Chicago, Illinois.
Will you please tell me the origin of the name of strawberries? I take Young People, and like it very much, and my little cousins in Louisiana take it too. I am eight years old.
Winnie S. G.
The word strawberry is from the Anglo-Saxon, and was formerly written streawberie. The reason for applying the name to the delicious little fruit is undecided. Some authorities hold that it should be written strayberry, and that it refers to the creeping or straying habit of the vines.
C. L. B.—Alwur, sometimes written Alwar or Alvar, is a town of India, eighty-five miles southwest of Delhi.
Bonanza, Idaho.
I have heard that there are a great many towns in the United States named Vicksburg. Can you tell me how many?
My sister tried Helen's recipe for lemon pie, in Young People No. 32, and it was very nice.