Chapter 4

I have a cabinet in which I have a number of war relics. I also have an aquarium. I would like to exchange foreign and United States postmarks and stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

W. PAUL D. MOROSS, Care of C. A. Morass & Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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I have several kinds of Norwegian stamps, and if any stamp collector will send me some shells, sea-weeds, or any such things, I will be very glad to send some of my stamps in return.

ELIZABETH KOREN, Decorah, Winnesheik County, Iowa.

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I would like to exchange postmarks or stamps with any one in the United States or Canada.

CLIFFORD POTTS, 412 Walnut Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.

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A little girl who is making an interesting collection of monograms would be very glad to exchange with any boy or girl. Please address

E. M., P. O. Box 1132, Plainfield, New Jersey.

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I am just beginning a collection of monograms. As yet I have but very few, but I would be very glad to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

ISABELLE VAN BRUNT, 27 West Thirtieth Street, New York City.

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All boys from fourteen to twenty are invited to become members of a debating club on a legal basis. The debates are carried on by mail. For further information address the recording secretary,

N. L. COLLAMER, Room 49, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

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I would like to exchange stamps or postmarks with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

I have mislaid the address of May A. J. Cornish, of Washington, and if she will kindly send it to me I will answer her letter requesting exchange.

GEORGE G. OMERLY, 616 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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E. M. W.--Many thanks for your trouble in copying the pretty version of the legend of the forget-me-not. But as it is very long, and is not new, we can not print it.

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A. C.--The military organization of the ancient Romans which was called a legion numbered from 3000 to 6000 men. It combined cavalry and infantry and all the constituent elements of an army. Originally only Roman citizens of property were admitted to the legion, but at a later period the enrollment of all classes became common.--There are so many large printing establishments in New York city that it is difficult to answer your other question. The best thing for you to do is to make a personal application to any one you may select.

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CHARLIE.--You will find the advertisement of the "Royal Middy" costume in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 27.--The Indian ponies of the far West are very serviceable and hardy little animals. The Canadian ponies and Texan mustangs are useful, but sometimes too vicious for a little boy like you. A shaggy little Shetland is pretty, if you can obtain one.

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W. S. W.--Your florist friend will know better than we can tell you in what way to procure you a plant of the Venus's-flytrap. He can, no doubt, send you some young roots. As the plant is only a cluster of leaves, low on the ground, from which springs a single stalk, about six inches high, crowned with a bunch of white flowers, it can not easily be propagated by cuttings. It is a matter of dispute if this plant feeds upon the insects it captures or not. The unfortunate fly imprisoned in its leaves is macerated in a juice which the leaf again absorbs, but the plant would probably thrive as well from the nourishment derived from the sun and air and earth alone.

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HARRY I. F.--We can not print your request for exchange, as you gave no address, not even the town in which you live.--We can not give addresses of correspondents, but if you have any questions to ask of the one you name, you can write them to the Post-office Box, and if they are suitable, we will print your letter.

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N. W. J.--We have not made the arrangements about which you inquire. We thank you sincerely for your pretty letter and your kind intentions.

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MIRIAM B., FLORENCE N., HARRY F. H., AND MANY OTHERS.--We refer you to the introductory note to the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 45 for the reason why your requests for exchange are not published. Such collections as yours are very pretty and interesting, but as our Post-office Box is not large enough to contain every pretty thing, we can only print those requests for exchanges of articles which we consider in some way instructive.

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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

WORD SQUARES.

1. First, a household pet. Second, a surface. Third, an animal. Fourth, a measure.

WINNIE.

2. First, a narrow board. Second, vitality. Third, at a distance. Fourth, a portion of time.

H. N. T.

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No. 2.

MALTESE CROSS.

Central letter.--In valetudinarianism.

Top.--A vegetable. Something found in nearly every newspaper. An untruth. Snug. A metal. A letter.

Right.--Having many names. A register of deaths. Having two ways. One who assumes a part. Excommunication. A letter.

Left.--A root. Decrease. An officer of a university. Pertaining to a wall. A loud noise. A letter.

Down.--To personify. Dimly. A violent revolutionist. A cone-bearing tree. A small cask. A letter.

Centrals read downward spell a word applied to certain species of minerals; read across, a word signifying a counter-accusation.

RIP VAN WINKLE.

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No. 3.

DROP-LETTER PUZZLE--FOR LITTLE READERS.

A familiar verse:

M--r--h--d--l--t--l--l--m--, I--s--l--e--e--a--w--i--e--s--n--w; A--d--v--r--w--e--e--h--t--a--y--e--t T--e--a--b--a--s--r--t--g--.

LITTLE ROSIE.

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 49.

No. 1.

S P A R E H E A T H P A N E L E X T R A A N G L E A T L A S R E L I C T R A C T E L E C T H A S T E

No. 2.

O F R O F E T I D O R T O L A N O I L E D D A D N

No. 3.

D I R E F U L N O M A D Y E A R A S S D R O L L Q U I N I N E

No. 4.

October.

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Charade on page 728--Vane, vein, vain.

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THE BABY-MOUSE.

Oh, rock-a-by, baby-mouse, rock-a-by, so! When baby's asleep to the baker's I'll go, And while he's not looking I'll pop from a hole, And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll.

IMITATION STAINED GLASS.

BY FRANK BELLEW.

A very pretty and cheap imitation of stained glass can be made by any one possessing a little ingenuity, a pair of scissors, a few sheets of colored tissue-paper, and a paste-pot, and the humblest cottage window can be made resplendent as those of a cathedral--more or less.

Take a sheet of white or yellow tissue-paper of the exact size of your window-pane, and with some very fine boiled paste paste it thereon. When this is dry, take two sheets of another color, and fold them; then cut from these folded sheets a form like Fig. 1. You will now, on opening them, have two shields, as in Fig. 2. Now paste one of these shields in the centre of your yellow window-pane. When this is perfectly dry, paste the second shield over the first, only a little to one side and lower down, as represented in Fig. 3, and you will have an effect much resembling stained glass. If you choose you can cut out some design from a fourth sheet to resemble a crest--say, the head of a lion--and paste that in the centre of the shield; this should be of some other colored paper. Or, to produce another effect, you may, after first neatly outlining the design with a pencil, cut and scrape away all the paper within the limits of the design with a sharp-pointed knife, so as to leave the plain glass, which will have a very pretty effect, particularly if you shade the design on the edges with Indian ink. Or, again, you may fill in this space with some bright contrasting color; say, red on blue, or blue on red.

Of course, in decorating your window, it will be desirable to have a different design on every pane, or at least a great variety. To obtain another and more elaborate form it is only necessary to fold your two sheets of tissue-paper twice, and then cut out, say, a figure like Fig. 4, when, on unfolding it, you will have two patterns like Fig. 5, which will, when pasted over each other, produce a rich effect.

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=Bravery is of no Nation.=--It is admitted on all hands that the Afghans, of whom we are hearing so much just now, fought bravely, and the same as to the Zulus. In Sir Charles James Napier's _History of the Administration in Scinde_ there is a story relating to the brave hills-men of Trukkee, which is well worth repeating. It was their custom, when their friends fell fighting bravely, face to the foe, to strip them and leave them unburied, but to tie round the right wrist a thread either of green or red. The red thread was the very highest honor that a brave man slain could receive. In the course of one of Sir Charles James Napier's campaigns eleven out of an army of English soldiers lost their way in the mountain gorges, and came "full butt" upon a fort guarded by forty of these formidable mountaineers. The little band of eleven English soldiers at once attacked the fort, and reduced the number of the mountaineers to sixteen. They themselves were all slain, as might be expected. When the English came for the dead bodies of their comrades they found them naked, under the open sky, with a red thread tied round the wrist of every man. The savage hills-men had bestowed upon the corpses of their enemies the highest honor in their code of homage to the brave.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880, by Various