Addie C. W.
P. S.—I put in something for the Daisy Cot.
Culleoka, Tennessee.
I used Young People as a Reader for two sessions, and liked it better than any Reader I ever used. At examination we had to write off as much of "Toby Tyler" as we could remember. Why is it that editors like you to write on only one side of the paper? I like Friday to come, because Young People arrives on that day. I have worked the Labyrinth Puzzle. I live in Nashville, at the Vanderbilt University, but am now attending school in Culleoka.
Susie S.
Addie's contribution has been sent to Miss Fanshawe, the Treasurer of St. Mary's Free Hospital. In reply to Susie, the reason why editors prefer correspondents to write on one side of the paper, and not on both, is a twofold one. It is mainly for the convenience of printers that the request is made, because sometimes ten or a dozen printers are setting the type for an article at the same time. The pages are divided, and assigned to different compositors as "copy," and the article can be set up much more rapidly if the writing is on one side only of the paper. Sometimes a page has to be cut in two when there is much need for haste. Editors, who are very busy people, can read manuscript which is written in this way with more ease than if it were otherwise. As they read, they do not need to turn their leaves, but can lay them down as they get to the end of each.
Albany, New York.
I like the letters in the Post-office Box very much. I have a brother nine years old, and we have three pets—two kittens, one we call Topsy and the other Spotsy, and a large Newfoundland dog. Every morning he brings papa his paper before he is up out of bed, and we play hide and seek with him, and he runs to papa and puts his face in his arms, and waits until we call "Ready," and then hunts until he finds us.
When mamma read to my little brother Bennie about Tim and Tip, where Captain Pratt did not use Tim well, and threw the knife and fork at him, and whipped him so much, he went out into the garden, and we did not know where he was. He sat down and put his arms around Flora's neck, and cried to think how hard it was for Tim to part with Tip.
I could tell you a great many more of Flora's tricks, but I am afraid to make my letter too long, for fear it may go into the waste-basket, and I would feel very sorry to have that happen. I am twelve years old.