St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls - May 1919
The issue provided some coverage of the war, which at the time had already ended. It included an assortment of short stories, poems, user/reader-generated content, War stories and photos, and Letters to the Editor.
Front Cover, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. XLVI, No. 7, May 1919. GGA Image ID # 18b5a4fa19
Published by The Century Co. New York.
Contents
- Toy-Mender and King
by Katherine Dunlap Cather - Inter-Camp Days
by Anna Worthington Coale - The Treasure Hunt
by Samuel Scoville, Jr - The Camerons of Highboro
by Beth B. Gilchrist - Fortunes of War
by Ralph Henry Barbour and H. P. Holt - Applied Science
by Carolyn Wells - For Country and for Liberty: Your Task, Too, High School Boys and Girls
Written Exclusively for St. Nicholas - Carrier-pigeons in the War
by Francis Arnold Collins - Eight-week Clubs; Community Service
by Marjorie Kinnan - “Roosevelt House”
T the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association to Acquire Colonel Roosevelt's Birthplace in New York City - “Viva La France!”
A Narrative Founded on the Diary of Jeannette De Martigny
by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe
Chapter XX: General Joffre,
Chapter XXI: “ Bijoux ",
Chapter XXII: the Hospital at Neuilly, - The Sugary Shipwrecked Zoo
by Mrs. John T. Van Sant - "Funny-Face” ( from Bobbie's Point of View)
by Grace Tyers - New Swings and How to Make Them
by William Wise - The Boy Vigilantes of Belgium
by George Ethelbert Walsh
Chapter XIV: Broken Bonds
Chapter XV: the Unexpected Happens - Primrose Lane: a May-Day Play for out of Doors
by Cornelia Meigs - The Watch Tower: A Review of Current Events
by Edward N. Teall
The March Record, Our New Ships, the League of Nations, Getting Ready for College, Chosen (Korea), Our Home - Coming Heroes, China and Japan, over There (France), through the Watch Tower's Telescope
- Nature and Science for Young Folks
Easter Lilies on the Desert, Growing Potatoes in Straw, Reinforced-concrete Cisterns for Fire-fighting, What One Boy Did with Melons, Testing the Energy of a Tulip Bulb, a Treadmill Thread-mill.
- For Very Little Folk Verses
by Mattie Lee Hausgen. Illustrations by Decie Merwin - St. Nicholas League for May 1919
Original Poems, Stories, Drawings, Photographs, Puzzles, and Puzzle Answers Submitted by League Members under Age 18 - The Letter - Box
- The Box Riddle: Answers to Puzzles in the April Number