A WORD TO OUR READERS.
Enter Postmistress. You need not be surprised to see a meditative and rather important look on her face. You have read the letter of the Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., so we have only to tell you that the Postmistress has become much interested in the host of young people to whom Chautauqua is a dear and honored name. She would like to gather them around her. She has heard that they wish to know about the world they live in, the history of the past, and the treasures of literature. This column, which will hereafter be headed C. Y. P. R. U., is to be bright and cheery. It will touch on many subjects, and vary from week to week as may be necessary. The Editor will give her and you at least one column every week in Our Post-office Box, and you may write to her on any subject you please—etiquette, household ways, social duties, what to do and how to act in company. Consult the Postmistress. Some may feel dissatisfied with their present positions, and anxious to prepare for wider usefulness; see what the Postmistress thinks of the situation. Some of you may find charming, wise, and witty bits of verse and prose in your reading: slip them, neatly copied, into an envelope, and send them to her.
Address your letters for this column to
The Postmistress,
Care of Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, N. Y.
Contributions received for Young People's Cot in Holy Innocent's Ward, St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, 407 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York. The next list will appear November 1:
| F. D. W. | $3.00 | |
| Clarence Cook, Flat Rock, Mich. | .25 | |
| "One of the Sick Ones," Bryn Mawr | 1.00 | |
| Emila and Stanley Mitchell, Miamiville, Ohio | 2.00 | |
| Charlie, Clare, and Fred Ray, Wabash, Ind. | .30 | |
| Russell Grinnell, Providence, R. I. | .68 | |
| Helen E. Villard and brother, Dobbs Ferry | 25.00 | |
| Ned Bishop, St. Louis | .50 | |
| "In Memoriam," —— Bishop, St. Louis | 2.00 | |
| Monroe J. Rathbone, Parkersburg, W. Va. | .27 | |
| Wilfred Hostetter, Alleghany City | 2.00 | |
| Fletcher, A. H., Inland, Ohio | 1.00 | |
| Gracie Blakeslee, —— | .25 | |
| Fred, Edith, and Robbie Caton, Fort Bennett, Dakota | 1.00 | |
| Marian Wallace, Bennetville, S. C. | .10 | |
| Charlie G. Halliday, ——, N. Y. | 1.00 | |
| Willie C. Chipman, Spring Hill | .25 | |
| Mary Appleton, Boonton, N. J. | .50 | |
| "D.," Elmira, N. Y. | .25 | |
| Nellie Littlehale, Stockton, Cal. | 2.50 | |
| Mollie W. Franklin, Vicksburg, Mich. | .25 | |
| Helena ——, Boonton, N. J. | 5.00 | |
| Fannie T. Metzgar, Butternut, Wis. | .25 | |
| Helen Savery, Fort Cameron, Utah | .25 | |
| William Savery, Fort Cameron, Utah | .75 | |
| M. D. L., Madison, N. J. | 1.00 | |
| Percy and Guy Wilson, Fort Randall, Dakota | 1.00 | |
| Maud Russell, New Haven, Conn. | .25 | |
| ——, Refugio, Texas | 1.00 | |
| Annie Louise Huck, Dunning's Bridge, Tex. | 1.00 | |
| Carrie and Helen Yardley, Lockhaven, Penn. | .75 | |
| Lee Gray Wilson, Water Valley, Miss. | .27 | |
| Edmond Genis, Terre Haute, Ind. | 1.00 | |
| Bessie M. Morris, Lexington Avenue, N. Y. | 1.00 | |
| May H. Wilson, Columbus, Ohio | .55 | |
| Carlotta and Lulu R. Keep, Smith's Hill, Cal. | 1.00 | |
| Allan Carpenter, Fort Dodge, Iowa | .10 | |
| Ally J. Dent, Columbia, S. C. | .10 | |
| Collected by Florence Woodcock, Morgan City, La.: | ||
| Louisa Davis | $0.25 | |
| Arthur St. Clair | .25 | |
| May Woodcock | .25 | |
| Charles Woodcock | .25 | |
| Willie Crawford | .10 | |
| Joanna Luker | .10 | |
| Anonymously contributed | 2.05 | 3.25 |
| Kate's "Little Kate," Brooklyn | 5.00 | |
| Myrtle and Walter Wells, Oswayo, Penn. | 1.00 | |
| Charles A. Lutz, Cane Spring Dépôt, Ky. | 1.00 | |
| K. E. S., Philadelphia | .10 | |
| Vena L. Haskin, Portland, Me. | 1.00 | |
| Da Walker, Butte City, Montana | 1.00 | |
| Mathilde Neil, Philadelphia | .50 | |
| Nellie T. Willets, Westbury, L. I. | .50 | |
| Samuel Willets, Westbury, L. I. | .50 | |
| Alice W. Titus, Westbury, L. I. | .50 | |
| Minnie W. Titus, Westbury, L. I. | .50 | |
| Edna Pearl Lisk and Philip Clyde Lisk, Grahamville, Fla. | .25 | |
| May Blakeslee, ——, Kan. | .25 | |
| J. B. Senior, Niagara, Ont. | .36 | |
| John R. Blake, Seabright, N. J. | 1.00 | |
| Mabel and Harry Wheeler, Birmingham, Ala. | 2.00 | |
| Perly D. Temple, Blue Earth, Minn. | .15 | |
| From six readers of Harper's Young People, Convent Station, N. J. | 2.00 | |
| "Elliot," Bangor, Me. | 1.00 | |
| Virgie McLain, Nassau, Bahamas | .30 | |
| Birdie Dorman, Carthage, Ohio | .25 | |
| Alice Ward, Carthage, Ohio | .25 | |
| Nellie Nelson, Cold Spring, N. Y. | .25 | |
| Sadie Nichols, St. Joseph, La. | .50 | |
| Abbie Louise Bendel, Greenville, N. Y. | .25 | |
| L. D. C., Chicago | .25 | |
| Mary and George Hamlin, Willimantic, Conn. | 1.00 | |
| Anna and Levi Paxson, Reading, Penn. | 1.00 | |
| Florence and Nellie Bates, Winchester, N. C. | 1.00 | |
| Alice Perkins, Rising Sun, Ind. | .25 | |
| May Lilian Bishop, New Haven | 1.00 | |
| —— Wilkeson, Washington | 1.00 | |
| Ina Giles, Rugby, Tenn. | .25 | |
| Etta Giles, Rugby, Tenn. | .25 | |
| Horace Giles, Rugby, Tenn. | .05 | |
| L. D. C., Chicago | 2.00 | |
| Oliver Meeker, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .50 | |
| Edna Bean, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .15 | |
| Harry Campbell, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .25 | |
| Alida Spining, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .10 | |
| Susy Wilson, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .25 | |
| Alice Winkler, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .10 | |
| A Friend, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .50 | |
| Bertha Sherwood, Puyallup, Wash. Ter. | .15 | |
| ———- | ||
| Total | $93.08 | |
| Amount previously acknowledged | 45.53 | |
| ———- | ||
| Total, September 14, 1881 | $138.61 | |
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E. A. Fanshawe, Treasurer.
Contributions for the Cot should be sent to Miss E. A. Fanshawe, 43 New Street, New York.
We select for publication a few of the letters received during the last month by the Treasurer of St. Mary's Free Hospital.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Here are fifty cents out of my bank for the Harper's Young People's Cot, and mamma sends two dollars for my little sister who is dead.
I like my paper ever so much, and I hope all the little boys and girls who read it will send some money for the cot.
Ned Bishop.
Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
I saw your letter about the Young People's Cot, and I thought I would send a little, which I earned myself. I made some little boats and sold them in the store, and I now send thirty-six cents, and will send some more after a while.
J. B. Senior.
Cane Spring Dépôt, Kentucky.
I saw your letter in Young People about Young People's Cot, and sold my chickens, and received $1, which I inclose.
Charles A. Lutz.
Blue Earth City, Minnesota.
I am a little girl eleven years old. I take Harper's Young People; have taken it ever since the first number, and like it very much. I picked up blocks for papa, and got fifteen cents, which I am going to send to you for the Young People's Cot. I wish it were more.
Perly D. Temple.
Providence, Rhode Island.
I send you the money that I have earned picking berries for my mamma. It is for the Young People's Cot. I am six years old.
Russell Grinnell.
New Haven, Connecticut.
Little May Lilian Bishop wishes to send $1 toward the Young People's Cot, 50 cents being from her own small savings and 50 being the prize taken by her doll at a doll show last week.
Winchester, North Carolina.
My sister Nellie and I wrote a letter some months ago for the Post-office Box, but it was not published. I now write again to send one dollar for the Hospital Cot. Nellie is North at school now, but half of the money sent is hers. Mamma gives us all the surplus eggs, and we sell these and have the money to do with as we please. We have over one hundred chickens, young and old; they are quite tame. One rooster was so large that we harnessed him to a small cart. I have a little gold mine with a tunnel, pump, windlass, and a small rubber doll to go down in the bucket. I am nine years old.
Florence Julia Bates.
I hope that you will succeed in getting a real nice cot. Here is twenty-five cents that I have earned myself by helping my mamma, as she has not been well.
May Blakeslee.
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Castor and Pollux," George Sylvester, George McLaughlin, "Young America," Nellie Brainerd, Emma Roehm, Agnes G. F., "Florence Nightingale," Willie B. H., Maggie J. Laurie, T. M. Armstrong, Maud Williams.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
HALF-SQUARE.
1. The Christian name of one of our most honored Presidents. 2. Supports. 3. A runner. 4. Single spots. 5. A pronoun. 6. A consonant.