We moved to Iowa last December, and the best thing I have had since
I have been here is your lovely paper, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. How
we did laugh when we read about Miss Julia Nast's cooking party!
When we lived in New Jersey I used to see her sometimes, and I
sometimes saw her father and brother riding past our house, with
those great English hounds running on behind the horses. The
funniest picture I ever saw is the little De Lesseps children in
the dog-cart with their father. I wish the baby had been in the
cart too, with her mamma. I have been wanting to see Mollie
Garfield, and, to my delight, there she was in last week's YOUNG
PEOPLE. I feel so sorry for her and the rest of the family! My
brothers and sister and I gave some money for the monument. When I
become a grown-up lady, and the monument shall have been erected, I
will go to see it.
I am now ten years old. I attend a school which the Western people
call a college; in the East we would call it a seminary. I have two
beautiful birds. The name of one is Cassius, and of the other Ida.
I have three brothers and one sister. My big brother is in the East
at college. My brother fourteen years old is getting ready for
college here in Des Moines. My little brother Paul stays at home
and learns his ABC's with mamma. My sister Blanche is seven years
old, and can spell a little, but can not write. She is learning how
to crochet.