. St. Nicholas [serial]. ; but to link different consonant endings — it is almost too badto talk about! Some League members from Athens, 111., have sent us a copy ofa little paper entitled The Only Thing. It is a type-writtensheet, and very creditable to the young editors. Some of the per-sonals, however, are really so very personal as to make editing inAthens seem a perilous employment. For example : Mr. Potts has a curly topknot, but is going away, we are sorryto say, to the land of the South, and ride on the train with a pipe inhis mouth. Even the poetry of the above will hardly be an excus
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ; but to link different consonant endings — it is almost too badto talk about! Some League members from Athens, 111., have sent us a copy ofa little paper entitled The Only Thing. It is a type-writtensheet, and very creditable to the young editors. Some of the per-sonals, however, are really so very personal as to make editing inAthens seem a perilous employment. For example : Mr. Potts has a curly topknot, but is going away, we are sorryto say, to the land of the South, and ride on the train with a pipe inhis mouth. Even the poetry of the above will hardly be an excuse for theyoung editors when Mr. Potts gets home. Another personal seemsless dangerous but no less worth reprinting: Mr. Ellis is a finepreacher. All that wit-nessed his last Sundayssermon said it was grand,and it was. He began var-nishing the church to-day. One more, and then wewill close: Mrs. J. R. H en-tertained a party of fifteenguests at her home east ofAthens. Such a big dinnerwas served that all fell A TAILPIECE FOR NOVEMBER. BY WALTER ROTHSCHILDS, AGE II. PRIZE COMPETITION No. 50. The St. Nicholas League awards gold and silverbadges each month for the best poems, stories, draw-ings, photographs, puzzles, and puzzle-answers. A Special Cash Prize. To any League member whohas won a gold badge for any of theabove-named achievements, and shallagain win first place, a cash prize offive dollars will be awarded, insteadof another gold badge. Competition No. 50 will close No-vember 20 (for foreign members No-vember 25). The awards will beannounced and prize contributionspublished in St. Nicholas for Feb-ruary. Verse. To contain not more thantwenty-four lines, and may be illus-trated, if desired, with not more thantwo drawings or photographs by theauthor, and to relate in some mannerto Abraham Lincoln. Prose. Article or story of not morethan four hundred words. Title, The Story of a Word, being thehistory of the origin, use, and evolu-tion of any word the author ma
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