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CHILDREN'’S PAGE. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 16, 1937—PART FOUR. CHILDREN'’S PAGE. F—7 Young Capital Residents Follow Varied Pursuits and Many Hobbies Boy Artist Has Record Of His Work Prefers Subjects in Which Action Has Chief Interest. N]NE-YEAR-OLD Tommy Larkin has a scrap book that tells more than the story of his life. It tells the story of almost everything that has attracted his interest for the past five years or more. @ For ever since Tommy was old enough to hold a pencil he has been 1llustrating events and stories, such as & trip to the Zoo, President Roose- velt's inaugural parade, the adventures of the three little pigs and an Ameri- ean history studied with his mother. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Larkin, feel that their son probably @will follow an artistic career later in life, so many of the sketches he has made have been preserved carefully in a bulging book. This affords a re- markable record of his progress to date. Tommy is enrolled now in an art #chool, where his work is outstanding. But long before he became an art student he spent many hours in draw- ing anything from Mickey Mouse and moonbeams—gay dancing little fig- ures—to an Indian hunt. He seems to have a preference for action pic- tures, in which he is unusually talented. Many of hise sketches are from original subjects. For instance, he ikes to draw comic-strip characters and some time ago invented two individuals whom he called “Him” and “Her.” Conversations between “Him” and “Her” have provided an interesting series of sketches. Two years ago Tommy completed one of his outstanding works. This Wwas a volume of 25 illustrations for an original story told him by his mother, in which he was the hero. Last year he began to use water paints and has made several beautiful pictures of flowers and also a fine copy of “The Laughing Cavalier.” In a series of American historical subjects he has pictured, in portrait style, an Indian, explorer, puritan, Southern gentleman, slave and, finally, Andrew Jackson. Not all visitors to Tommy's home at 4 Bayard boulevard have the op- portunity to see his scrap book. But few fail to notice several quaint Co- lonial miniatures in black and white which he made last Winter. These have been framed and hung and Pedapt themselves charmingly to the Colonial interior. Tommy's work has been so varied | that he dooesn’t know just what sort of art he prefers. He's pretty sure he ‘wants to keep on sketching and paint- ing, however. He takes piano lessons also, but in | #pite of all these studies he has plenty | of time to play and is a “regular” boy | in his neighborhood and at Bomerset School he attends. the | ¢ Plan First Hil;:e With Best Care OW that the weather is warming up. it's time to think about get- ting out on a good old hiking trip, isn’t it? Our first trip shouldn't be a very fong one, for Winter-bound muscles need “breaking-in" easily. It's a good idea to take a short rest, say 5 or 10 minutes, after every hour or so of walking. Don't rest too long or you'll get chilled, perticularly if you Were hot when you sat down. Feet are likely to be soft and tender, too, so watch for blisters. If you do get one, open it at the bottom just enough to let all the water out, using a needle sterilized in a flame. Then | cover it with a couple of strips of clean adhesive tape. When you get home, remove the adhesive, bathe your weet in warm water and apply a good antiseptic. With this treatment the blister won't bother you. Here’s an important reminder—don’t start off on any trip without a good small first-aid kit. You never know ; when it may prove a life-saver. Cuddles and Tuckie BY FRANCES ROYSTER WILLIAMS. LED MISS CUDDLES powder-puffed her nose And put on all her dress-up clothes. She pinned them up and gaily took Her hat and gloves and pocketbook. She started down the street with pride To take her baby doll a ride. But one thing more I must explain— ohe shut the door upon her train. 8he thought she looked so very pert And didn't know she'd lost her skirt W1l Tuckie met her with a smile And said, “Is that the latest style?” ‘When Cuddles saw her dreadful plight e ran for home with all her might. r hat and gloves came sailing after, While Tuckie split his sides with i | as possible. Tommy Larkin, looking very on a still life. ‘This is you certainly learn in any to you. Then you will have a better & long period of time. Talented Y oung Artist professional in his smock, works —Star Staff Photo. OUR EDITORIAL “qu.. Mary, what did you learn at school today?"” one of those questions which men and women seem to like to ask of boys and girls. And often it' It's not easy to describe just what you have learned in any one day at achool. . But just now you are approaching the end of a whole term in school, and if somebody asks you, “What did you learn in school this year?” 's & pretty hard question to answer. should be able to give a good answer. It's much easier to tell what you have learned over a number of months than the little bit you one day. Stop for a moment, think back to last Sep- tember, and just remember all the things this year in school has meant idea of the value of your education. And on some of the days when studying seems hard, it will be just that much easier and more pleasant because you realize what it means over Young Producer Guides Play and Also Is Actor AKE it from Joel Friedman, | putting on a play is really not | “all play,” especially when the | producer is actor and director | as well as business manager. Joel knows, because he's trying it just now at the Powell Junior High School. But if the young producer is a pretty busy man these days he has none to blame but himself. It was his own idea that Powell students should present a three-act comedy on June 2—and that the play should be given without the aid of the faculty. Placing his plan before L. T. Wal- ter, school principal, students gained permission to go ahead. The comedy, | a collegiate drama entitled “Girl | Shy,” will be presented in the school auditorium, and proceeds will go for | student activities 1 In the meantime Joel is beginning to realize that he has a real job on his hands. i First, there was the business of se- lecting a good dramatic vehicle, then | the casting. “More than a hundred students must have had try-outs for parts,” he commented. “I had to hear them all and selected those I thought would be best in the various roles—in spite of my friends.” ONCE rehearsals started, there was the problem of combining the du- ties of a director with those of an actor, because he’s taking an impor- tant part himself in the show. Every minute he’s not on the stage he has to run down front to see how things are going. He has an assist- ant, though, and the arrangement is working out well. Later on he’ll have to select cos- tumes and assemble stage properties, though the setting is to be as simple In addition, Joel's afraid he may have to play the plano to accompany the school glee club for selections between acts—but that's a bridge he'd rather not cross yet. “I'm only glad I didn’t have to write the play, too,” he sighed. Students co-operate fairly well, the young director finds, but just the same it's a little difficult for a young boy to command the necessary respect from his fellow classmates. JOEL, who is 15 years old, has had about five years of study in dra- matics to qualify him for his present job. J He laughed when he told how he happened to take up the thespian art. “I used to have a very high voice and I thought I'd take public speak- ing lessons to bring it down,” he said. “Then my voice changed anyway, and now listen to me.” The reporter listened and laughed, too. Because Joel speaks in very low tones and can't sing anything but a deep bass! Joel has been in several public school plays and recently took the part of a dog in “Blue Bird.” “I liked that role,” he said. “Had lots of fun watching my own dog to see what to do.” Incidentally, he loves dogs, sports, ancient history and French, to men- tion a few preferences. Joel said he has good material for his forthcoming production. Among his players—who number 12 in all— are Gloria Lubar, Carroll S8hea and Marian Shapiro, all of whom have had previous experience in public perfor- mances. Turn to the Comic Section for HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY and laughter. Copyrishs, 1937.) PUZZLE PAGE IN COLOR 4 Powell Junior High School Students to Have Full Responsibility as They Present Their Own Stage Attraction. JOEL FRIEDMAN. —Star Staff Photo. Flower Markers For Your Plants BY KATHERINE HOUISON. [ESE flower markers add a colorful note to the garden, window boxes, or potted plants, and are quite easy to make. You’ll need some soft wood about %-inch thick, a sharp knife, and some designs. If you can’t draw, trace your designs from books or magazines, and transfer them to the wood with carbon paper. When the design is on the wood, cut it out carefully with your Kknife. Bmooth it with fine sandpaper and you're ready to paint. Four-hour enamel is best, but any left-over paint will do. When you've peinted one part, wait till it's dry be- fore adding the color next to it, or they'll run together. If you want to blend colors, however, do it before they dry. Be sure to keep your marker flat when painting it, and don’t forget the edges. The back can be painted all one color. Get & narrow piece of wood, and whittle one end to & point so it will 80 in the ground easily. When the marker is thoroughly dry, glue or nail it to the wooden atick you've made, and the job is done. Among the flowers of a window box, 8 butterfly or bird marker is lovely, while the quaint little black silhouettes are effective in flower pots. For use outdoors, give the markers & protecting coat of spar varnish and Use somewhat larger designs. v Student Carves Graphic “Success Model” Wesley Meadows Expert Craftsman in Shop at Y. M. C. A. BY MARIA VON VROOMAN. PROBABLY almost any boy could tell in words his idea of how to gain success in life. But it remains for Wesley Meadows, 17, of 3321 Seventeenth street to show that idea in a small wood model, clever of exe- cution and perfect in detail, which he whittled from a block of wood with an ordinary penknife. Wesley taught himself to carve, He had never had a lesson when he began to make all sorts of things from wood. Now, after working some time, he has completed boat models, minia- ture coaches, handsome sheathed paper knives and finally the *“success” model. The “success” model was an en- tirely original idea. In the craftwork group of the Boys' Club, at the Dis- trict Y. M. C. A, Wesley decided to try to put in concrete form his idea of what a boy must do to become the success in life every ambitious young person wants to be. Tiny figures representing hours of patient carving and delicate whittling are the result. ‘The model shows a young man in college cap and gown, sheepskin under his arm, grasping firmly both handles of a plow. Before the plow walks a horse. The young man follows after as he “plows along the road of life toward success.” Wesley has made every minute de- tail of the lifelike carving exactly and with great care. The figures are painted in actual colors. The lips of the tiny, 3-inch college graduate are firmly set. We know he intends to plow steadily along the road, come what may, and not stop to look back. equipped to “get there” if he is armed with a good education—hence the sheepskin under the small figure's elbow. Wesley himself means to enter a school equivalent to college wants to follow as his life work. This graduates from high school this year. Like most boys who spend long, painstaking hours on some difficult hobby, Wesley doesn't consider carv- ing hard work. He is modest about his accomplishment in that line. He has sold some of his beautiful ship models and instructs some of the younger boys of the Boys' Club craft class. This Summer may find him teaching at the “Y"” camp. But whatever he does, Wesley is determined to hold in his mind the success idea of following the plow and keeping to his furrow, as surely as the tiny figure that he has so cleverly made come alive in wood. Playing for Keeps. | Two small brothers were having | such a strenuous fight that their | mother felt it her duty to intervene. “Bobby,” she protested to the elder, “don't be so selfish. Let your little brother play witk your marbles for a while!” “But, Mummy,” said Bobby tearfully, “he means to keep them always!” “I don’t think he does, dear,” replied his mother. “I know he does” said Bobby, Thal's Wesley's recipe for success. | He also knows every boy is better | which will train him in the trade he | will complete his education after he | | ered. The kinky tufts make it look | | be delighted with the finished rug. “’cause he's swallowed two of them already!” i ALL you young movie fans should | find this picture puzzle as easy as | | ple. Guess the name of four promi- | | nent motion-picture stars—last names only, remember! Four Movze Stazs, THE LAST NAMES B td=s Moving picture terms make up our word chains. Change only one letter at & time, always forming a genuine word. Change REEL to FILM in four moves. Change LEAD to ROLE in five moves. . —_— The word diamond below is short and simple. The second line is an animal and the fourth means humor. M [J MOVIE 1 E —a Behead heaviness and get a number. Behead fear and get correct. iy CROSSWORD PUZZLE. ddmE ARl HAE n For the Puzzle Fans | in Wood Here’s a 17-year-old boy’s recipe for success—a combination of knowledge and hard work— carved in wood. Inset shows Wesley Meadows, who designed the model. —Star Staff Photos. Kinky Tufts Give Beauty InWool Rug Discarded in Homes, Articles Are Used for Fine Work. OU can use discarded sweaters, ski socks, or any worn knitted arti- |, cles for this unusual rug. | It your wool is heavy, cut a strip of | cardboard about 2 inches wide, but for finer wool cut it an inch or an inch and a half wide. Now unravel your wool and wind about 18 strands over | the cardboard as close together as pos- sible. The number of strands will de- pend on the weight of the wool. Wind it loosely so as not to spoil the “kink,” | for this is what makes the finished | rug so effective. Now take a short piece of wool, slide | it under the 18 strands, tie it tightly ‘ around them, and cut the loops. Slip i it off the card and you'll have a kinky I tuft of wool. Do this with all your wool, using as many colors as you can find. Get a piece of burlap or canvas and | cut it the size you want your rug to be. Turn about an inch under all around and sew it down flat. Use a heavy needle and soft string, and sew a row of tufts across the end of your material in any color arrangement you like. Alternating rows of dark | and light are pretty; you can work out | a design, or just put them on “hit | and miss.” Your arrangement will depend a good deal on the colors you | have. Keep the tufts close together so the | material won't show through and con- tinue until the whole surface is cov- so intricate and hard to make you'll Sure-Fire. “A batch of jokes I sent to the editors was rejected as no good, but when I threw them in the stove the fire just roared.” The definitions: HORIZONTAL. 1. A black bird. 3. To kill. 6. Yes. 7. Opposite of yes. 8. The joining of two pieces of cloth. 11. A color. 13. Founded on truth or fact. 14. Proceed. 15. Printer’s measure. 17. A British dominion. 21. Boys. 23. Slender. 25. Boy’s nickname. 26. Note of the musical scale. 27. Close. 28. Fine particles of dirt. VERTICAL. 1. To throw. 2. A grain. 4. Girl's name. 5. A frame used to hold oxen to- gether. 9. To keep away from. 10. Mother. 11. Mathematical quantity. 12. A mental standard of conduct. 16. Tribe. 18. North side (abbr.) 19 Exists 20 To belch forth, 22. A beverage. 24, Possessive pronoun. . ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLES. 1. Crossword Puzzle Solution. 2. The diamond is F, Alf, aloud, flowers, fuels, Drs,, 8. 3. More, mote, moth, met, other, ohm, ore, throe, tore, toe, tome, the them, term, home, hoe, hot, her, hero, hem, rote, rot, roe, ret. 4. Boy, bouquet, box, bow, bird, bell, blouse, beads, bookcase, books, baby, bulb, back, ball, block, blooms, bench, border, bob, bottle, boot, brush. 5. Plece, peace. Turn to the Comic Sec- tion today for the second “Diorama” of the World Mu- seum, “Treasure Hunters of the Sea.” Youwll find a real thrill in store for you. Falconry Is Hobby Chevy Chase Boys Deserve Credit for Revival of Sport. Robert Nye with “Tootie,” the smallest of game hunters. " a sparrow hawk which is one of —Star Staff Photo. THE anclent art of falconry is still good sport, in the opinion of & group of boys in Chevy Chase who for several years have been engaged in “hawking falconry” as a nature | study and hobby. Much credit for local revival of this old-time method of game hunt- ing goes to Robert (Chubby) Nye of 5406 Connecticut avenue, who, with his brother Alva became interested while thumbing through some library books several years ago. Falconry, practiced in China as far back to 2000 B. C., was s fa- vorite recreation of the aristocracy during the Middle Ages—more, in the latter instance, as sport than as a means of getting game for the table, it seems. With Robert and his Chevy Chase friends, falcons, though trained for hunting, are regarded fondly in the light of pets “Anybody who enjoys outdoor life and who is interested in studying birds ought to get a big kick out of it,” Robert declared. JUDG!NG from the experience of the two Nye brothers, there is Photo Fans Have Handy Filing Case Tobacco Cans Make Receptacles for Big Collection. BY BERNARD KAHN. SPR!NGTI‘ME is cameratime In Washington. The magnificent buildings and beautiful natural won- ders of the city offer an unending ar- ray of unusual subjects for snap- shooters, both young and old. Building up & rare photographic record of the Nation's Capital is an opportunity opened to every girl and boy who lives here. But just as im- portant as making the collection of pictures is the problem of successfully preserving the negatives. This is neatly accomplished by using dis- carded tobacco tins for your film con= tainers. Free of cost and easy to obtain, the flat cans will hold approximately 75 negatives, if the films are not larger than 21 by 3% inches. One handy method of filing the films is, first, to attach strips of ad- hesive tape upon the broad side of the tobacco tin. A descriptive word or two printed upon the white tape will suffice to remind the photographer of the subject of the negative. Other- wise, frequent hunting through a pile of films for a specific picture is rather & nuisance. As the collection grows, the ama- teur cameraman will find it conven- jent to keep the tin containers to- gether. A box in which the cans may be placed in an upright position, one behind the other, is the most de- sirable method of doing this. Thus, the hobbyist may handle his valuable negatives easily and quickly. If de- sired, the tins may be painted in various colors. This eliminates the advertising matter found on the metal tobacco receptacles. The tins are handy filing cases for prints as well as negatives. On long sea voyages or camping trips the cans protect the traveler's photo record from adverse weather conditions. Don’t wait until you have taken & great number of pictures before ob- taining the tins. Look ahead and avold the risk of torn or lost filma. If dad doesn't smoke a pipe ask his friends to save the empty tobacco cans for you. | Robert, following oconsiderable public interest in fal- conry. Alva, now & student at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, has estab- lished what virtually amounts to a lecture bureau to meet requests for instructive talks on hawking. And in his footsteps, has appeared before several local clubs and Boy S8cout groups for the same purpose. Since they have been interested in the hobby the two have trained to- gether about 25 different hawks, Rob- ert estimated His birds have been obtained by various methods, but usually when Robert wants a hawk he begins hunt- ing for nests about this time of year and then watches until the young birds are ready to fly. “If you take them then and raise them on your own hook they won't be hard to train,” he said. “Hawks captured after they are full grown often make better hunters, but they also make things a lot more difficult for their trainer,” he pointed out, and continued: “Never keep your hawk in a cage— or any bird for that matter—because they beat against the enclosure and are bruised and intimidated. “Instead, a perch should be provided and the bird should be kept on & leash. “It requires, on the average, two months to train a hawk. They are taught to return to their owner, through their appetites, of course, so always feed them off your fist until they learn that's where they get food. “IN TEACHING a hawk to come to you, you might start out at first by letting it sit on the edge of a table and hold your hand a few feet away. Gradually lengthen the dis- tance until the hawk is about 100 feet away from your fist. “The first time you get out in the fleld with your bird it's apt to take a lot of persuasion to make it return to you. You may have to call several hours, but if it's trained properly, it'll show up in the end.” The hawker should wear heavy gloves to keep his hands from being torn by the sharp talons of the falcon, Robert added. He also should be care- ful not to release his hawk umless it's hungry. “With a well-trained falcon I can get the limit in quail or rabbits dur- ing the hunting season,” he said, “but I enjoy hawks just as much in the Summer, because they keep me out of doors and make such swell pets.” Riddles 'HE Riddle Man has found that boys and girls are not the only ones who like riddles. This week he is printing three original riddles sent in by Mrs. Nellle Chapman. She is the daughter of & musician, and these riddles have a musical flavor. The last riddle this week went sent in by an adult, too, but no naeme was signed. 1. Whet is the most appropriate residence for & musician? 2. Why is a musician the most healthy of all human beings? 3. Why is a pianist like a carpen- ter? 4. Little boy red jacket, whither away? ‘To the house of the ivory portals I stray. Say will you come back, little red- coat, again? My bones will come back but my flesh will remain. ANSWERS. 1. A flat. 2. Because when he wants a change of air he can have it. 3. Because if he did not use his hammers his work would never be ac- complished. 4. A cherry. The ivory portals are the teeth. Country Has Great Gain In Wild Life World Traveler Has Charge of Game in Open Sections. BY WILLIAM A. BELL, Jr. UNTIL the writer met Dr. Homer Shantz he had the notion that wild life—big game such as deer, antelope and bear—was becoming as scarce in this country as bison, car- riage horses and cigar-store Indians. 8eems it's not. In private domain, true, the game population is decreas- ing, but in the millions of acres that comprise our national forests wild life numbers are going up by leaps and bounds—like a mountain goat. Dr. Shantz, a gray-haired former university president, is chief of the Forest Service’s Division of Wild Life Management. That word “manage- ment” is a favorite with him. He uses it as often as a doctor uses “diagnosis” or “surgery.” Continued increase in the game population depends on “management.” Long and happy lives for animals protected in Government reservations depend on “management.” In the past dozen years, according to this official, the average increase in wild life in United States national forests has been 120 per cent, despite & 400 per cent increase in hunters and an increase in forest visitors, hunters and otherwise, approximating 65,000, 000. The antelope population is up 500 per cent; mountain goat, more than 100 per cent; deer and elk, more than 100 per cent, and brown bear, 25 per cent. This is in national forests. Wild life statistics for most other areas have minus signs. Buch is the increase in game that overcrowding has become a problem, Dr. Shantz said. There is room for all, but particular areas become too well stocked and there are food short- ages. “In order to protect the animals properly.” Dr. Shantz said, “we’'ve got | to see that overcrowded conditions are eliminated. When there is not enough food to go around, the size of the game falls off as well as the numbers.” The overcrowding situation wouldn't be as acute if it wasn't for the fact that deer are difficult to move. Stub- born and stupid, they won't be driven from one place when the food supply there is exhausted to another where food is plentiful. They'll starve to death in one place when there's food right next door. Forest fires will drive them out, but only temporarily, for they’ll come right back to the burned- over area, 80 strong are their home ties. Another factor in the overcrowding problem, Dr. Shantz said, is the law which allows hunters to shoot only buck deer. Not that he's in favor of permitting the killing of does, but more and more is the female 'deer population outnumbering the male, and the does foal more females than males. Dr. Shantz, a world traveler, has many an anecdote about animals he has known. One concerns a rarger's dog in the Pecos division of the Santa Fe National Forest. Fido, when Dr. Shantz was introduced to him, had killed 68 porcupines, a valuable serve ice, for porcupines injure forests by eating the bark off yellow pines. His method was to circle a porcupine un- til he could catch it by the front foot. Then he would turn it over and seize its throat in a death grip. The dog never was serfously struck by porcu- pine quills. What hurts he did get did nothing to discourage him. Put a beaver in a place he doesn't like and he’ll move, Dr. Shantz said. | This has been shown in the transfer | of beavers from one national forest to another or from a particular site in one forest to another area of the same forest. Beavers can migrate sur- prising distances and will, if & home that has been found for them does not suit. My Most Exciting Adventure Runaway Car Dives Into Ditch as Girl Saves Herself. EAN DEFANDORF, 13, of 6538 Maple avenue, Chevy Chase, Md,, reports the following exciting advene ture to The Star: “One bright and sunny day,” she wrote, “I saw our car in a very en- ticing place in the driveway. Right then and there I thought it was time I learned to drive. “So, unnoticed, I jumped into the car, released the brakes and started the motor. Half way down, however, I decided it might be time to stop. “Pinding I could not stop, I jumped out of the car, leaving it to its own devices. “One minute later I uncovered my eyes long enough to see a fire plug and the car meet with a smash.” Subsequent events—during which ooy Jean vanished from the scene and her father sought the aid of two men in lifting the car out of the ditch—also contributed & part of the adventure. “Later on,” Jean oontinued, “I peeked out of my hiding place (under the bed) to learn that $5 paid by my parents was the cost of the dame age. “Though nothing disastrous oc= curred, it might have if children had been coming up the street just then. “I have put away the thought of trying to teach myself to drive for at least five years.” The Star will pay $1 for each story it publishes on the subject “My Most Exciting Adventure,” written by a boy or girl reader of the paper.