The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 | Page 9

is twenty-six
inches tall and twenty-six years old. She is very cunning. She slept in a
cigar-box up to the time that she was six years old! The man that told
about her said that there was nothing she disliked more than to be
called "dear little thing."
You asked us to tell you about any book that we like. "Timothy's
Quest" is one of my favorite stories, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. All her
stories end well, this one especially. It is very funny, also.
Will you please send me a "Who? When? What?" chart?
Wishing success to your little paper, I remain,
Your true and constant reader, WEST NEWTON, MASS., Feb. 20th,
1897. CLARA M.B.
Grace may perhaps find Clara's favorite story, "Timothy's Quest,"
interesting to her. We are much obliged to Clara for her nice letter.
EDITOR.
DEAR MR. EDITOR:
It's Washington's Birthday, and a very gloomy day, too. I haven't
anything to do, and mamma is in a great state of things, so I thought I
would write, which I never like to do.
Well, you know there is a lot of cruelty going on all around the world.
Just think, in the summer time, how animals suffer, poor things. But I
cannot do a thing. I just have to see and hear about it.
Now there goes a horse-car driver whipping his horse, and here's a man
pulling the reins so the poor creature's head is bent way back and his lip
bleeding. I do beg you to write something in your paper about it, but
don't say who told you to, for all the children whom I know that get
your paper would laugh at me; but if you don't tell them they will think
it all right. I'll tell you what to write: just something to ask them to be

good to animals; and tell them some of the sufferings of animals.
I don't know what to say now, so good-by.
Your friend,
DEAR LITTLE FRIEND:
We could not resist the temptation to publish your letter, though we
have not put your name to it, and so no one will guess that it comes
from you. Dear child, your gentle plea for dumb animals will do far
more to make thoughtless people care for them than any words of ours.
But we will do our best to help you, and will try to have the article you
ask for written.
There is a Society in New York for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, and it publishes a lot of little books and papers telling people
how to take care of animals. You should ask your mamma to let you go
to the Society's rooms at No. 10 East 22d Street, and get Mr. Haines to
give some of these books to you.
When you grow up you should join the Society, and then you would be
able to do a great deal for animals. They will love you for your kind
little heart as much as we do.
You might do something to help your favorites now, by getting all the
boys and girls you know to join you in forming Bands of Mercy. These
are clubs of young people who pledge themselves to be kind and
helpful to all animals.
Write to Mr. J.L. Stevens, the Secretary of the American Humane
Education Society, Milk Street, Boston.
Tell him THE GREAT ROUND WORLD gave you his address, and he
will send you information about forming your club, and about the
badges and rules.
You can do a great deal for suffering animals by interesting other boys

and girls in the work, and teaching them that we ought to be even
kinder to animals than we are to one another, because animals are dumb,
and cannot tell us when they suffer.
EDITOR.
We have great pleasure in informing our readers that we are about to
publish a volume of "GREAT ROUND WORLD Natural History
Stories."
We know how much our young friends love true stories. This
collection will contain only true stories, and has been written by one
who was an intimate friend, as she says, of each of these interesting
creatures.
It has taken several years to collect them, and they are being prepared
and illustrated with the greatest care.
We publish one story as a supplement, and will be very glad if our
readers will let us know if it pleases them.
We are constantly having new books sent in to us. We would like to
have our subscribers read the books, and write us what they think of
them. Letters of this kind will be printed in THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD from time to time. Any of our subscribers who have had a
letter about some book published may become a "reader"--that is,