Chapter II: ES, dear.” (2)

_Jessie P. Davis._ Whenever your PANSIES fail to come, write to D. Lothrop Co., 32 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Do not think that any Pansy can be so small as not to be missed. The baby is the smallest body in the house. Don’t you think it would be missed?

_H. C. Withey._ The monkey game you send must be very funny, but its length and the difficulty of “doing” it here will explain why it does not appear in the PANSY. Perhaps you will try again, and send something very short and easily played. The Pansies will be interested in anything of that sort from Africa.

_Lolo Keeling._ Don’t despair whatever may come. Carry your failures to Jesus. Try again. Triumph will come.

_M. Nellie Lindsey._ Thank you for remembering to write to me many times, even if you did “forget to send them off.” And what in the August magazine pleased you so much besides that letter?

_Fannie W. Ambler._ Let me commend you for plain writing. The Queer Story is well done, though with some mistakes. Try again, my dear.

_M. Lillie Read._ Your Queer Story is much like Fannie’s, almost, but not quite, right. Never mind; there’s another for you. Don’t be afraid of it. Don’t be cast down over any failure, but up and at it again. Train the baby to be a true Pansy. I’m so glad you make any progress.

_Nellie Wright._ “Nine years old.” Said and done a thousand things or more in that time. Now, suppose you live to be ninety,—my dear uncle has just died at ninety-two,—and you keep on saying and doing, then how many thousand will it be? But all the better if it be all for Jesus’ sake. I like Florida, and you must like Kansas, which gives you “lots of corn and fruit.”

BIBLE READING FOR DECEMBER.

(_Christ._)

Dec. 1. Ps. xxiv: 7-10; 1 Cor. ii: 8.
“ 2. Mi. v: 2; Matt. ii: 3-6.
“ 3. Is. lx: 6; Matt. ii: 7-12.
“ 4. Hos. xi: 1; Matt. ii: 13-15.
“ 5. Jer. xxxi: 15; Matt. ii: 16-18.
“ 6. Is. xi: 2 and xlii: 1; Matt. 3: 13-17.
“ 7. Is. ix: 6; Luke ii: 11.
“ 8. Is. liii: 4; Matt. viii: 16, 17
“ 9. Is. liii: 5; 1 Pet. ii: 24.
“ 10. Is. liii: 7; Matt. xxvii: 12-14.
“ 11. Is. liii: 9; Matt. xxvii: 57-60.
“ 12. Is. liii: 10; Luke iii: 6.
“ 13. Matt. iv: 18-22.
“ 14. Matt. iv: 23-25.
“ 15. Matt. ix: 18, 19, 23-26.
“ 16. Matt. xi: 25-30.
“ 17. 2 Cor. v: 14, 15, 17.
“ 18. Rom. viii: 1, 2, 17, 18.
“ 19. Rom. viii: 35, 37-39.
“ 20. Rom. xv: 1-3.
“ 21. Rom. v: 1-2.
“ 22. Rom. v: 7-9.
“ 23. John xviii: 33-40.
“ 24. Luke ii: 8-14.
“ 25. Luke ii: 15-20.
“ 26. John xix: 1-7.
“ 27. John xix: 8-12.
“ 28. John xix: 13-16.
“ 29. John xix: 17-22 and xx: 31.
“ 30. Mark xvi: 19; Lu. xxiv: 51; Acts i: 9.
“ 31. Acts i: 10, 11; Matt. 24: 42-46.

EXTRACTS FROM PANSY LETTERS.

DEAR PANSY:

From a tiny child, May, if told to do anything, would do it just a little differently. If told to put a thing on the table, she would say, “I dess will put it on lounge,” and when I answered, “No; on the table,” she would skip along, laughing, “I dess will put it on chair.” But doing a little differently from mamma’s way and God’s way will end in many a heartache Pray that mother and child may yield impliably to the dear Father’s will.

MAY and her MAMMA.

P. S. May sends six cents for the organ, earned by washing and wiping dishes.

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DEAR PANSY:

This is one of my compositions:

A PAPER OF NEEDLES.

First, a coil of steel wire, twenty-four inches long. This cut through the middle by scissors into little curved bundles, long enough for two needles. Straighten and point them—on a grindstone. They are pointed at both ends. They must now have their eyes opened. Needles, like puppies and kittens, are born blind. They are stamped with a heavy die that leaves the print of two needles’ heads and eyes at the center of the wire. Then the eyes are opened with a double punch.

HARRY B. HAYES.

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DEAR PANSY:

My fault is that I am ready to give, but not to take advice. I am president of a society. One member chooses another to write about; others read or recite selections. I attend Shurtleff Grammar School.

NELLIE F. TREAT.

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DEAR PANSY:

When I read answers to letters, it seems to hit me. I will try to be more patient with brother and sister. I am a church member, and I very much wish my cousin were. It is hard sometimes to talk about Christ. I talk about other things readily. Why?

BLANCHE E. TREAT.

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DEAR PANSY:

As to how we spend our evenings: we play games and speak pieces, and we have lots of books and papers. We like THE PANSY. Papa got THE PANSY for us and we did not know it till we got the mail. Mamma gave us “Young People at Home,” which you wrote, and which we like much. _Maud_ and _Mabel Davis_, my sisters, are writing; so I thought I would. Mamma does not like to have me tease my little brother Romie. I will try not to do so.

ALICE.

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DEAR PANSY:

Badges received in time to organize. They are lovely. They will help us to remember our faults. We meet at each other’s homes weekly and read, sew, sing, pray, and play THE PANSY games. “Monteagle” is splendid. Hope the trip will help Dilly get well, and she will help naughty Hart get better. What a good woman Mrs. Hammond is to have such a bad boy. I guess he’ll come out right.

MABEL S. KAGEY.

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DEAR PANSY:

I send a small sum for the organ. I sent sixty cents to D. Lothrop Company, and received “A Girl’s Room.” I would not part with it for twice that. Every girl should have it. The book gives me an idea what to do with things. I am much interested in “Around the Family Lamp.”

EMMA FISK.

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DEAR PANSY:

Our mission band is “The Cheerful Givers.” Mrs. Prof. Jewett is the teacher. She is nice. We like her—at least I do, and we all think the others ought to. We have mite boxes to put our pennies into, to buy maps of the world. I am not failing to mind my badge.

MABEL HICKS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I am eight and cannot write well. I tried last week. The words were hard to spell. I got tired. Tears came, so did mamma, and said, “Wait, I will help you.” I have taken your paper since I was a bit of a girl, and love it, and can hardly wait till it comes.

I have many, many, many naughty traits. Send me a badge. It may help me. Mamma and my good auntie read THE PANSY to me, and they enjoy it as much as I. Papa died before I was three years old. I want to be good “For Jesus’ sake.”

ANNIE T. DANA.

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DEAR PANSY:

Your answer to my last did me a world of good. I have it in my album, as one of my most precious treasures. I’m determined to grow up a useful Christian woman—thanks to the “Whisper Motto” and the influence of PANSY and my mother. Mamma has no ambition for her children but that they become genuinely good. When we are determined to be so, she wishes us to join some church. There are six, and as merry and happy as the “Little Peppers” of whom dear Margaret Sidney wrote so sweetly.

BLANCHE CRAWFORD.

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DEAR PANSY:

I enclose five cents. I earned it for the organ fund by learning the multiplication table.

MINNIE LOCKWOOD.

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DEAR PANSY:

We have almost finished a bed-quilt and are making holders to sell; in that way to raise money to buy cotton and lining. Every week a word is given out. We learn a Bible verse with that word, to repeat at the next meeting.

GERTIE CURRIER.

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DEAR PANSY:

Please print my letter, as it is the first I have written to any paper. I got a good many Christmas gifts, among them a canary. I named her Soldie. I want to join the P. S. My fault is getting angry. I mean to try real hard and break that horrid fault. I would like a badge. I think you are real lovely. I would like to see you. I am your constant reader and loving little friend. No one helped me about my story.

ELIZA W. HOLLAND.

ELIZA’S STORY.

(_Ella’s Lesson._)

Ella Smith was six years old. Her mother told her to take care of the baby while she went up street. Ella went into her mother’s room for the baby. The bureau drawer being open, she thought she would take a peep. Naughty Ella! in it lay three large oranges. How good they looked! She said to herself, “I will just touch them.” They felt so mellow she took two large bites. When her mother came, she punished Ella. Never did she peep into her mother’s drawer again.

DEAR PANSY:

I am trying to overcome my fault, which is putting off, and not starting the moment I am spoken to. I like the whisper motto. I have your picture and think very much of it. I have a pansy bed, and when I look at it, it makes me think of the Pansy Society.

ULA COOK.

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DEAR PANSY:

I think the games published in THE PANSY are lovely. We children, this spring, in our yard, planted some seeds, and in three days they began to show themselves. We planted the seeds in June and now they have buds on them.

RITA E. BOARDMAN.

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DEAR PANSY:

I have five dolls, Mabel, Phœbe, Sallie, Mollie, and Nannie. I love Phœbe the best. I have had her almost two years. I have two cats, Mrs. Kitty Clyde and her son Tom. We have a dog, too. His name is Nero.

ROSALIE T. CANFIELD.

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DEAR PANSY:

Perhaps some of the Pansies would like to hear of my two little horned toads, about an inch and one half long. I have them in a wire-screen cage. I have a big black beetle in the cage with them, and they don’t seem to like him very well. I feed them with cornmeal and flies.

OLLIE CUTTER CLARKE.

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DEAR PANSY:

Thank you ever so much for the badge. I think it has helped me some, but I left it in Denver when I came to Leadville to spend the summer.

ORLENA BEGGS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I lend my PANSIES to my friends to read. I found ninety-eight mistakes in the Queer Story of August PANSY.

SADIE M. KNIGHT.

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DEAR PANSY:

Willie Hicks, a dear little fellow in Africa, six months only, has gone to his heavenly home. Each Angola station has its representative in Heaven; but with Melville Cox, we say, “Though a thousand fall, let Africa be redeemed.” My bed is a bamboo frame, a canvas cot laced to it, set on low horses. I am learning how to use tools. I want to make a desk and case for my little library. I have no PANSY books. If I had money they would be here soon.

HERBERT C. WITHEY.

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DEAR PANSY:

I walked in my garden to-day;
Many wee faces looked up
From their shady retreat.
Some had eyes dark or blue;
Some, curls of golden hue;
Dressed were some in velvets rare,
Or quaint, gay frocks,
These babies dear.
I asked them to come and live with me;
Gayly they laughed,
“Pansies are we.”

E. EDWARDS.

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DEAR PANSY:

I am so ashamed of myself I don’t like to write to you. I beg your pardon. I have not worn my badge much, and I have not written to you. It is all because I am so neglectful. I will try to wear my badge more.

MAMIE THOMPSON.

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DEAR MRS. ALDEN:

We have a beautiful location. Looking south, we see the little valley with Keiser Creek, like a thread, bright and clear; on either side, the rocky hills, with pines, separated by deep ravines. Away beyond the foot hills, overtopping all, is the Yellowstone or Snowy Range, lifting up their white tops on the hottest days, as if in derision. Rocks are everywhere. “The Rockies” are rightly named. Several miles down the river is “Pompey’s Pillar,” on the rocky face of which is carved the name of Wm. Clark, 1806, the explorer. Not far is the battle-ground, on which the gallant Custer and his men lost their lives by the Indians.

LUE J. ROSEAU.

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DEAR MRS. ALDEN:

The Carmans gave us a concert. The church was full. Every one was delighted. They stayed all night at our house and sang. So we had a free concert. It makes me think of an angel to look at Miss Nellie while she sings. Davie is such a sweet, manly boy. I wish there were more such boys. I don’t know of any. I like Mr. and Mrs. Carman, too. They are all beautiful singers. Davie is fourteen, and superintends a mission Sabbath-school. While reading Docia’s Journal, I decided for Christ.

EDITH M. HILLBRANT.

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DEAR PANSY:

When your kind letter came, Auntie Alice Ferree was here from Kansas City. She used to live in Greensburg, Ind., and knew you, and wishes to be remembered. I showed my badge to Gov. St. John. He sends kindest regards.

LENA PUGH.

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DEAR PANSY:

I counted one hundred and sixty-six mistakes in the Queer Story. I have written to ask you to write a letter and put it in THE PANSY. I could not find A Sevenfold Trouble, in one of the PANSIES. Call me Aurelia from Mass. There are so many Lizzies.

LIZZIE A. POTTER.

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DEAR PANSY:

I found one hundred and fifty-seven mistakes in the Queer Story. [Send a copy corrected.—Ed.] I have two pets, a bird and a kitten. The kitten is black, yellow, and white. Her name is Pansy. My bird is cardinal; his name, Mac. Good-by!

MABEL DYNAM.

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E. Smith’s letter, with badge, sent to Roberts, Ill., has returned.

A letter signed Jonnae J., 2617, Park Ave., St. Louis, Mo., received.

Henry P. Austin’s letter, sent to South Paris, Me., with badge, comes back.

S. H. Sterling writes from Philadelphia, Pa., without street and number.

The above persons should immediately write, giving full name, street, and number, and write very plainly.

THE QUEER STORY.

PRESCILA ALDON lived in a verry valuble pavilian in Tenessee. She was a buisy gerl, driveing her Shettling pones from hous too hous and carying lillies, raisens, robbins, rabits, aggs and menny other plesent an prety presants two sutch as wer in nead.

She wasent a fraid nuther off takeing a litle troubble whar thar was opertunity of makeing her nabours hapy.

She desided to oregonize a socity of Pansys. Consequensely she was going an comming hear an thare verry ofen and writeing leters, hopeing two recieve manny menbers like other socitys. She securred meny honary nembers two. So she ocupied herself til Febwary, wen the aniversary of the socity came. Then it was reccomended that the anniversity should be selebrated by an entetainment of adreses, resiting peaces, musec, bone fiers, ice creems, punkin pise and chickins and that all Pansys should ware thare bages and collors and that no teaseing or plaging boy be aloud too com til he promiced too lieve everry folt to home an bring towells and sope to cleen the durty dishes.

Sence sum wouldent concent, thay wer not permited two com. But the selebration was a grate sucess an Prescila was hapy.

[Mabel L. Thomas and Maude Lincoln have mastered the mistakes of the Queer Story.]

THE STENOGRAPH.

A CONTRIVANCE, by M. M. Bartholomew of New York, weighing about three pounds, costing forty dollars, about the size and shape of a man’s hand, with five different keys and a roll of narrow paper, something like a spool of silk, designed for “fast writing,” is the Stenograph; so named, because that is the meaning of the word in Greek.

This queer little creature can make its mark, that’s all. But it can do it so quickly and put it in so many different places and orders when its fingers are touched by wire and spry human fingers that it can write all your pen can write and do it in a fraction of the time, while the operator’s eyes are looking away into the face of the speaker whose words are being taken down.

Then, you can learn to “make it talk” in three months!

Suppose, now, some of you Pansies manage in some way to own a Stenograph and teach the dear to mind the moment you speak to it. It would be a delight to you to play upon it as upon your piano. Besides, it would probably make music for your pocket. There is money in it. You would be in demand at conventions and other places as a reporter of speeches and sermons. And you could command good pay, if you were a good stenographer.

Who knows but some of you will get your “bread and butter” by means of this queer little creature?

C. M. L.

NEW BOOKS.

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TRUE MANLINESS. By Thomas Hughes. Price $1. I want to say a word about this book to a certain dear little girl I know who has a whole dollar with which to buy papa’s Christmas present, and who cannot decide what to buy. She knows papa likes books better than almost anything else, but then, how should a young girl know what book to select for a man who has gray hair?

My darling, I feel sure papa would like this very book. It is the reason I selected it from a large number of others, to tell the Pansies about, because I thought of you and your dollar. A very pretty book in a deep maroon binding, with three hundred pages of reading matter, and all of it put in paragraphs so that a busy man, who has but a few minutes to read, can seize this volume, get some sweet and helpful thoughts from it, during the five minutes when he is waiting for the mail, or for the street-car, and then go on his busy way. Just the thing for your hurried papa, don’t you see? In fact the book belongs to a set, named “The Spare Minute Series,” gotten up for just such waitings as I have described.

“Would the book be ‘nice’ for you to read?”

Well, no, little girlie, I’m inclined to think it would be rather “grown-up” for you, because, you see, it was written to help your grown-up papa and mamma. There are bits in it that you would like; and your fifteen-year-old brother would often read words in it that would please and help him. I open the book at random, and find these words under the heading of “Courage.”

“After all, what would life be without fighting, I should like to know? From the cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real highest, honestest business of every son of man.

“Every one who is worth his salt, has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself, or spiritual wickednesses in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruffians.”

Don’t you know your brother said, only a few days ago when he got cross and things went wrong, that he felt as though he should like to _fight_ somebody?

Here is his chance, with directions how to carry out his wish.

A CHAUTAUQUA IDYL. By Grace Livingston. Price 75 cents. The queerest little Chautauqua story you ever read! All about a new Chautauqua which is to be; one in which the birds and the flowers, and the fishes, and the squirrels, and all that lovely out-door life at which we look on, are deeply interested, as indeed they may be, for they are the prime movers. You couldn’t guess who leads the music, nor, for the matter of that, who gives lessons in Theology! A book full of lovely summer secrets, just right for the little people to read during the winter evenings.

Pictures? I should think so! Lovely ones; almost every page in the book is illustrated. Some of your little brothers ought to send for copies for Christmas presents for the sisters, or cousins, who always expect books from you.

Would it do, I wonder, to tell you a secret?

I mean you boys and girls who have read, and who love, “Grandpa’s Darlings?”

The truth is, this Grace Livingston is the very little “Gracie,” Grandpa’s own darling, who has grown up to be a young woman, and the first day she had a chance, she wrote this book, all about a queer, sweet, new Chautauqua; just to pay her “Auntie Belle,” for telling all sorts of funny things about her when she was Grandpa’s Darling.

SCRIPTURE BIRTHDAY BOOK. Price, $1.00. I thought I was tired of Autograph Albums, but this pretty little book bound in green and gold, containing a carefully-selected Bible-verse, and a verse of a hymn, for each day in the year, with a blank space for friends to write their names, gives me a great deal of pleasure. I think I should like to write in such a book as this. I’m sure I should like to give each of my young friends a Christmas present of a copy; and I would ask them to please learn the verse for each day. The one for the first day of the New Year is: “Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving, for consider how great things he hath done for you.”

FROM THE “SCRIPTURE BIRTHDAY BOOK.”]

And the accompanying verse is:

“Man’s life’s a book of history;
The leaves thereof, are days;
The letters, mercies closely joined;
The title is, Thy praise.”

Ah! there are pictures in it, too; one for each month. The first one shows us such a lovely snowy world, that I will have it copied for you to see.

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TRUE STORIES OF AMERICAN WARS. From Records and Famous Traditions. Ill. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price, $1.25. The twelve capital stories that make up this volume will furnish a rich feast for patriotic and venture-loving boys and girls. The statement upon the title-page that they were drawn from old records and family traditions is literally true; each story has its appropriate basis of fact, and some of them are very slightly embellished indeed. In every family of the older States there are legends of the old Indian wars which have never been written; and records of suffering and privation, of deeds of daring and heroism, which to-day seem almost incredible. And fresher and more vivid than these are the tales of the Revolution, the battles, skirmishes and marches in which our ancestors participated, comparatively few of which have been told outside the family circle or the localities where they occurred. There is not a town along the shores of Connecticut and Massachusetts but has its traditions, and something more than traditions, of deeds that took place during the later war of 1812, as stirring, perhaps, as any of those of older times. From this great mass of material the authors represented in the volume have drawn the narratives they have here set down. Among them is the story of the capture of the British General Prescott, in command at Newport, by a picked party of Americans under Colonel Barton, one of the most daring exploits of the Revolution. Another is the narrative of the raid of the Indians upon Royalton, Vt., in 1780, when the village was burned and several of the inhabitants murdered. Other sketches are entitled, “A Revolutionary Turncoat,” “The First Blow for American Liberty,” “Joel Jackson’s Smack,” etc. Most of the stories are illustrated.

STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. By Elbridge S. Brooks. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price $2.50. The North American Indian has been for years a problem and a paradox. With manners and customs analagous to those of almost every nation of civilized antiquity his origin remains as great a mystery as ever. The owner and lord of a continent, his possessions have shrunk to nothing and his native freedom has faded away into a state of sullen vassalage. Theorized over and speculated about by scholars and scientists, made the text of many a disquisition by philosophers and economists, used now as a hero and now as a fiend by romancer and poet, and played with as a shuttlecock by philanthropist and politician, his story has never yet been fully told, nor the record of his power, his progress and his decline been given in anything like historic detail.

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