The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-11
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING
 HAND HINTS FOR THE HOME
By MARION KIRKLAND

1 will forward 1t to you if you will kindly tell me the amount. JOEL Z' To you, likewise, we have to convey our regrets that we cannot supply wha you would like to have.
 Encyclopedia q should be very grateful for the ten volumes of encyclopedia that H. B. of fers. I have book of postcards and | stamps some one might like. M B." The encyclopedia was given to an earlier applicant.
 We register your request against the time when the next shall be offered. Thank you for the cards and stamps.
 
 Asks Addresses | Please give me the address of "A. G.. and also that of Mrs. w. D. B. I may have something of interest to them. hope they are in my vicinity. Perhaps you would like a glimpse oi something pretty, too. So I am writing ', upon the reverse of card I have tinted with my own hands. I buy these uncol- ored and paint them to suit myself. l wonder if A e. would like this work
 T fancy that you don't see many pretty things in the course of your daily work. mean so much of it as comes in the big mail you have to handle. 'As l read your especial Corner (and that is all that you are allowed to occupy. when you could fill a page 'and then somelD marvel how you stand the strain cf hearing of so many troubles-such a flight of afflictions. You must be blessed with wonderful endurance. MRS c. E. B." Thus writes a member of our noble Providence (R. I.) chapter. | The two addresses have gone to her by mail. The tinted card is laid away among | treasured souvenirs. She is mistaken in one respect
 Developing Pictures | "I am boy 14 years old. have a cam era. I can't develop my pictures or pay ! the price of others who can do it. Will some one in your Helping Hand club, who knows how, give me few instruc- | tions, please? If there is any one who bas the articles necessary, and who don't need them any more, I will be glad to have them. l will pay charges. The boy tells his story in direct. manly fashion. Our amateur photographers will not let him tell it in vain.
 Baby Carriage | 'If you have such a thing as a baby carriage, would you kindly let me know? | A poor, hard working, deserving neighbor of mine, who has a new baby, is in great need of a buggy. I have inquired among my friends to see if I could get her one. The baby is now three months old and 1 so fat and heavy he needs a go-cart badly. l will pay express gladly on any l kind of a cart. MRS. s. | If we had ten such things" not one of them would go a-begging. We know of bablie senough to fill them all. But this seems peculiarly needy case. Cannot | h, o,-f fnr hot ffot y1A heavy baby?" It is in generous, rich Chi | cago.
 l Wheel Chair I T am an invalid and alone all day I would ask any one who has a wheel chair | to spare to let me have it. I canont afford to buy a new one. Nor can l afford to | hire some one to wait upon me. I can not even get a drink now. I could if 1 had a chair I am alone most of the i time. "A. A. F.' | In obedience to the rule enforced by the press of petitions for invalid chairs, we | insert but one a week. The picture dashed upon the mental canvas by the above let ter is pitiable in the extreme The chair fast woman. who cannot stir to get a 6rinS of water upon hot day pulls hard upon heart strings. Relief should be sure-and swift I hold her address. Doll Clothes | q have boxful of doll clothes. I would | kindly give it to any little girl who wants them. She could write to you for my ad- dress. I saw in the Corner that some | body, whose initials were J. H. C., had some magazines and other reading l should like to get them. You could send her my address, and if nobody has applied | for them I might get some. | ELLEN F."
 The boxful of doll clothes will be snatched out of your hands at once. We believe and hope that although the magazines to which you refer were given before we heard from you another lot Will te reported and sent to your address.