West Chester, Pennsylvania.
I am eight years old, and the youngest of the family except my little brother Lionel, who has just begun to go to school, and he thinks he is a man because he wears long boots, a soldier cap, and can spell "my cat."
We have a dear little canary that Aunt Belle gave my sister Fanny. We call him Peter the Great; and indeed he makes a great noise sometimes, if he is little. We have a dog too, a setter, and my brother Charlie Ross, who is now at school in Rhode Island, named him Ivan the Terrible. He can shut the door, walk on his hind-legs, sit up and beg, and can jump a stick ever so high, and only has to be told a few times.
I must tell you now about my sister Fanny, who is three years older than I am. Her birthday came February 27, the same day that Mr. Longfellow's did, so she said she would write him a letter, and she did; and—would you believe it?—he sent her a dear little printed letter (for he was too ill to write), with his autograph and the date in it.
Now don't you think he was a dear good man to do that for only a little girl? Fanny is so pleased! She says she will keep it until she is old and gray, but she don't look much like it now. We have taken Harper's Young People all its life, and expect to forever. I have written all this letter myself, and hope you will like it.
Ethel D.
Leon M. Fobes, 22 Cushman Street, Portland, Maine, wishes the address of Arch Carson, in order that he may return the latter his stamps.
William W. D.—Why not say, "I have a half-apple, or a quarter"? Than is not necessary if you wish to show that you have only part of any whole number.
C. Y. P. R. U.
How Girls may Entertain each Other.—The idea that in order to entertain company it is necessary to go to a great deal of trouble and expense prevents many young people from really enjoying themselves together. The other day I was present when Florilla asked her mother for permission to invite a number of her girl friends to a birthday party.