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To the Ambitious
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VOICES OF YOUTH
DO YOU KNOW HER?
I have a little friend who doesn’t like
to mend,
To dust, or set the table, or even
make a bed;
The very thought of sweeping nearly
sets her off a-weeping,
And she always goes about it as
though her feet were lead.
She hates to rock the baby, and says
that some day, maybe,
She’ll go away and linger where they
have no babies round
To keep folks busy rocking—but really
this is shocking,
And she doesn’t mean a word of what
she says, I will be bound.
’Tis true she cannot bear to even walk
a square
To buy a spool of cotton, or stamps
for mamma’s mail,
It is much against her wishes that
she’s set to washing dishes,
While to speak of darning stockings
is enough to turn her pale.
In fact she wants to shirk everything
resembling work,
And the only thing she does enjoy,
so far as I can say,
Is to take her doll and book, and with
in some quiet nook
To read of elves and fairies, and
dream the hours away.
—E. L. Sylvester.
Wttb. ®ur Correspondents
WHY I LIKE MR. ROOSEVELT.
(Written for the prize.)
I am a boy sixteen years old, and
I live on a farm near Meridian, Miss.
I like Mr. Roosevelt, and I hope he
will keep on being president as Mr.
Diaz does over in Mexico. I like Mr.
Roosevelt because he loves children,
and a big lot of them like we have at
our house, and because he loves the
woods, and is trying to save them
from being all cut down. He is try
ing to have great stretches of woods
and meadows and rivers left as they
are for the rabbits to hop about under
the trees and the squirrels to climb
them, and the birds to sing in them.
He believes in shooting big game, and
I don’t know that I like that in him
so well. I hated to read about his
shooting that grand old elk, the last
of his race. I love the wild things
of the woods, and I never shoot or
hurt them. I think a squirrel is the
prettiest and smartest little animal
there is. Think of his having a win
ter supply of nuts in his home—the
hollow of a big tree! Who would
have the heart to shoot him? They
tell me there are people who make a
business of killing birds and squirrels
and otters, just for their feathers and
fur. If I were a girl I would not
wear a bird on my bonnet or the fur
of a poor little fox with the pitiful
little head attached to it and such
an expression of agony in the face.
I wouldn’t mind wearing a plume, for
the ostrich sheds them, anyway, after
awhile, and he is not hurt when his
fine feathers are stripped off. His
head is slipped into a bag and he
stands quietly and meditates on the
vanity of the world in general and
women in particular, while he is being
robbed of his plumage to deck my
lady’s fall hat. There is a big fine
imposed by the Florida laws on those
who kill a bird of beautiful plumage,
like the egret and the snowy crane,
but I am told that there are men who
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risk the fine and lie out in the swamps
and by marshy lakes for a chance to
shoot the birds. When I am grown,
I think I will go to South America
and hunt rare flowers like the orchid.
One plant of the white orchid is
worth S7OO, and there are others
worth thousands of dollars. But they
are hard to get at in those dense,
vine-matted swamps, where fevers
breed and poisonous insects and dead
ly snakes abound. Isn’t it strange that
the most precious things are hard to
get—such as gold and diamonds and
orchids?
Well, heaven is the most precious
of all things, and the Bible says the
road to it is narrow and there are
few who find it.
WALTER B. ARMSTEAD.
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THE “CRESCENT CITY.”
(Written for the prize.)
I have never yet seen any letters
from a New Orleans girl in your col
umns, and so I determined to write,
and enter your “Prize Contest,” not
that I have any hopes of winning the
book, as there are too many writers
with far greater ability than myself
whose letters grace your columns. I
am a great reader, and I love to read
a good book, one that instructs while
it interests me. From reading I have
grown to know a good many places
that are distant from me, but still I
know all the characteristics of them.
Now, let me speak of my beloved
“Crescent City.” As you all know, it
is right on the Mississippi River, and
the river, making a bend here, has
given rise to the name “Crescent
City.” Perhaps what you do not know
is that Lake Pontchatrain being situat
ed in the back of New Orleans, we
have a lovely resort. In the evenings
all you have to do is to jump on the
electric cars, and for fifteen cents you
get out to the “West End,” a pavilion,
where there are variety shows. Be
sides that we enjoy the lovely breeze,
which refreshes us after the long,
warm day in town. Besides West End,
we have two other resorts on the lake,
but not patronized as much as West
End, which are Milneburg and Span
ish Fort. At the latter place I love to
go. Here Nature is at its best. There
is the old dismantled fort, the ruins so
picturesque, covered with moss. There,
too, is the first torpedo boat that was
used in the Civil War. It proved a
failure, and is now lying forgotten and
deserted in Bayou St. John.
There are two parks in New Or
leans that are very large. If any of
the readers have been to New Or
leans they can agree with me that it
is a most lovely place.
Now, I must rest awhile, as I sup
pose this letter is long enough. If I
write again I will tell you about the
lovely home, “Rest Awhile,” that is
for the working girls. However, this
is enough for the present.
AIMEE MERTON.
1428 Sixth St., New Orleans, La.
MY SUMMER VACATION.
(Written for the prize.)
I wonder if any of the young read
ers of The Golden Age have enjoyed
their vacation as much as I have?
I have been to several picnics this
summer, and, of course, we always
enjoy a picnic when we can be out
in the woods all day.
I went to “The Farmers’ Union Pic
nic,” given in Odrillee, Ga. (maybe
some of your cousins are familiar
with that little town). Our State
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School Commissioner, Mr. Merritt, was
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the farmers on “Education,” which we
all thought very interesting.
Another one of my “good times”
was at a house party, where I spent
three pleasant days. While there we
went out to a lovely pond and spent
the day fishing and rowing on the
water ifi a canoe. I wonder if any
of you ever rode in a canoe? It was
shaped like Hiawatha’s bark canoe in
the pictures that illustrate Longfel
low’s poem.
I have read a number of books this
summer; among them are “The Girl
Ranchers,” “Quincy Adams Sawyer,”
“The Rebellion of Lili Carrington,”
and “The Ring of Rubies.” Also I
have begun to read “Hiawatha.” These
with the exception of “Hiawatha,” are
all stories, but they are good and
pleasant reading.
I would like very much to win the
book Earnest Willie is going to give
as a prize for the best letter, but I
am timid about entering the contest.
I am fond of outdoor games, par
ticularly lawn tennis. I played it a
good deal this summer and last win
ter at school. Our teacher had a ten
nis court. But my happy vacation has
ended, and I am back at school again.
I am in the tenth grade. I agree with
Thos. Brock in wishing that The Gol
den Age came every day instead of
once a week. A week seems a long
time to wait for a sight of this in
teresting paper.
ANNIE THORNTON.
Columbus, Ga., R. F. D. No. 4.
THE GIRL AT COLLEGE.
(Written for the prize.)
The inspiration caught from a glor
ious autumn morning impels me to
send a thought or two to The Golden
Age. The forest is beginning to show
the touch of the chill forerunner of
Jack Frost in a gleaming of crimson
or yellow here and there among the
green foliage. Soon it will exhibit the
picture given in “Thomson’s Seasons.”
“The fading, many-colored woods,
Shade deepening over shade.”
Since entering upon my second
term at one of the Southern colleges,
I have witnessed things that im
pressed me with a sense of the utter
ingratitude of students generally in
regard to their parents. They seem
to lose sight of the sacrifices those at
home are making in order that they
may enjoy the benefits of a college
education. In many instances, the
hard-earned savings of years are be
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children who seldom give it a thought,
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