air built in the grape arbor.

Here is a recipe for cake for the Cooking Club: One and a half
cups of sugar; one egg; two table-spoonfuls of butter; three cups
of sifted flour; one cup of sweet milk; two tea-spoonfuls of cream
of tartar; one of soda; a little essence of either lemon or
almond--I like almond best. This will make a good big cake.

ELLA B. R.

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I found fifty-five new flowers in June. Among them was the
_Ceanothus americanus_, or New Jersey tea, the leaves of which,
mamma read to me, were used for tea during the American
Revolution. It is a pretty shrub with white flowers.

I have two pet kittens, named Puck and Blossom.

I would like to send Carrie Harding some pressed arbutus, but it
has done blooming for this year. I would be glad to exchange other
kinds of pressed flowers with her, if she would like to do so.

HARRY H. MOORE,
Windsor, Connecticut.

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ANACOSTIA, D. C.

On the 10th of July I was nine years old. Although it is vacation
now, I practice writing in my copy-book, for it is very important
to be a good writer.

I have a butterfly net, and have caught some very pretty
specimens. If Walter H. P. would use benzine to kill his
butterflies, he would find it quite as good as cyanide of
potassium, which is so poisonous. Benzine can be bought by the
quart at the paint shops at a low price, and one or two drops on
the head of a butterfly will kill it at once.

I have a bantam rooster so tame that he will allow me to pick him
up and carry him in my arms. I have a kitchen-garden, too. In it
there are potatoes, corn, tomatoes, water-melons, a pea-nut vine,
and two fine tobacco plants. One of my tomato vines has fruit on
it. There are no weeds in my garden.

I think HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is the best paper published for
children.

WILLIE C. S.

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HARSHMANVILLE, OHIO.

Papa takes HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for my brother. Mamma made him a
pie from Helen's recipe. It was very nice. Mamma says some little
girls are born cooks.

When my brother reads the fairy stories in YOUNG PEOPLE, he says
he would like to wade the Atlantic Ocean, and put a few whales in
his pocket for his minnow tank. No