An Old House on Royal Street. (Second Historical Article.) This delightful paper about old New Orleans and early Louisiana by Mrs. M. E. M. Davis (author of In War-Times at La Rose Blanche), written in the old house that was General Jackson’s headquarters, abounds in reminiscences of Indian, French, Spanish and Creole days, of Jackson, Galvez, the pirate Lafitte, Bienville, Pere Antoine, Don Almonaster, and other famous men of the Southwest. Full of portraits.
Eurania’s Boys is the title of a story by Margaret Sidney: Mrs. Eurania Stebbins and several members of her family being called away suddenly from home, her two boys keep house—not exactly according to her methods!
Elbridge S. Brooks will contribute a series of practical papers for young people embodying suggestions helpful to them in their desire to get on in the world. The papers will be a departure from the customary “Letters to Young Men.” They will be, rather, in the spirit of appreciation and comradeship, and will endeavor to indicate and open toward the possibilities that exist for the boys and girls of America in these busy days that are merging into the twentieth century.
In a series of informing articles about the U. S. Naval and Military Schools, Mr. Peale tells the boys and their home friends explicitly what applicants must know and do in order to enter any of the U. S. Government schools, exactly what is expected of them during the years of training, what obligations to the Government they thereby take upon themselves, and what the schools and the Government do for the boys. While full of picturesque interest for the general reader, the series form a manual for boys aspiring to enter the army and the navy. Illustrations.
For Business Boys will be pithy, unforgettable, lifting words, straight from man to boy, as felt and said by a man whose business writing is even better known than his name—a companion paper to Mr. Brooks’ series.
Our Asiatic Cousins will be the subject of a series of illustrated articles running through the year, by Mrs. Leonowens, who was for some years governess in the royal family of Siam, and who has travelled extensively in the East.
Among Sir Walter Ralegh’s Homes. (Third Historical Article.) Sir Walter is everybody’s hero, and Mrs. Raymond Blathwayt has written a charming paper about his birthplace and his young days, and she has sent over many beautiful photographs of his old haunts made expressly for Wide Awake; the manuscript itself has been prepared under the friendly supervision of Dr. Brushfield the English antiquarian and great Ralegh authority.