YOUNG PEOPLE'S COT.
Contributions received for Young People's Cot, in Holy Innocent's Ward, St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, 407 West Thirty-fourth Street:
Cash, New York, $1.25; Warrie and Edna, Sheridan, Nevada, 30c.; Emily and Josephine Patterson, Cassel Prairie, $1; Annie Hindley, Broadalbin, N. Y., $1.50; Clara M. Shank, Dayton, Ohio, 50c.; May, Fred, Charlotte, and Annie Haley, Kau, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, $4; Willie Pier, Richland Centre, Ohio, $1; Fred Russell, Detroit, Mich., 50c.; Ella H. and Arthur B. Poindexter, Jeffersonville, Ind., 50c.; Mite Chest in Holy Innocent's Ward, $2.67; Nellie and Charlie Rowe, New Haven, 75c.; Lulu and Anna Burrows, Melroy, Neb., 30c.; James A. Nelson, Arbana, Ohio, 30c.; A. Mixia, $1; Richard B. Morgan, Harrison, Ohio, 10c.; F. W., Gloversville, N. Y., 54c.; total, $16.21. Previously acknowledged, $1154.14; grand total, June 15, $1170.35.
E. Augusta Fanshawe, Treasurer, 43 New St.
New Haven, Connecticut.
Please find inclosed seventy-five cents from Nellie and Charlie Rowe for Young People's Cot. They have saved their pennies for this purpose instead of spending them for candy and the like.
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. James B. Rowe.
The dollar I inclose I saved during Lent, but have neglected sending before now.
A. Mixia.
P. S.—It is for the Young People's Cot.
Kau, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands.
Inclosed please find four dollars, which my young people send to Young People's Cot. There are four of them, May L. Haley, Fred N. Haley, Charlotte A. Haley, and Annie S. Haley. Little Annie is only three years old, and of course is too young to know or care anything about it, but the others want me to send a dollar for her, and when she is older, they say they will tell her all about it, and read the papers to her, and she will be so glad that her name is on the list, and that some little baby is lying in the Cot that she helped to pay for. My children talk often of that little Cot that they feel will belong partly to them. I think it was such a beautiful idea for the children to each give their mite toward buying it. It seems to me to be something that they will always think of with real pleasure; it will be a little warm spot in their hearts that will do them good, and help to make them think more of those that are not so well off as themselves. If we did not live so far away, we would only be too glad to send picture-books, toys, etc. But we can only send kind wishes, and hope that you will soon get enough money to pay for the Cot.
Mrs. C. E. Haley.
Cassel Prairie, Wisconsin.
We are two little sisters; I am ten years old, and my little sister will be six years old in July. We live in a nice valley a little way from the Wisconsin River; it is called the Patterson Valley. We often climb on the bluffs and pick flowers. We have to walk a mile and a half to school. We have a very nice lady teacher. I am in the Fourth Reader. I study reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography. I also take music-lessons. We like Young People very much. Two kind friends in New York made us a present of it at Christmas for this year. We send one dollar for Young People's Cot. We like to read the letters in Our Post-office Box. I hope you will print my letter in it. My sister and I have four dolls. We have a dog named Dixie.
Emily C. and Josephine N. Patterson.
Correct answers to puzzles have been sent by Alfred Bruno, "Bo-Peep," Clarence Stimson, C. B. K., Ted, Blanche Foster, "Butterfly," Ethel Cox, "I. Scycle," Lucy A. Moise, Gustav Metz, Arthur A. Beebe, George J. Fiske, Carrie, Charlie, and Willie Lloyd, May Wilson, Emma L. Gilbert, Elvira R. U., Florence, Annie, and Mabel Knight, Lottie Lee Buxton, Clara N. B., Percy M. B., Lizzie P. A., Frank Lomas, "Eureka," Frank Millspaugh, "Sam Weller, Jun.," Allie C. Little, Bessie W. Spaulding, R. B. Beals, Ella M. Brotherton, "North Star," Edna S., Eda C. Baldwin, Cortland F. Bishop, E. G. Holmes, and Lulu Kirtland.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
AN ACROSTIC.
1. An article of food popular in summer. 2. A feminine occupation. 3. A Dutch cake. 4. A wild flower. 5. Something sweet. 6. A fairy. 7. A cloud. 8. A mark of beauty. 9. Rest for the weary. 10. A sleeping potion. 11. A confection. 12. A lofty perch. 13. A planet. 14. A bird. 15. The happiest time of life. Primals spell the name of a favorite American holiday.
Mother Bunch.