People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — The May Wide Awake [ARTICLE]
The May Wide Awake
Has an entertaining description of life on a lighthouse island in the China Seas by the TJ. S. Consul at Singapore. He calls it “ How we played Robinson Crusoe. ” Grace Dean McLeod has a characteristic Nova Scotia story—“Petit Pere Felix,” a tale of the invasion of Acadie; Joseph Hatton tells an exciting incident connected with the coin room of the British Museum, "The Prince’s Dilemma;” Crawford Capen writes of “Stamps and Stamp Collecting;” Annie Sawyer Downs tells how the “Young Folks at the Eddy” dealt with the servant-girl problem; Penelope Palmer writes of the wonderful Welsh boy in the Pennsylvania mines who made marvelous “Underground Music;” Mrs. MuUer has a paper on the dolls of the world; bright short Btories; Hugh S. Hart contributes to Wide Awake Athletics, “Golf: the Coming Game;” the poetry of the number is from Celia Thaxter, Marion Ames Taggart, Sallie Margaret O'Malley, and Price Collier. A delightful account of a delightful boy is Louise Imogen Guiney’s sketch of “Hartley Coleridge, Ten Years Old,” illustrated by Wilkie’s portrait. Price 20 cents a number, $3.40 a year. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid, on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston.
