- July
- January
January - February
February - December
December - August
August - April
April - September
September - Boy and Girl
Boy and Girl - Children sitting at the table
Children sitting at the table - Two girls watching a family of ducks
Two girls watching a family of ducks - Girl walking heel to toe
Girl walking heel to toe - Girl washing her doll
Girl washing her doll - Girl standing under a tree in the rain
Girl standing under a tree in the rain - Girl reaching for a book
Girl reaching for a book - Girl playing with her doll
Girl playing with her doll - Girl playing with a kitten
Girl playing with a kitten - Fashions for April 1841
Fashions for April 1841 - Spring Fashions 1854
Spring Fashions 1854 - Young Naturalist
Young girl and with a butterfly net - Curly-headed girl sitting up in bed
Curly-headed girl sitting up in bed - Girl kneeling and drawing
- Schoolgirl writing
- Girl reading
- Girl reading a book
- Girl eating banana
Girl eating banana - Italian Child
Among the dark whites of Europe the Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, and Greeks are conspicuous. In speech they are kin to each other, and to the fair whites. How different they are otherwise! They are handsomer in face, more lithe and graceful in body, more quickly aroused, more changeable in purpose, than the fair whites. Their faces, their gestures, their movements, more emphatically betray their emotions. They live more in the present than the somewhat sober and sombre northern peoples. - Boy and girl in affectionate hug
Boy and girl in affectionate hug - First fight over a girl
Boy punching another boy as a girl looks on - Boy and girl feeding a pony an apple
Boy and girl feeding a pony an apple - Girl reading a story to her doll
Girl reading a story to her doll - Girl carrying a book
Girl carrying a book - Lady and girl
- Two girls
Two girls knitting and reading - Two girls walking in the country
Two girls walking in the country - A self-sustaining or balanced aquarium
three children looking at an aquarium Any transparent vessel capable of holding water, even a Mason jar will make an aquarium from which a great deal of pleasure may be derived. The old way of maintaining aquaria in good condition required a great deal of care and attention. The water had to be changed at least once a day if running water was not available, and altogether they were so much trouble that as a rule owners soon tired of them. Modern aquaria are totally different. By a proper combination of fish and growing plants we can almost duplicate the conditions of nature and strike a balance so that the water need never be changed except when it becomes foul or to clean the glass. - Girl choosing a good book
Young girl deciding which book to read - Costume for young girl. Period, 1821
Costume for young girl. Period, 1821 - Mother and daughter
Mother and daughter - Doctor visiting sick girl in bed
Doctor visiting sick girl in bed - Children playing
Girl pushing a little girl along in a sled - I'll kiss it better
Girl about to kiss little boys hand after he hurt himself playing - Baby and Blackbird
Little toddler pointing to a blackbird - Keep practising brother
Young girl listens to her brother practising on his tuba, even though he is not very good. - Look at the snowman
Girl showing her little sister that the snowman doesn't bite - Girl with umbrella
Girl holding closed umbrella - Girl frowning
Girl frowning - Girl with a cake
Girl with a cake - Girl feeding birds
Girl feeding birds - Girl studying contents of bathroom cupboard
Girl studying contents of bathroom cupboard - Mother giving medicine to girl in bed
Mother giving medicine to girl in bed - Rose-Red's mamma gathered her up in her arms and comforted her
Mother and child embrace - Boy and Girl looking out the window
Boy and Girl looking out the window - Boy and Girl
A mother bird is feeding her babies and a boy and a girl are looking at them. - Katharine Bement Davis
The villain had received his just deserts, but he, or rather she, was smiling with satisfaction. Her play, for Katharine was the author as well as a principal actor, had been a great success. Nobody had forgotten a line, and, in addition, the scenery had added a realistic setting. Who would ever have dreamed that the deep forest and bold cliffs were only boughs cut from the shrubbery, and boxes covered with mother’s old gray shawl? The back parlor of the Davis home was crowded with a friendly audience of girls and boys and a few mothers and fathers. This attendance was very gratifying to Katharine, for it assured her that the receipts would be large. With them she intended to provide a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner for a good woman who was having difficulty in supporting her crippled grandson. Little did this merry eleven-year-old girl think that the work of helping others, begun in such a small way that night, was the work that she was to choose for her own later on. When she grew up she became a sociologist. This is simply a long word for a person who thinks, studies, plans, and works to help people lead happier, healthier, and better lives. - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Julia Ward Howe
Whose Battle Hymn Sang Itself Into the Hearts of a Nation In the days when New York was not the big city that it is now, there was a fashionable section called the Bowling Green. The people who lived there often used to see a great yellow coach roll by. Within, three little girls sat stiffly against the bright blue cushions. These children were dressed in blue coats and yellow satin bonnets to match the chariot and its lining. They were the three little Ward children, one of them, Julia, to be known later throughout the land as Julia Ward Howe. She is the author of the famous patriotic hymn which you sing so often at school, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” - Jane Addams
The Girl Who Became a Neighbor To the Needy “Why do people live in such horrid little houses so close together, Father?” asked seven-year-old Jane on a trip to the city. Miss Addams believed that it is better to show people how to help themselves than to give them gifts of money. “It is hard to help people one does not know,” she reasoned, “and how can one really know people without seeing them very often?” True to the decision she had made as a child, she resolved to live among the poor and be a real neighbor to them. With the help of some friends, Miss Addams opened Hull-House, which is located in a tenement section of Chicago. Here, she established a day nursery where mothers who had to go out to work could leave their babies in good care. A kindergarten was organized for the young children in the neighborhood. - Susan B. Anthony
Who Worked for Sixty Years to Secure Rights for Women Young Susan vigorously attacked, with her broom, the cobweb in the corner of the schoolroom ceiling. It was a stubborn cobweb and Susan had to step upon the teacher’s desk to reach it. No girl trained by so good a housekeeper as Susan’s mother could be happy in the same room with a cobweb. Susan B. Anthony kept on pleading for women, no matter how much people laughed at her. Gradually, the world began to see some reason in what she said. To-day, all women who cast their vote, control their property, and send their daughters to college, can thank the determined Quaker girl who had such a large share in giving women their rights. - Maud Powell
The Girl Whose Violin Spread Afar The Message of Music The sweet strains of one of Mozart’s violin sonatas filled the room. One of the players was a bright-eyed little girl. The other, it was easy to guess from the proud and tender look that she gave her little companion, was the child’s mother. Both mother and daughter loved these hours together with their violins. Music meant much to this mother. She enjoyed composing as well as playing. She was very happy to know that music gave pleasure to her little daughter also. The hope was in this mother’s heart that some day little Maud would be a great musician. It was a hope that was realized, for, in later years, Maud Powell became known as the foremost American violinist. - Maria Mitchell
The Girl Who Studied the Stars It was an eventful day in the Mitchell home. The parlor window had been taken out and the telescope mounted in front of it. Twelve-year-old Maria, at her father’s side, counted the seconds while he observed a total eclipse of the sun. Not every twelve-year-old girl could be trusted to use the chronometer, an instrument which measures the time even more accurately than a watch. Maria, however, had been helping her father in his study of the stars ever since she could count. Before many years this little girl beside the telescope became America’s best-known woman astronomer.