I would like to exchange pressed flowers with some little girl, and when the seeds are ripe I will exchange seeds. I have some nice flowering beans, and different kinds of larkspurs. I will exchange larkspur seed for pink seed. There are many varieties of ferns here.
Can any one tell me how to varnish leaves, and also if there is any way to keep pressed flowers from fading?
Mary Lowry,
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Illinois.
As a great many of the other little girls write to Our Post-office Box, I thought I would write too. Papa takes Young People, and we children like it very much. I guess he does too.
I have no pets, but my older sister has a pet calf, and it is very pretty. Its name is Lily May. She feeds it on meal and water. I have three dolls. Two are china, and one is a large wax doll, with beautiful brown hair.
I would like to exchange pressed flowers with any little girl.
Sallie M. Brown,
London, Kentucky.
Since my letter was published in Young People No. 33, I have received so many letters from different States—several of them accompanied with eggs—that it is impossible for me to answer them all promptly. I wish to tell the correspondents, through the Post-office Box, that I will surely answer all their letters and return them eggs, but they must not be surprised if it is not immediately, for nearly all asked me for the same kind of eggs, and I can only send them as fast as my agents, who are colored children, find them and bring them to me.