Newark, New Jersey.
I go to school every day. We have Harper's Young People in our school, and I have taken it at home from the first number. We are soon to have an entertainment, which is going to be splendid. I wish you could attend it. Our principal is a very nice man when he has no boys to punish. I think he does not like to punish boys. We have a very nice teacher. At the end of the last term the pupil who had received the greatest number of merits was rewarded by an elegant medal. Her name was Nellie A. The best writer received a story-book, and the scholar with the highest average a silver napkin-ring. Do you not think it is very nice for the teachers to present the best scholars with handsome presents? In the last class that I was in I received the medal. It was made out of solid silver, with a bar attached to a round plate by a little chain. On the bar the word Merit was engraved: on the medal there was a wreath, inside of which were my initials.
C. F. K.
Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
I am a little girl eight years old. My home is in Mount Pulaski, Illinois. I am not going to school this winter. I have had the typhoid fever, and now have the whooping-cough. My papa hears me say my lessons at home, so that I may not get behind my class. I read in the Fourth Reader, and study spelling, arithmetic, and geography. I have two pet rabbits, and I keep them in a cage. They are black and white. I shall turn them out in the spring. We have a little niece at our house. She is two years old, and her name is Ella. Her mother died last fall.
Lena A. A.
We are glad, dear, that you are safely through the typhoid fever, and we advise you to study very little, and play a great deal for a good while to come. Never mind if your class does get on a little faster than you can. Health is more important for you just now than rapid progress in study.
Urbana, Ohio.