Books for a Girls' Chapter.
I have organized a little club of five girls, three thirteen-year-olds, one ten, and one eleven years. We call it the Iris Club, in honor of Juno's hand-maiden between the earth and sky; and also in honor of her, our colors are purple and white. Our dues for the first month are ten cents, and after that five cents. We are going to give these dues to the Home for Friendless Children. I thought it would be nice to take up some noted work which all would enjoy—the oldest as well as the youngest. I love Dickens, but his works are so lengthy, and the plot so long in evolving, that the younger ones might lose interest. Can you suggest a list of books?
Adelaide L. W. Ermentrout.
Reading, Pa.
Ellen Douglas Deland's Oakleigh, The Wide, Wide World, which is a standard, but which you may have read, and Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's books—all of them.