Orchestra. Price $1; $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Lithographed figures on blocks worked by cranks and a belt from the -engine. - - * * * * * - -Musician. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Worked by a belt from the engine. - - * * * * * - -Sawyer. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Worked by a belt from the engine. - - * * * * * - -Bradley’s Authors. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration: 18 - -A - -CHARLES DICKENS. - - Dombey and Son - Pickwick Papers. - Oliver Twist. - -Born 1812—Died 1870] - -The best game of the name [there are many]; and best material; -waterproof cards. - - * * * * * - -Tennis outfit. Price $20; for $30 in new subscriptions. - -Consists of 4 “Standard” rackets, 6 regulation balls, regulation net -36x3 feet, poles, guys, ropes, pegs, mallet and book of the game. - - * * * * * - -“Standard” tennis racket. Price $3; for $4 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: PEERLESS] - -“Peerless” tennis racket. Price $5.50; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - - * * * * * - -Croquet outfit for eight players. Price $3; for $4 in new subscriptions. - -Maple. - - * * * * * - -Luminous Match-safe. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration: MATCHES - -BURNT - -GOOD - -SAFETY] - -The word MATCHES shines at night enough to guide you to the box. - - * * * * * - -Monogram-stamping outfit. Two letters 50 cents, three letters 80 cents; -for 60 cents and $1 in new subscriptions. Postage on either 5 cents. - -[Illustration: BLACK INK - -RED INK - -BRONZE - -INK PADS] - -Consists of rubber stamp (whatever letters you want—size of letter -½-inch), indelible ink for clothing, red ink, bronze, and pads. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: TRADE MARK] - -Watson’s book-carrier. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 8 cents. - - * * * * * - -Set of four rubber combs in a handy box. Price 50 cents; for 65 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Coarse comb, fine comb, child’s comb, pocket comb. - - * * * * * - -Stamping outfit for embroidery etc., a generous one. The maker calls it -$5-worth, but sells it for $1. For $1.10 in new subscriptions. - -Daisy alphabet 2½ inches high; roses 8x14; pond lilies 17x7½; pansies -3½x6; stork 7x11; bird and cherries 6x7; etc, etc. (large enough -pieces); powder, pads, instructions. - - * * * * * - -Pocket-knife No. 836. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents. - -[Illustration: T.B. TERRY & CO] - -Pearl handle, fine, substantial, 3 inches long. - - * * * * * - -Magic Pocket-knife. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 2 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Chased rubber handle with nickeled trimmings. A dainty knife of -middling quality; not a whittler. Hold the blade-end down and press on -top; the blade pops “open.” Reverse to “shut” it. - - * * * * * - -Button-hole shears. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration: TERRY & CO TOLEDO O. - -WARRANTY UNLIMITED.] - -Adjustable for length of hole with a gauge for distance. - - * * * * * - -Shears. Price 80 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration: TERRY & CO. TOLEDO O. - -PAT.’D APR. 21ST 85.] - -Japanned handles and nickeled blades; length 8 inches. - - * * * * * - -Scissors. Price 80 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - -Nickeled. - - * * * * * - -Ladies’ pearl-handle Knife. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Terry’s; length 2½ inches; fine design and finish. - - * * * * * - -Magic Slate-cleaner; price 6 cents; for 10 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: HORTON’S MAGIC SLATE CLEANER PAT’D FEB. 22, 1887] - -A wood water-bottle with a valve in the cork and a sponge on the side. -You touch the slate with the point and let out a drop of water. Then -the sponge. - - * * * * * - - -[Illustration: PLAIN POCKET - -LIFE SIZE. - -CAW’S PEN] - -Caw Stylographic Pen. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - -To one who writes much a stylograph is a great convenience. It is -really an ink-pencil. There are many makes. The Caw is the simplest; -very likely the best, for dealers say that nobody finds any fault with -it. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Ladies’ gold pen with pearl holder. Price $2.25; for $3.00 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Gold-plated pencil. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Gold-plated pencil watch-charm. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Perfection Hammock—and the hammock is as good as its name—knotted all -through and does not slip; soft, elastic, abundantly strong, with -galvanized iron rings at the ends. A perfect hammock. - -[Illustration: BAY STATE HAMMOCK - -“PERFECTION”] - - Number Size Price in money Price in new subscriptions Postage - A1 5x14 ft. $4 $5 $0.60 - 1 4½x13 2.50 3 .60 - 2 4x12 1.75 2.50 .40 - 3 3½x11 1.50 2 .25 - 4 3x11 1.10 1.50 .20 - -There is as much difference in hammocks as in “easy” chairs. Some are -anything but easy. Nobody knows how easy a hammock can be till he has -gone to sleep in this Perfection. - - * * * * * - -Hammock-spreader. Price 35 cents a pair; for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. - -A hammock is twice as good with a spreader. - - * * * * * - -There is an outside door-mat so good that every civilized door where -muddy feet have to come—there are thousands of such—will have it sooner -or later. And one is enough; for it lasts forever. - -There is nothing else a tenth so good. It almost keeps itself clean. A -jar dislodges the worst and thickest of mud. - -[Illustration] - -The Hartman steel-wire mat. An open springy texture of wire to scrape -on—galvanized spring-steel wire—no rust, no wear—like a wire mattress -but thicker and closer. You scrape on it, step on it, stamp on it, -tramp on it fearlessly. The stickiest mud becomes innocent dust -underneath and is swept away next morning. A pretty full account of it -sent on request. - -The price of the mat is $4, more or less according to size. The $4 -size is a good one, 22x30 inches. You earn it by getting $4.50 in new -subscriptions. To save express we send it from the manufacturer’s -nearest office nearest to you. - -[Illustration: AN INCH OR TWO AT THE CORNER OF IT, BOTH SIDES ALIKE.] - -The makers are doing their best to supply the quick demand from the -cities. They would be overwhelmed if the country were equally ready. -But where is a perfect mat most useful, where there are pavements or no -pavements? - - * * * * * - -Postage-stamp holder inside your pocket-book. Price 15 cents; for 20 -cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Nickel; the picture shows it open inside a pocket-book. Handy out of -all proportions to its cost. - - * * * * * - -Bissell Carpet-sweeper. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. - -Not a housewife rich enough to own a carpet would do without a sweeper -if she knew how great relief a good one brings on sweeping and dusting -day. - -[Illustration: BISSELL’S - -GRAND RAPIDS - -FULLER-STOWE Co] - -It sweeps cleaner than a broom and easier, makes no dust, and does -nine-tenths of the work, leaving only an inch or two along the sides -of a room and little corners—these must be swept with a broom—and it -drops the dust with a touch on a spring as shown in the picture. That -band around the sweeper is a rubber cushion to keep it from bruising -furniture. - -Three-fourths of all the carpet-sweepers in the world are made by one -factory, the Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Of -course they make good ones. The fact is, they control the really useful -inventions and nobody else is allowed to make good sweepers at all. But -their prices are fair. - -There are several styles and sizes. We choose the best brush with -common finish. - - * * * * * - -Cabinet Book-rack. Price $2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Maple, fine finish, brass trimmings, lock, and goes together without -nail or screws; 24x23x6½ inches; packs flat. - - * * * * * - -Shawl-strap. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -6 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The tapes are tightened by turning the handle. - - * * * * * - -Common shawl-strap. Price 35 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Leather handle and straps to buckle. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Desk and blackboard in one. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Ash with walnut trimmings, top of enameled cloth, lock, pigeon-holes, -25x25x19 inches; packs flat. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -“Favorite” table with drawer, top of enameled cloth, 31x27x19 inches, -chestnut. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: - - TRIPLE MOTION - WHITE MOUNTAIN - ICE CREAM FREEZER -] - -Ice-cream Freezer, the best one we know of. 2-quart; price $2.25; for -$2.75 in new subscriptions. 3-quart; price $2.75; for $3.25 in new -subscriptions. 4-quart; price $3.50; for $4 in new subscriptions. -6-quart; price $4.25; for $5 in new subscriptions. 10-quart; price -$7.75; for $8.75 in new subscriptions. Made every way for the very best -results. The tub of clear pine made waterproof; the metallic parts of -malleable iron plated with tin. [Zinc makes a poisonous oxide.] - - * * * * * - -Kaleidoscope. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -The name is meant to signify sights of beauty. The kaleidoscope is a -maker of sights of beauty. We are indebted to it for combinations of -color and form in geometrical decorations. Chance is at the bottom of -them all. By taking out two small screws you get at the easy secret. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Spy-glass 15 inches long drawn out and 6 shut up, inch object-glass, -magnifies 13 times (the maker says). Price $2.50; for $3.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. - - * * * * * - -Spy-glass a trifle larger, magnifies 16 times (the maker says). Price -$3.50; for $4.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 13 cents. - - * * * * * - -Spy-glass 30 inches long drawn out and 10 shut up, 1⅝-inch object -glass, said to magnify 25 times. Price $7; for $8.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 50 cents—express may be less. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Two lenses mounted in brass; one of highest possible power for -transparent objects; the other with larger field on stand for general -use. Price of both together 50 cents. For 60 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Pocket Magnifying Glass, three lenses, horn case. Price 90 cents; for -$1.10 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Square Reading-glass. Price $2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions. Postage -10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -1¾x3½-inch double-convex lens. - - * * * * * - -Reading-glass. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -2⅞-inch lens. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Stereoscope on pillar. Price $1.25, for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Better Stereoscope. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. - - * * * * * - -Half-dozen Stereoscopic Views. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Microscope. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -4 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Microscope No. 42½. Price 85 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: BLOWER NICKEL PLATED TILTING TABLE] - -Lester Scroll Saw and Lathe. Price $10; for $12 in new subscriptions. - -Considered the best and most complete of the saws to be got for less -than $20. - -With nickeled tilting table; roller in table back of the saw which -makes it run remarkably true; clamps hold any thickness of saw; clamps -adjustable right or left, forward or back so that the blade can be -kept in perfect line; with 3-inch circular saw on 3x4-inch iron table -capable of cutting half-inch lumber; solid emery wheel; drilling -attachment with six Stubbs drills; lathe attachment with iron ways and -rests, steel centers and three fine turning tools—length of bed 15 -inches, distance between centers 9 inches, swing 3 inches, length of -slide-rest 4 inches; six saw-blades, wrench, screw-driver, two sheets -of designs; neat box for small tools; guide. - -A very important recent invention used in this machine is a clamp -and strainer in one, by which at a touch of a lever the saw-blade is -instantly clamped and strained. The remarkable accuracy of this saw is -due to the roller in the table, another recent invention. - - * * * * * - -Bracket-saw outfit. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 18 cents. - -Nickeled spring-steel saw-frame 5x12 inches with peculiar clamps, six -saw-blades, awl, sheet carbon paper, fifty designs full-size. - - * * * * * - -Bracket-work Drill No. 4. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Iron 8-inch drill-stock, steel chuck and six points. - - * * * * * - -Carving-tools. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Rosewood handles, fine tools and ready sharp. - - * * * * * - -Rogers Scroll Saw. Price $3.50; for $4.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -The best of the low-price saws. - -All iron; neatly japanned; parts interchangeable; bearings in -perfect line; with blower; jointed stretcher-rod; clamps with hinged -jaw, which avoids the overthrow of the blade, friction, strain and -frequent breaking; 4¼-inch balance-wheel with rim of solid emery; -drilling attachment on the right; and the whole machine is secured by -screw-bolts wherever needed—no pins; six saw-blades, wrench, sheet -of designs, three drill points. Rich in appearance, compact, strong, -effective, easy, firm and durable. Weight in box 36 pounds. - - * * * * * - -Key-hole Saw and ½ dozen blades. Price 40 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The blade, which is 8½ inches long, can be set in the handle so that -only the point projects. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Saw-blades, ½ gross assorted sizes. Price 65 cents; given for 85 cents -in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Manual of Wood-carving by Charles Leland. Price 35 cents; for 50 cents -in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Graves’ Automatic Drill-stock and dozen points. Price $1; for $1.25 in -new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Drills with one hand the most delicate wood without splitting. Can be -used where bit-brace, gimlet or brad-awl are not available. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Glass-cutter, Knife-sharpener, Can-opener, Cork-screw. Price 10 cents; -for 15 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Tool-holder No. 5. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Rosewood 7½-inch handle holds the tools; nickeled steel chuck; nine -fine 4-inch tools. Indispensable. - - * * * * * - -Glass-cutter and Putty-knife. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Better than diamond in inexperienced hands. - - * * * * * - -Numerical frame; 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -25 cents. - -An arithmetic school as well as a pretty and interesting plaything. The -frame is maple; the balls red, green and black. - - * * * * * - -Tip-Top self-inking one-line Stamp. Price 60 cents; for 70 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents. - -[Illustration] - -With two lines of type; 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. - -With three lines of small type; 85 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Wax night-lights. Price 40 cents for a dozen box; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 8 cents. - -Burn eight hours apiece with a steady little light, no smoke or smell. - - * * * * * - -Night lamp with shade to soften the light. Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 23 cents. - -[Illustration] - -For burning wax lights. Not necessary; the lights may stand in a -saucer. - - * * * * * - -Family printing-outfit for marking linen, printing cards, etc. Price -$1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 11 cents. - -[Illustration: INDELIBLE INK] - -Nickeled holder, movable rubber type on metal body, pads, tweezers, -indelible ink. - - * * * * * - -Dover Egg-beater. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -The best there is for few eggs. - - * * * * * - -Binder for magazines. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Almost like book-binding, as shown in the cut. One style stamped Wide -Awake; another The Pansy. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Ready Binder for papers and pamphlets; length 8 inches. Price 8 cents; -for 10 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Lambie’s Dictionary holder. Price $5; for $5.50 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Beyond all comparison the best of them all. Adjustable to size of book, -to height of stand, and angle at which the book is held. Revolves. On -casters. - - * * * * * - -Beginnings with the Microscope, a working handbook, by Walter P. -Manton, M. D. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Practical Boat-Sailing, on small boats and yachts, with vocabulary -of nautical terms, by Douglas Frazar. Price $1; for $1.20 in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Hunter’s Handbook, by an old hunter. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. - -Hints about camping out and life in the woods. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Handbook of Wood Engraving, by William A. Emerson, wood engraver. Price -$1; for $1.20 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Taxidermy without a Teacher: an illustrated book of instruction on -preparing and preserving birds, animals, fishes, eggs and skeletons; -with recipes. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Field Botany, an illustrated hand-book for the collector, containing -instruction for gathering and preserving plants for the herbarium, also -instructions in leaf-photography, plant-printing and the skeletonizing -of leaves. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Lessons in Candy Making. By Catherine Owen. Price 50 cents; for 60 -cents in new subscriptions. - -The author says “I have written these lessons for intelligent women -who cannot leave home to help them make money.” And she quotes from an -Englishwoman pupil-reader “I can make as delicious candies as ever I -ate in Paris.” - -For a like reason we put her book in the List. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Insects: how to catch and prepare them for the Cabinet; an illustrated -book of instructions for the field naturalist. By Walter P. Manton. -Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Shakespeare. Price $8; for $10 in new subscriptions. By express at -receiver’s cost. - -Handy Volume edition; 13 small volumes, flexible, cloth. - - * * * * * - -Mayflower Pocket Cook-stove and Boiler. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -All nickeled; burns about ½ hour. - - * * * * * - -Larger Pocket Cook-stove. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. - -With quart boiler and gridiron. Boils water enough for a cup of coffee -in five minutes. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Alcohol-flask for pocket stove. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -Lambie’s revolving Book-stand and Dictionary-holder. Price $9; for $10 -in new subscriptions. By express. - -[Illustration] - -Size of book-case 16x16 inches. The upper shelf is available also. - - * * * * * - -Universal Garden-tool. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents—express may be less. - -[Illustration] - -Many good tools in one: the hoe is also a spade, shovel, scraper and -ice-cutter; the rake is also a fork and hook—there may be other uses. -The dotted lines show the positions of both on the handle. - - -WHITING’S INDELIBLE INK COLORS Etc. - -We commend the following seven with all the more satisfaction because -the market is full of pretentious stuff under similar names but of -very little value. These are exactly what the descriptions call for. -Circular sent on request. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Indelible Laundry Ink, for marking without preparation. Price -25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Magic Indelible Ink, for marking difficult stuffs without -exposure to sun or heat. Price 60 cents; for 80 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Whiting’s Etching Ink for etching on linen, with supply of pens and -“preparation.” Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Tracing-box. Price $1; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. - -The glass is 8x12 inches. Must go by express. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Etching Designs at the rate of $1 for $1.10 in new -subscriptions. List sent on application. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Transparent Colors for coloring photographs; box of ten -colors. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. - -Half-case with five colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Must go by express. - - * * * * * - -Whiting’s Special Instructions for etching on linen. Price $1; for -$1.10 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Towel-holder. Price 15 cents; for 20 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: AUTOMATIC TOWEL HOLDER] - -Nickel; about the size of a silver dollar. - - * * * * * - -Splasher-bracket. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Black inch pegs; nickeled 33-inch rod. - - * * * * * - -Towel-bracket. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The pegs are enameled black; the rod is bright nickel, 18 inches long. - - * * * * * - -Roll Dressing-case. Price $6; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Box dressing-case. Price $6; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 -cents. - -Both the above are neat and substantial leather cases with first-class -furnishings, but without extravagance. - - * * * * * - -Perfection Lemon-Squeezer. Price 35 cents; for 40 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 6 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Not a squeezer at all, but better. Press half a lemon down over the -burr and turn it round with the hand. - -The burr cuts the pulp, dislodges the juice and saves it all without -squeezing the bitter oil of lemon out of the rind. No seeds, no waste, -no spattering. - - * * * * * - -Cold stove-door Knob. Price 6 cents; for 8 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Wood handle; hangs on the knob, saves burning the fingers. - - * * * * * - -Dust-pan. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -Japanned-steel; propped up behind in position to use so that one need -not stoop to hold it by hand—a touch with the foot is enough. - - * * * * * - -Kerosene-brick for burning kerosene in any cook-stove, heater or open -fire-place, as kindler or fuel. Porous fire brick. - -[Illustration] - -We do not know (at the time of writing) its limit of value, having only -just now got it. It is safe—no doubt of that. It is the best kindler -ever discovered—no doubt of that. But to what extent it is going to be -used for summer fuel and fuel for transient occasions of all sorts we -do not know. It is a new thing of very great importance everywhere. We -therefore state what we know of it carefully. - -The reason why it does not explode is that the oil is fast in the pores -of the brick and can’t get out, except as it is slowly driven out by -the fire. Kerosene lamps are dangerous; but you are careful with them. -There is no possible way in which the kerosene-brick can explode. The -only harm that can come of it is through keeping a larger supply of -kerosene for fuel then you would keep for light. The answer to that is -that a barrel is no worse than a pint. Either is enough to blow a house -into kindling-wood. - -The reason why it is the best kindler is that it is the cheapest—in -other respects it is not much better than pitch-pine. - -Tradesmen are likely to overstate the cheapness of it; but it is very -cheap—how cheap depends, of course, on the cost of your kerosene; and -that is so different in different parts of the country that we cannot -give the cost of using the kerosene-brick. It saves its cost in wood -perhaps ten times over. - -It makes smoke and soot; but they go up chimney. - -The first cost of the kerosene-brick is as follows:[A] - - No. 1. Price 35 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. - No. 2. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - No. 3. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. - No. 4. Price $1.20; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. - No. 5. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. - No. 6. Price $1.50; for $1.70 in new subscriptions. - -And you want a peculiar sort of tongs (see the cut) for handling the -kerosene-brick. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. - -To save express charges, we ship from the manufacturer’s nearest place -of business (nearest to you) wherever that may be. - -There is going to be a kerosene-brick of a shape to imitate wood for -use in open fire-places. Not yet made and may not be so handy to fill. -By the way, we haven’t told how to fill the kerosene-brick. - -“No. 1” above means a tin can with three small kerosene-bricks in it. -You take out one of the bricks, fill the can with kerosene and let it -stand fifteen minutes or over night. The two bricks are ready for use -any minute and stay so indefinitely. The smallest is big enough for -kindling. Maker’s circular sent. - -[Footnote A: These are the maker’s prices in Boston. Beyond New England -the local prices will vary. We hear they are double out West. We go by -Boston prices, wherever you are.] - -Ignites with a match. You put it out by dipping it in water. Throwing -water on it does not put it out. - - * * * * * - -Set of little flower-garden tools. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 18 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Good tools and large enough; hoe and rake 14-inch, blades 3½-inch; fork -and trowel 11-inch. - - * * * * * - -Spice-Box. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -25 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Japanned-tin, 7-inch and 2-inch. - - * * * * * - -Vegetable-masher, sauce-strainer and handy squeezer for twenty uses. -Price 65 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 18 cents. - -[Illustration: C. F. HEWIS PATENT 1881] - -Large enough for two or three small potatoes. Really it is not a -potato-masher. It turns potatoes into a different sort of edible, -lighter, bulkier, mealier. Let them go into it steaming hot; let the -masher itself be hot; receive the dainty outcome in a hot dish and -immediately cover it. If this excellent tool has a fault, it is in -cooling potatoes. - - * * * * * - -Le Page’s Glue. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents. - -Doubtless the strongest glue as well as the most available. Liquid and -used as it is, unless chilled or thick, when warm it a little, or add -vinegar. In handy tin can with screw top. - -Mends crockery; not glass because not transparent. Diluted enough makes -excellent mucilage. Let every family have it. - - * * * * * - -Turn-over Broiler that keeps the gravy out of the fire and on the meat. -Price 65 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 24 cents. - -[Illustration: PAT. AUG. 12, 79.] - -Of light sheet-iron very smooth, punched full of holes, and the holes -are “dished” in the punching, so that none of the gravy is lost. Makes -good steak better and pays for itself in a week. - - -Bartlett Domestic Press. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: BARTLETT] - -For meats, jellies, wine, cider, etc. Easily washed. Pressure of a -thousand pounds is easily got by turning the crank without danger of -breaking the press. - - * * * * * - -Daisy Pillow-sham Holder. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: NIGHT - -DAY] - -Out of sight, holds the pillow-shams in place by day, and lifts them -out of the way at night, is light, handy, goes on a bedstead of any -size, saves work and money. The best device for the purpose. By express. - - * * * * * - -Crumb-tray and brush. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Prettily painted tin tray and good brush. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Self-winding Tape-measure, with mirror on one side and perpetual -calendar on the other. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -Self-winding Tape-measure, with stop. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration: HAFF M’F’G CO. - -N. Y.] - -Neat bright nickel case. The stop holds the tape wherever set. - - * * * * * - -Crochet Needles, dozen. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration: EVERY HOOK FINISHED BY HAND AND GUARANTEED PERFECT.] - -Nickeled, assorted sizes, perfect and smooth. - - * * * * * - -Mineral Cabinet, No. 1. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 14 cents. - -[Illustration: TAMMEN’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN CABINET. - -A set of 20 large Minerals, Gems and Petrifactions, systematically -arranged in a polished hardwood case. Price, $1.35. - -_Contains Specimen Ores of Gold Quartz_, _Silver_, _Iron_, _Pyrites_, -_Zinc_, _also Malachite_, _Jasper_, _Silicified Wood_, _Cluster of Rock -Crystals_, _Wavellite_, _Carnelian (a polished gem)_, _Molybdenum_, -_Satin and Iceland Spars_, _Pike’s Peak Topaz_, _Amazon Stone_, -_Magnetite_, _Wood-Opal_, _Chalcopyrite and Tourmoline_. _Distinctly -understand these are all_ =large specimens= (_1¼ inch square_), =and -not fragments=. - -A DESCRIPTIVE MANUAL IS SENT WITH EACH CABINET GIVING THE HISTORY, -PROPERTIES & USES OF THE DIFFERENT MINERALS & GEMS. - -Copyright, 1886, by H. H. TAMMEN, Denver, Colorado.] - -Another, No. 2, the same except different minerals; terms the same. -No. 2 contains: opal agate, aragonite, milky quartz, cuprite, -jasper, galena, sulphur, crocidolite (polished), selenite, hematite, -feldspar, fluorspar, variscite, argentite, chalcedony, petrified -cedar, alabaster, lead carbonate, telluride ore, muscovite. With brief -explanation of every specimen. Neat box with clasp. - -These cabinets give invariable satisfaction in schools and families. - - * * * * * - -Anything that children wear from baby up, at the rate of $1 in clothing -for $1.60 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -The clothing comes from Best & Company, 60 West 23d street, New York. -You send for their catalogue, pick out what you want, and send your -order to us with money and names of course. - -[Illustration] - -The reason we send from Best & Company is that they keep the largest -variety and serve an absent buyer as well as if he were there in the -store. - -[Illustration] - -Most of the big city dry-goods houses keep more or less of children’s -clothing; but they generally slight it. The work is apt to be shabby, -the materials flimsy, the styles too pronounced if not “carried over -from last year.” Girls’ things are considered especially hard to get -satisfactorily. - - * * * * * - -Tammen’s Cabinet, forty smaller specimens. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents -in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Paper box with sheet of explanations where the minerals came from, what -they are used for, etc. - - * * * * * - -Diamond Dyes. Price 10 cents a color; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. - -Dyeing at home in the most satisfactory manner is very easy and -profitable. Silk and woolen stuffs come out of the dye about as nice as -when they were new. For cotton some of the colors have to be specially -made. Wood stains are made from the dyes. - -Diamond dyes are complete in themselves; that is, nothing more is -required to set the colors. It is really no more difficult to dye with -most of the colors than to rinse or starch. And full instructions -accompany the dyes. - -The colors are: yellow, old-gold, orange; green, olive-green, -dark-green; pink, magenta, scarlet, crimson, cardinal, garnet, -terra-cotta, maroon, dark-wine; violet, plum, purple; light-blue, -navy-blue, dark-blue; slate, drab, black; and yellow for cotton, green -for cotton, cardinal for cotton, scarlet for cotton, and blue for -cotton. - -Diamond dyes do not stain the hands or utensils if used with a little -care. You handle the stuffs with sticks till you come to the wringing. - - * * * * * - -Book-rack, No. 318. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Maple; 18x24 inches; neatly put together without nails or screws; packs -flat. - - * * * * * - -Book-rack, No. 424. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. - -Same, 23x32 inches, four shelves. - - * * * * * - -Book-rack, No. 424½. Price $1.50; for $1.65 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Same size as last, more work on it. - - * * * * * - -Knitting Outfit. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 8 -cents. - -[Illustration: HOW TO USE - -FLORENCE KNITTING SILK No 5 - -NONOTUCK SILK CO.] - -Consists of 2 balls of Florence silk, whatever colors you like, 5 -needles, and book of information. Extra silk at 40 cents a ball; for 50 -cents in new subscriptions. - - -SCHOOL AND ART FACILITIES - -Eagle Fine Arts pencils, polished cedar box of 7 grades. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - -[Illustration: - - EAGLE FINE ARTS H 360 - EAGLE FINE ARTS HHH 362 - EAGLE FINE ARTS HHHHHH 365 - EAGLE FINE ARTS H.B. 357 - EAGLE FINE ARTS B. 356 - EAGLE FINE ARTS BBB 364 - EAGLE FINE ARTS F 359 -] - -As fine as any, free from grit, of uniform grades, clean lead, erasable -leaving no smirch; for the most exacting requirements. BBB to HHHHHH. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: - - EAGLE ACADEMIC Extra Hard - EAGLE ACADEMIC Hard - EAGLE ACADEMIC Medium - EAGLE ACADEMIC Soft Medium - EAGLE ACADEMIC Soft - EAGLE ACADEMIC Extra Soft -] - -Eagle Fine Drawing pencils, polished cedar box of 6 grades from -extra-soft to extra-hard. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: HIGHEST AWARD PHILADELPHIA 1876 - - 733 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 718 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 725 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 706 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 712 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - -HIGHEST AWARD PHILADELPHIA 1876 - -EAGLE COLORED CRAYONS] - -Eagle Best Colored Crayons: - -Box of 24 colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -Box of 18 colors. Price $1.35; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -8 cents. - -Box of 12 colors. Price 90 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage -6 cents. - -Equivalent to water-colors. The full assortment is 50 colors. - - * * * * * - -Eagle Scholastic Colored Crayons. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 6 cents. - -[Illustration: - - SCHOLASTIC No. 1 - COLORED CRAYONS FOR PAINTING & COLORING - - 753 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 743 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 718 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 706 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 - 702 EAGLE PHILA LONDON 1876 -] - -Paper box of 5 colors, same crayons as last, with 6 colored sketches -and 12 outline designs adapted to children’s use. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: INK ERASER - -EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY. - -PENCIL ERASER] - -Eagle Eraser. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Automatic Drop pencil. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration: OPEN.] - -[Illustration: CLOSED.] - -Acts precisely like the magic knife. See page 13 of this list. - -Extra leads; price 8 cents a box; for 10 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Eagle Solid-ink Fountain and Pen. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -The solid-ink fountain is simply a stick of solid ink, which is held in -a clamp inside an ordinary penholder, used with any pen. You dip the -pen in water, and the water dissolves the ink. - -Extra ink. Price 10 cents a box of 6 sticks; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Eagle Ready Companion. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Wood pen and pencil-carrier; opens and shuts like the magic knife on -page 13 and the automatic pencil. - - * * * * * - -Prang’s Non-Poisonous Water-Colors for Children: - -Box No. 2, 8 colors and brush. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. - -Box No. 4, 12 colors and 2 brushes. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. - -Perfectly harmless. The colors conform very closely to accepted -standards, and flow from the cakes with a touch of water. The brushes -are good camel’s-hair. The boxes are very pretty and useful. - - * * * * * - -Prang’s Fine Water-Colors for Schools and Amateurs, box No. 13, 12 -colors and 2 brushes. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. - -Not non-poisonous, but not more poisonous than the Murillo colors. - - * * * * * - -Introductory Lessons in Drawing and painting in Water-Colors, by Marion -Kemble. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - -For those who know nothing at all of either. - - * * * * * - -Jack-plane pencil-sharpener. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -The best pencil-sharpener we know of at any price, because it is handy, -does its work perfectly, never breaks the lead; and the plane-knife can -be adjusted and sharpened exactly as in a carpenter’s plane. - - * * * * * - -Polygraph, brass. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration] - -The same, bright nickel. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - -Pattern for almost every sort of figure and combination; wonderfully -useful for children, designers, and artisans. - - * * * * * - -Prang’s Water-color Studies are the best examples of what is known as -the new style of water-color painting, in which transparent colors only -are mixed in the brush and laid on broadly. - -They are reproductions of works by American artists designed primarily -for instruction in art, but none the less available for home-decoration -on that account. Indeed they rank the higher in interest, being all -they seem to common eyes, and faithful illustrations besides of -recent advances in one of the least familiar departments of Art. -They are not unfinished sketches, but exquisite finished color-work. -The use we expect to introduce them to by this List is chiefly the -non-professional, home-decoration. Let it be understood, there is -nothing more fit for that use, and nothing higher, within the reach of -people of limited means. - -They comprise landscapes, marine views, flowers, animals, birds and -figure pieces from such artists as Turner, Moran, Bridges, Lambdin, -Giacomelli, etc. - -We send Prang’s catalogue and supply whatever may be selected from it -at the rate of $1.10 in new subscriptions for $1 of catalogue prices. - -Postage on sizes under 12x12 inches 6 cents; over 12x12 inches 10 cents. - - * * * * * - -On the Use of Water Colors for Beginners. By Ross Turner. Price $3; for -$3.25 in new subscriptions. - -“Hints to assist a beginner in a right direction, assisting him to -start right, and upon such a beginning to work out by personal study -and experience his own way of using materials,” by an eminent artist -and no less eminent teacher. - -Large quarto, illustrated by engravings and six fine colored plates. - - * * * * * - -Prang’s Reproductions of Oil Paintings supplied at the rate of $1.10 in -new subscriptions for $1 of catalogue prices. - -We supply whatever may be selected from Prang’s catalogue; but, as -that affords no clue to the works beyond titles, sizes and artists’ -names, we have chosen a few of the most available pieces and printed -descriptions of them. From this short list you can pick out what is -likely to answer your purpose. - -They are landscapes, marine views, figure pieces, animal and -dining-room pictures. - -Postage on sizes under 12x12 inches 6 cents; over 12x12 inches 10 cents. - - * * * * * - -Winsor & Newton’s Oil Colors. Price for seventy-five of the list 8 -cents a tube; for 12½ cents in new subscriptions. - -Other colors supplied at higher rates. Postage 2 cents a tube. - -A list of colors sent on request. These are most used: burnt sienna, -raw sienna, emerald green, flake white, light red, naples yellow, -permanent blue, raw umber, terra verte, prussian blue, vandyke brown, -yellow ochre, ivory black, zinnober green (medium); all of which are -supplied at the quoted rate. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Ruler with circle-guide. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. - - * * * * * - -Scholar’s Companion, No. 41. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration: NO. 41] - -Cloth-covered box with pen-holder, pencil, slate-pencil, sponge and -sponge-box, rubber eraser, ink-bottle, knife and key—box locks. - - * * * * * - -Vassar School-bag. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents. - -Stout bag of open lace of white cotton twine with red lining showing -through, with gay stripes of colored twine in the lace. - - * * * * * - -“Beginner’s Outfit” of tissue paper and other materials for -flower-work. Price 35 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -7 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Colors of tissue paper, rose sprays, stems, daisy centers and petals, -leaves, wire, instructions. - - * * * * * - -“Complete Assortment” of tissue paper and other materials. Price $1; -for $1.30 in new subscriptions. Postage 16 cents. - -Paper colors, tubing, culots, rose sprays and moss, wire, rose, poppy -and daisy centers, poppy buds, leaves, pincers, instructions. - - * * * * * - -Letter-scale. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: 0 1 2 3 4 6 8 10 12] - -Weighs from ½-ounce to 10 or 12 ounces. With hook for tied parcels and -clamp for letters. - - -MUSIC Etc. - -Mason & Hamlin Organ No. 2208, five octaves, nine stops. For $100 in -new subscriptions. - -[Illustration: Mason & Hamlin] - -The cash price of this organ in music stores depends on where the store -is, its costs, and its scale of profits. The lowest price we know of is -$99; the highest $165. Size 4-11x1-11x5. Weight in case 322 lbs. - -One of the most perplexing bargains a family has to make nowadays is in -buying a musical instrument. Price and quality, both, are in doubt. - -There is probably some good reason for what appears to be chronic -demoralization pervading the musical instrument business in every part -of this enormous country of ours. We can’t control the fact. We have -got round it, if you happen to want an organ. - -We’ll try, if you want a piano. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Pitch-pipe, A and C, in a handy pocket-case. Price 20 cents; for 25 -cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Bay State Guitar, Style E. Price $14; for $18 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Guaranteed by the makers (John C. Haynes & Co., Boston) not to warp or -split. Solid-rosewood sides and back, mahogany neck. - -Wood case for $4 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Banjo, No. 33½. Price $5; for $6.25 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Nickeled rim, wood lining, imitation-walnut fretted arm, ball brackets, -calfskin head. - - * * * * * - -Music-box, No. 3½. Price $7; for $8 in new subscriptions. - -Rosewood; 3 airs; 2¾-inch cylinder; key attached. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Xylophone. No. 1, 2 octaves. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. -No. 3, 2½ octaves (with chromatics). Price $5.50; for $7.50 in new -subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Accordion. Price $5; for $6 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -10 keys, 2 sets reeds, stop, double bellows, german-silver clasps and -corners. - - * * * * * - -Thie Three-sided Harmonica. Price 90 cents; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -16 double holes on a side; german-silver plates. - - * * * * * - -Bell Harmonica. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents. - -[Illustration] - -10 double holes; brass plates. - - * * * * * - -Concert Harmonica. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents. - -[Illustration: Concert] - -Size 5½x2¼ inches; 24 double holes; brass plates. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Richter Harmonica, No. 33½. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. 4-inch, 10 single holes, nickeled -plates. - - * * * * * - -Franklin Square Song Collection, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Price 50 cents -each; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. - -Each number contains the words and music of about two-hundred of what -are regarded as the best songs of the time: songs of home, worship, -love, country, children, school; with a mass of information relating to -them. Table of Contents sent on request. - - -WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY - -Seth Thomas Watch in argentine case for $10 in new subscriptions; in -silver case for $15 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - -There is strong competition between the American watch-manufactories on -low-price watches. The struggle is to make the best for the money. That -is the way to capture the market. Seth Thomas watch is ahead. - -We buy the movement separate. There is no established price for the -watch as we send it out. We are giving the most we can get for the -money. The watch is a good time-keeper; durable; open-face; has seven -jewels; is decidedly worth repairing; good enough; a great deal better -than any foreign watch for the money; better than any other American -watch for the money. - -The argentine case is a substitute for silver, substantial, keeps -its silver look. The silver case is no better, unless you object -to an imitation. The argentine case is plain, the silver is chased -(“turned” is the technical word), the neatest of watch-case engraving. -Stem-winders and setters of course. - - * * * * * - -Waterbury Watch, chain, whistle and agate charm. Price for the whole, -$3; for $4 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Perhaps a million of these watches are in use. As good a time-keeper -as any common watch and bears a good deal of banging. The only fault -we ever heard of in it is the slowness of winding—takes about a minute -and a half—stem-winder at that. The makers undertake to repair it for -50 cents and postage. The case is bright nickel, or what is called -nickel—looks like silver. - - * * * * * - -Chatelaine Watch. Price $7; for $9 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Fair time-keeper, plain, bright nickel case. - - * * * * * - -Alarm Clock. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Nickel, one-day, 4-inch dial, key attached. - - * * * * * - -Little Nickel One-day Clock with 2-inch dial. Price $1.35; for $1.75 in -new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Winds by turning the whole back plate. - - * * * * * - -Eight-day Clock with cathedral bell. Price $10; for $11 in new -subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Enameled-iron case with gilt decorations, a close imitation of black -marble; 10x15 inches. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Send for finger-measure a slip of paper that just goes round the ring -finger. - - * * * * * - -Plated Finger-rings. Patterns 1, 2, 3, 4 in heavy rolled plate. Price -$1 each; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Same in filled fourteen-karat -gold. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Gold Finger-ring of patterns 1 or 3. Price $1.75; for $2.50 in new -subscriptions. No. 2, $2.25; for $3.00 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Gold Cameo Finger-ring. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Plated Gold-stone Finger-ring. Price $1; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Gold Amethyst Finger-ring. Price $1.75; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Plated Tiger-eye Finger-ring. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. - - -SILVER-PLATED WARE Etc. - -Flat ware may be of any of these six patterns, except table-knives and -fruit-knives. Pattern B with handles oxidized for about ten per cent -additional to the prices quoted. [B not oxidized same price as the -others.] - -[Illustration] - -The grade of all, both flat and hollow ware, is that known in the trade -as “triple-plate,” unless otherwise noted. - -The maker of nearly all is the Holmes & Edwards Silver Company. - -Plush boxes supplied, if wanted. They cost about as much as the wares -they contain. - - * * * * * - -Tea-spoons of any pattern. Price $2.50 a half-dozen; for $3 in new -subscriptions. Postage 7 cents. - - * * * * * - -Dessert-spoons of any pattern. Price $4.25; for $5 in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. - - * * * * * - -Table-spoons or forks of medium size of any pattern. Price $4.75 a -half-dozen; for $6 in new subscriptions. Postage 14 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Table-knives of medium size. Price $2.50 a half dozen; for $3 in new -subscriptions. Postage 24 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: HOLMES & EDWARDS 12] - -Fruit-knives. Price $1.75 a half-dozen; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - - * * * * * - -Pocket Fruit-knife. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Not “triple-plate”; two grades lower. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Butter-knife of pattern A, C, D, or E. Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Sugar-tongs of pattern A, C, D, or E. Price $1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Sugar-shell of pattern A, C, D, or E. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Berry-spoon A, C, D or E. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Gravy-ladle A, C, D or E. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents. - - * * * * * - -Soup-ladle A, C, D or E. Price $4; for $5 in new subscriptions. Postage -12 cents. - -Same as gravy-ladle, but larger. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Fish-knife and Fork A, C, D, or E. Price $3.25 each; for $4 each in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents each. - - * * * * * - -Pie-knife A, C, D or E. Price $3.25; for $4 in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Cake-knife A, C, D or E. Price $3.25; for $4 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. - - * * * * * - -Child’s set of knife, fork, spoon and napkin-ring. Price $1.50; for -$1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Not triple-plate; two grades lower. - - * * * * * - -Butter-dish. Price $3; for $4.50 in new subscriptions. Must go by -express. - -[Illustration] - -Satin finish. - - * * * * * - -Call-bell. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents. - -Top strike; neat design. Not triple-plate; two grades lower. - - * * * * * - -Napkin-ring No. 173. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents. - -Not triple-plate; two grades lower. - - * * * * * - -Pickle-jar with tongs. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -Engraved glass jar. - - * * * * * - -Child’s Cup No. 38. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Not triple-plate; two grades lower; gold-lined. - - * * * * * - -Child’s Cup No 28. Price $2.50; for $2.75 in new subscriptions. Postage -10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Not triple-plate; two grades lower; gold-lined. - - * * * * * - -Nut-picks. Price 90 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents. - -[Illustration] - -No. A1½, 5-inch, six nickeled-steel picks in paper box. - - * * * * * - -Nut-cracker and picks. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -No. C1½, 5-inch, six nickeled-steel picks and one cracker in paper box. - - * * * * * - -Plymouth Lap-board. Price $1.25; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -Very light but strong, unsplittable, cloth-like surface pleasant to -touch, not slippery, brass-bound, neat, with half-yard measure and -checker-board. There never will be a better thing for its many, many -uses. Must go by express. - - * * * * * - -Rand-McNally Standard Atlas of the World. The publishers’ price is -$4.50. We send it postage paid for $2.50 in new subscriptions. - -Edition of 1887, “revised to date including maps.” (We quote from the -publishers’ letter. The Atlas is not yet out at the time of writing.) - -Large book, 11x14 inches, cloth binding, about 200 pages; about 150 -maps, about 30 statistical diagrams, etc., nearly 100 engravings; brief -descriptions of regions, countries, cities, governments; our part of -the world elaborately mapped and illustrated. - -So comprehensive an Atlas can only be made for the money by many -thousands, and so only in a country where millions of people are happy -enough to want to know the world they live in. - - * * * * * - -Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. Price $13; for $17 in new -subscriptions. By express at receiver’s cost. - -[Illustration: WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY] - -Latest edition, with marginal index. See cut. - - * * * * * - -Worcester’s Unabridged Dictionary. Price $11; for $13 in new -subscriptions. By express at receiver’s cost. - -Latest edition with marginal index. See cut of Webster. - - * * * * * - -Ladies’ Card-case. Price 85 cents; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. - -Natural calfskin stamped with a beautiful pattern, old-gold satin -lining. - - * * * * * - -Pearl Rug-maker. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 6 -cents. - -[Illustration: The PEARL RUG MAKER. - -PATENTED] - -A sort of sewing-machine attachment; not strictly that; for it is not -attached; may be used with any machine, or without a machine, the -sewing done by hand. - -With it a woman of taste and aptness with colors can get out of her -rag-bag beautiful rugs with almost no expense beyond sewing-cotton and -dyes [see Diamond Dyes, page 23 of this list.] - -[Illustration] - -The rug-maker is simply a nickeled steel-wire frame on which to -wind cut rags or yarns preparatory to sewing them on a substantial -foundation. Not hard to learn the use of. Not hard to use. A sort of -homely art-work with waste materials, splendidly profitable. - -The finished rug is a velvet, the pile of which is made by cutting the -loops as they come from the rug-maker. The product of one day’s work -may be as pretty and rich a rug as you would buy for several dollars. -All depends on your taste, materials, colors, industry, patience. There -is something of the constructive artist in every woman of taste. - - * * * * * - -Plush Mirror for toilet stand. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 8 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Beveled plate glass, 4x6 inches. - - * * * * * - -Plush Toilet-case. Price $2.75; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -35 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Zylonite mirror, brush and comb. Looks like ivory. - - * * * * * - -Zylonite Brush and Mirror. Price 75 cents each; for $1.10 in new -subscriptions. Postage 6 cents each. - -Together or either. Lily of the Valley pattern. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Plush Collar and Cuff Box. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. - - * * * * * - -Plush Jewel-case No. 150. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Size 4½x6x3 inches. - - * * * * * - -Plush Sealing-wax Cabinet. Price $2.25; for $2.85 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents. - -Your initial-seal, five colors of finest wax, two wax candles, and -stick in paper box. - - * * * * * - -Sealing-wax Box. Price 75 cents; for 80 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents. - -[Illustration: FINEST PERFUMED WAX - -ESCRITOIRE] - -Same contents as last. Paper box with cover. - - * * * * * - -Writing-desk. Price $1.50; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 45 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Walnut inlaid with mahogany. Locks. - - * * * * * - -Writing-case for the lap. Price $2.50; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Leather cover, with pockets and box full of writing-materials. - - * * * * * - -Music-roll. Price $1.35; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Substantial leather, imitation seal, bound with morocco, morocco strap, -round leather handle, nickel trimmings. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Silver Thimble. Price 65 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -Gold-filled thimble. Price $1.25; for $1.60 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Scrap-book. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -30 cents. - -[Illustration: ALBUM] - -Size 9½x12 inches. 56 pages. - - * * * * * - -Handy Travelling-bag No. 161. Price $3.25; for $5 in new subscriptions. -Postage 45 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Natural grain leather, lined with leather, large inside pocket, nickel -lock and trimmings; size 12-inch. - - * * * * * - -Same, 14-inch. Price $4; for $6 in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -Ladies’ Pocket-book. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage -5 cents. - -Seal, morocco flap-lining, skiver pockets. - - * * * * * - -Plush Work-box. Price $2.25; for $3 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 -cents. - -[Illustration] - -Beveled plate-glass mirror in cover, bone needle-case, crochet needle, -bodkin, thread-knife, button-hook, tape-needle and a pair of scissors. - - * * * * * - -Plush Work-box for a little girl. Price $1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage 18 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Same things as in last except mirror. - - * * * * * - -Plush Perfume-stand No. 4005. Price $1.25; for $1.75 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Two ground-stopper bottles, six multiplying mirrors, nickel extension -handle. - - * * * * * - -Plush Perfume-stand No. 3. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Two ground-stopper bottles, two mirrors, brass handle. - - * * * * * - -Plush Mirror and Whisk-holder. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents. - -[Illustration] - -Beveled medallion mirror, three little hooks, whisk with nickel-damask -handle and ring. A pretty piece for a girl’s room. - - * * * * * - -BARNEY & BERRY’S SKATES - -State exact length of boot. - - * * * * * - -Keyless Skate. Price $4; for $4.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 -cents. - -[Illustration: BARNEY & BERRY] - -Best steel, best make, best temper; bright nickel. Toe and heel clamps -worked together by thumb-screw at heel: the simplest fastening. Sizes 8 -to 12 inches. - - * * * * * - -Skate No. R. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents. - -Fac-simile of the Keyless skate, of lower grade; nickeled. - - * * * * * - -American Rink Skate. Price $4.50; for $5.00 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents. - -[Illustration: BARNEY & BERRY] - -Best every way; adjustable as to size by a thumb-screw at the heel and -fastened by a lever under the instep. Sizes 8 to 12 inches. - - * * * * * - -Skate No. T. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents. - -Skate No. T is a fac-simile of the American Rink Skate; heel-plates, -foot-plates, toe-clamps and brackets of crucible steel; nickeled. - - * * * * * - -All-clamp Skate. Price $4; for $4.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 -cents. - -Best nickeled steel. Sizes 7 to 12 inches. - - * * * * * - -Skate No. F. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents. - -Fac-simile of All-clamp skate, of lower grade; nickeled. - - * * * * * - -Ladies’ Keyless Skate. No. LR. Price $2.50; for $3 in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 cents. - -Blades of the lower grade, foot-plates, clamps and brackets of crucible -steel; russet-leather trimmings; nickel heel-bands. A thumb-screw at -the heel works the toe-clamps. - - * * * * * - -Ladies’ Clamp Skate, No. LE. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents. - -Differs from No. LR only in having the toe-clamps worked by a key -instead of a thumb-screw. - - * * * * * - -Putz Pomade, the best polishing substance known for gold, silver, -copper, brass, tin and other metals. Price 15 cents a box; for 20 cents -in new subscriptions. - -One of the many new things in this List, the knowledge of which is -worth much more than it costs. - - * * * * * - -Putz Pulver, perhaps the same as the paste; but, being a powder, it -does not cling to chasings; better therefore for jewelry. Price 15 -cents a box; for 20 cents in new subscriptions. - - * * * * * - -_Any subscriber may pay his own subscription by getting new -subscriptions of twice the amount._ - -Thus: _Babyland for $1 in new subscriptions_; _Our Little Men and Women -for $2 in new subscriptions_; _Pansy for $2 in new subscriptions_; -_Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal for $2 in new subscriptions_; _Wide -Awake for $4.80 in new subscriptions_. - - * * * * * - -_Any book we publish, postage paid, at the rate of $1 for $1.20 in new -subscriptions._ - -Thus: _A 50-cent book for 60 cents in new subscriptions, a $1 book for -$1.20, a $1.50 book for $1.80, a $2 book for $2.40, etc._ - -We cannot describe our two-thousand books in this List; and, if we -begin, there is no stopping-place. The best we can do is to send our -catalogue [We wish it afforded more of a clue to their contents]; and -you select from that. - - - - -CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ READING UNION. - - -1. There are few forces more powerful in the shaping of character than -those which spring from reading. _Robinson Crusoe_ has sent thousands -of boys to sea, and other books less wholesome have sent thousands -to prison; many a youth has been inspired to noble aims and a useful -life by the help of a good book. A distinguished scientist says that a -single book which fell into his hands during boyhood gave him “a twist -toward science.” - -2. It is not a question whether our young people will read or not, for -nearly all of them do read. The question is whether they shall read a -helpful or a harmful literature, for every book and paper belongs to -either one class or the other. There is but one way to keep out the -harmful, and that is to supply the helpful. At a public conference on -the subject of literature for young people one speaker said, “I find -that when I keep the table in my own house well covered with good -papers for young people my children have no desire for a low class of -story-papers.” A shelf of good, interesting books for young people will -save them from depraved taste in reading. - -3. One difficulty in the way of supplying the home with good literature -is that parents are too busy. To provide a pure and healthful course -of reading, and with it the impulse to follow it, the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG -FOLKS’ READING UNION has been established. This is an outgrowth of the -Chautauqua movement, which aims to promote popular education for every -grade and every age, and is the peculiar adaptation of the Chautauqua -Course to young people. It takes in the main the same subjects as those -of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and fits them to the -needs of the young, so that while the older people are pursuing one -course of reading, the boys and girls, from twelve years, and upward, -may read in the same lines and on the same themes. The course includes -history, science, literature, travel, household matters, “ways to do -things,” etc., mainly in short articles, which can be easily read. It -can be accomplished in less than two hours of each week, for as many -years as the student chooses to follow it, for each year’s reading is -complete in itself. - -4. The Readings of the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ READING UNION are of -two kinds, Serial and in Books. The Serial Readings are contained in -a monthly supplement to WIDE AWAKE, a magazine for young people which -stands at the head of its class in literature. This supplement is also -published as a separate periodical, called the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ -JOURNAL. The Book Readings consist generally of three standard books -adapted for young people. With the course are furnished to enrolled -members the “Outline Memoranda,” or questions for examination, not a -severe test of knowledge of the Readings, but suggestive, and calling -forth the thoughts and opinions of the reader. - -5. The Course may be taken by individuals, each reading by himself, or -by a number reading together and meeting in a Local Club or Circle. -Such a Club may be organized by the teacher of a school among the -scholars, and will furnish pleasant and elevating enjoyment, as well as -training in composition, debating, observation, etc., by its exercises. -The members may read papers of their own writing upon the subjects of -the course, may present questions, may look at pictures of objects and -places referred to, and may witness simple experiments in science, -and may also have social recreation at its meetings. [For plans of -organization and management of a Local Club, send for the handbook.] - -6. All that is requisite for membership is to send name and address, -with ten cents in postage stamps, to the Secretary, Miss Kate F. -Kimball, Plainfield, N. J. WIDE AWAKE contains much besides the -readings—serial stories, short stories, illustrated articles, and -poems—while the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ JOURNAL contains but little -besides the readings. Besides one of the magazines, the three books -cost $1.70. [For the Course of the coming year see next page.] - -7. Every enrolled member receives free of cost a Certificate of -Membership. It is an albertype, with a symbolic picture embodying the -light-bearing spirit of the Union, and is suited to framing for the -home. For each year’s reading a seal is given, which is to be affixed -to the certificate. Thus the engraving will show by its seals the years -of the member’s reading. - - -ANNOUNCEMENT. - -_The next Course of Readings will begin in the December number of_ WIDE -AWAKE _and the_ JOURNAL _and run through 1888. Something of the value -and interest may be gathered from the following prospectus._ - - * * * * * - - -SEVENTH ANNUAL COURSE. - -REQUIRED READINGS (SERIAL). - -I. DEAR OLD STORY-TELLERS. By _Oscar Fay Adams_. A set of most -delightful papers about certain old authors and certain old stories -whose names and titles are constantly occurring in general literature. -Whatever of importance and interest is known about these authors Mr. -Adams has here gathered up; and a good idea is given of the work which -has made them famous, valued and remembered. These “Readings” will be -very helpful for all who wish to understand the allusions in literature -to standard old stories and romances. Many portraits and illustrations. - -II. U. S. MILITARY AND NAVAL SCHOOLS. By _Louis T. Peale_. A good -series for family reading, as both boys and girls are growing more and -more interested in the way our Government conducts affairs, and these -papers explain just what means are taken to train up a noble body of -men to protect our country and maintain her interests and her rights by -land and sea. While the series is of general interest to everybody, it -will be especially hailed by boys who have dreams of entering the army -or the navy; they will find here a complete manual of answers to all -the questions they or their anxious friends can possibly ask as to what -the boys must do for the Government, and what the Government does for -the boys. Illustrations. - -III. OUR ASIATIC COUSINS. By _Mrs. A. H. Leonowens_. Mrs. Leonowens -lived a long time in the far East, an inmate of both palace and tent, -and had opportunities of knowing face to face both royal potentates and -the common people. She has written these articles especially for the -members of the C. Y. F. R. U., and they are very interesting. Fully -illustrated. - -IV. “DIAMOND DUST.” By _Mrs. S. D. Power_. Some chatty articles about -precious stones, our native gems, and beautiful objects in the mineral -world. - -V. WAYS TO DO THINGS. All sorts. The first will be the “Way” to take -care of dogs, by _Louise Imogen Guiney_. - -VI. SEARCH-QUESTIONS IN ROMAN HISTORY. By _Oscar Fay Adams_. Twenty -questions each month. Book prizes for correct lists of answers. -Particulars in both WIDE AWAKE and the JOURNAL. - -REQUIRED READINGS (BOOKS). - -A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. Part I. By Edward Everett Hale and Susan -Hale. A new volume of this delightful series, describing the scenes and -events of early New England history, etc. Illustrations. - -POETS’ HOMES. By Arthur Gilman, and others. Charming pen and pencil -pictures of the homes and haunts of the poets—and the poets themselves. - -NELLY MARLOW IN WASHINGTON. By Laura D. Nichols. Those who went with -Nelly Marlow “Up Hill and Down Dale” will surely wish to go with her to -Washington. Illustrations. - - -PRICE LISTS. - - I. {WIDE AWAKE (Special price to members of C. Y. F. R. U.) $2.25 - {A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. Part I. .75 - {POETS’ HOMES. .35 - {NELLY MARLOW IN WASHINGTON. .60 - ——— - Postage on books if sent by mail, 25 cents. $3.95 - - II. {CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ JOURNAL. $1.00 - {A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. Part I. .75 - {POETS’ HOMES. .35 - {NELLY MARLOW IN WASHINGTON. .60 - ——— - Postage on books if sent by mail, 25 cents. $2.70 - - -Chautauqua Young Folks’ Annual. - -New members of the C. Y. F. R. U., and others, desiring in compact form -the previous courses of Required Readings, may be glad to know that -they are issued each year in one handsomely bound volume with the above -title. - -Sent postpaid by the publishers, D. LOTHROP COMPANY, and by all -booksellers, on receipt of $1.50 per volume.[A] - - I. Required Readings for ’81-2: - - Magna Charta Stories. (_Illustrated_) _Edited by Arthur - Gilman, M. A._ - Ways to Do Things. (_Illustrated_) _Rev. Charles R. Talbot - and others._ - Old Ocean. (_Illustrated_) _Ernest Ingersoll._ - The Travelling Law School. _Benjamin Vaughan Abbott._ - Little Biographies.—Music. (_Illustrated_) _Hezekiah Butterworth._ - Health and Strength Papers. _By prominent Physical - Culture People._ - Dooryard Folks. (_Illustrated_) _Amanda B. Harris._ - What to Do About It. _The Wise Blackbird._ - - Also the following books: “Stories from English - History,” 2 volumes in the Lyceum Library; “Behaving, - Papers on Children’s Etiquette;” and “The Story of - English Literature.” - - - II. Required Readings for ’82-3: - - Ballads of American History. (_Illustrated_) _Margaret J. Preston._ - Remarkable Trials. _Benjamin Vaughan Abbott._ - Through a Microscope. (_Illustrated_) _Samuel Wells and - Mary Treat._ - Little Biographies.—Literature. (_Illustrated_) _Amanda B. Harris._ - Anna Maria’s Housekeeping. _The Next Neighbor._ - A Boy’s Workshop. (_Illustrated_) _A Boy Carpenter._ - Health and Strength Papers for Boys. (_Illustrated_) _Prof. D. A. - Sargent._ - What to Do about It. _The Wise Blackbird._ - - Also the following books: “Eyes Right,” by Adam Stwin; - “Getting Along,” by Samuel Smiles, a book of practical - common sense; “Stories of the Sea;” and “A Book of - Golden Deeds,” of all times, by Charlotte M. Yonge. - - - IV. Required Readings for ’84-5: - - Children of Westminster Abbey. (_Illustrated_) _Rose G. Kingsley._ - Souvenirs of My Time. (_Illustrated_) _Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont._ - The Temperance Teachings of Science. _Prof. A. B. Palmer._ - Boy’s Heroes. (_Illustrated_) _Edward Everett Hale._ - Ways to Do Things. (_Illustrated_) _Various Authors._ - Entertainments in Chemistry. (_Illustrated_) _Harry W. Tyler._ - The Making of Pictures. _Sarah W. Whitman._ - Search-Questions in American Literature. _Oscar Fay Adams._ - - Also the following books: “Greece,” by Charlotte M. - Yonge; “Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles,” by Amanda B. - Harris; “Wild Animals,” with full-page illustrations by - Joseph Wolf. - - - V. Required Readings for ’85-6: - - Pleasant Authors for Young Folks—-American. _Amanda B. Harris._ - (_Portraits._) - My Garden Pets. (_Illustrated_) _Mary Treat._ - Souvenirs of My Time.—Foreign. _Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont._ - Some Italian Authors, and Their Works. _George E. Vincent._ - Ways to Do Things. (_Illustrated_) _Various Authors._ - Strange Teas, Dinners, Weddings, and Fêtes. _Various Authors._ - Search-Questions in English Literature. _Oscar Fay Adams._ - - Also the following books: “A Family Flight Through - France, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland,” by E. - E. Hale and Susan Hale; “The Merchant of Venice,” - Hudson-Lamb edition; “Underfoot,” by Laura D. Nichols. - - - VI. Required Readings for ’86-7; - - Some Successful Women. (_Illustrated_) _Sarah K. Bolton._ - Wonder-Wings, Mullingongs, Colossi, and _C. F. Holder._ - Others. (_Illustrated_) - A Young Prince of Commerce. (_Illustrated_) _Selden R. Hopkins._ - Ways to Do Things. (_Illustrated_) _Various Authors._ - Search-Questions in Greek History. _Oscar Fay Adams._ - - Also the following books: “A Family Flight Through - Norway and Switzerland,” by Edward Everett Hale and - Susan Hale; “Hamlet” edited by Homer B. Sprague, - President of Mills College; “Up Hill and Down Dale,” by - Laura D. Nichols. - -[Footnote A: Vol. III. is out of print.] - - =D LOTHROP COMPANY. Publishers, Boston, U. S. A.= - - -=Wide Awake, 1887.= - -Volumes W and X. 4to, boards, 1.75 a volume—cloth, 2.25. - - “The files we have had bound are so popular as to be in - danger of being literally read to pieces; and, knowing - well that the new ones will meet the same treatment, - we earnestly hope that the time will never come when - it will be impossible to replace them; for they are a - source of too much enjoyment and benefit to our young - people to be allowed to get out of print—that would be - a great misfortune.” - - _—Extract from letter of the Librarian of the Morse - Institute, Natick, Mass., ordering the first nineteen - volumes of_ WIDE AWAKE. - - One in a dozen families—no, not so many—one in a - hundred eats good food. About as many read good books. - And yet the proportion of good eating and reading is - quite as high in this as in any country. The fact is - some good food is a little dry. Good reading is never - peppery. We are losing our capacity for enjoyment of - both when we crave unwholesome stimulants. - - _Wide Awake_ is one of those rare collections varied - and bright enough to engage the common reader and good - enough to lead the capable reader to higher pleasures - and benefits. - - Volume W contains: a yachting story, by Charles R. - Talbot; Peggy and her Family, by Margaret Sidney; - Pamela’s Fortune, by Lucy C. Lillie; Pocahontas and - Rolfe, by Mrs. Blathwayt; Turkish Childhood, by Hon. S. - S. Cox; Some Nantucket Children, by Mrs. Macy; stories - of early American warfare; no end of short stories and - sketches, poems, engravings, etc. - - Volume X is equally full and fine. The two volumes make - the year. The covers are bright and beautiful. - - -=Boys and Girls’ Annual 1888.= - -4to, cloth, 3.00. - - A big book of short stories and long; good many of - both; and bright ones all of them, long or short. The - secret is: they are out of _Wide Awake_. Pictures - besides. - - -=Dame Heraldry.= - -By F. S. W. Illustrated by nine full-page colored illustrations and -numerous engravings. 8vo, cloth, 2.50. - - The writer, his children having an interest in - heraldry, set himself at the task of telling them what - he knew of it. Hence the book; which treats the whole - subject formally, yet with a pleasant vacation air. - - -=Family Flight Series.= - -By E. E. HALE and SUSAN HALE, 5 vols., 8vo, boards, each, 1.75; cloth, -2.25. - - Book journeys through the several countries with eyes - and ears wide open, old eyes and young eyes and ears. - The books are full of pictures, and fuller of knowledge - not only of what is going on but what has gone on ever - since book-making began, and fuller yet of brightness - and interest. You see the old as old; but you see it; - you see where it was and the marks it left. You see the - new with eyes made sharper by knowledge of what has - gone in the world. - - In other words these books amount to something like - going through these places with a traveling companion - who knows all about them and their histories. - - They are written and pictured for boys and girls; but - there is nothing to hinder the old folks going along. - Will you go? - - FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. - FAMILY FLIGHT OVER EGYPT AND SYRIA. - FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE, GERMANY, NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND. - FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH MEXICO. - FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH SPAIN. - - One of the most effective means of exciting and - satisfying zeal for knowledge of the world we have in - books. - - -=Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Stories.= - -4to, cloth, 3.00. - - Containing in one large book the following stories, - with many illustrations: - - FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW. By Margaret Sidney. - TWO YOUNG HOMESTEADERS. By Theodora R. Jenness. - ROYAL LOWRIE’S LAST YEAR AT ST. OLAVES. By Charles R. Talbot. - THE DOGBERRY BUNCH. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. - YOUNG RICK. By Julia R. Eastman. - NAN, THE NEW-FASHIONED GIRL. By S. C. Hallowell. - POLLY, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING POLLY. By Ella Farman. - THE COOKING-CLUB OF TU-WHIT HOLLOW. By Ella Farman. - - -=Margaret Sidney’s Illustrated Quartos.= - - -=Golden West as Seen by the Ridgway Club.= - -4to, cloth, 2.25; boards, 1.75. - -A pictorial and talkative run from Boston to Monterey for health and -pleasure and information. And what the jolly party sees from the car -windows is only part of the treat. - - -=What the Seven Did, or the Doings of the Wordsworth Club.= - -4to, cloth, 2.25; boards, 1.75. - -The seven are little girl neighbors, the Wordsworth Club, which met -once a week at their several homes to have a good time. Those good -times are the book. The best of them had to do with the fathers and -mothers and Widow Barker’s cow. - - -=Who Told it to Me.= - -Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth 1.75. - -Neighbor boys and girls growing up together, having their ins and outs, -and ups and downs; and the old folks had their share in the young -folks’ doings, as they ought. It was a jolly Pengannop. They did grow -good men and women those days in New England. - - -=Polly and the Children.= - -4to, boards, 50 cents. - -The parrot has surprising adventures at the children’s party and wears -a medal after the fire. - - -=FUN AND FANCY LIBRARY.= - -3 VOLUMES, 12MO, CLOTH, EACH, 1.00. - - -=Bubbling Teapot.= - -A Wonder Story by LIZZIE W. CHAMPNEY. - - A discontented little girl is the Bubbling Teapot of - a sort of Japanese Arabian Night. She tries a great - many kinds of life and concludes that the nicest life, - after all, is that of a little American girl. It is a - dream-story. - - -=In No-Man’s Land.= - -A Wonder Story by E. S. BROOKS. - - A Dream-story as droll as Alice in Wonderland. Not like - Alice; and yet can there be two sorts of dream-nonsense - so witty and wild, so mixed up and yet not muddy a - whit? The plays on nursery rhymes are enough to make - the fortune of almost a dull book. And “there isn’t a - dull line in it.” - - -=Dilly and the Captain.= - -BY MARGARET SIDNEY. - - A bicycle-tricycle story of pioneers and explorers in - search of the place where children should be seen and - heard too. A very jolly story. - - -=Nelly Marlow in Washington.= - -By LAURA D. NICHOLS. Square, 8vo, boards, $1.25; cloth, $1.50. - - Nelly sees the Capitol and the Capital. There are - wonderful things to be seen there; too many to think of - out of the book. It’s a story besides. Nelly brings up - in the Adirondacks before her play-time is over. - - -=Overhead=: or what Harry and Nelly discovered in the heavens. By ANNIE -MOORE and LAURA D. NICHOLS. Introduction by Leonard Waldo, of Harvard -College Observatory. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth, 1.50. - - A trip to the moon, Saturn, the sun, and various other - stations, in great big letters and pictures, with a - little bit of easy astronomy sprinkled in. - - -=Underfoot=, or what Harry and Nelly learned of the earth’s treasures. -By LAURA D. NICHOLS. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth, 1.50. - - Peeps at the world we live on and into it here and - there where the holes are. - - -=Up Hill and Down Dale.= By LAURA D. NICHOLS. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; -cloth, 1.50. - - Nelly leaves Harry at business and goes to the country. - What she sees there is in the book, and a great many - things besides. - - -=Cats’ Arabian Nights.= By ABBY MORTON DIAZ. 8vo, boards, 1.25. - - The wonderful cat story of cat stories told by - Pussyanita that saved the lives of all the cats, - the funniest, wittiest story that ever was [so says - Pussyanita]; and that is why it is wonderful. King - Grimalkum must have been a credulous fellow; but nobody - blames him for losing his wits to such a teller of cat - stories. - - -=Fireside Chronicles, or the Family Story-Teller.= By ABBY MORTON DIAZ. - - Fifteen different chronicles, every one of them funnier - than the last one; and five times as many pictures of - what they’re about. A great deal of wisdom in with the - fun. - - -=Wonder Stories.= - -3 volumes, 12mo, cloth, each 1.50. - - - =Wonder Stories of History.= Historical incidents told - in short stories by several writers. - - - =Wonder Stories of Science.= Really how twenty-one - different things are made in the world. By several - writers. - - - =Wonder Stories of Travel.= Tales in which - peculiarities of people and things abroad are brought - out By several writers. - - -_Bound Volumes of Two Illustrated Magazines._ - - -=Our Little Men and Women for 1887.= - -4to, 74 full-page illustrations, cloth, 2.00; boards, 1.50. - -Nearly 300 pages of pictures and stories, sketches, lessons, and -entertainments easy to read and understand, for children six to eight -years old. As bright as a book can be, and as full of help towards -wholesome progress in learning, growth of mind and the formation of -good habits and taste in reading. - -The cover is daintily beautiful. - - -=The Pansy for 1887.= - -4to, cloth, 1.75; boards, 1.25. - -More than 400 pages of reading and pictures for children of eight to -fifteen years in various lines of interest. There are sketches of home -and foreign life, religious instruction, biography, history, fiction, -anecdote, letter-writing. The editor is the author of the Pansy books, -which means that the drift of _The Pansy_ is all one way. - -The cover is almost made of pansies, purple and gold, with a pair of -happy children on a grassy bank, and a flock of butterflies. - - -=Real Fairy Folks.= - -By LUCY RIDER MEYER, A.M. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. - - A play-excursion into chemistry, none the less serious - because it is play, and none the less play because it - is serious. - - We quote from the author’s word to parents: “This book - is true to chemical fact and principle. It is an effort - to make them love the beautiful science of chemistry - and to lift their thoughts to the One who holds in His - hand the atoms as securely as He holds the worlds.” - - Nevertheless it is a book of diversion, a story-book, a - fairy story-book. A queer combination, but we believe - successful. We much mistake if it is not splendidly - successful. - - -=Story Book of Science.= - -By LYDIA HOYT FARMER. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. - - This also is fact and fiction in science; stories - made upon what goes on in the world, the scientific - and practical world. Glass-making is in it; and silk; - a great many insects; snow; wind; the seven modern - wonders; birds; animals; tea, coffee, pepper, potatoes; - what not? There are subjects enough, and learning - enough; and there is fun in finding out how the world - is put together. - - -=Look-About Club.= - -By MARY E. BAMFORD. 4to, cloth, 1.50. - -The Club is a family given to study of animals. Under the guise of play -the family learns about spiders and butterflies, chickens and rabbits, -fishes and frogs, the folks in the brook, the folks on the ground and -the folks in the air, which includes grasshoppers and beetles. - -There is a great deal to know about our neighbors, worth knowing, too; -and the surest way to begin learning is to like it. That is why such -books as this are made, to make young people like the beginnings of -learning. - - -=Little Polly Blatchley.= - -By FRANCES C. SPARHAWK. 4to, boards, 1.00. - - Delightful stories out of little Polly’s life. Polly - is what elderly people call an “old” little girl. She - is continually thinking of things that little people - are apt to skip; and she keeps her thoughts to herself - so wisely and lets them out so in the nick of time, - she delights her good papa and mamma in the book and - the little girl who reads it. It is a rare book for - pleasure and wholesome suggestion. - - -=Playfellows and Their Pets.= - -4to, boards, 1.00. - - Short stories about children, animals and birds, with - a great many pictures. Not a page but is full of - entertainment, instruction and means of growth for - pretty good readers of six or eight or ten—Do little - folks go by ages nowadays? - - -=After Play Stories for the Little Ones.= - -4to, boards, 1.00. - - Beginning stories for little readers, or to be read to - people too little to read for themselves. - - There is one about the Puzzled Baby, which begins in - this way: - - “I am a baby. But I don’t want you to think I am one of - these little bits of things who know nothing at all. I - am an _old_ baby. I am almost ten months old! - - “I have a cousin who is only nine weeks old. The little - goose don’t know how to get his toes in his mouth!” - - -=Some Things Abroad.= - -By ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, D. D. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. - - A chatty going over the events of day after day of a - journey through northern and southern Europe into Asia, - the Holy Land especially. Dr. McKenzie’s name is enough - in New England. 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The bright and - beautiful daughter of a fond old man who has nothing to - do but delight in her pleasure, and watch her numerous - lovers, spends her first summer after school-days at - Bar Harbor. Too good and true to be spoiled by pursuit, - she, nevertheless, but slowly learns to distinguish - conjugal love. Her fortune takes her more or less - blindly through the school of experience—a school that - tempers not its exactions. - - There are interesting stories within the larger story, - and interesting fragments of other lives than the two. - We part from several of the personages unwillingly. - - -=After School Days.= - -By CHRISTINA GOODWIN. 12mo, cloth, 1.00. - -A tale: quite a new sort of history. School-days over, four girl -friends return to their homes and life begins. As often happens, -life is not as they picture it. 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Y. - - -THE LEGEND OF CEREALINE. - - “On the border of the forest, - Underneath the fragrant pine-trees, - Sat the old men and the warriors - Smoking in the pleasant shadow. - - * * * * * - - And whene’er some lucky maiden - Found a red ear in the husking, - Found a maize-ear red as blood is, - ‘Nushka!’ cried they altogether, - ‘Nushka! you shall have a sweetheart.’” - -[Illustration] - - HEALTHY were those red-skin warriors, - Old, but full of robust vigor; - They were in the best of humor - For they had enjoyed their dinner, - Which had gratified the palate, - Being chiefly Flakes of Ceres, - Served up as an Indian pudding. - Such a wholesome feast imparted - Energy and cheerful spirits, - Therefore did those ancient warriors - Laugh and joke the lucky maiden. - “Nushka! you shall have a sweetheart,” - Cried they; “you shall have a husband - To provide for and to cook for; - You shall make him cakes and muffins - Of white Cerealine to please him, - So that he will love you always. - You shall send and get a Cook Book, - From Columbus, Indiana, - That will teach you all the uses - Of the Flakes, in soups or puddings, - Bread or cakes or pies, or what not. - Nushka! you will both be happy!” - - ——————— - - The series of twelve original pictures, illustrating - “Hiawatha’s Fasting,” of which the above is a small - example, will be mailed to any one who will mention - where this advertisement was seen and enclose a - two-cent stamp for postage to the Cerealine Mfg. Co., - Columbus, Indiana. - - “Cerealine Flakes” for sale by all grocers at twenty cents a package. - - - -[Illustration] - -LACES, fine embroideries, and other articles too delicate to bear -rubbing, may be cleaned satisfactorily and without injury, if you will -pare into fine shavings one-fourth of a cake of Ivory Soap, which -dissolve in a quart of hot water; fill a glass fruit jar half full of -the solution and add the article to be cleaned, then shake well. Rinse -in the same manner in clear, luke-warm water. - -A WORD OF WARNING. - - There are many white soaps, each represented to be - “just as good as the ‘Ivory’;” they ARE NOT, but like - all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable - qualities of the genuine. Ask for “Ivory” Soap and - insist upon getting it. - - Copyright, 1886, by Procter & Gamble. - - * * * * * - -Transcriber’s Notes: - -Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Sometimes the font size changed in -the lists of books in section III. Wherever possible, uniformity was -attempted in the HTML version. - -Section I: - -Page 4, “unforgetable” changed to “unforgettable” (be pithy, -unforgettable) - -Page 8, “sorroundings” changed to “surroundings” (on accidental -surroundings) - -Page 12, “Shh” changed to “She” (She dared not go) - -Page 19, “chamelons” changed to “chameleons” (lizards and chameleons) - -Section II: - -Page 10, “becouse” changed to “because” (pouting all day because) - -Page 17, repeated word "the" removed from text (Up to the spider) - -Page 22, “Jennnie’s” changed to “Jennie’s” (and Jennie’s voice was) - -Section III: - -Page 30, “unsplitable” changed to “unsplittable” (but strong, -unsplittable) - -Page 33, “pepole” changed to “people” (our young people will) - -Page 33, “Chatauqua” changed to “Chautauqua” (called the CHAUTAUQUA -YOUNG FOLKS’ JOURNAL) - -Page 34, the anchor for the footnote: “Vol. III is out of print” was -added to the text at what the transcriber hopes was a logical place. - -Page 37, “Begginning” changed to “Beginning” (Beginning stories for -little) - -Page 39, “psychologcal” changed to “psychological” (religious or -psychological) - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Pansy Magazine, November 1887, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PANSY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1887 *** - -***** This file should be named 52909-0.txt or 52909-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/9/0/52909/ - -Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Pansy Magazine, November 1887 - -Author: Various - -Editor: Pansy - Mrs. G. R. Alden - -Release Date: August 28, 2016 [EBook #52909] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PANSY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1887 *** - - - - -Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<h1 class="faux">The Pansy, November 1887</h1> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 617px;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="617" height="800" alt="cover" /> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - - - -<div class="maintitle">The Pansy</div> - -<div class='author'>EDITED<br /> -BY<br /> -"PANSY"<br /> -MRS. G. R. ALDEN</div> -<div class="copyright">Copyright, 1887, by <span class="smcap">D. Lothrop Company</span>. Published monthly. Entered at the P. O. at Boston as second class matter. -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class='tnote'><div class='center'><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> Many of the advertising images are linked to -larger copies to enable the reading of the fine print and details.</div></div> -<p> <br /></p> - - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="cocoa ad1"> -<tr><td align="left"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 116px;"> -<img src="images/illus002a.jpg" width="116" height="239" alt="woman holding cup on tray" /> -</div></td><td align="left"> -<div class='adtitle3'> -<small>GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.</small><br /> -<b>BAKER'S</b><br /> -<span class='big'>Breakfast Cocoa.</span><br /> -</div> - -<p>Warranted <b><i>absolutely pure -Cocoa</i></b>, from which the excess of -Oil has been removed. It has <i>three -times the strength</i> of Cocoa mixed -with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, -and is therefore far more economical, -<i>costing less than one cent a -cup</i>. It is delicious, nourishing, -strengthening, easily digested, and -admirably adapted for invalids as -well as for persons in health.</p> - -<div class='center'> -——————<br /> -<b>Sold by Grocers everywhere.</b><br /> -——————</div> - -<div class='adtitle3'> -W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.<br /> -</div> -</td></tr> -</table></div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class='adtitle3'><b>BROWN'S FRENCH DRESSING,</b></div> - -<div class="center"><b>The Original! Beware of Imitations!<br /> - -<big>AWARDED HIGHEST PRIZE AND -ONLY</big></b><br /></div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 302px;"> -<a href="images/illus002b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus002b.jpg" width="302" height="113" alt="French's dressing" /></a> -</div> - -<div class="center"><b><big>PARIS EXPOSITION, 1878.</big><br /> - -Highest Award New Orleans Exposition.</b></div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 142px;"> -<img src="images/illus002c.jpg" width="142" height="123" alt="The Great American Tea Company" /> -</div> - -<div class='adtitle3'><b>GOOD NEWS<br /> -<span class='u'>TO LADIES.</span></b></div> - -<p>Greatest inducements ever offered. -Now's your time to get up -orders for our celebrated <b>Teas</b> -and <b>Coffees</b> and secure a beautiful -Gold Band or Moss Rose China -Tea Set, or Handsome Decorated -Gold Band Moss Rose Dinner Set, or Gold Band Moss -Decorated Toilet Set. For full particulars address</p> - -<div class='center'> -<b>THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO.,</b><br /> -P. O. Box 289. 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York.<br /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="center"> -<b><big>No excuse for</big></b><br /> -<span class="big"><b>STAMMERING</b></span><br /> - -<br /> -Send for our book, “School of Voice.”<br /> -<br /> - -<b>11 East 14 Street, - - - - - New York.</b><br /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 92px;"> -<img src="images/illus002d.jpg" width="92" height="80" alt="woman's face with blemishes" /> -</div> - -<p class="unindent"><span class="big"><b>FACE, HANDS, FEET,</b></span><br /> -and all their imperfections, including Facial -Development, Hair and Scalp, Superfluous -Hair, Birth Marks, Moles, Warts, Moth, -Freckles, Red Nose, Acne, B’lk Heads, Scars, -Pitting and their treatment. Send 10c. for -book of 50 pages, 4th edition. <b>Dr. John H. Woodbury, -37 North Pearl St., Albany, N. Y.</b> Established 1870.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="adtitle2">OLD GOLD!</div> - -<p><b>In every household old-fashioned and worn jewelry -and plate accumulate, becoming “food” for burglars -or petty thieves.</b></p> - -<p>If the readers of <span class="smcap">Babyland</span> will get out their old gold, old silver, old jewelry, -and send it by mail or express to me, I will send them by return mail a certified -check for full value thereof.</p> - -<div class="center"> -<b><big>J. H. JOHNSTON,</big><br /> -150 Bowery, Cor. Broome St., N. Y.</b><br /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="adtitle2">DIAMOND DYES.</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 164px;"> -<img src="images/illus003a.jpg" width="164" height="166" alt="diamond" /> -</div> - -<div class="center"><b>FOR SILK, WOOL, COTTON,</b></div> -<div class="unindent"><b>and all Fabrics and Fancy Articles. Any one can use -them. Anything can be colored.</b></div> - -<div class="center"> -<b>32 COLORS—10 CENTS EACH.</b><br /> -——————<br /> -Remember, these are the only Pure, Harmless and Unadulterated -Dyes.<br /> -Beware of other Dyes, because often Poisonous, Adulterated, -Weak and Worthless.<br /> -——————<br /></div> -<p><b>We warrant these Dyes to color more goods, package -for package, than any other Dyes ever made, and to give -more brilliant and durable colors.</b></p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="colors of paint"> -<tr><td align="center"><big><b>THE DIAMOND<br /> -GOLD, SILVER,<br /> -BRONZE and COPPER</b></big></td><td align="left"><div class="bigger">PAINTS</div></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>For gilding Fancy Baskets, Frames, Lamps, Chandeliers, and for all kinds of -ornamental work. Equal to any of the high priced kinds and only 10 cts. a -package. Also Artists’ Black for Ebonizing.</p> - -<p>Sold by Druggists everywhere. Send postal for Sample Card and directions -for coloring Photographs and doing fancy work.</p> - -<div class="sig"> -WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Burlington, Vt.<br /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="ad and image"> -<tr><td align="left"><div class="adtitle2">THE<br /> -OLDEST<br /> -THE<br /> -BEST</div></td><td align="left"><a href="images/illus003b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus003b.jpg" width="358" height="226" alt="PAYSON’S INDELIBLE INK" /></a> -</td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="image and ad text"> -<tr> -<td align="left"><img src="images/illus003c.jpg" width="207" height="52" alt="Warren's FEATHERBONE" /></td> -<td align="left"><b><span class="bigger">DRESS STAY.</span></b></td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="unindent">Soft, Pliable and <i>Absolutely unbreakable</i>. Standard Quality, <b>15</b> cents per -yard. Cloth covered, 20 cents. Satin covered, 25 cents. For sale everywhere. -Try it.</p> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="ad text"> -<tr> -<td align="center" class="br"><big>LADIES’<br /> -<b>FANCY<br /> -WORK</b></big></td> -<td align="center"><p class="unindent"><b>Ingalls’ Illustrated Catalogue</b> of Stamping Outfits, -Felt, Linen and Silk Stamped Goods, Fancy Work Materials, -Books, Briggs Transfer Patterns, etc., sent <i>free</i> for -one <b>2-c.</b> stamp.</p> - -<div class="sig"> -<b>J. F. Ingalls, Lynn, Mass.</b><br /> -</div></td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="center"><b><span class="smcap">ICE and ROLLER<br /> -SKATES.</span></b></div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 329px;"> -<img src="images/illus003d.jpg" width="329" height="92" alt="BARNEY & BERRY ice skate" /> -</div> - -<div class="center"><b>SPRINGFIELD, MASS.<br /> -CATALOGUE FREE</b></div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="ad"> -<tr><td align="center"><div class='adtitle1'> -<b>CANDY!</b><br /> -</div></td><td align="left"><p>Send one, two, three or five dollars for a retail box, by express, of the -best Candies in the World, put up in handsome boxes. All strictly pure. -Suitable for presents. Try it once. Address</p> - -<div class='sig'> -C. F. GUNTHER, Confectioner, 78 Madison Street, Chicago.<br /> -</div></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1-ad" id="Page_1-ad">[1a]</a></span></p> - - - - -<div class="adtitle1b"><a name="WIDE_AWAKE" id="WIDE_AWAKE">WIDE AWAKE.</a></div> - -<div class="center"><i><big>A Look Ahead into 1888.</big></i></div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 136px;"> -<img src="images/illus005a.jpg" width="136" height="49" alt="Edmund C. Stedman" /> -</div> -<div class="hang3"> -The Christmas (Dec.) number will open with a noble Christmas poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman, entitled -<b>The Star-Bearer</b>, with superb full-page frontispiece and -text illustrations by Howard Pyle.</div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 160px;"> -<img src="images/illus005b.jpg" width="160" height="49" alt="Andrew Lang" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3">The Holiday number will also give a poem by the witty English author, Andrew Lang, entitled the <b>Ballad of a Bad -Boy</b>—which is to be received as an amusing bit of autobiography, -for Mr. Lang writes: “It is true—and I hope -moral!” The “bad boy” will be drawn by W. L. Taylor.</div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 227px;"> -<img src="images/illus005c.jpg" width="227" height="82" alt="H. Rider Haggard" /> -</div> - - -<div class="hang3">A third great feature of the Christmas number will be a complete African Serial Story by H. Rider Haggard, -author of the famous books, “She,” “King Solomon’s -Mines,” etc., etc. The story is called <b>A Tale of Three -Lions</b>, and will have thrilling full-page illustrations by Heywood -Hardy the English lion painter. The holiday number -will be much enlarged to include this serial entire.</div> - - -<p><b>Farm-Life for Young People</b>, by Ik Marvel (Donald G. Mitchell), <i>Out-of-Door Papers</i> by John Burroughs, together -with <i>Walking</i>, <i>Rowing</i>, and <i>The Training of Dogs</i>, three papers by Louise Imogen Guiney, will form a delightful phase of -the coming volume.</p> - - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 93px;"> -<img src="images/illus005d.jpg" width="93" height="48" alt="Sidney Luska" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>My Uncle Florimond</b> is a beautiful and romantic Serial Story for boys by Sidney Luska, author of those popular -novels of the day, “As It was Written,” “Mrs. Peixada,” and -“The Yoke of the Thorah.” It is the first story which he -has written for young folks. <b>My Uncle Florimond</b> is -quite a new kind of magazine serial, and handsome Gregory -Brace is quite a new kind of boy to be met in a story-book, -though fortunately for the world there are some like him in -real life. Fathers and mothers will like their young folks -to make the acquaintance of this chivalric young fellow, and -also of the true girl Rosalind. The illustrations will be by -George Wharton Edwards.</div> - - -<p><b>A Painter of Child-Life.</b> (First Art Paper.) A beautiful art-paper for children, by the English art-writer, T. -Letherbrow, about the English painter, Warwick Brookes, who was once a little “tear-boy” in the Manchester cotton-mills, -and afterwards rose to great eminence in art. This remarkable article is to have twenty exquisite illustrations of -child-life from photographs of the artist’s paintings and drawings.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 190px;"> -<img src="images/illus005e.jpg" width="190" height="41" alt="M. E. W. Sherwood" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3">A brace of sparkling Serial Stories, <b>Those Cousins of Mabel’s</b>, and <b>Double Roses</b>, will be contributed by Mrs. -John Sherwood, author of Harper’s standard etiquette manuals, -and of “Royal Girls and Royal Courts.” In these -stories she does good service to her young countrywomen by -showing them what a pleasant and comfortable thing it is to -be acquainted with the usages of refined society and to conform -to them. The loveliness and nobility of Mabel will -render her the ideal “society girl” of young readers, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2-ad" id="Page_2-ad">[2a]</a></span> -everybody will follow the experiences of the brilliant Phyllis -and the piquant little Wilhelmina, the two girls from Haffreysberg, -with blended amusement and sympathy. The life -Mrs. Sherwood describes exists in all large cities, the same -embarrassments entangle young strangers to social forms, -the same heartlessness, over against the same loftiness of -character, is found among people of fashion; and the counsel -given to Phyllis and Wilhelmina will be as helpful to -thousands of other girls—and certainly this social counsel -could come from no higher authority than Mrs. Sherwood. -Charming pictures will be drawn by W. L. Taylor.</div> - -<p><b>Daniel Webster in New Hampshire.</b> (First Historical Article.) Reminiscences, anecdotes, and gossip about -the great statesman, given to the author, Miss Amanda B. Harris, by Webster’s early friends and neighbors in New -Hampshire, or gathered from unpublished letters. With portraits from life-photographs, and many sketches.</p> - - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 228px;"> -<img src="images/illus006a.jpg" width="228" height="31" alt="Mary B. Crowninshield" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>Plucky Small: His Story</b>, is a serial by Mary Bradford Crowninshield. “I was a wharf rat,” begins Plucky. -Plucky’s friend, “The Tinker,” was another; “why ‘The -Tinker,’” says Plucky, “he don’t know, nor I don’t know.” -Plucky does a great brave deed, and on account of it he -gets a chance to enlist “in the apprentice-service of a -United States training-ship,” and so does “the Tinker,” and -away they go on a long cruise, down around the south of -Europe, into the Mediterranean, with stops at Marseilles, -Gibraltar, and Havre—a whole ship-full of prankish boys; -and how realistic the story is may be guessed from the fact -that the author is the wife of Commander Crowninshield, -now of the U. S. School-Ship <i>St. Mary’s</i>, and has cruised -with the boys on other U. S. training-ships. Pictures by -Frank T. Merrill.</div> - - -<p><b>About Rosa Bonheur.</b> (Second Art Paper.) This charming account of the wonderful French woman who has -painted the finest animal pictures since Landseer has been written for <span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span> by Rosa Bonheur’s friend of many -years, the American artist, Henry Bacon. The picture of her in studio dress painting the famous “Head of a Lion” was -drawn by Mr. Bacon; the portrait of her at eighteen is from a painting by her brother, Auguste Bonheur. Full of -anecdote and with many pictures.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 234px;"> -<img src="images/illus006b.jpg" width="234" height="40" alt="Harriet Taylor Upton" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>Children of the White House</b>, by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, is a series of articles of national importance and national -interest. It is a wonder that this work has not been -undertaken before for the pleasure and information of young -Americans. Starting with the little Custises, the adopted -children of Washington, this fascinating series, giving a -chapter to each Presidential family, comes down to the -present administration, gathering up delightful details of -family life, and tracing the after histories of the Presidential -children. Mrs. Upton for many years has had rare privileges -of ransacking old annals in Washington, and interesting -family reminiscences have been kindly recalled for her, -and precious relics, portraits, and paintings furnished for -photographing.</div> - -<p><b>The Story of Boston Common</b>, by Edward Everett Hale, is now complete in <i>MS.</i>, and the long-expected series, -touching much of early American history, will be given, in three or more chapters, with historic and modern pictures, -during the coming summer.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3-ad" id="Page_3-ad">[3a]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 152px;"> -<img src="images/illus007a.jpg" width="152" height="41" alt="Oscar Fay Adams" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3">Certain old authors, certain old books, certain old nursery stories, have become household words and household treasures -the world over. Under the title of <b>Dear Old Story-Tellers</b>, -Mr. Adams will relate all of interest that is known -about these dear old authors, books and stories. The series -of twelve papers embrace Æsop, Arabian Nights, Mother -Goose, Perrault, La Fontaine, Defoe, Madame de Genlis, -Brothers Grimm, Hans Andersen, Laboulaye, La Motte-Fouqué—with -authentic portraits, when such exist, and -other illustrations.</div> - - -<p><b>The Medal Children of the Renaissance.</b> (Third Art Paper.) An art article for young readers by Frances H. -Throop about some high-born children of the fifteenth century, whose portraits were sculptured or cast in medallions; -these lovely medals are preserved in European museums and collections, being regarded as precious art-treasures; and -Miss Throop has made casts and drawings from the originals to illustrate her paper.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 316px;"> -<img src="images/illus007b.jpg" width="316" height="76" alt="Olive Risley Seward" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>Around-the-World Stories</b> relate a dozen unique personal experiences—some diverting, some perilous—of the adopted -daughter of Secretary of State, William H. Seward, on his -journey around the world after he had recovered from -the attack on his life at the time of the assassination of -President Lincoln. Miss Seward is a born story-teller, and -whether she is describing <i>A Dinner at Kensington Palace</i>, or -<i>A Visit to the Great Wall of China</i>, or <i>Experiences as a Lion-Tamer</i>, -or <i>Adventures in the Streets of Pekin</i>, the interest is -always breathless, the story always novel. Illustrations by -Wm. T. Smedley and others.</div> - -<p><b>An Old House on Royal Street.</b> (Second Historical Article.) This delightful paper about old New Orleans and -early Louisiana by Mrs. M. E. M. Davis (author of <i>In War-Times at La Rose Blanche</i>), written in the old house that was -General Jackson’s headquarters, abounds in reminiscences of Indian, French, Spanish and Creole days, of Jackson, Galvez, -the pirate Lafitte, Bienville, Pere Antoine, Don Almonaster, and other famous men of the Southwest. Full of -portraits.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 195px;"> -<img src="images/illus007c.jpg" width="195" height="58" alt="Margaret Sidney" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>Eurania’s Boys</b> is the title of a story by Margaret Sidney: Mrs. Eurania Stebbins and several members of her -family being called away suddenly from home, her two boys -keep house—not exactly according to her methods!</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elbridge S. Brooks</span> will contribute a series of practical papers for young people embodying suggestions helpful to -them in their desire to get on in the world. The papers will be a departure from the customary “Letters to Young Men.” -They will be, rather, in the spirit of appreciation and comradeship, and will endeavor to indicate and open toward the possibilities -that exist for the boys and girls of America in these busy days that are merging into the twentieth century.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 177px;"> -<img src="images/illus007d.jpg" width="177" height="49" alt="Louis T. Peale" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3">In a series of informing articles about the <b>U. S. Naval and Military Schools</b>, Mr. Peale tells the boys and their home -friends explicitly what applicants must know and do in -order to enter any of the U. S. Government schools, exactly -what is expected of them during the years of training, -what obligations to the Government they thereby take upon -themselves, and what the schools and the Government do -for the boys. While full of picturesque interest for the -general reader, the series form a manual for boys aspiring -to enter the army and the navy. Illustrations.</div> - -<p><b>For Business Boys</b> will be pithy, unforgettable, lifting words, straight from man to boy, as felt and said by a man -whose business writing is even better known than his name—a companion paper to Mr. Brooks’ series.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4-ad" id="Page_4-ad">[4a]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 220px;"> -<img src="images/illus008a.jpg" width="220" height="47" alt="A. H. Leonowens" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3">Our Asiatic Cousins will be the subject of a series of illustrated articles running through the year, by Mrs. Leonowens, -who was for some years governess in the royal family of -Siam, and who has travelled extensively in the East.</div> - -<p><b>Among Sir Walter Ralegh’s Homes.</b> (Third Historical Article.) Sir Walter is everybody’s hero, and Mrs. -Raymond Blathwayt has written a charming paper about his birthplace and his young days, and she has sent over many -beautiful photographs of his old haunts made expressly for <span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span>; the manuscript itself has been prepared under -the friendly supervision of Dr. Brushfield the English antiquarian and great Ralegh authority.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 224px;"> -<img src="images/illus008b.jpg" width="224" height="41" alt="“Jessie” Benton Frémont" /> -</div> - -<div class="hang3"><b>The Cruise of a Coverlet</b>, being the adventures of an embroidered counterpane in the U. S. Navy, will be related by -Mrs. Frémont. Illustrations from photographs.</div> - -<p><b>Typical Children of England</b>, by Julia Cartwright, will be a notable article, illustrated with most charming -pictures of English children of the present day, all from life studies—the aristocratic type, the peasant type, the athletic, -the spiritual, etc.</p> - - - -<p>Brilliant additions to the preceding serials and specialties will include ballads, poems, and the following</p> - - -<div class="unindent"><br /><i>Interesting illustrated articles:</i></div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Some Chinese Dragons</b>, by Prof. Robert Douglas of the British Museum.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>About Sea Serpents</b>, by Dr. Samuel Kneeland.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>How Jew’s-harps Grow</b>, by Prof. Otis T. Mason of the Smithsonian Institution.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Ramona School for Indian Girls</b>, by Rev. Dr. Horatio Ladd.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>An Ant of Annisquam</b>, by Harlan A. Ballard, President of the Agassiz Association.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>My Friends, the Dogs</b>, by Maud Howe. [With portrait of Miss Howe and Sambo, from Porter’s painting now in the Corcoran Gallery.]</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Wild Cattle of Chillingly</b>, by Amanda B. Harris.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>All Around an Old Meeting-House</b>, by Frances A. Humphrey.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Old Ballad of London Bridge</b>, by Susan Archer Weiss.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Boyhood of Paul H. Hayne</b>, by Margaret J. Preston.</div> - -<div class="unindent"><br /><i>Interesting illustrated stories:</i></div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Little Captive Chief</b>, by Miss Owen.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Two Girls—Two Parties</b>, by Susan Coolidge.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>A Piece of News: Aunt Ray’s Cat</b>, a humorous dialogue, by Margaret Sidney.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Puck and Puppypult</b>, a singular story, by George Parsons Lathrop.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Cat Isabel</b>, by M. H. Catherwood, with many funny pictures.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>A Stray Shot</b>, by Hartwell Moore.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>A New Birthday</b>, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Squire’s Sixpence</b>, by Mary E. Wilkins.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>A Night in a Beaver Town</b>, a curious account by Edmund Collins.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Sabot</b>, by Katharine S. Macquoid.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The “Shut-Ins,”</b> by Mrs. Peattie.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>The Bull and the Leaping Pole</b>, by Charles G. D. Roberts.</div> - -<div class="hang1"><b>Saved on the Brink</b>, by J. Macdonald Oxley.</div> - -<p>Further papers about <b>Famous Pets</b> are in preparation; <b>Tangles</b> will have new novelties; <b>The Contributors -and the Children</b>, and other departments, will grow in interest; the artistic features will continue to delight young and -old alike.</p> - -<div class="center"><br /> -<img src="images/hand.jpg" width="55" height="25" alt="Pointing Hand" /> Now is the time to subscribe, and to obtain valuable Premiums by getting your friends to subscribe also.<br /> -<br /> -<i>Wide Awake, in spite of unprecedented attractions, will still be $2.40 a year.</i><br /> -<i>Address orders and inquiries to</i><br /> -<br /> -D. LOTHROP COMPANY, Boston.<br /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5-ad" id="Page_5-ad">[5a]</a></span></p> - - - - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="titles"> -<tr><td align="center"><span class="bigger">BABYLAND</span></td><td align="left"><i>What Babies and Mammas<br />may look for during 1888.</i></td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<p>The twelve numbers of <span class="smcap">Babyland</span> for 1888 will be like twelve Christmas stockings stuffed full of delights—the choicest -nuts, candies and raisins of jingledom and storyland; and there will be three special big delicious bon-bons besides.</p> - -<div class="hangsection"> - -<p><b>Me and Toddlekins</b> is a story told by “Me,” whose other name is Mew-mew, and written down by Margaret Johnson, with -cunning pictures of “Me” and Toddlekins, and their doings, -drawn by the same Margaret Johnson.</p> - -<p><b>Six New Finger Plays</b> will be contributed by Emilie Poulsson. The instant popularity of the first series of Finger Plays, -among little children, mothers, and kindergarten teachers, -has tempted Miss Poulsson to prepare six more; the verses -are delightfully amusing and graceful, and the pictorial instructions -showing how to play the Plays, and the pictures -themselves, will be by the same artist, Mr. L. J. Bridgman.</p> - -<p><b>Allie and the Crickets</b> will be the subject of six dear little stories that the crickets told to Baby Allie—some on the hearth -as she sat in her mother’s lap at twilight, some when she was -at play out in the sunny fields—very cunning little stories -all of them (which Clara Doty Bates overheard and has -related for other babies). Many pictures.</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Babyland</span> will be full of pictures, too, big and beautiful, little and funny; and it will be printed in large clear black -letters, as usual, on strong fine paper, and have pretty pink covers. All sent by mail for 50 cents a year.</p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="titles"> -<tr><td align="center"><span class="bigger">OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN</span></td> -<td align="left"><i>A glimpse<br />into 1888.</i></td></tr> -</table> -</div> - - -<p>This magazine for youngest readers will be even more entertaining in text and pictures than in the past, and in the -stories will be hidden bits of wisdom as well. There will be seventy-five full-page pictures.</p> - -<div class="hangsection"> - -<p><b>Stories of Captain John Smith and Princess Pocahontas</b>, twelve of them, will be related by Frances A. Humphrey; -they will be accompanied with many historical pictures.</p> - -<p><b>Laura’s Holidays</b>, a serial story in twelve chapters, by Henrietta K. Eliot, will relate what one little girl did in a year of -holidays. Full-page pictures by Elizabeth S. Tucker.</p> - -<p><b>Tiny Folks in Armor</b> is the title of twelve talks about beetles, by Fannie A. Deane. There will be pictures of the beetles.</p> - -<p>There will be a set of <b>Twelve Flower Poems</b> by Clara Doty Bates, whose bird poems have been so popular the past year.</p> - -<p><b>Buffy’s Letters to his Mistress</b>, six in all, will be published by the kind permission of Elizabeth F. Parker. Buffy is a -coon-cat, and his doings will be pictured by L. J. Bridgman.</p> - -<p><b>Little People of the Plaza</b> will be told about in six Mexican stories by Jennie Stealey. Some Mexican animals also.</p> - -<p>Adapted from the French there will be <b>Susanna’s Auction</b>, in six funny chapters, each chapter with funny pictures.</p></div> - -<p>Besides these serials and series, there will be a treasury of short stories and verses, bright and interesting, and full of -pictures as a Christmas pudding with plums. The best magazine for home and school reading. $1.00 a year by mail.</p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="title"> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="bigger">THE PANSY</span></td> -<td align="left"><i>Pansy’s Own Magazine.<br />Something about 1888.</i></td></tr> -</table> -</div> - - -<div class="hangsection"> - -<p><b>Up Garret</b> is the title of Pansy’s new serial, and readers of “A Sevenfold Trouble” will be glad to know it is a sequel to -that story, and to continue their acquaintance with its people.</p> - -<p>The Golden Text Stories for 1888 will be given under the title of <b>We Twelve Girls</b>, and they will be the actual accounts -of how twelve girls tried to live by certain golden texts.</p> - -<p>The “Little Red Shop” has roused such interest that Margaret Sidney will relate more about Jack, Cornelius, Rosalie, and -the baby, in a sequel to be called <b>The Old Brimmer Place</b>.</p> - -<p><b>Treasures: Their Hiding and Finding</b> is the title of a new serial by Rev. C. M. Livingston, full of wise entertainment.</p></div> - -<div class="center"><img src="images/hand.jpg" width="55" height="25" alt="hand" /> -The Pansy Society will have a special serial. All departments will be continued, some new features added, -and stories, poems and pictures will have ample place. Mailed for $1.00 a year.<br /> -<br /> -<i>Address all orders and inquiries to</i><br /> -<br /> -D. LOTHROP COMPANY, BOSTON.<br /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6-ad" id="Page_6-ad">[6a]</a></span></p> -<div class="adtitle3"><i>Quick Clues</i></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">A Midshipman at Large.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Charles R. Talbot</span>. 12mo, cloth, -$1.50.</p> - -<p>An escapade of a bright young fellow -who “shipped” for a yachting cruise in -vacation.</p> - -<p>The story has nothing to do with the -question whether it pays to know one’s -work and do it and “be,” as the phrase -goes, “a gentleman”; but, if the reader -chooses to think of them, he will find -plenty of stimulant.</p> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Storied Holidays.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Elbridge S. Brooks</span>, author of The -American Indian, In Leisler’s Times, In -No-Man’s Land, and others. 12mo, cloth, -$1.50.</p> - -<p>An historic tale connected with a holiday -in every month of the year.</p> - -<p>There is the snapdragon Christmas quarrel -of James I. of England with his sons -about the release of Sir Walter Raleigh; a -New Year’s meeting of Margery More with -Henry VIII; how William Penn got his -motto “Be true, be leal, be constant,” on -St. Valentine’s Day; how the Earl of Kildare -kept St. Patrick’s; the wise men of -Gotham fool King John on the first of -April; and so on through the months.</p> - -<p>These stories out of history practise one -in the times they take him back to.</p> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Eighty-Seven.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Mrs. G. R. Alden</span> (Pansy, author of -the hundred Pansy books and editor of -<i>The Pansy</i> magazine). 12mo, cloth, 1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>What is very widely known, but to many obscurely -known as the Chautauqua movement is -told with a fulness that people would lack the -patience to read, if the tale began there and stopped -there.</p> - -<p>Begins with a little civilized girl and a runaway—actually -a tramp. But trust Pansy for making -good company.</p> - -<p>A novel with the distinctly double purpose of -showing how the Reading Circles gather together -for self-improvement the most impossible people -young and old, and of recommending religious life.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Honor Bright Series.</div> - -<p>12 mo, cloth, illustrated, each, 1.25.</p> - -<div class="hangsection"> - -<p>Four Boy Stories. By <span class="smcap">Charles R. Talbot</span>. Brisk -and unconventional, bright as boy stories can be. -Girl stories, too.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Story of Honor Bright.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Royal Lowrie: A General Misunderstanding.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Royal Lowrie’s Last Year at St. Olaves.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Double Masquerade: A Romance of the Revolution.</span></p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4">Our Adventure Library.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>12mo, cloth, illustrated, each, 1.25. -Four books of disconnected short stories.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">In City and Camp.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Thirteen boys’ stories. By <span class="smcap">James Otis</span>, <span class="smcap">Kate -Foote</span>, <span class="smcap">Mary Hartwell Catherwood</span>, <span class="smcap">J. E. -Cottin</span>, <span class="smcap">Ernest Ingersoll</span>, <span class="smcap">Flora Haines Apponzi</span>, -<span class="smcap">C. E. S. Wood</span>, <span class="smcap">F. L. Stealey</span>, <span class="smcap">Ellen -Olney Kirk</span>, <span class="smcap">Helen E. Swett</span>, <span class="smcap">Alice Wellington -Rollins</span> and <span class="smcap">Anna Leach</span>.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other -Stories.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Joaquin Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Marion Harland</span>, <span class="smcap">Mary -Catherine Lee</span>, <span class="smcap">H. F. Marsh</span>, <span class="smcap">Kate Ganett -Wells</span>, <span class="smcap">George F. Hebard</span>, <span class="smcap">A. M. Griffin</span>, -<span class="smcap">James Otis</span>, <span class="smcap">John Preston True</span>, <span class="smcap">George Varney</span> -and <span class="smcap">Mary B. Claflin</span>.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">Foreign Facts and Fancies.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Stories of Travel. By <span class="smcap">Annie Sawyer Downs</span>, -<span class="smcap">Charlotte S. Fursdon</span>, <span class="smcap">Mary Gay Humphreys</span>, -<span class="smcap">Culling Cliver Eardley</span>, <span class="smcap">Rose G. Kingsley</span>, -<span class="smcap">S. W. Duffield</span>, <span class="smcap">Arthur Gilman</span>, <span class="smcap">Julian B. -Arnold</span>, <span class="smcap">David Ker</span>, <span class="smcap">Lucy C. Lillie</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. -Raymond Blathwayte</span>, <span class="smcap">Arthur F. J. Crandall</span> -and <span class="smcap">C. E. Andrews</span>.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">Stories of Danger and Adventure.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Twenty-five. By <span class="smcap">Emma W. Demeritt</span>, <span class="smcap">Caroline -Atwater Mason</span>, <span class="smcap">Frederick Schwatka</span>, -<span class="smcap">Rose G. Kingsley</span>, <span class="smcap">F. L. Stealey</span>, <span class="smcap">Lizzie W. -Champney</span>, <span class="smcap">Hamilton W. Mabie</span>, <span class="smcap">Nora Perry</span>, -<span class="smcap">Granmere Julie</span>, <span class="smcap">Jane Howard</span>, <span class="smcap">D. C. McDonald</span>, -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Mary A. Parsons</span>, <span class="smcap">Margaret -LeBoutillin</span>, <span class="smcap">Belle Stewart</span>, <span class="smcap">Lucy Lincoln -Montgomery</span>, <span class="smcap">Erskine M. Hamilton</span>, <span class="smcap">Garry -Gains</span>, <span class="smcap">Theodora R. Jenness</span>, <span class="smcap">Louise Stockton</span>, -<span class="smcap">H. M. S.</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. Annie A. Preston</span>, <span class="smcap">B. P. Shillaber</span> -and <span class="smcap">Charles E. Bolton</span>.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Boyhood Library.</div> - -<p>3 vols., 12mo, each 1.25.</p> - -<div class="adtitle4b">Adventures of Tad.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Frank H. Converse</span>. A Philadelphia street-boy’s -race with fortune takes him to Boston and -farther. Somehow he gets into the way of picking -out the proper thing to do and doing it.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">Boys of Cary Farm.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Minna Caroline Smith</span>. A Western story -of city and country boys together who have a good -time and get experience.</p></div> - -<div class="adtitle4b">An Ocean Tramp.</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Philip D. Haywood</span>. A boy sea-story. -It begins well: “I go to sea.”</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7-ad" id="Page_7-ad">[7a]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Popular Biographies.</div> - -<p>18 volumes, 12mo, cloth, 1.50.</p> - - -<p>Take these four:</p> - - -<ul class="booklist2"> -<li><span class="smcap">Oliver Wendell Holmes.</span> By E. E. Brown.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">James Russell Lowell.</span> By E. E. Brown.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.</span> By W. S. Kennedy.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">John Greenleaf Whittier.</span> By W. S. Kennedy.</li> -</ul> - - -<p>To review their lives and work and catch -the spirit of both in 300 or 400 pages of -easy type is to give the bones of biography; -which is all nine tenths of us have the time -to read; and the other tenth are glad of -the bones before they come to the more -elaborate whole.</p> - -<p>The other fourteen:</p> - - -<ul class="booklist2"> -<li><span class="smcap">Charles XII, King of Sweden.</span> By M. de Voltaire.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Charles Dickens.</span> By P. A. Hanaford.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Benjamin Franklin.</span> By Jeremiah Chaplin.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Horace Greeley.</span> By William Cornell.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">James A. Garfield.</span> By E. E. Brown.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Ulysses S. Grant.</span> By E. E. Brown.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Amos Lawrence.</span> By William R. Lawrence.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Abraham Lincoln.</span> By P. A. Hanaford.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">David Livingstone.</span> By John S. Roberts.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Lord Nelson.</span> By Robert Southey.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Israel Putnam.</span> By I. N. Tarbox.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">George Peabody.</span> By P. A. Hanaford.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Charles Sumner.</span> By J. and J. D. Chaplin.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Bayard Taylor.</span> By Russel H. Conwell.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Daniel Webster.</span> By Joseph Banvard.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Henry Wilson.</span> By Elias Nason.</li></ul> - - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Young Folks’ Stories of Foreign -Lands.</div> - -<p>Edited by Pansy. First and second -series, 4to, boards, each .75.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Sketches, tales and pictures on Old-World subjects.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Young Folks’ Stories of American History -and Home Life.</div> - -<p>First and second series. Edited by -Pansy. 4to, boards, each .75.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Sketches, tales and pictures on New-World subjects.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Stories and Pictures of Wild Animals.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Anna F. Burnham</span>. 4to, boards, .75.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Big letters, big pictures, and easy stories of elephants, -lions, tigers, lynxes, jaguars, bears, and -many others.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Stories and Pictures of Domestic Animals.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Anna F. Burnham</span>. 4to, boards .75.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Big letters, big pictures, and easy stories of farm -and house animals.</p></div> - - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Five Little Peppers and How They -Grew.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Margaret Sidney</span>. Illustrated, -12mo, cloth, 1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Story of five little children of a fond and faithful -and capable “mamsie.” Full of young life and -family talk. How they lived in the little brown -house and how they came to go out of it. One of -the most successful books of a bright and always -cheery writer.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Two Modern Little Princes.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Margaret Sidney</span>. Illustrated, -16mo, cloth, 1.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Eight rollicking stories of children. And some -of the children are those same Peppers.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Hester, and Other New England -Stories.</div> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Margaret Sidney</span>. 12mo, cloth, -1.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>For older readers. Eleven stories in which -New England dialect, customs, ways, and people -appear with many in-door and out-door notions.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Art For Young Folks.</div> - -<p>Square 8vo, boards, tinted edges, 1.50; -cloth, gilt edges, 2.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Two boys go to the Water Color Exhibition and -make numerous sketches of what they see there. -Between the pictures is picture-talk.</p> - -<p>Then the professor discourses on tools and colors -and books and schools and models—in general, -means of art.</p> - -<p>Then an account of the Children’s Hour: a novel -art school. And portraits, examples and sketches -of twenty-four American Artists. With a few -useful words on architecture.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Christmas Snow Flakes.</div> - -<p>4to, boards, 1.50; cloth, 2.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Poems of all the year round, done up with pictures -for children at Christmas.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">New England Story-Book.</div> - -<p>4to, boards, 1.50; cloth, 2.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>A picture-and-story-book by New England -authors.</p></div> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">The Poet and the Children.</div> - -<p>4to, boards, gilt edges, 1.50; cloth, 2.25. -By <span class="smcap">John G. Whittier</span>.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>And nearly two hundred other poems for children -with as many pictures for children.</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8-ad" id="Page_8-ad">[8a]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="adtitle4b">Mountain Series.</div> - -<p>4 vols, 12mo, cloth, each, 1.00.</p> - -<div class="adtitle4c">The Last Penacook.</div> - -<p class="sub2">By <span class="smcap">Abel B. Berry</span>. A New Hampshire historical -story of Indian times.</p> - -<div class="adtitle4c">A New England Idyl.</div> - -<p class="sub2">By <span class="smcap">Belle C. Greene</span>. A story of family life -in one of the shut-in nooks of New Hampshire, -Sherburne “Holler,” where souls are sometimes -out of all proportion to their surroundings.</p> - -<div class="adtitle4c">Swiss Stories.</div> - -<p class="sub2">For children, and for those who love children. -From the German of Madame Spyri by <span class="smcap">Lucy -Wheelock</span>. 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Lothrop Compan</span> - -<i>November 5, 1887.</i></div> - - -<div class='bbox'><div class='magtitle'>THE PANSY.</div></div> - -<div class='bbox'> - - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 486px;"> -<img src="images/illus016.jpg" width="486" height="600" alt="cat standing with front paws on door that is ajar" /> -<div class="caption">THE CAT THAT COULD OPEN DOORS.</div> -</div> -</div> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>“WE TWELVE GIRLS.”</h2> - -<div class="blockquot2"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before -men, him will I confess also, before my Father which -is in heaven.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">He was a burning and a shining light.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy -laden, and I will give you rest.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.</span></p></div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">I SHALL have to begin the story for you, or -you would never understand. It happened -that the twelve girls in Mr. Shepard’s Bible -class were very nearly of an age; were class-mates -in day school, as well as on Sundays, and -were very fond of one another.</p> - -<p>They lived in different parts of the country, -but were gathered in Clayville at boarding-school.</p> - -<p>It came to pass that on this year of which I -write, they were to be widely scattered; only -one was to return to the school in the fall. It -was because of this fact that the thought grew -up, out of which grows my story. On the last -Sabbath before they separated, Mr. Shepard -gave to each a tiny book of texts; one for each -week, with the hint that he would like them to -live by those words in the coming year.</p> - -<p>This set them to thinking and to talking. -After many plans, it was finally agreed that -they should each select a month in which to -write a letter that should give some account of -an experience connected with one of the verses -for that month. These letters were to be passed -by mail from one member of the class to another -until each had read them; and I, being a particular -friend of several of the girls, have the -privilege of reading them, and of making a copy -for you, my Blossoms.</p> - -<p>Cora Stevens had the month of November, and, -without more introduction, I give you her letter:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<div class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Maplewood</span>, <i>Nov. 18</i>—<br /> -</div> - -<div class="unindent"><span class="smcap">You dear Girls</span>:</div> - -<p>I hope you every one miss me as much as I -do you! Really and truly, I am dreadfully -homesick for school! But this is my special -letter, so I must not take time for anything else. -I’m sorry I promised to write the first one, because -I don’t know just how to write it, and I -have such a mean, silly little story to tell, that -I’m ashamed of it, anyhow.</p> - -<p>I chose that verse about “confessing before -men,” for the one to write my letter on. And -I meant to go to the young people’s meeting, -and to the Band, and confess Him in some way -that would be nice to tell; and I didn’t do anything -of the kind.</p> - -<p>Don’t you think my story is about a cat! -Who would have supposed that a cat would get -mixed up with a verse like that?</p> - -<p>We went to grandma’s, as usual, for the month -of November, but things there were very unusual, -for aunt Kate was married, and the house -was full of company and confusion.</p> - -<p>It is about the wedding day that I’m to tell -you. I wish you could have seen the tables -after they were ready. They did look too lovely -for anything! The central table was magnificent. -All the old silver and queer, quaint china -which have been in grandma’s family for ages, -had been brought out for decoration, and people -say that the tablecloth was the finest piece of -old damask that has ever been used in this part -of the world. If I had Nettie’s descriptive -powers, I could give you a picture of the whole; -but as it is, I want you to confine your attention -to one dish—the loveliest cut-glass beauty that -was ever seen. It was amber-colored sometimes, -with little threads of crimson running through -it, which reminded one of a sunset. Besides, it -was a very peculiarly-shaped dish, and as frail -as a cobweb. Uncle Fred found it in Paris, and -brought it to the bride. Uncle Fred, you understand, -is the bridegroom.</p> - -<p>Well, it was on the special wedding table, -just before the bride’s seat, and was filled with -the most exquisite flowers.</p> - -<p>Grandma did not want the dish used, because -it was so frail and so rare, but aunt Kate insisted -that it should be placed just there, and -be filled with orange-buds.</p> - -<p>Grandma had just seen that the very last -touches had been put to the table, and had taken -the children in for a look, and then had said, as -she shut the dining-room door: “Now, don’t -one of you children open that door again. I -wouldn’t have anything go wrong in there for a -great deal.”</p> - -<p>Then she went up to take a last look at aunt -Kate, before she became Mrs. Fred Somerville.</p> - -<p>Just at that moment little Sallie Evans came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> -running down the hall, her eyes full of tears. -Her mamma had called her just as grandma took -the children in to see the tables, and she had -missed the sight.</p> - -<p>“And now I sha’n’t see them at all, till -everything is spoiled,” she said, “for they aren’t -going to let the little bits of cousins come to the -first table.” And she sobbed outright.</p> - -<p>Now it never entered my mind that grandma -meant me, when she said, “You children,” because—well, -because, you know, I am thirteen, -and there are three at home, younger than I, -and I’m used to being trusted. So I said, -“Never mind, Sallie, I’ll let you look at them; -but you must look fast, for it is almost time for -the wedding.”</p> - -<p>So, in we went. And Sallie, who is the most -beauty-loving little creature of eight, whom I -ever saw, seemed to have eyes only for that -lovely glass dish, which she had never seen before. -She clasped her hands together with an -eager little “Oh!” and ran towards it. I don’t -suppose she would have touched it, but I was -excited, and so afraid she would, that I ran after -her, calling out, “Don’t touch anything!” and -put out my hand to prevent it. And then, I -don’t know how it happened—does anybody -know how such accidents happen? The lace -from my sleeve caught in one of the points of -the glass, or in one of the stems of flowers, or -somehow,—I don’t suppose I could do it again -if I tried,—but over that glass went, the water -pouring itself out in the most disgusting way, -on the damask cloth, and a long crooked piece -snapped from the upper edge of the dish!</p> - -<p>O, dear! Don’t ask me how I felt. I -couldn’t describe it, even though I were sitting -on the dear old bed at No. 7, with half a dozen -of you beside me, and the rest cuddled around -close at hand.</p> - -<p>There wasn’t any time to do anything. I -heard them calling, at that moment, for I was -one of the bridesmaids. I just had to force -back my tears and my fright, and run and take -my place in the procession. We all got through -it somehow. I hope aunt Kate heard what the -minister said; I didn’t; but it is safe to say that -she was not thinking of what I was.</p> - -<p>Immediately after the ceremony, we went to -the dining-room, and then the awful accident -was discovered. I don’t know which I was the -most sorry for, grandma or myself. I didn’t -mean to tell about it then, because I thought -it wouldn’t be the proper time; and then, of -course, it would be dreadful to have to speak -before them at all.</p> - -<p>But what should grandma do, after we were -all seated, and the eating had begun, but lean -over to aunt Kate and say in a low tone: “That -is some of Jill’s work; if I don’t get rid of a cat -who can open doors, before I am a day older, it -will be because I am not smart enough.”</p> - -<p>Now, Jill is the cutest cat that was ever born, -I do believe; there isn’t a door in grandma’s -house that she cannot manage to open almost -as well as though she had hands.</p> - -<p>I never thought of her blaming the cat; and -now the story came out, just as they guessed it -had happened, and all the people at our end of -the table talked it over.</p> - -<p>Even then, I don’t know whether I would -have spoken, because Jill is only a cat, you know, -and her feelings couldn’t be hurt by bearing -blame that didn’t belong to her for a few hours, -until I could see grandma alone. But, just as I -was thinking that, I heard grandma say: “The -fault rests with little John. I charged him a -dozen times to keep watch of that cat, and not -on any account let her out of the barn to-day; -and that is all the good it did! I think I have -given John a lesson on obedience that he will -remember.”</p> - -<p>Now John is the little errand boy; a real nice -chubby little fellow, who was very fond of aunt -Kate, and who had never tasted wedding cake, -and he was to drive one of the carriages to the -depot that very day, to see the bridal party off.</p> - -<p>It all came over me like a flash—how grandma -would forbid his coming in to the wedding supper, -and how she would not let him drive to the -depot, but would send him to bed; and I felt -just as though I should choke!</p> - -<p>Even then, it didn’t seem to me that I could -speak out then and there; and I don’t believe -I could have done it, but for the verse.</p> - -<p>Girls, I know you don’t see how the verse is -coming in, and I can’t explain myself how it -seemed to fit; there was certainly nothing about -“confessing” Jesus in my telling of what I had -done. And yet, you see, I knew I ought to tell,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> -and I know it is what Jesus would do in my -place, and it would be showing that I wanted to -copy him, and—well, anyhow, it seemed to -fit exactly, though I can’t explain it. And I -spoke right out, loud and fast: “Grandmother, -it wasn’t the cat; John didn’t let the cat out; it -was I did it.”</p> - -<p>My voice sounded so loud that it almost -seemed as though they could hear me down at -the church; the people at our table all stopped -talking, and I just knew they could hear my -heart beat.</p> - -<p>“You!” said grandma. “You let the cat -out?”</p> - -<p>“No, ma’am,” I said, “I broke the dish.”</p> - -<p>Then she questioned, and I answered, until -somehow, she had the whole story.</p> - -<p>I don’t think any tears dropped, but my eyes -and my throat felt full of them. It didn’t -seem to me that I could say another word, and -then grandma said: “Well, well, child, there -are worse things in the world than broken dishes. -Eat your wedding cake, and think no more -about it.” And I heard her call one of the -waiters, and say to him: “Tell little John that -he may dress himself again in his best suit, and -come to the dining-room as soon as he is ready.” -Then I knew that I had been none too soon -with my confession.</p> - -<p>And the bride, my dear, sweet aunt Kate, -leaned over toward me and spoke low, “There -are better things than glass dishes,” she said; -“there are little nieces who are true.”</p> - -<p>And papa looked across the table at me, and -nodded, and smiled.</p> - -<p>And in spite of the lovely broken dish, and -the tablecloth, and my being ashamed, and all, -I never felt happier in my life.</p> - -<p>And as for the verse, if you girls can’t fit it -to the cat story, I shall not be surprised; for I -can’t explain it myself, but I know they fitted -when the time came. Good-by!</p> - -<div class="sig"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving, lonely</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Cora</span>.<br /> -</div></div> - -<div class="center">————————</div> - - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p><span class="smcap">Water</span> that flows from a spring, does not -freeze in the coldest winter. And those sentiments -of true friendship which flow from the -heart cannot be frozen by adversity.</p></div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<h2><a name="A_THANKSGIVING_DINNER" id="A_THANKSGIVING_DINNER">A THANKSGIVING DINNER.</a></h2> - - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap" src="images/drop-t.jpg" width="71" height="135" alt="T" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-capi">THERE are four of us young people at -home: first I, who am sixteen, then there -is a long gap, and next comes Katie, -who is eight, and Bessie, who is six, -and last of all baby Harry, who is not -yet two. But we were all a year younger when -what I mean to tell you of happened, for that -was a year ago.</p> - -<p>I spoke of Katie and Bessie and Harry and -myself as the young people, because I think I -am rather too old to be called a child, and I -didn’t know how else to put it, but I don’t at all -mean to call father and mother old. It is true -father has a great many gray streaks in his hair, -but I think that is more from care than from -age.</p> - -<p>It makes me sad, however, very sad, to see -father’s hair changing color; but when I speak -of it, he only laughs and says: “The whites are -gaining the ascendency, and the aborigines becoming -extinct.”</p> - -<p>Father and mother have not looked like themselves -since the summer mother was so ill. That -was the most dreadful period of my life, I am -sure. For a long time we thought she couldn’t -recover. She was ill, of course, to begin with, -and then the expense of having a doctor and -nurse preyed on her mind and made against her. -I really believe mother minded that more than -the pain she suffered! At one time she got so -nervous with thinking of it, that she said Dr. -May’s visits did her more harm than good, and -declared she wouldn’t see him again; but Dr. -Armstrong, our minister, happened to come in -just then, and he soon reasoned her out of all -that and made her see things differently.</p> - -<p>There couldn’t possibly be a nicer minister -than Dr. Armstrong,—I can’t begin to say how -much I love him; better, indeed, than anybody -in the world, outside of home, except a dear -friend, Miss Judith Hepburn. Miss Judith lives -next door to us; she is old and very poor; -she has, in fact, nothing in the world but the -house she lives in, and so she occupies only one -of the rooms on the first floor, and lives on the -rent from the others. But Miss Judith is as -happy as if she possessed all this world has to -offer, and happier, too, for that matter, and this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> -is because she is such a true Christian. “Whatever -befalls us is good,” she says, “whether it -comes in the shape of prosperity or of adversity, -because everything is bestowed by a loving -Hand.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 548px;"> -<img src="images/illus025.jpg" width="548" height="600" alt="Three children with paper doll chain" /> -<div class="caption">AMUSING BABY HARRY.</div> -</div> - -<p>I forgot to say, all this while, that my name -is Annie—Annie Gray—but Miss Judith never -calls me anything but “Martha.” She commenced -this when mother was ill, because I -kept so busy, and perhaps, too, because I was -“troubled about many things,” for indeed I was -all during her illness, and for a long time after, -too, for the debt we owed to the doctor and -nurse hung like a black cloud over the household. -It is different with some people, but debt -has always seemed a very serious evil to us. I -believe father has dreaded it almost more than -anything else, and up to mother’s illness, he had -always avoided it; but the demands which sickness -makes are very great, and can’t be easily -disregarded.</p> - -<p>Ah! how often I have heard father say: -“Owe no man anything,” after which he would -always add, “whether this is a Divine command,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> -or only loving counsel I cannot say, but, in -either case, I shall not willingly disregard it.”</p> - -<p>Well, it was right funny, but soon after -mother’s illness, Dr. Armstrong commenced his -Friday evening lectures to the congregation -“On Secular Matters,” as he said in his notice. -Father took me to the first one, and I couldn’t -help giving his hand a squeeze when he gave out -the subject, “Debts: How They are Made, and -How They May be Paid.” I can’t remember -the words he used, which is a pity, but Dr. Armstrong’s -words, as well as his thoughts, are -forcible, but I know the sense of it all was that -debts are generally commenced in a small way, -little by little, little by little, they are added one -to the other, till presently an account is presented -to us of such overwhelming proportions that we -despair of ever wiping it out. “But I trust,” -he added, “that none of my friends who find -themselves in this unhappy situation will give -way for a moment to a feeling of discouragement. -Step by step have we been led into -trouble; let us retrace our way in like manner, -step by step. Begin from this moment a system -of judicious retrenchment; lay aside sums, never -mind how trifling, toward the liquidation of -your debt, and little by little it will melt away, -till, almost unconsciously to yourself, it has disappeared, -and you, again a free man, ‘can look -the whole world in the face.’”</p> - -<p>“Ah, that was practical! That was what I -needed!” said father, as we came out after the -lecture was over, “and I, for one, shall not -‘approve the doctrine and immediately practice -the contrary.’ No; from this very moment I -shall begin to retrench and put by. Ah, Annie, -‘a word in season,’ how good it is! I was -almost ready to despair till now.”</p> - -<p>And that was the beginning of our saving. -First, coffee was given up; mother always drank -tea, and so no one was inconvenienced by that but -father; then butter was dispensed with, and the -cheapest meat and vegetables in the market -were selected, and mother decided that so many -things were unnecessary about our clothes, that -Katie declared after a while mother would think -we could do without buttons on our dresses. -But my happy part of the day, during all this -anxious time, was the twilight when there was -no work for me to do and I could run in and sit -by Miss Judith’s bright little fire and talk over -things with her. It was on one of these evenings, -after Miss Judith’s usual greeting of, “Well, -Martha, how has the work come on to-day?” -that I said, “Indeed, Miss Judith, I wish I were -not such a ‘Martha,’ and that I might ‘choose -the better part,’ like Mary. But then, what can -I do? Wouldn’t it be wrong for me to throw -things on mother when she isn’t strong, and -don’t you think our Saviour would think so, -too? Then, besides, mother would have to be -a ‘Martha,’ for the work must be done. I am -sure it is all very puzzling to me, anyway.”</p> - -<p>“I do not wonder that you say so, dear,” said -Miss Judith, “for older heads than yours have -puzzled over the same question, and certain it is -that were it not for the ‘Marthas’ in the world -the whole system of society would come to a -stand-still. But, then, Annie, we are told that -Martha was ‘<i>cumbered</i> with serving’; she allowed -her work, it would seem, to absorb her -faculties to the exclusion of other and more -important things; we need not do that, need -we? Has not each one of us, even the busiest -among us, leisure sufficient to consecrate his -work to God in prayer, and ask His blessing -upon it, and His help in it? Then, my child,” -she continued, “observe the words of our -Saviour, ‘Mary has chosen the better part’; -that is better than Martha, but perhaps there -is a ‘better part,’ still, or the best part, in -which labor and worship are united, in which, -while ‘not slothful in business,’ we are still -‘fervent in spirit serving the Lord.’ This would -seem to me the best part, and surely the best -example is that of the blessed Saviour Himself, -who ‘came not to be ministered to, but to -minister,’ who ‘went about doing good,’ and -‘followed up days of toil with nights of prayer.’ -Yes, my dear, the necessity of serving is evidently -laid upon you, and you have not the -choice of your part in life, but the manner in -which you act your part is within your power. -Don’t forget, dear child, that you ‘serve the -Lord Christ,’ and ‘whatsoever you do, do it -heartily as unto Him.’ He has taken a journey -into a far country now, but he will come again -to inspect your work; be faithful, dear Annie, -and watch and pray.”</p> - -<p>That little talk with Miss Judith did me real<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> -good. My little talks with her always do, and -mother says that she is the greatest possible -comfort to her, for she shows her how useful -one may be, even where one has only sympathy -and counsel to bestow; and father says that -there is a healing and strengthening power in -her words, which is far better than a gift of -silver and gold, for it enables you to “rise up -and walk” under the burden of life.</p> - -<p>The children certainly did bear the privations -we underwent well, but Katie said to me privately -one night, “I never did want something -good to eat as badly in my life. I am real glad -Thanksgiving Day is so near.” But when the -day before Thanksgiving came, and mother asked -if I should get anything different for dinner -next day, father shook his head with such a -decided “no” that there was nothing more to be -said, but it was undoubtedly a change; we had -never known what it was not to have turkey -and pudding then. I was most grieved, however, -at the thought of not having my usual -present for Miss Judith. I had always, on -that day, carried her in her dinner, and on the -waiter a five dollar bill; but as I went up stairs -at night, father slipped five dollars into my -hand, saying, “This is for Miss Judith, Annie. -We must not forget, in our efforts to retrench, -the debt we owe our Heavenly Father.”</p> - -<p>That was enough to put me in a proper frame -for the next day, even if I had not already had -sufficient to be thankful for. I had quite made -up my mind that mother was to go to church, -and let me mind Harry, but there was a great -deal of persuading necessary to get her up to -the point. However, I succeeded at last, and -after they were all gone and I had washed up the -breakfast things, Master Harry began to show -symptoms of sleepiness, so I tucked him in his -little cradle, and began rocking him to and fro, -singing all the while one of Miss Judith’s favorite -hymns:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“One by one thy duties wait thee,</div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">With thy whole strength go to each,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Let no future dreams elate thee,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Learn thou first what these may teach.</span></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Do not look at life’s long sorrow,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">See how short each moment’s pain,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">God will help thee for the morrow,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Every day begin again.”</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Over and over I sang it, till at last the white -lids closed, and I was getting up softly to slip -away, when ting-a-ling! went the door-bell, with -such a sound through the house that Harry -stirred, then opened his blue eyes to their fullest -extent, and I was obliged to get him quiet -again before answering the bell. When at last -I did go down, lo! not a creature was to be -seen: only a hamper-basket covered with a white -cloth with a paper pinned on top, on which was -written: “For Mr. Gray; from a friend.”</p> - -<p>It was just as much as I could do to get the -basket into the kitchen, and then, oh! the good -things that met my eyes. First of all, a turkey -ready dressed, then a roll of golden butter, then -several jars of sausage-meat and jelly, then a -bunch of celery, and last a great iced cake. -This completed the contents, but no; as I lifted -out the lower cloth there lay a sealed envelope -directed, as the basket had been, to father. -This I laid aside till his return, but what to do -about the other things was puzzling. They are -clearly intended for father’s Thanksgiving dinner, -I thought, but unless the turkey is put to roast -right away it won’t be done in time. Shall I, -or shall I not? I said to myself. Then I remembered -how feeble dear mother looked when -she set out; how she feared the services would -be too much for her strength. Yes, I said decidedly, -by way of answering my doubts, a -warm nourishing dinner will be just what she -needs, and so, without more ado, I set to work. -The baby (bless his little heart!) was real good, -and let me, get well “under way” before he -waked up. There was no keeping the secret of -the dinner, however, when the front door was -once entered, for the savory odor of the roasting -turkey told the tale at once, and the whole party -hurried into the kitchen to find out what it -meant.</p> - -<p>“O, father!” I said, when the exclamations -over the first part of my recital had sufficiently -subsided to admit of my getting in a word, -“there was a letter for you in the basket, too.”</p> - -<p>“This will give us the name of the donor,” -said he, as he opened it. But, no indeed, there -was no name inside, only some notes neatly -folded. “Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five -dollars,” said father, counting them out on the -table. “God be praised for all His mercies,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> -and God bless the giver!” said he, fervently, -while mother turned away to get Miss Judith’s -dinner ready, and hide her tears, for poor -mother was actually crying.</p> - -<p>“Take this, too, Annie,” said father, putting -another five on the one already lying on the -waiter, when at last it was ready for me to take -in. Of course I had to stop and tell Miss Judith -the wonderful news about the basket, and when -I got back again mother was putting the last -dish on the table; then, going to our places, we -stood with bowed heads while father said the -grace I had always been accustomed to hear, but -which seemed to have gained new meaning and -beauty,—</p> - -<p>“Supply the wants of others, O Lord, and -give us grateful hearts, for Christ’s sake.”</p> - -<p>We never knew the secret of that Thanksgiving -basket, nor did we ever inquire into it, -but we all had a notion that Dr. Armstrong -could have thrown light upon the subject if he -had chosen to.</p> - -<div class="sig"> -G. S. W.<br /> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 580px;"> -<img src="images/illus034.jpg" width="580" height="600" alt="Little boys anbd knives" /> -<div class="caption">TRYING THEIR NEW KNIVES.</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> - -<div class='center'> -<i>Volume 15, Number 2.</i> - -Copyright, 1887, by <span class="smcap">D. Lothrop Compan</span> - -<i>November 12, 1887.</i></div> - - -<div class='bbox'><div class='magtitle'>THE PANSY.</div></div> - -<div class='bbox'> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 505px;"> -<img src="images/illus035.jpg" width="505" height="600" alt="momma holding baby up" /> -<div class="caption">THE BABY THAT’S NEVER CROSS.</div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>A SEVENFOLD TROUBLE.</h2> - -<div class="center">(<i>Told by Seven People who Knew of it.</i>)<br /> -<span class="smcap">By Grace Livingston.</span></div> - - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap" src="images/drop-m.jpg" width="81" height="138" alt="M" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-capi">MARGARET threw an old shawl over -her head and went out the side door. -This had been a hard day. Weston -had been very cross, and insisted upon -having her run a great many errands -for him, some of them unnecessary.</p> - -<p>This, too, was the first day of the fall term -of school, and Margaret had so wanted to be -early at school to secure her old seat; for she had -heard that Helen Marcy was going to try to get -it first. She had almost forgotten her new resolves -in the morning when her step-mother had -told her she would have to stay home to-day -and help her.</p> - -<p>As the tears came into Margaret’s eyes, Mrs. -Moore had remarked: “Now’s a good time to -show your religion. A girl that’s joined the -church shouldn’t go around pouting all day because -she’s asked to do a little work; especially -when she’s been off doing nothing at the seashore.”</p> - -<p>It was all true, Margaret knew it, but it -seemed so hateful of her to say it. It had been -so hard to bear.</p> - -<p>After tea she walked down to the gate and -stood staring out into the darkness.</p> - -<p>It was a very hard life, all just as black and -unlovely as that dark autumn evening.</p> - -<p>She glanced back at the house. There was -Johnnie bending over his books, the gaslight -above him brought him out in clear relief against -the dark room. Naughty Johnnie! How he -had teased her every time he came near her that -day! Nobody cared for her much. She gazed -down the street. Here and there a light gleamed -out. Across the way there was a bright fire in -the fireplace, and the family seemed to be having -a happy time, sitting around the table, sewing, -reading, laughing and talking. The little girl -was sitting in her father’s lap. How Margaret -longed for such a pleasant evening in their -home. She turned involuntarily back to the -house. Her father and Mr. Wakefield, the minister, -had gone out just after tea, and Mrs. -Moore had gone to her own room directly after -the dishes were washed. The house was all -dark, save Johnnie’s one gas jet. It was just -unbearable. No other girl in the world had -such a hard lot. It couldn’t possibly be any -worse.</p> - -<p>Yes, she really thought so, this poor silly little -girl.</p> - -<p>But she did not altogether forget her Heavenly -Father. She remembered presently, with a glad -thrill of joy, that she belonged to the rich King -of all the earth. He could help her. She would -ask Him.</p> - -<p>Down went her head on the gate-post, and -she told her Father in Heaven all about it, and -how she could not possibly stand it.</p> - -<p>Then she raised her head with a confident -feeling that now all would be well, and fell to -planning different ways in which her prayer -might be answered.</p> - -<p>She didn’t exactly want her step-mother to -die! She was rather shocked at the thought. -That was a very wrong thought for a Christian -girl to have.</p> - -<p>Poor little Margaret! She thought she loved -Jesus, and was trying with all her might to -serve him, but she still had to learn the command: -“Honor thy father and thy mother.”</p> - -<p>Throwing that disagreeable thought aside, she -went on. How <i>could</i> it all be changed? Perhaps -some rich, unheard-of relative of her -mother’s would die and leave a vast fortune to -her as her mother’s only daughter. Then what -would she do? She would give her father -enough so that he wouldn’t have to work anymore. -She would—yes, she would show a -very Christian spirit toward Mrs. Moore. She -would re-furnish the house, and hire several servants -for her, and give her enough to buy beautiful -dresses. The boys should be sent to college, -and she,—she would go off to boarding-school -and study as much as she liked, and never have -to stay home and wash dishes. She would have -plenty of money to give away. She would buy -a great many flowers to give to poor sick people. -Her room should be beautifully furnished, and -she would invite all the poor girls in school there -and give them nice times.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> - -<p>She was just treating those imaginary girls to -chocolate creams and marshmallow drops, when -she heard her father’s step coming swiftly down -the street, and his voice say: “Margaret, you -should not be out in this chilly night air.” Then -she turned and followed him into the house. -She had to give up her musings for a while and -help Johnnie with his arithmetic lesson, but she -promised herself more castle-building when she -went to her own room, before she slept.</p> - -<p>But presently her father called her. “Margaret,” -he said, “I have a letter here from your -Aunt Cornelia. She wishes you to come and -spend the winter with her and attend school. -Would you like to go?”</p> - -<p>Margaret’s heart bounded with joy. Not -alone with the pleasure of going to Aunt Cornelia, -but with a sort of triumphant feeling that -her prayer was answered, and that so soon. She -resolved complacently that she should always -pray for everything. Poor child! She thought -her faith was very great.</p> - -<p>It was quite dark in the room and Margaret -could not see her father’s face as he said this, -but his voice was very kind. The door into -the hall was partly open, and the streak of light -which came from it fell upon the sofa, and -showed the dim outlines of Mrs. Moore lying -there with her head bound up in a handkerchief. -There was a faint odor of camphor and vinegar -pervading the room and Margaret’s conscience -smote her as she remembered her hard thoughts -out by the gate. Perhaps Mrs. Moore had been -suffering all day from a sick headache, and that -was why she was so severe. The little girl’s -heart softened and she resolved to pray that the -headache be cured, which, however, she forgot -to do. You must remember how full her heart -was of excitement, and pity this poor young -Christian.</p> - -<p>It was all settled that evening that she should -go in a week, and she went up to her room to -write a letter overflowing with thanks to dear -Aunt Cornelia, and then went to bed to dream -of the new life.</p> - -<p>How easy it would be to be a Christian, living -with Aunt Cornelia, she thought, while she was -dressing the next morning. God must have -seen how utterly impossible it was for her to -serve him truly here in her home, and so planned -this for her. But her thoughts were interrupted -by a knock at her door, and Johnnie -called out:</p> - -<p>“Say, Mag, <i>she’s</i> sick, an’ father’s gone for -the doctor, an’ he said you must come an’ get -some breakfast, an’ West’s cross, an’ it rains like -sixty, an’ the wood’s all wet, an’ I can’t make -the fire burn. Can’t you come quick?”</p> - -<p>Had Margaret known all the trials that were -to come to her that day, she would have stopped, -in that little minute that stood between her -bright hopes of the night before, and the unknown -future, to ask her Heavenly Father for -strength for what was to come. But she did -not. Perhaps it was some shadow of coming -trouble that made her reach out her hand and -push the letter she had written into her upper -bureau drawer. Then she hastened down-stairs. -Desolation reigned there. Johnnie’s books and -slate were scattered over the dining-room table, -just as he had left them the night before. Weston -had added to the confusion by spending his -evening in cutting bits out of several newspapers -for his scrap-book, and little white snips were -scattered thick over the floor. Margaret remembered -that the dining-room always before -looked nice when she came down in the morning. -It <i>did</i> make a difference to have a mother -around, even if she <i>was</i> only a step-mother.</p> - -<p>Out in the kitchen Johnnie was rattling the -stove and the smoke was pouring out of every -crevice.</p> - -<p>It was late that morning before the new minister -got his breakfast, and the steak was smoky -and the coffee muddy-looking, but he smiled -pleasantly at Margaret’s red face and told her -that she had done well for the first time.</p> - -<p>While they were at breakfast, Mr. Moore came -in with the doctor.</p> - -<p>They went directly up-stairs, but soon came -down again, the doctor taking out his medicine-case -and calling for glasses and water. Mr. -Moore looked anxious and worried. Margaret -tried to hear the doctor’s replies to her father’s -troubled questions, but she only caught words -now and then:</p> - -<p>“Inflammatory rheumatism.” “System completely -run down.” “Rest for several months.”</p> - -<p>These were the bits of phrases that came to -Margaret through the open kitchen door, as she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> -stood by the faucet drawing water for the doctor. -The rest of the sentences were drowned -by the rush of the water, but Margaret could -easily imagine it, and her heart stood still.</p> - -<p>She knew that this meant many things that -the doctor did not say.</p> - -<p>It meant that she could not go to Aunt Cornelia’s; -that she must spend the winter at home; -that she must be the one who must constantly -wait on the sick woman. She could even now -hear the irritable words which she imagined her -step-mother would use to her when she didn’t do -everything just right.</p> - -<p>Then a great rebellion arose in her heart.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 389px;"> -<img src="images/illus040.jpg" width="389" height="557" alt="Margaret" /> -<div class="caption">SHE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN HER RESOLVES.</div> -</div> - -<p>“God hasn’t answered my prayer at all,” she -said to herself, and the great disappointment -made her hand shake as she set the water-pitcher -down before the doctor.</p> - -<p>Mr. Moore didn’t think his little girl had -heard the doctor’s words, and he looked after -her with a troubled sigh as she went back to -the kitchen. How should he tell her? Would -she storm and cry as she had been wont to do -when her will was crossed? He decided that -he would not tell her that day.</p> - -<p>The breakfast dishes washed, Johnnie at school, -and her father up-stairs, Margaret betook herself -to the kitchen to wail out her sorrow and pity -herself. She dared not go to her own room, -lest she should be heard. Rebellion was in her -soul, and the more she cried the more she pitied -herself and cried again. Mr. Wakefield, coming -to the kitchen to ask for some warm water, -found Margaret with her arms on the table, and -her head on her arms, sobbing great angry, disappointed -sobs. He stopped in dismay.</p> - -<p>“Why, Margaret, what is the matter? Is -there anything I can do for you?”</p> - -<p>“No, there isn’t! God hasn’t answered my -prayer! You said he would! Now I’ve got -to stay at home and wait on <i>her!</i> I don’t believe -he heard me at all!”</p> - -<p>Margaret fairly screamed this out. She had -worked herself into such a state that she scarcely -knew what she was saying. Was this the gentle, -humble Christian he had received into the church -but two days before? This thought passed -through the minister’s mind, but he was too wise -to express it to the excited little girl. He only -asked quietly:</p> - -<p>“Margaret, does your father always say ‘yes’ -to you when you ask for something?”</p> - -<p>“Why, no; of course not!” she said, in surprise.</p> - -<p>“And suppose you should ask for something, -and he should say No, would you come and tell -me that your father would not answer you?”</p> - -<p>She did not answer this time, and Mr. Wakefield -went on:</p> - -<p>“Suppose your father knows that what you -ask would be very hurtful to you, would you -think him cruel to refuse you?”</p> - -<p>“But this isn’t hurtful! It’s best for me! -God wants me to be a Christian, and I never -can be one in this house!” she burst out.</p> - -<p>“Margaret, which do you think knows best, -you who know so little, or God who made you, -and who sees all things that ever have happened -or ever will happen in your life? My little -friend, I am afraid you didn’t pray in the right -spirit,”—</p> - -<p>“O, yes, I did!” she interrupted eagerly.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> -“I believed. I thought of course He would -give it to me.”</p> - -<p>“But believing is not the only thing. You -forgot to put one little sentence in, ‘Thy will -be done.’ If you had put it in words your -prayer would sound something like this: ‘Our -Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy -name, Thy kingdom come, Margaret Moore’s -will be done,’”—</p> - -<p>At this Margaret couldn’t help smiling through -her tears.</p> - -<p>“Your kind Heavenly Father didn’t give you -just what you asked for, because he saw that it -would not be best for you. Perhaps he saw -that his servant must learn patiently to serve -him at home, among trials, before she would ever -make the right kind of servant out in the world. -He will answer your prayer in some other way -than the one you had planned, Margaret. He -loves you a great deal better than you love -yourself. Can’t you trust him?”</p> - -<p>And then the minister went away without his -hot water. Went back to his room to pray for -the poor little troubled disciple down-stairs. -And Margaret sat and thought. She saw now -just how foolish and wicked she had been. She -had a long struggle with her rebellious heart, -kneeling on the bare floor with her head on the -kitchen table, but she conquered at last, and the -peace of God filled her heart. She was resolved -now to give up her own way and try to do God’s -way. “But, dear Jesus,” she prayed, “I’ll have -to be helped a great deal, for I can’t do it alone, -and I know I shall cry if they say much about -Aunt Cornelia.”</p> - -<p>Margaret had found the right way to do all -she could herself and trust in Jesus for the rest, -and to give up her life, her will, her whole self -into his keeping.</p> - -<p>But she remembered that she had other duties -and that her father might be down-stairs at any -moment, so she hastened to her room to wash -away the traces of tears.</p> - -<p>Half-way down the stairs she paused. “Would -not it please Jesus if she were to knock at -mother’s door and ask if there was anything she -could do?”</p> - -<p>She retraced her steps softly and gave a very -gentle knock. Her father came from the darkened -room, his face so careworn that it almost -startled her. “Father, please don’t look so -worried. Everything will be all right. I can -keep house,” she said.</p> - -<p>Her father regarded her with a tender, sorrowful -look.</p> - -<p>“Does my little girl know that she cannot go -away this winter?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, sir; I know it. Never mind that. It’s -all right, father.”</p> - -<p>Mr. Moore was so amazed and pleased at this -new character exhibited by his daughter that he -scarcely knew what to say.</p> - -<p>“I am very sorry it is so, Margaret, but your -mother is very sick. She has been under a great -strain this summer. You will have to wait on -her and be a general help. I would hire some -one else to do it if I could afford it, but I cannot. -Your mother’s sister, Amelia, who has -been living in Brierly with her brother, will -come, I think, and keep house, and then the -minister need not go away, for we need all the -money we can get now to pay the doctor’s bills.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 333px;"> -<img src="images/illus043.jpg" width="333" height="133" alt="boy working" /> -<div class="caption">THERE SAT JOHNNIE.</div> -</div> -<p>Margaret’s face fell.</p> - -<p>“Must we have her? Isn’t there some one -else we can have?” she said, lowering her voice.</p> - -<p>“Not without paying for it,” said her father, -sadly.</p> - -<p>“Couldn’t I do the work?” she asked.</p> - -<p>“No, Margaret; you will have all you can do -to wait on your mother, and,” he added, “I -am afraid you cannot even go to school here at -home,—for a time, at least. I am sorry, but I -don’t see any other way out just now.”</p> - -<p>Margaret felt very much like bursting into -tears again, but a glance at her father’s worn -face changed her feelings.</p> - -<p>“Never mind, father, I’ll do all I can, and be -as good as I can.” And she wound her arms -around her father’s neck and kissed him.</p> - -<p>If she only could have known how much that -kiss comforted her father. He went back into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> -the darkened room with a lightened heart and -a feeling that there must be something in religion, -for it had changed Margaret wonderfully.</p> - -<p>Margaret snatched the first hour that came to -her to write a letter to Aunt Cornelia, telling her -how impossible it was for her to come to her, -and how very sorry she was, and soon there -came a long, sympathetic, helpful answer, and -with it a little book bound in green and silver. -“To help you when you feel discouraged,” the -good auntie wrote.</p> - -<p>On the first page Margaret opened, her eyes -met these words:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“God’s will is like a cliff of stone,</div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">My will is like the sea.</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Each murmuring thought is only thrown</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Tenderly back to me.</span></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">God’s will and mine are one this day,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And ever more shall be,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And there’s a calm in life’s tossed bay,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And the waves sleep quietly.”</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>And they sang a little tune in her heart as -she thought of all she must bear that long -winter.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - - -<h2>THE FIRST LOAD.</h2> - - -<div> - <img class="splittop" src="images/drop-ia.jpg" alt="I" width="72" height="25" /> - <img class="split" src="images/drop-ib.jpg" alt="I" width="52" height="70" /> -</div> - -<p class='dropcapstory'>IT was a warm, sunny Sunday morning, -and consequently Robbie Ellsworth was -allowed to go to church. This was -quite a luxury to him, because he had -but recently recovered from the measles, and his -mother was rather afraid to have him go.</p> - -<p>The notices were all given out, at least so the -people thought, when the minister announced -that there would be a meeting of the congregation -the next day, to raise money for a new -church. That building, they saw, was altogether -too small, and he did hope they would get a -new one started very soon, as a lot was donated -in a fine location.</p> - -<p>Then came the sermon. It was about little -things. Robbie listened attentively, as the minister -told how many great things had been -started and helped by little boys and girls, and -by people with little money or talent.</p> - -<p>At the dinner table Robbie’s father remarked, -“How anxious Dr. Sullivan is for a new church! -But he won’t get it—not very soon, anyway. -The people don’t care enough about it, though -I’m sure they need one badly.”</p> - -<p>“Dear me!” thought Robbie to himself, “I -do wish Dr. Sullivan could get the new church. -I’m sure he ought to have it if he wants it.”</p> - -<p>“He wants a brick one,” Mr. Ellsworth continued, -“but in my opinion a frame building -would do this time. Brick costs too much.”</p> - -<p>“I wish he could have a brick church,” -thought Robbie. “It would be so much nicer.”</p> - -<p>Then he went to thinking about what Dr. -Sullivan said in his sermon, and pretty soon he -began to wonder if he couldn’t help with the -new church. All the afternoon he thought -about it, and finally a plan came into his little -mind, which he thought of so much that he -could hardly sleep that night. But he didn’t -want anybody to know anything about it, so he -went to sleep as fast as he could.</p> - -<p>Fortunately for his plans, Monday was as -pleasant as Sunday, and about ten o’clock Robbie -went to Mrs. Ellsworth.</p> - -<p>“Mamma, I want to go take a walk,” he said.</p> - -<p>“Why, Robbie dear, you would get lost.”</p> - -<p>“But I only want to go around to Uncle -Will’s,” pleaded the little fellow.</p> - -<p>Now Uncle Will was a doctor, a great favorite -with his little nephew, and he lived only -around the corner, in the new house which he -had just built.</p> - -<p>“I think you may go, then,” said Mrs. Ellsworth, -“as you don’t have to cross the street to -get there. I am going down to papa’s office, -and will tell him to stop for you when he comes -home.”</p> - -<p>“No, mamma,” said Robbie, “I’d rather not. -I have a very much reason for wanting to -come home alone.”</p> - -<p>That was his way of saying he had a very -good, and, in his eyes, important reason, which -he didn’t want to give. So his mother agreed, -kissed him good-by, and he started out, first getting -his little green wheelbarrow from the hall -closet.</p> - -<p>He trudged along down one street, up another, -till he stopped on the stone steps of -“Uncle Will’s house,” and gave the bell such a -pull as only a boy of about Robbie’s size knows -how.</p> - -<p>Aunt Flora greeted her small visitor very<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> -warmly, laughing at his wheelbarrow, but he -pushed right by her, and trudged into Uncle -Will’s office, pushing his wheelbarrow before -him. Uncle Will was engaged in discussing the -cholera germ with a brother physician, but he -turned and welcomed his nephew cheerily:</p> - -<p>“Well, my man! What can I do for you to-day? -Will you cart a wheelbarrow of books -around to the library for me?”</p> - -<p>“Mamma wouldn’t let me,” said Robbie. “I -came to see if you would let me have one wheelbarrowful -of the bricks that were left over—out -in the back yard.”</p> - -<p>“Certainly,” said Uncle Will. “You can go -right out and get them.”</p> - -<p>So Robbie turned again, too eager to even -thank his uncle, pushed his wheelbarrow through -the dining-room, and was soon taking down -bricks from the pile by the back stoop.</p> - -<p>His barrow didn’t hold but about a half-dozen, -and soon Irish Mary was lifting it up the -steps, and he arrived again before his uncle’s -door.</p> - -<p>“Are they my very own, Uncle Will,” he -asked, as that gentleman turned to look at his -load, “to use just as I want to?”</p> - -<p>“Your very own,” said the doctor, “to do -what you please with. If you wish, you may -throw them in the cistern. But what are they -for?”</p> - -<p>“I would rather not tell, Uncle Will.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, sir. Success to your project, -whatever it is.”</p> - -<p>Down the steps bumped the wheelbarrow, -with its owner behind, and down the street they -went again, though this time on the other side -of the block. There were not many pedestrians -on the street, but the few Robbie met smiled at -him and his load of bricks. He looked at all -the houses attentively, and finally mounted the -steps of one with difficulty, all the time afraid -his bricks would fall out, and rang the bell a -little more gently than he had at his uncle’s.</p> - -<p>The Rev. Dr. Sullivan came to the door. He -knew Robbie. “Good-morning, young man!” -he said. “What can I do for you?”</p> - -<p>“Nothing,” said Robbie. “I’ve brought you -the first load of bricks for the new church.”</p> - -<p>“The new church!” said the doctor.</p> - -<p>“Yes, sir. You said yesterday you wanted -one, and papa said you wanted a brick one. So -I’ve brought the first load. They’re my very -own, sir, to use just as I want to.”</p> - -<p>“Well, well!” said Dr. Sullivan, “I am very -much obliged to you,” and Robbie thought his -voice sounded almost as his did when he had -the croup. Moreover, he took out his handkerchief -and rubbed his eyes. Then he took -the wheelbarrow in his arms, and having deposited -the contents in his backyard, returned -it to the owner. “The bricks shall be used, -young man,” he said, “every one of them, for -the new church. Thank you very much for -your help.”</p> - -<p>Then Robbie returned home, jubilant at having -been able to help his minister.</p> - -<p>As for the minister, he took a paper, and went -out. The first man he met was Mr. Lawrence, -the wealthiest person in his church.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Lawrence,” he said, “we have started, -and the first load of bricks for the new church -has arrived.”</p> - -<p>“Indeed!” said Mr. Lawrence, and after a -little more talk he put down his name for quite -a sum of money. Dr. Sullivan went on telling -every one that the first load of bricks had arrived, -and it was astonishing how encouraging -those bricks were! When the congregation met -that afternoon, their pastor announced that some -hundred dollars had been raised for the church, -and that the first load of bricks had come.</p> - -<p>Of course it was a good while before the -church was really built, for there were architects -and masons and carpenters to be consulted; but -it was really built, and it was not till then that -the minister told who had furnished “the first -load of bricks,” and how he really started the -whole thing.</p> - -<p>And the six bricks that Robbie had brought -in his little wheelbarrow were built into the wall -of the church, and everybody thanked him for -his part of the work.</p> - -<p>Now the best thing about this story is that it -is all true. The minister’s name may not have -been Dr. Sullivan, and the boy’s name may not -have been Robbie Ellsworth, and his wheelbarrow -may not have been green, but it brought -the bricks that are in the “Brick Church,” as it -is called, of one of the largest cities in the -Eastern States.</p> - -<div class="sig"> -<span class="smcap">Paranete.</span><br /> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 401px;"> -<img src="images/illus048.jpg" width="401" height="600" alt="woman walking in woods" /> -<div class="caption">NOVEMBER WOODS.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> - -<div class='center'> -<i>Volume 15, Number 3.</i> - -Copyright, 1887, by <span class="smcap">D. Lothrop Compan</span> - -<i>November 19, 1887.</i></div> - - -<div class='bbox'><div class='magtitle'>THE PANSY.</div></div> - -<h2 class="faux">A WORLD OF LITTLE PEOPLE.</h2> - - - -<div> - <img class="splittop" src="images/illus049a.jpg" alt="top of landscape" width="600" height="103" /> - <img class="split" src="images/illus049b.jpg" alt="middle of landscape and F" width="314" height="588" /> - <img class="split" src="images/illus049c.jpg" alt="bottom of landscape" width="600" height="112" /> -</div> - - -<div class="adtitle2">A WORLD OF LITTLE PEOPLE.</div> - - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">By Paranete.</span></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><span class="big">F</span>ROM the further corner of the fence, -one end fastened to a bush near by, -hung a spider’s silken web, regular -as if made on geometrical principles. -In the centre of this sat a good-sized -spider, the proprietress, who had just finished -devouring the most of an unwary fly, whose -bloodless remains lay at her side. Up to -the spider came two ants—Zed and Zoo.</p> - -<p>“Excuse me,” said the spider, looking at -them suspiciously, “for having any doubts as to -the safety of making your acquaintance. But -you have just been communicating with my -greatest enemy, the wasp, and have been watching -with heartless interest the destruction of one -of my family. I am sure I hope you have no -personal designs upon my life. The wasp is such -a very daring foe, that I fear you, even though -you are so small.”</p> - -<p>“I assure you,” replied Zed, “that our interest -in the wasp’s doings was wholly due to -ignorance, and we are no friends of hers, nor -have we any design against you.”</p> - -<p>“Very well,” replied the spider, whose name<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> -was Luxz, “I am very glad. I feel in a pretty -good humor this morning, having just finished -a most delicious fly. I say finished, or I would -offer you some. All spiders like flies. I had a -most unpleasant disappointment yesterday. I -was over on the window-sill of the house yonder, -and saw a large fly resting on a piece of -paper. Of course I sprang after him, but there -was no fly there! I walked over and over him, -too! One of my neighbors suggests that it was -a picture; as if an intelligent spider couldn’t tell -the difference between a picture and a fly!”</p> - -<p>The two ants nodded their assent to this -highly probable statement.</p> - -<p>“You spin a great deal, I suppose?” asked -Zoo.</p> - -<p>“O, yes!” said Luxz; “I am as busy as can -be. I can spin little fine threads, and coarser -ones, and dance and swing all around on them. -But of course the most of my time is occupied -with work. It is a good deal of work to make -a web, although you might not think so. There -were some boys coming past here to school as I -had just finished a nice web, quite a while ago, -and they knocked it all down. I built another, -then another, but every time those wicked creatures -would destroy it, and then laugh at my -dismay. Finally my pockets were as empty as -could be, and I was all out of silk, so I had to -go and kill another spider, and occupy her web -for a time. But this I built myself.”</p> - -<p>“You catch a good many flies?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, indeed. They are not very sagacious -animals, though sometimes I will find one that I -can’t entice into my web after the greatest endeavors. -We are all very cunning, but we have -to look out for some of the birds. A neighbor -of mine was swinging one morning, as fine -as could be, and a swallow came along, that -had his nest up under the eaves, and—well, -that was the last of her. The wasps, as I have -already mentioned, are very bad. If one of -them gets caught in our webs, we unfasten the -threads as quickly as we can, and let her go, -fearing that if we don’t, we shall get the worst -of it.</p> - -<p>“Our threads are very convenient,” Luxz continued, -after a moment’s pause, “for we can let -one end of them float out, and they stick to -anything they touch, making a thoroughfare for -us. I remember once those same boys put me -on a chip in a large tub of water, and again -laughed at my discomfiture. But I was equal -to the emergency, and had soon spun out a thread -the outer end of which a draught of air floated -to the side of the tub, and when my tormentors -were not looking, I escaped along it. We can -fasten the end of our thread to the top of anything, -and let ourselves down by spinning out -more, or rise by pulling it in.”</p> - -<p>“Have you any children?” asked Zed.</p> - -<p>“O, yes!” replied Luxz, “I have some just -hatching. As you go around the corner of that -board you can see the nest—all fuzzy, like cotton. -A few are just crawling out. They are -very small as yet.”</p> - -<p>Then the ants bade the spider good-day, and -went down the fence, stopping as they passed it -to see the nest, where the little wee spiders -were just taking their first few steps among the -delicate filmy threads surrounding their eggs. -How many there were!</p> - -<p>A fly was the next insect which absorbed the -attention of our travellers, as he was poised on a -grease-spot at the edge of a board along which -they were walking. It was just a common -house-fly, but as they were not very familiar to -Zed and Zoo, he was an object of as great interest -to them as any which they had met in their -peregrinations.</p> - -<p>“Good-morning,” he buzzed, “I am searching -for something to eat. I have just been driven -out of the house yonder, by some immense people -with great cloths in their hands. They have -put up frames in the windows with wire ropes -in them, and I can’t get into that well-filled table. -There is a man there with a bald head, too,—just -the place for an enterprising fly. But these -people do hate us!”</p> - -<p>“Too bad,” said Zed sympathetically; “but -if you lazy flies would make homes of your own, -as ants do, and not go about where you’re not -wanted, you and others would be far more -contented.”</p> - -<p>“Well,” said the fly thoughtfully, “I’m sure -I don’t see why we don’t. Possibly no fly ever -thought of it. It doesn’t seem to be intended -that we should. I never could work out in the -hot sun the way you do. The people don’t -molest very often,—not as much as they’d like<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> -to; we have too sharp eyes, and too many of -them. We each have hundreds and hundreds -of little eyes, and every one moves and looks -in a different way. It’s rather difficult to come -up behind us, as the elephant did.”</p> - -<p>“How was that?” asked Zoo.</p> - -<p>“Don’t you know?</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“‘A grasshopper sat on a sweet-potato vine,</div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Sweet-potato vine, sweet-potato vine,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">A great big elephant came up behind,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And knocked him off that sweet-potato vine.’</span></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>“I’m not sure about the story; it’s just possible -that it may be taken from the New York -paper, but, anyway, we believe it, and often -laugh at the grasshopper.”</p> - -<p>“What do you eat?” asked Zed.</p> - -<p>“Anything I find, almost. Flies are not at -all particular. We can enjoy anything that any -one does. Our mouths are hollow tubes, through -which we suck whatever we wish to eat. This -is a very convenient way.”</p> - -<p>“You have enemies,” remarked Zoo. “We -have just been calling on a spider who is longing -for a taste of some of you.”</p> - -<p>“You don’t say so!” cried the fly. “She is -not very near here, is she? Those spider-webs -are the great torment of our lives. I have had -several friends caught and eaten by the spiders. -The way they wind their fine, yet strong threads -about one, is something remarkable. I know a -pretty good verse about them, too:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“‘The spider wears a plain brown dress,</div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And she’s a steady spinner;</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">To see her, quiet as a mouse,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Going about her silver house,</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">You’d never, never, never guess</span></div> -<div class="verse"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The way she gets her dinner.’</span></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="unindent">That’s real pathetic, isn’t it, now?”</p> - -<p>“Very,” answered Zed and Zoo, together.</p> - -<p>“I met a Southern fly once,” continued the -talkative fly, “and they have more enemies -down there than we do in the North. Take the -lizards and chameleons, for instance—”</p> - -<p>“Oh! we know about them,” cried the little -ants.</p> - -<p>“And then the walking-sticks,” continued the -fly, not pausing at the interruption, but rather -looking severely at his visitors; “now, a man up -here couldn’t hit on one of us with a walking-stick -if he tried all day. But it’s quite different -down there! A walking-stick is not a stick by -the aid of which people walk, but a walking-stick, -that is, a stick that walks. It is a very -strange insect, and is so exactly like the broken -twig of a tree, with the little branches and all, -that the most sagacious person can’t tell them -apart, without seeing them walk. They are -called ‘devil’s walking-sticks’ by some, and we -flies think it very appropriate, for they are dreadful -for us—that is, for Southern flies. The -people will put a walking-stick in a room full of -flies, and in a short time he will have killed -them all! Think how dreadful!”</p> - -<p>“Do you know any more poetry?” asked -Zed, who was rather of a literary disposition.</p> - -<p>“Well, now, I do know a real cute little song -about a fly, written by some man or other, who -evidently had a baby. I will sing it for you.”</p> - -<p>And the fly buzzed:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“Baby bye, here’s a fly:</div> -<div class="verse">Let us watch him, you and I.</div> -<div class="verse">How he crawls up the walls,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet he never falls!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Don’t you think, with six such legs,</div> -<div class="verse">You and I could walk on eggs?</div> -<div class="verse">There he goes, on his toes,</div> -<div class="verse">Tickling baby’s nose.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Spots of red dot his head;</div> -<div class="verse">Rainbows on his back are spread;</div> -<div class="verse">He is laced ’round his waist:</div> -<div class="verse">I admire his taste!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">I can tell you, if you choose,</div> -<div class="verse">Where to look to find his shoes:</div> -<div class="verse">Three small pairs, made of hairs;</div> -<div class="verse">These he always wears.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But, though tight his clothes are made,</div> -<div class="verse">He will lose them, I’m afraid,</div> -<div class="verse">If to-night he gets sight</div> -<div class="verse">Of the candle-light.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In the sun webs are spun:</div> -<div class="verse">What if he gets into one!</div> -<div class="verse">—That small speck is his neck;</div> -<div class="verse">See him nod and beck!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Tongues to talk have you and I:</div> -<div class="verse">God has given the little fly</div> -<div class="verse">No such things, so he sings</div> -<div class="verse">With his buzzing wings.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>THE POPLAR ST. PANSY SOCIETY.</h2> - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">By C. M. L.</span></div> - - -<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap" src="images/drop-t.jpg" width="71" height="135" alt="T" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-capi">THE Poplar Street Pansy Society began -with a large membership and every -other flattering prospect. The leaders -were wide awake, bright boys and girls -who meant success, come what might. -Everything went on finely for the first year. -Meetings were held regularly; the attendance -included nearly all the members every time, in -bad weather as well as good, and no matter -what invitations were given elsewhere to parties -or rides. The members, with rare exceptions, -were thoroughly loyal to their society.</p> - -<p>This became so well known that, at length, -when entertainments were about to be given at -the same time of the society meetings its members -were passed by when the lists of invitations -were being made out, for it was commonly said -you might as well invite the man in the moon -as one of the Poplar Street Society; that they -would not leave that dear society to see the -Emperor of China pass through the city. Some -were cruel enough to say that these Pansies -just worshiped their society.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;"> -<img src="images/illus054.jpg" width="432" height="550" alt="girl sitting and sewing" /> -<div class="caption">JENNIE.</div> -</div> - -<p>In spite of all the outside -parties and sneers the -society kept right on its -way. At last it grew to -be such a power, so many -of the young folks had -joined it, that ladies, wishing -a company of the youth -at their homes, were compelled -to consult the convenience -of the Poplar -Street Pansy Society.</p> - -<p>If there was to be a -meeting of the society at -a certain time, particularly -if it was to be a public -one, everything must needs -yield to it. Thither the -fathers and mothers would -go, no matter what other -attractions offered.</p> - -<p>Thus this Poplar Street -Society came to be known -as the popular society.</p> - -<p>But the Roman Empire -had its decline and fall. -Why should not this society? -Certain boys and -girls had come in who cared -more for place than for -progress. They wanted to -be highly thought of and -to receive the offices. On -one occasion four of them -insisted upon being chosen president. Of course -three of the four were offended and declared -they would withdraw.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> - -<p>Some others said they must be appointed on -the programme committee and be allowed to -manage things generally or they would establish -a rival society. A few insisted that the time -had now come for a change; that the old programme -of singing, recitations, games, etc., was -poky; that a little dancing and card-playing -ought to be allowed a part of the time.</p> - -<p>To this it was answered that the Poplar Street -Pansy Society was established for mental and -moral growth and not for a dancing-school or -card-party; that those who must have such things -could find them elsewhere.</p> - -<p>Thus a division came. Two parties arose. -The matter was discussed in the schoolroom and -three times daily in forty or more different dining-rooms. -Many bitter things were said. The -meetings would sometimes break up in confusion. -Then some parents interfered by refusing to -allow their children to attend. The dance and -card portion withdrew. Several who wanted -the offices or wished to have the most to say, -came no more. Some had moved out of the -city.</p> - -<p>So there came a time when a very few attended -the meeting. The many empty seats -filled the few present with sadness. Then came -a motion to dissolve the society; it was seconded, -put and lost by one vote only. Then it was -resolved to appoint a committee who should -confer with some wise ones and see what could -be done and report at the next meeting, or, if -they thought best, adjourn the society till better -times.</p> - -<p>The committee consisted of two boys and one -girl, this girl being the very one whose perseverance -had brought the society into being and -held it together at times when it seemed ready -to go to pieces.</p> - -<p>She invited her two friends to meet at her -father’s house to see what was best to be done. -Meanwhile she had done a deal of thinking for -herself and had carried the matter to her mother -for guidance.</p> - -<p>Things looked dark enough for her dear society. -Her mother even doubted if anything could be -done while there was such an opposition, and -the best she could say was to let matters rest -for the present, till the dancers and others had -had their round of fun.</p> - -<p>This brave girl had seen too much good in -the society, and hungered for more too deeply -to easily give it up.</p> - -<p>She had a great Friend to whom all her -troubles were carried. She took this one to -Him.</p> - -<p>The committee came together,—two doubting -boys and one true girl,—full of faith and purpose -to stand by the society. The boys had settled -the matter in their minds to let the society die -as things then stood; that further effort would -but result in failure, and make them a laughing-stock,—to -be laughed at was not for a moment -to be thought of,—unless there should be some -most favorable turn of affairs.</p> - -<p>Thus the conference opened, two to one -against the life of the P. S. P. S., as the society -was sometimes called.</p> - -<p>“I’m glad you’ve come,” began our little -heroine to the two, after they were seated and -the moment had come for business. “These -have been pretty dark days for me; I’ve been -on the point of crying nearly all the time.”</p> - -<p>“So have we,” came from the boys, “but -what’s the use crying for spilt milk! The society’s -as good as dead. Every one we’ve met -says so, and now all that’s left for us is just to -bury it respectably, and try something else. -Guess you’ve come to that conclusion, too, -haven’t you?”</p> - -<p>“No; not I,” was the firm answer. “Our -society began with one member and here we -have three to build it up on again. I’m sure -three are more than one.”</p> - -<p>“Don’t know how you make three. You -can’t count upon us. We see no chance now, -and are ready to vote to end the P. S. P. S.”</p> - -<p>“I am not ready.”</p> - -<p>“But we are two to your one, and you know -majorities rule.”</p> - -<p>“And you, who have stood by the society so -long, are surely not going to desert it when it -needs you most?”</p> - -<p>“Nothing left to desert. You see, Jennie, the -thing is gone up.”</p> - -<p>And Jennie’s answer was a look of pain. -There was silence, then a sigh and audible sob -heard in the next room, where were Jennie’s -father and Uncle John. Uncle John had -come from a distant town for a visit of some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> -weeks. He was a lover of the boys and girls, -and when he knew the object of the meeting of -the committee was to discuss the life or death -of the Poplar Street Pansy Society, and that -Jennie’s heart was bound up in that society, he -immediately set himself, without telling any one, -to devise ways and means to come to Jennie’s -rescue.</p> - -<p>So he had caught every word from the little -committee folks in the next room, and when the -crisis came and poor Jennie was about to be -out-voted, he spoke out:</p> - -<p>“Jennie?”</p> - -<p>“That’s my Uncle John. I wonder if he’s -heard all we’ve said,” and Jennie’s voice was -in a whisper, and quickly her handkerchief stole -to her eye to brush away the tears that had been -starting. He spoke again:</p> - -<p>“Jennie?”</p> - -<p>“Sir?”</p> - -<p>“Cannot I counsel with your committee?”</p> - -<p>“O, yes, Uncle John, do, do!” and with the -words the door flew open, and Uncle John was -introduced to the two boys.</p> - -<p>After a few cheery remarks, the committee -was asked not to take any action just then, but -to call a meeting and talk the matter over once -more, with as many present as could be induced -to attend, Uncle John asking permission to be -present and make any suggestion that might -occur to him, remarking, with an assuring nod -of his head, that the Poplar Street Pansy Society -need not and should not die yet if the girls and -boys would let him keep it alive.</p> - -<p>The committee looked at each other surprised; -the two boys somewhat ashamed of their part -of the conference, Jennie ready to cry for joy.</p> - -<p>That night at her bedside she said: “I thank -thee, dear Lord, for hearing me in my trouble. -I thank thee for sending Uncle John just at the -right time.”</p> - -<p>The boys went home in silence; but the brave -girl dreamed of a good time coming.</p> - -<div class="center">————————</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">November</span>, you’re almost too dull,</div> -<div class="verse">And cold and damp and drear;</div> -<div class="verse">The turkeys say</div> -<div class="verse">Thanksgiving Day</div> -<div class="verse">They dread through all the year.</div> -<div class="sig">—<i>Selected.</i></div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - - - -<h2>GAS.</h2> - - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap" src="images/drop-a.jpg" width="68" height="138" alt="A" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-capi">AFTER a time wood became scarce. In -some parts of the country it could hardly -be had for love or money. Then what? -Ah! the Lord always provides, as he -did the lamb in place of the lad Isaac, -you remember. Some men were looking about -one day among the hills of Pennsylvania, and -they found a piece of a—wood house, sticking -out of the ground with a bit of wood in it, -though it looked no more like wood than a stone -painted black does. But it shone so brightly -that somehow they took it home and somehow, -I can’t just say how, they got it to burn. Then -they went back to the “wood house” and began -to dig, and the more they dug the larger -the wood house grew, until they could find no -limits to it. Then many of the neighbors went -at it with pickaxes and spades; then nearly all -the people of the country—and now how many -think you are getting wood there? A hundred? -Ten thousand? Guess again. And can you guess -what sort of wood it is; do you know of any one -that knows how many cords of wood are in this -house, and who piled it away there, and when?</p> - -<p>It does seem as though an army of children -would have starved or frozen to death but for -that fuel; found just at the right time, you see.</p> - -<p>But then, the great and loving Heavenly -Father had such a wonderful Christmas present -to surprise the world with, something better and -cheaper than this black wood.</p> - -<p>Some say there is no God to take care of the -poor working men and women, and they think -one of the ways of doing it is by burning up -the property of the rich, by strikes, and such -things. Meanwhile the blessed God, whom these -persons deny, often by one little word or act, -opens up millions and millions of treasures for -the poor workers, and alas! so many never -thank him for it. “What was the treasure?”</p> - -<p>I was just going to tell you. Another big -wood house bigger than all the barns, meeting-houses, -opera-houses and mills in your country!</p> - -<p>The logs must be chopped and hauled; the -coal must be mined and carried on the cars, but -this new fuel just <i>comes</i>, and comes faster than -the fastest train you ever heard of! All that -is necessary is to bore into the earth in certain<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> -places from one hundred to fifteen hundred feet -and place an iron tube into the hole, long enough -to reach your—fireplace, and touch a match to -the open end of the tube; then look out for one -of the hottest fires you ever warmed your fingers -at. But be careful lest a lot of this new wood -gets out into your room and away goes the top -of your house and—yourself with it. However, -I guess your pa will see that a first-rate plumber -puts in the fixtures. After that, no danger need -be feared from an explosion.</p> - -<p>Right in the hearth will come the little flames, -by turning some screws and touching a match. -There are broken pieces of stone lying in the -fireplace. These will become hot, from red to -white. Then you’d better not handle them.</p> - -<p>Now bring your cold fingers and feet, or go to -the kitchen stove and see how beautifully your -dinner is being cooked by this wonderful wood.</p> - -<p>There it is, too, heating all the stores, banks, -schools, churches, and everything that will give -it a chance to come through the iron tube. -Now what say you? I guess this is <i>gas</i>.</p> - -<p>Yes; I knew you’d ask that: Who found it -first, and what does it cost, and how does it -look and smell, and when will it be all used up, -and how far will it travel? However, if I -should tell you all I know about it, that would -save you the trouble of finding out yourself, one -of the very best things for you, trouble besides -the joy of finding out some things without -bothering any one to tell. Now see if you can -answer those questions yourself. This, I will -say: that Pittsburgh, Penn., knows a great deal -about this gas. Ask it.</p> - -<div class="sig"> -<span class="smcap">Uncle C.</span><br /> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - - - -<h2>INTRODUCTIONS.</h2> - - - -<div> - <img class="splittop" src="images/drop-ca.jpg" alt="C" width="113" height="51" /> - <img class="split" src="images/drop-cb.jpg" alt="C" width="77" height="88" /> -</div> - -<p class='dropcapstory'>CHARLIE HOLLAND, at your service. -A well-dressed, well-mannered, pleasant-faced -boy. You feel sure you would -like him? Everybody who sees him -feels just so.</p> - -<p>“His mother must be proud of him,” is a sentence -often on people’s lips. Look at him now, -as he lifts his hat politely, in answer to a call -from an open window.</p> - -<p>“Charlie,” says the voice, “I wonder if I -could get you to mail this letter for me? Are -you going near the post-office?”</p> - -<p>“Near enough to be able to serve you, Mrs. -Hampstead,” says the polite voice. “I will do -it with pleasure.”</p> - -<p>“I shall be very much obliged, Charlie, but I -wouldn’t want to make you late at school on -that account.”</p> - -<p>“Oh! no danger at all, Mrs. Hampstead. It -will not take two minutes to dash around the -corner to the office.” And, as he receives the -letter, his hat is again lifted politely.</p> - -<p>“What a perfect little gentleman Charlie -Holland is,” says Mrs. Hampstead to her sister, -as the window closes. “Always so obliging; -he acts as though it was a pleasure to him to -do a kindness.”</p> - -<p>Bend lower and let me whisper a secret in -your ear: it is not five minutes since that boy’s -mother said to him: “Charlie, can’t you run -upstairs and get that letter on my bureau and -mail it for me?” And Charlie, with three -wrinkles on his forehead, and a pucker on each -side of his mouth, said: “O, mamma! I don’t -see how I can! I’m late now; and the office -is half a block out of my way.”</p> - -<p>And the mother said, well then he needn’t -mind, for she didn’t want him to be late at -school. So he didn’t mind, but left the letter -on the bureau, and went briskly on his way until -stopped by Mrs. Hampstead.</p> - -<p>What was the matter with Charlie Holland? -Was he an untruthful boy? He did not mean -to be. He prided himself on his strict honesty.</p> - -<p>It <i>was</i> growing late, and he felt in a hurry, -and he hated to go upstairs. Of course it would -not do to refuse Mrs. Hampstead, and by making -an extra rush, he could get to school in time; -but the other lady was only his mother. Her -letter could wait.</p> - -<p>“Only his mother!” Didn’t Charlie Holland -love his mother, then?</p> - -<p>You ask him, with a hint of doubt about it -in your voice, and see how his eyes will flash, -and how proudly he will toss back his handsome -head and say:</p> - -<p>“I guess I <i>do</i> love my mother! She’s the -grandest mother a boy ever had.”</p> - -<p>Oh! I didn’t promise to explain Charlie’s -conduct to you; I am only introducing him; -you are to study for yourselves. Do you know -any boy like him?</p> - -<div class="sig"> -<span class="smcap">Pansy.</span><br /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;"> -<img src="images/illus062.jpg" width="429" height="600" alt="girl calling in field" /> -<div class="caption">LOST.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> - -<div class='center'> -<i>Volume 15, Number 4.</i> - -Copyright, 1887, by <span class="smcap">D. Lothrop Compan</span> - -<i>November 26, 1887.</i></div> - - -<div class='bbox'><div class='magtitle'>THE PANSY.</div></div> - -<div class='bbox'> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;"> -<img src="images/illus063.jpg" width="385" height="600" alt="Many canine types" /> -<div class="caption">A LARGE FAMILY.</div> -</div> -</div> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> - - -<h2>THE OLD BRIMMER PLACE.</h2> - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">By Margaret Sidney.</span></div> - -<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> - - -<div> - <img class="splittop" src="images/drop-t2a.jpg" alt="T" width="113" height="36" /> - <img class="split" src="images/drop-t2b.jpg" alt="T" width="100" height="28" /> - <img class="split" src="images/drop-t2c.jpg" alt="T" width="73" height="96" /> -</div> - -<p class='dropcapstory'>THE air was clear and fresh; a slight -fall of snow just conveniently -stopping at the point of becoming -higher than the overshoes of the pedestrians, -lay on the ground. It was an -early fall, as the old farmers say when -there is snow at Thanksgiving, and every sign -gave promise of winter shutting in rapidly.</p> - -<p>The old gray house set back from Cherryfield -high road, had its chimney smoking by break of -day, for Mother Brimmer tied on her baking -apron as soon as she had told Rosalie how to -prepare the simple breakfast “to hurry forward -those pies,” as she said.</p> - -<p>“All that can be done to-day, Rosy,” she observed, -in the midst of the bustle that now ensued, -“is clear gain toward to-morrow. Always -remember that, child; don’t leave a lot of odds -and ends to do when you’re going to have company, -thinking you’ll have time. You never do; -and the last minute catches you before you know -it.”</p> - -<p>“It’s such fun,” hummed the one girl of the -family, stirring the cornmeal mush in the kettle -vigorously, “to have company. I don’t ever -remember having any before.”</p> - -<p>“You forget the parson coming to tea,” said -Mrs. Brimmer, bringing out her pie-plates from -the pantry. “Let me see; I shall make four -mince ones.”</p> - -<p>“He isn’t company!” cried Rosy. “Mr. -Higginson isn’t; I ain’t a bit afraid of him.”</p> - -<p>“No more you should be,” exclaimed Mrs. -Brimmer, setting down her pie-plates; “and -then again, child, there isn’t any call to be afraid -of any one, so long as you haven’t been doing -anything wrong.”</p> - -<p>“But it scares me to think something don’t -look nice, or I don’t know how to do things,” -said Rosy.</p> - -<p>“Well, that’s very silly,” observed Mrs. -Brimmer, going for her pastry-board; “do the -best you can, Rosy, and then let it go.”</p> - -<p>Rosy turned her little anxious face toward -her mother, and smiled. “Anyway, this company -is to be nice, and the things will be nice, -too, I guess, ma.”</p> - -<p>“We’ll try to make ’em so,” declared her -mother, energetically stirring up her mince-meat -in the stone jar.</p> - -<p>“What will Miss Clorinda say to see the -goose that I’m going to roast all myself?” cried -Rosy, deserting her mush-kettle, to go over with -this important question to the baking-table. -“Say, ma?”</p> - -<p>“I’m sure I don’t know!” cried Mrs. Brimmer, -with pride. “She’ll say, ‘Was there ever -such a goose!’ like as not, though, Rosy.”</p> - -<p>“Do you suppose she really will!” cried the -girl in delight, the color coming into her cheeks. -When she looked like this, the boys, her brothers -Jack and Cornelius, always called her “Wild -Rose,” and it was their secret delight to summon -the lovely bloom in as many startling ways -as they could.</p> - -<p>“But you’d better fly back to that mush,” -said Mother Brimmer presently, “and get breakfast -as you’d ought to, and not look ahead to -to-morrow. That’ll take care of itself.”</p> - -<p>“So it will!” cried Rosy merrily.</p> - -<p>Jack and Cornelius, now hurrying in to breakfast, -the small maid-of-all-work had to desert -her delightful anticipations of to-morrow’s good -times and fly to the work in hand. It was presently -on the table—the steaming dish of mush, -the baked potatoes, and the large pitcher of -milk, and Mother Brimmer being summoned -from her work, wiped her hands, took off her -apron, and joined the others at their simple -meal.</p> - -<p>For the good woman, although her children -were “in business and doing for themselves,” as -she proudly expressed it, observed the same frugality -as when times were hard and the future -looked dark. “We won’t give up our plain -breakfasts; they’ve always done us good, and -we don’t need any other food,” she would say -when the boys urged her to have a “bit of meat -for herself, at least.”</p> - -<p>“No, no; I don’t want it,” she said, “mother’s -tough and hearty. As long as I’ve such perfect -health, you needn’t worry, children.”</p> - -<p>So the money that would have gone into the -butcher’s till for the beefsteak or mutton chop,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> -went instead into the bank to Brimmer Brothers -and Company’s credit.</p> - -<p>And the economy observed in the matter of -breakfasts went into all the other details of -daily life. The only thing in which the family -indulged themselves was in the matter of books -and magazines; and occasionally Mrs. Brimmer -would send the young people off of an evening -to a good lecture or concert in the Town Hall, -or she would go with some of them, one always -being obliged to remain with Roly Poly, who -was called “the baby,” although rejoicing in -the dignity of five years.</p> - -<p>The business conducted by Brimmer Brothers -and Company was a grocery and general trade -carried on in a little red building on their -grounds, that had formerly been an old tool-house, -in which the farmer who then lived in -the big gray house mended up his farming utensils, -and kept his tools when he had done the -jobs. The business was started because the -little money left by Father Brimmer when he -died had, despite all the watchful care of it, -dwindled till now there was only a pittance left. -The old weather-beaten house would last them -their lifetime, and the ground was theirs, but -the growing family would need more each year -to support them, and make them able to take -their proper place in the world. And the children, -who had silently worried over the problem, -how to help the mother they had seen working -for them early and late ever since they could -remember, were at last one day helped out by -the little old red tool-house.</p> - -<p>“Here I am,” it seemed to say. “Your -mother has given me to you for a play-house; -now use me to help her.”</p> - -<p>It was an inspiration in the first of it, to be -followed by hard and grinding work, much -of it in the face of half-laughing opposition -and downright sneers of friends and townsfolk. -But Brimmer Brothers and Company having -begun to face the world never once thought of -shirking any of the duties which they met there, -but just the same as if everybody believed that -they could make a success of the business, they -determined in their own minds to do so, and behaved -accordingly. And Rosy, the most timid -little thing before strangers, forgot all her fears -now, and as Company of the new concern developed -a resoluteness and self-possession that -amazed the boys.</p> - -<p>All this was two years before this Thanksgiving; -and now Mother Brimmer and the successful -business firm and Roly Poly were to -have a party!</p> - -<p>After the breakfast dishes were cleared away, -the boys hurrying off to the shop, as they anticipated -a rushing trade for the day, the old -kitchen began to assume the aspect of getting -ready for some great festivity, while it smelt -of spices and boiling sweets clear out beyond -the lilacs and down to the front gate. Every -passer-by must have known that it was Thanksgiving, -and suspected pies and such other accompaniments -of the national holiday at once.</p> - -<p>The stoning of raisins and buttering of cake-pans -fell to Rosy to do, who was excused from -shop duty for the morning to help the mother -in her unwonted tasks; and patiently the little -girl performed it all, secretly planning, as she -waited on the busy housewife, taking the thousand -and one necessary steps in and out the -buttery and pantry, if one of her little wood-gardens -remained unsold in the shop, to take it -to dress the dinner-table on the morrow.</p> - -<p>“They can’t all be sold,” thought Rosy, almost -wishing for the moment that there was not quite -such a demand for them. “If the red partridge-berries -could only stay at home, what a party -we would have!”</p> - -<p>But when Cornelius ran in to dinner, Jack -staying behind to mind the shop, he shouted out -gleefully, “Rosy, every single one of your gardens -is gone, and we could have sold two more -if we’d had ’em!” Rosy gave a great sigh, -and then reproached herself for even wishing it -otherwise.</p> - -<p>“Rosy’ll make more money than any of us,” -declared Cornelius, generally called “Corny,” -between his mouthfuls. “How I wish I’d -thought about fixing up roots and ferns and -such things in old cracked saucers.”</p> - -<p>“But you help me,” cried Rosy. “I couldn’t -even dig the roots without you, Corny.”</p> - -<p>“And me, too!” cried Roly Poly, or Primrose, -which was her real name. “I always go with -you, Rosy, you know,” and she laid down the -little bone she was slowly picking to regard her -sister gravely.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> - -<p>“So you do!” cried Rosy and Cornelius together. -“I’m sure we couldn’t ever get along -without you, Pet;” whereat the baby of the -family felt happy, and smilingly resumed her -bone once more.</p> - -<p>But that night a rap sounded on the outer -door, sharp and decided.</p> - -<p>“Run and see who it is, Jack,” said Mother -Brimmer, looking up from her stocking-mending.</p> - -<p>Jack came hurrying back, a large parcel with -white paper loosely folded over it, in his hand.</p> - -<p>“It’s for Rosy,” he said, setting it down.</p> - -<p>“For me?” cried Rosy, too astonished to -open it; but Cornelius helped her, and at last -the paper was torn off.</p> - -<p>“It’s your old red wood-garden!” exclaimed -Corny, dreadfully disappointed, at least expecting -a big cake.</p> - -<p>“Oh!” Rosy clasped her hands, and took an -ecstatic little spin in the middle of the floor. -“Now it isn’t wicked to want it!” she cried, -dreadfully excited.</p> - -<p>“If I’d known you wanted to keep one,” said -Jack slowly, “so bad, I never’d sold it.”</p> - -<p>“Who bought it?” asked his mother.</p> - -<p>“Mrs. Higginson.”</p> - -<p>“I wonder what other people do who haven’t -got such a minister, and his wife,” observed -Mrs. Brimmer, wiping her eyes, as Rosy fell to -oh-ing over her treasure, and fondling each leaf. -“Folks ought to be good who sit under their -preaching,” she added.</p> - -<p>“We’ll be good to-morrow, anyway,” declared -Cornelius. “My! don’t it seem funny to go to -church in the middle of the week!”</p> - -<p>But on the morrow, wasn’t that a festive -scene? The table was laid in the keeping-room, -whose door opened into the kitchen; knives and -forks were laid for seven guests: Mr. and Mrs. -Higginson, the minister and his good wife; Miss -Clorinda Peaseley, a staunch friend of the family; -old Widow Tucker and her spinster daughter -who went out tailoring, and lived down in the -Hollow; not because they would be such pleasant -additions to the party, as that Mother Brimmer -felt sure that no other invitations would be sent -to them, bidding them to a Thanksgiving dinner; -and lame Joey Clark and his sister, for the same -reason, and because the children had begged to -ask them.</p> - -<p>Rosy’s wood-garden had the place of honor -in the centre of the table, and it did seem as if -there never was such a number of bright little -berries to cast a glow over the neat cloth, done -up in Mother Brimmer’s best style! How they -shone among their green leaves!</p> - -<p>And the goose! The cheeks of the little -maid who cooked it rivalled her partridge berries -in coloring, at all the compliments that were -showered upon her; while the chicken pie, and -spare-rib, and plum pudding, and pies, were declared -the best ever eaten; and the hickory nuts -and butter nuts, cracked by the boys, received -most honorable mention.</p> - -<p>And old Widow Tucker’s thin face began to -lose some of its worn lines, and she forgot to -make any uncharitable remarks about other people, -to which she was a little prone, and her -daughter, Miss Mary Jane, seeing her ma so -happy, came out from behind her spectacles and -began to be pleasant, too.</p> - -<p>And the minister told the most delightful -stories! and when he got tired, then there was -Miss Clorinda to set the ball of conversation to -rolling again. Everybody laughed, even lame -Joey Clark, and, altogether, there was no family -party in all Cherryfield so merry and festive.</p> - -<p>And as they at last arose from the table, -everybody protesting that they could not eat a -bit more, Rosy pulled her mother’s gown and -whispered, “I want to send a basketful of goodies -down to the Four Corners boys; may I, ma?”</p> -<div class="center">————————</div> - -<h2>DON’T GOSSIP.</h2> - -<p class="drop-cap">CHILDREN, avoid this evil. I am pained -every day at seeing the work which mischief-makers -do. Some one has compared this evil -to pin-making. “There is sometimes some truth, -which I call the wire. As this passes from hand -to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, -others make and put on the head, and at last the -pin is done.” The Bible speaks much against -mischief-making, and I would advise you to collect -all the verses in this book, bearing on this -subject, and commit them to memory, and then -I do not think you will ever be guilty of this -sin. Remember, my little friends, that you can -never gather up the mischief you may do by -gossip.</p> - -<p class="sig"> -R.<br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> - - -<h2>WILD ANIMALS AND THE TELEGRAPH.</h2> - -<p class="drop-cap">SOME interesting facts have been brought -out in a paper by M. C. Nielsen of Christiana, -on the impression produced upon animals -by the resonance of the vibration of telegraph -wires. It is found that the black and green -woodpeckers, for example, which hunt for insects -in the bark and in the heart of decaying -trees, often peck inside the circular hole made -transversely through telegraph posts, generally -near the top. The phenomenon is attributed to -the resonance produced in the post by the vibration -of the wire, which the bird mistakes as the -result of the operation of worms and insects in -the interior of the post. Every one knows the -fondness of bears for honey. It has been noticed -that in mountainous districts they seem to -mistake the vibratory sound of the telegraph -wires for the grateful humming of bees, and, -rushing to the post, look about for the hive. -Not finding it on the post they scatter the stones -at its base which help to support it, and, disappointed -in their search, give the post a parting -pat with their paw, thus showing their determination -at least to kill any bees that might be -about it. Indisputable traces of bears about -prostrate posts and scattered stones prove that -this really happens. With regard to wolves, -again, M. Nielsen states that when a vote was -asked at the time for the first great telegraph lines, -a member of the Storthing said that although his -district had no direct interest in the line proposed, -he would give his vote in its favor, because -he knew the lines would drive the wolves -from the districts through which they passed. It -is well known that to keep off the ravages of hungry -wolves in winter the farmers in Norway set -up poles connected together by a line or rope,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> -under which the wolves would not dare to pass. -“And it is a fact,” M. Nielsen states, “that -when, twenty or more years ago, telegraph lines -were carried over the mountains and along the -valleys, the wolves totally disappeared, and a -specimen is now a rarity.” Whether the two -circumstances are casually connected, M. Nielsen -does not venture to say.—<i>Nature.</i></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 588px;"> -<img src="images/illus072.jpg" width="588" height="580" alt="black bear sniffing the air" /> -<div class="caption">SEARCHING FOR SWEETS.</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<h2>THE BATTLE OF IVRY.</h2> - -<p class="drop-cap">IN 1590 the armies of Henry the Fourth, of -France, and of the Duke of Mayenne, assembled -near Ivry, which is not far from Paris. It -was in March, and the weather was very stormy. -As night came, the vast hordes of soldiers dragging -their cannon through the deep mire, took -position for the awful conflict about to open. -Henry had about twelve thousand men, and the -Duke nearly twenty thousand. Before the dawn, -Henry mounted his charger, and, riding along -his lines, addressed them in words of cheer. He -urged upon them fidelity to France and to themselves. -In conclusion he said: “If in the turmoil -of battle you lose sight of your banner, -follow the white plume on my casque; you will -find it on the road to victory and to honor.”</p> - -<p>Oh! what a conflict did Ivry see that day! -My dear little friends, I never could understand -why men love war. I never could see any good -it has ever done, but, on the contrary, war and -intemperance have made this world a sad and -gloomy place. Read a full account of this -battle, and I think you will agree with me, that -war has no charms. Maddened battalions rushed -over the plain, crushing the poor wounded men. -Grapeshot mowed down whole ranks, and shrieks -of anguish echoed over the field. In a single -hour the plain was baptized in blood. Henry -came off victorious, but it was a victory dearly -bought. In the fearful retreat two thousand -were put to the sword, and many captured. I -imagine that all France was hung in mourning -after that awful day, and thousands of homes -were robbed of their treasures. Do not you -think it will be a happy day when warriors’ -steeds shall be forever chained in olive groves, -and all men shall love each other? I trust so -long as we live peace, with dovelike wings, shall -brood over our beloved land!</p> - -<p class="sig"> -<span class="smcap">Ringwood.</span><br /> -</p> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<h2>PANAMA.</h2> - -<p class="drop-cap">ALTHOUGH so much has been said about -the Isthmus of Panama, and the works -now being carried on there, very little mention -has been made of the town from which that district -takes its name. Englishmen should, however, -feel some special interest in it; since the -old town, founded in 1518, was destroyed by -Morgan, the celebrated buccaneer, who started -from our shores on his romantic expeditions. -The new town was built by the Spanish Governor, -Fernandez de Cordova, at some distance -from the old site, on a rocky peninsula, which -was raised artificially and protected from the -sea by a huge stone rampart, flanked on either -side by solid bastions, and so fortified by the -famous engineer, Alfonso de Villa Costa, as to be -considered the strongest place in the New World -after Carthagena. An account of the place -now given by the <i>Exploration</i>, a French paper, -relates that these stone defences are now crumbling -into ruins, with the exception of the southeast -bastion, which is still used by the inhabitants -as a favorite promenade. On the land side, -where the defences would have been most useful -in modern times, they have been purposely -destroyed; and now the town is exposed to -periodical attacks by the people of the suburbs, -who are from time to time stirred up by some -aspirant to power, and led up to the hill of Santa -Ana, which dominates the town. Having gained -this vantage ground, they engage in skirmishes -with the townsfolk, and if victorious, seize upon -the government, which they retain until subverted -by similar proceedings. The town was, -toward the end of the last century, opulent and -handsome. But its commerce was ruined by the -wars; and its inhabitants, by their carelessness, -have allowed many fine buildings to be burned. -The railway has, it seems, restored some of its -importance to the place; and much more is, of -course, expected from the canal now projected.</p> - -<p class="sig"> -—<i>Selected.</i><br /> -</p> - -<div class="center">————————</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">If</span> scorn be thy portion, if hatred and loss,</div> -<div class="verse">If stripes or a prison, remember the Cross!</div> -<div class="verse">God watches above thee, and he will requite;</div> -<div class="verse">Stand firm and be faithful, desert not the right.</div> -<div class="sig"><i>Norman M’Leod.</i></div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> - - -<h2>DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.</h2> - -<p class="drop-cap">THE subject of our sketch became one of -England’s most learned men. He was born -in Lichfield, in 1709, and died in 1784. He -once made a dictionary of our language; he -also wrote “The Rambler,” “Rasselas,” and -“The Idler.”</p> - -<p>I want to relate to you a little story of him -when a small boy. His father kept a bookstand, -and one day he said, “Samuel, I am so feeble, I -want you to take my place at the stand.”</p> - -<p>But the proud boy refused, and the sick father -then started off, only saying, “Well, if you can -treat your sick father thus, I am sure you will -think of it when I am dead and gone.”</p> - -<p>His conscience, however, soon began to trouble -him. All day he saw his poor father, sick and -feeble, sitting at the stall, and he said to himself, -“Poor father! how his head will ache. -I am so sorry I did not go.”</p> - -<p>This unkindness the boy never could forget, -and years after, though surrounded by the great -of England, it would often recur to him.</p> - -<p>Many years passed by, and one day an aged -man made his way through the market crowd at -Uttoxeter. He stopped at the place which fifty -years before had been occupied by the book-seller, -and the old gentleman was heard to say:</p> - -<p>“Yes; this is the very spot—the very spot!”</p> - -<p>It was the great and illustrious man of England, -in whose heart still lingered the remembrance -of his cruelty to his poor father.</p> - -<p class="sig"> -R.<br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 556px;"> -<img src="images/illus079.jpg" width="556" height="279" alt="Baby sitting on blanket with toys" /> -<div class="caption">BABY ELIZABETH.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - - - - -<h2>BABY’S CORNER.</h2> - - -<div> - <img class="splittop" src="images/drop-ia.jpg" alt="I" width="72" height="25" /> - <img class="split" src="images/drop-ib.jpg" alt="I" width="52" height="70" /> -</div> - -<p class='dropcapstory'>IT is time for Baby Elizabeth to go to -bed. She does not want to go to bed. -She shakes her head and says, “No bed! -No bed!” Her little mouth is puckered -up like a round O; here is a big tear in -each blue eye. Does Baby want to stay up all -night? Shall mamma leave her sitting on the -floor all the dark night? No, no! Little mice stay -up all night, and run about and nibble and squeal; -but dear babies must go to their soft beds.</p> - -<p>See! the sun has gone to bed. The little -pink clouds are lying down in the sky. The -white lilies have gone to sleep. The birdies -have gone up in the tree to bed. They are -singing a little song to baby. Hark! What -do they say? “Go to bed, bed, bed. Good-night, -little E-liz-a-beth! Good-night!”</p> - -<p>Now baby smiles. She is good. She will -have on her long white gown. She folds her -little hands and says, “Now I lay me.” Mamma -puts her in her white crib. In one little minute -her eyes are shut. Little Elizabeth is asleep.</p> - -<p>In the morning early the sun will get up quick. -The white lilies will wake up and wash their -faces in dew. The birdies will open their eyes. -They will say, “Peep, peep! Good-morning, -Baby! Get up, up!” Then Baby’s eyelids will -open; she will smile and show her six white teeth. -All day long the sun will shine. The lilies will -grow. The birds will sing, and little Elizabeth -will be sweet.</p> - -<p class="sig"> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. C. M. Livingston.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 423px;"> -<img src="images/illus082.jpg" width="423" height="600" alt="a woman carrying baskets and a bird" /> -<div class="caption">A GERMAN HOUSEWIFE.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1-news" id="Page_1-news">[1]</a></span></p> - - -<h2>SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The address of Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy) is Winter Park, Orange -Co., Florida. All contributions for <span class="smcap">The Pansy</span> magazine should -be sent to that P. O., and <i>not</i> to the Publishers, D. Lothrop -Company.</p></div> -<h2 class="faux">ALL ALONG THE LINE.</h2> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 234px;"> -<img src="images/illus083.jpg" width="234" height="264" alt="fairy in chariot on globe; charriot pulled by butterflies" /> -</div> - -<div class="adtitle2">ALL ALONG<br /> -THE LINE.</div> - -<div class="center"><i>Conducted by</i><br /> - -<span class="smcap">R. M. Alden</span>.</div> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>I wonder if any of the Pansies ever -wanted to be missionaries? I wonder -if any of them ever said they would -like to be, but didn’t like to leave -their home and friends? Now let me -say just a word: You can all be missionaries -this very day, and go no farther than the inkstand to -do your first work. Every reader of <span class="smcap">The Pansy</span> who knows of -anything interesting in church, Sunday-school, missionary or -temperance news, anywhere “along the line,” will be helping -us by sending brief reports, and will feel that he or she has -been doing a bit of missionary work. Address all, for this department, -to R. M. Alden, Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida.</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Last</span> year there were in Iowa fifty-five counties -without a single occupant for their jails, during -the twelve months. It is in Iowa, you know, -that they have the prohibition law which “does -not prohibit.” It does seem to make a difference.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Since</span> some towns in Georgia have succeeded -in getting the prohibition of the liquor traffic, a -minister from one of them writes, “The results -are marvelous. The trade of the town has been -more than doubled. I do not know a single -merchant who would not vote against the liquor -traffic purely on business grounds.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">A laborer</span> was recently fined for allowing -his dog to drink beer, which made the animal -savage. The judge thought it was the man’s -fault for allowing his dog to drink. Why -shouldn’t a dog have a right to drink beer if it’s -given him? How can appetite be controlled? -This question has been asked: “If that laborer -was under obligation to keep his dog from drinking -beer and hurting people, ought we to permit -men to receive liquor, and injure themselves -and their fellow-men?”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">I wonder</span> if the Pansies have been posted -about “rubber grapes”? Little rubber bags -made to look exactly like large beautiful grapes; -but what do you think fills them, instead of the -delicious fruit which God has made? Why, -brandy, or whiskey, or wine, or whatever liquor -the buyer prefers! Think of it! The circular -describing them says one great advantage is, -“that travellers can refresh themselves in this -way without exciting observation.” Can they? -Suppose we make that part hard for them; -thirty thousand Pansy Blossoms with their eyes -wide open are not going to be cheated by rubber -grapes. Of course every boy and girl will see -to it that no miserable humbug who pretends to -be a “fruit dealer” gets any of their money for -his cheating grapes. But isn’t Satan smart, and -cunning, and busy? Really, it becomes us to -keep our eyes very wide open indeed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Who</span> among us has ever visited the school for -Indians in Carlisle, Pa.? If any Pansy Blossom -has been there, I wish he or she would write us -a letter about the school. It is a very interesting -place; four hundred and fifty scholars, boys and -girls; the girls in navy-blue dresses and cloaks, -the cloaks lined with scarlet, the boys in military -dress. With their very bright eyes, and their -very black hair, I think they must make a handsome -picture.</p> - -<p>Industrious people are they; the cooking is -done entirely by the pupils; the clothing is all -made by them; they even make their own shoes! -They are very good scholars; some of them -really brilliant.</p> - -<p>You wonder how they get time to study, with -so much work to be done; that is all nicely -planned for them. Half the pupils go to school -in the morning, while the other half are at work -in the sewing-room, the pantry, the harness shop, -the printing office, the carpenter’s room, and the -like. In the afternoon these two divisions change -places; the students work, and the workmen -turn students.</p> - -<p>Think what a little while ago these boys and -girls were roaming through the forests, sleeping -on the ground, their only dress old blankets -wrapped about them; learning to be dangerous -enemies to all the white race! Now some of -them are Christians, and all are well-behaved -and industrious. Who will remember to pray -daily for the Indian School at Carlisle?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2-news" id="Page_2-news">[2n]</a></span></p> - - -<h2 class="faux">The PS Corner</h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 458px;"> -<img src="images/ps-corner.jpg" width="458" height="347" alt="The PS Corner" /> -</div> - - - -<p class="unindent"><span class="smcap">My dear Blossoms</span>:</p> - -<p>I have a very nice plan for the year. I wonder -who of you will join me? A Bible Band. -That is what I now want to form. I will select -and have printed in each <span class="smcap">Pansy</span> a list of readings -for each day in the month. How many of -my Blossoms will engage to read the day’s portion -with me, and write out in little blank books -prepared for the purpose, answers to the following -questions:</p> - -<p>1. What is there in this reading that I ought -especially to remember?</p> - -<p>2. Is there a direction for me to follow, if so, -what?</p> - -<p>3. Is there something for me to avoid, if so, -what?</p> - -<p>How can I make these verses help me through -this day?</p> - -<p>Now the way I am going to plan it is to read -over the verses, and make my report in my little -blank book before I leave my room in the morning. -Perhaps that will not be a convenient time -for all of you. Perhaps the little people who cannot -yet read nor write, will have to wait for -mamma’s or papa’s or sister’s leisure hour, to get -help. But I wish all who could would join me -in the morning before going down stairs; then, -after the reading, we will kneel down and ask -God to help us remember the verses all day.</p> - -<p>I would like to have each member of the -P. S. who will join this Bible Band, send me a -letter addressed to Winter Park, Florida, giving -his or her promise to obey the rules of the Band -as given here. To all such I will send a little -card for their Bible bookmark with the name of -the reader written on the back, and the date of -the pledge. I shall keep a roll of all members -of the Bible Band. At the end of each month -I should be glad to have a copy of what you -wrote in your little blank books. If you like, -you might get a large sheet of paper, the first of -the month, and make a copy for me each day, -sending it to me at the close of the month.</p> - -<p>I shall keep a list of those reports, and, at the -close of the year, I will publish the names of -those members who have reported each month, -and send them each a little token of my pleasure -because of their faithfulness.</p> - -<p>Now I wonder how large a Band I shall have? -Of course I will keep you informed through -<span class="smcap">The Pansy</span> of its size and growth, and send -you words of greeting. I think a great many -of you will join me. I hope so. It will be very -pleasant to think of my Blossoms reading and -thinking each day about the same Bible verses. -Who will be the first to send in his name, and receive -the bookmark?</p> - -<p class="sig"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Lovingly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Pansy</span>.<br /> -</p> - -<p>P. S.—If any of you know of something -unusually nice, which happened at Thanksgiving -time, write us an account of it.</p> - -<p class="center">——————————</p> - -<h3>READINGS FOR THE BIBLE BAND ADOPTION.</h3> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="readings"> -<tr><td align="left">Nov. </td><td align="left"> 1. 2 Cor. 14-18.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 2. Gal. iii: 25-29.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 3. Eph. iii: 14-21.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 4. Eph. vi: 11-18.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 5. John i: 9-13.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 6. Gal. iv: 4-7.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 7. Heb. ii: 10-18.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 8. John xi: 41-52.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left"> 9. Rom. viii: 14-18.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">10. 1 John iii: 1-3.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">11. John xx: 19-22.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">12. Heb. xii: 5-10.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">13. Phil. ii: 12-16.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">14. Matt. v: 44, 45, 48.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">15. Eph. v: 1, 2.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">16. Matt. vi: 25-34.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">17. Matt. v: 13-16.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">18. Matt. vii: 7-12.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">19. Matt. v: 9-12.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">20. Matt. vi: 12-15.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">21. Luke vi: 35, 36.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">22. Matt. vi: 1-4.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">23. Prov. xiv: 26.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">24. Num. vi: 24-27.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">25. Is. lxii: 2, 3.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">26. Matt. xiii: 43-46.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">27. Matt. vi: 9-13.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">28. Gen. xlviii: 5-11.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">29. Ex. ii: 1-10.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">“</td><td align="left">30. Ps. xxiii.</td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3-news" id="Page_3-news">[3n]</a></span></p> - -<p><i>Lucy May Quint.</i> If all the Pansies were -as busy as my little friend in Whitefield how -very busy I should be adding names to <span class="smcap">The -Pansy</span> roll. Many thanks, my dear. To make -your meetings good will require a busy Lucy, -thinking, reading, planning, conversing with parents -and others, praying Jesus for guidance -and comfort, never despairing, no matter what -happens to spoil your meetings.</p> - -<p>Keep gathering for your meetings, a crumb -in this book or paper; another from a talk with -some one; and so on. Thus you will always -have something on hand.</p> - -<p>You had a “nice,” “splendid” time in the -church on Children’s Day, amid flowers and -singing-birds, evergreens, and, best of all, a good -sermon.</p> - -<p>It is right to join the church. Now be true, -dear, to your covenant, for Jesus’ sake. Don’t -let any one who knows you doubt as to whether -you are a Christian.</p> - -<p><i>Christiana Lacy.</i> No, the Editor did not -forget Sevenfold Trouble, but “Uncle Sam” -somehow forgot to get it from the writer to the -printer. The mail does not always behave as it -should.</p> - -<p>Yes; I have read some of Miss Alcott’s works.</p> - -<p>You and your friend Jennie seem to have a -good standing in school. I am glad to hear -good things of every Pansy.</p> - -<p><i>Alice</i> of Minn. “At the farm.” No wonder -you like it ever so much; in the orchard, where -you have a swing; down at the brook, where -you try to catch a speckled trout; among the -sheep and cows; riding on hay or wheat from -field to barn; then sweet bread and sparkling -butter!</p> - -<p>As for the dishwashing, how you three girls -do chatter while you are at it, and boast as to -whose cups and saucers are wiped cleanest. If -you will send a copy of the Queer Story, corrected, -I can tell if it be right.</p> - -<p><i>Ruth Kimball.</i> Hunting eggs; boating among -pond lilies; at Cedar Bend Farm; with such a -dear companion as Alice must be, what a happy -girl you are. Well, child, make other hearts -sunny, too, won’t you?</p> - -<p><i>Gertrude Burgess.</i> None but perfect ones -on the Queer Story appears in my report. -Many come within one of it; that is a failure -all the same as one hundred. See? “A miss is -as good as a mile.” So, look your work over -and over and over before you send it. Thus -you will certainly do perfect work some day. -Meanwhile the effort will be a—school to you. -You are a blessed girl to be fighting so bravely -against that fault. Have you learned how to -lean your weakness upon Jesus’ might?</p> - -<p><i>Lydia Sewell.</i> The pansy on the card is -larger than many, but no larger than some I’ve -seen. By careful culture they grow to great -size. Your corrected Queer Story is well done, -yet with a few errors. It would be rather unusual -if every particular had been right. Still, -if you are a girl of good metal, you will certainly -tug away at this spelling business till you -will know the right as readily as you now know -your mamma’s face from five thousand others. -Keep on and show yourself a true Pansy soldier.</p> - -<p><i>Lydia I. Boring.</i> Your Queer Story is -within one of perfection. So you need not be -cast down. Some have made a dozen mistakes. -I guess you will be A No. 1 one on the next -Queer Story.</p> - -<p><i>Adella F. Coy.</i> Am glad you are pleased to -think so kindly of your Pansy picture. I wonder -if you have the picture of the Lord engraven -on your heart and often look tenderly upon it -through the eye of faith and love. Let’s never -grow too old to delight in leading and blessing -the little ones. You rejoice me in what you -say of the badge. Many others say the same -thing. If you will send me a corrected copy of -the Queer Story I will examine it.</p> - -<p><i>Helen S. Sloan.</i> See above about the Queer -Story. You “Busy Bees” made $127. The -hospital will think that sweet as honey. You -must write D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass., -about the “prizes.” They will explain.</p> - -<p><i>Mary E. Simpson.</i> At your request, I hand -your letter to R. M. Alden. I guess he will not -throw it into the waste-basket.</p> - -<p>Charlie Compher lives in Leesburg, Va. He -will be glad to get a letter from you.</p> - -<p>The country is a blessed place. Isn’t it queer -that so many country boys and girls don’t think -so, but are discontented and want to get to the -city, feeling sure that the city will make them -happy? Contentment, my dear Mary, is a -precious possession.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4-news" id="Page_4-news">[4n]</a></span></p> - -<p><i>Nannie Johnson.</i> You are eleven years old. -Now if you live to be seven times that and each -day “grow in grace,” what a beautiful old lady -you will be. Of course you will outgrow “carelessness” -the first month, and have plenty of time -to pick up after mamma, instead of her doing it -after you; and the “pony” and “parrot” and -“dog” and “dear little baby sister,” and everybody -else, I guess, will be glad.</p> - -<p><i>K. G. Boring.</i> A capital account, yours, of -your Fourth of July. I can almost see you at -the parade, and I’m so glad you got home safely -from the crowds and the tramp of horses and -that your fingers are not blown off. Rockets -and Roman candles seen from the house-top! -Balloons, too! Happy child! But what will -you say when you see the great Lord coming in -the clouds? How rejoiced you will be if you -are His at His coming.</p> - -<p><i>May Cameron.</i> Let me commend you for -finding so many mistakes in the Queer Story. I -must see your work to determine its correctness. -As to faults: Many are temper faults; many, -disorder; many, teasing, answering back; “wait -a minute;” biting nails, etc.</p> - -<p>Remember me to Mr. Doane. You seem to -be a wide-awake Band of Hope, with your -meetings, “Mizpah,” flowers, and care of the -sick. To be busy for the Saviour is to be safe -from Satan.</p> - -<p><i>Charlie M. Ritter.</i> You are very kind to -remember the organ. I wish I could say something -to make everything green and beautiful -about you. But your turn will come. Wait on -the Lord, be of good courage. He hears the -young raven when it cries. What a delightful -time you must have had on Children’s Day.</p> - -<p><i>Elma Holmes.</i> And while you wear your -badge here and there, be sure that you so live -that your mother and all the dear ones at home -can say, “Our Elma does what she professes.”</p> - -<p><i>Edith G. Grant.</i> I shouldn’t wonder if your -Queer Story was correct. Let me see a copy -now. Allie will soon learn other good things -besides “cutting kindling-wood,” perhaps to -read <span class="smcap">Pansy</span> or Bible stories when mamma is -tired. How I should love to visit you in your -summer home in “beautiful Tullahoma.” Instead, -I went to beautiful Ashville, N. C., in -September.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>————————————————</b></p> -<h3>IN MEMORIAM.</h3> - -<p class="drop-cap">ANOTHER Blossom transplanted into the -garden of God. Herbie Baily of Madison, -Wis., at the age of ten, July 6th, passed -away. With his parents he was attending a -Fourth of July celebration, when an accidental -ball struck him. Nothing serious was feared -till two days later, when, at 8 <span class="smcap">P. M.</span>, he rushed -into the house, screaming: “My head! My head! -I shall die!” At 11 he breathed his last. -Now, can you wonder that this dear boy, “so -tender and quick to sympathize with any one in -trouble and pain,” to whom “nothing was so -charming as the ‘Story of the Bible,’ who delighted -in everything pertaining to the life of -Christ”—do you wonder that the mother says: -“It seems as if I cannot bear his loss?”</p> - -<p>Maybe now some loving heart will be prompted -to write a word of sympathy to Herbie’s mother, -Mrs. A. S. Baily.</p> -<p class="center"><b>————————————————</b></p> - -<h3>WHERE ARE YOU?</h3> - -<p>Sylbil L. Anderson, Gilbert Anderson, Lizzie -Carnes, Addie R. Crane, Estelle Duncan, Edith -R. Foster, Mrs. Joshua Gowing, Josie ——, of -Amesbury, Mass., Carrie I. Glauche, H. H. Hass, -Jessie M. Hatch, John W. Holland, Marcella -McDougall, Mabel A. Morse, Rose Price, Christine -and Ollie Seely, Alice Stone, Rena B. Williams, -and H. G. Shattuck, A. S. Willick, S. Willard -Wood, Norma E. Wood, Mary W. Wells, -Nellie M. Merritt.</p> - -<p>To nearly all these names letters, with badges -enclosed, have gone and returned. Most failed -to give post-office, State, county, Street, or number. -Write me now and say just where I may -send these letters. Be plain and particular.</p> -<p class="center">——————————</p> - -<h3>MIRZA ALI’S LETTER.</h3> - -<div class="unindent"> -<span class="smcap">My Spiritual Teacher</span>:</div> - -<p><i>Dear, magnanimous Mr. Wright:</i></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First</span>: I hope your existence is safe and you -have no bodily ailment. Second: If you wish -to inquire my health, I thank God, I and my -mother and my sister are very well, and we are -thanking to our Lord and Saviour in return for His -gifts. My words will not be finished if I want -to count the gifts of our God. It is only sufficient<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5-news" id="Page_5-news">[5n]</a></span> -to write that He gave His beloved Son, -Jesus Christ, and saved us from death.</p> - -<p>If you wish to acquire of circumstances of -gentlemen and ladies, the missionaries, thank be -God, all they are safe and busy to cause to reach -the good news to the multitudes.</p> - -<p>Their families and ladies are safe. Our school -and the teacher, Baroon Wahan, and the scholars -are safe; every day is Baroon Wahan busy to -teach them. They learn the means of holy books.</p> - -<p>I, ownself also, every day in the mornings am -busy to give lessons in Turkish to my dear Sir -Mr. Whipple, agent of the American Bible Society. -Other times I am in telegraph office. -There I write the subjects; there I am busy till -night and night we finish. These days I give -lessons in English to the son of chief of telegraph, -and both the son of Aga Mirza Abdul -Ali, the doctor. I am sorry I have no dictionary -from Persian to English. When I want to -translate a book from Turkish to English it is -not possible. I remain unable and become unequal. -If I have this dictionary I hope I will -spread English abroad. You are my benefactor; -you are my kind and merciful friend.</p> - -<p>If you have not any more Dictionary and you -have one only and it is necessary for yourself -also, you cannot send (it) for me. You promise -to me that you write to Constantinople or America. -They send for me. You calculate it present, -given at Festival time to me. I hope you -desperate not me, but you will help me.... -I am expecting for answer. I hope you will -send me that book and you will make me glad -and happy. If you have order, write me. I -will execute and perform it. I will obey to all -your commands. The grace of our Lord Jesus -Christ be with you. Amen! And God may -increase your love for Jesus, His beloved Son. -Amen! If you find and see some mistake shut -your eyes from my faults. Excuse me, sir. It -is the first letter I wrote in English.</p> - -<p class="sig"> -<span style="margin-right: 7em;"><span class="smcap">Mirza Ali</span>,</span><br /> -<i>The teacher of Mr. Whipple</i>.<br /> -</p> -<p class="center">——————————</p> - - -<h3>THE QUER STOREY.</h3> - -<p class="drop-cap">WEN the Pansy Socity begun, thar was a -boy, whos name musent be given. His -mother tride to purswade him to plege his-self -aganst useing sigars. He had became a grate -smoker. The supertenent of the sundy schol -of wich this boy was a nenber tride two. But -he dident want a bage or too have his apetite -controled. He became verry bad, folowing anny -and evry boddy abowt too git a sigar. This -brout him into the salloons, whar he lernt two -drink lagger bier and sware and tel storys.</p> - -<p>If all the sigars, wich he has smoked sence -that was lain end too end, thay wood reech neerly -one fifth of a mile!</p> - -<p>How menny galons of bier he has drank and -how menny oths he has swoar woold take too -larg a peice off paper to rite them all onto, i am -sory two hav to anounce, he is not giting enny -beter.</p> - -<p class="center">[Send a corrected copy to Mrs. Alden.]</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following persons have mastered the -Queer Story. A few others may have done so, -but not having sent their copy for examination -it is impossible for me to know:</p> - -<p>Glenroy L. Black, Lucy Dickerson, Charlotte -Fitch, Louise Hosmer, Cora J. Russell, Margaret -Hoyt, Jessie Strengle, Hallie Edwards, Daisy -Vaughan, Lydia Boring, Agnes Oliver.</p> - -<p>Several others came within one or two words -of perfection.</p> - -<p class="center">——————————</p> - -<h3>NEW BOOKS.</h3> - -<p class="center">(<i>Published by D. Lothrop Company.</i>)</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soldier and Servant.</span> By Ella M. Baker. -Price $1.25; to Pansy Society 75 cents. A -thoroughly good book for girls, with not a dull -page in it. The young Christian cannot fail to -be helped by the story of Lisle’s pure true life -as soldier and servant.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">After School Days.</span> By Lucy Wheelock. -Price $1.00; to Pansy Society 60 cents. It is a -thousand pities that the sensational fiction which -constitutes the chief reading of many of our -older girls could not be replaced by such simple, -charming stories as this one. It is bright and -healthful, and filled with good lessons, both -practical and spiritual.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Swiss Stories.</span> From the German of Madame -Johanna Spyri. By Lucy Wheelock. Price -$1.00. To Pansy Society 60 cents. A lovely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6-news" id="Page_6-news">[6n]</a></span> -book within and without; just the thing for a -gift. It is not simply amusing; every child -who reads it cannot fail of being helped by its -pure, sweet lessons. We quote a few pages -from “Lisa’s Christmas”:</p> - -<p>“The next day the great question was, what -the lamb’s name would be.</p> - -<p>“Lisa proposed calling it Eulalie, for that was -the name of her friend’s cat, and it seemed to -her an especially fine name. But the boys did -not like it. It was too long. Kurt proposed -Nero, as the big dog at the mill was called. But -Lisa and Karl were not pleased with this name.</p> - -<p>“In despair they went to their mother, who -suggested he should be called ‘Curlyhead,’ and -Curlyhead he was from that forth.</p> - -<p>“The little creature soon became a great pet for -the children. They took him out for a frolic whenever -they had a few spare moments. Sometimes -they went to the pasture and Kurt and Karl -would search for rich, juicy clover leaves to -bring him, while Lisa sat on a bank with the -little creature’s head in her lap.</p> - -<p>“Whenever a child was sent on an errand to -the mill or to the baker’s, the lamb must go, and -he listened so intelligently to all the conversation -his companion addressed to him that it was -evident he understood every word. He grew -round as a ball, and his wool was as white and -pretty as if he was always in his Sunday dress.</p> - -<p>“The beautiful sunny autumn was drawing to -a close, Christmas was coming, Kurt and Karl -disclosed all their cherished dreams to Curlyhead, -and assured him he should have his share -of holiday presents.</p> - -<p>“Lisa had a particular friend, Marie, who -lived in the great farmhouse on the way to the -Zillesback. Lisa was very anxious to visit this -friend, for she could talk over her prospects for -Christmas more fully with her than with her -brothers. She had permission to go on her first -free afternoon, and when the time came she was -so impatient to start, that she could hardly hold -still long enough for her mother to tie on her -warm scarf. Then she ran bounding off, while -her mother watched her until she was half-way -down the hill; then she turned and went into -the house again.</p> - -<p>“At that moment it came into Lisa’s mind -that Curlyhead would enliven the way if her -brothers had not already taken him. She quickly -turned around, ran back to the barn and took -out Curlyhead. Together they ran down the -hard path where the bright autumn leaves were -dancing about in the wind. They soon reached -the end of their journey, where Lisa and her -friend where quickly lost in deep conversation, -walking up and down on the sunny plot of -ground in front of the house, while Curlyhead -nibbled contentedly at the hedge.</p> - -<p>“The two friends refreshed themselves occasionally -with pears, and juicy, red apples, which -grew in great abundance on the farm.</p> - -<p>“Marie’s mother had brought out a great -basketful, and Lisa was to carry home what -were left. When it was time for Lisa to go -home, Marie accompanied her a little way, and -they still had so much to say that they were in -sight of Lisa’s home before they knew it. Marie -quickly took leave of her, and Lisa hurried up -the path. It was already dark. Just as she -reached the house the thought flashed through -her mind like lightning: ‘Where is Curlyhead?’</p> - -<p>“She knew she had taken him with her. She -had seen him nibbling the hedge and then she -had entirely forgotten him.</p> - -<p>“In a most dreadful fright she rushed back -down the mountain again. ‘Curlyhead, Curlyhead, -where are you? Oh, come, come!’</p> - -<p>“But all was still. Curlyhead was nowhere -to be seen. Lisa ran back to the farmhouse. -There was a light already in the window of the -sitting-room, and she could look in from the -stone steps by the house. They were all at -the supper-table; father, mother, Marie and her -brothers and the servants. The old cat lay on -the bench by the stove; but nowhere was there a -trace of Curlyhead to be seen as Lisa peered into -all the corners. Then she ran around the house -into the garden, around the hedge, again into -the garden, and along the inside of the hedge, -calling ‘Curlyhead, come now, oh! come, come!’</p> - -<p>“All in vain; there was no sight or sound of -the lamb. Lisa grew more anxious. It grew -darker and the wind howled louder and louder, -and almost blew her from the ground. She -must go home. What should she do? She did -not dare to say she had lost Curlyhead. 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PARKER, Lynn, Mass.</b><br /> -</div> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<img src="images/illus097.jpg" width="256" height="158" alt="The Modern Priscilla woman stitching outside for some reason in the dark" /> -<br />Devoted exclusively to<br /> -<b>LADIES’ FANCY WORK</b>.</div> -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="ad"> -<tr><td align="center" class="br"><b>THE MODERN PRISCILLA</b> -<p>Published monthly, at 50 cts. per year. Descriptions -of new fancy work appear every month; all -directions for knitting or crocheting carefully corrected. -Everything beautifully illustrated.</p> - -<p><b>Miss Eva M. Niles says:</b> “I think your -paper a little gem.” <b>Get up a Club. Great -Inducements!! Send stamp for premium -list.</b> Club rate is now 25 cts. a year, or -<b>5</b> for <b>$1</b>. Get 4 subscribers and have your own -free. Address,</p> - -<p><b>Priscilla Publishing Co., Lynn, Mass.</b></p></td> -<td align="center"><b>SAVE MONEY.</b><br /> -<p>Embroidery Material, Infant’s Goods, Kid Gloves, -Corsets, Laces, Ruchings, etc., at <b>WHOLESALE -PRICES</b>.</p> - -Sent anywhere by mail.<br /> -POSTAGE ALWAYS PREPAID.<br /> - -<p>25 Skeins Embroidery Silk, 11 cents. Box of -Waste Embroidery Silk, worth 40 cents, for only 21 -cents. Felt Tidies, all stamped, 10 cents. Linen -Splashers, all stamped, 18 cts. Felt Table Scarfs, -18x50, all stamped, 48 cents. Ball Tinsel, 8 cents.</p> - -<b>T. E. PARKER, Lynn, Mass.</b></td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8-news" id="Page_8-news">[8n]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="adtitle3"> -AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN SUNDAY -SCHOOL BOOKS AND UNEXPECTED -HELP IN PICKING THEM -OUT.</div> - -<p>Sunday School books have been growing -better and better for many years; and yet -we think they are scarcely keeping pace with -the general forward movement. Indeed the -improvement in Sunday School books has -been largely brought about by mixing with -them books designed for wider use.</p> - -<p>Why not then widen the word to cover the -fact, and get such other books for Sunday -Schools as are fit for rising young people, -books to help them rise?</p> - -<p>That is the direction in which D. Lothrop -Company has been working for several years; -and its Sunday School books are largely -made up of reading and pictures by no means -confined to religious subjects. Now it goes -still further in the direction of the popular -tendency, and offers for Sunday Schools a -separate list of books not often thought of -for that purpose.</p> - -<p>Everybody knows that children, especially -boys, are apt to prefer a library where all sorts -of books are within their reach. Such browsing -unrestrained is apt to lead downward -rather than up. But why not let the Sunday -School library have the attraction without -the danger? Why not afford the delight of -inspiring, instructive, helpful literature in -some of the books and religious teaching in -others without the popular trash?</p> - -<p>So two separate lists of books for the Sunday -School library: one of modern (not -“goody-goody” or stupid) Sunday School -books, the other of secular books for the -rising young.</p> - -<p>These lists are arranged according to the -relative acceptability of the books as shown -in the main by the numbers called for. (1) -religious Sunday School books; and (2) secular -Sunday School books.</p> - -<p>The books in both lists are arranged in -the order of their acceptability. And so the -lists are a help in choosing books. The -majority vote may not be an infallible standard; -but is there a better, especially when -the voters are well-informed about what they -are voting on?</p> - -<p>The man who makes and sells a thing is -the man who knows its quality; for the -opinions of those who use it get around to -him, and that very promptly. These lists -are made with just that knowledge.</p> - -<p>First and foremost of the decidedly religious -books are the Pansy books. Pansy herself -is a leader of children. She opens her -mouth—they are eager to catch her lightest -word. She raises her hand—instinctively -up go theirs. The secret of such a power -as that is sympathy, feeling together.</p> - -<p>So in her books. She enters into their -smallest experiences. The boys and girls of -her books, the children of her brain, are just -like her readers, natural flesh and blood; -not life-like but real, just as real as you are -yourself. They live in their world with the -rest of us; have their ups and downs, perplexities, -such as come to us all; and they -win. So shall we who read!</p> - -<p>That is inspiration. The reader becomes -the actor, the hero, the heroine. Happy -the writer who uses such power as that for -helping, guiding, building up.</p> - -<p>There are more than a hundred “Pansy -books,” mostly by Pansy herself, a few by one -or two helpers, a few by others altogether. -They constitute, we may fairly say, the very -highest class of traditional Sunday School -books. They belong to the highest order of -Sunday School work.</p> - -<p>D. Lothrop Company, Boston, is just now -getting out these lists of religious and secular -Sunday School books, arranged with a -view of marking their relative popularity. -The Pansy books are at the top of the religious -list, and Arthur Gilman’s History of -the American People heads the secular list.</p> - -<p>Send for the primer—sent free by the -publishers.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Babyland</span> is so good a diversion for baby -and help for the mother that it ought to be in -every baby family. Pictures and jingles and -laughter. Baby will study in spite of you.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1-premium" id="Page_1-premium">[1p]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="adtitle1">PREMIUM LIST</div> - -<p>The Things you are going to have your choice of—you -who look about among your neighbors and help them pick -out their reading and pictures.</p> - -<p>It is a neighborly act. And the time to begin to be careful -of reading and pictures is when the baby can understand -them. Let them come in the following order:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><i>Babyland:</i> nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for the little -one; $0.50 a year.</p> - -<p><i>Our Little Men and Women:</i> delightful hours and years for beginning -readers; $1.</p> - -<p><i>Pansy:</i> the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy; $1.</p> - -<p><i>Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal:</i> for studious young folks; $1.</p> - -<p><i>Wide Awake:</i> library, study, play-house, life at home and abroad, -companionship of the wise and good; $2.40.</p></div> - -<p>Think of a life not only unhurt by wrong reading and -pictures, but helped by right reading and pictures all the -way through! It <i>is</i> a neighborly act!</p> - -<p>We make such Terms as you never heard of—for work.</p> - -<p class="center"> -D LOTHROP COMPANY<br /> -<span class="small">PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES</span><br /> -<small>BOSTON</small><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2-premium" id="Page_2-premium">[2p]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="adtitle3">Who Skips This Page Will Please Skip All</p> - -<div class="sidenote">What premiums -are -and to whom -they are due</div> - -<p>Premiums are pay for work and nothing else. -That work is getting new subscriptions. It is -done when you send the names, addresses and -money. Then you take your choice of the things -in the List.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Why we -pay so much</div> - -<p>This work is of great importance to us, no -matter how little there is to be done in your neighborhood. -We pay for it <i>all the money there is;</i> -we pay in such a way as to make it more to you -than it is to us, especially if you happen to live -where good new things are hard to get, where -the stores are stocked with things that are going -out of use instead of with things that are coming -into use.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">The best -things in the -list</div> - -<p>We put in the List the best we can get and the -best we can get for the money: some things because -it is worth your while to know about them; -others to answer wants we know exist—we put in -nothing to be ashamed of. Some things are commonplace; -not all are new or hard to get; but -those we emphasize are worthy of careful study.</p> - -<p>To be in the List at all is commendation. To be -described is high commendation.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">When premiums -are -due</div> - -<p>Premiums are due when the names and money -are here, and may be taken at any time thereafter, -the sooner the better for us. You can have -them right along as you earn them, or wait a little -and have more together and save a part of the -cost of transportation; but the sooner you take -them the surer you are of getting them. Some -will be gone by and by.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Who pays -for transportation</div> - -<p>All costs for freight, express and postage are -paid by receiver, except postage on books, magazines -and a few small things on which the postage -is only a cent or two.</p> - -<p>The postage on mailable things is stated in the -List except as above. [When the postage is not -stated: if the thing weighs only an ounce or two, -we pay the postage; but, if heavier, it must go by -express.] It is often true that mailable things go -for less by express. We send the cheapest way, -if we know it.</p> - -<p>Some things are sent direct from the makers to -save expense.</p> - -<p>Everything over four pounds, too big for the -mail, or for any reason unmailable, goes by express; -and you pay the freight on receipt.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">How much -the cost of a -package is -by express</div> - -<p>You can generally find out about how much by -guessing the size and weight and inquiring at your -express office.</p> - -<p>You can economize freights to some extent by -having several things in one package.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Who is responsible</div> - -<p>We pack with care and deliver to carrier in good -condition. That is all we can do. Beyond that -the risk is yours. We register packages going by -mail if you send the registry fee, ten cents a package, -in addition to postage.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">What is a -new subscription</div> - -<p>We pay for new subscriptions; not for renewals. -What is the difference? A new one is that of a -family not on our list before.</p> - -<p>We pay premiums in good faith. We expect -them to be earned in good faith. A subscriber -may stop one magazine and become a new subscriber -to another; but change of a magazine -from one name to another in a family is not a new -subscription. Your own subscription (if new) -may count with others (not alone) for premiums. -We have got to draw the line somewhere. We -don’t reckon too closely, nor suspect bad faith too -readily. We prefer to deal a little generously; but -we don’t intend to be really imposed upon.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Direct to -D. Lothrop -Company</div> - -<p>To be entitled to premiums you must send subscriptions -direct to the publishers, not to another -agent. We don’t pay twice for the same subscription.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Whose -agent you -are</div> - -<p>You are entrusted with money for us by the subscribers -you get. You are their agent, not ours. -Be faithful to them. Send their names and money -as soon as you get them. You are responsible to -them till we get the names, addresses and money -together. Then you are free.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">When a -subscription -begins</div> - -<p>Subscriptions begin at any time. If you neglect -to name a date, we guess as well as we can.</p> - -<p>The volumes begin as follows: <i>Wide Awake</i>, -December and June; <i>Chautauqua Young Folks’ -Journal</i>, December; <i>Pansy</i>, November; <i>Our Little -Men and Women</i>, January; <i>Babyland</i>, January.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Requirements</div> - -<p>No deviation in prices; no credit (send name, -address and money together); remit by post-office -money order, by American Express Company’s -money order, by registered letter or by bank check -(postage stamps may be sent in registered letters -for change); write plainly and fully; give subscribers’ -full addresses (they may be different); -sign your name and give your full address in every -communication.</p> - -<p>The foregoing relates to premiums sent within -the United States.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Beyond -the United -States</div> - -<p>To the British North American Colonies other -premiums have to be sent by express, the receiver -paying whatever costs the tariff may impose; but -magazines and books may be sent to these colonies -by mail. There is a duty on books; not on magazines.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Premiums -for sale</div> - -<p>Things in the List are also sold for money, payment -in advance, no discount, no charge for packing, -sent at receiver’s cost and risk.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Delays</div> - -<p>Wait for return mail and a week besides before -you conclude your letter or our reply has gone -astray; then write particulars: date of your sending, -how you remitted, how much.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">The first -thing to do</div> - -<p>The first step to take is to send us 15 cents for -specimen copies of all five magazines, subscription -blanks and other helps.</p> - -<p class="center"> -D LOTHROP COMPANY<br /> -<span class="small">PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES</span><br /> -<small>BOSTON</small><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3-premium" id="Page_3-premium">[3p]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="adtitle2">PREMIUM LIST OF THE LOTHROP MAGAZINES</div> - - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> -<img src="images/illus103a.jpg" width="250" height="143" alt="jackstraws" /> -</div> - -<p>Jack-straws, two -sets. Prices 25 and 50 -cents; for 30 and 60 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents. -One set contains more -pieces and also more -sorts—ladders, spades, -hoes, mallets, arrows, -etc., of variously-colored wood.</p> - -<p>Cultivates delicate handling and ingenuity.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Puzzle Map of the United States, on oblong paper -blocks to be matched together. Price 25 cents; for 30 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<p>Teaches what we elders need to study—where the -States are.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 384px;"> -<a href="images/illus103b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus103b.jpg" width="384" height="246" alt="Cow jumping over the moom toy" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The Frisky Cow. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 44 cents—express may be -less. Size 6 by 8 by 12 inches.</p> - -<p>For little people. Johnny rolls the ball and hits the -knob on the right, rings a bell and counts 10. Susan -hits the -middle -knob, -counts -20, and -the cow -jumps -over the -moon.</p> - - - -<p>One of -the jolliest -toys -we know of.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Shadow Transformations. Price 25 cents; for 30 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<p>Figures cut out of cards cast shadows from any sort -of light. The shadows are silhouette pictures. The -combinations are hundreds. There is more fun in them -than we can put on paper.</p> - -<p>Stimulates invention and design; for nobody stops -with these cards.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 302px;"> -<img src="images/illus104a.jpg" width="302" height="217" alt="coins" /> -</div> -<p>Toy Money in a -cash-box. Price 25 -cents; for 30 cents -in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 -cents.</p> - -<p>The coins are -printed card-board -copies like the picture, -only full size.</p> - -<p>“Playing store” teaches the little merchants a great -deal more than arithmetic; and how can they make -change without money?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Historiscope. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 436px;"> -<img src="images/illus104b.jpg" width="436" height="247" alt="looks like small television BRADLEY’S HISTORISCOPE" /> -</div> - -<p>A panorama of scenes in American history, with a -brief “lecture.” You turn that little crank, and the -“lecture” explains the pictures.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>American Toy Village. Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 458px;"> -<img src="images/illus104c.jpg" width="458" height="169" alt="model village" /> -</div> - -<p>The buildings etc., which are painted wood, may be -arranged on the lithographed “plan” as in the picture, -or on a table, or lawn, or sand.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4-premium" id="Page_4-premium">[4p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figright" style="width: 367px;"> -<img src="images/illus105a.jpg" width="367" height="104" alt="Tiles that spell N-A-M-E" /> -</div> - -<p>Words and -Sentences, a -game, variations -of -which are -known by -several other names, Logomachy, War of Words, etc. -Price 25 or 50 cents; for 30 or 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents and 7 cents. Two styles, one -more substantial than the other and in wood box.</p> - -<p>A family game by no means confined to children. -Cultivates knowledge of words and facility in their use.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 166px;"> -<img src="images/illus105b.jpg" width="166" height="93" alt="two checker pieces" /> -</div> - -<p>Checker Men. Price 10 cents; -for 15 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents.</p> - -<p>Thirty double-face pieces 1¼ -inches diameter.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 221px;"> -<img src="images/illus105c.jpg" width="221" height="222" alt="game board" /> -</div> - -<p>Halma. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 22 cents.</p> - -<p>“The only important board -game purely of skill invented -since checkers and chess.” -Introduced two years ago -and said to be very popular. -Large flat folding paper -board and box with men and -instructions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Chess, Checkers and Halma in one. Price $1.75; for -$2 in new subscriptions. Goes by express.</p> - -<p>Checker board on one side, halma on the other, with -cherry frame and trough for the men, 19x19 inches: -chess, checkers and halma men and directions for -halma.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 387px;"> -<img src="images/illus105d.jpg" width="387" height="245" alt="group of people playing game" /> -</div> - -<p>Carpet -Bowls. -Price 50 -cents; -for 60 -cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage -32 cents.</p> - -<p>Like -quoits, except that the balls are rolled instead of tossed, -and the hub is a ball that gets moved about as the game -goes on.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Snap. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<p>Teaches quickness.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Social Hours. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>A pamphlet of games, tricks, illusions and puzzles, -with a box of requisite things to play with. A very -large number; too many to count.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Matched Pictures, scenes in the far West. Price 25 -cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;"> -<img src="images/illus106a.jpg" width="432" height="236" alt="Indians hunting buffalo" /> -</div> - -<p>Forty oblong pieces go together in a great many ways -and make as many different pictures.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Dressmaking Bazaar. Price $1; for $1.25 in -new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<p>Paper dolls’ heads, arms, legs, dress-stuffs, laces, -ornaments; an immense variety. Patterns to cut by. -Instructions. The figures are handsomely lithographed -on varnished paper.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Interchangeable Combination Circus. Price 75 cents; -for 90 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 326px;"> -<a href="images/illus106b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus106b.jpg" width="326" height="140" alt="circus scene" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A set of sectional pictures. The circus performs -whatever part of the programme you choose amid the -huzzahs of the spectators.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Evening Party. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<p>A boxful of games, puzzles, charades, rebuses, tricks, -conundrums, etc.; a houseful of frolic and fun.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5-premium" id="Page_5-premium">[5p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 258px;"> -<img src="images/illus107a.jpg" width="258" height="155" alt="stack of three wooden board cases" /> -</div> - -<p>Checker and Backgammon boards, hinged boxes, with -dice-cups and men. No 1, 8x14 inches closed, price -$1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. -No. 2, 7x12, price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents. No. 3, 6x10½, price 50 -cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 -cents. They differ also in wood and finish.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kindergarten souvenir-material (Bradley’s). Tinted -card with diagrams and colored illustrations, by which -children are taught to cut, fold, embroider and make a -great variety of beautiful useful things. A generous -boxful. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 26 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 208px;"> -<img src="images/illus107b.jpg" width="208" height="114" alt="rook, queek, king and pawn" /> -</div> - -<p>Chess Men. Price -50 cents; for 60 cents -in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 135px;"> -<img src="images/illus107c.jpg" width="135" height="121" alt="blocks" /> -</div> - -<p>Building Blocks. Price 25 and -50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 30 -and 60 cents. Express may be -less.</p> - -<p>As many blocks as cents; not -painted.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Fascinator, balls and cues, indoors or out. The boys -will know the rest from the picture. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;"> -<img src="images/illus107d.jpg" width="324" height="76" alt="FASCINATOR" /> -</div> - -<p>Teaches skill with eye and hand.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kindergarten -Occupation. -Price $1; for -$1.25 in new -subscriptions. -Postage -32 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 253px;"> -<a href="images/illus108a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus108a.jpg" width="253" height="185" alt="MILTON BRADLEY & Co SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Gems From The Kindergarten FOR HOME OCCUPATION" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Weaving, -embroidering, -ring-laying, -stick-laying, -etc. A large box of materials with instructions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 163px;"> -<img src="images/illus108b.jpg" width="163" height="143" alt="ring toss game" /> -</div> - -<p>Pitch-a-Ring and Ring -Toss. Price $1; for $1.25 in -new subscriptions. Postage -40 cents—express may be -less.</p> - -<p>The rings are made pretty -and soft with plaiting of colored -cotton, and the box they -come in serves for base.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Go Bang, Tivoli, and Fox and -Geese. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in -new subscriptions. Postage 33 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 116px;"> -<img src="images/illus108c.jpg" width="116" height="175" alt="game board box" /> -</div> - -<p>Leather-covered two-book-shape -box, 2x7½x14 inches, turned wood -men.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 136px;"> -<img src="images/illus108d.jpg" width="136" height="127" alt="Parrcheesi board" /> -</div> - -<p>Parcheesi. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<p>Size of closed board 9½x18½x⅜ -inches. Brass-bound -paper men; dice-boxes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Checkered Game of Life. -Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 172px;"> -<a href="images/illus108e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus108e.jpg" width="172" height="169" alt="Very detailed game board" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Size of closed board 8x16⅜ -inches; wood men; -counters; teetotum.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6-premium" id="Page_6-premium">[6p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Set of Games No. 1 containing each in a box: A lot -of puzzles; Old Maid; Round Up; Five Senses; Old -Salt’s Yarn; Auction; Scramble; Steeple-Chase. -Price 15 cents each; any three for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents each.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Set of Games No. 2 containing each in a little box: -Old Maid; Jack Straws; Fortunes; Seth Spook’s -Visit to Chicago; Beast, Bird, Fish; Go Bang; Selected -Authors; Riddles; Optical Illusions; Tortoise and -Hare; Siege; Historical Dates. 6 cents each; any -four for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 -cents for the four.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 188px;"> -<a href="images/illus109a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus109a.jpg" width="188" height="144" alt="Old maid game by Milkton Bradley" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Old Maid improved. -Price 25 cents; for 30 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 271px;"> -<img src="images/illus109b.jpg" width="271" height="80" alt="board with holes" /> -</div> - -<p>Solitaire. -Price 50 -cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<p>With bowls for marbles in play and a drawer.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Perfection folding -table. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -By express.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 162px;"> -<img src="images/illus109c.jpg" width="162" height="122" alt="game table with board on it" /> -</div> - -<p>Top 19x30 inches -and adjustable to -eight heights between -23½ and 29 -inches. Half-yard -inch measure and checkers on it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Postage-stamp album with classified spaces for 2400 -stamps and 264 engravings. Price 50 cents (cloth binding -75 cents); for 60 cents in new subscriptions (cloth -binding for 90 cents). Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>One hundred postage stamps to begin with; price 25 -cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 218px;"> -<a href="images/illus110a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus110a.jpg" width="218" height="242" alt="black men dancer and musicion: Jig Dancin One Cent" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Savings Bank. -Price $1; for $1.25 -in new subscriptions. -Postage 17 -cents.</p> - -<p>The music and -dancing last half a -minute after a -penny is put into it. -Goes by clock-work. -Well made and not -likely to get out of -order. The music -is imaginary, except -the clatter of the -dancer’s feet.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Printing outfit. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;"> -<a href="images/illus110b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus110b.jpg" width="325" height="263" alt="THE FAVORITE PRINTING PRESS & OUTFIT" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Consists of a practical press of the slightest possible -character, roller, one font of type, one case, leads, furniture, -ink and fifty cards. Weight of the whole in a -box about seven pounds. A boy with the requisite -printing wit can do small jobs with it. Size of chase -2x3½ inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> -<img src="images/illus110c.jpg" width="351" height="205" alt="fake gun" /> -</div> - -<p>Woods Air Line Gun. -Price $1; for $1.10 in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<p>The “barrel” is a straight wire; -the bullet a wood spool; the force a -coil of steel wire. Target with pocket -to catch the bullets. Also a torpedo -target.</p> - -<p>Bullets for the Woods gun; 25 for 10 cents; for 15 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7-premium" id="Page_7-premium">[7p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Britannia -Tea-set. -Price 25 cents; -for 35 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage -12 cents.</p> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 252px;"> -<a href="images/illus111a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus111a.jpg" width="252" height="143" alt="tea set" /></a> -</div> -<p>About 20 -pieces, teapot -3 inches high.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sand-mill, that is, a water-wheel driven by sand -instead of water, with a wooden man pretending to turn -the crank outside. The mechanical boy will rig a pulley -and get a good deal of work out of it. Sand play is -the chief amusement of children at the seaside.</p> - -<p>Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> -<a href="images/illus111b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus111b.jpg" width="250" height="108" alt="scale and weights" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Toy scales -6½ inches long. -Price 25 cents; -for 35 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage -17 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 335px;"> -<a href="images/illus111c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus111c.jpg" width="335" height="95" alt="Engine and tender Geo. H. Walker and company, Boston" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Locomotive and tender of malleable iron japanned -and gilt. Connecting-rods work, wheels turn and bell -rings. 20 inches long, and weighs seven pounds. -None so substantial and life-like ever made before for -anything like the money. Price $2; for $2.50 in new -subscriptions. Western orders filled from Chicago to -save express.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whistle. Price 30 -cents; for 35 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 187px;"> -<img src="images/illus111d.jpg" width="187" height="70" alt="whistle" /> -</div> - -<p>Celluloid; looks like -ivory. Trills.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Musical top. Price 30 cents; for -35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 123px;"> -<img src="images/illus111e.jpg" width="123" height="106" alt="large spinning top" /> -</div> - -<p>Reeds inside of it, sing as it -spins and change their notes with a -touch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Locomotive -12-inch. Price -$2; for $2.50 -in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 247px;"> -<a href="images/illus112a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus112a.jpg" width="247" height="142" alt="Whistler train" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Goes by -clock-work. -Gong in the cab rings loudly.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Locomotive engine 10 inches long. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<p>Goes by clock-work. Bell does not ring.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Weeden engine. Price -$1.25; for $1.35 in new -subscriptions. Postage -35 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 188px;"> -<a href="images/illus112b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus112b.jpg" width="188" height="374" alt="RUSSELL & RICHARDSON S C engine" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Quite an elaborate, -handsome and well-made -engine, 8½ inches high, -with safety-valve, whistle, -smoke-stack, thumb-screws -to let steam on -and off and to whistle, -heavy fly-wheel and -double pulley. Goes half -an hour with one firing -and watering. Made of -nickeled tin and brass. -Power enough for a -great variety of play-work.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Engine. Price 50 cents; for 60 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage -5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 116px;"> -<a href="images/illus112c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus112c.jpg" width="116" height="281" alt="Hero engine" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A little rough; but a boy can -whittle it smooth; 5 inches high; -with all the necessary parts. Goes -as long as the water and alcohol last -and drives a little light machinery. -Even this is enough to find out a -boy with mechanical bent.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8-premium" id="Page_8-premium">[8p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Propeller “Neptune,” an iron boat 10 inches long -with a working engine strong enough to drive it briskly -across the mill-pond for 20 or 30 minutes. Not really -iron; mostly brass; the hull painted black with red -stripe along the gunwale. A saucy craft, but not at -all dangerous.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;"> -<a href="images/illus113a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus113a.jpg" width="318" height="139" alt="ship: Neptune" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Price $2.25; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -15 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Revolving Wall Blackboard -and desk slate. Price 50 cents; -for 60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 143px;"> -<img src="images/illus113b.jpg" width="143" height="143" alt="little blackboard" /> -</div> - -<p>Size 16½x17 inches, including -frame and trough for eraser -and crayons. Outline designs -on frame for drawing.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Folding Chair. Price -25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 154px;"> -<img src="images/illus113c.jpg" width="154" height="200" alt="chair" /> -</div> - -<p>Natural cherry, surprisingly -well made and smooth. The -seat is of pretty cretonne. -Total height 11½ inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s High Chair with table-leaf -and wood tea-set. Price 25 cents; -for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 11 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 117px;"> -<img src="images/illus113d.jpg" width="117" height="235" alt="doll's high-chair" /> -</div> - -<p>Daintily made of fine white-wood -printed to imitate cane seat, etc.</p> - -<p>It comes “flat;” and dolly’s maternal -uncle puts it together. Foot-and-a-half -high.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Chamber Set. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 280px;"> -<img src="images/illus114a.jpg" width="280" height="217" alt="furniture set: chair, dresser, bed, small table" /> -</div> - -<p>Cherry, four pieces: bedstead 17x8x9 inches, bureau -with bright tin mirror, pretty folding chair and table. -All come “flat” and go together beautifully.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 157px;"> -<img src="images/illus114b.jpg" width="157" height="246" alt="stroller with broken wheel" /> -</div> - -<p>Doll’s Carriage. Price 25 -cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 8 -cents. A folding easy chair -on wheels; fine white-wood; -pretty cretonne seat; arms of -bright silk cord.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dolly’s Own Album of nearly two hundred transfer -pictures; 7 cents; for 10 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Folding Desk Blackboard -with rolling -sheet of more than a -hundred designs for -drawing. Price $1; -for $1.25 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 203px;"> -<img src="images/illus114c.jpg" width="203" height="274" alt="blackboard on tray" /> -</div> - -<p>Height 3 feet; blackboard -14x18 inches.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9-premium" id="Page_9-premium">[9p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Cradle. -Price 25 cents; -for 30 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage -15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 251px;"> -<img src="images/illus115a.jpg" width="251" height="136" alt="cradle" /> -</div> - -<p>White-wood, -7½ x 8½ x 16 -inches. Comes “flat.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 196px;"> -<img src="images/illus115b.jpg" width="196" height="169" alt="ZEBRA" /> -</div> - -<p>Sliced Animals. Price -30 cents; for 40 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage 12 cents.</p> - - - -<p>Colored pictures of -animals on strips of card-board -with letters on -one end. When the -strips are put together -right the animal’s name -is there too.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sliced Objects. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<p>Yacht, engine, boat, car, fort, church, house, dam, -bridge, coach, fountain, statue; all on strips and mixed -together.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sliced Birds. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 218px;"> -<img src="images/illus115c.jpg" width="218" height="136" alt="collapsible cup" /> -</div> - -<p>Britannia Collapsing -Cup in a tin box. -Price 20 cents; for -25 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage -7 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 176px;"> -<img src="images/illus115d.jpg" width="176" height="161" alt="another collapsible cup" /> -</div> - -<p>Nickeled Collapsing Cup -in a watch-case. Price 50 -cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dominoes. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<p>In neat and substantial wood box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 178px;"> -<a href="images/illus116a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus116a.jpg" width="178" height="128" alt="toy clothes wringer" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Triumph toy Clothes-wringer, -handy for small -pieces as well as for -dolly’s things. Rolls -three inches long. -Works perfectly. Price -50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage -15 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 102px;"> -<img src="images/illus116b.jpg" width="102" height="232" alt="dolly" /> -</div> - -<p>Doll, No. 204, 20½-inches high, undressed, -except chemise trimmed with -lace and ribbon, bisque head, arms -and legs, washable. Price $1.25; for -$1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage -30 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dressed Doll Nellie, 14 inches high, -in full summer dress set off with lace -and ribbons, hat, lace hose and leather -shoes; bisque head, arms and legs. -Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In-door Ball. Price 25 -cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 161px;"> -<a href="images/illus116c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus116c.jpg" width="161" height="158" alt="inflatable ball" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Very light rubber, 3¼-inch -blown up.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Tea-set. Price -$1.25; for $1.60 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 209px;"> -<img src="images/illus116d.jpg" width="209" height="119" alt="another tea set" /> -</div> - -<p>China, gayly decorated, -20 to 25 pieces. -Cups about 2 inches -across; tea-pot 5 -inches high.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Drawing Teacher. Price -25 cents; for 30 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage -7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 179px;"> -<img src="images/illus116e.jpg" width="179" height="122" alt="stencil of jumping deer" /> -</div> - -<p>Thick paper stencils for -pencil drawings; designs; -a supply of suitable paper.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10-premium" id="Page_10-premium">[10p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Drum. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 194px;"> -<img src="images/illus117a.jpg" width="194" height="174" alt="drum" /> -</div> - -<p>Hammered brass -body; sheepskin heads; -red-white-and-blue -cords and belt; 13 inch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Daisy Ten-pins. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 282px;"> -<a href="images/illus117b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus117b.jpg" width="282" height="127" alt="children to knock down with a marble" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The pins are lithographed figures of boys and girls -in holiday dress and the balls are solid gilt.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tin Kitchen. -Price 60 -cents; for 75 -cents in new -subscriptions. -Postage -30 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 260px;"> -<img src="images/illus117c.jpg" width="260" height="162" alt="kitchen" /> -</div> - -<p>Size 7x12x4 -inches; -about 20 -pieces; pump -pumps water.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Fire Engine. -Price $6; for -$6.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 230px;"> -<a href="images/illus117d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus117d.jpg" width="230" height="140" alt="Fire engine" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Pumps from a -reservoir, and at -the same time -throws a continuous -stream. Consists -of boiler, engine, force-pump, water and steam -gauges, air-chamber, hose and hose-pipe. Size 5x10½x9 -inches, exclusive of pole. The machine is an excellent -one; the engraving is not a good one.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Head No. 38-24, -bisque, 3 inches across -shoulders. Price 30 cents; -for 40 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 187px;"> -<img src="images/illus118a.jpg" width="187" height="177" alt="doll's head No. 710" /> -</div> - -<p>Doll’s Head No. 710, bisque, 3½ inch, closing eyes, fine -curls. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Doll’s Wash-set. Price 25 -cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 134px;"> -<img src="images/illus118b.jpg" width="134" height="135" alt="laundry set" /> -</div> -<p>Tub 9 x 5 inches. The wringer -does not wring.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Fairy Sewing-machine. -Price $3; for -$3.25 in new -subscriptions. -Postage 35 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 253px;"> -<a href="images/illus118c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus118c.jpg" width="253" height="259" alt="Fairy sewing machine" /></a> -</div> - - -<p>Actually -sews, and is -really useful -to put in one’s -trunk for a -summer trip—the -best of -hand sewing-machines -are -silly at home.</p> - -<p>This isn’t silly, because it teaches dolly’s mamma to -cut and make her own dresses. An excellent play-thing -for an industrious little girl, though we suppose -it is made for serious use. Size 5x6 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Japanese -Tivoli, -Price 25 -cents; for -30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 397px;"> -<a href="images/illus118d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus118d.jpg" width="397" height="108" alt="game" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Jap lies on his back, heels up, with a marble in the -bowl on his boots, Tommy touches the spring and -counts according to where the marble goes.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11-premium" id="Page_11-premium">[11p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 308px;"> -<a href="images/illus119a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus119a.jpg" width="308" height="118" alt="TOLEDO BLADE" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Large Jack-knife. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bull’s-eye lantern. Price 75 -cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 130px;"> -<img src="images/illus119b.jpg" width="130" height="169" alt="lantern" /> -</div> - -<p>For hand or belt; 3-inch lens.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A good photographing outfit -complete for $2.50—Horsman’s -“Eclipse”—for $2.75 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 286px;"> -<a href="images/illus119c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus119c.jpg" width="286" height="261" alt="Horseman's Eclips photograph outfit; camera, dry plates chemicals, paper" /></a> -</div> - -<p>There is no better for less -than $10. It is not good -enough to take portraits. -It is good enough for views -containing persons or -groups. -That is, it -gives attitudes -and -aspects -perfectly; -not the -fine details of expression and feature. For ten cents -we send two specimen photographs (largest size, 3x4 -inches) taken with it.</p> - -<p>An average boy or girl of twelve years can use it successfully -and make about as good pictures with it as -with any $10 camera.</p> - -<p>The outfit consists of a small camera covered with -imitation morocco, six rapid dry plates, two japanned-iron -trays, two bottles of developer, package of hypo-sulphite -of soda, printing-frame, six sheets of silvered -and six of blue-print paper, bottle of toning solution, -dozen card mounts, plate-lifter, sheet of ruby paper, -directions for making a cheap ruby lamp, and full -instructions for every part of the work. Weight about -3½ pounds; postage 60 cents—express may be less.</p> - -<p>After supplies—Particulars in a circular sent on -request.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Foot-ball, two sizes, 6 and 9 inch. Prices $1 and $1.50; -for $1.25 and $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage on -either 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 275px;"> -<img src="images/illus120a.jpg" width="275" height="146" alt="large ball being chased by tiny men" /> -</div> - -<p>Made of heavy canvas coated with rubber, stout, -blown up with key.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Village Blacksmith. Price 50 -cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 127px;"> -<a href="images/illus120b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus120b.jpg" width="127" height="139" alt="two men working in smith's shop" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The blower works the bellows -and the blacksmith wields his -hammer. Worked by the engine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Fishing outfit. Price $1.15; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<p>12-foot jointed rod, brass tips and ferrules, bob, -sinkers, 36-foot line, dozen assorted hooks, pickerel -trolling-hook, ganged hooks with hair or gut snell, flies, -and bait-box. Neat and substantial.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“Winchester” double-barrel Rifle. Price 50 cents; -for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> -<a href="images/illus120c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus120c.jpg" width="360" height="75" alt="WINCHESTER RIFLE" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A rather easy gun. Covered-rubber spring.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Wilcox target Gun. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 488px;"> -<a href="images/illus120d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus120d.jpg" width="488" height="167" alt="Wilcox crossbow and targets" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Covered-rubber spring; removable cross-piece; bayonet; -breech box for darts and targets.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“Dr. Carver” Gun. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 17 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 479px;"> -<a href="images/illus120e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus120e.jpg" width="479" height="90" alt="DOCTOR CARVER PATENTED rifle" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A savage rubber-spring gun adjustable as to force.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12-premium" id="Page_12-premium">[12p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“World” Type-Writer. Price $8; for $10 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> -<a href="images/illus121a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus121a.jpg" width="344" height="129" alt="unusual typewriter" /></a> -</div> - -<p>It is with gratification as complete as it was unexpected -that we put this machine in the list.</p> - -<p>It prints more neatly and perfectly than the Remington; -not so fast and not so easily. A scholar’s type-writer; -a type-writer for business not requiring speed -or amount of work. Whoever wants a type-writer but -has too little use for it to justify paying a hundred -dollars for it, he is the man or woman, boy or girl for -whom this machine is exactly right.</p> - -<p>Nobody wants to take the time to acquire facility with -a type-writer that amounts to nothing after he has -learned it. The limit of the value of the “World” is -its speed; which is from twenty to thirty words a -minute. We hear that sixty words a minute has been -attained. We are sure of thirty. Weight in box 5 lbs.</p> - -<p>We are not permitted to sell it for money; only with -subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Wringer with folding bench. Price $6; for $6.50 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Better than a tub wringer can be; handier; more substantial. -Altogether the best of wringing devices. -Folds into small floor-space. The proper place for it is -where the family does its own work and wants the best -facilities.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 308px;"> -<a href="images/illus121b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus121b.jpg" width="308" height="176" alt="wringer" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Wringer. Price $2.75; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. -The simplest of all the wringers. You put it on the -tub; and the wringing pressure is on. Take it off the -tub; and the pressure is off the rolls. For this reason -the rolls are less likely to be injured by careless or ignorant -treatment than those of any other style of wringer.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Orchestra. -Price $1; -$1.10 in new -subscriptions. -Postage -7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 252px;"> -<img src="images/illus122a.jpg" width="252" height="116" alt="cat band" /> -</div> - -<p>Lithographed -figures -on blocks worked by cranks and a belt from the -engine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Musician. Price 50 cents; for 60 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage -5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 107px;"> -<img src="images/illus122b.jpg" width="107" height="146" alt="Cat musician" /> -</div> - -<p>Worked by a belt from the engine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sawyer. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 105px;"> -<img src="images/illus122c.jpg" width="105" height="108" alt="man sawing" /> -</div> - -<p>Worked by a belt from the engine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bradley’s Authors. Price 50 cents; -for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 83px;"> -<a href="images/illus122d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus122d.jpg" width="83" height="122" alt="Dickens' Dombey and Son; Pickwick; Oliver Twist" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The best game of the name [there are -many]; and best material; waterproof -cards.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tennis outfit. Price $20; for $30 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Consists of 4 “Standard” rackets, 6 regulation balls, -regulation net 36x3 feet, poles, guys, ropes, pegs, mallet -and book of the game.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“Standard” tennis racket. Price $3; for $4 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 453px;"> -<img src="images/illus122e.jpg" width="453" height="154" alt="Peerless racket" /> -</div> - -<p>“Peerless” tennis racket. Price $5.50; for $7.50 in -new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Croquet outfit for eight players. Price $3; for $4 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Maple.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13-premium" id="Page_13-premium">[13p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Luminous Match-safe. Price -20 cents; for 25 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 148px;"> -<a href="images/illus123a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus123a.jpg" width="148" height="163" alt="match safe" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The word MATCHES shines -at night enough to guide you -to the box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Monogram-stamping outfit. Two -letters 50 cents, three letters 80 -cents; for 60 cents and $1 in new -subscriptions. Postage on either 5 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 118px;"> -<a href="images/illus123b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus123b.jpg" width="118" height="173" alt="ink monogram stamper" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Consists of rubber stamp (whatever -letters you want—size of letter -½-inch), indelible ink for clothing, -red ink, bronze, and pads.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 202px;"> -<img src="images/illus123c.jpg" width="202" height="99" alt="Book carrier" /> -</div> - -<p>Watson’s book-carrier. -Price 25 cents; -for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 -cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Set of four rubber -combs in a handy box. -Price 50 cents; for 65 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 189px;"> -<img src="images/illus123d.jpg" width="189" height="114" alt="comb set" /> -</div> - -<p>Coarse comb, fine -comb, child’s comb, -pocket comb.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Stamping outfit for embroidery etc., a generous one. -The maker calls it $5-worth, but sells it for $1. For -$1.10 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Daisy alphabet 2½ inches high; roses 8x14; pond -lilies 17x7½; pansies 3½x6; stork 7x11; bird and cherries -6x7; etc, etc. (large enough pieces); powder, pads, -instructions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Pocket-knife No. 836. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 277px;"> -<a href="images/illus123e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus123e.jpg" width="277" height="83" alt="TB Terry penknife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Pearl handle, fine, substantial, 3 inches long.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Magic Pocket-knife. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 2 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 309px;"> -<img src="images/illus124a.jpg" width="309" height="63" alt="letter opener" /> -</div> - -<p>Chased rubber handle with nickeled trimmings. A -dainty knife of middling quality; not a whittler. Hold -the blade-end down and press on top; the blade pops -“open.” Reverse to “shut” it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Button-hole shears. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 347px;"> -<a href="images/illus124b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus124b.jpg" width="347" height="152" alt="Terry and Co. Toledo button-hole shears" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Adjustable for length of hole with a gauge for -distance.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Shears. Price 80 cents; for $1 -in new subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 328px;"> -<a href="images/illus124c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus124c.jpg" width="328" height="120" alt="Terry and Co. Shears. Pat. Apri 21 85" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Japanned handles and nickeled blades; length 8 -inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Scissors. Price 80 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<p>Nickeled.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ladies’ pearl-handle Knife. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in -new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;"> -<a href="images/illus124d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus124d.jpg" width="318" height="143" alt="many-bladed knife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Terry’s; length 2½ inches; fine design and finish.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Magic Slate-cleaner; price -6 cents; for 10 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 164px;"> -<a href="images/illus124e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus124e.jpg" width="164" height="108" alt="Horton's Magic slate cleaner" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A wood water-bottle with -a valve in the cork and a -sponge on the side. You -touch the slate with the -point and let out a drop of water. Then the sponge.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14-premium" id="Page_14-premium">[14p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 648px;"> -<a href="images/illus125a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus125a.jpg" width="648" height="114" alt="Caw Pen. Life size Plain pocket" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Caw Stylographic Pen. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<p>To one who writes much a stylograph is a great convenience. It -is really an ink-pencil. There are many makes. The Caw is the simplest; very likely the best, for dealers -say that nobody finds any fault with it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 508px;"> -<a href="images/illus125b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus125b.jpg" width="508" height="31" alt="pen" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Ladies’ gold pen with pearl holder. Price $2.25; for $3.00 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;"> -<img src="images/illus126a.jpg" width="290" height="29" alt="pen" /> -</div> - -<p>Gold-plated pencil. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 278px;"> -<a href="images/illus126b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus126b.jpg" width="278" height="32" alt="metallic pencil" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Gold-plated pencil watch-charm. Price 50 cents; for -75 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Perfection Hammock—and the hammock is as good -as its name—knotted all through and does not slip; -soft, elastic, abundantly strong, with galvanized iron -rings at the ends. A perfect hammock.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 319px;"> -<img src="images/illus126c.jpg" width="319" height="181" alt="Bay State Hammock Perfection" /> -</div> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="prices"> -<tr><td align="center"> Number </td><td align="center">Size</td><td align="center"> Price in money </td><td align="center">Price in new subscriptions</td><td align="center"> Postage </td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">A1</td><td align="center">5x14 ft.</td><td align="center">$4</td><td align="center">$5</td><td align="center">$0.60</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"> 1</td><td align="center">4½x13</td><td align="center"> 2.50</td><td align="center"> 3</td><td align="center"> .60</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"> 2</td><td align="center">4x12</td><td align="center"> 1.75</td><td align="center"> 2.50</td><td align="center"> .40</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"> 3</td><td align="center">3½x11</td><td align="center"> 1.50</td><td align="center"> 2</td><td align="center"> .25</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"> 4</td><td align="center">3x11</td><td align="center"> 1.10</td><td align="center"> 1.50</td><td align="center"> .20</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>There is as much difference in hammocks as in “easy” -chairs. Some are anything but easy. Nobody knows -how easy a hammock can be till he has gone to sleep in -this Perfection.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Hammock-spreader. Price 35 cents a pair; for 50 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<p>A hammock is twice as good with a spreader.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There is an outside door-mat so good that every civilized -door where muddy feet have to come—there are -thousands of such—will have it sooner or later. And -one is enough; for it lasts forever.</p> - -<p>There is nothing else a tenth so good. It almost -keeps itself clean. A jar dislodges the worst and thickest -of mud.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 254px;"> -<img src="images/illus127a.jpg" width="254" height="174" alt="mat" /> -</div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 131px;"> -<img src="images/illus127b.jpg" width="131" height="65" alt="cross-view of mat" /> -<div class="caption">AN INCH OR TWO AT THE -CORNER OF IT, BOTH -SIDES ALIKE.</div> -</div> - -<p>The Hartman -steel-wire mat. -An open -springy texture -of wire to -scrape on—galvanized -spring-steel -wire—no rust, -no wear—like -a wire mattress but thicker and closer. You scrape on -it, step on it, stamp on it, tramp on it fearlessly. The -stickiest mud becomes innocent dust underneath and is -swept away next morning. A pretty full account of it -sent on request.</p> - -<p>The price of the mat is $4, more or less according to -size. The $4 size is a good one, 22x30 inches. You -earn it by getting $4.50 in new subscriptions. To -save express we send it from the manufacturer’s -nearest office nearest to you.</p> - -<p>The makers are doing their best -to supply the quick demand from -the cities. They would be overwhelmed -if the country were -equally ready. But where is a -perfect mat most useful, where -there are pavements or no pavements?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Postage-stamp holder inside -your pocket-book. Price 15 -cents; for 20 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 152px;"> -<img src="images/illus127c.jpg" width="152" height="113" alt="wallet or purse" /> -</div> - -<p>Nickel; the picture shows -it open inside a pocket-book. -Handy out of all proportions -to its cost.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15-premium" id="Page_15-premium">[15p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bissell Carpet-sweeper. Price $3; for $3.25 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Not a housewife rich enough to own a carpet would -do without a sweeper if she knew how great relief a -good one brings on sweeping and dusting day.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 269px;"> -<a href="images/illus128a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus128a.jpg" width="269" height="175" alt="Bissell sweeper" /></a> -</div> - -<p>It sweeps cleaner than a broom and easier, makes no -dust, and does nine-tenths of the work, leaving only an -inch or two along the sides of a room and little corners—these -must be swept with a broom—and it drops the -dust with a touch on a spring as shown in the picture. -That band around the sweeper is a rubber cushion to -keep it from bruising furniture.</p> - -<p>Three-fourths of all the carpet-sweepers in the world -are made by one factory, the Bissell Carpet-Sweeper -Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Of course they -make good ones. The fact is, they control the really useful -inventions and nobody else is allowed to make good -sweepers at all. But their prices are fair.</p> - -<p>There are several styles and sizes. We choose the -best brush with common finish.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Cabinet Book-rack. Price -$2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 162px;"> -<img src="images/illus128b.jpg" width="162" height="187" alt="cabinet with shelf" /> -</div> - -<p>Maple, fine finish, brass -trimmings, lock, and goes -together without nail or -screws; 24x23x6½ inches; -packs flat.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Shawl-strap. Price -25 cents; for 30 cents -in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 211px;"> -<a href="images/illus128c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus128c.jpg" width="211" height="93" alt="shawl strap" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The tapes are -tightened by turning -the handle.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Common shawl-strap. -Price 35 cents; for 50 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage -6 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 171px;"> -<a href="images/illus128d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus128d.jpg" width="171" height="95" alt="another shawl strap" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Leather handle and straps -to buckle.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 208px;"> -<img src="images/illus129a.jpg" width="208" height="133" alt="desk blackboard" /> -</div> - -<p>Desk and blackboard -in one. Price -$2; for $2.50 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 216px;"> -<img src="images/illus129b.jpg" width="216" height="269" alt="desk" /> -</div> - -<p>Ash with walnut -trimmings, top of -enameled cloth, lock, -pigeon-holes, 25x25x19 -inches; packs flat.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 237px;"> -<img src="images/illus129c.jpg" width="237" height="234" alt="another desk" /> -</div> - -<p>“Favorite” -table with -drawer, top of -enameled cloth, -31x27x19 inches, -chestnut. Price -$1.50; for $1.75 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> -<a href="images/illus129d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus129d.jpg" width="100" height="105" alt="Triple Motion White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Ice-cream Freezer, the best one we -know of. 2-quart; price $2.25; for -$2.75 in new subscriptions. 3-quart; -price $2.75; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. -4-quart; price $3.50; for $4 in -new subscriptions. 6-quart; price -$4.25; for $5 in new subscriptions. -10-quart; price $7.75; for $8.75 in new subscriptions. -Made every way for the very best results. The tub of -clear pine made waterproof; the metallic parts of malleable -iron plated with tin. [Zinc makes a poisonous -oxide.]</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16-premium" id="Page_16-premium">[16p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kaleidoscope. Price $3; -for $3.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 147px;"> -<img src="images/illus130a.jpg" width="147" height="182" alt="kaleidoscope on stand" /> -</div> - -<p>The name is meant to signify -sights of beauty. The -kaleidoscope is a maker of -sights of beauty. We are indebted -to it for combinations -of color and form in geometrical -decorations. -Chance is at the bottom of -them all. By taking out two -small screws you get at the easy secret.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 245px;"> -<img src="images/illus130b.jpg" width="245" height="42" alt="telescope" /> -</div> - -<p>Spy-glass 15 -inches long -drawn out and -6 shut up, inch -object-glass, magnifies 13 times (the maker says). -Price $2.50; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage -12 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Spy-glass a trifle larger, magnifies 16 times (the -maker says). Price $3.50; for $4.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 13 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Spy-glass 30 inches long drawn out and 10 shut up, -1⅝-inch object glass, said to magnify 25 times. Price -$7; for $8.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 50 cents—express -may be less.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;"> -<img src="images/illus130c.jpg" width="342" height="114" alt="microscope" /> -</div> - -<p>Two lenses mounted in brass; one of highest possible -power for transparent objects; the other with larger -field on stand for general use. Price of both together -50 cents. For 60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 215px;"> -<img src="images/illus130d.jpg" width="215" height="178" alt="collapsible lenses" /> -</div> - -<p>Pocket Magnifying -Glass, three lenses, -horn case. Price 90 -cents; for $1.10 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Square Reading-glass. Price -$2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 162px;"> -<img src="images/illus131a.jpg" width="162" height="115" alt="rectangular magnifying glass on handle" /> -</div> - -<p>1¾x3½-inch double-convex -lens.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Reading-glass. Price -$1.50; for $1.75 in new -subscriptions. Postage -10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 178px;"> -<img src="images/illus131b.jpg" width="178" height="74" alt="magnifying glass" /> -</div> - -<p>2⅞-inch lens.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 125px;"> -<img src="images/illus131c.jpg" width="125" height="151" alt="stereopticon on stand" /> -</div> - -<p>Stereoscope on pillar. Price -$1.25, for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 115px;"> -<img src="images/illus131d.jpg" width="115" height="79" alt="stereopticon" /> -</div> - -<p>Better Stereoscope. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Half-dozen Stereoscopic Views. Price 40 cents; for -50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 160px;"> -<img src="images/illus131e.jpg" width="160" height="164" alt="microscope" /> -</div> - -<p>Microscope. Price 60 -cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 -cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 213px;"> -<img src="images/illus131f.jpg" width="213" height="81" alt="another handheld microscope" /> -</div> - -<p>Microscope No. -42½. Price 85 cents; -for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage -4 cents.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17-premium" id="Page_17-premium">[17p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 219px;"> -<a href="images/illus132a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus132a.jpg" width="219" height="344" alt="scroll saw and lathe; nickel plated, tilting table" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Lester Scroll Saw -and Lathe. Price -$10; for $12 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Considered the -best and most complete -of the saws to -be got for less than -$20.</p> - -<p>With nickeled tilting -table; roller in -table back of the -saw which makes it -run remarkably true; -clamps hold any -thickness of saw; -clamps adjustable -right or left, forward -or back so that -the blade can be kept -in perfect line; with -3-inch circular saw on 3x4-inch iron table capable of -cutting half-inch lumber; solid emery wheel; drilling -attachment with six Stubbs drills; lathe attachment -with iron ways and rests, steel centers and three fine -turning tools—length of bed 15 inches, distance between -centers 9 inches, swing 3 inches, length of slide-rest -4 inches; six saw-blades, wrench, screw-driver, -two sheets of designs; neat box for small tools; guide.</p> - -<p>A very important recent invention used in this machine -is a clamp and strainer in one, by which at a touch -of a lever the saw-blade is instantly clamped and -strained. The remarkable accuracy of this saw is due -to the roller in the table, another recent invention.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bracket-saw outfit. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 18 cents.</p> - -<p>Nickeled spring-steel saw-frame 5x12 inches with -peculiar clamps, six saw-blades, awl, sheet carbon -paper, fifty designs full-size.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bracket-work -Drill No. 4. Price -50 cents; for 60 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 229px;"> -<a href="images/illus132b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus132b.jpg" width="229" height="66" alt="handheld drill" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Iron 8-inch drill-stock, steel chuck and six points.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Carving-tools. -Price $1; for $1.25 -in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;"> -<img src="images/illus132c.jpg" width="225" height="164" alt="carving tools" /> -</div> - -<p>Rosewood handles, -fine tools and -ready sharp.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 193px;"> -<a href="images/illus133a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus133a.jpg" width="193" height="331" alt="standing saw" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Rogers Scroll Saw. -Price $3.50; for $4.25 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>The best of the low-price -saws.</p> - -<p>All iron; neatly -japanned; parts interchangeable; -bearings in -perfect line; with -blower; jointed -stretcher-rod; clamps -with hinged jaw, which -avoids the overthrow of -the blade, friction, -strain and frequent -breaking; 4¼-inch balance-wheel -with rim of -solid emery; drilling -attachment on the right; -and the whole machine -is secured by screw-bolts -wherever needed—no pins; six saw-blades, -wrench, sheet of designs, three drill points. Rich in -appearance, compact, strong, effective, easy, firm and -durable. Weight in box 36 pounds.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Key-hole Saw -and ½ dozen blades. -Price 40 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 218px;"> -<img src="images/illus133b.jpg" width="218" height="26" alt="key hole saw" /> -</div> - -<p>The blade, which is 8½ inches long, can be set in the -handle so that only the point projects.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 169px;"> -<img src="images/illus133c.jpg" width="169" height="64" alt="saw blades" /> -</div> - -<p>Saw-blades, ½ gross -assorted sizes. Price 65 -cents; given for 85 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Manual of Wood-carving by Charles Leland. Price -35 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Graves’ Automatic -Drill-stock and dozen -points. Price $1; -for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 207px;"> -<a href="images/illus133d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus133d.jpg" width="207" height="53" alt="drill with inner working shown" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Drills with one hand the most delicate wood without -splitting. Can be used where bit-brace, gimlet or brad-awl -are not available.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 220px;"> -<a href="images/illus133e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus133e.jpg" width="220" height="56" alt="multi tool" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Glass-cutter, -Knife-sharpener, -Can-opener, Cork-screw. -Price 10 -cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18-premium" id="Page_18-premium">[18p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tool-holder No. 5. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> -<a href="images/illus134a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus134a.jpg" width="321" height="132" alt="tools" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Rosewood 7½-inch handle holds the tools; nickeled -steel chuck; nine fine 4-inch tools. Indispensable.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Glass-cutter -and Putty-knife. -Price -10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 245px;"> -<img src="images/illus134b.jpg" width="245" height="42" alt="cutter and knife" /> -</div> - -<p>Better than diamond in inexperienced hands.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Numerical frame; 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 25 cents.</p> - -<p>An arithmetic school as well as a pretty and interesting -plaything. The frame is maple; the balls red, -green and black.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tip-Top self-inking one-line -Stamp. Price 60 cents; for 70 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage -4 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 124px;"> -<img src="images/illus134c.jpg" width="124" height="158" alt="self-inking stamp" /> -</div> - -<p>With two lines of type; 75 cents; -for 85 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>With three lines of small type; -85 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Wax night-lights. Price 40 cents for a dozen box; for -60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<p>Burn eight hours apiece with a steady little light, no -smoke or smell.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Night lamp with shade to -soften the light. Price $1; -for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 23 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 171px;"> -<img src="images/illus134d.jpg" width="171" height="242" alt="lantern" /> -</div> - -<p>For burning wax lights. -Not necessary; the lights -may stand in a saucer.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Family printing-outfit -for marking -linen, printing -cards, etc. Price -$1.50; for $2 in -new subscriptions. -Postage 11 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 224px;"> -<a href="images/illus135a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus135a.jpg" width="224" height="135" alt="Printing outfit" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Nickeled holder, -movable rubber -type on metal body, pads, tweezers, indelible ink.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dover Egg-beater. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 89px;"> -<img src="images/illus135b.jpg" width="89" height="244" alt="Dover beater" /> -</div> - -<p>The best there is for few eggs.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 116px;"> -<img src="images/illus135c.jpg" width="116" height="126" alt="book" /> -</div> -<p>Binder for magazines. Price 75 -cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<p>Almost like book-binding, as -shown in the cut. One style -stamped Wide Awake; another -The Pansy.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 251px;"> -<img src="images/illus135d.jpg" width="251" height="35" alt="binder clip" /> -</div> - -<p>Ready Binder -for papers and -pamphlets; length 8 inches. Price 8 cents; for 10 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Lambie’s Dictionary holder. Price -$5; for $5.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 102px;"> -<a href="images/illus135e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus135e.jpg" width="102" height="242" alt="looks like a camera on a tripod (but it's not)" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Beyond all comparison the best of -them all. Adjustable to size of book, -to height of stand, and angle at which -the book is held. Revolves. On casters.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19-premium" id="Page_19-premium">[19p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Beginnings with the Microscope, a working handbook, -by Walter P. Manton, M. D. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Practical Boat-Sailing, on small boats and yachts, -with vocabulary of nautical terms, by Douglas Frazar. -Price $1; for $1.20 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Hunter’s Handbook, by an old hunter. Price 50 -cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Hints about camping out and life in the woods.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 119px;"> -<img src="images/illus136a.jpg" width="119" height="104" alt="looks like a jeweler looking through his eyepiece but it's a carver doing fine work" /> -</div> - -<p>Handbook of Wood Engraving, -by William A. Emerson, wood engraver. -Price $1; for $1.20 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Taxidermy without a Teacher: an illustrated book of -instruction on preparing and preserving birds, animals, -fishes, eggs and skeletons; with recipes. By Walter -P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Field Botany, an illustrated hand-book for the collector, -containing instruction for gathering and preserving -plants for the herbarium, also instructions in leaf-photography, -plant-printing and the skeletonizing of -leaves. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Lessons in Candy Making. By Catherine Owen. -Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>The author says “I have written these lessons for -intelligent women who cannot leave home to help them -make money.” And she quotes from an Englishwoman -pupil-reader “I can make as delicious candies as ever I -ate in Paris.”</p> - -<p>For a like reason we put her book in the List.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 182px;"> -<a href="images/illus136b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus136b.jpg" width="182" height="165" alt="dead moth diagram" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Insects: how to catch -and prepare them for the -Cabinet; an illustrated -book of instructions for -the field naturalist. By -Walter P. Manton. Price -50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Shakespeare. Price $8; for $10 in new subscriptions. -By express at receiver’s cost.</p> - -<p>Handy Volume edition; 13 small volumes, flexible, -cloth.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mayflower Pocket Cook-stove -and Boiler. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 141px;"> -<img src="images/illus137a.jpg" width="141" height="152" alt="little firepit Houchins Pat." /> -</div> - -<p>All nickeled; burns about ½ -hour.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Larger Pocket Cook-stove. Price $1; for $1.25 in -new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<p>With quart boiler and gridiron. Boils water enough -for a cup of coffee in five minutes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 99px;"> -<img src="images/illus137b.jpg" width="99" height="121" alt="little round flask for alcohol stove Houchins Pat." /> -</div> - -<p>Alcohol-flask for pocket stove. -Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Lambie’s revolving Book-stand -and Dictionary-holder. Price $9; -for $10 in new subscriptions. By -express.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 134px;"> -<img src="images/illus137c.jpg" width="134" height="224" alt="Now this looks like a dictionary stand with shelf underneath for more books" /> -</div> - -<p>Size of book-case 16x16 inches. -The upper shelf is available also.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 239px;"> -<img src="images/illus137d.jpg" width="239" height="125" alt="garden tools" /> -</div> -<p>Universal Garden-tool. -Price -$1; for $1.25 in -new subscriptions. -Postage -35 cents—express -may be -less.</p> - -<p>Many good tools in one: the hoe is also a spade, -shovel, scraper and ice-cutter; the rake is also a fork -and hook—there may be other uses. The dotted lines -show the positions of both on the handle.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20-premium" id="Page_20-premium">[20p]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="center">WHITING’S INDELIBLE INK COLORS Etc.</div> - -<p>We commend the following seven with all the more -satisfaction because the market is full of pretentious -stuff under similar names but of very little value. -These are exactly what the descriptions call for. Circular -sent on request.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Indelible Laundry Ink, for marking without -preparation. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Magic Indelible Ink, for marking difficult -stuffs without exposure to sun or heat. Price 60 cents; -for 80 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 187px;"> -<img src="images/illus138a.jpg" width="187" height="84" alt="little girl lying on floor drawing" /> -</div> - -<p>Whiting’s Etching Ink -for etching on linen, -with supply of pens and -“preparation.” Price -$1; for $1.10 in new -subscriptions. Postage -10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Tracing-box. Price $1; for $1.35 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<p>The glass is 8x12 inches. Must go by express.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Etching Designs at the rate of $1 for $1.10 -in new subscriptions. List sent on application.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Transparent Colors for coloring photographs; -box of ten colors. Price $3; for $3.25 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Half-case with five colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in -new subscriptions. Must go by express.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Whiting’s Special Instructions for etching on linen. -Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Towel-holder. Price 15 cents; for 20 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 89px;"> -<a href="images/illus138b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus138b.jpg" width="89" height="143" alt="AUTOMATIC TOWEL HOLDER" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Nickel; about the size of a silver -dollar.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Splasher-bracket. -Price 30 cents; for 35 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 182px;"> -<img src="images/illus138c.jpg" width="182" height="89" alt="bracket" /> -</div> - -<p>Black inch pegs; nickeled 33-inch rod.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Towel-bracket. -Price 30 cents; -for 35 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage -6 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 236px;"> -<img src="images/illus139a.jpg" width="236" height="75" alt="brackets and bar" /> -</div> - -<p>The pegs are enameled black; the rod is bright nickel, -18 inches long.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Roll Dressing-case. -Price $6; for $7.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 173px;"> -<a href="images/illus139b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus139b.jpg" width="173" height="110" alt="manicure set" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Box dressing-case. -Price $6; for $7.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 15 -cents.</p> - -<p>Both the above are neat and substantial leather cases -with first-class furnishings, but without extravagance.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 193px;"> -<img src="images/illus139c.jpg" width="193" height="171" alt="juicer and strainer" /> -</div> -<p>Perfection Lemon-Squeezer. -Price 35 -cents; for 40 cents in -new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<p>Not a squeezer at all, -but better. Press half -a lemon down over the -burr and turn it round -with the hand.</p> - -<p>The burr cuts the -pulp, dislodges the juice and saves it all without -squeezing the bitter oil of lemon out of the rind. No -seeds, no waste, no spattering.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Cold stove-door -Knob. -Price 6 -cents; for 8 -cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 239px;"> -<a href="images/illus139d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus139d.jpg" width="239" height="123" alt="door knob" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Wood handle; -hangs on the knob, saves burning the fingers.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dust-pan. Price 25 -cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage -12 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 184px;"> -<img src="images/illus139e.jpg" width="184" height="78" alt="dust pan front" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 195px;"> -<img src="images/illus139f.jpg" width="195" height="66" alt="dust pan back" /> -</div> - -<p>Japanned-steel; -propped up behind in -position to use so that -one need not stoop to -hold it by hand—a -touch with the foot is enough.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21-premium" id="Page_21-premium">[21p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kerosene-brick -for -burning kerosene -in any -cook-stove, -heater or -open fire-place, as kindler or fuel. Porous fire brick.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 268px;"> -<img src="images/illus140.jpg" width="268" height="92" alt="brick on fire" /> -</div> - -<p>We do not know (at the time of writing) its limit of -value, having only just now got it. It is safe—no -doubt of that. It is the best kindler ever discovered—no -doubt of that. But to what extent it is going to be -used for summer fuel and fuel for transient occasions -of all sorts we do not know. It is a new thing of very -great importance everywhere. We therefore state -what we know of it carefully.</p> - -<p>The reason why it does not explode is that the oil is -fast in the pores of the brick and can’t get out, except -as it is slowly driven out by the fire. Kerosene lamps -are dangerous; but you are careful with them. There is -no possible way in which the kerosene-brick can explode. -The only harm that can come of it is through -keeping a larger supply of kerosene for fuel then you -would keep for light. The answer to that is that a -barrel is no worse than a pint. Either is enough to -blow a house into kindling-wood.</p> - -<p>The reason why it is the best kindler is that it is the -cheapest—in other respects it is not much better than -pitch-pine.</p> - -<p>Tradesmen are likely to overstate the cheapness of it; -but it is very cheap—how cheap depends, of course, -on the cost of your kerosene; and that is so different in -different parts of the country that we cannot give the -cost of using the kerosene-brick. It saves its cost in -wood perhaps ten times over.</p> - -<p>It makes smoke and soot; but they go up chimney.</p> - -<p>The first cost of the kerosene-brick is as follows:<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></p> - -<p class="unindent"> -<small>No. 1. Price 35 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions.<br /> -No. 2. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.<br /> -No. 3. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions.<br /> -No. 4. Price $1.20; for $1.35 in new subscriptions.<br /> -No. 5. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions.<br /> -No. 6. Price $1.50; for $1.70 in new subscriptions.<br /></small> -</p> - -<p>And you want a peculiar sort of tongs (see the cut) for -handling the kerosene-brick. Price 25 cents; for 30 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>To save express charges, we ship from the manufacturer’s -nearest place of business (nearest to you) wherever -that may be.</p> - -<p>There is going to be a kerosene-brick of a shape to -imitate wood for use in open fire-places. Not yet made -and may not be so handy to fill. By the way, we haven’t -told how to fill the kerosene-brick.</p> - -<p>“No. 1” above means a tin can with three small kerosene-bricks -in it. You take out one of the bricks, fill -the can with kerosene and let it stand fifteen minutes -or over night. The two bricks are ready for use any -minute and stay so indefinitely. The smallest is big -enough for kindling. Maker’s circular sent.</p> - -<p>Ignites with a match. You put it out by dipping it -in water. Throwing water on it does not put it out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Set of little flower-garden tools. -Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 18 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 119px;"> -<img src="images/illus141a.jpg" width="119" height="65" alt="garden tools" /> -</div> - -<p>Good tools and large enough; -hoe and rake 14-inch, blades 3½-inch; -fork and trowel 11-inch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Spice-Box. Price 75 cents; for 85 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 97px;"> -<a href="images/illus141b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus141b.jpg" width="97" height="100" alt="round tin with smaller tins insdie labeled" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Japanned-tin, 7-inch and 2-inch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Vegetable-masher, -sauce-strainer and handy -squeezer for twenty uses. -Price 65 cents; for 75 -cents in new subscriptions. Postage -18 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 175px;"> -<a href="images/illus141c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus141c.jpg" width="175" height="118" alt="Ricer C. F. HEWIS PATENT 1881" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Large enough for two or three small -potatoes. Really it is not a potato-masher. It turns -potatoes into a different sort of edible, lighter, bulkier, -mealier. Let them go into it steaming hot; let the -masher itself be hot; receive the dainty outcome in a -hot dish and immediately cover it. If this excellent -tool has a fault, it is in cooling potatoes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Le Page’s Glue. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<p>Doubtless the strongest glue as well as the most available. -Liquid and used as it is, unless chilled or thick, -when warm it a little, or add vinegar. In handy tin can -with screw top.</p> - -<p>Mends crockery; not glass because not transparent. -Diluted enough makes excellent mucilage. Let every -family have it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Turn-over Broiler that keeps the gravy out of the fire -and on the meat. Price 65 cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 24 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 261px;"> -<a href="images/illus141d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus141d.jpg" width="261" height="83" alt="two metal attached plates and handles with holes for broiling PAT. AUG. 12, 79." /></a> -</div> - -<p>Of light sheet-iron very smooth, punched full of -holes, and the holes are “dished” in the punching, so -that none of the gravy is lost. Makes good steak better -and pays for itself in a week.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22-premium" id="Page_22-premium">[22p]</a></span></p> - - -<p>Bartlett Domestic Press. Price -$1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 97px;"> -<img src="images/illus142a.jpg" width="97" height="61" alt="box that says BARTLETT on the side" /> -</div> - -<p>For meats, jellies, wine, cider, etc. -Easily washed. Pressure of a thousand pounds is easily -got by turning the crank without danger of breaking -the press.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Daisy Pillow-sham Holder. Price $1; for $1.10 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 263px;"> -<img src="images/illus142b.jpg" width="263" height="120" alt="Two beds that say Night and Day above them" /> -</div> - -<p>Out of sight, holds the pillow-shams in place by day, -and lifts them out of the way at night, is light, handy, -goes on a bedstead of any size, saves work and money. -The best device for the purpose. By express.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Crumb-tray and brush. -Price 60 cents; for 75 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage -15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 157px;"> -<img src="images/illus142c.jpg" width="157" height="69" alt="whisk broom and dust pan" /> -</div> - -<p>Prettily painted tin tray -and good brush.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 121px;"> -<a href="images/illus142d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus142d.jpg" width="121" height="141" alt="tape measure and perpetual calendar" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Self-winding Tape-measure, -with mirror on one side and perpetual -calendar on the other. -Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Self-winding Tape-measure, -with stop. -Price 25 cents; for 35 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 191px;"> -<a href="images/illus142e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus142e.jpg" width="191" height="98" alt="HAFF M’F’G CO. N.Y. another tape measure" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Neat bright nickel case. -The stop holds the tape -wherever set.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Crochet Needles, -dozen. -Price 20 cents; -for 25 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 246px;"> -<a href="images/illus142f-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus142f.jpg" width="246" height="133" alt="needles EVERY HOOK FINISHED BY HAND AND GUARANTEED PERFECT" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Nickeled, assorted -sizes, -perfect and -smooth.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mineral Cabinet, No. 1. Price $1; for $1.25 in new -subscriptions. Postage 14 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 437px;"> -<a href="images/illus143a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus143a.jpg" width="437" height="453" alt="Box of Rocks TAMMEN’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN CABINET A set of 20 large Minerals, Gems and Petrifactions, systematically -arranged in a polished hardwood case. Price, $1.35. Contains Specimen Ores of Gold Quartz, Silver, Iron, Pyrites, Zinc, -also Malachite, Jasper, Silicified Wood, Cluster of Rock Crystals, -Wavellite, Carnelian (a polished gem), Molybdenum, Satin and -Iceland Spars, Pike’s Peak Topaz, Amazon Stone, Magnetite, -Wood-Opal, Chalcopyrite and Tourmoline. Distinctly understand -these are all large specimens (1¼ inch square), and -not fragments. A Descriptive Manual is sent with each Cabinet giving the -History, Properties & Uses of the Different Minerals & Gems. Copyright, 1886, by H. H. Tammen, Denver, Colorado." /></a> -</div> - -<p>Another, No. 2, the same except different minerals; -terms the same. No. 2 contains: opal agate, aragonite, -milky quartz, cuprite, jasper, galena, sulphur, crocidolite -(polished), selenite, hematite, feldspar, fluorspar, variscite, -argentite, chalcedony, petrified cedar, alabaster, -lead carbonate, telluride ore, muscovite. With brief -explanation of every specimen. Neat box with clasp.</p> - -<p>These cabinets give invariable satisfaction in schools -and families.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 93px;"> -<img src="images/illus143b.jpg" width="93" height="213" alt="boy" /> -</div> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 128px;"> -<img src="images/illus143c.jpg" width="128" height="170" alt="girl in union suit" /> -</div> - -<p>Anything that children wear from -baby up, at the rate of $1 in clothing -for $1.60 in new subscriptions.</p> - - -<p>The clothing -comes from Best -& Company, 60 -West 23d street, -New York. You -send for their -catalogue, pick -out what you -want, and send -your order to us -with money and -names of course.</p> - -<p>The reason we send from Best & Company -is that they keep the largest variety -and serve an absent buyer as well as if he -were there in the store.</p> - -<p>Most of the big city dry-goods houses -keep more or less of children’s clothing; -but they generally slight it. The work is -apt to be shabby, the materials flimsy, the -styles too pronounced if not “carried over -from last year.” Girls’ things are considered -especially hard to get satisfactorily.</p> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 68px;"> -<img src="images/illus143d.jpg" width="68" height="163" alt="girl" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23-premium" id="Page_23-premium">[23p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tammen’s Cabinet, -forty smaller -specimens. Price -60 cents; for 75 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 218px;"> -<a href="images/illus144a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus144a.jpg" width="218" height="135" alt="rocks" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Paper box with -sheet of explanations -where the -minerals came from, what they are used for, etc.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><a id="Diamond_Dyes"></a>Diamond Dyes. Price 10 cents a color; for 15 cents -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Dyeing at home in the most satisfactory manner is -very easy and profitable. Silk and woolen stuffs come -out of the dye about as nice as when they were new. -For cotton some of the colors have to be specially made. -Wood stains are made from the dyes.</p> - -<p>Diamond dyes are complete in themselves; that is, -nothing more is required to set the colors. It is really -no more difficult to dye with most of the colors than to -rinse or starch. And full instructions accompany the -dyes.</p> - -<p>The colors are: yellow, old-gold, orange; green, -olive-green, dark-green; pink, magenta, scarlet, crimson, -cardinal, garnet, terra-cotta, maroon, dark-wine; -violet, plum, purple; light-blue, navy-blue, dark-blue; -slate, drab, black; and yellow for cotton, green for -cotton, cardinal for cotton, scarlet for cotton, and blue -for cotton.</p> - -<p>Diamond dyes do not stain the hands or utensils if -used with a little care. You handle the stuffs with -sticks till you come to the wringing.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Book-rack, No. 318. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 181px;"> -<img src="images/illus144b.jpg" width="181" height="234" alt="bookshelves" /> -</div> - -<p>Maple; 18x24 inches; neatly put together -without nails or screws; packs flat.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Book-rack, No. 424. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Same, 23x32 inches, four shelves.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Book-rack, No. 424½. Price $1.50; for -$1.65 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 182px;"> -<img src="images/illus144c.jpg" width="182" height="241" alt="more bookshelves" /> -</div> - -<p>Same size as last, more work on it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Knitting Outfit. Price $1; for -$1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage -8 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 137px;"> -<a href="images/illus145a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus145a.jpg" width="137" height="160" alt="HOW TO USE Florence Knitting Silk" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Consists of 2 balls of Florence -silk, whatever colors you like, 5 -needles, and book of information. -Extra silk at 40 cents a -ball; for 50 cents in new subscriptions.</p> -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="center">SCHOOL AND ART FACILITIES</div> - -<p>Eagle Fine Arts pencils, polished cedar box of 7 -grades. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;"> -<a href="images/illus145b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus145b.jpg" width="291" height="158" alt="pencils in box" /></a> -</div> - -<p>As fine as any, free from grit, of uniform grades, -clean lead, erasable leaving no smirch; for the most -exacting requirements. BBB to HHHHHH.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> -<a href="images/illus145c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus145c.jpg" width="297" height="140" alt="pencils in case" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Eagle Fine Drawing pencils, polished cedar box of 6 -grades from extra-soft to extra-hard. Price 50 cents; -for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> -<a href="images/illus145d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus145d.jpg" width="351" height="82" alt="EAGLE COLORED CRAYONS" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Eagle Best Colored Crayons:</p> - -<p>Box of 24 colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>Box of 18 colors. Price $1.35; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<p>Box of 12 colors. Price 90 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<p>Equivalent to water-colors. The full assortment is -50 colors.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24-premium" id="Page_24-premium">[24p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Eagle Scholastic Colored Crayons. Price 50 cents; -for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> -<a href="images/illus146a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus146a.jpg" width="298" height="250" alt="SCHOLASTIC No. 1 COLORED CRAYONS FOR PAINTING & COLORING" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Paper box of 5 colors, same crayons as last, with 6 -colored sketches and 12 outline designs adapted to children’s -use.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 177px;"> -<a href="images/illus146b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus146b.jpg" width="177" height="67" alt="INK ERASER and PENCIL ERASER" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Eagle Eraser. Price 10 -cents; for 15 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Automatic Drop pencil. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;"> -<a href="images/illus146c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus146c.jpg" width="342" height="95" alt="pencil" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Acts precisely like the magic knife. See page 13 of -this list.</p> - -<p>Extra leads; price 8 cents a box; for 10 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Eagle Solid-ink Fountain and Pen. Price 10 cents; -for 15 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> -<a href="images/illus146d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus146d.jpg" width="299" height="58" alt="fountain pen" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The solid-ink fountain is simply a stick of solid ink, -which is held in a clamp inside an ordinary penholder, -used with any pen. You dip the pen in water, and the -water dissolves the ink.</p> - -<p>Extra ink. Price 10 cents a box of 6 sticks; for 15 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Eagle Ready Companion. Price 10 cents; for 15 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 320px;"> -<a href="images/illus147a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus147a.jpg" width="320" height="42" alt="pen" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Wood pen and pencil-carrier; opens and shuts like -the magic knife on page 13 and the automatic pencil.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Prang’s Non-Poisonous Water-Colors for Children:</p> - -<p>Box No. 2, 8 colors and brush. Price 25 cents; for -30 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Box No. 4, 12 colors and 2 brushes. Price 40 cents; -for 50 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Perfectly harmless. The colors conform very closely -to accepted standards, and flow from the cakes with a -touch of water. The brushes are good camel’s-hair. -The boxes are very pretty and useful.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Prang’s Fine Water-Colors for Schools and Amateurs, -box No. 13, 12 colors and 2 brushes. Price 75 cents; -for 85 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Not non-poisonous, but not more poisonous than the -Murillo colors.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Introductory Lessons in Drawing and painting in -Water-Colors, by Marion Kemble. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>For those who know nothing at all of either.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Jack-plane pencil-sharpener. -Price 25 -cents; for 30 cents in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 194px;"> -<img src="images/illus147b.jpg" width="194" height="122" alt="hands using pencil sharpener" /> -</div> - -<p>The best pencil-sharpener -we know of at any -price, because it is -handy, does its work -perfectly, never breaks the lead; and the plane-knife -can be adjusted and sharpened exactly as in a carpenter’s -plane.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Polygraph, brass. Price -25 cents; for 30 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage -3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 167px;"> -<a href="images/illus147c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus147c.jpg" width="167" height="142" alt="Sencil set" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The same, bright nickel. -Price 50 cents; for 60 cents -in new subscriptions. Postage -3 cents.</p> - -<p>Pattern for almost every -sort of figure and combination; wonderfully useful -for children, designers, and artisans.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25-premium" id="Page_25-premium">[25p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Prang’s Water-color Studies are the best examples of -what is known as the new style of water-color painting, -in which transparent colors only are mixed in the -brush and laid on broadly.</p> - -<p>They are reproductions of works by American artists -designed primarily for instruction in art, but none the -less available for home-decoration on that account. -Indeed they rank the higher in interest, being all they -seem to common eyes, and faithful illustrations besides -of recent advances in one of the least familiar -departments of Art. They are not unfinished sketches, -but exquisite finished color-work. The use we expect -to introduce them to by this List is chiefly the non-professional, -home-decoration. Let it be understood, -there is nothing more fit for that use, and nothing -higher, within the reach of people of limited means.</p> - -<p>They comprise landscapes, marine views, flowers, -animals, birds and figure pieces from such artists as -Turner, Moran, Bridges, Lambdin, Giacomelli, etc.</p> - -<p>We send Prang’s catalogue and supply whatever may -be selected from it at the rate of $1.10 in new subscriptions -for $1 of catalogue prices.</p> - -<p>Postage on sizes under 12x12 inches 6 cents; over -12x12 inches 10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>On the Use of Water Colors for Beginners. By Ross -Turner. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>“Hints to assist a beginner in a right direction, -assisting him to start right, and upon such a beginning -to work out by personal study and experience his own -way of using materials,” by an eminent artist and no -less eminent teacher.</p> - -<p>Large quarto, illustrated by engravings and six fine -colored plates.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Prang’s Reproductions of Oil Paintings supplied at -the rate of $1.10 in new subscriptions for $1 of catalogue -prices.</p> - -<p>We supply whatever may be selected from Prang’s -catalogue; but, as that affords no clue to the works -beyond titles, sizes and artists’ names, we have chosen -a few of the most available pieces and printed descriptions -of them. From this short list you can pick out -what is likely to answer your purpose.</p> - -<p>They are landscapes, marine views, figure pieces, -animal and dining-room pictures.</p> - -<p>Postage on sizes under 12x12 inches 6 cents; over -12x12 inches 10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Winsor & Newton’s Oil Colors. Price for seventy-five -of the list 8 cents a tube; for 12½ cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Other colors supplied at higher rates. Postage 2 -cents a tube.</p> - -<p>A list of colors sent on request. These are most -used: burnt sienna, raw sienna, emerald green, flake -white, light red, naples yellow, permanent blue, raw -umber, terra verte, prussian blue, vandyke brown, yellow -ochre, ivory black, zinnober green (medium); all of -which are supplied at the quoted rate.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 194px;"> -<img src="images/illus149a.jpg" width="194" height="95" alt="person using ruler to make circle" /> -</div> - -<p>Ruler with circle-guide. -Price 25 cents; -for 30 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 12 -cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Scholar’s Companion, -No. 41. -Price $1; for -$1.25 in new -subscriptions. -Postage 15 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 246px;"> -<a href="images/illus149b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus149b.jpg" width="246" height="134" alt="NO. 41 pencil box" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Cloth-covered -box with pen-holder, pencil, slate-pencil, sponge and -sponge-box, rubber eraser, ink-bottle, knife and key—box -locks.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Vassar School-bag. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<p>Stout bag of open lace of white cotton twine with red -lining showing through, with gay stripes of colored -twine in the lace.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“Beginner’s Outfit” of -tissue paper and other materials -for flower-work. Price -35 cents; for 50 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 7 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 157px;"> -<a href="images/illus149c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus149c.jpg" width="157" height="248" alt="Pansy pattern pieces" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Colors of tissue paper, rose -sprays, stems, daisy centers -and petals, leaves, wire, instructions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>“Complete Assortment” of tissue paper and other -materials. Price $1; for $1.30 in new subscriptions. -Postage 16 cents.</p> - -<p>Paper colors, tubing, culots, rose sprays and moss, -wire, rose, poppy and daisy centers, poppy buds, leaves, -pincers, instructions.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26-premium" id="Page_26-premium">[26p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Letter-scale. Price 50 cents; for -60 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 110px;"> -<a href="images/illus150a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus150a.jpg" width="110" height="180" alt="scale" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Weighs from ½-ounce to 10 or 12 -ounces. With hook for tied parcels -and clamp for letters.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="center">MUSIC Etc.</div> - -<p>Mason & Hamlin -Organ No. -2208, five octaves, -nine stops. For -$100 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 231px;"> -<a href="images/illus150b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus150b.jpg" width="231" height="268" alt="organ Mason & Hamlin" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The cash price -of this organ in -music stores depends -on where -the store is, its -costs, and its -scale of profits. -The lowest price -we know of is -$99; the highest -$165. Size 4-11x1-11x5. -Weight in case 322 lbs.</p> - -<p>One of the most perplexing bargains a family has to -make nowadays is in buying a musical instrument. -Price and quality, both, are in doubt.</p> - -<p>There is probably some good reason for what appears -to be chronic demoralization pervading the musical instrument -business in every part of this enormous country -of ours. We can’t control the fact. We have got -round it, if you happen to want an organ.</p> - -<p>We’ll try, if you want a piano.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 165px;"> -<img src="images/illus150c.jpg" width="165" height="88" alt="pitch pipe" /> -</div> - -<p>Pitch-pipe, A and C, in a -handy pocket-case. Price 20 -cents; for 25 cents in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bay State Guitar, Style E. Price $14; for $18 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 256px;"> -<img src="images/illus150d.jpg" width="256" height="88" alt="guitar" /> -</div> - -<p>Guaranteed by the makers (John C. Haynes & Co., -Boston) not to warp or split. Solid-rosewood sides -and back, mahogany neck.</p> - -<p>Wood case for $4 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Banjo, No. 33½. -Price $5; for $6.25 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 240px;"> -<img src="images/illus150e.jpg" width="240" height="40" alt="banjo" /> -</div> - -<p>Nickeled rim, wood lining, imitation-walnut fretted -arm, ball brackets, calfskin head.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Music-box, No. 3½. Price $7; for $8 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Rosewood; 3 airs; 2¾-inch cylinder; key attached.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 203px;"> -<a href="images/illus151a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus151a.jpg" width="203" height="67" alt="xylophone" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Xylophone. No. 1, -2 octaves. Price -$1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions. No. -3, 2½ octaves (with -chromatics). Price $5.50; for $7.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Accordion. Price $5; for $6 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"> -<a href="images/illus151b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus151b.jpg" width="139" height="107" alt="accordian" /></a> -</div> - -<p>10 keys, 2 sets reeds, stop, -double bellows, german-silver -clasps and corners.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Thie Three-sided Harmonica. Price 90 cents; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 311px;"> -<a href="images/illus151c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus151c.jpg" width="311" height="101" alt="Three-sided harmonica" /></a> -</div> - -<p>16 double holes on a side; german-silver plates.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bell Harmonica. -Price 60 cents; for 75 -cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 197px;"> -<a href="images/illus151d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus151d.jpg" width="197" height="92" alt="harmonica iwth a bell attached" /></a> -</div> - -<p>10 double holes; -brass plates.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Concert Harmonica. Price -60 cents; for 75 cents in new -subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 154px;"> -<a href="images/illus151e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus151e.jpg" width="154" height="70" alt="Concert Harmonica" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Size 5½x2¼ inches; 24 double -holes; brass plates.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27-premium" id="Page_27-premium">[27p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 155px;"> -<a href="images/illus152a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus152a.jpg" width="155" height="42" alt="Richter Harmonica upside down" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Richter Harmonica, No. 33½. -Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in -new subscriptions. Postage 3 -cents. 4-inch, 10 single holes, nickeled plates.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Franklin Square Song Collection, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. -Price 50 cents each; for 75 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Each number contains the words and music of about -two-hundred of what are regarded as the best songs of -the time: songs of home, worship, love, country, children, -school; with a mass of information relating to -them. Table of Contents sent on request.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="center">WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY</div> - -<p>Seth Thomas Watch in argentine case for $10 in new -subscriptions; in silver case for $15 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>There is strong competition between the American -watch-manufactories on low-price watches. The struggle -is to make the best for the money. That is the way -to capture the market. Seth Thomas watch is ahead.</p> - -<p>We buy the movement separate. There is no established -price for the watch as we send it out. We are -giving the most we can get for the money. The watch -is a good time-keeper; durable; open-face; has -seven jewels; is decidedly worth repairing; good -enough; a great deal better than any foreign watch -for the money; better than any other American watch -for the money.</p> - -<p>The argentine case is a substitute for silver, substantial, -keeps its silver look. The silver case is no better, -unless you object to an imitation. The argentine -case is plain, the silver is chased (“turned” is the -technical word), the neatest of watch-case engraving. -Stem-winders and setters of course.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Waterbury Watch, -chain, whistle and -agate charm. Price -for the whole, $3; -for $4 in new subscriptions. -Postage -15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 242px;"> -<a href="images/illus152b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus152b.jpg" width="242" height="288" alt="Waterbury watch" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Perhaps a million -of these watches are -in use. As good a -time-keeper as any -common watch and -bears a good deal of -banging. The only -fault we ever heard -of in it is the slowness -of winding—takes about a minute and a half—stem-winder -at that. The makers undertake to repair -it for 50 cents and postage. The case is bright nickel, -or what is called nickel—looks like silver.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Chatelaine Watch. Price $7; -for $9 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 157px;"> -<img src="images/illus153a.jpg" width="157" height="220" alt="small pocket watch" /> -</div> - -<p>Fair time-keeper, plain, bright -nickel case.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Alarm Clock. Price -$1.75; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage -20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 217px;"> -<a href="images/illus153b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus153b.jpg" width="217" height="299" alt="alarm clock" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Nickel, one-day, 4-inch -dial, key attached.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Little Nickel One-day Clock with -2-inch dial. Price $1.35; for $1.75 -in new subscriptions. Postage 10 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 121px;"> -<a href="images/illus153c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus153c.jpg" width="121" height="158" alt="desk clock" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Winds by turning the whole back -plate.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Eight-day Clock with cathedral bell. Price $10; for -$11 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> -<a href="images/illus153d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus153d.jpg" width="321" height="220" alt="mantle clock" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Enameled-iron case with gilt decorations, a close imitation -of black marble; 10x15 inches.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28-premium" id="Page_28-premium">[28p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 271px;"> -<a href="images/illus154a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus154a.jpg" width="271" height="141" alt="four rings" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Send for finger-measure a slip of paper that just goes -round the ring finger.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plated Finger-rings. Patterns 1, 2, 3, 4 in heavy -rolled plate. Price $1 each; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Same in filled fourteen-karat gold. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Gold Finger-ring of patterns 1 or 3. Price $1.75; for -$2.50 in new subscriptions. No. 2, $2.25; for $3.00 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Gold Cameo Finger-ring. Price $1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plated Gold-stone Finger-ring. Price $1; for $1.35 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Gold Amethyst Finger-ring. Price $1.75; for $2.50 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plated Tiger-eye Finger-ring. Price $1.25; for $1.50 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="center">SILVER-PLATED WARE Etc.</div> - -<p>Flat ware may be of any of these six patterns, except -table-knives and fruit-knives. Pattern B with handles -oxidized for about ten per cent additional to the prices -quoted. [B not oxidized same price as the others.]</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;"> -<a href="images/illus154b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus154b.jpg" width="348" height="285" alt="six flatware patterns" /></a> -</div> - -<p>The grade of all, both flat and hollow ware, is that -known in the trade as “triple-plate,” unless otherwise -noted.</p> - -<p>The maker of nearly all is the Holmes & Edwards -Silver Company.</p> - -<p>Plush boxes supplied, if wanted. They cost about as -much as the wares they contain.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tea-spoons of any pattern. Price $2.50 a half-dozen; -for $3 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dessert-spoons of any pattern. Price $4.25; for $5 -in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Table-spoons or forks of medium size of any pattern. -Price $4.75 a half-dozen; for $6 in new subscriptions. -Postage 14 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> -<a href="images/illus155a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155a.jpg" width="368" height="55" alt="Holmes Edwards table knife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Table-knives of medium size. Price $2.50 a half -dozen; for $3 in new subscriptions. Postage 24 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;"> -<a href="images/illus155b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155b.jpg" width="318" height="33" alt="HOLMES & EDWARDS 12 fruit knife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Fruit-knives. Price $1.75 a half-dozen; for $2.10 in -new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Pocket Fruit-knife. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> -<a href="images/illus155c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155c.jpg" width="294" height="70" alt="pocket fruit knife with very ornate case" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Not “triple-plate”; two grades lower.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 381px;"> -<a href="images/illus155d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155d.jpg" width="381" height="63" alt="butter knife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Butter-knife of pattern A, C, D, or E. Price $1; for -$1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 260px;"> -<a href="images/illus155e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155e.jpg" width="260" height="74" alt="sugar tongs" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Sugar-tongs of -pattern A, C, D, -or E. Price -$1.50; for $2 in -new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 319px;"> -<a href="images/illus155f-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155f.jpg" width="319" height="79" alt="sugar spoon" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Sugar-shell of pattern A, C, D, or E. Price 75 cents; -for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> -<a href="images/illus155g-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus155g.jpg" width="344" height="86" alt="berry spoon which looks like a sugar spoon" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Berry-spoon A, C, D or E. Price $2.50; for $3 in -new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29-premium" id="Page_29-premium">[29p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;"> -<a href="images/illus156a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus156a.jpg" width="367" height="91" alt="ladle" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Gravy-ladle A, C, D or E. Price $1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Soup-ladle A, C, D or E. Price $4; for $5 in new -subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.</p> - -<p>Same as gravy-ladle, but larger.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> -<a href="images/illus156b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus156b.jpg" width="383" height="175" alt="Knife with serpent dragon, fork with trident tines" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Fish-knife and Fork A, C, D, or E. Price $3.25 each; -for $4 each in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents each.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Pie-knife A, C, D or E. Price $3.25; for $4 in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> -<a href="images/illus156c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus156c.jpg" width="355" height="48" alt="cake knife" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Cake-knife A, C, D or E. Price $3.25; for $4 in new -subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Child’s set of -knife, fork, -spoon and napkin-ring. -Price -$1.50; for $1.75 -in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 271px;"> -<a href="images/illus156d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus156d.jpg" width="271" height="134" alt="child's silverware set" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Not triple-plate; two grades lower.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Butter-dish. Price $3; -for $4.50 in new subscriptions. -Must go by express.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 185px;"> -<a href="images/illus156e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus156e.jpg" width="185" height="135" alt="butter dish with cow for lid handle" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Satin finish.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Call-bell. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>Top strike; neat design. Not triple-plate; two grades -lower.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Napkin-ring No. 173. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<p>Not triple-plate; two grades lower.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Pickle-jar with tongs. Price $2; for -$2.50 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 110px;"> -<a href="images/illus157a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus157a.jpg" width="110" height="226" alt="pickle jar" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Engraved glass jar.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Child’s Cup No. 38. Price $1.25; -for $1.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 133px;"> -<a href="images/illus157b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus157b.jpg" width="133" height="119" alt="metal engraved cup" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Not triple-plate; two grades -lower; gold-lined.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Child’s Cup No 28. Price $2.50; -for $2.75 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 125px;"> -<a href="images/illus157c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus157c.jpg" width="125" height="143" alt="metal cup with pedestal" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Not triple-plate; two grades -lower; gold-lined.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Nut-picks. -Price 90 cents; -for $1 in new -subscriptions. -Postage 5 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 274px;"> -<a href="images/illus157d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus157d.jpg" width="274" height="151" alt="nut picks of varous types in a case" /></a> -</div> - -<p>No. A1½, 5-inch, -six nickeled-steel -picks -in paper box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Nut-cracker and picks. Price $1.75; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>No. C1½, 5-inch, six nickeled-steel picks and one -cracker in paper box.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30-premium" id="Page_30-premium">[30p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plymouth Lap-board. -Price $1.25; for $1.35 in -new subscriptions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 187px;"> -<img src="images/illus158a.jpg" width="187" height="144" alt="lap desk with ruler on one side" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 191px;"> -<img src="images/illus158b.jpg" width="191" height="142" alt="lap desk with checkerboard on this side" /> -</div> - -<p>Very light but strong, unsplittable, -cloth-like surface -pleasant to touch, not slippery, -brass-bound, neat, -with half-yard measure and -checker-board. There -never will be a better thing -for its many, many uses. -Must go by express.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Rand-McNally Standard Atlas of the World. The publishers’ -price is $4.50. We send it postage paid for $2.50 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Edition of 1887, “revised to date including maps.” -(We quote from the publishers’ letter. The Atlas is not -yet out at the time of writing.)</p> - -<p>Large book, 11x14 inches, cloth binding, about 200 -pages; about 150 maps, about 30 statistical diagrams, -etc., nearly 100 engravings; brief descriptions of regions, -countries, cities, governments; our part of the -world elaborately mapped and illustrated.</p> - -<p>So comprehensive an Atlas can only be made for the -money by many thousands, and so only in a country -where millions of people are happy enough to want to -know the world they live in.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Webster’s Unabridged -Dictionary. Price $13; for -$17 in new subscriptions. -By express at receiver’s -cost.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 189px;"> -<a href="images/illus158c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus158c.jpg" width="189" height="146" alt="very thick illustrated dictionary open with two closed ones standing behind it WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Latest edition, with marginal -index. See cut.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Worcester’s Unabridged Dictionary. Price $11; for -$13 in new subscriptions. By express at receiver’s -cost.</p> - -<p>Latest edition with marginal index. See cut of -Webster.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ladies’ Card-case. Price 85 cents; for $1.10 in new -subscriptions.</p> - -<p>Natural calfskin stamped with a beautiful pattern, old-gold -satin lining.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Pearl Rug-maker. -Price -$1; for $1.10 -in new subscriptions. -Postage 6 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 278px;"> -<a href="images/illus159a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus159a.jpg" width="278" height="177" alt="rug sewing machine: The Pearl Rug Maker: Patented" /></a> -</div> - -<p>A sort of -sewing-machine attachment; not strictly -that; for it is not attached; may be used -with any machine, or without a machine, the sewing -done by hand.</p> - -<p>With it a woman of taste and aptness with colors can -get out of her rag-bag beautiful rugs with almost no -expense beyond sewing-cotton and dyes [see <a href="#Diamond_Dyes">Diamond -Dyes</a>, page 23 of this list.]</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 209px;"> -<img src="images/illus159b.jpg" width="209" height="100" alt="rug" /> -</div> - -<p>The rug-maker is simply a nickeled steel-wire frame -on which to wind cut rags or yarns preparatory to sewing -them on a substantial -foundation. Not hard -to learn the use of. Not -hard to use. A sort of -homely art-work with -waste materials, splendidly -profitable.</p> - -<p>The finished rug is a velvet, the pile of which is made -by cutting the loops as they come from the rug-maker. -The product of one day’s work may be as pretty and -rich a rug as you would buy for several dollars. All -depends on your taste, materials, colors, industry, -patience. There is something of the constructive artist -in every woman of taste.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Mirror for toilet stand. Price -60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. -Postage 8 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 111px;"> -<img src="images/illus159c.jpg" width="111" height="134" alt="mirror with stand" /> -</div> - -<p>Beveled plate glass, 4x6 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Toilet-case. Price -$2.75; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 149px;"> -<a href="images/illus159d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus159d.jpg" width="149" height="96" alt="toilet cas with mirror, brush, etc." /></a> -</div> - -<p>Zylonite mirror, brush and -comb. Looks like ivory.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Zylonite Brush and Mirror. Price 75 cents each; for -$1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents each.</p> - -<p>Together or either. Lily of the Valley pattern.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 118px;"> -<img src="images/illus159e.jpg" width="118" height="90" alt="box" /> -</div> - -<p>Plush Collar and Cuff Box. Price -$2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31-premium" id="Page_31-premium">[31p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Jewel-case No. 150. Price -$1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. -Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 114px;"> -<img src="images/illus160a.jpg" width="114" height="112" alt="jewelry box" /> -</div> - -<p>Size 4½x6x3 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Sealing-wax Cabinet. Price $2.25; for $2.85 -in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.</p> - -<p>Your initial-seal, five colors of finest wax, two wax -candles, and stick in paper box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sealing-wax -Box. Price 75 -cents; for 80 -cents in new -subscriptions. -Postage 6 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 267px;"> -<a href="images/illus160b-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus160b.jpg" width="267" height="98" alt="perfumed wax sticks in box FINEST PERFUMED WAX ESCRITOIRE" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Same contents as last. Paper box with cover.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Writing-desk. Price -$1.50; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. -Postage 45 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 183px;"> -<img src="images/illus160c.jpg" width="183" height="91" alt="wooden box" /> -</div> - -<p>Walnut inlaid with mahogany. -Locks.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Writing-case for the lap. -Price $2.50; for $3.50 in new -subscriptions. Postage 30 -cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 165px;"> -<a href="images/illus160d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus160d.jpg" width="165" height="99" alt="witing desk with many accessories" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Leather cover, with pockets -and box full of writing-materials.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Music-roll. Price -$1.35; for $1.75 in new -subscriptions. Postage -7 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 214px;"> -<img src="images/illus160e.jpg" width="214" height="56" alt="cylindrical case with handle" /> -</div> - -<p>Substantial leather, imitation seal, bound with morocco, -morocco strap, round leather handle, nickel trimmings.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 70px;"> -<img src="images/illus160f.jpg" width="70" height="87" alt="thimble with flowers engraved around base" /> -</div> - -<p>Silver Thimble. Price 65 cents; for 85 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 59px;"> -<img src="images/illus160g.jpg" width="59" height="79" alt="thimble" /> -</div> - -<p>Gold-filled thimble. Price $1.25; for $1.60 -in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Scrap-book. Price 60 cents; for -75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage -30 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 124px;"> -<a href="images/illus161a-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus161a.jpg" width="124" height="146" alt="album with flowers on cover" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Size 9½x12 inches. 56 pages.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Handy Travelling-bag -No. 161. Price $3.25; for -$5 in new subscriptions. -Postage 45 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 195px;"> -<img src="images/illus161b.jpg" width="195" height="128" alt="purse" /> -</div> - -<p>Natural grain leather, -lined with leather, large -inside pocket, nickel lock -and trimmings; size 12-inch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Same, 14-inch. Price $4; for $6 in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ladies’ Pocket-book. Price $1.50; for $2 in new -subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.</p> - -<p>Seal, morocco flap-lining, skiver pockets.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Work-box. Price $2.25; -for $3 in new subscriptions. -Postage 20 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 146px;"> -<a href="images/illus161c-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus161c.jpg" width="146" height="205" alt="work box" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Beveled plate-glass mirror in -cover, bone needle-case, crochet -needle, bodkin, thread-knife, button-hook, -tape-needle and a pair of -scissors.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Work-box for a little girl. -Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. -Postage 18 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 114px;"> -<a href="images/illus161d-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus161d.jpg" width="114" height="135" alt="sturdier work box" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Same things as in last except -mirror.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Perfume-stand No. 4005. -Price $1.25; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 131px;"> -<a href="images/illus161e-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus161e.jpg" width="131" height="128" alt="two bottles of perfume in mirrored case" /></a> -</div> - -<p>Two ground-stopper bottles, six -multiplying mirrors, nickel extension -handle.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32-premium" id="Page_32-premium">[32p]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Perfume-stand No. 3. Price -75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 99px;"> -<img src="images/illus162a.jpg" width="99" height="131" alt="another perfume case" /> -</div> - -<p>Two ground-stopper bottles, two -mirrors, brass handle.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Plush Mirror and -Whisk-holder. Price -$1.25; for $1.50 in -new subscriptions. -Postage 15 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 232px;"> -<img src="images/illus162b.jpg" width="232" height="252" alt="square mirror with wisk broom peeking from behind" /> -</div> - -<p>Beveled medallion -mirror, three little -hooks, whisk with -nickel-damask handle -and ring. A -pretty piece for a -girl’s room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="center">BARNEY & BERRY’S SKATES</div> - -<p>State exact length of boot.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Keyless Skate. Price $4; for $4.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 278px;"> -<img src="images/illus162c.jpg" width="278" height="70" alt="BARNEY & BERRY ice skate" /> -</div> - -<p>Best steel, best make, best temper; bright nickel. -Toe and heel clamps worked together by thumb-screw -at heel: the simplest fastening. Sizes 8 to 12 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Skate No. R. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<p>Fac-simile of the Keyless skate, of lower grade; nickeled.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>American Rink Skate. Price $4.50; for $5.00 in -new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 280px;"> -<img src="images/illus162d.jpg" width="280" height="66" alt="BARNEY & BERRY ice skate" /> -</div> - -<p>Best every way; adjustable as to size by a thumb-screw -at the heel and fastened by a lever under the -instep. Sizes 8 to 12 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Skate No. T. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<p>Skate No. T is a fac-simile of the American Rink -Skate; heel-plates, foot-plates, toe-clamps and brackets -of crucible steel; nickeled.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>All-clamp Skate. Price $4; for $4.50 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<p>Best nickeled steel. Sizes 7 to 12 inches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Skate No. F. Price $2; for $2.10 in new subscriptions. -Postage 35 cents.</p> - -<p>Fac-simile of All-clamp skate, of lower grade; nickeled.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ladies’ Keyless Skate. No. LR. Price $2.50; for $3 -in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<p>Blades of the lower grade, foot-plates, clamps and -brackets of crucible steel; russet-leather trimmings; -nickel heel-bands. A thumb-screw at the heel works -the toe-clamps.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ladies’ Clamp Skate, No. LE. Price $2.50; for $3 -in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.</p> - -<p>Differs from No. LR only in having the toe-clamps -worked by a key instead of a thumb-screw.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Putz Pomade, the best polishing substance known -for gold, silver, copper, brass, tin and other metals. -Price 15 cents a box; for 20 cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<p>One of the many new things in this List, the knowledge -of which is worth much more than it costs.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Putz Pulver, perhaps the same as the paste; but, -being a powder, it does not cling to chasings; better -therefore for jewelry. Price 15 cents a box; for 20 -cents in new subscriptions.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>Any subscriber may pay his own subscription by -getting new subscriptions of twice the amount.</i></p> - -<p>Thus: <i>Babyland for $1 in new subscriptions;</i> <i>Our -Little Men and Women for $2 in new subscriptions;</i> -<i>Pansy for $2 in new subscriptions;</i> <i>Chautauqua -Young Folks’ Journal for $2 in new subscriptions;</i> -<i>Wide Awake for $4.80 in new subscriptions</i>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>Any book we publish, postage paid, at the rate of $1 -for $1.20 in new subscriptions.</i></p> - -<p>Thus: <i>A 50-cent book for 60 cents in new subscriptions, -a $1 book for $1.20, a $1.50 book for $1.80, a -$2 book for $2.40, etc.</i></p> - -<p>We cannot describe our two-thousand books in this -List; and, if we begin, there is no stopping-place. The -best we can do is to send our catalogue [We wish it -afforded more of a clue to their contents]; and you -select from that.</p> -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1">[A]</a> These are the maker’s prices in Boston. Beyond New England -the local prices will vary. We hear they are double out West. We -go by Boston prices, wherever you are.</p></div></div> -<p> </p> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33-premium" id="Page_33-premium">[33p]</a></span></p> - - - - - -<h2>CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ READING UNION.</h2> - - -<p>1. There are few forces more powerful in the shaping of -character than those which spring from reading. <i>Robinson -Crusoe</i> has sent thousands of boys to sea, and other books -less wholesome have sent thousands to prison; many a -youth has been inspired to noble aims and a useful life by -the help of a good book. A distinguished scientist says -that a single book which fell into his hands during boyhood -gave him “a twist toward science.”</p> - -<p>2. It is not a question whether our young people will read -or not, for nearly all of them do read. The question is -whether they shall read a helpful or a harmful literature, for -every book and paper belongs to either one class or the -other. There is but one way to keep out the harmful, and -that is to supply the helpful. At a public conference on the -subject of literature for young people one speaker said, “I -find that when I keep the table in my own house well covered -with good papers for young people my children have no -desire for a low class of story-papers.” A shelf of good, -interesting books for young people will save them from depraved -taste in reading.</p> - -<p>3. One difficulty in the way of supplying the home with -good literature is that parents are too busy. To provide a -pure and healthful course of reading, and with it the impulse -to follow it, the <span class="smcap">Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading -Union</span> has been established. This is an outgrowth of the -Chautauqua movement, which aims to promote popular education -for every grade and every age, and is the peculiar -adaptation of the Chautauqua Course to young people. It -takes in the main the same subjects as those of the Chautauqua -Literary and Scientific Circle, and fits them to the needs -of the young, so that while the older people are pursuing -one course of reading, the boys and girls, from twelve years, -and upward, may read in the same lines and on the same -themes. The course includes history, science, literature, -travel, household matters, “ways to do things,” etc., mainly -in short articles, which can be easily read. It can be accomplished -in less than two hours of each week, for as many -years as the student chooses to follow it, for each year’s -reading is complete in itself.</p> - -<p>4. The Readings of the <span class="smcap">Chautauqua Young Folks’ -Reading Union</span> are of two kinds, Serial and in Books. -The Serial Readings are contained in a monthly supplement -to <span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span>, a magazine for young people which stands -at the head of its class in literature. This supplement is -also published as a separate periodical, called the <span class="smcap">Chautauqua -Young Folks’ Journal</span>. The Book Readings consist -generally of three standard books adapted for young people. -With the course are furnished to enrolled members the -“Outline Memoranda,” or questions for examination, not -a severe test of knowledge of the Readings, but suggestive, -and calling forth the thoughts and opinions of the reader.</p> - -<p>5. The Course may be taken by individuals, each reading -by himself, or by a number reading together and meeting -in a Local Club or Circle. Such a Club may be organized -by the teacher of a school among the scholars, and will furnish -pleasant and elevating enjoyment, as well as training in -composition, debating, observation, etc., by its exercises. -The members may read papers of their own writing upon -the subjects of the course, may present questions, may look -at pictures of objects and places referred to, and may witness -simple experiments in science, and may also have social -recreation at its meetings. [For plans of organization and -management of a Local Club, send for the handbook.]</p> - -<p>6. All that is requisite for membership is to send name -and address, with ten cents in postage stamps, to the Secretary, -Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J. <span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span> -contains much besides the readings—serial stories, short -stories, illustrated articles, and poems—while the <span class="smcap">Chautauqua -Young Folks’ Journal</span> contains but little besides the -readings. Besides one of the magazines, the three books -cost $1.70. [For the Course of the coming year see next -page.]</p> - -<p>7. Every enrolled member receives free of cost a Certificate -of Membership. It is an albertype, with a symbolic -picture embodying the light-bearing spirit of the Union, -and is suited to framing for the home. For each year’s -reading a seal is given, which is to be affixed to the certificate. -Thus the engraving will show by its seals the years -of the member’s reading.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34-premium" id="Page_34-premium">[34p]</a></span></p> - - -<h3>ANNOUNCEMENT.</h3> - -<p><i>The next Course of Readings will begin in the December -number of</i> <span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span> <i>and the</i> <span class="smcap">Journal</span> <i>and run through -1888. Something of the value and interest may be gathered -from the following prospectus.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h3>SEVENTH ANNUAL COURSE.</h3> - -<h4>REQUIRED READINGS (SERIAL).</h4> - -<p>I. <span class="smcap">Dear Old Story-Tellers.</span> By <i>Oscar Fay Adams</i>. -A set of most delightful papers about certain old authors -and certain old stories whose names and titles are constantly -occurring in general literature. Whatever of importance -and interest is known about these authors Mr. Adams has -here gathered up; and a good idea is given of the work -which has made them famous, valued and remembered. -These “Readings” will be very helpful for all who wish to -understand the allusions in literature to standard old stories -and romances. Many portraits and illustrations.</p> - -<p>II. <span class="smcap">U. S. Military and Naval Schools.</span> By <i>Louis -T. Peale</i>. A good series for family reading, as both -boys and girls are growing more and more interested in the -way our Government conducts affairs, and these papers explain -just what means are taken to train up a noble body of -men to protect our country and maintain her interests and -her rights by land and sea. While the series is of general -interest to everybody, it will be especially hailed by boys -who have dreams of entering the army or the navy; they -will find here a complete manual of answers to all the -questions they or their anxious friends can possibly ask as to -what the boys must do for the Government, and what the -Government does for the boys. Illustrations.</p> - -<p>III. <span class="smcap">Our Asiatic Cousins.</span> By <i>Mrs. A. H. Leonowens</i>. -Mrs. Leonowens lived a long time in the far East, an inmate -of both palace and tent, and had opportunities of knowing -face to face both royal potentates and the common people. -She has written these articles especially for the members of -the C. Y. F. R. U., and they are very interesting. Fully -illustrated.</p> - -<p>IV. “<span class="smcap">Diamond Dust.</span>” By <i>Mrs. S. D. Power</i>. Some -chatty articles about precious stones, our native gems, and -beautiful objects in the mineral world.</p> - -<p>V. <span class="smcap">Ways to do Things.</span> All sorts. The first will be the -“Way” to take care of dogs, by <i>Louise Imogen Guiney</i>.</p> - -<p>VI. <span class="smcap">Search-Questions in Roman History.</span> By <i>Oscar -Fay Adams</i>. Twenty questions each month. Book prizes -for correct lists of answers. Particulars in both <span class="smcap">Wide -Awake</span> and the <span class="smcap">Journal</span>.</p> - -<h4>REQUIRED READINGS (BOOKS).</h4> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Family Flight Around Home.</span> Part I. By -Edward Everett Hale and Susan Hale. A new volume of -this delightful series, describing the scenes and events of -early New England history, etc. Illustrations.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Poets’ Homes.</span> By Arthur Gilman, and others. Charming -pen and pencil pictures of the homes and haunts of the -poets—and the poets themselves.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nelly Marlow in Washington.</span> By Laura D. Nichols. -Those who went with Nelly Marlow “Up Hill and -Down Dale” will surely wish to go with her to Washington. -Illustrations.</p> - - -<h3>PRICE LISTS.</h3> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="prices"> -<tr><td align="left" rowspan="4"> I.—</td><td align="left" rowspan="4" class="btlb"> </td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span> (Special price to members of C. Y. F. R. U.) </td><td align="right">$2.25</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Family Flight Around Home.</span> Part I.</td><td align="right">.75</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Poets’ Homes.</span></td><td align="right">.35</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Nelly Marlow in Washington.</span></td><td align="right"><span class="u"> .60</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">Postage on books if sent by mail, 25 cents.</td><td align="right">$3.95</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" rowspan="4">II.—</td><td align="left" rowspan="4" class="btlb"> </td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal.</span></td><td align="right">$1.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Family Flight Around Home.</span> Part I.</td><td align="right">.75</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Poets’ Homes.</span></td><td align="right">.35</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Nelly Marlow in Washington.</span></td><td align="right"><span class="u"> .60</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">Postage on books if sent by mail, 25 cents.</td><td align="right">$2.70</td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<h3>Chautauqua Young Folks’ Annual.</h3> - -<p>New members of the C. Y. F. R. U., and others, desiring -in compact form the previous courses of Required Readings, -may be glad to know that they are issued each year in one -handsomely bound volume with the above title.</p> - -<p>Sent postpaid by the publishers, D. LOTHROP COMPANY, -and by all booksellers, on receipt of $1.50 per -volume.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a></p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Books"> -<tr><td align="left">I. Required Readings for ’81-2:</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Magna Charta Stories. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Edited by Arthur Gilman, M. A.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ways to Do Things. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Rev. Charles R. Talbot and others.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Old Ocean. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Ernest Ingersoll.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Travelling Law School.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Benjamin Vaughan Abbott.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Biographies.—Music. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Hezekiah Butterworth.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Health and Strength Papers.</td> -<td align="right"><i>By prominent Physical Culture People.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Dooryard Folks. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Amanda B. Harris.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">What to Do About It.</td> -<td align="right"><i>The Wise Blackbird.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><p>Also the following books: “Stories from English History,” 2 volumes -in the Lyceum Library; “Behaving, Papers on Children’s Etiquette;” -and “The Story of English Literature.”</p></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">II. Required Readings for ’82-3:</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ballads of American History. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Margaret J. Preston.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Remarkable Trials.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Benjamin Vaughan Abbott.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Through a Microscope. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Samuel Wells and Mary Treat.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Biographies.—Literature. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Amanda B. Harris.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Anna Maria’s Housekeeping.</td> -<td align="right"><i>The Next Neighbor.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Boy’s Workshop. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>A Boy Carpenter.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Health and Strength Papers for Boys. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Prof. D. A. Sargent.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">What to Do about It.</td> -<td align="right"><i>The Wise Blackbird.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><p>Also the following books: “Eyes Right,” by Adam Stwin; “Getting -Along,” by Samuel Smiles, a book of practical common sense; “Stories -of the Sea;” and “A Book of Golden Deeds,” of all times, by Charlotte -M. Yonge.</p></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2">IV. Required Readings for ’84-5:</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Children of Westminster Abbey. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Rose G. Kingsley.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Souvenirs of My Time. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Temperance Teachings of Science.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Prof. A. B. Palmer.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Boy’s Heroes. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Edward Everett Hale.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ways to Do Things. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Various Authors.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Entertainments in Chemistry. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Harry W. Tyler.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Making of Pictures.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Sarah W. Whitman.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Search-Questions in American Literature.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Oscar Fay Adams.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><p>Also the following books: “Greece,” by Charlotte M. Yonge; -“Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles,” by Amanda B. Harris; “Wild -Animals,” with full-page illustrations by Joseph Wolf.</p></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">V. Required Readings for ’85-6:</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Pleasant Authors for Young Folks—-American. (<i>Portraits.</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Amanda B. Harris.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My Garden Pets. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Mary Treat.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Souvenirs of My Time.—Foreign.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Some Italian Authors, and Their Works.</td> -<td align="right"><i>George E. Vincent.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ways to Do Things. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Various Authors.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Strange Teas, Dinners, Weddings, and Fêtes.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Various Authors.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Search-Questions in English Literature.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Oscar Fay Adams.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><p>Also the following books: “A Family Flight Through France, Germany, -Norway, and Switzerland,” by E. E. Hale and Susan Hale; “The -Merchant of Venice,” Hudson-Lamb edition; “Underfoot,” by Laura -D. Nichols.</p></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">VI. Required Readings for ’86-7;</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Some Successful Women. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Sarah K. Bolton.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Wonder-Wings, Mullingongs, Colossi, and Others. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>C. F. Holder.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Young Prince of Commerce. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Selden R. Hopkins.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ways to Do Things. (<i>Illustrated</i>)</td> -<td align="right"><i>Various Authors.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Search-Questions in Greek History.</td> -<td align="right"><i>Oscar Fay Adams.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"> </td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><p>Also the following books: “A Family Flight Through Norway and -Switzerland,” by Edward Everett Hale and Susan Hale; “Hamlet” -edited by Homer B. Sprague, President of Mills College; “Up Hill and -Down Dale,” by Laura D. Nichols.</p></td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<b>D LOTHROP COMPANY. Publishers, Boston, U. S. A.</b><br /> -</div> - -<p> </p> -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2">[B]</a> Vol. III. is out of print.</p></div></div> - - -<p> </p> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35-premium" id="Page_35-premium">[35p]</a></span></p> - -<h3><i>Quick Clues</i></h3> -<p class="unindent"><b>Wide Awake, 1887.</b></p> - -<p>Volumes W and X. 4to, boards, 1.75 -a volume—cloth, 2.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>“The files we have had bound are so popular as -to be in danger of being literally read to pieces; -and, knowing well that the new ones will meet the -same treatment, we earnestly hope that the time -will never come when it will be impossible to replace -them; for they are a source of too much enjoyment -and benefit to our young people to be -allowed to get out of print—that would be a great -misfortune.”<i>—Extract from letter of the Librarian of the Morse Institute, -Natick, Mass., ordering the first nineteen volumes of</i> -<span class="smcap">Wide Awake</span>.</p> - -<p>One in a dozen families—no, not so many—one -in a hundred eats good food. About as many -read good books. And yet the proportion of good -eating and reading is quite as high in this as in any -country. The fact is some good food is a little dry. -Good reading is never peppery. We are losing -our capacity for enjoyment of both when we crave -unwholesome stimulants.</p> - -<p><i>Wide Awake</i> is one of those rare collections -varied and bright enough to engage the common -reader and good enough to lead the capable reader -to higher pleasures and benefits.</p> - -<p>Volume W contains: a yachting story, by Charles -R. Talbot; Peggy and her Family, by Margaret -Sidney; Pamela’s Fortune, by Lucy C. Lillie; -Pocahontas and Rolfe, by Mrs. Blathwayt; Turkish -Childhood, by Hon. S. S. Cox; Some Nantucket -Children, by Mrs. Macy; stories of early American -warfare; no end of short stories and sketches, -poems, engravings, etc.</p> - -<p>Volume X is equally full and fine. The two -volumes make the year. The covers are bright -and beautiful.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Boys and Girls’ Annual 1888.</b></p> - -<p>4to, cloth, 3.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A big book of short stories and long; good many -of both; and bright ones all of them, long or short. -The secret is: they are out of <i>Wide Awake</i>. -Pictures besides.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Dame Heraldry.</b></p> - -<p>By F. S. W. Illustrated by nine full-page -colored illustrations and numerous -engravings. 8vo, cloth, 2.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>The writer, his children having an interest in -heraldry, set himself at the task of telling them -what he knew of it. Hence the book; which -treats the whole subject formally, yet with a pleasant -vacation air.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Family Flight Series.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">E. E. Hale</span> and <span class="smcap">Susan Hale</span>, 5 vols., -8vo, boards, each, 1.75; cloth, 2.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Book journeys through the several countries -with eyes and ears wide open, old eyes and young -eyes and ears. The books are full of pictures, and -fuller of knowledge not only of what is going on -but what has gone on ever since book-making began, -and fuller yet of brightness and interest. You see -the old as old; but you see it; you see where it was -and the marks it left. You see the new with eyes -made sharper by knowledge of what has gone in -the world.</p> - -<p>In other words these books amount to something -like going through these places with a traveling -companion who knows all about them and their -histories.</p> - -<p>They are written and pictured for boys and girls; -but there is nothing to hinder the old folks going -along. Will you go?</p> - - -<ul> -<li><span class="smcap">Family Flight Around Home.</span></li> -<li><span class="smcap">Family Flight over Egypt and Syria.</span></li> -<li><span class="smcap">Family Flight Through France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland.</span></li> -<li><span class="smcap">Family Flight Through Mexico.</span></li> -<li><span class="smcap">Family Flight Through Spain.</span></li> -</ul> - - -<p>One of the most effective means of exciting and -satisfying zeal for knowledge of the world we have -in books.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Stories.</b></p> - -<p>4to, cloth, 3.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Containing in one large book the following -stories, with many illustrations:</p> - - -<ul class="booklist2"> -<li><span class="smcap">Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.</span> By Margaret Sidney.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Two Young Homesteaders.</span> By Theodora R. Jenness.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Royal Lowrie’s Last Year at St. Olaves.</span> By Charles R. Talbot.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">The Dogberry Bunch.</span> By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Young Rick.</span> By Julia R. Eastman.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Nan, the New-Fashioned Girl.</span> By S. C. Hallowell.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">Polly, Good-for-nothing Polly.</span> By Ella Farman.</li> -<li><span class="smcap">The Cooking-Club of Tu-Whit Hollow.</span> By Ella Farman.</li> -</ul> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36-premium" id="Page_36-premium">[36p]</a></span></p> - - -<h4><b>Margaret Sidney’s Illustrated Quartos.</b></h4> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Golden West as Seen by the Ridgway Club.</b></p> - -<p>4to, cloth, 2.25; boards, 1.75.</p> - -<p>A pictorial and talkative run from Boston to -Monterey for health and pleasure and information. -And what the jolly party sees from the car windows -is only part of the treat.</p> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>What the Seven Did, or the Doings of the Wordsworth Club.</b></p> - -<p>4to, cloth, 2.25; boards, 1.75.</p> - -<p>The seven are little girl neighbors, the Wordsworth -Club, which met once a week at their several -homes to have a good time. Those good times are -the book. The best of them had to do with the -fathers and mothers and Widow Barker’s cow.</p> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Who Told it to Me.</b></p> - -<p>Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth 1.75.</p> - -<p>Neighbor boys and girls growing up together, -having their ins and outs, and ups and downs; and -the old folks had their share in the young folks’ -doings, as they ought. It was a jolly Pengannop. -They did grow good men and women those days in -New England.</p> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Polly and the Children.</b></p> - -<p>4to, boards, 50 cents.</p> - -<p>The parrot has surprising adventures at the -children’s party and wears a medal after the fire.</p></div> - - -<h4>FUN AND FANCY LIBRARY.</h4> - -<div class="center">3 VOLUMES, 12MO, CLOTH, EACH, 1.00.</div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Bubbling Teapot.</b></p> - -<p>A Wonder Story by <span class="smcap">Lizzie W. Champney</span>.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A discontented little girl is the Bubbling Teapot -of a sort of Japanese Arabian Night. She tries a -great many kinds of life and concludes that the -nicest life, after all, is that of a little American girl. -It is a dream-story.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>In No-Man’s Land.</b></p> - -<p>A Wonder Story by <span class="smcap">E. S. Brooks</span>.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A Dream-story as droll as Alice in Wonderland. -Not like Alice; and yet can there be two sorts of -dream-nonsense so witty and wild, so mixed up -and yet not muddy a whit? The plays on nursery -rhymes are enough to make the fortune of almost a -dull book. And “there isn’t a dull line in it.”</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Dilly and the Captain.</b></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">By Margaret Sidney.</span></p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A bicycle-tricycle story of pioneers and explorers -in search of the place where children should be -seen and heard too. A very jolly story.</p></div> - - -<p class="unindent"><b>Nelly Marlow in Washington.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Laura D. Nichols</span>. Square, 8vo, -boards, $1.25; cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Nelly sees the Capitol and the Capital. There -are wonderful things to be seen there; too many -to think of out of the book. It’s a story besides. -Nelly brings up in the Adirondacks before her -play-time is over.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Overhead</b>: or what Harry and Nelly discovered -in the heavens. By <span class="smcap">Annie -Moore</span> and <span class="smcap">Laura D. Nichols</span>. Introduction -by Leonard Waldo, of Harvard -College Observatory. Square 8vo, boards, -1.25; cloth, 1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A trip to the moon, Saturn, the sun, and various -other stations, in great big letters and pictures, -with a little bit of easy astronomy sprinkled in.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Underfoot</b>, or what Harry and Nelly -learned of the earth’s treasures. By -<span class="smcap">Laura D. Nichols</span>. Square 8vo, boards, -1.25; cloth, 1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Peeps at the world we live on and into it here -and there where the holes are.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Up Hill and Down Dale.</b> By <span class="smcap">Laura D. -Nichols</span>. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth, -1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Nelly leaves Harry at business and goes to the -country. What she sees there is in the book, and -a great many things besides.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Cats’ Arabian Nights.</b> By <span class="smcap">Abby Morton -Diaz</span>. 8vo, boards, 1.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>The wonderful cat story of cat stories told by -Pussyanita that saved the lives of all the cats, the -funniest, wittiest story that ever was [so says Pussyanita]; -and that is why it is wonderful. King -Grimalkum must have been a credulous fellow; -but nobody blames him for losing his wits to such -a teller of cat stories.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Fireside Chronicles, or the Family -Story-Teller.</b> By <span class="smcap">Abby Morton Diaz</span>.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Fifteen different chronicles, every one of them -funnier than the last one; and five times as many -pictures of what they’re about. A great deal of -wisdom in with the fun.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Wonder Stories.</b></p> - -<p>3 volumes, 12mo, cloth, each 1.50.</p> - - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p class="hang1"><b>Wonder Stories of History.</b> Historical incidents -told in short stories by several writers.</p> - - - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Wonder Stories of Science.</b> Really how twenty-one -different things are made in the world. By -several writers.</p> - - - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Wonder Stories of Travel.</b> Tales in which peculiarities -of people and things abroad are brought out -By several writers.</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37-premium" id="Page_37-premium">[37p]</a></span></p> - - -<h4><i>Bound Volumes of Two Illustrated Magazines.</i></h4> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Our Little Men and Women for 1887.</b></p> - -<p>4to, 74 full-page illustrations, cloth, 2.00; -boards, 1.50.</p> -<div class="blockquot3"> -<p>Nearly 300 pages of pictures and stories, -sketches, lessons, and entertainments easy -to read and understand, for children six to -eight years old. As bright as a book can -be, and as full of help towards wholesome -progress in learning, growth of mind and -the formation of good habits and taste in -reading.</p> - -<p>The cover is daintily beautiful.</p> -</div> - -<p class="hang1"><b>The Pansy for 1887.</b></p> - -<p>4to, cloth, 1.75; boards, 1.25.</p> -<div class="blockquot3"> -<p>More than 400 pages of reading and -pictures for children of eight to fifteen -years in various lines of interest. There -are sketches of home and foreign life, religious -instruction, biography, history, fiction, -anecdote, letter-writing. The editor -is the author of the Pansy books, which -means that the drift of <i>The Pansy</i> is all one -way.</p> - -<p>The cover is almost made of pansies, -purple and gold, with a pair of happy children -on a grassy bank, and a flock of -butterflies.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Real Fairy Folks.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Lucy Rider Meyer</span>, A.M. Illustrated, -12mo, cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A play-excursion into chemistry, none the less -serious because it is play, and none the less play -because it is serious.</p> - -<p>We quote from the author’s word to parents: -“This book is true to chemical fact and principle. -It is an effort to make them love the beautiful -science of chemistry and to lift their thoughts to the -One who holds in His hand the atoms as securely -as He holds the worlds.”</p> - -<p>Nevertheless it is a book of diversion, a story-book, -a fairy story-book. A queer combination, -but we believe successful. We much mistake if it -is not splendidly successful.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Story Book of Science.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Lydia Hoyt Farmer</span>. Illustrated, -12mo, cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>This also is fact and fiction in science; stories -made upon what goes on in the world, the scientific -and practical world. Glass-making is in it; and -silk; a great many insects; snow; wind; the seven -modern wonders; birds; animals; tea, coffee, pepper, -potatoes; what not? There are subjects -enough, and learning enough; and there is fun in -finding out how the world is put together.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Look-About Club.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Mary E. Bamford</span>. 4to, cloth, 1.50.</p> -<div class="blockquot3"> -<p>The Club is a family given to study of -animals. Under the guise of play the -family learns about spiders and butterflies, -chickens and rabbits, fishes and -frogs, the folks in the brook, the folks on -the ground and the folks in the air, which -includes grasshoppers and beetles.</p> - -<p>There is a great deal to know about our -neighbors, worth knowing, too; and the -surest way to begin learning is to like it. -That is why such books as this are made, -to make young people like the beginnings -of learning.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Little Polly Blatchley.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Frances C. Sparhawk</span>. 4to, boards, -1.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Delightful stories out of little Polly’s life. Polly -is what elderly people call an “old” little girl. -She is continually thinking of things that little -people are apt to skip; and she keeps her thoughts -to herself so wisely and lets them out so in the nick -of time, she delights her good papa and mamma -in the book and the little girl who reads it. It is a -rare book for pleasure and wholesome suggestion.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Playfellows and Their Pets.</b></p> - -<p>4to, boards, 1.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Short stories about children, animals and birds, -with a great many pictures. Not a page but is full -of entertainment, instruction and means of growth -for pretty good readers of six or eight or ten—Do -little folks go by ages nowadays?</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>After Play Stories for the Little Ones.</b></p> - -<p>4to, boards, 1.00.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Beginning stories for little readers, or to be read -to people too little to read for themselves.</p> - -<p>There is one about the Puzzled Baby, which begins -in this way:</p> - -<p>“I am a baby. But I don’t want you to think -I am one of these little bits of things who know -nothing at all. I am an <i>old</i> baby. I am almost -ten months old!</p> - -<p>“I have a cousin who is only nine weeks old. -The little goose don’t know how to get his toes in -his mouth!”</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38-premium" id="Page_38-premium">[38p]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Some Things Abroad.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Alexander McKenzie</span>, D. D. 12mo, -cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A chatty going over the events of day after day -of a journey through northern and southern Europe -into Asia, the Holy Land especially. Dr. McKenzie’s -name is enough in New England. Outside -also.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Russian Novelists.</b></p> - -<p>From the French of M. de Vogüé by <span class="smcap">Jane -Loring Edmands</span>. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>An exposition of life and feeling in Russia -through an examination of the most characteristic -Russian writers; also a critical and general estimate -of current Russian literature.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Life Among the Germans.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Emma Louise Parry</span>. 12mo, cloth, -$1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A very near and intimate view of German home -and social life, with a sympathetic account of the -Luther Centennial. A book of rare fullness and -delicacy.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Common Sense Science.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Grant Allen</span>. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Practical applications of many results of recent -advances in science. Not a schoolbook; a means -of intelligence suited to busy people.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Royal Girls and Royal Courts.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">M. E. W. Sherwood</span>. 12mo, cloth, -$1.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A book of twelve chapters on nearly as many -European courts with special regard to the local -etiquette, by a peculiarly competent person.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Souvenirs of My Time.</b></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">By Jessie Benton Frémont.</span> 12mo, -cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>Reminiscences of a political-social career of rare -distinction in a republican country told with a freshness -and readiness rare in any country.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>American Authors for Young Folks.</b></p> - -<p>By <span class="smcap">Amanda B. 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A strike, a mob, a murder, a settlement.</p> - -<p>The manufacturer wins, and so do the workmen. -So does the chemist’s daughter, as indeed she -deserves.</p></div> - - -<p class="hang1"><b>Gladys.</b></p> - -<p>A Romance. By <span class="smcap">Mary G. Darling</span>. -12mo, $1.25.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> - -<p>A story of love—the ever-new old story. The -bright and beautiful daughter of a fond old man -who has nothing to do but delight in her pleasure, -and watch her numerous lovers, spends her first -summer after school-days at Bar Harbor. Too -good and true to be spoiled by pursuit, she, nevertheless, -but slowly learns to distinguish conjugal -love. Her fortune takes her more or less blindly -through the school of experience—a school that -tempers not its exactions.</p> - -<p>There are interesting stories within the larger -story, and interesting fragments of other lives than -the two. 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Co., Columbus, Indiana.</p> - -<div class="center"> -“Cerealine Flakes” for sale by all grocers at twenty cents a package.<br /> -</div></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42-premium" id="Page_42-premium">[42p]</a></span></p> - -<div class="bbox"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/illus183.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="woman washing jar" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap"><span class="smcap">Laces</span>, fine embroideries, and other articles too delicate to bear -rubbing, may be cleaned satisfactorily and without injury, if -you will pare into fine shavings one-fourth of a cake of Ivory -Soap, which dissolve in a quart of hot water; fill a glass fruit jar -half full of the solution and add the article to be cleaned, then -shake well. Rinse in the same manner in clear, luke-warm water.</p> - -<div class="blockquot3"> -<div class="center">A WORD OF WARNING.</div> - - - -<p>There are many white soaps, each represented to be “just as good as the ‘Ivory’;” -they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities -of the genuine. Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it.</p> -</div><div class="copyright"> -Copyright, 1886, by Procter & Gamble.</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="tnote"><div class="center"> -<b>Transcriber’s Notes:</b></div> - -<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Sometimes the font size changed in -the lists of books in section III. Wherever possible, uniformity was -attempted in the HTML version.</p> - -<p>Section I:</p> - -<p>Page 4, “unforgetable” changed to “unforgettable” (be pithy, unforgettable)</p> - -<p>Page 8, “sorroundings” changed to “surroundings” (on accidental surroundings)</p> - -<p>Page 12, “Shh” changed to “She” (She dared not go)</p> - -<p>Page 17, repeated word "the" removed from text (Up to -the spider)</p> - -<p>Page 19, “chamelons” changed to “chameleons” (lizards and chameleons)</p> - -<p>Section II:</p> - -<p>Page 10, “becouse” changed to “because” (pouting all day because)</p> - -<p>Page 22, “Jennnie’s” changed to “Jennie’s” (and Jennie’s voice was)</p> - -<p>Section III:</p> - -<p>Page 30, “unsplitable” changed to “unsplittable” (but strong, unsplittable)</p> - -<p>Page 33, “pepole” changed to “people” (our young people will)</p> - -<p>Page 33, “Chatauqua” changed to “Chautauqua” (called the <span class="smcap">Chautauqua -Young Folks’ Journal</span>)</p> - -<p>Page 34, the anchor for the footnote: “Vol. III is out of print” was added -to the text at what the transcriber hopes was a logical place.</p> - -<p>Page 37, “Begginning” changed to “Beginning” (Beginning stories for little)</p> - -<p>Page 39, “psychologcal” changed to “psychological” (religious or psychological)</p> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Pansy Magazine, November 1887, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PANSY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1887 *** - -***** This file should be named 52909-h.htm or 52909-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/9/0/52909/ - -Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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