Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 108

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 27, 1930. These Kids Are Clever By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1930. by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Shirley is a very observant child and has a sixth sense for finding out domestic secrets, which makes her very popular and entertaining to the near neighbors. Shirley is making a Saturday morning call on the people next door and is telling them all about how mad daddy got when he heard mamma had invited grandma to stay with them all Summer. ey 3 A Roy is what you might call an incipicnt humorist of addy and mumsie are bringing up the most comic hue and will shout gleefully, “And they June in the old-fashioned way and are shot Lincoln!" whenever a grown-up makes a bad break. letting her believe in Santa Claus, Mrs. Santa Claus, the three bears, the Easter v, fairi giants and the Brownies very convenient at times, hecause er june is naughty and in danger of capital punishment she can say, “I couldn’t help it, daddy; the bad Brownie made me do it!” Aunt Margaret told June that baby brother was brought by the baker in a loaf of bread, but June was skeptical. Herman is going to Harvard in six or seven years and already the girls in his ptighbm:hood are beginning to “Good land! That child is beginning to whoop!” Some look with adoring eyes and are wish- children are quicker to absorb and assimilate than others, and ing for Harvard banners. Herman Junior is just that way, being usually the first to start the belongs to a gang which is continually neighborhood epidemics. Little playmates are forever being warring on another gang, so that h}: snatched from Junior's proximity by anxious mothers who has very little time for “the women, suspect a rash or a cough. as he calls them—yet. Harold is one of those infant musicians who are going to do great things to the keyboard later on. Harold is playing for a select gathering. Just now the piece is “Warum,” and the gathering is wondering “why?” Grace is one of those medically-minded little darlings. Grace is very frank about digestion and so forth, and will say: “Uncle Junius had terrible gas in his stomach last night and mamma said, ‘Junius, why don’t you take a good dose of —'" (And right here Grace is suppressed.) Roberta’s family are thrilled to the limit by the really remarkable things Roberta is doing in the artistic line, and you know how critical one's im- mediate family can be. Roberta says this is a pic- e 3 ture of a horsie running away from a mounted “And, Betty, dear, I must tell you what he said to his grandmother policeman in the park because he wants his dinner. vhe e asked him what he was doing. He said, “None E really!” exclaims Auntie Genevieve, “at her of ——** Sk g “Well, Ethel, you can see he’s all boy! age | couldn’t have drawn a straight line—and just (Three-year-old Eddie can swear better than most truck drivers and look at what the child can do! almost as fluently as the minister’s boys. His parents, though they pretend ‘to be horrified, think Eddie is pretty darn cute.) NS 97 w7