4. Send by post to Editor, GIRL’S OWN PAPER, 56, Paternoster Row, London. “Puzzle Poem” to be written on the top left-hand corner of the envelope. 5. The last day for receiving solutions from Great Britain and Ireland will be July 17, 1899; from Abroad, September 16, 1899. The competition is open to all without any restrictions as to sex or age. OUR SUPPLEMENT STORY COMPETITION. ONLY A SHOP-GIRL: A STORY IN MINIATURE. FIRST PRIZE (£2 2s.). May Shawyer, Penrith. SECOND PRIZE (£1 1s.). Mabel Gibson, Wandsworth Common, S.W. THIRD PRIZE (10s. 6d.). Lucy Bourne, Winchester. _Honourable Mention._ Rose Cooke, Lowestoft; Lily Chamberlain, Forest Hill, S.E.; Letitia E. May, Alton, Hants.; Kate Betts, Kemp Town, Brighton; Mabel Jenks, Cambridge; Kate Nora Norris, Stoke Newington; Elsie Olver, Brockley; Bessie Hine, South Tottenham; Jane Bailey German, West Bromwich; Ethel G. Goulden, Finsbury Park Road, N.; Jessie Elizabeth Jackson, Beverley; Relda Hofman, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France; Maggie Bisset, Aberdeen; W. Bruin, Greenwich; Jessie Middlemiss, Ripon; Laura Johnson, Richmond, S.W.; Edith Alice Hague, Stockport; “Little Nell,” Lincs.; Violet C. Todd, Cornhill-on-Tweed; Winifred Botterill, Driffield, East Yorks; Mabel Moscrop, Saltburn-by-Sea; Margaret W. Rudd, Anerley; Jessie H. Hughes, Croydon; May Adele Venn, West Kensington Park, W.; Gertrude Borrow, Goldhurst Terrace, N.W.; Jessie Aitchison, Wandsworth, S.W. ⁂ The publication of the Supplement Stories is in abeyance at present in order to afford our readers an opportunity of acquiring those stories already issued. The first story, “A Cluster of Roses,” by Sarah Doudney, is now in its third edition, and is published at 3d., and in cloth 6d. SUNDROPS,[3] Our Extra Summer Number, is now published (price 6d.), and our readers must order it at once from their booksellers, if they wish to possess a copy, as the Number cannot be reprinted. CONTENTS. _Frontispiece: Sweet Summer Eve._ =Ivy.= A Short Story. By the Lady DUNBOYNE, Author of “The Three Old Maids of Leigh,” etc. =Offers of Marriage.= By ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO. =On Perfection of Position for Girl Cyclists.= Fully Illustrated. By Mrs. EGBERT A. NORTON. =In the Red Days of the Terror.= A Story in Four Chapters. By MARIA A. HOYER, Author of “A Trick for a Trick.” =How I Won my Bee Certificate.= =Little Tapers.= By the Rev. FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE, M.A. =Bound for Life.= A Story. By GRACE STEBBING. =The Cuisine of Foreign Countries.= By a Traveller. =June-Time and Roses.= A Poem. =Gipsies.= Song and Chorus for Girls’ Voices. By ETHEL HARRADEN. =Two Noble Women of Hawaii.= By SUSAN E. PINDER. =How to make the most of Life.= By C. E. SKINNER. =The Forest Princess.= A Short Story. By MARY E. HULLAH. =Autobiography of a Perambulator.= By ANNE BEALE. =Rachel.= A Rustic Idyll. By ISABEL S. JACOMB-HOOD. =A Seaside Holiday.= By CLOTILDA MARSON.