Tip Top Weekly No. 61: Frank Merriwell in the Mines — page 31: what you’re looking at

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TIP TOP WEEKLY. 20 ™¥ | never in the history. of juvenile literature have stories’ | been so welcomed and praised as those written by Mr. ‘is still in its infancy, but if the number of friends it ‘has made is any criterion it is destined to livatc a Burt L. Standish for the Tip Top Weekly... The Weekly. ‘ripe old age. In the language of one of our youthful A PUBLICATION FOR YOUNG AMERICANS. NEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1897. ‘Terms to Tip Top Weekly Mail Subscribers. oo (POSTAGE FREE.) $8 months - - --+-- =. 65c. | One year -~ +--+ - + © - $2.50 4months - - - +: - - Be. 2 copies one year ~ = - 4.00 6 months - - +++. » $1.25 ,; 1 copy two years - - - = 4,00 HoOwW.TO BEND Monery.—By post office or express money order, | registered letter, bank check or driit, at our risk. At your own | risk if sent by postal note, currency. coin, or postage stanips in ordinary letter. o . RECEIPTS.— Receipt of your remittance ta acknowledyed by proper change of number on yourlabel, Ifnotcorrect you have not been properly credited, and should let we inne at once. To CLUR RAISEES.—Upon request we will send sample copies to ala ar in obtaluing subscribers, L- All letters should be addressed to STREET & SMITH’S TIP TOP WEEKLY, 232 William St., New York City. A NEW CONTEST Will Shortly Be Announced. Watch this Column for Details. _ The success of previous Tip Top WEEKLY contests has been such that the publishers are assured of the readers’ interest in them. Novel contests with valuable prizes will therefore remain a feature in the American boys’ favorite weekly. — Calks With ———-s Gip Top Readers. . The judges are still at work reading the flood of re- pliea received in the ‘Summer Sport’’ contest, and it will. be. several weeks before the result can be an- nounced. The popuarity of this contest is phenomenal and it shows that the readers of Tip Top Weekly appre- ciate the efforts of the publishers to provide interesting | We will send you a book entitled ‘‘Complete Training» Guide for Amateur and Professional Athletes’’ on re-. as ‘‘Summer Sports,’’ appealei to all. The views re-/ ceipt of price, ten.cents. It tells how ta preserve and. ceived were various, but at last accounts. baseball was ; improve the health and strength. an competitions for them. The selection of such a subject in the lead. The result of the contest will be given as speedily as possible... | : oS on ~ “While on the subject of contests it will be well to | Proprietory article, the same as a patent nredicine. - M.S. C., Washington, D. 2 eee and. neces- state that the detaits of a new and novel competition is now in progress of arrangement, If you bave been aTip Top reader in the past you have laarned that Tip Top Weekly contests are noted for possessing three cardinal points—novelty, simplicity and value of prizes. In those three words can he read the-reason for the great success of Tip Top Weekly competitions. “It is an old opioion that boys, na a rule, do not care to write letters. Thera is something in the bother of eter the majority of boys from writing. If such is the case, and you will confess there is some truth in it, the vast number of letters received daily in praise of the ‘‘Frank Merriwell’’ series is a grand and lasting tribute to the talented author. Speaking from the standpaint of many years in editorial harness, we must say that eago, Il.; W.G.8., Pittstou, Pa.: | Rock, Ark., and many others—Bart Hodge and Frauk -Merriwell’s friends at Fardale will soon reappearin the ness of which main i scratches. J.C. J., Bay City, Mich.—To keep small alligators. in the North the temperature of the water in the tank. should be about seventy degrees. Feed them on bread ; reparing pen, ink and paper, and securing stamps that. readers: ‘‘I just hope the Frank Merriwell stories will. go ou and on until the end of the world, even if I ain’t on earth to see it.’’ Answers to Correspondents. cr C. G. M. (Cleveland, Ohio}.—1. If conie a good singer or effective reader you must learn how to use the voice. You must possess in the first lace a clear and resonant voice. It need uct be strong, ut it should be sympathetic, and fall with a sweet sound upon the ears of your listeuers. Flexibility is the "essential thing to be cultured. By its means that most_ con:nonand fatal aefect, monotony, is avoided. 2.. Your parents have both legal and proper authority to forbid your joining any society or organization, ave. though you are eighteen or nineteen years of age, and may be ableto support yourself. They are your al- visers, and are legally responsible for your actions un- til you are 21 pears of age. 3. At your age it is uot advisable to call on a young lady with the idea of mar- Yiage, You are too young entirely, Wait until you are in a position to support yourself comfortably, and then. - if you are of age, and feel like taking the importaut step in life, you ure at perfect liberty to do so. You should always heed your parents’ advice, no matter how old you may be. | R. L. G., Philadelphia, Pa.; Walter Rodgers, Chi- E. J. L., Little ‘¢Frank Merriwell’’ stories. | | | ‘Jack Diamond,’? Baltimore, Md.—1. Your letter ‘has been forwarded to Mr. Standish. 2. In high jump- ing, the front muscles of the thigh are principally used. They are attached at one end to the top part of the thigh bone, at the other to the knee cap, which . passes over the knee and {s fixed to the top part of the shin bone. In the act of jumping, these muscles contract - violently, and straiguten the leg with a jerk, the quick- y contributes to the height of the jump. 3. The table to which you refer is too long for. ' {this column. See a work on athietics. oJ. H.¢., Cape May. N. J.—1. Five feet. five inches is above the average height for a boy of sixteen years © j of age, but it does not necessarily follow that because - you are growing fast that you should be delicate. It is probably imagination. Some people get an idea that fur some reason they are not strong, and it isa diticult - matter to convince them otherwise. Consult your | family physician, and he will prescribe a course of diet and exercise that will bring you arcand all right. 2. F. P. K., Easton, Pa.—The recipe pot public property. The manufacturer holds it as a holders are colored by constant smoking. Care sary in i erumbs and sugar cane. Steady Reader, New VYork—1. No book ‘ean teach ® you to become an author. It is an art that must cone naturally. There is a certain mecharical part, how- ever, such as punctuation, make up, climaxes, etc,, which you can learn if you have any talent for writing a story. 2. In Boston, Mass., there 1s a literary bureau which edits manuser:pts of all kinds, and aids writers in finding a market for their productions. you wish to be- you ask ‘for is. handling, as meershaum is susceptible to. cCommiclbooks.c®