The National tribune., 1884-10-30
MYRTLE RECEIVES A MESSAGE.
DEAR TRIBUNE: Say to Myrtle, Pottersbu
Conversation Club.
A WISCONSIN WORKER.

Conversation Club.
A WISCONSIN WORKER.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Will you please adj
n,it 16-year-old Wisconsin girl who can bake
good bread and other victuals, can also harness,
drive ride horse well as any boy; has driven
a reaper this Summer and learned to bind: IN tact,
can do any kind of boys or girls work and IS not
afraid of soiiing her hands 1 agree with MIR. t.
Il. Noble, that there are some girls who never
work any, as we have some in this town. would
like if some of the girls and boys would write me-
Love to the EdItor.-Nettie q. Norton, Arcadia,
Wis.
CARD PLAYING AS AN AMUSEMENT.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Girls tell E. B. No
bic 10 try Homework himself if he thinks il is so
easy, as have been forced to do such work before
this and know how 1t goes. Go on writing, girls
and as for whistling, why whistle, since you must
do tins, too, to keep up with the boys.
And now, Will tie members of the conversation
Club please say what they think of card playing ~
home amusemment. You know we must have
some amusement out here. Ii any of the boys or
girls want to know what demonstrating i'll Dakota
is, let them write me- living here on the prairie
and burning twisted hay may seem strange to
some.-Miiton Beck, Hand, Hand Co, Oak.
IN THE GREAT WHEAT DISTRICT.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: We take THE TRIB-
UNE, which Is as welcome as the flowers OF Spring
time, and my brothers and sisters think there
never was such IA paper for stories and songs. L
live on IA farm in the wheat district, and every
farm boy knows what that means. / belong to
the Sons of Veterans connected with Jim Lane
Post. No. 20 Where are the boys and girls of the
y,
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUE: Willie IL Emerson
wants to know what the seven wonders of the
world are Twill tell him. They are-l. The Pyra-
mids of Egypt; > Hanging Gardens OF Babylon;
3. Statue of Jupiter Olympus the Capitoline
Hill at Rome; 4. Temple of Diana at Ephesus; 5.
Pbaro's Watch Tower Alexandria. Egypt; g.
Colossus of Rhodes-a statue los feet high, over
thrown by an earthquake pa h. c.; Z. Mausoeum
of Artemesia at Halicarnassus Grecian- Persian
city in Asia Minor Father was in the Union ser
vice four years. | would like to hear from THE
TRIBUNE boys aud girls.-Willie +. Smith, Pine
Lake Hamilton Co., n. Y,
THE MODERN SEVEN WONDERS
Flora Rutherford, Machias, Me-, sends the
seven wonders Of the ancient world, as above,
and adds:
If Willie Emerson wants the seven wonders OF
the modern world. will SAY they are the printing
press, sieam-engine, spinning-ienny, telephone,
phonograph, telegraph and electric light.
MADGE LEE FINDS FRIEND.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Father chief
musician in the Sd Mich, and presented with
a silver buge for being the best buSler. | agree
with Madge Lee about girls putting style and
learning to play ana sing and dance Now, in
tend To put on as much style as can, and to curl
my bangs and look just as well as possible, and
do not blame amy girl for doing so. i am Is
Maud z. Goss, Hartland, Livingston Co., Mich.
MAKING A sCRAP-BooK.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Dearly I love
THE TRIBUNE must say the Conversation Club is
the best feature OF ali. am saving all THE TRIB-
UNE poems for scrap book, and will the boys and
girls send me a pretty piece OF poetry each. and
will send one back. What Clara Coal says is true.
1t is hard TO see the soldiers fast turning gray
and old. Ii Will not be many years before they
will all be at rest Rose l.. Hoffman, will you send
me the Drunkard's Dream " and will some one
please send me the songs entitled The Kingdom
Coming, " Biue-eyed Nell of Narragansett Bay"
" Farewell Mother" Young Charlotte ," Hosan.
nah,' and " Rally Round the Flag" and will
some OF the Conversation Club correspond with me?
Father served three years first in Co. +, I'd " is
then IN Battery IL, 4th u. ). Art.-Ella L. Foster
Lemond, Mimi
VALUE OF THE CONVERSATION CLUB.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: have been watch
ing the growth of the G. c., and it makes me want
10 be one of the number 1t is one of the most in
teresting departments of the paper for il a DOW
erful lens which brings the best thoughts of pro-
gressve -pondence TO a focus and the concen-
trIed of light burn their way into the minds
of the readers, leaving lasting and favorable i'm
preston Oh all. My father was a soldier in the
18th III. i am l6, and would like To correspond
with members of the Ciub.-lnez Humbert, Shan
non Ill.
LIVE SOLDIER BOY.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: am u soldiers son,
and as We boys don't often have the chance TO
march to tie tune of d" The Girl / Left Behind Me"
we should improve it So. close ranks unfuri yorr
banners To the breeze and march lively l see
there are "A great many requests for postal cards
crazy-quilt patches. painted hat crowns book marks
and photographs to be exchanged with the best
looking individual. Well it don't just suit us pug
nosed and red-headed chaps, and if some nice
Yankee girl don't start chrome shop, we'll be
tempted To borrow, or buy from friend, the
photographer, the necessary article and send it.
Cannot some one send inc the rest of this song:
/ WAS born On Yankee soil,
The soil my fathers won
And proudly should the land be held
BY every native son.
Ed Daniels, Youngstown O.
BE KIND TO YOUR MOTHER.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Ny mother died on
the 18th OF last November, and it leaves all the
cares Of the housekeeping TO me. which cares are
very great as have brother of nine and a little
sister OF seven. One thing am very thankful for :
my dear mother taught me to do nearly ali kinds
OF work, and to do thoroughly what was done.
used to think Il was hard sometimes but now that
nay darling mother Is gone can how kindly
and how dearly she loved us. Father has never
been like the same man since she died. Oh, dear
girls Of the Conversation Club. love your dear
mothers ana be Kind 10 them, for you may, like
me, soon have no gentle mother to guide you
Remember, there Is no love like Il mothers Chas
Walsh asks, " What nation has the oldest recorded
history?" won d answer the Jewish nation and
i'll answer to his other question. Where IL the
cradle of civilization situated?" would say Egypt
My pa WAS a member of Co. ], Sd H. and he came
home badly injured IN the spine. which has made
him a cripple. We take THE TRIBUNE and pa saws
if we get too poor to raise 81 for il viii have 10
break up housekeeping, for lie can't keep house
without it. 1 am l7.-Edith Nj. Stowe, Perry Ill
BE KIND.
Be kind 10 thy father for when thou vert young
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
Who caught the first accents that fell from thy
tongue
And joined in thy innocent glee?
Be kind To thy father for he is old
His locks intermnGIed with gray,
His footsteps are feeble once fearless and bold
Thy father is passing away.
BE kind 10 thy mother for, To- on her brow
May traces of sorrow be seen;
o, well mays thou cherish and comfort her now,
For loving and kind hath she been.
BE kind to thy mother, for thee she will pray
As long as God giveth her BREATH
In accents of kindness then cheer her lone way,
Zen 10 the dark valley of death.
Be kind to thy brother: his heart will have dearth
1.-THE smile OF thy joy be withdrawn,
The flowers of feeling will fade at their birth
IL the dew OF affection be gone.
BE kind 10 thy Observation-Disclosures you
The love Of n brother will be
An ornament richer and rarer by far
Than pearls from the depth of the sea.
Be kind TO thy sister; not many may know
The depth Of true sisieriy love-
The wealth OF the ocean lies fathoms below
The suriace that sparlkles above
BE kind to thy fither, once fearless and bold;
Be kind to thy mother near;
BE kind to thy bro Their, nor show thy heart cold;
Be kind TO thy sister dear.
GLYEoRA's PUNGENT REPLY.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Mr. Mobiles vigor-
effort at defense is a failure. He has spent
his energies and proven nothing. How he would
like the girls to believe that he Is much of .
bu-ine.a thai he find time In