My friend Ethel has a parrot that her father brought from South America. He is a very funny bird. One day Ethel went into the room where he was, and he said, "Ethel, Ethel." She did not answer, and after waiting a moment the parrot said, "What?" as if to remind her to answer him. He talks mostly in Spanish, but has learned a good many English words since he came to this country. He laughs so loud sometimes that a person can not talk in the room with him.
I like Young People very much indeed. My brother was interested in "Old Times in the Colonies," and hopes there will be some more Indian stories.
Olive R.
Pineville, Missouri.
I send you my brother's way of making beautiful soap-bubbles: Take a basin of either warm or cold water, and mix with it a quantity of country-made soap. Then take a piece of hollow pumpkin vine about a foot long, and place one end of it in the basin and one in the mouth, and blow.
Wroton K.
Whitehall, Illinois.
I take Harper's Young People, and I think it is the best paper published.