The PS Corner
My dear Blossoms:
I have a very nice plan for the year. I wonder who of you will join me? A Bible Band. That is what I now want to form. I will select and have printed in eachPansya list of readings for each day in the month. How many of my Blossoms will engage to read the day’s portion with me, and write out in little blank books prepared for the purpose, answers to the following questions:
1. What is there in this reading that I ought especially to remember?
2. Is there a direction for me to follow, if so, what?
3. Is there something for me to avoid, if so, what?
How can I make these verses help me through this day?
Now the way I am going to plan it is to read over the verses, and make my report in my little blank book before I leave my room in the morning. Perhaps that will not be a convenient time for all of you. Perhaps the little people who cannot yet read nor write, will have to wait for mamma’s or papa’s or sister’s leisure hour, to get help. But I wish all who could would join me in the morning before going down stairs; then, after the reading, we will kneel down and ask God to help us remember the verses all day.
I would like to have each member of the P. S. who will join this Bible Band, send me a letter addressed to Winter Park, Florida, giving his or her promise to obey the rules of the Band as given here. To all such I will send a little card for their Bible bookmark with the name of the reader written on the back, and the date of the pledge. I shall keep a roll of all members of the Bible Band. At the end of each month I should be glad to have a copy of what you wrote in your little blank books. If you like, you might get a large sheet of paper, the first of the month, and make a copy for me each day, sending it to me at the close of the month.
I shall keep a list of those reports, and, at the close of the year, I will publish the names of those members who have reported each month, and send them each a little token of my pleasure because of their faithfulness.
Now I wonder how large a Band I shall have? Of course I will keep you informed throughThe Pansyof its size and growth, and send you words of greeting. I think a great many of you will join me. I hope so. It will be very pleasant to think of my Blossoms reading and thinking each day about the same Bible verses. Who will be the first to send in his name, and receive the bookmark?
Lovingly,Pansy.
P. S.—If any of you know of something unusually nice, which happened at Thanksgiving time, write us an account of it.
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Nov.1. 2 Cor. 14-18.“2. Gal. iii: 25-29.“3. Eph. iii: 14-21.“4. Eph. vi: 11-18.“5. John i: 9-13.“6. Gal. iv: 4-7.“7. Heb. ii: 10-18.“8. John xi: 41-52.“9. Rom. viii: 14-18.“10. 1 John iii: 1-3.“11. John xx: 19-22.“12. Heb. xii: 5-10.“13. Phil. ii: 12-16.“14. Matt. v: 44, 45, 48.“15. Eph. v: 1, 2.“16. Matt. vi: 25-34.“17. Matt. v: 13-16.“18. Matt. vii: 7-12.“19. Matt. v: 9-12.“20. Matt. vi: 12-15.“21. Luke vi: 35, 36.“22. Matt. vi: 1-4.“23. Prov. xiv: 26.“24. Num. vi: 24-27.“25. Is. lxii: 2, 3.“26. Matt. xiii: 43-46.“27. Matt. vi: 9-13.“28. Gen. xlviii: 5-11.“29. Ex. ii: 1-10.“30. Ps. xxiii.
Lucy May Quint.If all the Pansies were as busy as my little friend in Whitefield how very busy I should be adding names toThe Pansyroll. Many thanks, my dear. To make your meetings good will require a busy Lucy, thinking, reading, planning, conversing with parents and others, praying Jesus for guidance and comfort, never despairing, no matter what happens to spoil your meetings.
Keep gathering for your meetings, a crumb in this book or paper; another from a talk with some one; and so on. Thus you will always have something on hand.
You had a “nice,” “splendid” time in the church on Children’s Day, amid flowers and singing-birds, evergreens, and, best of all, a good sermon.
It is right to join the church. Now be true, dear, to your covenant, for Jesus’ sake. Don’t let any one who knows you doubt as to whether you are a Christian.
Christiana Lacy.No, the Editor did not forget Sevenfold Trouble, but “Uncle Sam” somehow forgot to get it from the writer to the printer. The mail does not always behave as it should.
Yes; I have read some of Miss Alcott’s works.
You and your friend Jennie seem to have a good standing in school. I am glad to hear good things of every Pansy.
Aliceof Minn. “At the farm.” No wonder you like it ever so much; in the orchard, where you have a swing; down at the brook, where you try to catch a speckled trout; among the sheep and cows; riding on hay or wheat from field to barn; then sweet bread and sparkling butter!
As for the dishwashing, how you three girls do chatter while you are at it, and boast as to whose cups and saucers are wiped cleanest. If you will send a copy of the Queer Story, corrected, I can tell if it be right.
Ruth Kimball.Hunting eggs; boating among pond lilies; at Cedar Bend Farm; with such a dear companion as Alice must be, what a happy girl you are. Well, child, make other hearts sunny, too, won’t you?
Gertrude Burgess.None but perfect ones on the Queer Story appears in my report. Many come within one of it; that is a failure all the same as one hundred. See? “A miss is as good as a mile.” So, look your work over and over and over before you send it. Thus you will certainly do perfect work some day. Meanwhile the effort will be a—school to you. You are a blessed girl to be fighting so bravely against that fault. Have you learned how to lean your weakness upon Jesus’ might?
Lydia Sewell.The pansy on the card is larger than many, but no larger than some I’ve seen. By careful culture they grow to great size. Your corrected Queer Story is well done, yet with a few errors. It would be rather unusual if every particular had been right. Still, if you are a girl of good metal, you will certainly tug away at this spelling business till you will know the right as readily as you now know your mamma’s face from five thousand others. Keep on and show yourself a true Pansy soldier.
Lydia I. Boring.Your Queer Story is within one of perfection. So you need not be cast down. Some have made a dozen mistakes. I guess you will be A No. 1 one on the next Queer Story.
Adella F. Coy.Am glad you are pleased to think so kindly of your Pansy picture. I wonder if you have the picture of the Lord engraven on your heart and often look tenderly upon it through the eye of faith and love. Let’s never grow too old to delight in leading and blessing the little ones. You rejoice me in what you say of the badge. Many others say the same thing. If you will send me a corrected copy of the Queer Story I will examine it.
Helen S. Sloan.See above about the Queer Story. You “Busy Bees” made $127. The hospital will think that sweet as honey. You must write D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass., about the “prizes.” They will explain.
Mary E. Simpson.At your request, I hand your letter to R. M. Alden. I guess he will not throw it into the waste-basket.
Charlie Compher lives in Leesburg, Va. He will be glad to get a letter from you.
The country is a blessed place. Isn’t it queer that so many country boys and girls don’t think so, but are discontented and want to get to the city, feeling sure that the city will make them happy? Contentment, my dear Mary, is a precious possession.
Nannie Johnson.You are eleven years old. Now if you live to be seven times that and each day “grow in grace,” what a beautiful old lady you will be. Of course you will outgrow “carelessness” the first month, and have plenty of time to pick up after mamma, instead of her doing it after you; and the “pony” and “parrot” and “dog” and “dear little baby sister,” and everybody else, I guess, will be glad.
K. G. Boring.A capital account, yours, of your Fourth of July. I can almost see you at the parade, and I’m so glad you got home safely from the crowds and the tramp of horses and that your fingers are not blown off. Rockets and Roman candles seen from the house-top! Balloons, too! Happy child! But what will you say when you see the great Lord coming in the clouds? How rejoiced you will be if you are His at His coming.
May Cameron.Let me commend you for finding so many mistakes in the Queer Story. I must see your work to determine its correctness. As to faults: Many are temper faults; many, disorder; many, teasing, answering back; “wait a minute;” biting nails, etc.
Remember me to Mr. Doane. You seem to be a wide-awake Band of Hope, with your meetings, “Mizpah,” flowers, and care of the sick. To be busy for the Saviour is to be safe from Satan.
Charlie M. Ritter.You are very kind to remember the organ. I wish I could say something to make everything green and beautiful about you. But your turn will come. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage. He hears the young raven when it cries. What a delightful time you must have had on Children’s Day.
Elma Holmes.And while you wear your badge here and there, be sure that you so live that your mother and all the dear ones at home can say, “Our Elma does what she professes.”
Edith G. Grant.I shouldn’t wonder if your Queer Story was correct. Let me see a copy now. Allie will soon learn other good things besides “cutting kindling-wood,” perhaps to readPansyor Bible stories when mamma is tired. How I should love to visit you in your summer home in “beautiful Tullahoma.” Instead, I went to beautiful Ashville, N. C., in September.
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ANOTHER Blossom transplanted into the garden of God. Herbie Baily of Madison, Wis., at the age of ten, July 6th, passed away. With his parents he was attending a Fourth of July celebration, when an accidental ball struck him. Nothing serious was feared till two days later, when, at 8P. M., he rushed into the house, screaming: “My head! My head! I shall die!” At 11 he breathed his last. Now, can you wonder that this dear boy, “so tender and quick to sympathize with any one in trouble and pain,” to whom “nothing was so charming as the ‘Story of the Bible,’ who delighted in everything pertaining to the life of Christ”—do you wonder that the mother says: “It seems as if I cannot bear his loss?”
Maybe now some loving heart will be prompted to write a word of sympathy to Herbie’s mother, Mrs. A. S. Baily.
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Sylbil L. Anderson, Gilbert Anderson, Lizzie Carnes, Addie R. Crane, Estelle Duncan, Edith R. Foster, Mrs. Joshua Gowing, Josie ——, of Amesbury, Mass., Carrie I. Glauche, H. H. Hass, Jessie M. Hatch, John W. Holland, Marcella McDougall, Mabel A. Morse, Rose Price, Christine and Ollie Seely, Alice Stone, Rena B. Williams, and H. G. Shattuck, A. S. Willick, S. Willard Wood, Norma E. Wood, Mary W. Wells, Nellie M. Merritt.
To nearly all these names letters, with badges enclosed, have gone and returned. Most failed to give post-office, State, county, Street, or number. Write me now and say just where I may send these letters. Be plain and particular.
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My Spiritual Teacher:
Dear, magnanimous Mr. Wright:
First: I hope your existence is safe and you have no bodily ailment. Second: If you wish to inquire my health, I thank God, I and my mother and my sister are very well, and we are thanking to our Lord and Saviour in return for His gifts. My words will not be finished if I want to count the gifts of our God. It is only sufficientto write that He gave His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and saved us from death.
If you wish to acquire of circumstances of gentlemen and ladies, the missionaries, thank be God, all they are safe and busy to cause to reach the good news to the multitudes.
Their families and ladies are safe. Our school and the teacher, Baroon Wahan, and the scholars are safe; every day is Baroon Wahan busy to teach them. They learn the means of holy books.
I, ownself also, every day in the mornings am busy to give lessons in Turkish to my dear Sir Mr. Whipple, agent of the American Bible Society. Other times I am in telegraph office. There I write the subjects; there I am busy till night and night we finish. These days I give lessons in English to the son of chief of telegraph, and both the son of Aga Mirza Abdul Ali, the doctor. I am sorry I have no dictionary from Persian to English. When I want to translate a book from Turkish to English it is not possible. I remain unable and become unequal. If I have this dictionary I hope I will spread English abroad. You are my benefactor; you are my kind and merciful friend.
If you have not any more Dictionary and you have one only and it is necessary for yourself also, you cannot send (it) for me. You promise to me that you write to Constantinople or America. They send for me. You calculate it present, given at Festival time to me. I hope you desperate not me, but you will help me.... I am expecting for answer. I hope you will send me that book and you will make me glad and happy. If you have order, write me. I will execute and perform it. I will obey to all your commands. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen! And God may increase your love for Jesus, His beloved Son. Amen! If you find and see some mistake shut your eyes from my faults. Excuse me, sir. It is the first letter I wrote in English.
Mirza Ali,The teacher of Mr. Whipple.
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WEN the Pansy Socity begun, thar was a boy, whos name musent be given. His mother tride to purswade him to plege his-self aganst useing sigars. He had became a grate smoker. The supertenent of the sundy schol of wich this boy was a nenber tride two. But he dident want a bage or too have his apetite controled. He became verry bad, folowing anny and evry boddy abowt too git a sigar. This brout him into the salloons, whar he lernt two drink lagger bier and sware and tel storys.
If all the sigars, wich he has smoked sence that was lain end too end, thay wood reech neerly one fifth of a mile!
How menny galons of bier he has drank and how menny oths he has swoar woold take too larg a peice off paper to rite them all onto, i am sory two hav to anounce, he is not giting enny beter.
[Send a corrected copy to Mrs. Alden.]
Thefollowing persons have mastered the Queer Story. A few others may have done so, but not having sent their copy for examination it is impossible for me to know:
Glenroy L. Black, Lucy Dickerson, Charlotte Fitch, Louise Hosmer, Cora J. Russell, Margaret Hoyt, Jessie Strengle, Hallie Edwards, Daisy Vaughan, Lydia Boring, Agnes Oliver.
Several others came within one or two words of perfection.
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(Published by D. Lothrop Company.)
Soldier and Servant.By Ella M. Baker. Price $1.25; to Pansy Society 75 cents. A thoroughly good book for girls, with not a dull page in it. The young Christian cannot fail to be helped by the story of Lisle’s pure true life as soldier and servant.
After School Days.By Lucy Wheelock. Price $1.00; to Pansy Society 60 cents. It is a thousand pities that the sensational fiction which constitutes the chief reading of many of our older girls could not be replaced by such simple, charming stories as this one. It is bright and healthful, and filled with good lessons, both practical and spiritual.
Swiss Stories.From the German of Madame Johanna Spyri. By Lucy Wheelock. Price $1.00. To Pansy Society 60 cents. A lovelybook within and without; just the thing for a gift. It is not simply amusing; every child who reads it cannot fail of being helped by its pure, sweet lessons. We quote a few pages from “Lisa’s Christmas”:
“The next day the great question was, what the lamb’s name would be.
“Lisa proposed calling it Eulalie, for that was the name of her friend’s cat, and it seemed to her an especially fine name. But the boys did not like it. It was too long. Kurt proposed Nero, as the big dog at the mill was called. But Lisa and Karl were not pleased with this name.
“In despair they went to their mother, who suggested he should be called ‘Curlyhead,’ and Curlyhead he was from that forth.
“The little creature soon became a great pet for the children. They took him out for a frolic whenever they had a few spare moments. Sometimes they went to the pasture and Kurt and Karl would search for rich, juicy clover leaves to bring him, while Lisa sat on a bank with the little creature’s head in her lap.
“Whenever a child was sent on an errand to the mill or to the baker’s, the lamb must go, and he listened so intelligently to all the conversation his companion addressed to him that it was evident he understood every word. He grew round as a ball, and his wool was as white and pretty as if he was always in his Sunday dress.
“The beautiful sunny autumn was drawing to a close, Christmas was coming, Kurt and Karl disclosed all their cherished dreams to Curlyhead, and assured him he should have his share of holiday presents.
“Lisa had a particular friend, Marie, who lived in the great farmhouse on the way to the Zillesback. Lisa was very anxious to visit this friend, for she could talk over her prospects for Christmas more fully with her than with her brothers. She had permission to go on her first free afternoon, and when the time came she was so impatient to start, that she could hardly hold still long enough for her mother to tie on her warm scarf. Then she ran bounding off, while her mother watched her until she was half-way down the hill; then she turned and went into the house again.
“At that moment it came into Lisa’s mind that Curlyhead would enliven the way if her brothers had not already taken him. She quickly turned around, ran back to the barn and took out Curlyhead. Together they ran down the hard path where the bright autumn leaves were dancing about in the wind. They soon reached the end of their journey, where Lisa and her friend where quickly lost in deep conversation, walking up and down on the sunny plot of ground in front of the house, while Curlyhead nibbled contentedly at the hedge.
“The two friends refreshed themselves occasionally with pears, and juicy, red apples, which grew in great abundance on the farm.
“Marie’s mother had brought out a great basketful, and Lisa was to carry home what were left. When it was time for Lisa to go home, Marie accompanied her a little way, and they still had so much to say that they were in sight of Lisa’s home before they knew it. Marie quickly took leave of her, and Lisa hurried up the path. It was already dark. Just as she reached the house the thought flashed through her mind like lightning: ‘Where is Curlyhead?’
“She knew she had taken him with her. She had seen him nibbling the hedge and then she had entirely forgotten him.
“In a most dreadful fright she rushed back down the mountain again. ‘Curlyhead, Curlyhead, where are you? Oh, come, come!’
“But all was still. Curlyhead was nowhere to be seen. Lisa ran back to the farmhouse. There was a light already in the window of the sitting-room, and she could look in from the stone steps by the house. They were all at the supper-table; father, mother, Marie and her brothers and the servants. The old cat lay on the bench by the stove; but nowhere was there a trace of Curlyhead to be seen as Lisa peered into all the corners. Then she ran around the house into the garden, around the hedge, again into the garden, and along the inside of the hedge, calling ‘Curlyhead, come now, oh! come, come!’
“All in vain; there was no sight or sound of the lamb. Lisa grew more anxious. It grew darker and the wind howled louder and louder, and almost blew her from the ground. She must go home. What should she do? She did not dare to say she had lost Curlyhead. If she could see her mother alone first!”
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AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKS AND UNEXPECTED HELP IN PICKING THEM OUT.
Sunday School books have been growing better and better for many years; and yet we think they are scarcely keeping pace with the general forward movement. Indeed the improvement in Sunday School books has been largely brought about by mixing with them books designed for wider use.
Why not then widen the word to cover the fact, and get such other books for Sunday Schools as are fit for rising young people, books to help them rise?
That is the direction in which D. Lothrop Company has been working for several years; and its Sunday School books are largely made up of reading and pictures by no means confined to religious subjects. Now it goes still further in the direction of the popular tendency, and offers for Sunday Schools a separate list of books not often thought of for that purpose.
Everybody knows that children, especially boys, are apt to prefer a library where all sorts of books are within their reach. Such browsing unrestrained is apt to lead downward rather than up. But why not let the Sunday School library have the attraction without the danger? Why not afford the delight of inspiring, instructive, helpful literature in some of the books and religious teaching in others without the popular trash?
So two separate lists of books for the Sunday School library: one of modern (not “goody-goody” or stupid) Sunday School books, the other of secular books for the rising young.
These lists are arranged according to the relative acceptability of the books as shown in the main by the numbers called for. (1) religious Sunday School books; and (2) secular Sunday School books.
The books in both lists are arranged in the order of their acceptability. And so the lists are a help in choosing books. The majority vote may not be an infallible standard; but is there a better, especially when the voters are well-informed about what they are voting on?
The man who makes and sells a thing is the man who knows its quality; for the opinions of those who use it get around to him, and that very promptly. These lists are made with just that knowledge.
First and foremost of the decidedly religious books are the Pansy books. Pansy herself is a leader of children. She opens her mouth—they are eager to catch her lightest word. She raises her hand—instinctively up go theirs. The secret of such a power as that is sympathy, feeling together.
So in her books. She enters into their smallest experiences. The boys and girls of her books, the children of her brain, are just like her readers, natural flesh and blood; not life-like but real, just as real as you are yourself. They live in their world with the rest of us; have their ups and downs, perplexities, such as come to us all; and they win. So shall we who read!
That is inspiration. The reader becomes the actor, the hero, the heroine. Happy the writer who uses such power as that for helping, guiding, building up.
There are more than a hundred “Pansy books,” mostly by Pansy herself, a few by one or two helpers, a few by others altogether. They constitute, we may fairly say, the very highest class of traditional Sunday School books. They belong to the highest order of Sunday School work.
D. Lothrop Company, Boston, is just now getting out these lists of religious and secular Sunday School books, arranged with a view of marking their relative popularity. The Pansy books are at the top of the religious list, and Arthur Gilman’s History of the American People heads the secular list.
Send for the primer—sent free by the publishers.
Babylandis so good a diversion for baby and help for the mother that it ought to be in every baby family. Pictures and jingles and laughter. Baby will study in spite of you.
PREMIUM LIST
The Things you are going to have your choice of—you who look about among your neighbors and help them pick out their reading and pictures.
It is a neighborly act. And the time to begin to be careful of reading and pictures is when the baby can understand them. Let them come in the following order:
Babyland:nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for the little one; $0.50 a year.Our Little Men and Women:delightful hours and years for beginning readers; $1.Pansy:the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy; $1.Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal:for studious young folks; $1.Wide Awake:library, study, play-house, life at home and abroad, companionship of the wise and good; $2.40.
Babyland:nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for the little one; $0.50 a year.
Our Little Men and Women:delightful hours and years for beginning readers; $1.
Pansy:the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy; $1.
Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal:for studious young folks; $1.
Wide Awake:library, study, play-house, life at home and abroad, companionship of the wise and good; $2.40.
Think of a life not only unhurt by wrong reading and pictures, but helped by right reading and pictures all the way through! Itisa neighborly act!
We make such Terms as you never heard of—for work.
D LOTHROP COMPANYPUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINESBOSTON
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What premiums are and to whom they are due
Premiums are pay for work and nothing else. That work is getting new subscriptions. It is done when you send the names, addresses and money. Then you take your choice of the things in the List.
Why we pay so much
This work is of great importance to us, no matter how little there is to be done in your neighborhood. We pay for itall the money there is;we pay in such a way as to make it more to you than it is to us, especially if you happen to live where good new things are hard to get, where the stores are stocked with things that are going out of use instead of with things that are coming into use.
The best things in the list
We put in the List the best we can get and the best we can get for the money: some things because it is worth your while to know about them; others to answer wants we know exist—we put in nothing to be ashamed of. Some things are commonplace; not all are new or hard to get; but those we emphasize are worthy of careful study.
To be in the List at all is commendation. To be described is high commendation.
When premiums are due
Premiums are due when the names and money are here, and may be taken at any time thereafter, the sooner the better for us. You can have them right along as you earn them, or wait a little and have more together and save a part of the cost of transportation; but the sooner you take them the surer you are of getting them. Some will be gone by and by.
Who pays for transportation
All costs for freight, express and postage are paid by receiver, except postage on books, magazines and a few small things on which the postage is only a cent or two.
The postage on mailable things is stated in the List except as above. [When the postage is not stated: if the thing weighs only an ounce or two, we pay the postage; but, if heavier, it must go by express.] It is often true that mailable things go for less by express. We send the cheapest way, if we know it.
Some things are sent direct from the makers to save expense.
Everything over four pounds, too big for the mail, or for any reason unmailable, goes by express; and you pay the freight on receipt.
How much the cost of a package is by express
You can generally find out about how much by guessing the size and weight and inquiring at your express office.
You can economize freights to some extent by having several things in one package.
Who is responsible
We pack with care and deliver to carrier in good condition. That is all we can do. Beyond that the risk is yours. We register packages going by mail if you send the registry fee, ten cents a package, in addition to postage.
What is a new subscription
We pay for new subscriptions; not for renewals. What is the difference? A new one is that of a family not on our list before.
We pay premiums in good faith. We expect them to be earned in good faith. A subscriber may stop one magazine and become a new subscriber to another; but change of a magazine from one name to another in a family is not a new subscription. Your own subscription (if new) may count with others (not alone) for premiums. We have got to draw the line somewhere. We don’t reckon too closely, nor suspect bad faith too readily. We prefer to deal a little generously; but we don’t intend to be really imposed upon.
Direct to D. Lothrop Company
To be entitled to premiums you must send subscriptions direct to the publishers, not to another agent. We don’t pay twice for the same subscription.
Whose agent you are
You are entrusted with money for us by the subscribers you get. You are their agent, not ours. Be faithful to them. Send their names and money as soon as you get them. You are responsible to them till we get the names, addresses and money together. Then you are free.
When a subscription begins
Subscriptions begin at any time. If you neglect to name a date, we guess as well as we can.
The volumes begin as follows:Wide Awake, December and June;Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal, December;Pansy, November;Our Little Men and Women, January;Babyland, January.
Requirements
No deviation in prices; no credit (send name, address and money together); remit by post-office money order, by American Express Company’s money order, by registered letter or by bank check (postage stamps may be sent in registered letters for change); write plainly and fully; give subscribers’ full addresses (they may be different); sign your name and give your full address in every communication.
The foregoing relates to premiums sent within the United States.
Beyond the United States
To the British North American Colonies other premiums have to be sent by express, the receiver paying whatever costs the tariff may impose; but magazines and books may be sent to these colonies by mail. There is a duty on books; not on magazines.
Premiums for sale
Things in the List are also sold for money, payment in advance, no discount, no charge for packing, sent at receiver’s cost and risk.
Delays
Wait for return mail and a week besides before you conclude your letter or our reply has gone astray; then write particulars: date of your sending, how you remitted, how much.
The first thing to do
The first step to take is to send us 15 cents for specimen copies of all five magazines, subscription blanks and other helps.
D LOTHROP COMPANYPUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINESBOSTON
PREMIUM LIST OF THE LOTHROP MAGAZINES
jackstraws
Jack-straws, two sets. Prices 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. One set contains more pieces and also more sorts—ladders, spades, hoes, mallets, arrows, etc., of variously-colored wood.
Cultivates delicate handling and ingenuity.
Puzzle Map of the United States, on oblong paper blocks to be matched together. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.
Teaches what we elders need to study—where the States are.