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THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING

ST. NICHOLAS FOR 1920

It has been well said by a recent writer that "happiness is an invaluable factor in right living and wholesome development," and "to make boys and girls happy first, and, through this happiness, to lead them to higher, fuller, nobler living" has always been and will always be the special aim and purpose of ST. NICHOLAS "the best-loved of magazines."

How well it has succeeded in this endeavor is attested by a cloud of witnesses that no man can number, extending over two or three generations. Just ask the successful men of today, in whatever field of activity, the leaders of thought and action, whether they know ST. NICHOLAS, and the reply in nine cases out of ten, will be: "Know it? Why, I was brought up on it!" As one prominent journalist asserted not long ago: "I gained more from ST. NICHOLAS than from all my schooling.'

Garden City, N. Y.

Dear St. Nicholas :
I am always on the front porch the first
of the month waiting for you; and when
you come, oh, joy! I am "dead to the
world!" I have been your happy reader
for two years and will be for three years
more (at least). My mother took you
when she was a girl and tells me she often
wrote to you. I am typewriting this to
you alone, as I have a machine, which I
bought myself in 1918. My favorite stories
in you are: "Vive la France!" "The Boy
Vigilantes of Belgium" and "Fortunes of
War." The letter-box is always interesting.
R. E. G. D. (age 10).

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Tolland, Conn.
Bestest of All Best Magazines:
The only reason I am not reading you
And
now is that my sister Margaret, is!

I think "Understood Betsy" is the dearest
possible story written in the dearest possi-
ble way! I will close now because I am
going to try to wrench you away from my
twin!

Always your devoted reader,
K. B. (age 14).

ADVERTISERS TAKE NOTE!

New York City.

I am crazy about "Under Boy Scout Colors." I think "Betty's Best Christmas" and "Jim Wilson's Chum" are perfectly dandy stories. You know, I think the advertisements are almost as good. As soon as I finish this letter, I am going to sit down before a blazing fire, and a nice box of candy and I'm going to read, read, and read, stories, verses, “ads," letter-box and everything else that St. Nicholas contains. From your contented reader, M. N. W.

And as proof of what the magazine does for them in the way of developing them in artistic and educational ways and in a wholesome, inspiring outlook upon life, read the contributions in prose and verse, written by the boys and girls themselves, on any month's pages of the ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE! They will not only convince—they will astonish-you! Subscribe for St. Nicholas now!

ST. NICHOLAS, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

Enclosed please find ($3 for ($5)

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Address

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years subscription to St. Nicholas beginning

St. Nich.-10-19

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GOOD BOOKS

YOUNGSTERS love to hear about the doings of other children. Reading of the ad

ventures kiddies have had in by-gone days!-why, it's as real as if the experiences were their own. In the Little Folks Series published by THE ABINGDON PRESS the stories are told as well as any Mother could tell them, and it's very much easier for Mother to read than to make up tales. Other interesting ABINGDON books for children and for grown-ups are described in a catalog-sent on request.

LITTLE FOLKS IN HISTORY (In four books)
By DOROTHY DONNELL CALHOUN

"Not many know the story of the boy leader of
the children's crusade, Stephen of Cloys. The 'boy
who stood on the burning deck' is a little more famil-
iar, and the story of Casabianca is finely told. Jac-
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Pocahontas share equal honors among the heroines
whose deeds are recounted. The Little Queen of
Scotland, Mary Stuart, and Edward VI, the little
white King, are two of the royal babies told of;
and Mozart, Audubon, Nightingale, James Watt and
Helen Keller are the little folks who did great things.'
-Leader-Republican, Gloversville, New York.

BOOK I

Little Folks on Thrones
Louis XIV Isabella

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LITTLE FOLKS OF THE BIBLE (In four books)
By DOROTHY DONNELL CALHOUN

These delightful stories differ from other Bible nar-
ratives in that they are not the tales of great deeds
or of great heroes of the Bible, but of real children
for real children to read. The old characters come
before us like modern young people, and the scenes
in which they played a part are made vivid by
descriptions and incidental allusions possible only to
an accomplished writer.

"Little Folks of the Bible presents the familiar child characters of the book. The stories are told in appropriate tone. The entire collection may be warmly commended."-The New York Evening Post.

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Mary Stuart

Pages, 70

Book II

Little Heroines

BOOK I

Pages, 68

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Boys in Patriarchal Homes

Joseph Benjamin

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Casabianca
Pages, 64

The Captive Maid

Little Folks who did Great Things

Florence Nightingale James Watt
Helen Keller Pages, 72

Size 12mo. Illustrated. Binding, cloth.
Per book, net 30 cents postpaid.

Jairus's Daughter

BOOK IV

Boys of the New Testament

Pages, 51

The Boyhood of Jesus The Lad with the Loaves
John the Baptist Paul's Nephew Pages, 59
Size 12mo. Illustrated. Binding, cloth
Per book, net 30 cents postpaid.

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A Stirring Story of the Sea in War-Time

FORTUNES

OF WAR

By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
and H. P. HOLT

"FORTUNES OF WAR" is a story of the sea, and it

is as tense and thrilling as "Lost Island," last year's success of these authors. It deals with the adventures and misadventures that befall an enterprising boy of the Maine coast, who, with an older "pal," is enabled to purchase a schooner, hire a crew, and undertake to make the voyage to France, with a cargo of valuable lumber, through the dangers of the submarine zone. The chapters recounting the fights on, and for, the vessel, and its final fate, will hold the breathless interest of every patriotic American, boy or girl, man or woman, who is fortunate enough to read them. The authors never told a more thrilling story. 352 pages. Illustrated. Price $1.50

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12 mo,

Also by the Same Authors

LOST ISLAND

A thrilling story of the adventures of a Brooklyn boy who could not resist the call of the sea. He fares forth on his own account, and circumstances send him around the world. Difficulties and dangers confront him, but he meets them always with steady courage; and finally his adventures lead to a sunken ship's treasure more precious even than gold.

12 mo, 389 pages. Illustrated. Price $1.50

Books by Ralph Henry Barbour

CAPTAIN CHUB. 23 full-page illustrations by Relyea. $1.50.

THE CRIMSON SWEATER. A capital story of athletics. Illustrated by Relyea. $1.50.

CROFTON CHUMS. Sixteen illustrations by Relyea. $1.50.

HARRY'S ISLAND. Pictures by Relyea.
$1.50.

KINGSFORD, QUARTER.
by Relyea. $1.50.

Illustrated

TEAM-MATES. 22 full-page illustra-
tions by Relyea. $1.50.

TOM, DICK, AND HARRIET.
lustrations by Relyea. $1.50.

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At All Bookstores Published by

THE CENTURY CO.

353 Fourth Avenue New York City

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Other big stories this month

"The Well of Ourir" A French boy's exciting adventure in an African desert.

"Tired Bull's Busy Day" Thrilling and funny, both.

Keep on, too, with "High Benton" and "Catty Atkins" in this October, the biggest number of The American Boy ever published.

In Mid-Pacific, lacking food or water, under blazing suns by day, storm-wracked by night, among dying and dead companions, this 16-year-old wireless operator lived to tell his thrilling, terrible tale to The American Boy readers. You have never read a more romantic or remarkable story than the true story that 16-year-old Theron Bean, wireless operator of Portland, Ore., tells himself in the October American Boy.

An emergency operator in the U. S. Merchant Marine, selfeducated in the elements of radio operation, Theron Bean went along as operator on the wooden steamer Damaru, from Seattle for the Philippines with gasoline and dynamite. A bolt of lightning destroyed the ship. With 31 others, few of whom survived the frightful ordeal, Theron tossed in an open whaleboat on an open sea for days, 'til washed ashore among semi-savage natives.

But get it all from him at first hand in his own words in the October American Boy, just out. Get one at your news-stand-ask Dad to bring it home for you. He'll enjoy this story, too. Don't miss this remarkable story or The American Boy this month-eight pages larger than any other ever!

20c a copy on news-stands, $2.00 a year by mail THE SPRAGUE PUBLISHING COMPANY Dept. 69, Detroit, Mich.

"The Telegraphic Laugh"

How a messenger boy
extricates himself from
a ticklish plight on the
Mexican border.

"Yankee Ingenuity" Two boys' thrilling experiences on a cannibal island. A knowledge of electricity saved them.

"The Burning Arrow" Anew Jimmy May series, showing Jimmy in an outlaw hunt through southern swamps.

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