Poor darling! so you find music hard. Never mind, it will be easier
after a while, and you will have a great deal of pleasure in playing for
papa when he comes home tired at night. Your exchange will appear with
the others on the cover.
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Complaints reach us from time to time that some of our exchangers act
very unfairly toward each other. In some instances large and valuable
articles have been sent, for which the owners have received nothing in
return. We wish to call attention to our standing notice at the head of
the exchange columns. In every case, boys and girls, write to the person
with whom you wish to exchange, and send nothing until you have received
his reply. Arrange all details fully by correspondence.
Please be very sure that you have sufficiently stamped the articles you
send through the mail. For want of postage your much-prized treasures
may be sent to the Dead-letter Office, and you may be blaming a person
wrongfully for not making the right return.
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CONSTANT READER.--A wooden wedding celebrates the fifth anniversary of
marriage. After ten years comes the tin wedding. The silver wedding is
kept at the end of twenty-five years, and the fortunate people who are
spared together for fifty years are entitled to a golden wedding. For
the anniversaries which fall between these dates any pretty and tasteful
article you choose will be appropriate.
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