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:
Ethel Franklin, Chicago, $1; Carla E. D., Stuttgart, Germany, $1; Robin Hood Archery Club, Yorkville, $25; Florence Edith Belcher, Shawangunk, N. Y., 20c.; Annie M. Miller, Charleston, S. C., $1; Herbert Boyer, Delaware, Ohio, $1.50; Mary L. Deeming, Lockport, Ill., $1; Sarah Phelp's Easter Offering, 18c.; "From one whose boy has gone home," $1; Willie T. Lent's Easter Offering, Jersey City, 50c.; Anna M. and Mary L. Smith, Columbus, Ohio, $1; Easter Offering from a Friend, $1; Easter Offering from Flory and Earle Stone, earned by them during Lent, Earlville, N. Y., 35c.; Easter Offering earned by Allen P. Gilbert, Detroit, Mich., $1; Anonymous, Philadelphia, $1; Earned by Jessie Thomas, N. Y., $2; Dora and Janet Gilmour, Stanbridge, Can., 50c.; Easter Offering, S. G. C., East Orange, $2; Easter Offering from Burial Guild ($3.50), Sewing-School ($3), and Girls' Friendly Society ($1) of Transfiguration Chapel, New York, $7.50: "Cheerful Givers," from Sunday-school of Church of the Transfiguration, New York, $3.10; John Peterson, Frank Jackson, Charlie Weeks, Vincent Peterson, Willie Napoleon, Edward Johnson, and Willie Thomas, New York (savings through Lent), $7; Mattie M. Heartt, Wahjamega, Mich., $1; Easter Offering from Bessie Winans, Brooklyn, $1.10; Easter Offering from the Sunday-school of the Church of the Transfiguration, New York—Miss Lena Fanshawe's, Miss Agnes Kain's, Miss Dod's, Miss Struthers's, Miss Whitlock's, Miss M. R. Chauncey's, Miss E. G. Shreve's, Miss M. S. Shreeves's, Mrs. Elton's, and Mrs. Martin's classes—$48.39; total, $109.32. Previously reported, $297.52; April 15, grand total, $406.84.
E. Augusta Fanshawe, Treasurer, 43 New St.
Columbus, Ohio.
We saved our pennies and put them in our little bank, and now we send $1 for the Cot. We are glad the poor little sick children have such nice little beds to lie on when they are sick, and we wish we had lots of dollars to send to them.
We are little girls. I am 'most six, and Mary is four, and mamma is writing this for us.
Anna Mabel Smith.
Mary L. Smith.
Delaware, Ohio.
I am a little boy seven years old. Mamma has read to me about the Young People's Cot. Last winter I was very sick, but God made me well. I send a thank-offering for the Cot, $1.50; I earned it myself.
Herbert B.
Charleston, South Carolina.
I inclose in this letter $1 that I have saved out of my spending money for the Young People's Cot in St. Mary's Hospital. I hope that it won't be very long before the cot is really ours, and some dear little child made well and happy in it. I am only nine years old, but I hope that you will let me help you all I can.
Annie Maxwell Miller.
New York City.
We had a fair at our church last month, and mamma taught me how to make some flag pen-wipers for the Sunday-school table. They were sold for 25 cents each. I wanted to send some money to Young People's Cot, and mamma said I might send what I could earn; then it would be truly mine. I made five more pen-wipers and sold them, and one gentleman gave me 50 cents for his, which made $1.50. Then I sold some papers, and grandma gave me some money for hanging up my cloak when I came in from school, as I was in the habit of throwing it on the lounge. These altogether made $2. I have two little brothers who are going to try and earn something soon. I am eight years old, and go to a Kindergarten.
H. Jessie Thomas.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
TWO HOUR-GLASS PUZZLES.
1.—1. A city in Germany. 2. A part of the Russian Empire. 3. A town in Massachusetts. 4. A river in the Russian Empire. 5. A letter. 6. A river in Russia. 7. Small islands in the Atlantic. 8. A river in North Carolina. 9. One of the United States. Centrals read downward—A city in Australia.
2.—1. A portion of the Negro River in South America. 2. A city in Hadramant, Asia. 3. A river in Ireland. 4. A letter. 5. A river in Scotland. 6. A river in Lower Guinea. 7. A city in South America. Centrals read downward—An island in the far North.
A. E. F.