People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — The March Wide Awake [ARTICLE]

The March Wide Awake

Is a vigorous and breezy number. Rose G. Kingsley tells about the quaint “Rag Market at Bruges,” Marion Harland has one of her characteristic stories, “Miss Butterfly;” Mrs. M. E. M. Davis has a New Orleans Carnival story, “Judy’s Mardi-Gras;” Tello d’Apery, the boy editor, tells about his labors “Among the Barefoots” of 'New York; Frederick A. Ober continues his Columbus papers in “On the Shores of Cathay,” and Annie Sawyer Downs tells, in “Young Folks at the Eddy,” how children can act as real hosts. Wide Awake Athletics has a brief paper on “Handling and Training a College Baseball Team,” by Captain “Laurie” Bliss, of Yale, and a description of “Hare and Hounds Runs,” by David W. Fenton, 2d, of Harvard. “The Real Casabianea,” the hero of Mrs. Hemans’ poem, as told by Henry Bacon. Mr. Bacon’s picture of Casabianea and his father is a splendid frontispiece. Price 20 cents a number, $2.40 a year. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston.