If you know how to embroider, even in plain cross stitch, work your mamma a pincushion cover with her initial in the centre, or some other pretty thing she can use. She will value the work of your little fingers a thousand times more than anything you could buy for her.
Hartford, Kentucky.
I have taken Young People ever since it was published, and think I shall take it always. I am ten years old. I go to school, but I have been sick this week.
I had three pets last summer: a pretty green parrot; a sweet, gentle ring-dove named Coocoo; and Willie, my canary. All are dead now but Willie. I took good care of them, but they would die.
We have nice times now getting hickory nuts, and it is such fun to hunt them among the brown leaves. I am learning to ride. My horse is named Frank.
Isabelle McH.
Massillon, Ohio.
I am ten years old, and having no brothers or sisters I find a great deal of company, as well as comfort, in my dear little paper. I like every part of it. How I did enjoy reading the story of Bessie and her pet hen Coachy, although it made me cry. But I was not the only one in our house who cried over it. Then there is Paul Grayson. I can hardly wait to know more about him.
Last night, after ten o'clock, a company of boys passed our house making a great deal of noise and talking very improperly. I wished they had Harper's Young People, so that they might find more pleasure in staying at home to read than they could find on the street.
Minnie E. M.