The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-06-02
Supplement to st. Nicholas for
June, 1880.

and the seventy-two pictures.
Among it's striking features is an &C.
count, by Olive Thorne Miller. of the
Children's Aid Society's delightful
charity. 1.-The Summer Home" for poor
city children, at Bath, L. l., with seven
pictures made by Jessie Curtis from
sketches taken on the spot. Another
attractive paper is an article written and
copiously illustrated by Mr.. Daniel @.
Beard, clearly explaining to young peo-
pie "How to Camp Out" cheaply, easily,
and comfortably.
There are long installments of the
two serials,-"Jack and JILL" by Ioui-
sa M. Alcctt, with two fine illustrations
by Dielman and 1.-THE Fairport Nine, >
by Noah Brooks, with pictures by Red
wood.
The number contains five complete
short stories, all illustrated Little
Miss Stone,' by Mary Wager Fisher,
describing the amusing way in which a
very little girl was cured of sewing on
Sunday ''Bessie Ainsley Doctors the
| Doddses,'' a tale of little girls dsap-
| pointing experience with her mothers
favorte patent medicine 1.-THE West
| Winds Last Cruise stirring sea-
sto~y for boys, by Frank 81. Converse /;
Lost and Found a tale Of English
life and "Marion's Story about two
country girls, pet rabbit and 4 Jealous
dog.
Mrs. r. Swain Clifford contributes a
fine picture aud few paragraphs about
some interesting ducks called ''Old
Squaws," whose musical cry, HE got
no gun ~ is said to be irritating to
sportsmen.
Among the funny things are the verses
"Ah Lo, with two comical pictures by
Hopkins, and the curious CHRONICLES
of the Molbos,'-a thick-witted people
living in JutIand,-w three humor-
Gus illustrations by Frank Beard.
Short poems and bright pictures are
scattered through the number, and there
is full-page illustration OF curious
modern head dresses OF European men.
"Two Famous Old Stones," from
Rosetta, near the mouth OF the Nile, and
from the ancient country of Moab, are
described and pictured, and their his
tory and Importance are explained.
One of the wisest and most useful of
American Charities is the Summer
Home" at Bath, L. L., where, every
summer, hundreds of poor boys and
girls are taken from the packed tene-
ment houses of New York to enjoy
week of play, sea-air. and good food.
/ Here these forlorn children of poverty
-ssssss.sssx. ssssss learcli swung
the trees, walk in the fields or take a
swim in the ocean, and amuse them
selves as they choose. The description
of the boys and girls doipgs in this
happy place given in the June st.
Nicholas, should interest all kind
hearted people young or old. The pa
per is illustrated with seven capital pic
lures taken on the spot, and it contains,
also, this we'll. deserved tribute to the
kindly founder of the ''Children's Aid
Society:
This delightful charity is under the careful
management of the Children's Aid Society,
with Mr.. Charles l.. Brace-'the ch1ldrens
Mr.. Brace"-at its head. There seems TO be
no limit to his noble work in behalf of poor
children. The Society, of which he is the
founder and leader, has for years been turning
young lives from poverty and degradation;
into paths of usefulness and happiness. All
over the great West can be found to-day, hon
orable hard working young men who were
taken from city docks and streets by the So
ciety and every year it sends new crowds OF
BOYS to good country homes. 1t has its schools,
where dinners, and often Clothes are provided
for the scholars, and where big sisters can
take 1.-THE baby' if necessary and Lodging
Houses where, for few cents, newsboys and
girls, and others with small earnings, can get
comfortable meals and lodging, besides help-
full instruction.
When honoring the pioneers swho
won the great West for us out of the
wilderness, it is fair to remember not
merely the traditional few great ones
whose actions loom vast and ill the
scene, but also those numberless OBJ
scure benefactors of whom little or no
trace remains. The simple story OF one
of these has been put into ballad form
by Lydia Maria Child, and is to be pub
lished in the forthcoming June number
of st. Nicholas. "Appleseed john,
the hero of this quaint tale, was SO ola
and feeble that he could do but one
thing for the world-plant apple-cores
everywhere about the wild prairie conn-
try. But so we'll and cheerily was the
work done, that the memory of him lin
gers to this day, and nowadays. ~
"weary travellers, journeying west,
In the Shade of his trees find pleasant rest,
And they often start with glad surprise,
At the rosy fruit that round them lies"
Some time ago, the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals offered prizes ''to the pub
fishers of any books, magazines or news
papers, in which the cause of mercy to
animals has been most satisfactorily ex-
planned and defended" In April, the
judges reported 1--WE have selected
for the first prize, the st Nicholas,
monthly published in New York by
Scribner 4 Co.. This is what the Edi-
tor says to her readers about it. in the
June "Letter-Box"
"We are very glad if these pages have
been Of influence in aiding SO noble