Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — CORRESPONDING. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDING.

Below la ■ Good Plan for Chums to Follow. A writer in Harper’s Young People tells of an ingenious scheme devLed by a class of young ladies at school together a few years ago. One of them, an English girl, thus explains it: “There were nine of us in the class, and we were all promising to write lo each other continually, but in our hearts we knew that such a correspondence c uld never be kept up. t inally one of the girls suggested a circulating letter, and the i ;ea pleased us all. “At the expiration of one n-onth from the time we parted, the first girl wrote a letter telling what she had been doing and everything about hers If which would be likely to interest the others. This letter was sent to the second girl, who, after reading it, wrote her own letter, and rent ihe two to the third. "The third, fourth, fifth, and all the others in turn added their letters, unthe ninth on the li t tent them all '.to the first. Then the circuit was comploto, and we hud the circulating letters fairly under way. “Now, of course, the envelope always contains nine letters, aud each girl, whan it comes to her, takes out her own letter, writes a new one telling what she has been doing in the meantime, and starts it on it 4 travels again. “ Vou can have no idea - how interesting it is to receive the letters, and how anxiously we will await their arrival when our turn comes. We have kept it up for nearly fcur years, and each time the letters come rt und the pleasure of reading what all tne girls have to say seems to inciease. ”