DEAR MR. EDITOR,—I have just been reading the 1000th Number of THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER, and I feel I must write to thank you (and congratulate you) for the pleasures and benefits which I have received from it during a very long acquaintance; in fact I knew it in its very first days, and distinctly remember being keenly interested in the tale “Zara, or, My Granddaughter’s Money.” I was really a girl then, and it seems, and is, a long, long while ago. I can but echo heartily Miss Burnside’s wish that it may live another 1000 weeks, and yet another; and—who knows?—another on to that. I should think one great reason for its popularity is that it suits so many different sorts of minds. There is no doubt that when catering for our mental food, you have remembered the old saying that “variety is charming.” More, it is also wholesome. With every good wish for a yet wider circulation of our dear paper, and the welfare of our Editor, Believe me, truly yours, A. M. _Postscript._ I hailed thy birth, dear “G. O. P.,” With truest joy and pleasure; I said the gods have given me At last “a perfect treasure.” I watched thee grow with loving eyes Into a world-wide favour; Small wonder was it girls should prize Thy teachings of sweet savour. The years have gone, and thou hast gained In wisdom, strength, and beauty; And, best of all, the power retained To make us do our duty. Also one from the country: DEAR EDITOR,—I must write to thank you for presenting to us (to me) “Portrait Gallery of Contributors” to our dear GIRL’S OWN PAPER. It is so nice to see their faces, to really know what those that give us pleasure, profit, etc., are like. Very nice to see our dear Editor’s face. We now know the one who for so many years has laboured much for us—your “girls.” No words will come to me to express all the gratitude I feel to you and all your helpers. God bless you, and all the others, and richly reward you, even here. You cannot see the great pleasure with which THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER is read as each month comes; and re-reading it and all those that have gone before is just as great; but let this letter just let you know how one heart is often cheered and encouraged to go on through its perusal. I did not mean when I began this letter to write about myself, only to try and express my loving thanks. Forgive all I have written, and let me sign myself One of your grateful girls, ELLIE. Scores of girls in their teens, some of them only recent subscribers, write enthusiastically and in good taste; but as there is perforce much similarity in them, it is not desirable to print them. However, the two following are original: