Dear Pansy:
In reading my magazine I found you would like to know how your Pansies spent Christmas. I spent mine very pleasantly; we had a small tree in our sitting-room, with presents from papa and mamma, and all the family. In the evening sister went to the organ and played some sweet pieces, and we all joined in the singing. Then we went up to grandpa's. I think the day was filled with pleasant things.
Dear Pansy, I do try to keep my pledge. I try hard to keep things in their proper places; but I find I need to be very watchful, and to ask for a great deal of help from God. Mamma has just written to Boston to renew my subscription toThe Pansy. It is rather late, but I hope not too late to wish you a Happy New Year.
Lovingly yours,Lanetta Briggs.
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I want to join the P. S. because I have many faults, and I think the badge would help me. I believe my worst fault is being careless. Last year I raised some strawberries, and in that way earned the money for myPansy. I hope to make enough this year to take it again. I can hardly wait for the next number to come. I would like to have your photograph if you have any to sell. I try to remember our "Whisper Motto." This is the first letter I ever wrote.
Your friend,George Crosley.
Dear Pansy:
I have a good many faults, but I think my temper is the worst. That is when I get out of patience I amawful mad!Don't that sound dreadful? I am trying to control it, and I knowThe Pansyhelps me. I like it better than all the papers and magazines in the world. Thank you for your good stories. I wish you a Happy New Year, not in words, but from my heart.
Your dear friend,Willie Parsons.
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I write to you to promise three things:
1st. I promise to avoid the use of slang language of all descriptions.
2nd. I promise to avoid being irritable.
3rd. I promise to get as many people to sign the temperance pledge as I can.
Harvey Romer.
I have signed the temperance pledge and would have tried to carry out my third promise before but I did not know where to get pledges.
I am aware that what I undertake is not easy to perform, but I am one of Jesus' followers andI know he will help me if I ask him. I hope also that the badge will remind me of my pledge, and the whisper motto encourage me to perform it.
Yours Very Truly,Harvey Romer.
P. S. I am a subscriber to the Pansy and would like a badge.
H. R.
Dear Pansy:
My brother Milton and I takeThe Pansythis year, and I want to be one of your little Pansies. I am seven years old, and can read and make letters and figures on my slate. I am trying to be a good boy, and if you will let me be one of your Blossoms, I will try to be better every day, and will promise not to drink any wine or cider, or anything that will make people drunk, and to be like the little boy my grandma read about inThe Pansy, who signed the pledge when he was such a little boy. I say my prayers, and go to Sunday-school when I am well. I am sick now, have been in bed for two days, and my grandma reads to me out ofThe Pansy. We have some pretty pansies in our flower garden in the spring, and when they bloom I shall think of Pansy, and maybe I will send you some. My brother Milton has written to you, and I send twelve cents to pay for one of our badges. Warren wants to join too—says he is going to try to be good every day, but we think he is too little—he is only three years old. Don't you think he had better wait till he is a little bigger? With love from
Your little Blossom,D. Jemison Titlow.
I can write my own name, but not very good yet.
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My papa takesThe Pansyfor me this year, and I want to be one of your little Pansies. I am a little boy five years old, and live away down on the Eastern shore of Virginia. I go to school and am in my Second Reader and spelling-book, and make letters and figures on my slate. I can't write yet, so my papa is writing this for me. I try to be a good boy, but I want to be better, and am going to try and mind my papa and mamma every day, and help them all I can. I also promise not to drink any wine or cider, or anything to make me drunk. I say my prayers every night, and ask the Lord to bless my papa and mamma and brothers, and make me a good boy. I have a brother named Jemison who is seven years old, and a little brother named Warren who is three years old. Warren says naughty words sometimes. He says he is going to stop, and wants to be one of your Pansies, but I think he is too little. Jemmie is going to write to you and send twelve cents to pay for a badge. I go to Ocean Grove sometimes, and if I go this summer I hope I will see you. My papa gave me a copy-book to-day, and I am going to learn to write, so that I can write to you myself. I must now close, with love, from
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But the best way of helping you to understand how well the book is written, is to give you a piece of it, and I therefore let you have a peep at Damascus with the Horner family:
One of the first things the Horners did was to go to the top of the minaret of the city gate, for the view which is presented there of the town.
They saw below them a plain of flat roofs, broken here and there by a white cupola, and a tall minaret, and the large dome of the great mosque.
At their feet was the beginning of a narrow lane, winding along as far as the eye could follow it. This was the "street called straight,"—straight, meaning narrow; for it certainly would not be called straight in Philadelphia. In the Roman period of Damascus a noble street extended through the city in the same direction, and excavations made under the present Straight street have revealed fragments of a Corinthian colonnade which adorned it. For, during the great age since the founding of Damascus, and in the manyevèuementsit has experienced, one set of buildings after another has been destroyed, so that, as at Jerusalem, there is supposed to be layer upon layer of demolished cities to a great depth, underlying the present one.
folly with large pondPUBLIC GARDEN, DAMASCUS.
PUBLIC GARDEN, DAMASCUS.
In the distance they saw Mount Hermon, snow-covered at the summit. A walk through this street led them past scenes of the massacre of 1860, and other interesting sites; then, under a low Roman arch, they entered the region of the bazaars. This reminded them of Cairo, "only more so." The same narrow streets, and same open fireplaces as Bessie had called them, where the merchants sat cross-legged, in front of little shelves, on which were piled their stuffs; but at Damascus there was a greater variety of strange and gorgeous materials, rich and splendid. They could not resist the fascination of these shops, and bought a good many things, Hassan doing the bargaining, which consisted in a long and violent argument between him and the shopkeeper, ending in a mutual compromise. Both parties love these tilts of the tongue, and it is a regular part of shopping in the East. The dealer demands a price which he does not dream of receiving, and Hassan mentions a figure which he knows he shall have to raise. The squabble became sometimes violent, but after awhile the repetition was tedious, especially as our Americans did not understand a word of it. Miss Lejeune saw some pretty little damask napkins, for which her soul longed, bordered with red and yellow stripes.
"Well, Hassan," said Mr. Horner, "you may begin the fight over these;" and while it went on, the party turned their attention to the crowds flocking by in the narrow streets, dressed in the brilliant colors of the Orient: the men with gay turbans, and full trousers of every bright tint, the women veiled, in dark garments. A man went by with a cooling drink, rattling tumblers to attract attention; a lemon was stuck on the pointed top of the tin vessel he carried it in. Tommy tried it, and pronounced it "not bad!"
family on rooftopA HOUSE TOP SCENE, DAMASCUS.
A HOUSE TOP SCENE, DAMASCUS.
An expedition on donkeys, which was shared only by Mr. Hervey, Miss Lejeune and Bessie, while the others were busy in bazaars, was to Salahiyah, a suburb of Damascus. They rode at first through a narrow lane, with high blank walls on either side. The houses of Damascus are all built in this way, with all their pleasantness concentrated within, upon an interior court. The street walls are without windows or access, except through heavy doors. This is on account of the numerous attacks the inhabitants have received, leading them to protect their outer works.
They stopped before a dingy little door, and knocked. They had to stoop to enter, when lo! they heard the sound of a rushing fountain, and found themselves standing on a balcony surrounded by orange and lemon-trees. Roses and fleur-de-lis were blooming along the paths of a lovely garden, through which poured a deep, though narrow river, with its edge tufted with maiden-hair and grasses that danced in the water. A slowly turning wheel lifted water from the stream to feed the little fountain.
The gentlemanly proprietor, in a turban and gown of striped red and blue cotton, spread a carpet and brought chairs for them to repose upon, while he entertained them by playing upon a musical instrument something like a fiddle, and there they ate their picnic lunch, which Hassan, who accompanied them, had brought. This was his surprise. He had proposed the expedition, and was disappointed that the whole party did not join it; but for some reason, they had not understood the extent of the plan, and so the others lost seeing the pretty garden.
There is much more about Damascus, for which I have not room. There is much to delight you in the book. I hope you will be able to own it, and will give it careful reading.
Pansy.
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Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in this delicious White Mountain Romance, writes her first young folks' magazine serial.
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The works issued in this library are uniformly of a high standard and may well come under that class of literature styled "home fiction," a literature, that, while free from the flashy, sensational effect of much of the fiction of to-day, is, nevertheless, brilliant in style, fresh and strong in action, and of absorbing interest. It is a class that all the young folks, as well as the fathers and mothers and older brothers and sisters, may read with profit as well as great pleasure.1. THE PETTIBONE NAME, by Margaret Sidney, author ofThe Five Little Peppers, etc. It is a delightful story of New England life and manners, sparkling in style, bright and effective in incident, and of intense interest. There has been no recent figure in American fiction more clearly or skilfully drawn than Miss Judith Pettibone. Most of the characters of the book are such as may be met with in any New England village.2. MY GIRLS. By Lida A. Churchill.A story of four ambitious girls. Their struggles to realize their ambitions and their trials and successes, make a story of intense interest.3. WITHIN THE SHADOW, by Dorothy Holroyd."The most successful book of the year." "The plot is ingenious, yet not improbable, the character drawing strong and vigorous, the story throughout one of brilliancy and power." "The book cannot help making a sensation."—Boston Transcript.4. FAR FROM HOME.From the German of Johannes Van Derval. Translated byKathrine Hamilton. A fascinating story of life and travel in foreign lands.5. GRANDMOTHER NORMANDY. By the author of Silent Tom.The story is fascinatingly told. The character of Grandmother Normandy, stern, relentless and unforgiving, almost to the last, is strongly drawn, and the author has shown much skill in the construction of the story.6. AROUND THE RANCH. By Belle Kellogg Towne.It is original, fresh, and written with great naturalness and power; its pathos is exquisitely touching. The opening scenes are laid in the Colorado mining regions.
The works issued in this library are uniformly of a high standard and may well come under that class of literature styled "home fiction," a literature, that, while free from the flashy, sensational effect of much of the fiction of to-day, is, nevertheless, brilliant in style, fresh and strong in action, and of absorbing interest. It is a class that all the young folks, as well as the fathers and mothers and older brothers and sisters, may read with profit as well as great pleasure.
1. THE PETTIBONE NAME, by Margaret Sidney, author ofThe Five Little Peppers, etc. It is a delightful story of New England life and manners, sparkling in style, bright and effective in incident, and of intense interest. There has been no recent figure in American fiction more clearly or skilfully drawn than Miss Judith Pettibone. Most of the characters of the book are such as may be met with in any New England village.
2. MY GIRLS. By Lida A. Churchill.A story of four ambitious girls. Their struggles to realize their ambitions and their trials and successes, make a story of intense interest.
3. WITHIN THE SHADOW, by Dorothy Holroyd."The most successful book of the year." "The plot is ingenious, yet not improbable, the character drawing strong and vigorous, the story throughout one of brilliancy and power." "The book cannot help making a sensation."—Boston Transcript.
4. FAR FROM HOME.From the German of Johannes Van Derval. Translated byKathrine Hamilton. A fascinating story of life and travel in foreign lands.
5. GRANDMOTHER NORMANDY. By the author of Silent Tom.The story is fascinatingly told. The character of Grandmother Normandy, stern, relentless and unforgiving, almost to the last, is strongly drawn, and the author has shown much skill in the construction of the story.
6. AROUND THE RANCH. By Belle Kellogg Towne.It is original, fresh, and written with great naturalness and power; its pathos is exquisitely touching. The opening scenes are laid in the Colorado mining regions.