Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-23

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N c. 1t Is pitiful here to
see the children. 1 took some of the maya
zines to one neighbor, who said they were
the first pictures that her children had
ever seen. The Christmas tree with
the store dolls was a wonder and a revela-
ton to these mountain children l remem-
Der seeing one fve-year-old child kissing
the first picture she had ever seen of Santa
Claus
-, Tenn-I went nineteen miles yes
terday to preach at a service, the first one
there has been there for more than year
have been here for three years. I
am simply starving for a magazine. Would
be satisfied with even one of those Of which
you have "ffty-seven varieties"
-, Tex.-There is a large field all
around me absolutely void of literature.
This have been trying to supply In part
by cutting out suitable stories In the back
of maya zines The children rarely have q
picture to crafty them. I cut out even the
bright colored ads In the magazines for
them. Amusement for children in winter Is
attempted by giving them fashion cata-
logues. They cut out the figures OF the men
and women playing with them as if with
real men and women-the handsomest and
best dressed they have ever seen.
-, Alaska.-The winters here are very
long and dark, and very little news gets in
through the mail Clippings from newspa-
pers sent sealed as first-class matter are all
we can get in the winter time. We are abb
solutely shut in for whole months at
time. with nothing to do and nothing to
read. / wish you could see the snow. 1t
took us eight hours to go twenty-eight
miles the other day. A person could walk
from the roof of one house opposite me to
the roof Of the neighboring house without
any trouble and 1t Is still showing.
Atlanta, Ga wonder how many
of you even know Of the existence of the
federal prison here. Twenty five
hundred men are prisoners. The
one fixed regulation, which Is unique among
prisons fOrhiddinR
ever to speak to one another. They may
walk abroad. but may not talk. They may
read, but this is only tantalizing privf-
lege. for they have almost nothing to read
The appreciation of efforts made for them
on the part Of those to whom such things
are sent is illustrated by another group of
letters, from which group these extracts
may be taken as typical.
An officer in the standing army writes:
I'VE are about to be sent Off to be
on board a transport for three weeks
can't you send us something for
that otherwise intolerable voyage?
Do not worry about that The trou-
BILE is not to get the men to take the pa
pers or to read them; 1t Is to keep them
from downright bloodshed in the f1erceness
Of their struggle to decide which ships shall
get the boxes. There are not enough to go
around"
-, Philippine Islands.-The barrels of
books sent to the marines reached them
all right. There Is nothing that the men
appreciate quite so much as gifts of this
kind. There are literally no amusements of
any sort here, and If it were not for the
reading matter that they get from the
states really think the men would go in
sane.
8. CT shall be very glad to have
the magazine After reading 1t 1 will see
that at least ten families have 1t in their
homes for one week each.
-, N. M.-You may rest assured that
the magazines do not stay too long at one
H.
Dor to neighbor that as many as possible
may share in this touch of the big world
outside.
-, W. Val read the magazines then
send them to neighbor, who sends them
on to some one else, and until the
chain has sometimes as many as twenty
links in 1t.
-. Okla.-For years have been in the
habit of lending old magazines and books
to the ranch women here, who have liter
ally nothing else to read. They pass these
on from one to another until they often
come back to me after an absence of six
months and q round trip of a hundred
miles.
ANSWERS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Interesting letters, drawings. stories, ETC..
are received with thanks from the following
contributors: George r. Downs, Constance
Philpitt. Pearl Philpitt, Willie Daily, ]. M.
Cavanaugh. Loula Lyle Smith; Leo H, who
should send address; Catherine H., who
shall also send address and coupon for
sending badge; Jeanne Preston, who must
keep on trying; Lyle Wise, Harry Snod-
grass, Elmer r. Henning; Louise Young.
who must keep on trying, and who should
send an envelope and coupon for Joining
the league, when her badge will be sent;
Natalie Davis, who must keep on trying;
T. Baker Robinson; E. F. F., whose work
Is charming; Blanche Welf1ey who must
keep on trying; Violet Kidwell; Claude
Roberts, age nine years, who must try
again. and whose puzzle will be used with
those of his sister, Mary Louise Roberts,
who must try again for a prize; Edward L.
Kienz, whose badge goes with the last lot
sent out; Carter M. Keane, age nine who
must keep on trying; George Nordlinger,
age seven. whose badge will be sent and to
sent by Aunt Dorothy; Inez Jenkins, Mar
guerite Brown, Mabel Weigart; Mrs. T. H.
Sd, to whom Aunt Dorothy sends thanks,
as she is genuine Aunt Dorothy helper
to aid the editor. as she does. to interest
and amuse the readers of our page, who
are Unsuitable in their demands for new
and interesting features; Urban Rosen;
Frank HOdgkin. who should use pen and
ink so his well-done drawings may be re-
produced Charles Henry Knoch, who must
use pen and ink and try again, as his work
shows promise; John Buckley, Robert
Hutchinson.
A PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT TO SCHOOL
CHILDREN.
In December a year ago the humane edu-
cation committee of the Rochester Humane
Society, New York, offered the pupils of
the public schools prize medals for the best
on What Kindness and Pa
thence VIII Do for Animals" 1t is crafty