The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-15
SOME DOINGS OF WOMEN.
BARNARD COLLEGE, PRESS CLUB,
AND M'ALLISTER'S BALL

d'Apery, Who is Olive Harper's
Clever Little 12-Year-old son-The
Seidl Society and It's Recent Doings.
CCoppiqht)
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Master Tello
d'Apery is going to have the pleasantest
Christmas Of any child in New York of
whom have heard. Tello is the bright
and sunny-souled 12-year-old boy of Olive
Harper, the well-known writer. He was
only when he composed his first story-it
was, believe tale of a 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, photo
graphed and reproducing in fac smile the
original chirography.
Tello is now the editor and publisher of
The Sunny Hour, a 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
unique and successful journal ever man.
aged by child, rejecting Tello's frank
and honest boyishness so naively and with
such an open sincerity that is it no wonder
AdlL Ou0 lOJtA VI IuEOp6 nave re-
sponded to his appeal to write for him.
Tello is one of the most popular boys in
New York, more petted than Tommy Rus
sell or Otto Hegner. and the wonder is he
isn't spoiled. People are always wanting
him for some social occasion, and he is
almost as much of an attraction at acharity
bazar as Mrs. Cleveland would be if she
would attend. Last Saturday, being a
holiday, he played all day with the Wander
bilt children.
But I started to tell you about his Christ
mas tree. Tello always gets what he wants.
He is the most fortunate of little boys in
that regard. A day or two before Thanks
giving he wrote to Mrs. Lamadrid, who
originated the 1-cent coffee stands, to know
if he might help wait on the tables at the
dinner she gave to the poor. Mamma
says" declared Tello, shat am almost as
good as a girl.n Mrs. Lamadrid invited
him, and Mrs, Frank Leslie tied him up in
big apron, so that when his father, the
dignified Prof Telamaque d. Apery, called
for him he didn't know the child. At this
dinner a woman petitioned him for shoes.
Tello's charity is only for children, but he
asked her to called at his home the next
Tuesday at o'clock and he would see what
he could do. The woman wore SKIES, 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 6
o'clock on Tuesday the shoes are sure to
come"
Up to Tuesday noon there was no sign of
them, but at 2 o'clock there came rap,
and, behold, two pair of skies. which were
deposited under the bird-cage, where the
canary hoped to and fro as clipper as the
boy.
IL is just in the same way that Tello man
ages about his Christmas tree. He has in
vlted thirty barefoot newsboys and boot
blacks, and he expects to give an apple and
an orange and some candy, and pair of
shoes and stockings, and perhaps clothes, to
| every one 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 some
how, from somewhere, all the gifts would
materialize.
Tello must have inherited his mothers
journalistic cleverness, for he is born
newspaper man. When ne got out the first
number of The Sunny Hour he sent copy
to Queen Victoria. Much to his surprise
the queen wrote him letter, very formal
but very kind.
eff she'll write to me-" said Tello, sagely,
$50 will all the rest of them.n
Accordingly without anybody's sugges-
ton, or any backing, he wrote to the
Queens of Greece and Roumania, to Bou-
LANCER and Prince Jerome Bonaparte, to
Premier Crispi and Ghazi Osman Pasha, to
the Countess of Martel, who writes over the
name of "Gyp," and to more princes and
dignitaries than / have space to name.
Almost without exception they replied to
him, sending photographs and contribu-
tions, and the Queen OF Roumania, l think
it is, though may mix them up, not being
on such intimate terms myself with roy
atty, taken captive by the charm of
his boylsh simplicity, corresponds regularly
with this American child, sending him fire.
quent 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 and
birds eggs, treasures which he told his
young readers some time ago how to col.
lect first warning them to be very neat
Because your mother'll fire them out il
you don't take care of them"
Tello wrote recently to the car. He is
quite certain that in no long time he will bt
able to offer to the public the first literary
contribution of the emperor of all the Rus
sias He has poem by the Prince of Mon
tenegro in the current number, and M
sooner had he secured it than he sat dowr
and wrote to little newsboy of his owl
age in Washington for an account of his ex
periences.
There said he, with the air of a mar
who was ''beatn on his esteemed contem
poraries, ''I'll have prince and newsboy
in my Christmas number, and that's some
thing no other paper can come by"
American writer's find Tello as hard to re
sist as do foreign princelings. A little Will
ago be wrote asking Frank Stockton for
story. "I'll write one as soon as | can thlnl
of something good enough came the an
swer. 'What sort of a story would pleas
you"
I'D like one" replied this literary critic
with laugh at the beginning and or.
in the middle and general gladness at tn
endn
Tello has large scheme on hand for sucl
a little boy, nothing less than the establish
ment in New York of Greek church. H
,s learning modern Greek himself, unde
the tuition of his father, who speaks tina
language and thirteen others fiuently, ant
through his mothers stories of her travel
Pm the east and the friends his parents hav
made among the Greek colony in th
city, has become very much inter
ested, and with his usual open
hearted confidence has written to tn
patriarch, setting forth the need {
New York Greeks of place to worship Ii
Some of his friends are very confident {
the little EDITORS success, and load thel
championwith flowers and more candies tina
his mother thinks good for him. An
really it wouldn't be astonishing If Tell