The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.

New Orleans after she was married, ana
.nere Carrie was born. A week AFRO ,ast
saturday she was taken sick with yellow
iever IN New Orleans and on Sunday. oc-
tober 70, she died.
IN New Orleans the little children Of
Mr.. Charles Hubener OF Houston have All
been taken down with the yellow fever
put we are all happy to say they are
ooing nicely. Some are up and those sic,.
are getting better. The older ones have
written letters for our department
We continue to receive appeals for help
out 1t is impossible to help all. AS soon
as the excitement Is ali over we viii put
our shoulders to the wheel and assist the
one which is in most need, one who has
neither father nor mother and is abso-
lutely helpless. While this department Is
not conducted as charity we have helped
few unfortuhates and know not Han
but has felt better, but the number OF
requests for assistance pouring in is so
great that next year we will have to fix
TWO days In the year as Offering days"
and divide 1t. If we attempted to keep
UP with each case we would have moth.
ing else to do. and the Haps would all
soon be discouraged. Some of those ask
Ing for help have fathers and. other rela-
tives well able to assist and care for them
whtle other have absolutely no one, and
they are the ones we should help first.
For our Christmas number shall select
| subject and ask each Hap to write a
letter on 1t. The letters will all be con-
| fined to 200 or 800 words each and no lot
ters will be printed until all letters are in.
so that no one can see what the othere are
writing and thereby fudge" Wen say
events" on anyone seeing anothers let
ter. / shall choose as subject something
that every child knows something about.
whether he or she lives or city or in town.
In log cabin or a palace. That will be
fair to ALL This will take the place of a
contest, which we can not well get UP
now, as mails are SO very uncertain. Even
while an writing this there is no GER
tainty about half our malls getting out.
OF course we look and hope for the best
but we must only expect to do the best
we can under such trying circumstances.
Very few letters have been received this
this week and some of them were long
time on the way. Although there Is NJ
fever where they came from they were
all fumigated. Next week I viii! tell you
how the mails are treated in order TO
kill what are called germs.
In saying goodbye for this week, let US
all hope that when our next letter is due
there will be no suspicious fever OF any
kind in Texas or anywhere else. ana tnat
the quarantine for 1897 will be closed ana
| only be a subject to talk about In after
years. Mistress fr'ihrose'
Eegle Springs, Texas.gDear Mistress MIST IS
Primrose: This is my hrss a an in,p the
band of little Happyhammers; l am M q
little cripple boy, 10 years old have
| beer a cripple all my life weigh apout
hammers to help me get a crpple's chair.
1 send you the name OF a new supssl ,u w, =
| for the Semi Weekly Post, whose name
is J. F. McSwain, Eagle sprlngSg Nh, s sorp
again l am yours with best WISHES ior
ne fos' a'' laps Arthur weathersby.
uouston Texas-Dear Mistress Pr.m-
rose: Wrill you allow the Fairy to tell ,i,
| Haps that she read every one OF .ne h VA
letters and most of the long ones, un ,t
has learned a great deal from them ABOUT
hiris and their ways? She encloscs some
| clippings which might be of interest ana i,
| hopes The recitation for a small giri wiz
memorized by seyera Families 81 sS Of dolls
| She does not like the criticism iroi.i tho
bright boy whom fate tried TO concea Dy
raining him smith Snt w sonss ne letters pH
by the tens and hundreds. for children
must be eight before they are fifteen. And
| there are several of those little COTTON
Prairie Fairy.
Greenvsne. Texas.--Dear Mistress Prin-
rose: 1t gives me great pleasure 10 take
the opportunity of writing 10 me nras
few weeks ago and was about ready TO
send NV list Of birds. but bad luck would
have its way. / stepped on q nan ana a,, my
and was sick over two weeks. OF course
| II was too late to send ot aIter ! Got Wei:
Well, think the people .arounr mere are
about through. picking cotton. Inc cost ad
nor SO bad. neither The corn crops 90
very we'll. am glad that corn won as
it was my choice. though ] ala not get 20
cation am back at school again and am
very glad to get back. / don't have lar
TO go. as am staying with my randpa
Wendt and he lives r,gn Ign u a. ehe william 1ii
Wendt. and / like him very much !
would like to exchange the songs. The
nnd Girl" ,a ,1 Last F for Weep ans
Willow Tree" Fatal Wedding ana
'Iwcnty Years Ago" We'll. ! must ciose;
With best wishes 10 the dear old Post ann
good night to all the dear Haps, your
true and loving Hap, ANNIE Heoue''
Homewood, Texas-Dear Mistress L'rlmos
rose: Here comes another Little poy
years old 10 Join your happy pann. ! NV
on a large plantation In Leon county
have pony, dog and gun; also liz, noa'
There several lakes on hSapaS s piaq and
supplies water to the gin and mill X o.. Is
about three miles and a half long ana q, ~
wards wide. There are lots of hsh IN Il
white perch, trout, drum, bass, catisn'
buffalo and other kinds-also gars, spoon
bills and hard and softshell turtles. Some
times we use musses for bait as c,o sset te
the shore where we can get them. There
is lots of game, too--deer. rabbits. squir-
rels. opossums. raccoons wild turkeys.
a,,ails, wild ducks and geese1,so yon may ne
know have a good time. Now the pc
cans are ripe-thousands of bushels on
this ranch; also hickory nuts. walnnts s ana
house too We had only four months