Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1937, Page 54

F—6 CHILD REN’'S PAGE. Stories of P As This Week’s Subject Best Letters on Hobbie Spending Money Pub Contestants Put OW smart is your pet? Pretty smart, I imagine. Becatise most people who have pets find that animals can do remarkable things. This week's letter-writing contest will give you an opportunity to tell | some of your favorite pet stories. ‘The subject is “Interesting Pets.” And that, readers, covers a lot of territory. But before we go into the matter any further let me remind you of the three cash przes offered for the best Jetters on gwen topics each week duri August. They are $3 for the best letter, $2 for the second best and $§1 for the third best. Now, what to do to try for a y. in a simple letter to the of this page, the thing about particular pet that makes it in- | to you There is a le girl out in Vir- ginia, I understand, who has a pet | rooster she has taught to swing! That's an pet, I think. I hope | ent: the contest and tell don't you? ‘ rize. interesting I)OGS and cats, I suppose, are the most common pets, but don't| think they are aren't interesting. ‘ I remember a dog we used to have | our family—a handsome pointer Tim. He was gun shy, so the t made a pet out of h\m\ kept him about the house most | f the time One Sunday night we decided to e sandwiches for supper, and in the tv preparat of the meal Tim | s otten. The family assembled | in the living room later and still no | one tt in tof the dog | at point. Tim became impa- and decided to take matters in hands, or paws, I should say, he went back supper plate and picked it up in his mouth. The next thing we knew he had brought it into the living room down in front of us. “Just a reminde seemed to say, “that you have forgotten to put any- tr in this for me! Well—that's my dog story, but imagine many of you know of others Just as good. | 'I‘HF.RE are good stories about cats, = too. and horses Or maybe your pet white mouse, r a canary the to his own is something a goldfish, a contest are simple 5 week's sub- Pets.” must be mn the office oi the Star by Friday. They ild be addressed to the Editor the Children's Page of The Star. Contestants must not be ove years of age and must state in the lette so each letter should contain your name, address and the school you end in the Winter. If you have a phone number, give that also. | Qtherwise, indicate that you have no +¢lephone | Write your letter on one side of the page only. And be sure to write as | neatly as possible ! Prize-winning entries will be pub- in The Star on Sunday, | st 29, | their Editor's Note——Watch the paper next week for announcement of the con- cluding contest in the August series. The subjec* will be “How I Spent One Vacation.” Additional cash prizes will be offered in this contest also. | Exciting Adventure Bump on Road Turns Over Big Hog Crate and Injures Girl. EGGY KETCHUM, 13, of 5507 Seventh street, reports her most exciting adventure to The Star in the following: “I was visiting my uncle in the Red | River Valley during the Summer of | 1935." Peggy wrote. “I had gone to a farm 14 miles away with four of my cousins and a friend to bring back a large hog. We rode in a wagon drawn | two mules. ! The hog was in a strong wooden | erate. When it was put on the wagon | Cousin Lillian spread a blanket on top | of it and she and I rode astride the crate on the return trip. We weren't any too secure in that position, and, since we had to travel on a dried-up river bed, full of large stones and ruts, our ride was pretty bumpy. “As we passed a pear tree one of the party gathered a few pears and I borrowed his penknife and started | peeling a pear. Just at this moment we hit a hard bump and the crate tipped over! “Cousin Lillian and I were thrown on the ground about a foot apart. The penknife lay between us—open! “I lay there a few seconds, then Jumped up, still stunned. Lillian was all right, but I had a fractured and badly sprained arm. Luckily the doc- tor was only a half mile away. “Later we were told that the only thing that saved us from being crushed by the weight of the hog was that the wheels came above the sides of the wagon bed enough to catch the crate.” The Star will pay $1 for each story it publishes on the subject “My Most Erciting Adventure,” written by a boy or girl reader of the paper. | readers of this page during August. | from which she has learned many in- ets Chosen sand on Earning Extra lished Today—Many on Honor Roll. ODAY the contest editor is ready | with exciting news—announce- ment of the three prize win- ners of the first weekly letter- writing contest on assigned subjects for But don't think the judges didn’t face a big job in selecting the best letters. There were two subjects in the first contest, you know, “Hobbies” and "How I Make Extra Spending Money.” The judges took a good look at the letters and thought there ought to be more prizes. But only three cash awards were available, so the task was to select the three best letters. There were a lot of things to be considered, of course. A few points to which judges gave special attention were the style in which the letters were written, the subject matter, neatness and the age of the contestant But I won't hold the news back any longer. It makes me very happy to announce that the first prize of $3 for the best letter in the first weekly contest goes to Betty Jane Meggers, 15, of 2904 Brandywine street; the second prize of $2 to Constance Quarles, 13, of 1815 First street, and the third prize of $§1 | to Larry O'Rourke, 8, of 120 Fifth street southeast. BETTY JANE, whose picture is pub- lished on this page, collects dolls. Not such an unusual hobby, but one teresting facts. Betty Jane goes into a few of these in her letter which is| published today. Betty Jane's entry, incidentally, was the neatest received in the entire con= | test. Right here I'd like to remind you to read carefully the rules which say that letters must be neat and written | | on one side of the page only. Several very good entries were eliminated in | the final selection because their writers had been a little careless on these points. The second prize-winning written by Constance Quarles, tells how to make “X-ray paper dolls Constance says these dolls are her own idea—and a very good one, the Judges decided. Read her story (in| column 6) and see what you think of it | Larry O'Rourke, winner of the third | prize, is only 8 years old—one of the | youngest contestants to try for a| prize. The judges thought his con-| tribution exceptionally good for such a young boy. Moreover, he chose a subject many readers must have found difficult because few letters were received on “How I Make Extra | Spending Money.” letter, BECAL‘SE other letters singled out for special consideration by the judges were so interesting, it has been decided to establish an Honor Roll for their writers. We are pub- lishing this Honor Roll today, along With one or two of the best letters. Other good letters on *“Hobbies” re- |ceived in this contest will be pub- lished within the next several weeks. The Honor Roll includes: Jean Marie Boyer, 14, of 266 Park avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Betty Roberts, 14, of 701 G street southeast. John Daly, street. Dorothy Swingle, 16, of 2901 Lega- tion street. Jean Dobson, 13, of La Plata, Md. Margaret Iglehart, 14, of Vienna, Va., route No. 2. | Jean Defandorf, 13, of 6536 Maple avenue, Chevy Chase, Md. | Madeleine Labofish, 14, of 2900 Mili- tary road. Katinka Brieger, mont street. Cecil Marie Moran, 12, Exeter road, Bethesda, Md. Helen Kelser, 10, of Riggs road, Hyattsville Md. 8. of 3322 Tennyson 13, of 1665 La- of 6921 e Proper Name. WE HAVE just nicknamed our dog “Mars,” because from all lndlcl-\ tions he appears to be inhabited. THE SUNDAY STAR, Dolls Her Hobby Betty Jane Meggers shows a few of her dolls. tion includes folk dolls of this country as well as foreign dolls. The collec- —Star Staff Photo. ETTY JANE MEGGERS, 15, of 2904 Brandywine street, whose letter on her collection of dolls | won the first prize in the open- l ing contest of the August letter-writ ing series, comes from a hobby-riding | family. Both her parents and her | two brothers are enthusiastic hobby- | ists, she says, and have 15 different hobbies among them. Betty Jane tells of several additional 1 . hobbies of her own in the conclusion | of this letter. But read about them | yourself. | “T)EAR EDITOR: When I was 6 vears old some friends from Hol- land brought me a little Dutch girl doll. In 1931 I acquired my second doll, a beautiful Chinese girl. That was the extent of my doll collection until 1935, when my parents went to Europe. When they asked me what they should bring me, I answered, “A doll from each count My mother | brought back 15 dolls from England, | Scotland, France, Germany, Holland Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary | “My collection has grown rapidly since then and it now numbers 70| dolls. i have added dolls from the | Philippine Islands, Sardinia, Russia, | Czechoslovakia, Finland and Mexico. | “Two of the Mexican peasants are molded from beeswax, which gives them an almost lifelike appearance. | im wears w shoes as a reminder of the time w: Belgium and Holland were united “Some people may think the United States has no folk dolis, but Penguins on parade? Well Turn to the Comic Section for HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY PUZZLE PAGE IN COLOR } WORLD MUSEUM DIORAMAS Success of Fisherman Made Sure on All Trips By Ray J. Marran. ERE is a way to catch a fish every time you go fishing, even in a small lake or in a stream where there are no fish. Of course, the one you catch by this method is & dummy fish, but the bystanders watching you play the fish will at first think you have hooked a good one, and will probably give you advice on how to land it. When they — | | Z222 Zip causes 2297 o bod see it is a dummy, the laugh will be on them. This dummy fish is nothing more than a large wooden casting plug, cut to resemble a fish and made to bob and dive as it is pulled through the water. A wide tin diving lip and tin side fins act much like the diving and elevating fin plates on submarine boats. Cut the fish from soft wood with a scroll saw, following the pattern illus- trated. In the bottom edge of the 4 Th22 S22z W25 woodez: Yo pull the $1sh through the water fish, bore two holes one-half inch in diameter, and pound in a heavy lead | plug, or fill with BB shot, so the fish will float upright in the water. Cut | the top, bottom and side fins from | sheet tin and attach to the fish as | sketched. Then cut a slot in the mouth of the fish and insert a wide tin lip. This lip causes the fish to| bob and dive when it is pulled through the gwater. Insert a screweye in the T422 $722 2eld 222 Boles o ) ) N /////,/’//? nose of the fish for attaching the line. Paint the fish in natural colors, using quick drying enamel or other oil paint. Use a pole and reel, and attach the line to the screweye on the fish, then cast the fish as far out into the water as you can. The weight of the fish should allow you to make an excep- tionally long cast. Start reeling the fish in slowly. As the fish is pulled through the water, it will dive, then | cotton picker from Georgia, an oranze , not eractly. Jane Meggers is starting as a new hobby bob up to the surface of the water almost like & real fish. I have a pair of Colonial dolls, rep- resenting George and Martha Wash- ington from Mount Vernon. On a trip to Florida last Sumeier I added a | picker from Florida and a doll made of sponges by the Greek inhabitants | of Tarpon Springs, Fla, the largest sponge exchange in the world. WASHINGTON, Young Boy Discovers Fine Jobs Third Prize Taken by 8-Year-Old Earner of Income. LDEST in a family of three chil- | dren, 8-year-old Larry O'Rourke! of 120 Fifth street southeast seems to be a very industrious young man. He has several means of making extra spending money, and he describes them,| here in a letter which won third prize in the opening letter-writing contest of our August series. | The judges thought Larry expressed himself unusually well for an 8-year- old, and they liked his suggestions for earning money. Other young boys and girls probably will be glad to know that age is taken into consideration in judging prize-winning letters. But here’s Larry's entry: “Dear Editor: “I am 8 years old and I have just ! begun to make extra spending money. | “First, I started with bottles that are thrown away. I collect every bottle I see that has & cash value and take it back to the store. Then I run errands for women in the neighborhood, and erday a couple of other boys and I cleaned a neighbor’s yard for a pen- ny apiece ometimes mother borrows money, and then she gives me a nickel extra when she pays me back for the use of it. | “I collect papers and magazines to sell. Last week I wrote my most excit- | ing experience, and mother says if I, win she will give me s much as I win. If I amvucky enough to win in this contest she will double it for me. ALSO have two Amish dolls from Lancaster, Pa. The Amish religion was derived from the name of Jacob Amish, a native of Switzerland. Hi followers, known as the Amish, car 10 America ab: 1717 and settled in , Pa. They still the standards and garb he ich is to forbid = : ead type of American doll is I have Indian dolls trom | Hopi, Sioux, Cheyenne, | Seminole and Cherokee | The Seneca doll is made of | mn husks and dressed in pigskin The Hopi doll. a ceremonial doll, is | carved from the root of the cotton- | wood tree and painted with clay | paint. One of the Navajo dolls has a dried apple face. The wrinkles and coloring give it the lifelike appear- | ance of an aged Indian. “I am trying to get an Indian doll | from each of the other tribes | “T also have 900 but 200 dogs, | 15,000 first-day covers and | am star ction of penguins the Ind Navajo, tribes. stamps, This is just the beginning of a collection Betty “I also set the table for the dinner | | before mother comes home for a penny. | I hope to earn enough for a vacation next Summer. LARRY O'ROURKE.” Riddles "HE Riddle Man hopes you under- stand that he gets so many rid- dles that 1t may be a long time before you see yours here. But, in the mean- time, vou can work hard on these. 1. Which is the left side of a baked | | potato?—Eva Cason | 2. What is it that has a neck and can’t move it?—James Cole 3. Why is a little man like & good | book?—Elizabeth Thorstenson. | What is the tightest knot in the | worla?—Bruce B. Leavitt | 5. It is true I have both face and | hands And when I go my body stands Muriel Warger. ANSWERS. | 1. The side that is not eaten. 2. A bottle. 3. Because he's often looked over. 4. A drunk man who says he is not (knot) tight. 5. A clock | —Star Staff Photo. S OUNG cooks should have no trouble recognizing this figure, which is important to every- body who likes to eat. out pans there would be no meals— and wouldn't that be terrible? FOR THE COOK. The definitions: Horizontal. . A cooking utensil. . Contraction of “it is.” . Long Island (abbr.). . Cover for pan. . Victorin Cross (abbr.). . To sum up. . Organ of sight. . A mistake. . A shade of brown. . The night before . For example (abbr.). . Consumed. . Arabian (abbr.). . A color, . Some. Vertical. . A pasty composition used for coat- ing walls. . Assistance. . To change residence from one country to another. A climbing plant. The painted scenes on a stage. Animal’s lair. Before. Era. A large covered wagon or truck. e Now we'll try a word diamond built around things that are very important at the middle of the day. The second line means owing, the third is the name of a famous author, the fifth is an anesthetic, and the sixth is a poetic form of “ever.” Can you form the diamond? 5. 6. 1L. 12. 15. 17. —8 Hidden in the sentence below is something that you eat: “If you don't want the rope to break, fasten it carefully.” > With- | vil —r Add a preposition to a taxi and get a hut; add another preposition to a piece of real estate and get a game. iy Four kinds of food with which you are familiar are hidden in this picture puzzle. What are they? % Hirds of Food Behead a word for gaze and get a weed; behead again and get part of | | the verb “to be.” Answers to Last Week’s Puzzles. 2. SINK—sins—pins—pits—puts— PUTT. LONG--lone—bone—bane—bale —BALL. 3. Turkey, donkey, flunkey (or lackey), monkey, turnkey, lackey (or flunkey). 4. Detroit, and Portland. 5. Crossword puzzle solution: Los Angeles, Nashville D. C, AUGUST 15, | fornia, the States of Washington or, | boats bring the supplies and mail to | | is studying art at the Abbott School 1937—PART FOUR. CHILDREN'S PAGE. First Prize Winners Announced Today as Letter Contest Continues Describes “X-Ray Dolls” In Letter on “Hobbies” New Idea for Making Paper Dolls Wins a Prize for Reader of Children’s Page Who Takes Part in Contest. OT satisfied to follow a beaten track where hobbies are con- cerned, 13-year-old Constance Quarles of 1815 First street in- For the X-ray dolls take a piece of paper and cover it with - paste | Then place a toothpick in the paste This forms the nead and body. Small- vented one for herself. She's will- |er pieces of toothpicks form the arms ing to share her fun with others,|and legs. however, and tells about her “X-ray | “Next, paste another piece of paper dolls” in the following letters which | over the toothpicks. On this araw won second prize in the letter-writ- | the doll's form, making a circle for ing contest of August 1. the head and tracing one-eighth of inch from the toothpicks for a legs and body like this (see Figure 1): | “T)EAR EDITOR: To me, my hobby is very interesting and unusual.' It is cutting and making paper ob- jects. Now most all little girls like to make paper dolls, but my hobby includes more than that. I make and furnish paper houses. Why, one time I made a whole paper village. | “My favorite construetion is dolls, though. I have made ordinary dolls, finger puppets, X-ray dolls, ‘movie star-turettes,’ and other kinds, even “WHEN the dolly is held up to the . light you can see her ‘bones.’ | To finish her off paste on brown, yellow lack yarn hair and draw in a face. She can wear paper or 17 | cloth clothes. | “The finished product looks like Fig- ure 2 “One nice thing about my hobby is that it is inexpensive. The mate- rials are usually found at home or | can be purchased for a few cents though I can make paper boats, air- | I have lots of fun engaging in my planes, cars and flowers. The X-rav hobby, and I am sure others would, dolls are my own idea, and I shall | too, if they tried it tell you how to make them. E QUARLES” Eribilof Islend Gzl Elas Talent and Studies Art By Louise Hartley Wassell. FET Jean Elizabeth All first white child born away out on St. Paul's Island of the Pribilof group, in stormy Bering Sea. Jean made her appear- | ance in the big Government House, which is the last word in modern equipment and furnishings, 16 vears ago today. to be exact. Her father was Federal agent in charge of the fur islands of “Uncle Sam." “Seals from all over the wo; to the islands to spend the Summer and then return to the tive wa- ter.” Jean said. “There are thousands and ¢ nds of them on St. Paui's each year “Most boys come and she con ued, “think that the natives on the Pribilof Islands Eskimos, but they are really They belong to the Indian race and were brought o the islands by Russian navigators. Their ancestors lived on the Aleutian Islands—on that long arm of Alaska which projects a thousand miles into the Pacific Ocean.” | If you look at your geography, she | thinks you will see why many people | believe that at one time civilization came freely from the Asiatic coast to the Aleutian Islands, before the ocean covered so much land. n- | ’I‘\'STEAD of walking with well- wrapped feet great distan the bitter cold and snow, as many boys and girls do who go to school in Alaska, the children o th h; modern school b right ge. Teachers from the “outside.” mean- ing out of Alaska, general | from Cali- | Jean Aller with her pet X black Scottie, a favorite com- Oregon, come up in the Summer on one of the “last boats in.” Dazion: Unlike many of the Alaskan out- | posts where food, mail and every- | to take a trip there next Summer, or thing are obtained by dog-sled, the | When she finishes school. “I wonder,” she said, “if any of our old friends are there in that quaint little village, which has its own electric light plant, refrigeration plant and radios.” the Pribilofs. But there are many cold | months in Winter when the ice pre- | vents boats from coming near them | and there is great rejoicing when the | “ice breaks” in the Spring and the boats bring food and mail from the loved ones far away. | As today is Jean's 16th birthday anniversary, she will have the honor | of taking charge of the young peo- ple's meeting at the National Memorial Baptist Church, in Washington. She is an interested church worker and sings in the choir there. Besides her vocal talent, she also plays the piano and guitar well and Posers N THE answers to the 10 question: listed below you can test your knowledge of the world's geography. 1. What country, after Great Bri- tain, possesses the largest amount of of Fine Arts. || e “Ilove to travel, too.” Jean declared. “I spend many of my Summers with my grandmother in Pennsylvania, where I ride a bicycle, go horseback riding and swim each day.” 2. On what rivers are the following cities located: New Orleans, Paris, Rome, Budapest? 3. Where are the Andes Mountains? 4. Name the Great Lakes. 5. Which is the smallest continent? 6. Which country says that the sun never sets on its possessions? 7. To whom does Madagascar be- long? 8. Which is larger, Alaska? 9. Between what two seas does the Red Sea lie? NE of her most interesting trips occurred last Summer. While Jean’s father was director of the lab- oratory of the United States Fisheries at Beaufort, N. C, he was the first man to hatch diamondback terrapin. In his honor, the Beaufort laboratory had Jean and her mother to witness 10 the largest and which the releasing of 10,000 small terra- VigHEbithe Isrgest and pin. “It was quite & sight~ she said, |15 the smallest State in the United | | states? “to’see those little fellows squirming | > "¢ for position in their new surround- ings.” Jean's mother is acting editor in charge of publications at the Bureau of Fisheries, and Jean enjoys studying maps and reading about that little fog-covered island where her father and mother went on their honeymoon more than 18 years ago. She hopes | PETS AS TEACHERS ERHAPS you would laugh at the idea that owning a dog or a cat or a canary might keep you from going to jail. It does seem rather far- fetched, doesn’t it? Yet there are more than 10,000,000 dogs in the United States, besides great numbers of cats and birds and other pets—enough so that every boy and girl can have at least one. But of the men who today are serving sentences in prison, less than one in every hundred had a pet when “ he was a boy. Can it be possible that owning & pet does something to & boy or girl so that he or she is less likely to become a law- breaker? It is quite possible. Having a pet teaches you kindness. A dog can give you as good lessons in loyalty, courage and cheerfulness as the best teacher in the world. And these are the qualities that make good citizens. Maybe that dog of yours, whom you prize so much as a playmate, is more valuable than you dreamed. Perhaps he is an important factor ANSWERS. 1. Russia 2. Mississippi, Seine, Tiber, Danube. 3. West coast of South America. 4. Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior. 5. Australia. 8. Great Britain. 7. France. 8. Green-| land. 9. Mediterranean Sea and Ara- bian Sea. 10. Texas and Rhode Is- land. Greenland or | | Letters on Honor Roll In Contest Girl Calls Contests Hobby, Though She Never Wins. MADELEINE LABOFISH, 14, of = 2900 Milita ad, didn't win a prize with th r en “Hobbies." but * made the judges smile. She wrote as follov “I have o | the man who s ing co word I ever Jez been the word I come acros the sponsor name of | “The first few you find all of in from appear e extracted was searct a and se of the lish dic for with pra t a certificate giv | p [mo . “Some people wonder if T'll up. My a hab | help | (CECIL MARIE MORAN. 12, of 692 Exeter road, Bethesda < | made the honor roll. Here's t “One of my hobbie cards. When my friends on im cards, cards showi the places ed. My rom Japan and Pa “My friends enjoy looking through my album and 1 can tell them lots of history and stories of each one.” Flowers of Heaven. JAPANESE flower arrangement 1 an accomplishment 1 | Japan | education. Flowers Advanced Harmony. | “INOW.” said the leader of the l\ Brushville Band, “we'll play ‘The | Stars and Stripes Forever'!" | " “Gosh!” exclaimed the cornet player. | “I've just played that!™ Cuddles and Tuckie BY FRANCES ROYSTER WILLIAMS. JOW Cuddles had a nickel that N Was all her very own She called to Tuckie: “Come along We'll buy a double cone.” One side of it was chocolate, The other side was white; Both children wanted chocolate And so they had a fight, Miss Cuddles held the cone behind Where Tuckie couldn't nab it; 8he twisted and she wiggled so Her brother couldn't grab ft. Well, Spotty gave a little smile For he's the smartest pup! And while they fussed he slipped in shaping your character. At any rate, he is worth the best treatment that you can give him. around And ate the ice cream up, (Copyright, 1937.)