Desirable Books for the Home

TRAVELS IN THREE CONTINENTS

Europe, Africa, Asia. By J. M. Buckley, LL.D. Illustrated. 8vo, 614 pages, cloth, $3.50.

THREE OF US

Barney, Cossack, Rex. By Izora C. Chandler. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 327 pages, $2.00.

OOWIKAPUN

Or, How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians. By Egerton R. Young. Illustrated. 12mo, 24 pages, $1.00.

CORNISH STORIES

By Mark Guy Pearse. Illustrated. 12mo, 175 pages, 70 cents.

BRAVE LADS AND BONNIE LASSIES

By Fred Myron Colby. Illustrated. 339 pages, $1.50.

OUR BOYS

What They Can Do and How To Do It. Compiled by William Stoddard. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 192 pages, $1.00.

A GREAT APPOINTMENT

By Myra Goodwin Plantz. Illustrated. 12mo, 218 pages, 90 cents.

BESSIE AND BEE

By Mary D. Brine. Illustrated by Agnes M. Watson. Square 12mo, 87 pages, 75 cents.

THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL

Selected by Adelaide S. Seaverns. 12mo, 368 pages, $1.00.

GRANDMONT

Stories of an Old Monastery. By Walter T. Griffin. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 272 pages, $1.20.

REUBE DARE'S SHAD BOAT

A Tale of the Tide Country. By Charles G. D. Roberts. Illustrated. 12mo, 145 pages, 75 cents.

A GOLDEN WEEK

By Emma J. Gray. Illustrated. 12mo, 222 pages, 90 cents.

HIS COUSIN THE DOCTOR

By Minnie Willis Baines. 12mo, 198 pages, 75 cents.

BLASTS FROM A RAM'S HORN

By Elijah P. Brown. Illustrated. 12mo, 388 pages, $1.20.

THE GALILEAN GOSPEL

By A. B. Bruce. 12mo, 232 pages, 75 cents.

HER BEN

A Tale of Royal Resolves. By Carlisle B. Holding. 12mo, 357 pages, 90 cents.

AN ODD FELLOW

A Tale of To-day. By C. B. Holding. Illustrated. 12mo, 391 pages, $1.25.

JOY THE DEACONESS

By Elizabeth E. Holding. Illustrated. 12mo, 213 pages, 90 cents.

ONE WOMAN'S STORY

Or, The Chronicles of a Quiet Life. By Ellen A. Lutz. Illustrated. 12mo, 300 pages, $1.25.

CORNER WORK

Or, Look Up, Lift Up. By Myra Goodwin Plantz. 12mo, 277 pages, 75 cents.

EVERY-DAY RELIGION

Or, The Common Sense Teaching of the Bible. By Hannah Whitall Smith. 12mo, 242 pages, $1.00.

ONE RICH MAN'S SON

By Emma Lefferts Super. Illustrated. 12mo, 209 pages, 90 cents.

BARBARA HECK

A Tale of Early Methodism. By W. H. Withrow. Illustrated. 12mo, 238 pages, 90 cents.

PROVIDENTIAL EPOCHS

By Frank M. Bristol. Illustrated. 12mo, 269 pages, $1.25.

Any of these books will be sent to any address, postage prepaid by the publishers, on receipt of price. A liberal discount will be allowed to purchasers of ten or more of the books selected from this list.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.

Sally B. asks me how I would set about getting up a little fair for a charity, what one must first do, and how such an enterprise can be made a success.

First talk it over with your mother, and get her advice and co-operation. Girls can always carry on affairs of this sort best if they have their mother's help and sympathy. It is very nice to talk all one's plans over with one's mother.

If mamma approves, write notes to your most intimate friends, asking them to a meeting at your house on the first convenient day. Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, for instance, is a good time for most girls to spare an hour. Of course there are some girls whom you can invite verbally. It is not worth while to write a note to Mary Adrain, whom you walk to school with every day, or to Susie Spader, whose seat in school adjoins your own.

Having brought your friends together, appoint one young lady to take the chair, and then state as clearly as you can, with her permission, the object of the meeting. Tell about the charity you wish to aid. It may be a Babies' Hospital, or a poor family, or a crippled child who is in need of medical attendance and relief. More money is necessary than any one of you can give outright, so you think it would be nice to have a fair, and devote the money gained to the excellent purpose you have in view.

Probably there will be no objections. The question of funds will come up, and if each of you can donate a small sum, say twenty-five cents apiece, you can buy with the whole amount sufficient material to make a great many pretty and easily saleable articles—as doilies, tea-cloths, centre-pieces, carving-cloths, cases for brushes and combs, crocheted slippers for the bedside, and other dainty bits of handiwork. These will furnish your fancy table. When the time comes for your fair, make a quantity of delicious home-made candy, and put it in pretty boxes, daintily wrapped in paraffine paper. Take orders beforehand for your candy. You will have no trouble in selling caramels, chocolate creams, peppermint creams, and old-fashioned molasses candy. I am sure about this part of the fair, for I know that home-made candy, if good, vanishes like magic when little cooks are the saleswomen.

Dolls, prettily dressed, will find many willing buyers, and with the holidays just before us, you ought to secure orders for dolls among your friends. Dolls dressed in costume as queens, shepherdesses, fairies, and sailors, are very attractive.