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.