St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 3/Editorial Note
Editorial Notes
The little story, “A Strange Pocket-Book,” on page 221 of this number, is a true account of an actual incident which took place during the Civil War. It will add to the interest of all readers of this contribution to know that the small heroine of the story was the mother of Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, the well-known author of those two popular books, “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” and “Lovey Mary.”
The author of “A Thrilling Fact,” on page 219, asks us to say that she is indebted for the inspiration of her rhyme to a lecture delivered at the Wagner Institute, Philadelphia, by Mr. Reid, who made the remarkable assertion which Mrs. Joy has put into amusing verse.
The entertaining paper in this number by Miss Bertha Runkle, author of “The Helmet of Navarre," will not fail to please all young folk who are interested in the life of the Island Empire of Japan. Miss Runkle’s article gives many fresh glimpses of the every-day experiences and pleasures of the boys and girls of that far-away land, as well as of the child life of China and Korea. Several of the photographs accompanying the article are also novel and unusually interesting.
Perhaps no recent character in St. Nicholas stories has been more popular than little “Jimmie Dandy,” the boy hero of Mr. Elliott Flower’s capital story published just a year ago, entitled “An Officer of the Court.” We are sure, therefore, that all af our readers will welcome Mr, Flower’s account, in this number, of further developments in the life of Jimmie Dandy, and will be glad to read the story of how he came to be also “An Officer of the School.”