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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19
SARA WILLETT.
BERKEI.Ey. Anril Id. 1896

BERKELEY, ApTlI I4, 1850.
Dear Editor: We take THE CALL and like it
very much. This is the first letter i am writ
ing to you, and hope il will be published.
| am IL years old. My birthday is on Valen-
tines day, SO am little valentine.
l have one brother and sister, both older
than myself. On Sunday we went up to field
at the foot of the hills and gathered lot of
California poppies. Berkeley is very pretty
place. l like it better than Oakland or Ala
media.
Ienjoy drawing and painting very much.
painted picture yesterday. There are plenty
of wild flowers in Berkeley. Also, lots OF ferns
on the hills have not any more news to tell
you now, SO will close. Your little friend,
EDITH P COXHEAD.
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Hairy Tears.

In the long ago when fairy feet fell
With noiseless tread on the grassy dell
4 beautiful fairy princess was born
On a bright and lovely summers morn.
She was fairy of high estate.
And the fairy tribes gathered TO eel ebrate
The advent of their queen TO be,
Bringing gifts of richest rarity.
With eating, drinking, dance and song
They passed the time the whole day long.
Bnt, alasl in the morn the whisper spread
I" The Princess dying "the Princess dead"
The startled birds few far away
Respecting the fairies grief that day.
They made her coffin of red-rose leaf,
Her epitaph read, Her life was BRIEF"
Each morn the parents sadly lave
With tears that tiny new-made grave.
The kindly sun in pity smiled
Upon the grave of the fairy child.
Each evening fell the kindly dew,
Prom each fairy tear poppy grew.
Il. j. CAFFERTY
San Francisco, April g, 1896.
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the name of "bolita. which means little
ball, and sometimes it is brought in
from its home in the woods for the chill
dren to rol. about and play with as they
would with football. And when they
are tired of bowling it around the bolita,
which hasn't been disturbed in the least,
calmly unrolls and crawls away.
The English name of this animal is ar
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BAN LEANDRo, Car, April II, 1886.
Dear Editor: am q boy 10 years old. The
Union public school here consists of two large
buildings. am in the fifth grade. Many peo-
pie come to this town TO see the hills and the
lake. The color of the poppy here is nearly
always red or orange, though there are a few
other eolors too. The frost has spoiled many
cherries. I'VE live on beautiful avenue called
Estudillo avenue. 1t is lined with locust trees
and handsome buildings. We have many
beautiful roses and other pretty flowers in our
yard. have a little garden of my own.
have two little twin sisters, z years old. They
can write very we'll. Lake Chabot has very
clear water. enjoy the Childhood's Realm
and especially when there is serial story.
Your friend, ALLISON WooDMAN,
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Answers to Correspopdents

ANNA BoRoHERs-Your specimens of sea
moss and pressed flowers arrived safely.
They are very beautiful and we think you
have shown great deal of taste in their
arrangement and have mounted them ex-
cellently. We prize them very much.
ALICE BELL-The expression arose from
the fact of white stone being used in an
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been found in out-of- the-way villages ne ar
Gibraltar especially, where the English
occupation of that fort is still looked upon
as temporary and offensive intrusion ON
Spanish soil, that the whole tone of the
people will change when it is found that
a tourist is not English but American.
"Ah, have brother in Havana" grim
browed villager viii say, with an infiec-
ton that implies that his American inter-
locutor must of necessity be from Cuba too.
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Gloves.

The cloves we use are flowers gathered
before they have opened-and while they
are still green. After being gathered they
are smoked by wood fire and then dried
in the sun. Each Glove consists OF two
parts, a round head. which is the four
petals of the flower rolled up, inclosing a
number of small stalks or fiiaments.
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Playing with a Living Ball.

Down in South America there lives a
queer creature that carries its fortress
around on its back. 1t isn't very large or
strong and so when the animals of the
forest attack it it rolls up into little ball,
draws in its tail, and its hard outer fort
ress protects it. The natives have given it
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why They Like Americans.

A good many of the ignorant country
people in Spain, says the Boston Tran
script, are very much more courteous to
Americans than to English people, for the
curious reason that they consider them
subject also to the crown of Spain. 1t has
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Would Stick to Bust.

Boy-Say, nom, busted my ball.
Mother-You shouldn't say bust, John !:
you should say burst.
Boy-That's what teacher said; but when
the principal asked me who that was said
it was a burst of General Washington, and
he whipped me, SO l thought would stick
TO bust.-Exchange.
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keep getting older and older and soon be
young lady. I have a dog call Max. can
tell the answer to puzzle No. 2 in Sundays
CALL. 1t is Sacramento and there is where the
convention meets to select delegates to the
National Convention. which will then nomi-
nate Mr.. Mckinley for President. / read this
to uncle and he said what about the Cabinet
and / said we have plenty of timber in Califor
stood up as straight as ever he could. We have
timber for anything they want l said. Then
uncle laughed and asked, Enough to build a
canat?' and replied for cabinets or canals.
Your little friend, MABEL CREED, :
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was said that when your shoes were highly
polished they were covered with minute dia-
monds, the blacking having much carbon
which while being polished becomes crystal
lied. If this is true, then the poorest of us
may wear diamonds. Your friends,
BYRA SILL and GEORGE SILL, Watsonyille,
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The inner ear is sometimes denominated
the cochlea, from its resemblance to a
small shell.
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URsINE, New, April 3, 1896.

URsINE, New, April 3, 1886.
Dear Editor: My papa takes THE CALL and
am very much interested in the Childhood's
Realm. l am 10 years old. My sister is
pleased very much to see her letter in THE
CALL, so thought would write also.
l hope this will be published in the next
CALL. remain, yours truly,
SARA WILLETT
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Krueger on Education and Humor.
During recent tour made by President
Kruger of the Transvaal Republic at one
place a leading burgher wanted a compul-
sorry education law. The President simply
would not hear of it. "No, no" he curtly
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I'm word of letters three;
Many changes come to me;
First, about the air fly;
Then domestic pet am 1;
In the brewers trade next used
Then by feet Pm oft abused;
Next a verb chance to be;
Then a trap is set for me;
Covering for the head name;
Then an Irish birth / claim;
If we're next we are not SLIM
NeedleWork for edge or rim.
(a) Change the heart of a word meaning
quiet and get part of stable.
(b) OF a word meaning expansive and get
the "staff of life."
Change head OF word meaning "to bubble
through heat" and get "to wind into q ring
Change again and get blunt sword. Again,
and YOU have "to drudge"
Once more, and get Ito make dirty"
am q robber in certain places. Behead me
and become very angry.
Behead again and am value.
Once more behead and become a verb.
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SEQUEL, CAL. April I2. 1896

SEQUEL, Car, April II, 1896.
Dear Editor: 1 noticed in to-day's CALL Tor
the first time the Letter Box, and noticed the
letters from different children, SO thought 1
would write to you.
/ am boy, age II years. and live with my
cousin, Mrs. o. M. Ellis. My father is sergeant
of the second night watch at the State prison
at San Quentin.
This is the first time have written to THE
CALL.
Please put this in print. Yours truly,
EDWARD w WHITE
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A GREAT many stories about the
~ little girl and her doggie were
~ received during the last week,
4 N but in order to give the boys and
girls at a distance the same
chance of having their stories published as
those who live in San Francisco we shall
wait for another week before we select the
ones which we consider 10 be the best.
Be sure and write your name and age
very plainly, and if possible send your
photograph with your story.
We shall feel so much better acquainted
with you if We know Just how you look.
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OAKLAND. April 1.

OAKLAND, April Z.
Dear Editor: / take great pleasure in read
ing Childhood's Realm in THE CALL and
like it very much, indeed. / send the answer
for to-day's puzzles, and I shall look for my
letter in next Sundays paper. Your friend,
Roy E. WARNER, 10 years.
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SAN FRANcIsCo. Anril Ia 1886

Dear Editor; I, too, love pressed flowers.
Poppies, any one But 1 love baby -b.ue-eyes
best OF the wild flowers. Then I like pansies
and, as pressed some. l hope they will please
you if send them to you. How do you like
the card of seamoss? l made it,, too. 1 love
flowers, birds, cats, dogs babies and oh do
not love music! My mamma always reads the
children's page to US on Sunday morning, and
we enjoy everything SO much
hope you will l-not be displeased with my
little cards. Very truly yours,
ANNA BoRCHERs.
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SANTA CLARA. Cal. April < 1906

SANTA CLARA, CAL, April 5, 1896
Dear Editor: l en- joy reading the "children's
page" in THE CALL and trying to get the
answers to the puzzles. This is the second let
ter have written to you, but my other one
was not printed so thought / would write
another one, and with it send the answers to
three of the puzzles. Hoping there are all
right, am, yours truly,
HAZEL BROCK, II years old.
April 13, 1896.
Dear Editor /. My uncle viii takes THE CALL
and 1 get to read the children's page every
Sunday. am only seven years old-will just
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GUALALA, Cal, April z, 1896
Dear Editor: l enjoy the Childhood's Realm
very much. My papa takes THE CALL. am 8
years old. l live in the country. l have
little sister and brother
hope my answer is right
This is my first letter to- THE CALI. / shall
close now hoping to see this in next Sun
days CALL. remain, DORA CRAWFORD,
Mendocino County.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.
Dear Editor: l shall send my mite to the
childrens page.
My papa has taken THE CALL for ten years.
and l am very glad there is children's page
like to read short stories very much
hope shall see my letter in "Childhood's
Realm" Yours truly
GRACE ANDERSON, 81 years.
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Cut out these odd-shaped figures and see
if you can fit them into a perfect square.
Use your scissors, and paste carefully.
PI.
can oil lamb ran.
A great mans name.
Correct answers for April II:
l. Boat. (B o A T).
2. Sacramento.
3. Madam.
4. Practice makes perfect.
5. Little beginnings make big endings.
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TWENTY DOLLAR ALL WOOL
SEPGE DRESSES-Ripple- back
Jackets-large buttons-dress lined
hroughout-skirt stiffened and cut
extra wide. Our special price. .....
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madillo, which means ''little armed !" and
there are great many different species of
1t found in South America. 1t lives in the
sharp claws. During the daylight it
quietly maps, but as soon as dark comes it
crawls out and searches for its dinner.
which consists of insects, roots and fruits.
1t looks very comical as it craws about,
for its claws are SO long that it seems to
walk on its very tiptoes.
The natives are fond of the bolita's flesh
and whenever they find one of the ami
mated little fortresses they carry it home
and after the children are tired PLAYING
with it they eat it up. Many centuries
ago armadillos as huge as express wagons
were common. but they are now extinct
and the bolita of to-day never grows more
than two or three feet long.-Chlcago
Record.
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HANDSOME ATWOOD CLOTH
DRESSES-Stylishm mixed Cheviot
effects in tans, grays and blues
very wide stiffened skirts-the new
style jackets, silk faced. Our special
price.
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ELEGANT DRESSES, SWEETEST
MIXED CHEVIOTS AND CLOTHS
Cut and made by expert tailors-
Jackets the newest style-velvet-
bound, extra wide stiffened skirts
50 o0s5sAin sos at sss Your choice Of $l65e
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SAN FRANcIscn. Anril1a 1896

Dear Editor: My papa takes THE CALL and
read the children's page every Sunday and
like it very much. found the answer to puz-
zle No. April II. 1t is Madam" The 9TH
ers are SO hard can't make them out. The
next President of the United States think
should be married man, then his wife would
be madam; also the first lady in the land and
if she is beautiful she would be power il she
is good and kind also. A man to be President
should have good friends, my papa says, and
be just as honest as any boy can possibly De
and help the whole country and make good
times. OF course / am Republican. Your
little friend, STEPHEN MAX, years.
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WINTEgs. CAL. April 8 1906

WINTERS CAL, April 8, 1896.
Dear Editor: shall endeavor to write you
my first letter. think have the answers to
the puzzles in last SUNDAYS CALL. I go to
Sunday-school at the Methodist church.
read THE CALL and then go to Sunday-school
and that takes up all of the time have on
Sunday.
Papa is your agent here.
Hoping my answers are right, l remain
yours. respectfully,
HALLE PARMENTER 13 years.
Dear Editor: You want us to tell about the
diamond-the stone for April. 1t is pure
carbon. and carbon is one of the most common
things in nature.
Leadpencils, charcoal, SCOT, lampback bone
black, coal, peat and coke are all forms of
carbon.
But the diamond is pure carbon crystallized
1t is the hardest of substances and will scratch
all the other gems and cut glass. 1t is found
in North Carolina, Georgia, Borneo, Africa and
Brazil
Diamonds are thought to be of vegetable
growth and to have eXuded many, many years
ago, as gum does now from cherry trees, and
then slowly crystallized. Diamonds are not
found beautiful, as we see them in the jewell
er's, but often covered with crust, and always
have to be polished.
Diamonds are of various colors though often
colorless. The latter are most valued, and be-
cause they look like drop of water arecalled
diamonds of the first water.
Mama once read little article, in which it
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PLEYro, Monterey Co., CAL, April 10. 1885,
Dear Editor: This is my first letter TO THE
CALL Mamma takes the paper and 1 always
read the page entitled "Childhood's Realm"
including the letters. We have been having
lots of April showers here, but then you know
fApril showers bring May flowers 1 hope
my answers are correct. Yours truly,
PEARL MOORE. 13 wears
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DONALD SERIES.

San Francisco, April 9, 1896.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
Grasses I'm the South.

One good result of the enforced
economy among southern planters is
the matter of grasses. For long time
the south was regarded as unfit for
grass production, although men here
and there demonstrated its falsity. Mr..
Hilyard, northern man, but for many
years resident of the south, proved by
actual and frequent experiments not
only was this section a great grass
country, but perhaps the greatest in
the world. He showed that the south,
in her more favored regions, surpassed
the north in cultivation of the grasses
and forage crops grown there, and that
she had numerous plants of that kind
which the north could not successfully
produce. Il has been proven by an
alysis, by fscts and figures, that our
Bermuda grass is far more nutritious
than the famous timothy.-Augusta
lGa9 Chronicle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
ELECTRIC SOIL-TESTER.

Clever Invention for Determining the
Amount of Moisture.
The well-known fact that damp
earth Is better conductor of cleo
tricity than dry earth is the basis of an
apparatus invented by Prof. Milton
Whitney, chief of the division of soils
in the agricultural department, which
he thinks will be valuable aid in pro-
ducing the best results from the cult
walton of soil. The plates, construct
ed of the material which forms the car
bon points in arc lights, arc sunk in the
ground at any desired depth. A cur
rent of electricity is then passed from
one to the other, and an instrument
measures in ohms the resistance which
the soil between the plates makes to
the passage of the current. A table
prepared from the results of many ex-
periments shows at a glance the per-
centage of moisture in the soil.
The apparatus will be especially val.
liable in dollhouse culture, in Prof.
Whitney's opinion, for in that the con-
ditions are best for regulating the
proportion of moisture, but the amount
of moisture in the fields can be regu-
lated to a greater degree by cultiva-
ton. This is particularly so in sec.
lions of the country where irrigation
is practiced. By the use of this appar-
atus, which is simple and compar-
atively inexpensive, the farmer can ac-
curately determine what crop is best
adapted to the soil of each field, and
thus make his labor and investment
count for the most in results. From a
series of experiments conducted last
summer Prof. Whitney has practically
demonstrated that when pasture land
shows less than one-third per cent. of
moisture it has reached the danger
line, and severe drought is immi-
nent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
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two hay mows each 16x50h feet and
20 feet to the square. The arrangement
of hay and straw tunnels and of gran
airy and feed bins is given in the cut,
and will be found to be convenient for
all purposes intended. The two hay
mows which, owing to their great
height, hold a large amount of hay,
are first filed. Then the wheat crop
is placed on floor No. 1. The oats crop
can be stored on overheads of floor No.
2 and on the wheat. When the crops
are thrashed the machine is set on floor
No. 2, and the straw passed directly into
the straw loft, which is large enough
to hold it all. Floor No. may then be
used for storing the cornfodder. The
granary is conveniently situated for
running the grain into the wagons be-
low. Underneath the straw shed is am
pie space for storage of all manure I'M
til it is removed to the fields. The ap-
pie cellar may be used for storage of
potatoes.
AS planned this barn should face the
east. If, however, conditions prevail
which necessitate it's facing the south,
then the straw shed should be built to
the other side of the barn, which will
permit the morning sun to enter the
stable yard and will also place the shed
on the west, where it will serve as a
protection from prevaining Winds
GEORGE G. Croft, in N. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
HAIL TO THE MUFF.
Almost Indispensable Part of Fashion
able Costume.

Almost Indispensable Part of Fashion
able Costume.
There has been a united effort be-
tween furriers and modistes to rein
state muffs in favor. Last season bon
nets and muffs to match were extreme
novelties and were worn by few of
the ultra-fashionable women. The
style was so pleasing and picturesque
that it has grown in favor and muffs are
prominently to the fore.
With all fur capes and coats muffs
are sold to correspond and no fashion
able toilet is complete without the COM
Portable adjunct. The slight awkward
ness pertaining to carrying mutf in
the hand has been obviated and chains
or ribbons with jeweled buckles are
used, by which they are suspended
about the neck.
The very latest means of carrying the
muff is by string of pearl beads.
Broad ribbons matching the hue of the
gown are also tied through the muff
and worn around the neck. round,
full muff or fur to match the wrap, of
the same material, is quite common.
Hat, cape and mutf are frequently OF
the same material. Almost all the cloth
muffs are trimmed with fur and lace,
and are made in all sorts of unique
shapes and pretty styles. The fiat muif,
with triple flowing frills of lace, satin
and cloth, is exceedingly artistic.
Artificial flowers no longer adorn the
outside of the muff; instead, a single
chrysanthemum of favorite color or
cluster of natural roses may be fastened
high up on the left corner, allowing the
stems to fall at will. This little caprice
is somewhat aesthetic, but the effect is
very gratifying.
When they are made of material
other than fur, pocket OIL the fiat side
which may contain kerchief and purse,
makes them, useful as well as orna-
mental.
So great is the variety of style in this
latest fashionable article that bits OF
ribbon, lace and velvet made into re-
ceptacle for holding the hands, in any
form or shape, is acceptable.
Muffs need not necessarily be round,
like an abbreviated bolster, but may be
fat. In this case few thickncsses OF
cotton batting, sprinfled with n little
sachet powder, lined with satin and COW
cred with the desired fabric, may form
On elaborate creation. 1t may be sewn
together in fiat seam, which is con-
cealed by series of animal tails and
heads or by band or ribbon tied In q
fascinating bow.-N. y. World.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
DUCK RAISING PAYS.
Farmers Should Pay More Attention 20
This Lucrative Business.

Farmers Should Pay More Attention 20
This Lucrative Business.
A good many people are prejudioed
against ducks, because of the notion
that they make mud and are noisy, and
are not as profitable as chickens. This
Is great mistake, for ducks can be
kept as easily and in as clearly man
ner as any other fowls, IL they are fur
nished with proper quarters.
Pekin or Rouen ducks do not need
water, except a plentiful supply TO
drink, and this can be furnished In such
way as to keep them from getting into
1t, as they surely will if they can. We
| always give our ducks tub to battle in,
and when they have had their bath
empty the tub for that day.
Ducks produce as many eggs as do
hens. and in most of places their eggs
sell for two cents dozen more than
hens eggs, because of their greater
size. If they have been well kept
through the winter, they will begin to
lay about the middle of February, and
continue until they have produced
about Is dozen, when the old ones may
lie sold, leaving the spring hatch for
next seasons work. -
Ducks will thrive on the coarsest
kind of food, and the young are very
hnrdy, as they are never bothered with
lice or diseases of the kind that often
attack young chickens. A duck once
Matched is liable to live to maturity on
food that chic k would die on in a
| week.
When sold ducks always sell for more
by the pound than chickens do, and
there Is no reason to believe that q
pound of duck costs more than pound
of chicken.
We have named Pekins and Rouens.
The Aylesburys are just as valuable,
but pure-bred ones are very rare, most
Of them having been crossed with Pellin
blood.
We are very much in favor of the
farmers paying more attention to
ducks than they show disposition to
OF this time.-Farm and Fireside.