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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.