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CONTENTS OF ST. NICHOLAS FOR MAY, 1918.

Page

Books for Soldiers and Sailors.

Where and How to Help the Nation.

Two Big Tasks for Red Cross Juniors.

An American College Boy who Flew and Fell in France..

638

Anna Worthington Coale.

639

"When the World is All A-bloom." Picture. Painted by Sue D. Runyon....

War Times in Summer Camps.

Sketch.....

Illustrations from photographs.

Minnetonka Canoeing Song. Verse..

The Watch Tower...

Illustrations from photographs

The New Parasol. Verse..

Peanut-growing for Boys (J. W. Chamberlain)-San Francisco's Giant

Windmill (L. M. Edholm)"Choose Your Own Weather" (Edwin Tenney

Brewster)-Over the Rockies by Electricity (James Anderson)-A Pet from

the Pacific (C. L. Edholm)-Birds and the War-garden-Two Odd But-

terflies (Walter K. Putney)-Cost of Stopping a Freight-train.

For Very Little Folk:

Peter Rabbit's May-party. Story..

Illustrated by Harrison Cady.

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