. St. Nicholas [serial] . tural home : First Prize, five dollars and Leaguegold badge. Second Prize, three dollars and Leaguegold badge. Third Prize, League gold badge. RULES. Any reader of St. Nicholas, whether a subscriberor not, is entitled to League membership, and a Leaguebadge and leaflet, which will be sent on application. Every contribution, of whatever kind, must bear thename, age, and address of the sender, and be indorsedas original by parent, teacher, or guardian, who mustbe convinced beyond doubt that the contribution is notcopied, but wholly the work and idea of the pro
. St. Nicholas [serial] . tural home : First Prize, five dollars and Leaguegold badge. Second Prize, three dollars and Leaguegold badge. Third Prize, League gold badge. RULES. Any reader of St. Nicholas, whether a subscriberor not, is entitled to League membership, and a Leaguebadge and leaflet, which will be sent on application. Every contribution, of whatever kind, must bear thename, age, and address of the sender, and be indorsedas original by parent, teacher, or guardian, who mustbe convinced beyond doubt that the contribution is notcopied, but wholly the work and idea of the prose, the number of wordsshould also be added. Thesethings must not be on a sepa-rate sheet, but on the contribu-tion itself—if a manuscript,on the upper margin ; if a pic-ture, on the margin or or draw on one side ofthe paper only. A contributormay send but one contribu-tion a month—not one of eachkind, but one : The St. Nicholas League,Union Square, New York. SCHOOL AGAIN. BY EARL PARK, AGE SCHOOL-DAYSAGAIN. We all know that at firstit is not at all hard to takeup the routine of school-work, even after thedelightful freedom of vacation days. There isa pleasant novelty in the fresh, clean-smellingnew school-books, in the beginning of newstudies, in the faces of new-comers; but wealso know that before long the freshness isgone and there is danger that school duties willbegin to become a burden. Edward EverettHale has written a clever little book of essaysentitled How to Do It, wherein he gives ad-vice to young people upon a variety of every-day matters. In regard to the hours spent inschool, he makes the wise suggestion that theway to make these hours as swift in flight asthose of vacation time is to give ones selfheartily to the task in hand, whatever it maybe. Who of us has not seen a child give moretime to worrying and fretting over a task thanwould have been ample to complete the taskitself? And besides, the doing of the workwould have been mu
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