It is hoped that the State Regents will compliment the decision of the National Board and further the knowledge of the seals and flags, and to create for them a popularity in this country like that enjoyed by the three feathers of the Prince of Wales throughout the world. Why should it not be so?

To the publisher, Mr. Howard A. Read, who directed and encouraged the work, much praise is due for the care and intelligent attention given to details. He has chosen an auspicious time to bring conspicuously before the public a work of this particular character, when patriotic feeling has stirred so deeply the hearts of young and old, and sent from peaceful firesides in every State her bravest and her strongest to fight for the "flag we love."-LYDIA STERLING FLINTHAM.

IMPORTANT NOTICES.

The National President desires as speedily as possible all information from each local Society as to the kind of War Relief Service performed, also if any members volunteered, and if so, their record while at the front, or in camp.

The committeees on getting new members in each local Society. are busy as bees. We expect to have a grand enrolling of our fresh army by December. Every Society that has not started a committee to get new members, should do so at once.

The National President presents as her gift a recognition token suitable for framing, to every member of the Society who in any way helped forward the War Relief Service. All Societies are requested to send in at once the list of such members, also the names of all nonmembers who helped them, that the tokens may be filled out as rapidly as possible and presented.

WAR RELIEF SERVICE-CONTINUED.

These two letters are so interesting as showing one of the methods by which the War Relief Service of the Children of the American Revolution have rendered aid to the soldiers and sailors during the war, that they are printed entire. They are written by the State Director of New York, Mrs Daisy Allen Story.

HATFIELD HALL, L. I., Nov. 6, 1898. DEAR MRS. LOTHROP: In accordance with your instructions to use the money raised for the War Relief Service by the Mohegan Society according to my best judgment, I decided to give the money direct to a soldier or sailor who had served and suffered in the war. I accordingly visited Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, and after careful inquiry among the officials and nurses found a young man twenty years old, whose home was in the Indian Territory, and who enlisted from Muscogee in May and joined the Rough Riders. He was terribly wounded in the thigh at San Juan Hill July 1st, started north on July 19th, and landed July 27th, since which time he has lain all these weary months on his back in the hospitals, suffering untold agony. I had a long talk with him in which he told me "it would have been so much easier to have died on the field" than to have endured all he had since suffered. I am sure if you could have talked with him, you would have felt as I did, that he was a fitting subject for

sympathy and help from our dear Children of the American Revolution. He seemed to be deeply touched by the thought of help coming from the efforts of children. I made a special trip to Sing Sing to tell the Mohegan Society just where their money had been placed, and the Children seemed fully satisfied with the object selected for their war fund.

As I wrote you October 24th, I have received from the Bemis Heights Society a check for five dollars as a contribution to the War Relief Service; this in addition to the $201.41 already reported. As you had approved of my suggestion to use the money for some of the wounded or sick soldiers or sailors now in the hospitals, I called at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, and found a man twenty years of age, who had enlisted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard April 5th as landsman. He was seriously injured early in August by being struck in the chest by a box of six-inch shells while on the Destroyer "Hornet." He has been many months in the hospitals, and his condition is still critical. While he has been separated from his family, giving his services to his country, his family have met with serious losses, and his father has failed in business. I told him all about the dear children through whose efforts a War Relief fund had been raised, and he spoke with enthusiasm of their patriotic feeling and work, and he has promised, if he recovers, to send them an account of some of his experiences while in the service of his country. With the hope that the disposal of the funds received from the Bemis Heights Society meets with your approval, I am, dear Mrs. Lothrop,

Cordially yours,

DAISY ALLEN STOREY,
State Director.

GALES FERRY, CONN., November 1, 1898.

MRS. HARRIETT M. LOTHROP. My dear Madam: I noticed in the November number of the AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE that the Recognition Tokens were ready for the Children of the American Revolution boys and girls that did work for the War Relief Service, and as members of the Belton Allyn Society of this place gave instant and hearty support in the way of a garden party on the lawn of a patriotic citizen here, at which cake. ice cream, and pond lillies were sold, the proceeds sent to the hospital ship "Relief" through the State Regent, Mrs. Kinney, and further by contributing jellies sent to Camp Wykoff for the sick soldiers, I thought it would be pleasing for them to receive these tokens from you. I therefore enclose the list of names of these patriotic children. Yours very sincerely, FANNIE ADAMS NORTHROP, President.