Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1915, Page 44

s AR L 8-D THE BEE BER Their Own Page The Busy Bees HAT is the red letter day this month, Busy Bees? Christmas, of course. ¥ To the Busy Bee who sends in the best Christmas story, Eyf therefore, a special prize book will be given. Get an early start b and be sure your story is original. Announcement of the prize winner will be made the Sunday following Christmas, Most Busy Bees feel they are being cheated out of a great deal of fun this year since the first of December has already been sighted with no sug- gestion searcely of snow. All the little boys and girls are so eager to get their sleds and “travelers” out of the attic and dash madly down the hillside or to wade in the snow, make a “butterfly,” a snow man or—throw snow- balls. There is an old superstition to the effect that there will be as many heavy gnowstorms duaring the winter as the day of the month on which the | i first snow falls. At this rate, if it snows any day this week for the first| time, we won't have many heavy snowfalls, will we? : Many people commented on the sort of new-fashloned Thankegiving day | we had this year, without a bit of snow to carry out our impression of the | original New England Thanksgiving, but perhaps we will have a real (‘hrm-l | | | mas-y Christmas this year. Margaret Long of the Red Side won the prize book this week. Margaret Brown of the Blue Side and David Sher, also of the Blue Side, won honorable | SOUTH SIDE GIRL WINS DOLL—Beautiful ‘‘Dorothy,’’ second doll in The Bee coniest, now belongs to Margaret Coulter, 5502 South Thirty-first street, South Side. mention. Little Stories (Prize Story.) Tommy's Thanksgiving Dinner. d 11 Years, Loup 4 "-".g:y.“;lne'\':.A a - side. Tommy and his mother were very poor people. One morning near Thanksgiving, Tommy said, “"Wwhat are we going to have for Thanksgiving dinner?" “Oh, we'll, have a dish of bread and milk aplece,” said his mother, “Maybe," she added. Now milk was a luxury at their home and Tommy clapped his hands at the thought of the delicious white liquid. Now something was golng to happen between then and Thanksgiving, of which fommy had never dreamed. One day as Tommy was going down- town, he met a boy, whose name Wwi Jack Green, “Where are you going?" he asked. 4 “Oh, I'm going to town for mother, Tommy answered. “Why! Dont you have an errand boy? said Jack, in surprise, “We do.’ “Do you?' sald Tommy, with a mmile, “you mee We Are very poor,” and his eyes fell as he sald this, “and we can't afford it.” “Oh,” sald the other boy, in pity and changing the subject, sald, “What are you gomg to have for Thanksgiving e ‘l‘n':::ld and milk,” replied Tommy, smacking his 1ips at the thought. “Is that all?’ said Jack, in astonish- ment. “Why, we're going to have tur- key, plum pudding and cranberry sauce and, and just lots of other things.” “well, you're rich,’ sald Tommy, poor. But 1 don't mind,” he, boy and his father, glad learn to be unselfisn, toid was delighted, He as he had always boy, she was very which was cooked by thelr their blg oven, cranberry sauce, t crimson and a fine pium pud- il on the night before Thanksgiving an unexpected knock on the door was heard and when Tommys mother went to the door, there was no one to be seen, but on the step was a market basket and caretully packed in it was & Thanksgiv- dinner fit for a king. ‘."'m could have brought It;‘l‘ lllld‘ Tommy's r, “We certainly must be m::nl.'g:hlw“ ‘Then Tommy, Who had not yet related his story of his meet- with the rich boy, told his mother t It and then said, "1 think he % o 1 will thank by Little Folk yard and had some young birds in it. Grandpa was not very much enthused | over the gift of the pretty cat as he wns/| afrald it might get the little ro but he nalled some tin cans around thinking that would keep them s one morning he found the nest on the ground, for the cans did not reach high enough up and the cat had jumped over | them and destroyed the little birds. (Honorable Mention.) The First Thanksgiving. By David H. Sher, 2100 Wobster Street, Omaha. Blue Side, About 300 years ago there lived In Eng- land some unhappy people. They were unhappy because thelr king would not let them worship God as they wished. 8> they left England to come to Holland. They did not like Holland because their children began to speak the Dutch lan- guage. These people called themselves | Pligrims, because they wandered from place to place hunting the land they loved, So the Pligrims left Holland to come to America. The Pllgrims had a {long hard winter, but better times came. Thé good Indians showed the Pllgrims thow t3 plant corn and grain. In the spring they had good crops. They thought they would have a party and thank God. They Invited gomo of the Indlans to the party, Before each meal they would thank God for their good crop. This was the first Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving Story. Story. By Lucile Sonneland. Aged 12 Kearney, Neb. Red Onece upon a time there lived a poor woman and her husband. They had five children, the oldest being 13. The poor husband tried and tried, but he could not fing work. A week before Thanksglving Mary, the Years, Box Bide. | e T HMargaret Coulter- with Dorothy” they took us all and sold us to another man, Someone bought me and ate me. The boy or girl that ate me tsok me | and made a little boat and 1 never saw my | friends any more. 1 won a prize by| “putting the chickens to bed” and it ‘was | the first prize. I like my book very well and thank you very much for the same, 1 like to go to school every day. 1 am 9 years old and in the fourth grade. My teacher's name Is Miss Blanche Me- Carthy. The Torpedo Boal oldest girl, came to her mother and asked it they could mot have a turkey on that wondertul day. ¥ The mother told the girl how poor they were and how expensive turkeys were, Mary then said: “Mother I am going to sell papers and earn a little money." Sbe worked hard and earned a dollar. The Empress, a large show, was going to give away four turkeys on Saturday night and Mary knew how much her mother wished to go, and decided to take her, At the show each person got a ticket with a number and when this certain number was read the one who had the number won the turkey. It luckily happened the first number read Mary's mother had, 8he won the turkey and had her pick among them. When they got home with their prize they got down on their knees and thanked God for all his blessings. e e G . it ot ud thank God.” 0 o TR (;-/ui,aqw-mu'm- >% i2 Her Es§8 it S5k gisiigd E!!Z:iiézgi iH tiis i | £ i £ s !l: il i Bybcrllmlvunw el Once upon a time I was a peanut: growing with other peanuts in some kind | of a place, where I do not know. So one day a man came and picked me. Some of my friends “headfire.”” It ran with the wind across miles of prairie, with its long red tongues Heking at every object, jumping fire Buards and even rivers in its path, Be- hind it the prairie roared and crackled, for the headfire had no time to burn the grass in its course. It touched it with the torch and rushed on to find freah fuel. The level prairie looked like & lake of fire with a lurid cloud of smoke rising above it. It was a grand sight, but terrible to the settier whose home lay in its path, The only way to protect agalnst a headfire was to start a backfire some distance ahead of it, which would burn Away the grass and leave nothing to feed it. The backfire was set at the edge of A fire guard facing the wind, or it was #et on the open prairie by carrying a line of fire along a few feet at & time and whipping out the side of the fire Away from the wind until it met the hemdfire. In a furious gale & backfire was hard to control, for It would get Away from the men. In October, 1571, great fires burned along the Nebraska frontler. #0 dry that it seemed to explode when with flame. A great wind from the west drove the fires from the unset- il it i | ! s 2 ‘| the tollers In the hold, The floor was By Lester Clark, Aged 10 Years, Warren Streef, Los Angeles, Cal. lue Side. A week ago nday we made a trip to San Pedro, or Los Angeles harbor. That day a flotilla of torpedo Loats was in the harbor. Wa were on three of them. There were two torpedo tubes on each boat, and a few smaller guns. There was & jackey Wig-wagging to a jackey on another boat mcross the har- bor. They had a victrola on one of the boats, and one of the jackies was danc- Ing to the musie. We were in the cook's kitchen. The floor was metal. hot enough to burn your finge It was very hot, because it was over 1316 ot wanted me to kill a live mouse that “as caught In the trap just by the enl his tall. I told her to get me a shovel, and a stick. She did so, and 1 took the stick and pushed the trap in the shovel. Then I took it outdoors and with the same stick I pounded its head, and it was dead, and my friend's mother sald, “Thank you,” and I went hom>, A Bird’s Letter. Henrletta Newman, Aged 12 Columbus, Neb,, Red side “Bird Village, “Dear Helen Sparrow: I like our new home very well. The south is so differ- ent from the north, There are so many birds here in Bird Village. Our home is in a large orange tree. The house is painted dark brown. Our neighbors are very kind to us. In the letter you wrote you ask me when we were going to start for the morth, 1 asked father and he sald, “About the tenth of April." Next week is the visit of King Pea- cock. Everybody is getting ready for the occasion. Father wants me to tell you to speak to Mr. Brown about renting the same house we had last year. Years, Kills Mouse. By Leona Walter, Ared 10 Years, Wahoo, Neb. Blue Bide, One day I was going over to my girl friend's house. When I got there she wasn't there, but her mother was, and - This Week We Will Give Away 1 hate to think of you away In the cold north in the deep snow. I know how cold snow ls because I was in a snow storm last winter, Here in the south we never think of the cold snowy weather. Here come those Bluejay twins. They Julia Gretchenand Mary Julia is a very beauti- ful doll. Her bright eyes and rosy cheeks tell you that she is always cheerful, contented and happy, and makes ev- eryone around her feel that way, too. You will be very happy if you win her. Julia, but they are very nice doliles, and will please you. Mirfam Mosher, 20 Farnam et Cmaha, Neb, it you wish me to save Zor are always into things they should not |be in. 8o 1 will stop writing and look after them, [you. 1 will save for the first girl wh They get into our cupboard and I am | sends me an ansewer. Write soon to you 80 afrald they will break some disl friend, MIRIAN Your friend, ARLINE WREN Will Save Dol] Pictures, Dog Saves Little Boy. By Isadore Weiner, A North Sixteenth Red 10 Years. treet, Omaha, Ide. My Mirlam Mosher, 247 Farnam Street, "~ Omaha. Blue Side. L know hew Interested you are about| One day Albert was going home the doll that The Omaha Bee 1s so kindly | from school he saw a uppy In the snow Fo 1 am going to tell you | (for It was & winter day.) He took it « I will gladly save for any | home and kept it warm. He fed it three times o day. A few yoars later he was a big dog. They named him “Shep.”” One day ae I'ttle Busy Bee some pictures of the doll for her. I will try as hard as If | were working for it myself. Please write ln’ Alhert came home from school he forgot his books. He ran back to school to Ret them. He got them. “Shep” was with im. As Albert lived in the country he had to cross a rallroad track. The snow was deep and covered the rallroad track, but Be did not notica it. He stumbled. Ha ecould not get uj\ He froze in the snow. A passenger truin was coming. “Shep” warked and the engineer stopped and he took Albert in his nrms. j1e took him meAr the furhace and warmed him. He got Up nnd thanked the engineer very much. He went home and told his mother. “Shep” was rewarded with a golden col- lar. [ Seventh Annual Bazaar d\ ® 2 § a.roux!d the fountain and in the court of The Bee building, morning until night. The beautiful linen pieces, useful a: pies, cakes, doughnuts, candies and other eatables, have for their labor, except the.satisfaction that what they do promote the glorious and noble work of the most Holy publicity through the columns of this paper is given free. the public to lend its patronage. You are all invited to come. More beautiful and useful Chureh. Name and Address. In the Beautit ul Court of he Bee Building HE handiwork of hundreds of Omaha’s prominent chu. played. These will be offered for sale over the counte: work, serviceable wearing apparel, art goods and bric-a-t rac, a8 well as delicious ne faithful women, but they will see that every stitch and pi These church fairs .are conducted solely for the purpo: fray the expenses of the different churches; no one individu glor 1 inst tution—the Church. The use of the building for the fairs is donated by the manageinent of The Bee, and all decorations so as to make the bazaar as attractive and c.mfortable as possible for bought elsewhere, and the prices asked are most reasonable. Here is a List of Churches and Ladies Interested, Together With Dates of Their Sale ch workers will be dis- 3 temporarily constructed {uring the week days, from d ornamental embroidery t only been made by these 'a is sold by themselves. - of raising money to de- | derives any recompense freely given to further The churches arrange the ‘hristmas gifts cannot be Phone, Date. St. Matthias .. . +.Mrs. C. E. Parsons, 1915 South Tenth. ..... -Tyler 1752. .Dec. 6-7 Lucla Soclety «+ Miss Bertha Neff, 2419 Plerce. . . Tyler 2264J..Dec. 6-7 St. Paul's ... Mrs. Baldwin ............ . ...Har. 2465..Dec. 6-7 Open Na’a Reorganized Ch. of Jesus Christ.. Mrs. Willlam N. Hill, 2101 South Thirt /-third. . Har, 6563, . Dec. 8 - 9 McCabe ..... cessesensces Mrs. A T. Petrle, 3516 Howard,.... ....,. 8-9 Chureh of Life... Mrs. May Hall, 2015 Burt. . 5 owel §-9 8t. Johm's. ... 5 llr_n._!!l:o nner, 4215 North Fortie h Ave -9 Theosophical Soclety . .Mre. K. I'. Eklund, 4315 Parl . . . 10-11 St. Barnabas «Mre. Wm. H. Jones, 504 8. Twenty-fift) Ave «Doug. 6946, .Dec. 10-11 Grace Lutheran «Mrs. J. F. Smith, 1222 South Twenty "‘fth...Tyler 2116..Deec. 10-11 « Mrs. Frank Beabow. 2570 Evans..... .Web. 1057..Dec. 10-11 «+Mrs. W. O. Fleld, 2605 Fort... «Mrs. E. McEachron, 1907 Wirt. Oak Street Methodist Episcopal. . Mrs. W. C. Armes ++.Colf. 2805. .Dec, 13-14 .Web. 1172. . Dec. 13-14 Tyler 1876W. .Dec. 13-14 h. . Hag, 2935. . «Mrs. Laura B. Sayder, 1706 Deer Park .Mrs. Nellie Thompson, 3211 Ames. .. United Brethren .. " Mrs. H W. Allwine, 3526 N. Twenty-t North Side Christia «Mrs. J. H. Davis, 3720 Corby........ Plymouth seeeMra H L, Underwood, 3938 North Tw VARIETY OF ARTICLES F( Dolls Home Made Candy Dressed «Mrs. H. L. Abrahams, 508 S. Thirty- » ——— . .Har, 3787..Deec. 15-16 vd. .Tyler 2376W. . Dec. 15-16 +ves.CoM, 3131, .Dec, 15-16 'fl)_lf {901 . Dee. 15-16 +.Web, 6666..D «ooe . Web 8044, . ntieth. .Colf, 2588 @....Benson §76J..Dec, 17-18 —— 0 R SALE