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JUVENILE GLEANIKGS. 



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when the bloom first opened. Now, then, is 

 honey gathered from a tree in this last con- 

 dition, equal to that of the first-opening 

 blossoms y Who will tell us ?— I am glad to 

 hear about the lish-pond, Esther. I do not 

 know much about fish ; but of late the (Jer- 

 man carp seem to be attracting more atten- 

 tion than almost any other lish. 



A NEIV HONEV-STAND. 



ONE THAT CAN BE DOUBLED UP AND SENT BY MAIL. 



FP]W days ago we received a neat little 

 ])ackag"e by express. After we took 

 ' the wrappings off, we found some- 

 thing that looks about like the cut below. 



nONEY STA^D IN THE FLAT, READY FOR SHIPMENT 



After taking the pieces apart, and looking 

 at them a little, we found it Avas intended 

 for a honey-stand or book-shelf ; and when 

 we got the pieces together, it Icoked some- 

 thing like this : 



HONEY-STAND READY FOR USE. 



The three shelves are 22 inches long by 6* 

 wide, and they stand about !) inclies apart. 

 The framework is made of wire, so heavy 

 that it would stand 100 lbs. or more ; and 

 yet the, whole is so light as to come within 

 the prescribed limits to be sent by mail (foiu- 

 pounds). The whole is made of hard wood, 

 neatly varnished. Price SI .00; or sent by 

 mail for SI. 64. We can furnish them, if de- 

 sired. Not only is this a splendid thing for 

 displaying honey for sale, but there are only 

 a few families but could use one or more of 

 them to most excellent advantage for book- 

 shelves, or a sort of bracket for curiosities, 

 etc. Most children (besides some other peo- 

 ple) are prone to fall into the habit of scat- 

 tering things about, when a neat little shelf 

 miglit induce them to form habits of put- 

 ting things away. I suppose you know how 

 it is in your own homes. Now, I can not 

 think of any thing much nicer for a child's 

 sleeping - room than a shelf like the cut 

 above, to hang up in it. 1 thought, when I 



first sav/ i(r, that they ought to be furnished 

 for rather less than St. 00, and I think so 

 yet ; yet that is the price fixed on them by 

 the friend who sent it, Mr. A. VV. Stuart, 

 Belleville, 111. 



JESSIE'S LETTER. 



HER ACCOUNT OF THE WAY THE MEN MANAGED 

 WHEN THEY CAlilE AFTER THE BEES. 



IJ-^E live on a farm five miles from any town. 

 My mamma keeps bees. She sold 6 colonies 

 yesterday, and the men came to get them 

 last night and the bees stung them. There were 

 three men and one boy. They all had mosquitC'bar 

 over their faces. They looked very funny running 

 around in the moonlight with the mosquito-bar 

 sailing out behind them. A bee crawled up under 

 Mr. Ladd's coat, and stung him; he jumped as if he 

 had been shot, and yelled murder. The men asked 

 him where it stung him; he said, "Right on the 

 bustle." They did not get started away till mid- 

 night. They seemed to have a great deal of fun; 

 when one would get stpng all the rest would laugh 

 at him. We watched them from an upstairs win- 

 dow, till we grew tired and sleepy, then we went to 

 bed, and left them to fight it out. 



I have been making section bo.xes, and filling them 

 with fdn. I can make a hundred section boxes every 

 hour. I like to do it. I think it is more fun than 

 playing jackstones, and I like that very much. Jack- 

 stones are some little iron things. There are five of 

 them; you throw them up and catch them on the 

 back of your hand. One way you catch them is 

 called "rldiflg the elephant;" another way, "making 

 the beds;" another, "setting the table;" another 

 way you throw them and catch them five times, etc. 



My big sister Minnie goes to school in Ipava, and 

 all the children in that school played jackstones, and 

 when Minnie came home she bought me some for a 

 birthday present. My birthday has not come yet. I 

 will be 11 in July; but Minnie did not wait till my 

 birthday, to give me the jackstones. They cost 

 only 5 cents. If I were a rich little girl I would buy 

 jackstones and give them to all the poor children I 

 know. They would be good to amuse them, while 

 their mothers went away from home to wash for 

 other people. Mamma bought her fdn. of Mr. Da- 

 dant ; it is so nice that I keep wanting to eat it ; but 

 mamma won't let me. She says if I want to eat bees- 

 wax, I must go in the kitchen and eat the home- 

 made kind. If you like this letter, I will write you 

 one every month. Jessie Chaddock. 



Rose Park, Illinois, June 19, 188:5. 



Your letter is a very good one, Jessie, and 

 I should like to have you send one every 

 month. And you love to play jackstones 

 too; and well do I remember it, since you 

 tell us about it. Such games are very well 

 for small children, and perhaps occasionally 

 older ones, if they do not neglect important 

 duties when they get much interested in the 

 play. I do not believe it a good plan to take 

 very much time for games, because, after 

 you get through, nothing, or comparatively 

 nothing, is accomplished. If you play Avith 

 a hive of bees, or a garden, or silkworms, the 

 result of your play is something healthful 

 and valuable ; and I, for my part, would not 

 want to take much time for any thing that 



