Boston, Massachusetts.
My name is Alice, and I am ten years old. I have a sister nine years old. She don't take Harper's Young People, but I do. She can not read much yet. We both go to school, but not to the same one. Next year we may go together. I am always sorry when school begins, for I don't like to go at all. Good-by,
Alice S.
Why, Alice, what can be the reason you do not like to go to school? Perhaps you will enjoy it more when you are a little older.
Matagorda, Texas.
As it seems to be the fashion for children to write to the paper, I will try to do so. I live in the country, and can ride horseback, milk cows, climb trees, and do various other things that only country children know how to do. My papa has a boat, and we sometimes go down with him to Matagorda Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. We went on a fishing excursion this summer, and saw the snowy sand mounds on the Peninsula, and went bathing in the Gulf.
Cherry.