Your loving friend, Lucy Taylor. - - - - - - - DEAR PANSY: I have a good many faults, but I want to overcome them. I think the worst one is not to mind promptly. I mean to take for my motto: "Do your duty promptly." I hope God will help me to keep it. Mamma found some rules in a paper, which she said if I would learn and obey, would please her very much. I am going to. I am nine years old; I love THE PANSY very much. I want to be a Blossom in your garden. Please send me a badge. Your loving friend, PAUL THOMPSON. PAUL'S RULES FOR BEING A TRUE GENTLEMAN. 1. Not to tease smaller boys or girls. 2. Be polite and respectful to my mother, and to all people older than I. 3. Be kind and helpful to my sisters. 4. Choose my friends among good boys. 5. Be gentlemanly at home. 6. Take my mother into my confidence if I do wrong. 7. Never tell a lie. 8. Never smoke, chew tobacco, or drink liquor; or use profane or slang words. HOW SUCCESS IS WON. IS there a Blossom among you who does not want to win success? I am sure I hope not. There is an old saying, into which is packed a deal of common sense. This is, "What has been done, can be done." Since there is truth in it, would it not be well for all who want to succeed, to study those who have succeeded? To this end, I want to introduce the Pansies to a book bearing the title which is at the head of this article. It is written by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton of Cleveland, which name you will know, when you grow older, if you do not now, ensures it as delightfully written and worthy of all trust. A copy of the book lies on my desk at this moment. There is a sense in which it is not of much consequence how a book is dressed, and yet I do like to see one in a pretty dress, don't you? This one is robed in a lovely gray tint, very like the color which used to be called "ashes of roses;" ask your mamma if she remembers that. It has an exquisite design in gold, representing the ocean, a ship riding its waves, a lighthouse streaming out its warning of rocks ahead, and a hint of harbor in the distance. As to size, there are two hundred and forty-five pages clear type, with very good pictures of twelve grand men who were eminently successful in their various fields, and a brief sketch of each, given in Mrs. Bolton's inimitable style.