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Julia F. Vander Veer Dorothy Lee

Ruth Cork
Walter Daily

Mary W. Coulbourn
Hilda W. Abel
Ethel E. Walters
Mary Savacool
Dorothy R. Burnett
Ena L. Hourwich
Antoinette

Shallcross
Imogen Ferguson
Rosalie Stork
Nina Lowenstein
Susan Hall

Rose Pollack

Edith M. Gentry
Carl Eardley
Dorothy Dell
Mary H. Wilde
Madelyn Kennedy
Ernestine F. Wilder
Gertrude Cross
Betty Grant
Elizabeth C. Sonier
Elizabeth de Clercq
Martha McCowen
Wenonah Inman
Evelyn Wagner
Herbert Hinman
Alice McCann
Luella Sharpe
Marie L. Tricon
Elizabeth Lumsden
Josephine Dunham
Yetta Beneck
Virginia W. Butler
Dorothy Brown
Nancy Key

VERSE
Elizabeth Brooks
Amy Armitage
Margaret

Buckmaster
Stewart North
Pamela Johnston
Corinne Condé
Bradley P.

Bakewell
Helen W. Stewart
Kathleen Kohn
Herma J. Neeland
Frances Tuckerman
Gertrude D. Hill
Helen B.
Monkhouse

Elizabeth

Hardaway

Irene Renk
Ruth Renk
Sophia Walker
Josephine Comfort
Ellen Forsyth
Alice Kenyon
Martha Cox
Mary Hatch
Ruth Meade

Beth Chamberlain

Fred Schulman
Dorothy Lowery
Casper Jillson
Elizabeth Thorp
Frances Miller
Brenda Green
Jane Wertheimer
Florence Jackson
William Toth
Jeanne S. Offner

DRAWINGS
Dorothy A.

Stephenson
Marjorie E. Root
Marie A. Peyré
Alison Farmer
Betty Muir
Selma Morse
Katharine Wolfe
Marjorie A. Bly
Martha E. Ball
Robert Cressey
William Shoemaker
Jane Gaston
Rene Lederer
Mary V. Bell
Delphine Caron
Thomas E. Rooney
Leonora J. Hanna
Hannah Gilman
Marcelyn Lichty
Walton Christian
Ruth S. Buffington
Rowena Thom
Holman D. Hoover
John S. Garth
Lydia Spitzer
Jeannette Minturn
Herbert L. Block
Elizabeth Bougher
Dorotha Yeager
Carol Bower
Mary E. Troxell
Virginia H. Powell
Mary Francis
Lindsley
Mary Hawke
Katherine Zimmerli
Margaret Westoby
Sylvia Santom
Olive Petry
Marcia Tikiob
Elisabeth Robertson
Jane Purfield
Priscilla Alden
Austin
Grace Harper
Glover
Victor Summers
Geraldine Smith
Beatrice R. Parvin
Sarah K. Stafford
Esperanza Miller
Evelyn H. Bulmer
Phyllis Krumm
Marian Clark
Edna M. Klein

PHOTOGRAPHS
William Speer
Caroline Harris
Betty Ann Booth
Helen Vogel
Marianna Medfee
Alberta Ruse
Margaret W.
Hussey
Carol O. Spilker
Frances Bissell
Alice H. Nachman
Barbara Jack
Marjorie Goodrich
Evelyn Best
Katharine Nash
Erma C. Wunderlei
Merva Martin
W. Clark Hanna
Cora B. Wakefield
Genevieve Lord
Mary H. Roberts
Martha L. Denny
Rhoda S. Reynolds
Ara Charbonneau
Cornelia M.

Dawson
Dorothy McCain
Elizabeth Gay
Helen L. Duncan
Elaine Brown
Alberta Perley
Katharine Carter
Albert Vann Fowler
Margaret Fegtly
Elizabeth Page
Emily M. Kellogg
Helen R. Post
Sturgis Wilson
Eleanor T. Wood
Helen C. Furer
Meredith Page
Jack Seymour
Shirley Tomes
Priscilla Camp
Jackson Kemper III
PUZZLES
Berenice Lasher
Dorothy Harris
Mona Morgan
Marjorie Taylor
Samuel Cabot, Jr.
Emily W. R. Smith
Letitia P. Clark
Margaret Shea
Eleanor R. Collins
Elizabeth Ufford
Marian E. Love
Ben Peticolas
Elmira Horning
Anne W. Ames
Barbara Bradley
Anne I. Williams
Virginia Harris
Jeannette Whitty
Eveleen Harryton
Winchester Wood
Claude M. Brooks
Harriet Hancock

WHAT THE LEAGUE IS

THE ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE is an organization of the readers of the ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE. THE LEAGUE motto is "Live to learn and learn to live."

THE LEAGUE emblem is the "Stars and Stripes." THE LEAGUE membership button bears the LEAGUE name and emblem.

THE ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE organized in November, 1899, became immediately popular with earnest and enlightened young folks, and now is widely recognized as one of the great artistic educational factors in the life of American boys and girls.

THE ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE awards gold and silver badges each month for the best original poems, stories, drawings, photographs, puzzles, and puzzle answers.

PRIZE COMPETITION, No. 266 Competition No. 266 will close February 1. All contributions intended for it must be mailed on or before that date. Prize announcements will be made and the selected contributions published in ST. NICHOLAS for May. Badges sent one month later.

Verse. To contain not more than twenty-four lines. Subject, "The Break O' Dawn."

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Prose. Essay or story of not more than three hundred words. Subject, "Lost and Found." Photograph. Any size, mounted mounted; no blue prints or negatives. Young photographers need not print and develop their pictures themselves. Subject, "A'Sunny Corner."

Drawing. India ink, very black writing-ink, or wash. Subject, "Busy" or "A Heading for May."

Puzzle. Must be accompanied by answer in full. Puzzle Answers. Best and neatest complete set of answers to puzzles in this issue of ST. NICHOLAS. Must be addressed to THE RIDDLE-BOX. No unused contribution can be returned unless it is accompanied by a self-addressed and stamped envelop of proper size to hold the manuscript or picture.

RULES

ANY reader of ST. NICHOLAS, whether a subscriber or not, is entitled to League membership, and upon application a League badge and leaflet will be sent free. No League member who has reached the age of eighteen years may compete.

Every contribution, of whatever kind, must bear the name, age, and address of the sender and be indorsed as "original" by parent, teacher, or guardian, who must be convinced beyond doubt and must state in writing-that the contribution is not copied, but wholly the work and idea of the sender.

If prose, the number of words should also be added. These notes must not be on a separate sheet, but on the contribution itself—if manuscript, on the upper margin; if a picture, on the margin or back. Write in ink on one side of the paper only. A contributor may send but one contribution a month-not one of each kind, but one only; this, however, does not include "competitions" in the advertising pages or "Answers to Puzzles."

Address: The St. Nicholas League,
The Century Co.

353 Fourth Avenue, New York.

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Last March we arrived in Africa and you followed us, much to my brother's and my delight. Through your WATCH TOWER we are keeping in touch with America.

"The Luck of Denewood" was very absorbing. I could hardly wait for the next instalment. My brother liked "The Dragon's Secret."

Perhaps you would be interested to know something of our life in this so-called Dark Continent. This country is by no means true to that name. It is the sunniest, most beautiful country, full of flowers and birds and luscious fruits.

Cape Town is a quaint old city nestling at the foot of the mountains, which are called the Devil's Peak, Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles, and Lion's Head mountain. Just beyond the mountains to the left is Table Bay. The sea and the mountains are so close that the city gives one an impression of pastel-colored jewels washed up by the sea and clinging to the feet of the mountains.

We have frequent southeastern winds known as "sou'easters." They come sweeping without any warning from no one knows where, blowing sand into our eyes. With these "sou'easters" there appears a cloud over Table Mountain, known to the people of a practical turn of mind as "the table-cloth.' I prefer to think of it as a waterfall, which it certainly resembles as it comes in torrents of vapor over the mountain-side. While walking on the mountain the other day I was above the clouds, they clinging in mist to my hair.

The sunsets here are vividly beautiful and the stars at night are brighter than any I ever saw in America. We have different ones here. There is the Southern Cross, which America does not see; but though I hunt for the Dipper, I never find it.

The streets of Cape Town are of cobblestones, and through them all day long little barefooted Malay boys run, coaxing along their tiny gray donkeys pulling their little carts. In these carts are pineapples, bananas, guavas and naartjes (tangarines).

The natives of South Africa are varied. There are the Hottentots, the little Bushmen, who are pigmies, the Zulus, and the Kaffirs. There are also many more tribes, which would take up a great deal of space even to name.

Your interested reader,

MARY E. CROUCH (AGE 15).

BEAR LAKE, PA.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have taken you for almost two years. Every month I look for you. The stories I like the best are the mystery stories, "The Dragon's Secret," "The Luck of Denewood," and "The Blue Pearl."

Bear Lake is the place where I live in the summer-time. The lake is called by that name because there are many bears seen around here.

Last summer, my father returning from a fishing-trip almost ran into one. It stood about seven feet high when standing on its haunches.

Two years ago, on the twenty-ninth of September, Mother, my sister, and myself were lost in the woods. We took a wrong path and could not find our way out again. Indeed, Mother did

not know whether we would ever get out. We found a place where there was a small stream. Where we were, we had no idea. We saw bear tracks and deer tracks. We were out all night. About two o'clock in the morning we heard foxes barking, and we saw two of them. Next morning we found the path and went home. Altogether, we walked about twenty miles.

We certainly were glad to get home. Lovingly, from one of your readers SARAH AHLBORN (AGE 13).

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: You can't imagine how happy I am every time I catch a glimpse of your beautiful, precious covers; but one time when you were exceedingly welcome was during the first week of my vacation, up near New London, Connecticut. Every morning I went for the mail, before breakfast, and took the milk-pail along, for drinking water. Lo and behold, the postmaster one morning handed you out to me, for Dad had forwarded you! Well, dear ST. NICK, I completely forgot about milk-pail, water, or breakfast in my eagerness to devour your delicious contents, and when I at last reached home, I found Mother in a state of alarm about my long absence!

Then again, when I came home from my vacation, as I opened the door, there you were, waiting for me on the table, with a lovely tennis cover, portraying the game I love and play so much.

Thanking you a hundred times for the golden hours I have spent with you, and which have proved very educating and delightful.

Your ever-loving reader,

MARIE LOUISE BURTON (AGE 13).

OSHKOSH, WIS. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Whenever I think of you, I think of a jolly old Santa Claus with a large bag just full of new ST. NICHOLASES! I have taken you for six months and love you dearly.

Every summer there is a series of boat-races held on Lake Winnebago, on which Oshkosh is situated. This series of races is called a regatta. There are many beautiful trophies raced for every year. It is certainly a beautiful sight to see the boats out on the lake, and very thrilling indeed is the finish.

People come from all parts of the country to race. The last day of the regatta was a very stormy one. The boats were ordered out and told to race to windward and back three times. They were sailing along peacefully, but under a very black sky, when suddenly, there were no boats to be seen! The storm had come at last, and it was an unusually bad one, so the boats had all tipped over! Of course, no one won the race that day! All of the boats were smashed to kindling-wood. It was positively pathetic to see them.

The boys on the boats said that one instant there was smooth sailing everywhere, and the next they were clinging to anything they could get hold of. The lake was churned to foam.

Thanking you ST. NICHOLAS for the innumerable good times you have given me,

PHYLLIS POPE (AGE 12).

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE DECEMBER NUMBER

"OUR OWN" ACROSTIC. Primals, The ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. Cross-words: 1. Tattoo. 2. Height. 3. Emerge. 4. Saddle. 5. Turkey. 6. Normal. 7. Impose. 8. Convey. 9. Helmet. 10. Orange. 11. Listen. 12. Avenge. 13. Sacred. 14. Linger. 15. Enroll. 16. Accept. 17. Galley. 18. Utmost. 19. Easier. From 1 to 25, Live to learn and learn to live; 26 to 40, Stars and Stripes.

GEOGRAPHICAL ZIGZAG. Himalayas. Cross-words: 1. Huron. 2. Milan. 3. Tampa. 4. Japan. 5. Nepal. 6. Texas. 7. Clyde. 8. Maine. 9. Sofia.

ADDITIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS. Great oaks from little acorns

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2. Christmas. 3. Excelsior. 4. Wednesday.
6. Bethlehem. 7. Car. 8. Ski. 9. Two.
Map. 12. Ash. 13. She. 14. Ant. 15. Jay. 16. Auk. 17.
Cod. 18. Cup. 19. Ivy. 20. One.

DIAGONAL WORDS. 1. A. 2. Inn. 3. Anger. 4. Never. 5. Regal. 6. Raw. 7. L.

PRIMAL ACROSTIC. Initials, Pilgrims. Cross-words: 1. Patron. 2. Inside. 3. Loving. 4. Grouse. 5. Roused. 6. Intent. 7. Minute. 8. Saddle.

TRANSPOSITIONS. Ludwig van Beethoven. 1. palm, Lamp. 2. sure, User. 3. shad, Dash. 4. haws, Wash. 5. chin, Inch. 6. page, Gape. 7. lave, Vale. 8. beat, Abet. 9. pane, Neap. 10. lamb, Balm. 11. rest, Erst. 12. seat, East. 13. Kate, Take. 14. this, Hist. 15. door, Odor. 16. live, Vile. 17. real, Earl. 18. done, Node.

CHARADE. Or, fee, us; Orpheus.

METAMORPHOSES. 1. Beach, peach, peace, place. 2. Place, plate, slate, state, stale. 3. Stale, stare, store, score. 4. Score, scare, scale.

TO OUR PUZZLERS: To be acknowledged in the magazine, answers must be mailed not later than January 28, and should be addressed to ST. NICHOLAS RIDDLE-BOX, care of THE CENTURY Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City, N. Y.

SOLVERS wishing to compete for prizes must comply with the LEAGUE rules (see page 333) and give answers in full, following the plan of those printed above.

ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER were duly received from Esther Laughton-Kathryn Huber-"The Three R's"-Helen H. McIver-"Allil and Adi."

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER were duly received from Peter T. Byrne, 9-Elizabeth Tong, 9-John F. Davis, 9-Ruth Tangier Smith, 9-John Hopkins, 8-Kemper Hall Chapter, 8-Hortense A. Doyle, 7-Vera H. Skillman, 6-"St. Anna's Girls," 6-Virginia and Henry Jeone, 5-Mary Scattergood, 5- Sydwin, 5-Dorothy Adler, 4-"Me," 4-Elinor Kendall, 4Rosalind Howe, 4-Gertrude Seymour, 4-Judith Haight, 3-Elizabeth Storer, 3-Riva M. McKamey, 3-Jean Wheeler, 3-Alice S. Goedecke, 2-Grace Hunter, 2-Janet Ross, 1-Marion Goldstein, 1-Caroline S. Russell, 1-Robert K. Mattern, 1-Virginia Smith, 1-Margaret Howley, 1-Rosmond Kuerzi, 1-Philip Mangano, 1-H. D. Blumenkranz, 1- John Winn, 1-Eileen Hogan, 1-H. Christiansen, 1-Roma Kendel, 1-Alice Winston, 1-Charles MacSherry, 1-Eleanor Seligman, 1-Edna H. Bachrach, 1-Elizabeth B. Bloss, 1-Betty Foote, 1.

NOVEL ACROSTIC

All the words described contain the same number of letters. When rightly guessed and written one below another, the initials will name a famous musician, and six letters in another row of letters will name one of his compositions.

CROSS-WORDS: 1. To collide. 2. Vicious. 3. A sea eagle. 4. Snug and in order. 5. To observe. 6. A favorite grain with horses. 7. Empty. 8. A feminine name. 9. Teases in a petty way.

BETTY HOWE (age 13), League Member.

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Galhu tou inaag, twese sucim dan dightel,
Ni payhp hemos a motmen shudeh ot hare
Eht thigmind kortess bomo tou teh dol sarey glifth.

ZIGZAG

(Silver Badge, ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE Competition) All the words described contain the same number of letters. When rightly guessed and written one below another, the zigzag-beginning with the upper, left-hand letter and ending with the lower, left-hand letter-will spell the name of a famous American general who was born in January.

CROSS-WORDS: 1. Roving. 2. Warriors. 3. Uttered with a hissing sound. 4. Quickly. 5.

One who makes spurs. 6. A body of tenants. 7. To convey from one place to another. 8. A large cask. 9. Certain long-winged birds. 10. A month of the year. 11. Suburbs. 12. One who takes care of a garden. 13. A square column projecting from the surface of a wall. 14. Marked by abnormal heat. 15. Worthy to be chosen.

RUTH VALWAY LADUE (age 13).

DIAGONAL

All the words described contain the same number of letters. When rightly guessed and written one below another, the diagonal-from the upper, left-hand letter to the lower, right-hand letterwill spell the surname of an English author.

CROSS-WORDS: 1. A big country. 2. A famous reformer. 3. Brightness. 4. A place of traffic. 5. A famous composer. 6. A certain young animal. MARY REDMAYNE (age 17), League Member.

WORD-SQUARE

1. Sound. 2. Above. 3. Adjacent. 4. Mistakes.
CHARADE

Call when you will, my first is never out;
My whole is whole-of that there is no doubt;
Who has my last is welcomed every day,-
Knows what to leave unsaid and what to say

HELEN A. SIBLEY.

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In the above illustration the names of nine poems are pictured. All the poems are by the same writer. What are the poems and who is their author?

SOME CURIOUS "ADS"

EXAMPLE: What ad allows one to enter? ANSWER: Admit.

1. What ad is very hard?

2. What ad will stick?

3. What ad is a naval officer?

4. What ad is an opponent?

5. What ad is counsel?

6. What ad is enterprise?

7. What ad is to esteem highly?

8. What ad moves forward?

9. What ad is part of a letter?

10. What ad is fleshy?

11. What ad is to manage?

12. What ad is to arrange properly?
PHYLLIS A. POPE (age 12), League Member.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA

I am composed of sixty-three letters and form a couplet, defining fame, from a poem by Longfellow.

My 27-36-16-57-11 is one who confers a gift. My 1-5-46-29 is a number. My 59-51-25-40-7 is a garment. My 21-45-13-44 is elevated. My 33-49-38-63-8 is unhackneyed. My 53-2-56-18 is a given point of time. My 32-42-20-61-23 is to present for acceptance or rejection. My 1055-24-30 is nutriment. My 34-41-48-35-50 is weak or light-minded conduct. My 37-4-28-62 is any useless or injurious plant. My 58-9-52-1760 is that which incloses as a protection. My 1447-26-22 is to run swiftly. My 43-39-15-31-6 is not elaborated or refined. My 3-19-12-54 is to bewail audibly.

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7. Triply behead a stately home, and leave a unit.

8. Triply behead a vegetable, and leave to decay.

9. Triply behead a storeroom for food, and leave to attempt.

10. Triply behead a roundabout route, and leave a pronoun.

11. Triply behead fastened, and leave a masculine nickname.

When the foregoing words have been rightly guessed and beheaded, the initials of the eleven three-letter words remaining will spell the name of a woman famous in war work.

MARY T. ARNOLD (age 14).

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA My first is in September, but not in October; My second, in October, but not in January; My third is in January, but not in August; My fourth is in August, but not in March; My fifth is in March, but not in April; My sixth is in April, but not in November; My seventh is in November, but not in August; My eighth is in August, but not in September. My whole is a popular American.

JOYCE PORTER (age 13), League Member.

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A LITERARY ACROSTIC (Silver Badge, ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE Competition) CROSS-WORDS: 1. Tenth 4 parts. 2. To bear witness to. 37 3. An original inhabitant. 4. Comprehends. 5. More recent. 6. To come forth.. 28 7. An opening in a wall to admit light and air. 8. Measures of weight. 9. A 39 bird. 10. Venturesome. 11. Expresses gratitude. 12. A broad street. 13. Mooing. 14. Blots out. 15. To inspect. When these words have been rightly guessed, the initial letters (indicated by by stars) will spell a popular collection of myths and legends; the letters indicated by the figures from 1 to 9 will spell the name of the author; from 10 to 17, from 18 to 23, from 24 to 30, from 31 to 35, and from 36 to 40 will each spell a character in these stories.

THE RUMFORD PRESS
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MARGARET WILSON (age 15).

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