_Nellie Wright._ “Nine years old.” Said and done a thousand things or more in that time. Now, suppose you live to be ninety,—my dear uncle has just died at ninety-two,—and you keep on saying and doing, then how many thousand will it be? But all the better if it be all for Jesus’ sake. I like Florida, and you must like Kansas, which gives you “lots of corn and fruit.” BIBLE READING FOR DECEMBER. (_Christ._) Dec. 1. Ps. xxiv: 7-10; 1 Cor. ii: 8. “ 2. Mi. v: 2; Matt. ii: 3-6. “ 3. Is. lx: 6; Matt. ii: 7-12. “ 4. Hos. xi: 1; Matt. ii: 13-15. “ 5. Jer. xxxi: 15; Matt. ii: 16-18. “ 6. Is. xi: 2 and xlii: 1; Matt. 3: 13-17. “ 7. Is. ix: 6; Luke ii: 11. “ 8. Is. liii: 4; Matt. viii: 16, 17 “ 9. Is. liii: 5; 1 Pet. ii: 24. “ 10. Is. liii: 7; Matt. xxvii: 12-14. “ 11. Is. liii: 9; Matt. xxvii: 57-60. “ 12. Is. liii: 10; Luke iii: 6. “ 13. Matt. iv: 18-22. “ 14. Matt. iv: 23-25. “ 15. Matt. ix: 18, 19, 23-26. “ 16. Matt. xi: 25-30. “ 17. 2 Cor. v: 14, 15, 17. “ 18. Rom. viii: 1, 2, 17, 18. “ 19. Rom. viii: 35, 37-39. “ 20. Rom. xv: 1-3. “ 21. Rom. v: 1-2. “ 22. Rom. v: 7-9. “ 23. John xviii: 33-40. “ 24. Luke ii: 8-14. “ 25. Luke ii: 15-20. “ 26. John xix: 1-7. “ 27. John xix: 8-12. “ 28. John xix: 13-16. “ 29. John xix: 17-22 and xx: 31. “ 30. Mark xvi: 19; Lu. xxiv: 51; Acts i: 9. “ 31. Acts i: 10, 11; Matt. 24: 42-46. EXTRACTS FROM PANSY LETTERS. DEAR PANSY: From a tiny child, May, if told to do anything, would do it just a little differently. If told to put a thing on the table, she would say, “I dess will put it on lounge,” and when I answered, “No; on the table,” she would skip along, laughing, “I dess will put it on chair.” But doing a little differently from mamma’s way and God’s way will end in many a heartache Pray that mother and child may yield impliably to the dear Father’s will. MAY and her MAMMA. P. S. May sends six cents for the organ, earned by washing and wiping dishes. ====== DEAR PANSY: This is one of my compositions: A PAPER OF NEEDLES. First, a coil of steel wire, twenty-four inches long. This cut through the middle by scissors into little curved bundles, long enough for two needles. Straighten and point them—on a grindstone. They are pointed at both ends. They must now have their eyes opened. Needles, like puppies and kittens, are born blind. They are stamped with a heavy die that leaves the print of two needles’ heads and eyes at the center of the wire. Then the eyes are opened with a double punch. HARRY B. HAYES. ====== DEAR PANSY: My fault is that I am ready to give, but not to take advice. I am president of a society. One member chooses another to write about; others read or recite selections. I attend Shurtleff Grammar School.