A teacher in the South writes:—"We have had a Merry Christmas trying to make others happy. The people have never done so much for others before. We found an old couple in very destitute circumstances, and asked the school children if they would not like to do something for them. It was very interesting to see them bring their gifts of a little sugar, meal, flour, or an armful of wood, a potato, a little salt, whatever they could get. It did them good. After our Christmas exercises at the church, we took quite a number of the children around to see the old people, and they sang their Christmas songs. I don't know which enjoyed it most, the children or the old people.
Some young men of the Sunday-school paid a month's rent for a poor woman. We are doing more than ever this year in getting the young people to go and hold prayer meetings, or read to those who cannot get out to church."
FOR THE CHILDREN.
HOW SUSY WENT TO TOUGALOO.
You never could guess just how she went, if you should try from now until your next birthday, so I'll tell you first how she came to go to Tougaloo at all.
To begin with, Mamma Bradley had been rummaging about in the attic a long time, when little Fay set out to find her.
"What are you doing up here, mamma?" said Fay. "I've been hunting for you ever so long."
"Oh, I'm looking for some things to put in the barrel that is going to Tougaloo for the poor people that the missionaries are working for."