Will you make room for another stranger?--one who from her cold
Northern home, wishes to come into a corner of the Post-office Box
to be warmed and comforted. Will not some of the writers to the
Post-office Box tell of their Christmas vacations, and how Santa
Claus treated them on his journey round the world Christmas-eve?
We have a debating society here, in which all the boys and girls,
and grown folks too, are very much interested. We meet once a week,
and have, besides the debate, one or two essays, a reading,
declamations, and music, and altogether have a very enjoyable time.
Then we go skating on the lake, and coast on the terrific-looking
hill behind the town. We go with our sleds to the top of the hill,
and slide all the way down, and away out on the lake, without
stopping.
We have a very pleasant school, too. Where the boats come in, in
the summer, we can look right down over the town, and see
everything that is going on.