mean to," added Betty, pleadingly.

"Three cheers for the bride!" roared Ben, dipping his flag, as leaning
on her husband's arm his dear mistress passed through the gay party,
along the leaf-strewn walk, over the threshold of the house which was to
be her happy home for many years.

The closed gate where the lonely little wanderer once lay was always to
stand open now, and the path where children played before was free to
all comers, for a hospitable welcome henceforth awaited rich and poor,
young and old, sad and gay, Under the Lilacs.

[Illustration]

HAPPY LITTLE FROGGY.

BY E. MUeLLER.

[Illustration]

Happy little Froggy, he
Was proud enough
Of his trousers and his coat,
Green and buff.

Came and caught him Rob and Bess,
Quick as flash,
Dressed him up in Dolly's dress,
And her sash.

Froggy gave a frantic leap,
And in three springs
Took into the water deep
All Dolly's things.

HOW TO KEEP A JOURNAL.

BY W. S. JEROME.

Autumn is as good a time as any for a boy or girl to begin to keep a
journal. Too many have the idea that it is a hard and unprofitable task
to keep a journal, and especially is this the case with those who have
begun, but soon gave up the experiment. They think it is a waste of
time, and that no good results from it. But that depends upon the kind
of journal that you keep. Everybody has heard of the boy who thought he
would try to keep a diary. He bought a book, and wrote in it, for the
first day, "Decided to keep a journal." The next day he wrote, "Got up,
washed, and went to bed." The day after, he wrote the same thing, and no
wonder that at the end of a week he wrote, "Decided not to keep a
journal," and gave up the experiment. It is such attempts as this, by
persons who have no idea of what a journal is, or how to keep it, that
discourage others from beginning. But it is not hard to keep a journal
if you begin in the right way, and will use a little perseverance and
patience. The time spent in writing in a journal is not wasted, by any
means. It may be the best employed hour of any in the day, and a
well-kept journal is a source of pleasure and advantage which more than
repays the writer for the time and trouble spent upon it.

The first thing to do in beginning a journal, is to resolve to stick to
it. Don't begin, and let the poor journal die in a week. A journal, or
diary, should be written in _every day_, if possible.