It flies more'n a hundred feet high, and sprinkles in the air, and
looks like wet sunshine.
The girls and boys that send letters have dolls and cats to put in.
Well, I have a dog, too, only it is brown cloth sewed 'round a lot
of cotton. It looks 'zactly like a true dog, but its legs is so
straight it can't run and bark.
Papa says you won't print two times 'bout me. Won't you 'bout Uncle
Joe and the woollen dog anyway? It's nearly seven years old too,
but I can read in the First Reader, and make letters like the ones
here.
JOE A. V.
We think we would like your woolly dog much better, Joe, than we do a
woolly one which belongs to a young lady we know, and keeps us awake at
night by howling while his mistress is absent at a party or concert.
Yours, we presume, is very well behaved.
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Little friends who send us puzzles will please remember that they must
always send the answers at the same time they inclose puzzles. Little
folks who find our puzzles out must not omit their names, as we like to
give them credit for their clever wits.
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C. Y. P. R. U.
MY LADY'S TOILET.--This is a pretty game for a number of children to
play some rainy day at recess when they can not go out of doors. To each
of the performers is given the name of an article of dress. Chairs are
placed for all the party except one, so as to leave one chair too few.
All seat themselves but one, who is called the lady's-maid, and who
stands in the centre. When the maid calls for any article of dress, the
one who has that name instantly rises, repeats the word, and seats
herself again directly. For instance, the maid says:
"My lady's up, and wants her dress."
"Dress!" says the one who hears that name, rising as she speaks, and
sitting down again very quickly.
"My lady's up, and wants her brush."
"Brush!" says Brush, jumping up in a hurry, and sitting down again.
"My lady's up, and wants her handkerchief, watch, and chain."
Handkerchief, Watch, and Chain spring up together, and repeat their
names.
"My lady's up, and wants her whole toilet."
At this every one must rise and change chairs. This makes necessary a
general scramble, in which some little player is left standing without
any chair. This person must take the place of lady's-maid.
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PAUL.--"Red tape" is used to tie official documents, and as there is
often considerable delay in obtaining decisions from courts and public
offices, people have come to speak of "too much red tape" as a
convenient way of saying that things are not going on as fast as they
would like.
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ANNIE M.--School-girls make a great mistake, dear, in wishing to be
young ladies too soon. If they could see how perfectly charming their
lives look to older persons, and if they realized what delightful times
they are having, they would not be in such haste to grow up. The
Postmistress advises you to wear your hair in simple braids, to be
contented with the pretty dresses your mother provides for you, and to
wait until you shall have left school before you assume jewelry and gay
ornaments.
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We would call the attention of the C. Y. P. R. U. this week to an
interesting article on botany, by Mrs. Herrick, entitled "Flowers in
Fancy Dress." The girls--many of whom, we know, are anxious to master
all the secrets of housekeeping--will be glad to read what Aunt Marjorie
Precept has to say on the "Fine Art of Cooking." The boys will be
interested in Mr. Hardwick's description of the game of "Rackets."
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YOUNG PEOPLE'S COT.
Once more we have pleasure in presenting the monthly report of the
treasurer of the fund for Young People's Cot. We trust our little
readers will remember our hint about devoting an Easter offering to this
beautiful charity.
We print a selection from the letters received by Miss E. Augusta
Fanshawe, to whom contributions for the Cot should always be sent.
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DAYTON, OHIO.
I am a little boy only nine years old. Papa has taken HARPER'S
YOUNG PEOPLE for us ever since the first number. We have two
volumes bound. I have two sisters and one brother. I thought I
would like to send something for the Cot, so here is a dollar. I
earned it myself by doing errands.
PERCY W. HYERS.
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MADISON, NEW JERSEY.
Inclosed you will find a check for three dollars, which is a
contribution from my little girl, Mary Louise Anderson, for the
Young People's Cot. She has earned this money herself within a few
weeks by drinking her milk and taking her medicine. For nine weeks
she has been in bed. Before Christmas she was taken ill with
typhoid fever, from which in four weeks she had recovered
sufficiently to sit up a few hours every day. Then she had a
relapse, followed by what seemed at first to be neuralgia, but
which has proved to be a slight inflammation of the hip-joint. She
has been a great sufferer, but is more comfortable now. She has not
been out of bed for nearly four weeks, and has an extension on her
limb and a weight of three pounds. We hope she will be quite well
in a month or perhaps longer, but still it is all a matter of hope.
During her illness she was once so near death that it seemed but a
matter of moments when she would go. I fear I have trespassed upon
your time in thus writing, but you will understand that this money
is a real offering of love and peculiar sympathy. My little girl
was eight years old on the first day of January.
MARY'S MOTHER.
It was very sweet in little Mary to forget her own great pain in trying
to provide for the comfort of some other little sufferers in days to
come. We hope she will very soon indeed be perfectly well again.
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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
We inclose $1.50 for the Young People's Cot. We have been saving
this money for a long time. We could have sent it sooner, only
every now and then we see something that we want, and we take a few
pennies to buy it. When we do take any money for ourselves, though,
we are 'most always sorry. We feel very sorry for the little ones
who are sick and have no pleasant homes. We are much interested in
all the letters about the Cot. We hope you will soon have enough
money to put a little boy or girl in the Cot. We will try to save
some more money to send. We have a pet bird; he is very tame.
Good-by.
CHARLOTTE C.
ELEANOR B. C.
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FORT UNION, NEW MEXICO.
My papa gave me a dollar to buy a pair of slippers, and I thought I
would do without them, and send the money to Young People's Cot.
MARGARET R. MCNAMARA.
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
I send you twenty-five cents, which I have earned myself, for the
Young People's Cot. I will send more by-and-by, as I earn it, for
mamma says little people should earn the money they send. I want to
help reach the "clump of elms." I feel so sorry for the little sick
children. I like YOUNG PEOPLE so much!
BESSIE W.
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Contributions received for Young People's Cot, in Holy Innocent's Ward,
St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, 407 West Thirty-fourth Street:
Isabel Ross and Ethelwynne Kate Maclean, Winnipeg, Manitoba, $3; Laura
May and Albert C. Davies, Marion, Iowa, $1; M. Fannie and Thomas B.
Peck, Jun., New York, $5; Mrs. S. Lawrence, New York, $5; Margaret R.
McNamara, Fort Union, New Mexico, $1; Bessie W., Brooklyn, 25c.; Mary
Louise Anderson, Madison, $3' Eddie N. and Arthur M. Anketell, New
Haven, 28c.; Rev. G. G. Carter, New York, $5; Percy W. Hyers, Dayton,
Ohio, $1; Josephine W. Kingsland, New York, 50c.; Wallace Morgan, New
York, 50c.; Mrs. G. G. Carter's Sunday-school Class, Church of the
Transfiguration, $4; Charlotte and Eleanor B. Campbell, Milwaukee,
$1.50; M. J. C., 25c.; from "Mamma and Willie," New York, $5.10; A
Little Boy and Girl from Cuba, $2; Anna M. Buzzell, Barrington, Vt.,
10c.; Worthington S. Tilford, St. Albans, Vt., $1; total, $39.48.
Previously acknowledged, $258.04; grand total, March 15, $297.52.
Received from Samuel Lee Ingram, Missouri, two pictures; and from
Florence R. Hall, Woodbury, N. J., one doll.
E. AUGUSTA FANSHAWE, Treasurer, 43 New St.
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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
CONCEALMENTS.
1. Hidden Trees.--1. Will you help Amy? 2. That is a high crib. 3. Even
I prefer the other. 4. I am less studious than you are.
2. Hidden Places.--1. It is strange no abler advocate could be found to
plead this cause. 2. Was that a knock? It Is papa, then, surely. 3. At a
barbecue they have roasted ox for dinner. 4. O ma, haven't I been good
to-day? The teacher marked me only once.
B. J. L.
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No. 2.
DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
1. A famous African tree. 2. A great white water-lily. 3. To recede. 4.
A small fort. 5. Shining with shifting color. 6. The American ostrich.
7. A young unfledged hawk. Primals and finals are two favorite spring
flowers.
MOTHER BUNCH.
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No. 3.
TRANSFORMATIONS.
1. I am a rascal. Behead me, I am soldiers' quarters.
2. I am a garment. Behead me, I am a grain.
3. I am a tiny spot. Behead me, I am a measure.
4. I am an instrument of punishment. Behead me, I am an inclosure.
5. I grow in every garden. Behead me, I threaten.
6. I am a medicine. Behead me, I am an instrument necessary to
civilization.
7. I am essential to beauty. Behead me, I am a contest.
8. I am an expression of scorn. Behead me, I am a relative.
9. I am a spice. Behead me, I am a unit.
10. I am something girls do. Behead me, I am used for skating.
11. I keep out the weather. Behead me, I produce.
12. I express greediness. Behead me, I am a testament.
M. V. M. and I. V. M.
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No. 4.
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of 11 letters.
My 1, 2, 3 is an article.
My 4, 5, 6 is a girl's name.
My 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 is a fortunate lady.
My whole is a poem by Tennyson.
BRIGHT EYES.
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No. 5.
ENIGMA.
My first is in Philip, but is not in James.
My second in Arthur, but is not in Joe.
My third is in Robert, but not in Eugene.
My fourth is in Rosa, but is not in Flo.
My fifth is in Oscar, but not in Katrine.
My sixth is in Thomas, but is not in Clo.
And I am a bird you would all like to know.
JAMES EUGENE M.
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No. 6.
TWO EASY DIAMONDS.
1.--1. A letter. 2. A utensil. 3. An elevation. 4. Conclusion. 5. A
letter.
2.--1. A letter. 2. To permit. 3. One of the United States. 4. To knock.
5. A letter.
SAM WELLER, JUN.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 124.
No. 1.
"Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathereth by
labor shall increase."
Bath. Thyme. Hearth. Sabbath. Bullion. Heather. Battledore. Coleridge.
Gymnasium. Lawn tennis. Honesty. Vigilance.
No. 2.
Box. Brush. Hand. Limp. Sweep. Bracket. Clove. Pill. Chair. Brook. Blot.
No. 3.
H A N D H E A R
A R E A E A S E
N E A R A S I A
D A R E R E A R
No 4.
Snowball.
No 5.
Penmanship.
No 6.
R H
R O E S I P
R O U G H H I V E S
E G G P E N
H S
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Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Dimple Darling,"
Ezra Burt, Blanche P. Hayward, "Fill Buster," Charles F. Wagner, Belle
Van Buskirk, Charlie Jones, Max Frost, Susie Passmore, Earle Jessup,
"Ben Bolt," Alice Chisholm, Kenneth McGovern, E. C. A., Henry Berlan,
Jun.
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[_For Exchanges, see 2d and 3d pages of cover._]
THE CLOWNS' DUEL.
[Illustration]
When Jack and Jerry, both of them merry,
Met at the circus one day,
Over Jerry's crown leaped Jack the clown.
And knocked off his hat in play.
[Illustration]
Jerry's rage was great, and from the ground straight
He leaped ten feet in the air,
And as he came down, he said, with a frown,
"Replace it, sir, or beware!"
[Illustration]
Jack would not comply; the ring-master sly
Handed them "pistols for two."
They both knew 'twas cruel to fight a real duel--
What could they possibly do?
[Illustration]
But the duel was fought, and a lesson taught
Of sorrow, remorse, and woe.
Jack lay like one dead, as heavy as lead,
While Jerry with grief bent low.
[Illustration]
Jerry, faint with fright, and in a bad plight,
Straight to the ring-master ran;
But he was afraid; to Jerry he said,
"Get him home quick as you can."
[Illustration]
To get a long plank was an easy prank,
And back did poor Jerry fly.
Stiff as a poker lay one young joker;
The other with grief did cry;
[Illustration]
"He's dead, that's a fact; now how shall I act?
I think I'll tip him up so.
Now across my back I'll take poor Jack,
And then home with him I'll go."
[Illustration]
"He's light as a song! what can have gone wrong?
O gracious, just look at that!
He's straight up and down, like a cast-iron clown
Or a clumsy base-ball bat."
[Illustration]
"Ho! ho! here's a cask; 'twill be no hard task
To put him snugly inside.
Again he is straight; but now he's too late,
For home in the cask he'll ride.
Now, there! isn't he snug--a bug in a rug--
Yet I feel awfully bad."
[Illustration]
"I can not tell why my poor Jack should die,
And leave me lonely and sad.
Why, just look you here! If this isn't Jack dear!
A joke on me he has played.
I'll love Jack, the merry, forever," said Jerry;
"Right here shall anger be laid."
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, April 4, 1882, by Various