. St. Nicholas [serial]. 15), Via Omenini, No. 1,Milan, Italy. Silver badges, Madge Pulsford (age 13),Hotel Del Prado, Chicago, 111., and HarryLefeber (age 13), 84 W. Main St., Wau-watosa, Wis. Wild-animal and Bird prize, Fox, by Lawrence Palmer(age 15), 10 Prospect St., Cortland, NewYork. Second prize, Gulls, by HannaD. Monaghan (age 14), Swarthmore, prize, Spider-crab, by RichardMurdoch (age 13), 38 Whitney St., Rox-bury, Mass. Puzzle-making. Gold badges, DouglasTodd (age 15), Plainview, Tex., and Har-vey Deschere (age 15), 334 W. 58th St.,New York City. Silver bad
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 15), Via Omenini, No. 1,Milan, Italy. Silver badges, Madge Pulsford (age 13),Hotel Del Prado, Chicago, 111., and HarryLefeber (age 13), 84 W. Main St., Wau-watosa, Wis. Wild-animal and Bird prize, Fox, by Lawrence Palmer(age 15), 10 Prospect St., Cortland, NewYork. Second prize, Gulls, by HannaD. Monaghan (age 14), Swarthmore, prize, Spider-crab, by RichardMurdoch (age 13), 38 Whitney St., Rox-bury, Mass. Puzzle-making. Gold badges, DouglasTodd (age 15), Plainview, Tex., and Har-vey Deschere (age 15), 334 W. 58th St.,New York City. Silver badges, Agnes Howe (age 14),Long Green, Md., and Helen F. Carter(age 13), Burlington, N. J. Puzzle-answers. Gold badges, PaulR. Deschere (age 13), 334 W. 58th St.,New York City, and Charles Almy, Jr.(age 15), 147 Brattle St., Cambridge,Mass. Silver badges, Eleanor Clifton (age15), 3218 Mount Vernon St., West Phila-delphia, Pa., and Josephine Theresa Sti-ven (age 12), 67 W. g2d St., N. Y. City. 37o ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [ A SKETCH FROM MEMORY. BY HENRY C. HUTCHINS, AGE 14. (GOLD BADGE.) THE DERIVATION OF A WORD. {Cash Prize.) BY ELLEN DUNVVOODY (AGE 17). It has been said by some eminent scholar that onecould read a nations history in its language. Thatsuch is the case even we apprentices of the art can seeby taking, for example, the period of Roman we notice its effects on the customs and language ofthe conquered people, we can see how the impressionhas been preserved, especially in the French, Spanish,and Italian tongues. But if we take a single word and, thanks to the manystudents who have spent their lives in such work, traceit back to its very root, we should feel more strongly notonly the spiritual but the actual brotherhood of man. Take, for example, the word mother, one of theoldest and dearest in our language. In the golden time ofalmost prehistoric ages,when there were compara-tively few people on thisworld of ours, the little childof northwestern India, a
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