Gadsden, Alabama.
Mother told me a good while ago that if I could succeed in getting on the Roll of Honor at school, she would give me a dollar, and my brother, who was here at the time, promised me another one. I was successful, and received the money. Mother thought I would better take a paper than do anything else, so I selected this one.
I am only twelve, but am large for my age.
Sarah L. D.
Auburn, New York.
I am a little girl almost eleven years old. I receive Young People every week through my grandma's kindness. I like the letters in the Post-office Box very much. I live in Buffalo, but am spending my vacation here. I want to tell you what my little brother did the first Sunday in vacation. My cousin, brother, and I were swinging in the hammock, while the older people were sitting in the grape arbor. Gussie, my little brother, got in the hammock, and I began to swing him, when he turned a somersault right around the hammock. We thought that he would cry, but he did not, and my cousin said that he was very brave. I began to take music lessons a few weeks ago, and am getting along nicely. I think the "Cruise of the 'Ghost,'" the "Moral Pirates," and "Aunt Ruth's Temptation," were splendid stories, and so is "Tim and Tip" thus far.
H. Maude S.
Mount Washington, Pennsylvania.
We have been taking Harper's Young People ever since it has been published, and Harper's Weekly for twelve years, and like both very much.
I would like to tell the readers of Young People how to make a pleasant drink of herbs. Take equal parts of yarrow, plantain, golden-rod, ground-ivy, pennyroyal, and dandelion; cover them with water, boil half an hour, sweeten the liquor with two pounds of sugar or a pint of molasses, add one and a half cakes of yeast, and one tea-spoonful of ginger. When done, add a little cold water, steam, and put in bottles. Allow it to stand overnight.