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THE SUNDAY ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, CHILDREN'’S PAGE, ¢ " OCTOBER 31, "1937—PART FIVE. CHILDREN'S PAGE. F—6 Young Residents of Gapital Area Follow Varied Pursuits and Hobbies On the Job Jobs Made Serving in Homes - Bethesda Group Stays With Children. THANKS to a little organization, business is booming this fall in Bethesda, Md, for five high school | girls who have solved the high school | student's frequent . problem—how to| {ncrease her supply of spending money. The girls are banded together into a sort of “Let Us Spend the Evening | With Your Children Bureau—which offers to parents of young children the presence of a responsible person in their homes on evenings they wish to make outside engagements. Composed of five representatives— three regular members and two substi- tutes—the bureau has the obvious ad- vantage of a large enough personnel to care for almost every call it re- ceives. Fees are still a mater to be adjusted \between the customer and the young lady employed during the evening,| though & sort of standard has been | established as a result of the co- operation. i Organization of the bureau is in- formal, but its customers as well as its members credit its success to the fact that the service operates on a well-planned system As it§ unofficial chief, the bureau has 16-year-old Gladys Smith of 7621 old Georgetown road, who received this position largely because her tele-, phone number is easy to remember, | according to her own explanation Gladys described the bureau a: something that “just sort of happened Jast summer” when two of her friends chanced to accompany her to the home of a young married woman whose children she had agreed to watch over for an evening. | “As a matter of fact, & lot of girls out here have been doing much the same thing for several years,” she said “But that night—with the three of us together—the idea came to us that we eould put our jobs on a much more business-like basis if we worked to- “Of course we need the monel Gladys, who is pretty and fun-loving, continued. “If vou take part in all the high school activities out here—games and what not—it's almost necesary to have a generous allowance. “Now—thanks to our organization— | we don’t run the risk of losing any | business because we are unable to accept every call we receive. | “And our customers have the advan- tage of knowing that a reliable person is available if one of us is unable to accept her job. | “It's nearly always possible, you see, to get one of the other four girls &5 & | substitute, because, fortunately, we're not all the same age and don't all have | the same interests.” H Besides Gladys, the buresu consists of two sisters—Nathalie and Agnes Bingham, of 412 Georgetown road. The | substitute. members are Mary Jane Anderson of 4909 Battery Lane, and | Molly Pilgren of Radnor and Maiden Lane, who have their own customers, but who are glad to fill in when the bureau needs an extra. | The duties of these young students tn the business of looking out for| youngsters are simple. | “Usually we go about 7:30 oclock. put the children to bed at an early | hour, and study until the parents re- turn,” Gladys explained. “All of us have children in our own families, so we know how to manage them. And our young charges don’t give us any trouble, because usually they are too shy to be very mischievous around people they don't know so well. i “Then, if we have a young baby/ to look after, we give it to the bnmei at feeding time and watch out to see that its kept comfortable. - “On school nights we are seldom | ssked to stay late, though on the week end our hours are usually a little longer. “And, of course, we are paid ac- cording to the length of time we stay. Sometimes it's about 50 cents an evening and in other cases as much | as $1. It all depends on the job. | “Another nice thing about our work | s the fact that our customers, as a | rule, don't mind if several of us go| on the same job. So, lots of times, | we just get together at one house and study together and nobody has a chance to be lonesome.” “We've never tried to advertise our service,” Gladys continued, “but peo- ple hear about us and we always have | several calls a week.” | Gladys, herself, is unusually well qualified to look after children since | she’s one of a family of nine—with | five brothers and sisters younger than ghe is. “I guess I hold the record, so far| as experience in looking after babies | is concerned,” she laughed. “But the | other girls know lots about i, too. And we think our job is lots of fun.” - They Agree. | “YVHEN I was your age I thought| o . nothing of a 10-mile walk.” “Well, I don’t think much of it, elther.” | iy Obliging Aviator. VIATOR—Wanna fiy? Young Thing—Oh-o-oh, yeh! Aviator—Wait. I'll catch one for you. Real Gain. TH!.'RE is nothing that broadens one like travel, unless it is too many hot fudge sundaes. Riddles ERE are five riddles for you to guess—all sent in by Hazel Gat- lin of Florida. You can test your knowledge of flower names from these riddles, for each one has a flower for | the correct answer. 1. When you're happy in the morn- ing, what do you have? s 2. When any one eats peas, what kind do they like best? 3. What's the most religious flower and why? 4, What does a baby have that a grown-up person can't have? 5. ‘When you love a man named Bill, what would he be in your sight? RIDDLE ANSWERS. 1. Morning glory. 2. Sweet peas. 3. Jack-in-the-pulpit. ¢ Babys breath. 5. Sweet William. Gladys Smith, one of a group of young students who operate an evening nursing service in Bethesda, Md., gives this 6-month-old baby in her care its evening bottle. After the meal ‘“Nurse” Smith tucks her young charge into its crib. And now, with the young- ster peacefully sleeping, she settles down with her school books until such time as the baby may wake and want. —Star Staff Photos. ESEREI P £ Bye, Bye, Pop! W'ILLXE MOSQUITO—A man clap- ped hands at Daddy. Mother Mosquito—What if he did, pet? Willie Mosquito—Yes, but Dad was in between them. Cuddles and Tuckie BY FRANCES ROYSTER WILLIAMS. TUCKIE climbed the pantry shelf For jam the other night, And soon upset a can of flour _ That turned him almost white. Said. Cuddles: ghost— There's some one coming now.” Then Mandy looked inside the door And jumped and hollered: “Wow!” “Play that youre & So Tuckie chased her 'round the house And grabbed her by the skirt; She turned upon him like a flash And gave her broom a flirt. She brushed him up and down until He sneezed a big “kerchoo.” “I thought you were a ghost,” she said, “You little rascal, you!” # (Copyright, 1987.) ‘, Shells Give Knowledge Of Sea Collection Made From Far-Oft Sources. ITTLE shells and big shells. Pretty shells and shells not so pretty. Shells from Delaware, from Florida and from other points on the Atlantic Coast. These make up the fascinating col- lection of Bevan Allen, 6, of 3114 Dum- barton avenue, who, for the past two years, has been building up an exhibit through which he's learning much about sea life. Some of his items have been gifts from friends, such as the strange specimens an aunt sent from Florida. Others Bevan collected on a vacation trip to Bethany Beach, Del., where he first became interested in this absorb- ing hobby. But the shell Bevan prefers to.all others come, oddly enough, not from a beach, but from a high cliff overlook- ing Yorktown, Va. And, after finding it, Bevan learned a little geology he'd never known before. “I couldn't imagine how it got there,” he declared in exhibiting the large black shell he'd brought home with him. “But I found lots of them, and they are all thousands and thou- sands of years old.” Bevan is quite right. His shell is that old, in all likelihoode) much older. Long ago the land where Yorktown now stands was covered by the sea. Shells were deposited along its shore. Gradually the shore, with its shells, lected on top of the shells. Long after | that the lapd was raised from out the water. Streams and rivers cut their way through it and once more the shells were exposed to the sunshine. | Now they may be gathered from that old, old beach which has become part | of the cliffs overlooking Yorktown. But this bit of information is not the only history Bevan remembers when he looks at his shells. It was at Yorktown, you recall, that the last great battle of the Revolution was fought in 1781. Here the Amer- ican Army and the French Fleet sur- rdunded the British. Some of the French battleships were sunk during | River. All through the vessels are found boat worms, living by eating the water- en ship under the water line live in little tubular shells. And Bevan, alert collector that he is, has several shell | tubes which he gathered in and near the old French vessels. With such interesting background connected with his shells, Bevan has | found his collection a welcome exhibit in his school assembly. And visitors at his home are often | entertzined with a view of his box of | shells as he is delighted to share his | hobby with folks who are interested. Brain Teasers From Mystery } By THOMAS THE MAGICIAN. HOW would you like to try your wits on some more magic “brain | teasers?” | You would? Fine! I have an- | other list all ready for you today. | You'll find the answers to these ques- tions at the end of the list. 1. What is the first record we have of a magic performance? | 2. Who was the magician who billed himself for years as “The man who mystified Herrmann?"” 3. Who is recognized as th> first magician to bring an Oriental atmos- phere to occidental magic? 4. Who was the first magician to present & form of levitation, or aerial suspension, in his program? 5. Who was the first man to use what is known as hypnotism today, as an aid to science and a means of | curing the ill? 1. The first record of a magic per- formance goes as far back as B. C. 3766. The magician was Tchatcha- emankh, and the performance was before the Egyptian ruler, King Khufu. 2. Once again that “master of magic,” Mr. Howard Thurston, enters into our column, for he was the “man who mystified Herrmann 3. The Chinese magician, Ching Ling Foo, was the first entertainer to bring an Oriental atmosphere to our occidental magic. 4. An ancient magician by the name of Robert Houdin was the first person to present levitation in his program. All following versions were outgrowths of his invention. 5. Anton Mesmer was the first man to use hypnotism as an aid to science. At that time it was labeled “Mes- merism,” and was considered a fake. Today it is recognized by Ileading physicians. Solving Cmvies Is Useful Hobby HER!:‘B a good pastime for you— eryptography—which consists of making and solving codes. It is not & new hobby, for codes have been used for centuries. But there are not many experts in the world today. The simplest way to find the mean- ing of a code is to find the vowels. The letters used the most in the English | language are a, ¢,1,0,d, h, t, s and r. The word used the most is “the” which often gives a key to the rest of the sentence. A simple yet baffling code is to add a consonant to a consonant and & vowel to a vowel, in order of their oc- currence. To write “go” it would read hu; u follows o in the occurrence of the vowels, and h follows g in the consonant§. To write “to,” the con- sonant following t is v; the vowel following o is u, giving us vu. “Spring is here” would read as fol- lows: Tgsoph ot jisi. Turn to the Comic Section for HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY WORLD MUSEUM DIORAMAS sank under water. Mud and sand col- |- the seige, but recently they have been | raised from the bottom of the York| | soaked timbers of the old ships. These | fishlike worms that feast on any wood- | Dolls Popular at School Exhibit These young students of the Jackson School showed their preference for dolls as a hobby last week when they brought some of their prized collections to a school hobby show. Seated, left to right, are Genevieve Chase, Jananne Brooks and Dorothy Joiner. Standing, left to right: Joanna Baxter, Jane Club Hoids A Rushee Event Semper Fidelis Is Noted for Its Parties. By GLORIA LUBAR. The Semper Fidelis Requests the presence of Gloria Lubar at 8 Rush Tea 5525 Bixteenth street N-W., 3 P.M. THUS read an invitation sent to| me last week. Needless to say I was interested. For this club is a very nice group, I understand. Arriving at the appointed hour, T was introduced to all the members and rushees. We all sat in a circle. First the rushees were called upon to entertain. Then the members en- tertained us. We played cards and games. Refresh- ments were served. But be- fore I left I found out many inter- esting facts about this engaging lit- | tle club. ‘There are now 12 members—all & girls. The Semper Fidelis (Latin for always faithful) will be two years old in May. The originators are Anne Forman, Rita Homes and Freda Benson. The girls started this club because they wanted to get together for a good time with their friends. Also, money is given to charity, and these girls give very good parties. 50 cents a month and the entrance fee $1. Weekly meetings are held. Anne Forman is president; Selma Marks, vice president; Eleanor Whall, secretary, and Bernice Biron, treas- urer. Well, Sousa wrote a march called “Semper Pidelis,” which probably will live forever. And, though this club will not last that long, the girls are having a lot of fun now. HISTORIGRAMS Anne Forman. THIS BUST OF JOHN ADAMS, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IS PLACED IN THE SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL, WHERE A SENATE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION OF MAY 13, 1886, PROVIDED THAT VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE NATION BE SO HONORED. THIS METHOD OF DISTINGUISHING GREAT MEN IN THE SENATE WING DIFFERS FROM THE COMMEMO- RATION OF NATIONAL FIGURES IN STATUARY HALL IN THAT THE BUST OF THE LIVING MAY BE PLACED THERE. DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH WAS SCULPTOR OF THIS BUST, WHICH IS EXECUTED IN MARBLE. IRST Vice President of the United States and its second President, John Adams was the first Chief Executive of his coun- try to live in the “Presitent’s House.” A staunch, thrifty New Eng- lander, he was violently opposed to high taxes on the young colonies and waged a bitter fight against the Stamp Act. Later his name was to lead the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence. The son of a farmer, John Adams taught school, ‘attended Harvard College and became a lawyer. His 4 Dues are | Boutwell, Jerry Helmbold, Julia Ann Halloran and Helen Margaret Birch. Star Staff Photo. & Dolls in Foreign Dress Popular at School - Well-Rounded Hobby Offered By Collection Which Teaches Facts. demonstrated last week when they brought samples of their doll collec- | tions to a school assembly devoted to hobbies. Lined about | blackbgpard, the dolls—from Italy, Po- land, Ifeland, England, China, Japan, Russia, Latvia and many other coun- | tries—made a .gay, colorful picture:} And even the boys looked interested as the young owners took them one by one and explained how their costumes | were typical of the dress worn in the | various countries represented. “You learn a lot about geography | from a collection of foreign dolls,” one of the eight declared afterward when she was showing her exhibit. “‘And about history, too, sometimes,” | another joined in. | | “And you can play with them! I love to play with my dolls,” a third lit- | tle girl exclaimed. “But the best thing I like about | them—foreign dolls, I mean—is that they make me think of the kinds of toys other children in other countries play with,” a fourth declared So it's easy to see how a collection of dolls makes a well-rounded hobby. the shelf of a long| | | | | | ‘I\IOREOVER. children are not the only people who collect dolls. Many women have very fine collec- | tions, and some of them were started when they were young. Too, doll collecting may lead to a more elaborate hobby, as in the case of the $435,000 doll house built sev- | eral years ago by Colleen Moore, the | moving picture actress. This was shown in Washington in 1935. and hundreds gasped at the veritable fairy- | | 1and castle which was filled with price- less furnishings Miss Moore had col- | lected for years. | Dolls by the way, are not a feature | of modern civilization. In fact, dolls are aomng the oldest of human inst tutions. Savage children have their | | * By Leslie Hartley | public life included diplomatic service, and in 1785 he was ap- pointed“the first of a long line of distinguished American Ministers to the Court of St. James. A fighter and a prolific writer after his retirement from public office, John Adams lived 25 years as an ex-President—Ilonger than any other ex-President. His death oc- curred on the 50th aniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. His wife was Abigail Smith, the daughter of a Congregational min- ister, and their ‘eldest son was President John Quincy Adams. ) | it, the little aphids gi days working on hobbies, it's pretty So far as girls are concerned, however, there is one that just can't be beat and you've probably guessedit. Dolls. Aside from affording congenial companions during the play hour, dolls can be the basis for a wonderful collecting hobby. popular for this purpose—as eight young ladies over at Jackson school capably ITH nearly everybody these s N ) hard ta decide just what are the most popular subjects. Foreign dolls are especially toy dolls, just as American children | do—only much ingenuity is required to make the little figures from rough materials such as stones and sticks. iwheren: most young Americans get | the heat and pressure of tons of rock | their dolls from highly specialized | Weighing upon them for ages. | manufacturers. That dolls existed many years ago is attested by the excavajions scientists have made from Egyptian, Greek and Roman remains. ETTING back to doll collections, though, it is now possible to purchase dolls dressed in foreign cos- tumes from almost all toy shops. you are interested in taking up this hobby, it's a good idea to put a re- quest for them at the top of the list of gifts you hope to get at Christmas and on birthdays. And if you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel, or if you have friends who travel, remember that dolls make the very best sort of souven¥s of a trip. Efficiency Is Trait Of Ants A SHREWDER, busier, and alto- gether more enterprising lot than a community of ants would be hard to find, even among human beings. Unless one knew better, one might say ants were kindly, generous and hospitable. But watching them closely, we are obliged to conclude that they are, after all, only efficient business men who arrange to be well paid for their services, Take their attitude toward plant lice, or aphids, for instance. They not only offer these little aphids their hospitality and wait upon | them hand and foot: they actually | carry them from one green pasture to And with infinite patience | another. they stroke the little aphids gently with their antennae. Why so much generosity, one won- ders, in a harsh world where each creature is flercely bent on living at any price? The answer is simple. The friendship and service of the ants is pure self-interest. In return for ve the ants a honeyed milk called “honey .dew” which they prize as the choicest of foods. In their generosity towards the mites, also, the ants have the better of the bargain in the end. In payment for their “keep” the mites become the housecleaners of the ant colony. They are excellent scavengers and no refuse is too terrible to attract them. A very useful quality, from the clean little ant's point of view. There is, however, a noticeable hostility between rival ant colonies, and wandering relatives who stray into a colony not their own, are not welcomed by the residents. They are looked at sharply as competitors, not visitors, and left in an unfriendly world, when they. are not actually attacked. Besides being rather civilized, ants are lucky enough to be among the hardiest of creatures. You can feed them deadly poison and they will survive it. You can hold them under water for 24 hours at a time and they recover when they are brought back into the air. You can chop off their heads and they go right on working for a month afterward. All this has been proved by actual experiments. Ants can be frozen stiff or heated to 100° Fahrenheit and they ['will survive. They can be starved for several months, and they can lose their wings and other useful portions of their bodies; and they live on to build their eolonies all over the world, 1in any soil and in any climate. A |World Owes A Debt to Fossils Ancient Relics Yield Modern Comforts "AN OLD fossil, that!" You've heard people say it scornfully of any old fellow, years be- hind the times. But people who know about fossils, value them too highly to speak of them scornfully. True, they are old, but to say that they are useless would be to forget that to them we owe our amber and our diamonds, not to mention those less beautiful but more useful things of modern life—coal, kerosene and gaso- line Besides, the fossils give those lux- urious colors made by our best dyes, and the perfumes prized by women. 8o, practically speaking, fossils are -to-the-minute parts of our s. Perhaps you are wondering what | these sources of our many blessings really are. Fossils are pieces of very ancient animals and plants which | have been preserved’ for us in me‘l rocks. Sometimes, the plants and animals are actually changed into stone. | Sometimes oil is taken from their | bodies by heat and pressure, and | sometimes they are preserved for us only as impressions or pictures in the rock. Coal is made of the stems and limbs | of ancient tree ferns and tree mosses, | | dead these millions of years. | Am| is the preserved gum of trees in which insects of many kinds were | trapped ages ago, and kept so perfectly | that often the tiniest wings are still plainly visible today. And the oil which is so important commercially today, was made count- | less centuries ago from the bodies of sea animals and the wood of plants SmCE we gave you your Hal- loween puzzles last week, this week we're finding a place for sofie thing a little unusual. It's a crossword puzzle made up hy ane of our readers, “Smww Jmewven, 102 Pleasant street, Amherst, Mass. Nice work, Tom! BY A READER. The definitions: HORIZONTAL. . Instrument for telling time . Girl's name . Belonging to . Southeast (Abbr.) . Aged . What peas come in . In the same way or degree . Barney Google (Abbr.) . Immediately . Something every words has VERTICAL. . Long Island (Abbr.) . Strange . Central America (Abbr.) . Large animal inhabiting Canada . Tool used for splitting wood . Girl's nickname . Cry or sigh . To propel a boat . Opposite of yes Us —l Next we have two good autumn word chains. Change only one letter at a time, and always form a real word. Change WIND to FALL in four moves Change LEAF to RAKE in six moves. weilfie which men have never seen, cooked by | The limestone from which the very | pyramids of Egypt were built, was | made first by little sea creatures, too | small to be seen with the naked eye, who made their shells of the lime in | | the sea water. Long after the crea- tures themselves died, their shells were | kept as fossils which piled mountai deep on the ocean floor. These shells, | | having been changed into stone through the centuries, were later thrust up by convulsions of the earth, into limestone which the slaves of the | Pharaohs hewed into blocks for the pyramids. ‘Today, we use the same limestone to build beautiful houses and churches. Tribal Hz;st;of'y On Indian Post MONG the Iroquois Indians, each war chief kept a war post to com- | memorate great events and to preserve | the chronology of them. Peeled posts, 10 to 12 feet high. | were erected in the village. After a | campaign the chief made a perpen- dicular red mark 3 inches long and | | one-half inch thick on the post for | each enemy killed. If a scalp was | taken, a red cross was made opposite | & mark. | On another side of the post there | was space to record prisoners taken | alive. The mark for this was a cross | | with a dot above it. One tribe used a genealogical board | called *“he rakare wakapa-paranga.” It was a tally having a notch for each | tribal name, opposite which was a blank | space if the male line died out, or & series of notches if it continued; the female lines were disregarded entirely. Indian boys were taught their fam- | ily history by repeating the names of each ancestor to whom the notches re- ferred. Swapping Masks. “YEP, I had a beard like yours once, but when I realized how it made me look I cut it off.” “Well, I had a face like yours once, and when I realized that I couldn't | | eut it off, I grew this beard.” | My Most | | Exciting | Adventure Human Skull Like Rock Found In Clam Hunt. CHARLO'ITE BUHRMEISTER, 12, of 4701 Forty-ninth street reports her most exciting adventure as follows: “About three years ago, while I was on my vacation in Ocean City, | Md.” she wrote, “my father, mother and I were going fishing. While my father and mother were digging worms I went out in shallow water and started digging clams. “All of & sudden I struck something white like a rock. I picked it up and when I saw what it was I almost dropped it. “It was & human skull. “I showed it to my father and, after examining it, he showed me a bullet Jole in it. He said maybe the person had been murdered on a boat, thrown overboard and washed ashore. My | father said he was going to take it to the police. “Believe me, after that I did not dig for any more clams.” * The Star will pay $1 for each story it publishes on the subject “My Most Ezciting Adventure,” written by & boy or girl reader of the paper. 8 Two things seen on Halloween are hidden in the sentence below. The manager knew it cheered s guest to be met by a smiling hostess. il Prcture Word Squaze ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES. 1. Crossword puzzle solution. 2. The diamond is F, art, arlas, frights, Tahoe, Ste., S. 3. The square is bone, okay, name and eyes. Ornament Made Like Dragon Fly BY RAY J. MARRAN, S GARDEN ornaments, these dragon flies made from common clothespins will bring you words of praise from your friends when they WINGS WHITTLED <> FROM THIN WOOD SIDE CUT ONE PRONG OFF TO SHAPE BODY see them swaying on their wire sup- ports over a clump of brightly colored flowers. Cut one prong off the clothespin to form the body of the dragon fly, then paint it some bright color; red, yellow, blue, or lavender. Dot in the eyes and body markings with black. Cut the wings from thin wood. Paint them white and insert in the body. Mount the flies on lightweight wires and stick one end in the ground in a clump of flowers. A slight breeze sets the wire support swaying, which gives movement to these ornaments and* makes them appear to be soaring over the blossoms. Always. “QAM, are you ever fired with eme thusiasm?” ¢ “Yessah, from every job I tackles.” J