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~ SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1920 CHOOSING PICTURES FOR CHILDREN ‘Interest in:Pictures-Should Be Guided and Encouraged *11" I Pictures in Serapbooks for ¢ ‘Littlést Ones’” Should Not Be Classified But Have Diversity—Wall Paper of Soft Shade Makes Best Back- ground for Child’s Room (Written for the United States School Garden Army.) else shoyld, and bright colored flowers. Dfin't classify these pictures. in - pasting ' (By Julia Wads Abbott) | Pa 1 It is ‘mE.:ie:gbtfl:i:’ "::;e‘:nc:mm“ the|minds don’t work in an orderly ‘way | statement? tamiliar. objects of their |8nd they will enjoy pointing to. :the] " Savage man did not ask the woman | of 'his’ cheice, “Wiit. thou be mineT" He'made himself a stout club with &, ‘and real-objects are in three dimen-[choo” for the train. A page full of the, 'tunmohl .ltn':;.md:m““ Above her head he swung th { +When' the ‘children' are older they iltl -an. energy pecullar te savage | Up.to.the tiny noss, which, sniffs’ del- shoutd collect pictures for themselves | nidin. Tremblingly she answered, “Yes,” | ~in tatfon in many different kinds of thin; ‘their Ql¥:l. b::‘klr”;;.:l;lhlen de- | Page. ‘““There's .a kmlo-'ut. ! light ln coldr and motion and sound, | the Pretty: flower,” and ‘“choo-choo-- Yet the | flowers, for example, would not have (. alons, instead. of only, two. this interesting element of contrast. pleture’of the cow calis forth-the ap- prepriate ‘“moo;” and flowers are held and paste-them -in-their own scrap- ;f]‘:;:l” as if inhaling the real pe boo:s. lTh'e exercise of choice, while at first it may be used only on bright ity ot 38 monhs s peria| o vl bl o St | » n picture-and lead to finer. dis-| o tearing sheeting. Hhis baby was de-| iy inaiong, A girl of 12, who had ties, and suddenly she’ surprised her she was little, started to make 8 scra, 1 D mother. by crying out: *“See the lttle |, "ot "tne heginning of the war. v fi:-;‘:}'{i““:) otkh;l }:l:u:“:o‘:;wow She now has a valuable collection of | @ gause,of the bahy's, exciteme at: lm glsconnd that on the ing was a mill label and in the ture. was an infinitesimal dog ru ning.down the street. /This-interest in. )letum phouldg be d her. ~4=/The pictures and decerations in a ¢hild’s room should be carefully se-{ !, those. days. lected. When I was a little girl I had and mothers, as it done in all good kindergartens.. We owe it to ‘our children to help them enjoy'* good ‘books, good pictures, and good muss ic, as well as good food. of illness. .One day.I..complained that. I was tired of looking at the same.flowers on the wall paper day foot of my bed, and different pictures ! The pictures and decorations in the And his affection was keen as an ax. <hild’s room and his picture books|¥ere pinned on it, from time to time, | y¢"only cooled with death—the death, water where posgible, but most of them were driven from Detroit to’ their destination. | should'be chosen with ‘care and dis- <crimination, -There, are so.. many beautiful “i{ljustrated ‘books tpr chil- dren;in these days that thege is no The best kind of wall paper for a ¢hild’s room is-not a figured one, but @ jpaper of a soft, .pleasing shade for pictures. There should be two or three per- manent framed pictures of subjects ‘which :appeal to the child, as the ugly,iigrotesque and poorly drawn i The Caldecott, picture books il B o.Greenaway are just as good er were, and;in . addition we have our, modérn illustrators, Jes- Y h, Bonheur.. Landscapes also appeal to 5 S0 vlgfll‘;%;dsglni\ti?h Maxfield, Farris children if they are in-color. f Children can be taught the proper ' - carerof.books:when they are very sm“m G"s’l‘ Pos’l' B young. There should be low shelves i *= 1in the child’s own room and he will} - 1 begin to take pride in his own little| . | library. When he is much olde rhe|:": | ©“ will see in the accumulation of books - 'his own growth from a‘little child to s will'be- | No. 530, of the American Legion, is | Metal to be held here June 19, and will be of . Silver.” a youth, and his baby come a precious possesslon wag racking her brain to think of arequest has been forwarded to state Christmas present to give her hus-|headquarters in St. Paul for a speak- band. Some; ;XInd, friend’ suggested | er to deliver the principal address. that she give him yook. : “Oh, no; ]It is expected that the gathering will}: he has a book!?./the.young wife re-|be Strathcona’s “big day” this sum- ‘A young widow cnmplllned recently | to & magistrate of the actlon of an ad-}1 *|| mirer. of hers who had fallen into th 1 habit ot springiog at her from door- q angry llon.” He' swore t’ltrho uld- not Aeve her; no one] iy ‘Women uybt‘hey do not * llke tlllt b kind of lover. But i3 the falr sex quite them in the book. Young children’s|to be trusted when they make this; d the savage equivalént for a ‘pricst ey voted to dogs of all:kinds.and.varie-f o4 hor own picture books when | - Did the .savage maiden :enjoy . this ki of woolng? No doubt ske found hier”husband’ was net so savage as b || 4 iy 3 1 onithe world war that. might: be offer- fl's,::ne: tt ::g ‘:'v‘v’nm'ind ]lmblbl" there were henpecked husbands even |H There have been many savage woo- - guided ‘and- encpuraged ; by fathers| S0 o ooreod reriod in bed because | 678’ In” history. King Henry VI is}} a notorious "example. There was no saying “nay” to King Hal. ‘He had such’ a ‘taking way with him that he} after day. So a screen was put at the | took as many wives as he wanted. that were a joy to.my imagination. that 1s, of the latest wlle——nxchnnn That country, of course, is too far south tc. have native parrots, and most of the birds are imported from Brazil. Argentina nfeans “slivery,” or “Land Its principal river, and one: of. the greatest Inthe world, is calicd the River of Silver. “plata,” belng another word for the same The names thus bestowed owe - thelr origin to the fact that early ex- You remember the young wife who| featured by a community picnic. A | plorers along the Rie de la Plata found |~ much silver in use by the aborigines for 'personal -ornamen’ —Public Led- m. Philadelphia. ! | Writer Implles - That Fierce:‘Weeers ! _Are Not Altogether In Disfavor . With Fair 8ex. rned out 1n Ma‘ &1 Nefi Daxly and Monthl& 208 L ‘aRecofd Established March broke all‘!productxon ucordt.ever'made by ‘the’, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, both for the number of cars produced in one day and one month. March 27th' 4,256 cars left the assembly lines at the home plant and branches, while the record for the month was 94,299 cars. These figures represent production in the United State- only, and’ dn not take ‘into consldeution the' Canadim, or foteum plants. oV Gl i : Here’s an flluatrttlon of the amount of railroad cars it wou]d take to ship this vast swarm of Fords: :Loaded six in a freight car with fifty freight cars to each train, ,..it;would take 814 trains to carry them, nd there would be enough left over to start . 3 Lparade L g . Notw1thstandmg the fact that production in April dropped to less than flfty per cent of normal, because of the strike, Ford officials say that fo rthe fiscal year, which ends July 31st, they will have attained the million mark of productlon. every other possible way, but it served mainly to keep Ford men at work, rather than to maintain any semblance of the regular output. - Assembled cars were shipped. by Miny Ford trucks loaded each with a Fordson tractor started from Dearbom for East- ern, Southern and Mid-Western points. Peadiers of Parrots. * excuse for- buying wooks: containing| Yhich will form a good background| wovet to the eye of a stranger vis- iting Argentina is the parrot peddler, often seeh on the streets of the towns, who carries his feathered stock-in- anmal ‘pictures of Landseer and Rosa | trade In cages, or sometimes perched on his head and shoulders. . The above merely shows you w‘hy you should place your order in hdvance. C. W. JEWETT (0., Inc. FORD SALES ANP SERVICE’ Telephone 474 During the stnke, material was brought in by trucks, boats, electric freight and‘ Bemldjl, Minnesota =l {F YOU WANT T0 BUY. SELL. OR fmn ADVERITISE IN THE PIONEER WANT COLUMY gt il o el oy Eifienf i take ace . e | 'i.llllIIIII|IIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIlIlIIllIIIIII||||||IIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIII||I|I||I|IIII||I||IIIlIIIIIIIIIIII|||lIIIllll||||||IIIIII|I|I|||IIIIIIlIIIII|IIlllIIIIIIII|IIII|IIIIIlIII|IIIII|IIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl._ “dren «to ‘be' the. one-book type when they ‘are grown up. Mothers can imake beluti!ul senp ‘books for the “littlest ones” with pic- I'HB PIONEER WANT ADS -tures-of -all:-the things that.children].. - BRING RESULTS are interested in—trains and animals N making a selection for your busi- ness stationery be sure that the paper measures up to the standard of yoursuccess. The supenorquahtyoff r TYPEWRITER | PAPERS is immediately evident ‘to all who see them. X b They will lend to your W¥usiness correspondence that quiet dignity which goes with assured success. e " | If He Doss Not Have It in Stoek ‘ : | ‘Have Him Telephone 799 PIONEER STATIONERY HOUSE - BEMIDJI, MINN. }_'lllllllllllllllllllllllmllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIfillIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIII Y 'Adv,%ertising——The Seed In‘every section of our land you will find local products of merit that are hardly known in the next county or state. that multiplied the harvest. Advertising has made it possi- ble for you to enjoy many eco- nomical comforts today be- cause advertising made it possi- ble to manufacture and distri- bute them in quantity at prices withip reach of all. Occasmnally a maker of one or more of these products de- cides that other folks would enjoy the merits of his goods, if they could hear ‘of them. He begins to advertise so that Mr. Maine and Miss California shall- have a chance to know about and to buy them. The modern home, the mod- ern kitchgn was built by adver- tising. Folks dress better and more reasonably today because of the advertisements. All over the country folks ask for these goods, the local mer- chant sells and advertises them, and people everywhere thus get an opportunity to enjoy them, t00. - The advertisements in your newspaper are signs of progres- sive merchants and makers. Read them to inform yourself on what to buy and where to buy it. ) Countless of the items adver- tised in your newspaper have been put at your disposal be- cause advertising was the seed - iy :IlllllllllllllIIIIIIIIlll|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIllIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllll|IIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIII