The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-13
HELPING FUND.


Huntington. T exas,-Dear Haphammer.
My papa lives on farm on odell creek.
am going to school. study third read
err spelling. Ny age is s years. we
i've near enough TO come home from
school for dinner. Our old tabby cat
caught my pet mockingblrd in the apple
tree. A true Hap, Eta Haryillu.
Frost, TeXas.--Dear Haphammer: VIII
you please let me Join your happy band
l am little hoy 5 years old. have a
little brother years old; his name is
Raymond WHOM Morgan. We have a
little calf and a kitten for pets. We are
looking for Santa Claus Christmas and
hope he will bring us many pretty things.
A new Hap, Cuthbert Morgan.
Conroe, Texas.-Dear Haphanyner:
want TO Join your club because it Is a
helpful one. Ny father is dead and |
have a step-father, he is worry kind to
me. My age is 16, and my papa takes
the dear old Post and | like TO read Il.
AS this is my frs; deter, / will bid the
Haps goodbye. Inclosed find ten cents
for the helping fund. Nettie Wheat.
Huntington, Texas.--Dear Haphammer:
am little country girl II years old, I
go to school now. l study grammar,
,apeser, geography, reader, arithmetic.
Little Pet Woodcock is a little cripp 9
girl. She can't walk step. / feel SO
sorry for her, because she can't 20 to
school like the rest Of the little girls A
true Hap. Matte Harvlll,
| Brennan, Texas.-Dear Haphammer /
am just a little girl and | want to be a
Hap. Ny big sister is Hap and she
reads all the letters in The Post. / am
Z years old and am in the high secon
grade, / hope you all had a go3d time
Christmas, If could catch old Santa
would keep him at our house. Good bye.
Thekla Dorothea Hyman.
! Lamb, Texas-Dear Haphammer: Please
! LEX me join your happy band OF boys and
girls. I am 10 years old. Papa takes
1 The Houston Post and I enjoy reading
/ me Haps' letters very much. Haps, how
| do you all like horseback riding? | do
for one; have liutle pony, his name
in Charley.
Well. as this is my first attempt tc
write, will close for fear of that OLD
waste basket. A new Hap,
Billie Smith.
| Lavender, Texas.--Hello Haphammer
here Is another lIttle boy knocking a
/ the door OF the happy band. Talkins
| about women voting say women have
no right to vote They have all they car
| do at home 10 keep the house clean and
nice; not that / say women nave no
| sense enough TO rule a nation. My age
| Is IL Well, as l am getting tired writ.
| ing, III close. A true Hap,
Jesse Stokes.
Rockwood, Texas-Dear Haphammer,
/ viii you let little girl years old joir
YOUR club? My papa takes The Post ant
4 / enjoy reading the Haps' letters.
! live twenty-one miles from Coleman
City. near the Colorado river. | have
been picking cotton all the fail. car
pick 100 pounds day. viii start iC
school after Christmas. am anxious
for Santa Claus to come. bid yol
adieu Ada cheatham.
pierce, Texas.-Dear Haphammer: Will
you admit a little Wharton county cir
into YOU happy band OF boys and girls
am a farmers Oldest daughter onll
Is years old. have three brothers olde
than myself and two eisters and on
brother Younger than I am. | have /;
uony and ride to school most o. the time
THE pouy's name IS Fly, the boys ramel
her That when she was colt because sh'
| cauld run 50 fast | am afraid of tina
RIG moukh of the waste basket. Wish
4 merry Christmas and Happy New Yea
70 Mrs. Foster and all the HA1A In