FREDDIE G. C.
MARENGO, IOWA.
I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have a great many dolls, and I feel very sorry for poor Jane, who fell in the water, but more sorry for her dear mamma, f.a.n.n.y. I am glad that Dora and Bessie rescued Jane. I should like to know whether they ever found her curls when the tide went down.
JESSIE LEE R.
EAGLE GROVE, IOWA.
I like YOUNG PEOPLE better than any other paper we take. I am twelve years old. I have been to school three terms without being absent or tardy once. I would like to be a school-teacher when I am old enough.
I tried Edith L."s recipe for cream-candy, and I thought it very nice.
There are a great many wild flowers here, both in the woods and on the prairies.
My brothers have been busy harvesting, but they always find time to read YOUNG PEOPLE.
MARY E. P.
NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.
I am so much interested to read of the pets that are often written about in the Post-office Box that I thought the other children might feel the same interest in mine. I have two kittens--a white one named Julius Caesar, and a gray one named Spitz, because it spits at everybody who comes near it. I also have three little chickens named Bud, Blossom, and Cherry. They have no mother, and I am bringing them up by hand. They run after me every time I go near their box, and sometimes they seem to think Julius Caesar is their mother, and they try to cuddle in his fur.
CARL E. T.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
My papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I am so happy when it comes. Every Sat.u.r.day, when papa gets off from the street car, I run out to meet him, and I say, "Papa, have you got HARPER"S YOUNG PEOPLE?"
I have a pet pigeon with a red breast, a p.u.s.s.y, and a little brown calf. I had two beautiful chickens, but they died. I am seven years old.
LOTTIE S.
MONA LAKE, MICHIGAN.
My home is at Allegan, but now we are staying at this beautiful lake. It is only a station on the Grand Haven Railroad, and n.o.body lives here except the station-master and one or two others, besides those who are camping out. Most of the people live in tents, but we live in a house.
I think Mona Lake is a beautiful place. There are picnics here almost every day. The chief attractions are boating, fishing, bathing, and the well of mineral water, which is said to be very fine. The lake itself is about seven miles long, and where we live it is about a quarter of a mile wide. It was named after my sister Mona, who was named after Castle Mona, in the Isle of Man. Papa has the American flag on a flag-staff on our house, and the Manx flag, with the three legs, on a pole set in the ground.
Pickerel, ba.s.s, cat-fish, sunfish, and perch are caught here. Pa caught a cat-fish that weighed fifteen pounds.
There are two camps here now. They are called "Kat-fish Kamp" and "Camp Toodle La." The last one is named after a song they sing here a good deal. It begins,
"Gentleman frog lived in the spring, Toodle la! toodle la!"
EDDIE S. C. M.
FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN.
I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I like it very much. I think the Post-office Box is splendid. I have read the letter from Jennie Anderson, and should like to hear more about her home in India.
We have three canaries, and one of them is almost as old as I am.
I am fourteen.
EMMA K. G.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.
I have four dolls. Their names are Bertha, f.a.n.n.y, Juliette, and Rosy. Bertha has beautiful black hair, and f.a.n.n.y has golden hair.
I, too, go very often to Spanish Fort. We had a little canary. It was a beautiful singer. But one day my aunt left the door open when she cleaned the cage, and it flew away, and never has been found. I am ten years old, and I have been to England, France, and Germany.
LOUISA D.
I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE.
WILLIE H. SCHERZER, 523 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I am collecting different kinds of seeds, and I would like to exchange with any correspondents of your valuable paper. I have verbenas, forget-me-nots, four-o"clocks (red, white, and yellow), cypress, tropaeolum, and other kinds.
C. D. K., 490 Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
I will exchange postage stamps with any foreign readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have several rare stamps.
E. M. VAN CLEVE, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio.