People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — The July Wide Awake [ARTICLE]

The July Wide Awake

Has a leading article of great interest by Gporge Bartlett, devoted to a description of “Concord Dramatics,” or private theatricals in Concord in the days of the “Little Women.” Maud B. Barton and Elizabeth Comings hare good Fourth of July stories. Cromwell Galpin’s historical story of the Welsh discovery of America before Columbus is both picturesque and instructive. Caroline Ticknor’s “summer boarder** story of “Fantine” is timely and suggestive; Etta B. Donaldson describes “A Unique Farm in Africa,” (for the raising of ostriches), and J. P. H. Gastrell tells of “Electric Tricks.” Annie H. Ryder has a practical nineteenth century talk with boys and girls, “In the Lookout with Columbus;” Jeannette A. Grant furnishes a delightful account of that portion of the Scottish highlands which some readers have traveled In fancy “With the Lady of the Lake;” and the Wide Awake Athletics article is by John Graham of the Charlesbank Gymnasium, and is devoted to “Out-of-door Gymnastics.” Price 20 cents a number. At the news stands; or direct from the publishers, D. Lothrop Company, Boston. A great many of the women engaged in luting sweeping reforms of various Rinas should begin right at borne. Their carpet* probably need it.—Buffalo Courier.