Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-19
SOME DOINGS OF WOMEN.
Rapid Advancement Made By Bar
 nard College.
fhe Christmas Preparations of Tello d Apery, Who Is Olive Harper's Clever Little 12-year old Son-Tha Seidl
 Society and It's Recent Doings.
COPYRIGHT 1889.

known writer. He was only when he | composed his first story-it was, l be- lieve, a tale of tiger-printed it in struggling capitals, and trotted across Union square with it to place it with his own hand on the desk of Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge for publication in "St. Nicholas," where it appeared in due course. photographed and reproducing in fac simile the original chirography.
 Tello is now the editor and publisher of the Sunny Hour" monthly paper for boys and girls, which he started last spring to raise money to buy shoes for barefoot children, and which is the most thoroughly un1que and successful journal ever managed by child, re- f1ecting Tello.s frank and honest boy l ishness so naively and with such an open sincerity that it is no wonder half the royalties of Europe have responded to his appeal to write for him. Tello is one of the most popular boys in New York, more petted than Tommy Russell or Otto Hegner, and the wonder is he isn't spoiled. People are always l wanting him for some social occasion, l ton at charity bazaar as Mrs. Cleve- land would be if she would attend. Last Saturday, being . holiday, he played all day with the Vanderbilt children.
 But started to tell you about his Christmas tree. Tello always gets what he wants. He is the most fortunate of l little boys in that regard. A day or two before Thanksgiving he wrote to Mrs. Lamadrid, who originated the one cent coffee stands, to know if he might help wait on the tabfes at the dinner l she gave to the poor. Mamma says" "de- clared Tello ''that am almost as good as agirl." Mrs. Lamadrid invited him, and Mrs. Frank Leslie tied him up in big l apron, so that when his father, the dig nified Prof. Telamaque d Apery, called l for him he didn't know the child. At this dinner a woman petitioned him for 1 shoes. Tello's charity is only for child ren, but he asked her to call at his home the next Tuesday at six o'clock and he would see what he could do. The woman wore sixes. and among all the shoes sent in by the readers of ''The Sunny Hour" there was not pair she could put on.
 "Never mind," said Tello, '.before six o'clock on Tuesday the shoes are sure | tp come"
 Up to Tuesday noon there was no sign of them, but at two o'clock there came rap, and, behold. two pair of sixes, which were deposited under the birdcage, where the canary hopped to and fro as chipper as the boy.
 It is just in the same way that Tello manages about h,s Christmas trae: He 1 and bootblacks, and he expects to give an apple and an orange and some candy and pair of shoes and stockings and perhaps clothes to every enc of them. And he hadn't the least idea few days ago where any of these things were coming from. But he was sure of his guests, and equally sure that somehow, from somewhere, all the gifts would materialize.
 Tello- must have inherited his mother'g journalistic cleVerness, for he is 9 born newspaper man. When he got out the first number of .'The sunny Hour'' he sent 9 copy to Queen Victoria. Much to his surprise the Queen wrote him letter, very formal but very kind.
 If she'll write to me-" said Tellc sagely, ''so will all the rest of them"
 Accordingly without anybody's sug- gestion or any backing. he wrote to the Queens of Greece and Roumania, tQ Boulanger and Prince Jerome Bona parte, to PEemer Crispi and Ghaz! psman Pasha, to the Countess of Mar. tel. who writes over the name of .Gyp," and to more princes and dignitaries than l have space te name. Al most without exception they replied to him, sending photographs and contributions, and the Queen of Roumania, think it is, though I may mix them up, not
 
 with royalty, taken captive by the charm of his boyish simplicity. cor responds regularly with this American child, sending him frequent notes through her maid of honor. Pictures of all these grand personages adorn his big writing desk. which stands side by side with his cabinet of curiosities aud birds eggs, treasurea which he told his young readeps some time ago how to Collect, first warning them to be very neat. Because your mother'n fire them out if you don't take care of them.''
 Tello wrote recently to the Car He is quite certain that in no long time he will be able to offer to the public the first literary contribution of the En- peror of all the Russias. He has a poem by the Prince of Montenegro in the current number, and 10 sooner had he secured it than he sat down and wrote to a little newsboy of his own age in Washington for an account of his ex- periences.
 'There," said he. with the air of a man who has "beat" on his esteemed contemporaries, "4'll have a prince and g newsboy in my Christmas number, ; and that's something no other paper can come by."
 American writers find Tello as hard to resist as dc foreign princelings. A little while ago he wrote asking Frank ' Stockton for story. ''I'll write one as soon as can think of something good enough" came the answer. ''What ) sort of story would please you?" 'I'd like one," replied this literary critic, with laugh at the beginning . and cry in the middle and general 7 gladness at the ond."
 Tello has large scheme on hand fol
 such little boy, nothing less than the
 establishment in New Yark of Greek Church. He is learning modern Greek
 himself. under the tuition of his father, } who speaks that language and thirteen : others f1uently, and through his mothers stories of her travels in the
 East and the friends his parents have made among the Greek colony ip the city he has become very much inter. ] ested, and with his usual oren hearted ? confidence has written to the Patriarch setting forth the need of New York ) Greeks of 8 place to worship in. Some
 of his friends are very confident of the 7 little editors success, and load thetl !. champion with flowers and more can