Chapter III: Part 3

_Mary Louise_ from Florida. How glad it makes me to hear that the Whisper Motto helps you! It is sure to help every one who is faithful to it. That is a sweet thought of yours, to lend your PANSIES to others. I wonder how many of our Blossoms think to do a little good in that way? It would be so easy, and might help somebody very much. Do you like the "land of flowers?" I spent a month there last winter, and had a very happy time. I go to de Funiak Springs, where the Sabbath-school Assembly holds its meetings. Perhaps you will go, and I shall meet you there. Would not that be pleasant? If you do, you must surely come to me and say: "I am Mary Louise," then I shall know you at once.

_Lizzie_ from Connecticut. My dear, I pray for every name enrolled on our P. S. book. That God will make each Blossom fragrant for him, and take it some day to his heavenly garden, is my constant hope and prayer. Perhaps you need to use the prayer which I find very necessary for me every day: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my tongue. Keep the door of my lips."

_Emma_ from Massachusetts. My dear, THE PANSY is just twelve years old. Doesn't it travel over a large part of the world for one so young?

_Lena_ from Massachusetts. We should be glad to hear about the entertainment. I hope you had a good time. Suppose you see how good a description you can write of it, and of your Sabbath-school?

_Annie_ from Georgia. But I do not know that you are in Georgia now, my Blossom. Perhaps you have already moved to that "New home." If so, you will be able to write and tell me how you like it. I was glad to get your full name for enrollment.

_Emma_ from Illinois. What success do you have with "impatience?" He is a very trying enemy; you certainly do well to rid yourself of him. But did you find it easy work? A little friend of mine said she could be just as patient as anybody when things went as she wanted them to; it was when nothing behaved right that she got impatient. I have known older people than she who might have said the same.

_Alice_ from Vermont. My dear Blossom, I hope the badge reached you in safety and is helping you about taking care of those "things." Such little habits are great trials to "mamma," and I am sure our little Alice wants to be all the comfort she can to mother, especially now that God has taken the dear father and the sister home. I know how lonely you must be without them; but I hope you are trying every day to live so that when He calls you, it will be a joy for you to go and join your dear ones in their bright home.

_Andrew_ from Dakota. Here comes another "impatient" boy! So they cannot be patient out in Dakota any better than they can farther East? Well, Satan seems to be busy bothering people all the world over. The Whisper Motto is just these three words: "For Jesus' Sake." We call it the Whisper Motto, not because we want to hide it, but because we want to have it about with us all the time, speaking softly to our hearts when others cannot hear, perhaps when others are in the midst of talk which makes us feel cross, and we want to remember to give a "soft" answer because that is the only one which will please Jesus. There is no "charge" for membership in the P. S. There is a pledge to try to overcome some bad habit, and to adopt the Whisper Motto as one's own. We welcome you to our ranks, and have enrolled your name.

_Helen_ from New Jersey. Oh, yes; we will try as hard as we can to help you. Whenever you see the meek little blossom on your badge, I hope it will put this verse into your mind: "For even Christ pleased not himself." If you think of this and try every time to do the thing you did not want to, so your life will be pleasing to Jesus, by and by it will grow so pleasant to you to think of what others want, that you will forget it was ever a trouble. I am glad you are going to try it.

_Lanetta_ from New Hampshire. Not at all too late for good wishes, my friend; nine months of the year left to improve. Shall you and I try hard to make it the happiest year of our lives? What a quiet, pleasant Christmas you told me of! It rests me to think of your happy home.

_Mildred_ from New York. Yes, I know, the little baby brother needs a great deal of patience. Sometimes it helps us to sit down in a corner by ourselves, and try to imagine how desolate the house would be without him. I know of a woman who sometimes sheds bitter tears, even now, because the last words she spoke to her little baby brother more than fifty years ago, were cross ones! Glad to receive your pledge.

Here is a lovely bouquet of Blossoms from Massachusetts: _Cora_, _Ida_, _Bessie_, _Lizzie_, _Louise_, _Margaret_. Just a sweet half-dozen. I hardly know a bouquet of which I think with so much pleasure as this one. Something whispers to me that some of them are trying hard to help the others. Perhaps all are trying. Like the rest of us, these Blossoms have work to do; weeds will grow in flower gardens, if not carefully watched. Here is the weed of "Carelessness" popping up its naughty head to trouble Louise; it is so much easier to leave the books or the playthings just where they happen to drop; at least it seems easier at the time. Try the other way, Louise, and see how much comfort you will get from it.

Margaret's sweet little tongue wants to speak, sometimes, when it would better keep silence; so many tongues attempt that! Margaret is going to teach hers that while "Speech is silver, silence is golden."

Cora's tongue, too, is sometimes tempted to speak naughty words; watch it, my child. Do you know the verse--

This one little tongue that God has given
Must always speak for him.

If we make our words always such as He will love to hear, we shall be safe.

Ida's tongue is tempted to whisper when it should be silent. Isn't it astonishing how many wrong things there are for tongues to do, and how sure they are to go wrong if they can! Ida, as well as the rest of us, needs this prayer: "Keep the door of my lips, that I sin not with my tongue."

Bessie is evidently tempted to move slowly, either with hands or feet, or both, when she should make all speed. I am glad indeed to hear that you are going to try to teach these members better.

And here is little Lizzie, the last of the group, who has a hard task indeed before her; she is going to try not to "do anything wrong." That sounds like a very large pledge; but after all, if we are soldiers of Jesus, it is no more than he asks: "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

Dear Blossoms, I hope I shall hear often from you, that you are growing, and blooming, and spreading your fragrance for Jesus' sake.

_George_ from Illinois. Welcome, my boy, to our roll. I am an excellent hand to read writing; just try me and see if I don't make yours out, without any trouble. Meantime, we, you and I, are very grateful to mamma for writing for you, and for all the kind words she speaks.

_Anne_ from Washington. Your threefold pledge is very important; especially that one about "reading the Bible every day." If all the young people of this generation, or even if all those who belong to the P. S., would make and keep that resolution through life, I am certain we should have a different world to live in, by the time they were old enough to help manage it. Dear me! What am I talking about? Not one of you but is old enough this minute to help manage the world, your little piece of it, and I haven't the least doubt but that you are doing it; the question is, How?

_Ollie_ from Texas. Your first letter! Good! How glad I am you wrote the first one to me. But really I don't understand about the "squirrel." Didn't you find him on some other page? Think it up, my boy, and let us know. Meantime, I have enjoyed your letter.

_Walter_ from Dakota. I acknowledge that it is very sad to think of one of my Blossoms as being "mad." But since it is only when you "get out of patience," and you have taken a pledge to keep yourself supplied with that article, we shall hope to hear better things of you very soon. We gladly welcome you.

_Netta_ from Missouri. What a busy little woman you must be in school! Your studies are all important, and I hope I may think of you as one of the most faithful scholars in the room. Can I?

_George_ from Illinois. I am sorry, my dear friend, that I have not a photograph for you. I have often thought what a pleasant thing it would be if I could afford to send a photograph of myself as a birthday gift to each of my Pansies! But alas, alas! my pocket book will not let me. No! I remember you did not ask me to give it; you were very polite. I will answer your question, however, as to where you can find it. L. E. Walker of Warsaw, New York, is authorized to furnish a good picture of me, and will reply promptly to your question as to price. I have forgotten what they cost; they are cabinet size. D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers of THE PANSY, have also an engraving of me, which they will furnish for twenty-five cents on application.

_Frank_ from Massachusetts. Dear little Blossom, I am glad to put your name on my roll. It isn't an easy matter to mind "just as quick!" It takes a boy with a good deal of strength of purpose to accomplish it. I am so glad you have decided to learn the lesson early. Did you ever hear of the great general who said no man was fit to command until he had learned to obey? It is true.

_Paul_ from Maine. My boy, I like your rules very much; and your letter. I have just been writing to a dear little fellow who has the same fault to overcome; he will be glad to see you have joined his company. Are you acquainted with a namesake of yours, the grand old "Paul" of the Bible? He is a favorite character of mine. If you have not carefully studied his life, suppose you do it, and write out what you think of him, for me. Will you?

_Marguerite_ from New York. Yes indeed, my little Daisy, you may join our society. We are glad for all the flowers we can get, and we hope they will bloom summer and winter, and be so sweet that all who come near them will feel their influence. I am glad you like "Reaching Out." It is to be continued through the year.

_Harold_ from Boston. I hope the badge reached you safely. At first I was in great doubt, having received a nice letter from you, with no address, so the badge could be sent; but as soon as the second letter came, I attended to it. To "mind mother" is one of the very important duties in life. So important that God made a special command about it. I think you write an excellent letter for a boy of your age.

_Lucy_ from Michigan. Thank you, my dear, for your interesting letter. I think your Band must be a very helpful one. One needs to do something of that sort, in order to realize how rapidly the pennies count up.

_Jessie_ from Nebraska. So you are just a little inclined to "fret." Well, that is a very easy thing to do, and rather a hard thing to stop doing. I hope the badge will do its share in the work. I suspect the motto, however, will be more helpful than anything else. I enjoyed your letter very much.

_Maud_ from Montana. Oh, yes, my dear, far-away Pansy, there are other Blossoms just as far; but if somebody should ask us what we were talking about--how far from where?--what should we tell them? This is such a big world, and the people who live in California think the people who live in Maine are very far away from them, but when I get a letter from a little missionary girl in China, she says, "I wish you did not live so far away from _us_!" so how shall we count? The truth is, we are all away from home, on a journey; by and by, if we keep the right road, we shall all get home to our Father's house; then no one will be far away.

_Horace_ from New Jersey. My boy, I know all about that habit of yours, what a temptation it is. I am rejoiced to think you are going to conquer it while you are young. One day I went to call on two ladies, sisters, who were both over fifty years old, and don't you think the younger one contradicted the elder in almost every statement she made! If we could have gotten hold of her when she was a little girl, and coaxed her to take a pledge to overcome the habit, she would not be such an ill-bred woman now.

_Cora_ from New Hampshire. We welcome you and "sister Mabel" with great pleasure. There are a great many "hasty tempers" among our Blossoms. The world will certainly be the sweeter because of all the flowers that have decided to speak gentle words instead of hasty ones.

_Rose_ from Pennsylvania. Did the badge help? I wonder what sort of things you "forgot" so much? Poor gold thimble! I wonder where it is hiding? I heard of a boy who forget to mail a letter for his father, and so was the means of his losing ten thousand dollars!

_Rodney_ from Philadelphia. Another "quick" temper! All right, my boy; we have many to keep you company. We welcome "sister Clara" also. An "answer back" is almost certain not to be a "soft" answer; did you ever notice it?

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MY DEAR PANSY:

Do you know I have read you for over three years, and I think you are _just splendid_! I want a badge to help me overcome the fault of fretting. When things don't go to suit me I am apt to fret. Near this town where I live there are prairie dog-towns, where prairie dogs, owls, and rattlesnakes all live together in one hole! I should think they would fight and kill each other, and I expect they do. I learned that piece from THE PANSY, "The Little Quaker Sinner." I think it is real pretty. I like the story about the Deckers best of anything in THE PANSY, but I like everything in it. I take the magazine to our school, and the teacher reads the story about Nettie and Jerry, aloud; the scholars all like it so much they can hardly wait until the next chapter comes. I have a brother named Paul. I would like to correspond with some Pansy Blossom; a little girl of about my own age.

Good-by,
Jessie Moxon.

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DEAR PANSY:

I want to tell you about our Pansy Band. It meets the first Saturday in every month; there are thirty-two members, boys and girls. We learn the missionary catechism, and each one repeats a verse from the Bible. Sometimes three or four are selected to write little papers on the subject for the month. We pay a penny apiece each Saturday; if any of us are absent, the next Saturday we bring two pennies; and then besides, we give our offering. Alice and I are trying to do right.

Your loving friend,
Lucy Taylor.

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DEAR PANSY:

I have a good many faults, but I want to overcome them. I think the worst one is not to mind promptly. I mean to take for my motto: "Do your duty promptly." I hope God will help me to keep it. Mamma found some rules in a paper, which she said if I would learn and obey, would please her very much. I am going to. I am nine years old; I love THE PANSY very much. I want to be a Blossom in your garden. Please send me a badge.

Your loving friend,
PAUL THOMPSON.

PAUL'S RULES FOR BEING A TRUE GENTLEMAN.

1. Not to tease smaller boys or girls.

2. Be polite and respectful to my mother, and to all people older than I.

3. Be kind and helpful to my sisters.

4. Choose my friends among good boys.

5. Be gentlemanly at home.

6. Take my mother into my confidence if I do wrong.

7. Never tell a lie.

8. Never smoke, chew tobacco, or drink liquor; or use profane or slang words.

HOW SUCCESS IS WON.

IS there a Blossom among you who does not want to win success? I am sure I hope not. There is an old saying, into which is packed a deal of common sense. This is, "What has been done, can be done." Since there is truth in it, would it not be well for all who want to succeed, to study those who have succeeded? To this end, I want to introduce the Pansies to a book bearing the title which is at the head of this article. It is written by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton of Cleveland, which name you will know, when you grow older, if you do not now, ensures it as delightfully written and worthy of all trust. A copy of the book lies on my desk at this moment. There is a sense in which it is not of much consequence how a book is dressed, and yet I do like to see one in a pretty dress, don't you?

This one is robed in a lovely gray tint, very like the color which used to be called "ashes of roses;" ask your mamma if she remembers that. It has an exquisite design in gold, representing the ocean, a ship riding its waves, a lighthouse streaming out its warning of rocks ahead, and a hint of harbor in the distance.

As to size, there are two hundred and forty-five pages clear type, with very good pictures of twelve grand men who were eminently successful in their various fields, and a brief sketch of each, given in Mrs. Bolton's inimitable style.

One of the faces is like the one I give you in this article--John H. Vincent. I would be glad to have all the Pansies acquainted with the man. Many hundreds of you have seen him at Chautauqua; I hope many thousands more of you will go there, and see and hear him. I believe he has more sympathy with, and heart for, and knowledge of young people, than any other great man whose name I know. These things being true, of course he can help young people, if they will let themselves be helped by him.

Who else is in the book? Oh, Whittier, the grand old poet, and Gough, the temperance orator, and Wanamaker, the Christian merchant and philanthropist, and Edison the great inventor, and Morton, whom so many of the sick and suffering have reason to bless, and half a dozen more whom you may not know quite so well by name, but will enjoy meeting.

I am anxious that the Pansies in their youth gather books about them which will not have to be cast aside as outgrown in a few months, but can be given honorable places on their library shelves when they are men and women.

This is why I am watching the books, and giving you their names, and a hint of their contents, and getting special rates for you. Now I have reached the remaining question of importance, viz., price. Regular price, one dollar; to members of the P. S., whose names are regularly enrolled on our list, sixty cents. Send to D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, if you are entitled to the book at that price.

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JAMES VICK, seedsman and florist (Rochester, N. Y.), sends out a "Portfolio of Rare and Beautiful Flowers." The choice of the subjects comprising the six large plates, painted from nature, is a most happy one; and the accompanying descriptions and history of these exquisite forms, in verse and prose, reflect great credit upon the editorial work. We predict for it a generous reception.

THE PANSY SOCIETY

P.S.

THE motto of the Society is "Pansies for Thoughts."
What kind of thoughts? Oh, sweet, good, pure,
unselfish, hopeful thoughts, such as Pansies, beautiful
Pansies ought to inspire.

Now "who may join?"

Every boy and girl who takes the PANSY, and is willing
to promise to try to overcome his or her faults, to
encourage every good impulse, to try to conquer some
hard lesson at school, to do anything that shows a
disposition to help the cause of right in the world.
Any one who will say from the heart: "I promise to
try each day to do some kind act, or to say some kind
word that shall help somebody;" honest effort will be
accepted as much as if success were gained.

This promise must be dated, and will be copied into the
"P. S." roll-book.

The most important of all to remember is our whisper
motto: "I will do it for Jesus' sake."

"FOR JESUS' SAKE."

Whatever He will own, the "P. S." will be proud and
glad to copy on its roll-book.

Then you must write a letter to Pansy (Mrs. G. R.
Alden, Carbondale, Pa.), saying that you thus pledge
yourself, and you will become a member of the Pansy
Society, and receive a badge.

Now, about the badges.

The officer's is of satin, trimmed with gilt fringe,
and has a gilt pin to fasten the badge to the dress or
coat. In the centre is a pansy in colors--above it the
words, _Pansy Society,_ and beneath it, _Pansies for
Thoughts_.

The badge for members will be the same as the
officer's, with the exception of having no fringe and a
silver pin.

And the PANSY will help. As it has always been glad to
encourage those who are struggling up toward the light,
so now it reaches forth its helping hand to those
little ones who will rally bravely around it, to the
work of putting down the evil, and the support of all
things good and beautiful.

So many of you have little brothers and sisters who
want to join the P. S., and who of course do not need
an extra copy of the paper, that we have concluded to
receive all such, letting them pay ten cents each for
their badges, if they wish them. Understand! If you are
a subscriber to THE PANSY, and have a badge, and have
a little sister who would like a badge, write at her
dictation a little letter to Pansy, taking the pledge,
telling of some habit which she means to try to break,
and enclosing twelve cents in two-cent stamps, ten
to pay for the badge, and two to pay the postage for
sending it. Her name will be enrolled as if she were
a subscriber. The same advice applies of course to
little brothers. Send your letters to MRS. G. R. ALDEN,
_Carbondale, Pa._

It is also asked:--

What makes an officer of the Pansy Society?

You are to endeavor to organize a club of as many
members as you can. Each one forming such a Club or
Society will receive the Officer's badge, and become
President of the same. The local Society may contain as
many members as can be secured.

Then, of course, you will plan for your Society; how
often it shall be called together, and what your rules
shall be; whether you will sing, or visit, or work, or
have a literary society, or read a book. The only thing
you call on the members to positively promise is that
each will try to overcome some bad habit, and will take
for the whisper motto the words--

"FOR JESUS' SAKE."

Each member of the "P. S." is invited to write to
the editor, Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy), Carbondale,
Pa., how far the trial has proved a success, how many
temptations have been resisted, how much progress in
any direction has been made, etc., feeling sure of
encouragement and loving help.

THE PANSY has extra pages each month under the heading,
"The Pansy Corner," in which Pansy holds monthly talks
with her correspondents. There is ample space in the
corner devoted to interesting items connected with the
Pansy Society; also letters from its members.

Mrs. Alden would also be pleased to know how the
members are getting on--what they are reading,
studying, talking about, etc., and whether the badges
are helping them to keep their pledges.

The April issues of the popular

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April 15. "ON EASTER DAY," by W. L. Taylor. This Easter picture is an exquisite idyl of the maid and the lily.

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Oct. 15. ON NANTUCKET SHORE. _F. Childe Hassam._
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Nov. 15. THE DREAM PEDLER. _E. H. Garrett._
Dec. 1. MORNING. _F. H. Lungren._
Dec. 15. EVENING. _F. H. Lungren._
Jan. 1. WILD DUCKS. _Charles Volkmar._
Jan. 15. IN HOLLAND. _F. Childe Hassam._
Feb. 1. THE THREE FISHERS. _Thomas Hovenden._
Feb. 15. UNDER THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. _F. H. Lungren._
Mar. 1. TWO CONNOISSEURS. _T. W. Wood, N. A._
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Every nursery should have this picture of the captivating Dream Peddler, standing on the crescent moon and with his bell crying his dreams for sale.

Dec. 1. "=Morning.=" F. H. LUNGREN.

Dec. 15. "=Evening.=" F. H. LUNGREN.

These are companion pictures--the beautiful ideal figures set, the one in the clear azure of a breezy morning, the other in the moonlight mystery of evening.

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=_King Grimalkum and Pussyanita; or, the Cats' Arabian Nights._=

BY MRS. A. M. DIAZ. Quarto, $1.25.

For the little folks who like to laugh, for the papas and mammas who like to hear them and to laugh with them, this is the book to buy. As in the world-famous Eastern tales which give the book its name, the stories, with cats and kittens for heroes and heroines, instead of men and women, lead one to another, and run on and on in a long series of delights--simple and sweet, quaint, strange and pathetic, witty and rollicking, or bubbling over with genial humor and the queerest conceits.

(_From "The Cats' Arabian Nights."_)]

The irresistible stories are accompanied by more beautiful and laughable cat-pictures than were ever before gathered between two covers, and the covers themselves are very quaint, in dainty colors and in silver.

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PROSPECTUS--=BABYLAND=--FOR 1886.

The Magazine for the Babies, this coming year, in
addition to its bright pictures, and gay little
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=THE MAGIC PEAR=

will provide Twelve Entertainments of dainty jugglery
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This novelty is by the artist-humorist, M. J. Sweeney
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=ALL AROUND THE CLOCK=

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with wee verses for little lips to say, and pictures
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remember.

=LITTLE CRIB-CURTAINS=

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the Babies go to cribs and cradles. In short, BABYLAND
the whole year will be the happiest, sweetest sort of a
home kindergarten.

_Beautiful and novel New Cover. Only Fifty Cents a
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PROSPECTUS--=OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN=--FOR 1886.

This magazine, for youngest readers, has earned golden
gratitude from teachers and parents this past year.
While its short stories and beautiful pictures have
made it welcome everywhere as a general Magazine for
Little Folks, its series of instructive articles have
rendered it of unrivalled value to educators. For 1886
several specialties have been prepared in accordance
with the suggestions of teachers who wish to start
their "little primaries" in the lines on which older
brothers and sisters are being taught. As a beginning
in American History, there will be twelve charming
chapters about

=THE ADVENTURES OF COLUMBUS.=

This story of the Great Discoverer, while historically
correct and valuable, will be perfectly adapted to
young minds and fitted to take hold upon a child's
attention and memory; many pictures.

=LITTLE TALKS ABOUT INSECT LIFE=

will interest the children in one branch of Natural
History; with anecdotes and pictures.

=OUR COLORADO PETS=

will describe wild creatures little known to children
in general. These twelve stories all are true, and are
full of life and adventure; each will be illustrated.

="ME AND MY DOLLS"=

is a "cunning little serial story," written for
American children by the popular English author, Miss
L. T. Meade. It will have Twelve Full-page Pictures
by Margaret Johnson. From time to time fresh "Stories
about Favorite Authors" will be given, so that teachers
and friends may have material for little literature
lessons suited to young children.

_Seventy-five Full-page Pictures. Only $1.00 a year._

PROSPECTUS--=THE PANSY=--FOR 1886.

For both week-day and Sunday reading, THE PANSY, edited
by "Pansy" herself, holds the first place in the hearts
of the children, and in the approval of earnest-minded
parents. Among the more interesting features for 1886
will be Pansy's serial story,

=REACHING OUT=,

being a further account of "Little Fishers: and their
Nets." The Golden Text Stories, under the title,
"Six O'clock in the Evening," will be told by a dear
old Grandma, who knows many interesting things about
what happened to herself when she was a little girl.
Margaret Sidney will furnish a charming story,

=ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON=,

to run through the year. Rev. C. M. Livingston will
tell stories of discoveries, inventions, books, people,
places. Faye Huntington will be a regular contributor
during the year. Pansy will take the readers with her
wherever she goes, in papers under the title of

=WHERE I WENT, AND WHAT I SAW.=

There will be, in each number, a selection from our
best standard poets suitable for recitation in school
or circle. From time to time colloquies for Mission
Bands, or for general school exercises, will appear.
There will be new and interesting books for the members
of the Pansy Society, and, as before, a generous space
will be devoted to answers to correspondents in the P.
S. Corner.

_Fully Illustrated. Only $1.00 a year._

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A mother, whose five children have read WIDE AWAKE in her company from its first number to its latest, writes: "_I like the magazine because it is full of Impulses. Another thing--when I lay it down I feel as if I had been walking on breezy hill-tops._"

_SIX ILLUSTRATED SERIALS:_

=I. A MIDSHIPMAN AT LARGE.=
=II. THE CRUISE OF THE CASABIANCA.=

Every boy who sailed in fancy the late exciting races of the _Puritan_ and the _Genesta_, and all lovers of sea stories, will enjoy these two stories of Newport and Ocean Yachting, by CHARLES REMINGTON TALBOT.

=III. A GIRL AND A JEWEL.=

MRS. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, in this delicious White Mountain Romance, writes her first young folks' magazine serial.

=IV. DILLY AND THE CAPTAIN.=
=V. PEGGY, AND HER FAMILY.=

MARGARET SIDNEY writes these two amusing Adventure Serials for Little Folks. Thirty-six illustrations each.

=VI. A Six Months' Story= (title to be announced), by CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK, author of _Down the Ravine_.

=ROYAL GIRLS AND ROYAL COURTS.=

By MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD. This series, brilliant and instructive, will begin in the Christmas number and run through the year.

=A CYCLE OF CHILDREN.=

By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Twelve historical stories celebrating twelve popular holidays.

=Master Sandys' Christmas Snapdragon.= Dec., 1611.
=Mistress Margery's New Year's Pin-Money.= Jan., 1500.
=Mr. Pepys' Valentine.= February, 1660.
=The Last of the Geraldines.= March, 1535.
=Diccon and the Wise Fools of Gotham.= April, 1215.
=The Lady Octavia's Garland.= May, 184.
=Etc., etc.=

_STORIES OF AMERICAN WARS._

Thrilling incidents in our various American warfares. Each story will have a dramatic picture. The first six are:

=The Light of Key Biscayne.=
=Joel Jackson's Smack.=
=A Revolutionary Turncoat.=
=How Daniel Abbott Outwitted the Indians.=
=In the Turtle Crawl.=
=The Boy-Soldiers of Cherry Valley.=

_IN PERIL._

A romantic dozen of adventures, but all strictly true. Each story will be illustrated. The first six are:

=Saved by a Kite.=
=Taz a Taz.=
=In a Mica Mine.=
=The Life Trail.=
=The Varmint that Runs on the "Heigh-Ho!"=
=A Strange Prison.=

=YOUTH IN TWELVE CENTURIES.=

A beautiful art feature. Twenty-four superb studies of race-types and national costumes, by F. Childe Hassam, with text by M. E. B.

_FIRE-PLACE STORIES._

This article will be a notable feature of the Christmas number. The rich illustrations include glimpses of Holland, Assyria, Persia, Moorish Spain and New England, with two paintings in clay modelled expressly for WIDE AWAKE, and reproduced in three tones.

_SOME SPECIAL ARTICLES:_

_L'ENFANT TERRIBLE TURK._ By HON. S. S. COX, U. S. Minister to Turkey.
_THE PRINCESS POCAHONTAS IN ENGLAND._ By MRS. RAYMOND BLATHWAYTE.
Illustrations include portrait from painting never before
engraved.
_AUTOGRAPHS AND AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS._ By NORA PERRY. Racy and amusing.
_A GRAND PEACE-MEET._ By WILL P. HOOPER. An imposing Indian Ceremony;
with many pictures by the author.
_A SIXTEENTH CENTURY SCHOOLBOY._ By APPLETON MORGAN. The life of a lad
in Shakespeare's time.
_MY FIRST BUFFALO HUNT._ By GEN. JOHN C. FREMONT.
_THROUGH THE HEART OF PARIS._ By FRANK T. MERRILL. A pen and pencil
record of a trip down the Seine.
_THE DUMB-BETTY LAMP._ By HENRY BACON. Hitherto untold incidents in
connection with "Floyd Ireson's Ride."

_TWELVE BALLADS._

These are by twelve of the foremost women poets of America. Each ballad will fill five to seven pictorial pages. The first six are:

=The Deacon's Little Maid.= A ballad of early New England. By MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY. Illustrations by Miss L. B. Humphrey.

=The Story of the Chevalier.= A ballad of the wars of Maria Theresa. By MRS. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Illustrations by E. H. Garrett.

=The Minute Man.= A ballad of the "Shot heard round the World." By MARGARET SIDNEY. Illustrations by Hy. Sandham.

=The Hemlock Tree.= A ballad of a Maine settlement. By LUCY LARCOM. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett.

=The Children's Cherry Feast.= A ballad of the Hussite War. By NORA PERRY. Illustrations by George Foster Barnes.

=Little Alix.= A ballad of the Children's Crusade. By SUSAN COOLIDGE. Illustrations by F. H. Lungren.

Many other enjoyments are in readiness; among them a Thanksgiving poem by Helen Jackson (H. H.), the last poem we can ever give our readers from her pen; "A Daughter of the Sea-Folks," a romantic story of Ancient Holland, by Susan Coolidge; "An Entertainment of Mysteries," by Anna Katherine Greene, author of the celebrated "detective novels;" foreign MSS. and drawings by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell; "Stoned by a Mountain," by Rose G. Kingsley; a frontier-life story by Mrs. Custer, author of _Boots and Saddles_; a long humorous poem by Christina Rossetti; Arctic Articles by Lieut. Frederick Schwatka; "A Tiny Tale of Travel," a prose story by Celia Thaxter; a "Trotty" story, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; beautiful stories by Grace Denio Litchfield, Mary E. Wilkins and Katherine B. Foote; a lively boys' story by John Preston True; "Pamela's Fortune," by Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie; "'Little Captain' of Buckskin Camp," by F. L. Stealey--in short, the magazine will brim over with good things.

_THE C. Y. F. R. U. READINGS_

meet the growing demand for the _helpful_ in literature, history, science, art and practical doing. The Course for 1885-86 includes

=I. Pleasant Authors for Young Folks.= (_American Series._) By AMANDA B. HARRIS. =II. My Garden Pets.= By MARY TREAT, author of _Home Studies in Nature_. =III. Souvenirs of My Time.= (_Foreign Series._) By MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT. =IV. Some Italian Authors and Their Work.= By GEORGE E. VINCENT (son of Chancellor Vincent). =V. Ways to Do Things.= By various authors. =VI. Strange Teas, Weddings, Dinners and Fetes.= By their Guests and Givers. =VII. Search-Questions in English Literature.= By OSCAR FAY ADAMS.

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=How we are Governed.=

=By Anna Laurens Dawes.= 12mo, $1.50.

The task undertaken in this work by the accomplished
daughter of Senator Dawes, has been to present an
explanation of the constitution and government of the
United States, both national, State, and local, in
so simple and clear a way as to offer to the masses
everywhere such an opportunity for their study as
is not afforded by the numerous volumes in which
such information is chiefly to be sought. She has
accomplished her aim with remarkable success, and her
book will have a hearty welcome from the thousands who
appreciate the need of it.

=Lilith: the Legend of the First Woman.=

=By Ada Langworthy Collier.= 12mo, $1.00. GILT EDGES, $1.25.

In this book, which is characterized by rare brilliancy
of expression, beauty of thought, and tenderness and
pathos in sentiment, and which is withal as intensely
interesting as any recent work of prose fiction, the
accomplished author presents a poem based upon the
Rabbinic legends that Eve was not Adam's first wife,
but that she had a predecessor in the world's first
Eden, who bore the name of "Lilith." The poem, based
upon these legends, cannot fail to establish the
writer's reputation as an exceptionally able writer of
verse, a reputation which she has already gained as a
writer of prose.

=Boy Life in the United States Navy.=

=By H. H. Clark.= 12mo, ILLUSTRATED, $1.50.

If there is anything in the way of human attire which
more than any other commands the admiration and
stirs the enthusiasm of the average boy of whatever
nation, it is the trim uniform and shining buttons
that distinguish the jolly lads of the "Navy." In
this graphically written and wonderfully entertaining
volume, boy life in the Navy of the United States is
described by a navy officer, in a manner which cannot
fail to satisfy the boys.

=Memorial of Rev. Warren H. Cudworth.=

=By His Sister=; WITH PORTRAIT, 380 PAGES, $1.50.

Simply told and remarkably interesting is this story of
the life of one of the most saintly of Christian men.
It will be welcomed and read with satisfaction by all
who knew him. Those who never saw him, cannot fail to
be stimulated by its suggestive thought.

=Money in Politics.=

=By Hon. J. K. Upton.= LATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY EXTRA CLOTH, TOP. 12mo, $1.25.

This volume presents a complete history of money, or
the circulating medium, in the United States, from the
colonial days to the present time. Mr. Edward Atkinson,
in his introduction, pronounces it the most valuable
work of the kind yet published.

=Baccalaureate Sermons.=

=By Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. LL. D.= 12mo, $1.25.

These sermons, delivered before the graduating classes
of Harvard University, it is safe to say, are not
excelled by any production of their kind. They are not
only rarely appropriate, as discourses addressed to
educated young men upon the threshold of active life,
but are models of logical thought and graceful rhetoric
worthy the study of all ministers.

=What's Mine's Mine.=

=By George MacDonald=, AUTHOR OF "ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD," "DONAL GRANT," ETC. 12mo, CLOTH, $1.50.

From original MSS. It will be published by D. Lothrop &
Co., in advance of the publication in England.

=Boys' Heroes.=

=By Edward Everett Hale.= READING UNION LIBRARY. 16mo, ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, $1.00.

This handsome volume unites the charm of the _Arabian
Nights_ with the solid value of an Encyclopædia. In its
twelve chapters, Dr. Hale gives careful and definite
account of a dozen famous characters the boys of all
ages have agreed to regard as heroes, but about whom
their information is often neither full nor accurate.

D. LOTHROP & COMPANY'S

CHOICE NEW BOOKS. 1885-86.

D. LOTHROP & CO. present a remarkably attractive list of new publications possessing genuine value from every point of view, as will be evident from the following notes. The literature offered, which includes history, biography, general literature, romance, poetry, and various scientific works, presents a sufficiently wide range to meet the needs of all classes of readers.

=A Family Flight Around Home, and a Family Flight
Through Mexico= are the two latest volumes of the
Family Flight Series, by Edward Everett and Susan Hale,
and deal largely with the picturesque side of history,
as well as of life and scenery in the countries
treated. Illustrated, extra cloth, $2.50.

=Art for Young Folks.= Contains a description of an
art school for children in New York; biographies and
portraits of twenty-four of the leading American
artists, with engravings of paintings, studios, etc.,
etc. Quarto, boards, $2.00; cloth gilt, $3.00.

=Boys and Girls' Annual, 1885.= Contains original
stories expressly prepared by the best of living
authors who are favorites with the young folks. Extra
cloth, gilt, $3.00.

=Our Little Men and Women.= Contains a miscellany
more charming than ever. Dainty short stories with
seventy-five full-page attractive illustrations, and
countless smaller ones. It is especially suited for
use in homes and schools, having a variety of articles
on plant-life, natural history, and like subjects,
written most attractively to please the little ones.
Among serial articles of permanent value are "Kings and
Queens at Home," "Stories of Favorite Authors," "Nests
and Nest Builders," and Margaret Sidney's "Polly."
Quarto, illuminated cover, $1.50; cloth, $1.00.

=We Young Folks.= All young people will be attracted by
this book with its stories of hunting and fishing, of
life in the "good old times," of famous men and women,
etc. Lithograph covers, $1.50.

=The Pansy, 1885=, is distinguished among annuals, as
formerly, by articles which commend it especially to
Christian homes. It abounds in delightful stories,
interesting descriptions of famous men and places, and
the brightest of pictures. Lithograph covers, $1.25;
cloth, $1.75; cloth, gilt, $2.00.

=Some Boys and Girls.= Edited by Pansy. These are
stories of good times--the delightful experiences of
genuine merry-hearted boys and girls in this and other
lands, with much that is entertaining in biography and
history. Lithograph covers, $1.25.

=Storyland.= A land which all little people will
delight to visit. Its stories are illustrated by
beautiful pictures and appear in handsome type.
Lithograph covers, $1.25.

=Chautauqua Young Folks' Annual, 1885.= This annual has
been styled "a young folks' cyclopædia." The present
volume exceeds in richness all of its predecessors, new
editions of each of which have been made to meet the
demand for them. Lithograph cover, $1.00; cloth, $1.50.

=Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Stories of Famous Authors.=
Favorite stories by such authors as Mary Hartwell
Catherwood, Ella Farman, C. R. Talbot, Julia A.
Eastman, Mrs. Hallowell, and others. Elegant cloth
binding, $3.00.

=Wide Awake Volume T.= Contains beside other notable
features Charles Egbert Craddock's brilliant Tennessee
story "Down the Ravine," a stirring historical serial,
"In Leisler's Time," by Elbridge S. Brooks, and Mrs.
Champney's "Bubbling Teapot," with stories, poems
and papers by Mrs. A. T. D. Whitney, Edwin Arnold,
Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge, Edward Abbott, Rose
Terry Cooke, etc. A frontispiece in eighteen colors,
"A Merry Christmas to you," is reproduced by L. Prang
& Co. in their choicest style, from drawings by L. H.
Lungren. Quarto, 400 pages, boards, $1.75; cloth, gilt,
$2.25.