The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-12
Bessemer. Ala. Oct. 80. 1899.

Bessemer, Ala, Oct. 80, 1899
Editor Chidren's Department, Age-Herald.
I would like to join your club. I went to
New York with my papa this summer. /
will tell you of some of the sights l saw
up there. 1 went to Eden Musee and saw
all of the wax figures, and they seemed as
if they were natural. / went to the stock
exchange. 1t is wonderful sight to see
1T. There were a great many people there
and great deal of noise. I went to the
United States assaying office were they
make gold and silver. There were bricks
of gold and silver AT the mint in Philadel-
phia the women and men went about and
If they dropped a five dollar piece they
would not pick 1t up. told papa that I
would. / saw Central park in New York
and many other things. AS was coming
home stopped in Washington and saw the
capitol treasury building, white house,
monument, mithsonian institute where I
saw things from around the earth. l saw
the first printing machine that any thing
was printed on; the first clothes that
George Washington wore after he became
president of the United States; and I saw
in New York wonderful sight. 1t was
nothing but pictures on sheet of white
cloth, but they looked like they were alive.
One of them was a barber shaving a man.
and he almost shaved his head off, and the
seemed to say pour some water on my
head so the barber took bucket of water
and poured 1t on him and he splashed all
to pieces and there was no more man. An
other was a man, and he twisted his feet
about and having a table on each side OF
him he pulled off his head and, putting 1t
on the table, he twisted about again and
took off another one leaving himself with
out a head, and in few minutes another
came ON him. He took a chair and sat
down and STARTED to play on a mandolin.
All the heads twisted about their mouths
and sang. One could hear the music and
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he took the mandolin and bursted his own
head and the others al Ito pieces. I am
10 years old and am in the Fifth grade at
the public school. study music. I went
across the ocean to France three years ago
and had nice time there visiting my
grandmother with my mother, sister and
brother i was in Paris only three days.
so did not see much Of the city. have
a real cute little sister, years old. We
have many pretty flowers and we all are
fond of them. hope that you will let me
Join the club. Yours truly.
SOPHIE MATHILDE SCHWABACHER
Let all who wish to try to keep the new
rules of the Advance club send your names
at once, so that we may enroll you.
Each member of the Advance club shall
have a blank book and become secretary
for himself, to record progress in his read
ing The record must be as follows for
each week:
Mary or Tommie -@.
advance Club Record)
No. of Lines of Poetry Read-(Not less
than twenty)
No of Pages of History Read-(Not less
than ive)
The quotation memorized
.... ........ 49,. -. $500. 80. -.
QName of Author)
After two months every one who keeps
this record and does not fail to read poem
of as much as twenty lines, reads five pages
of history and memories one quotation
each week, will be entitled to have his
name on the Advance club honor roll.
Let me hear from several as to what you
think of this plan before it is adopted. If
you like it, of course you may begin at
once to keep your recond.
If you fail to do this at your regular
time, make it up by doing double the re-
quired work the next week. But always
inform us If you do this.