The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1897, Page 24

(UR page to-day is devoted princi-| r sports, and the s of “Childhood’s and how some of the own sunny land e, bells; | ting in the exhilarat- t and North. lots of fun to shoot | it's jolly to coast | nd is not fre are the proud possessors of ers, and there are such splen- Is here down which to ride it seems been made on purpose for | les, you have your roller s wonderful to see how fast the smooth sidewalks. and boys in California good time in winter after expe any more suggestions for a motto and badge during this week. o e Winter Fon on Skssj-f Prohably not many boys and girls in | went skeeinz. But it is safe ttere are few who have not | : snowshoes out of two barrel-staves a strap over the center of foothold, and then, with pole went slipping and sliding over s or cown the incline from a | ve ibe west to sa; e worn like parrel-stave snow- | hey are much longer, straight | 7, and when properly used will nan over drifts of snow | They are usuall pine or ash and are from twelve to twenty feet lone, a little ter than & man’s foot and only a frac- | | 1 | | | | | | | 1 Running on Skees. tion of an inch th: The forward end | s up like a sled runner and the strap the foo the center. In walk- | ner,” as he is called, | skee forward over the | n the other, without lifting one | Norway and Sweden, where the win- are long, cold and blustery and the fences, every boy | to skee. Indeed, can make their own e is as much fun in “run- | on them as the young folk of Chi- n shding down hill. Once his skees the Norwegian boy the steepest mountain side le swiftness over the snow. un on skees when afier a the home of the skee isconsin, Minnesots and higan, where a great many Norwe- d Swedes are settled. Here the boys of boulder their skees and go out to the hiliside. Then the best y i e party straps on his skees down the smooth snow He is not afraid to attempt the steepest descent, for he balances him- self perfectly with a short vpole, and the | how fine snow shoots out behind himin a | cloud. When the track is made the other | boys slide down one by one. Sometimes 3 r “runner” stumbles and goes over bead first into the snows Of course, the skees are sirapped to his feet, and 1t THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897. sometimes happens that he cannot get out without the help of his companions. When the ske pert he tries jum This is a highly exciting and perilous sport. At the bot- tom of the hill a huge pile of snow, some- times built up on & foundation of boards, is heaped up and the skeetrack is made to run to its crest. Then the darine runner starts at the top of the hill. Down he comes, with the wind biting hns face and the gay-colored flannel hood and scarf beating out behind. As he approaches the bummock of snow he stoops, sets his teeth, and the muscles of his legs grow as rigid as steel rods. Then he sioots off the crest into the air, and the spectators hold | their breath for fear he may not hold rigid the long shafts of wood fastened to | his feet. And well for him if he lsnds tend up and goes spinning onward again. For'very expert ranners the hummodks | ordinary one- | story house, and it is not unusual for the | feet | are made as high as an runner to shoot from w 100 through the sair before striking ground acain. Fon i the Loy North, Ap Eskimo mother sometimes finds her- | self face to face with the same problém that troubled theold woman who lived in ashoe. In the winter time when Ready for the Sled. the snow is deep and the weather is freez- | ing cold sne wears huge boots of fur which come almost to her hips. When she goes into the igloo, or snowhouse, shé m off, ana, picking up the little fur which unrolled reveals a fat Eskimo baby, she drops the little impinto one of the bos Ii there are two babies both boots are filled, and if there are three she can well sympathize with the old woman who had so many children sbe didn’t know what to do. And so it bappens that many an Eskimo ctild spends the early part of his life in & boot. At about 1 mouth old he bas the first real clothes of his own—a wee jacket and trousers made of the soft in of the fawn. the bed ot ice inside tbe igloo and plays with the puppies, which have been brought in from the cold, harnessed up with strings and fastened to the side of the bov When the little fellow’s mother goes out of doors she places him in the huge fur hood which hangs from the back of her neck and he nestles down close to her to keep warm. He isa good- natured Baby, and it takes a very b wind straight from the north pole to make him cry. As soon as he is old enough to talk he begins, like other children of other lands, to beg for candy. But his candy is very different froz the sugar bonbons of Esquimau Boy. unner becomes very ex- | perplexing | Then he rolls about on | ter | Tt L i Rercose 0t sene ) TE| ' BY. | | { the boys and giils of warmer countries. To him nothing is nicer and sweeter than a new tallow candle or strip of fat cat from a walrus. Sometimes if his mother wants 10 give him a real Christmas surprise she makes a special kind of canay. The big boys go out for her and steal of an icefloe. feet of a n | them against the ice. creep up and capture as many of the ducks as they can and carry them home. Fhen Mrs. Eskimo cuts off the bright red feet and carefully pulls out the bones, leaving only the skin. This she blows up along the snow hummocks until they see | a spot of deep red somewhere on the edge | They know that thisis the | aber of queer Jittle ducks with | bodies so white that it is often hard to see | Cautiously they | until each of the toes is as big as two, and when the skin freezes in this shape she | pours it full of melted grease. is a candy foot. And this The little Eskimo has a pretty good | time, in spite of tke fact that ne lives in {80 cold a country. Assoon as hisarms are strong enough he is given a little bow, | made of whalebone, and un arrow tipped | with a pin. His mother hangs a big piece | of fat meat to the wall ooposite and he shoots away at the mark. If he hits it he | may haveit toeat as a reward. He also keeps his eve on the dogs, which are al- ways trying to crowd into the doorway of the ice hut to steal some meat. If they become too venturesome he pecks away at them with blunt-headed arrews that make their noses smart. Until they are nine or ten year s old the little girls and the little boys are clothed alike, and they enjoy about the same sports. The little girls have dolls to play with. They are made of walrus ivory i | { | | | | | | i | | nose and mouth, and the doll is often so | ferocious-looking that it would frighten | almost any little girl who lives in Cali- | foraia. When the boys are about twelve years old they begin to learn the duties of a man. They go out and help drive the dogs, take lessons in handling a harpoon and in building igloos. Sometimes they are intrusted witn the feeding of the dogs, and 1t isn’t an easy task. For thedog |"eams are given food only once in two days, and often they become very hungry and almost ferocious. While two or three | boys are cutting up the meat others stand with long whips and keep the dogs at bay. | When everything is ready there is a rush |and a scramble and the dogs share the meat. Often the weaker and smaller dogs | have to be taken insiae the 1gloo to be fed, so that the big dogs will not steal every- | thine away frcm them. | Eskimo boys and girls have many smusements, but they are so very simple | that an American boy or girl wouldn’t | find any fun in them at all. One of these | consists 1n throwing up a bone with | many holes in it and catching it on the | point'of another bone. They also delight | in turning somersaults. They place their heads between their knees, clasp their legs and roll down a hill. As they spin slong | they look like big ballsof fur. If they happen to hit against a pieceof ice up they jump and run gbout their play as if notbing had happened. For they can stand & bruise without whimpering that wouid half kill a less bardy.boy. At 17 a boy is often able to do the work of a man in hunting the walrus and harpeon- ing the seal, and a year or two later he is married. |~ ' The Memory of Hone. In a recent sermon Rev. Minot T. Savaze | said: “No boy, no girl, can ever come to | be utterly bad who remembers only love | and tenderness and unselfishness and | sweetness as associatea” with father and | mother 1n the old-time home. Give them | manly and womanly example, give them | training, give them tue inspiration of de- | voted lives—give them these higher, deeper | things. Dowmot care so much as to whether Wou are accumulating money so that you can leave them a fortune. I really believe or bone, and clothed in fur to look much | enemies’ fortifications I the chances are against that being a bless- | ing for a boy. But leave them an ac- cumulated fortune of memories and inspirations and exampies and hoves, so that they are rich in brain and heart and | soul and service. Then, if you happen to |"leave them a fortune besides—if they have | ail these—the fortune will be shorn of its ! possibilities of evil and will become an | instrument of higher and nobler good."” degeg” Plomate Ilike that ola, ola legend, Not found 1 Holy Writ, And wish that John or Matthew | Had made Bible out of it. How the little Jewish children, Upon a summer day, Went down across the meadows With the child Christ to play. And in the zold-green valley. Where low the reedgrass lay They made them mock mud SPATTOWS Out of the meadow clay. 80 when they were fashioned, And ranged in rows ebout, Now,’’ said the little Jesus, 'We'll let the birds fly out.” Then all the happy children Did call and coax snd cry, Each to his own mud SDAITOW, “Fly as I bid you! fiy.” But earthen were the sparrows, | y did remain, Except the one bird only { The little Christ had made. Softly he leaned and whispered, 5 up to heaven, fy Aud swift his littl Went soaring to And silent all the Stood awestruck, looking on, Till deep into the heavens The bird of earth had gone. Ilike to think for.playmate We have the Lord-Christ still And that sbove our weakness i He works his mighty will; | That all our little Of earthen hopes Shall be by his comma Changed into heaver things | and joys | | ndment toys. he sparrows'— 1 e cl Our souls are 1 Imprisoned in © Bless him who ca ive them wings | To soar to heaven's brizht day. | —Bedford’s Annual. ——————- A New K‘I\é of Kite. Kites used to be cousidered toys for boys Now they are used for weather ob- servations and for decorations during a parade or outdoor demonstrations, hav- e to ing held flags in the air at varying heights. Now the possibility of using them in times of war to study the is being talked | | THE SKATING LESSON—FROM THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. like a boy. The face is carved with eyes, ,about. In'New York harbor is an island jasthe fruitis gone the picking of grapes be- called Governors Island, used by the | Government for purposes of defense. On this island is a fort equipped with mounted guns. Soldiers are stationed there. Opposite on the other shores are other forts equipped with mounted guns and soldiers. No enemies’ ships could come to New York without passing these | forts. The guns at the forts would sweep | the decks of the ships and sink the ships. | This is what is meant by the delense of | the harbor. One of the officers on this | island hasb en experimenting in making a ; kite that will carry a man high in the air, | where he may see the surrounding country. He made a frame thirty feet long and nine inches deep. This frame is strongly braced on the inside, #Md the kitestring is a quarter-rope. There are really two kites, one smaller than the other, fastened | 400 feet apart on the kitestring. Tue kites bave no tails, ThY ends of the frame are | covered at either end with canvas, and the wind has free play through the frame. The kitestring fastened to the main frame | is wound round a windlass, and is paid | out by four men. Less than that number | couid not hold the kites. The smaller | kite helps to raise the larger one. Last| week the kites floated in the air with a| dummy weighing forty pounds, dressed | as a man, sitting in a hanging seat below the larger kite. The kites carried the dummy easily, and when it.was drawn in it setiled gently to the ground. The problem is to find out how heavy a load thekites will carry, and then to devise some steering-gear by which the kites may be controlled in the air. Lanterns were tied on the kitestring the other night and made a very pretty sight. e ‘Theough the effores of the United States Consul at Cologne, tourists will no longer | be required to pay duty on their machines on entering Germany. Hereafter it will only be necessary to prove to the officials that the mzchines are articles of travel | and not articles of commerce. ——————— “The arithmetic teacher said for us to divide these apples into thirds and fourtns and I don’t know how todoit. Igot the fourths done, but I don’t know how to cut an apple into three equal parts.” “Pooh! That'seasy ‘nough,” said stupid little Joe. “You just do it in this here way: If you cut the apple into half, that's | | and the é}’movfj | | written I hope it will be accepted and pub- | never took much interest in it until the page | g1r1 10 years old. | TaE CaLL | thing except the clothes we had on | My tast teach | am afraid my letter is getting too long, so ! they are put in the sweat boxes and are taken | 15 getting dry, like some lectures. guess it is best | had a pleasant time. | whole is surrounded by a green hedge, and two equal parts, ain’t it? And if you cut €ach of them into nalf, that's four equal Parts, ain’t it? Well, then,” {riumph- antly, “don’t you see, if you want thirds, 130U just chuck one of them fourths away.” Dear Editor: 1 have never seen a letier from Great Western, so I thought I would writeone. T go to school at the Great Western mine. We Dhave o farm and live about half a mile from the schoolhouse. I wish to belong to the C. R C., 50 I send e little plece of poetry that I have written. Yours truly, JENNIE MCCAUGHAN. SaN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18, 1897. Dear Editor: As this is the first letter I have iished in the *Childhood’s Realm.” My father bas teken THE CALL for many years, but I for the children was published. Iam a little I think my letter is quite long for the first time, so Il say good-by. rematu your reader, KaTIE G COE, Cal., Jan. 14, 1897. Dear Editor: This is my second letter to I aid not see my first letter in print, but I hope this one will be published. There is lots of snow up here where I live. Some winters I have a lovely time coasting over the snow. The last partof last summer our house was burned. We didn’t save any- d and go to the Glencoe name was Miss Duffy term we are going to have a new teacher. I eieven years all close. From your loving friend, HATTIE FAIRCHILD. EASTON, Cal., Jan, 22, 1896. Dear Editor: Asthis 1sthe first letter I have ever writien to a newspaper 1 don’t suppose it will be just right. Eeston is all place and has a store and postoflice combined, five churches, one biack- smith-shop, a paintshep and a packing-house. Iv1s about five or six miles from the city of Fresno. The country arouud is fertile eough if it were not for the alknli, with which many of the twenty-acre ranches are laden, and notbing will grow on them except Bermuda & The peopie around here raise all kinds of fruit. Itisa great deal of trouble 0 take care of & fruit ranch, because one has to do so much we First, the cutting comes; then the men put the fruit in a suiphur box, where they leave it for a long time. It is then taken outand put in the sun todry; after thisit is put into sweat boxes, to be taken East,where it sells for 4 or 5cents apound. Justassoon gins, Japanes: and Chinese usuallydo this, and it must be very hard as well as hot work. They put the grapes on the trays and there they are left to be dried, and then turned and dried on the other side. After this is done | ither to Fresno or Easton to be packed by the many young ladies. Well, [ am teliing you so much about this that you wiil get tired of it, so I will talk abont something else. The letter I am glad McKinley got elected, but am or our editor, Mr. Shortridge; bat most he people seemed to want Mr. Perkins, so T But may be if he will try again he will get the office and be our next Senator. We went to San Francisco some time ago on the Valley road excursion. We saw the build- ing Mr. Spreckels is erecting where you are go- ing to have your office. We think it is fine. I of I have forgotten to tell you about our chools. We have a high school and & gram- mar grade school. This is about the only country sthool in the county that is graded. The school has & fine ground covering about four »acres. We have a tennis court, a ball ground, a playnouse, a large barn, a wood- shed and a windmill and tankhouse. The SKATING ON SAN N | FRANCISCO STREETS. trout, My brother is 8 years old and his name is Henry. It has not rained hard enough this year to make good salmon fishing. lam the Froud brother of three sisters. Please publish my little letter. Your friend, LEO LEFRANCHI S0LANO CoUNTY, Jan. Dear Editor: This is my first lette; My father has taken THE CALL just six months and is very much pleased with it. years of age and attend the Collinsyilie School which has been in charge of Miss Croiter for the last six years. I enjoy reading Childhood's Realm as I fina it extremely interesting. I had a pleasant time at-Christmas. 1 have two brothers and one sister. My papa hasa great many chickens and ducks. 1 fear my letter is already too long, but hope it will escare the wastebasket. I remain your little read STELLA O BALLARD, Cal., Jan. 20, 1897. Dear Editor: 1 sm a little girl, eieven d. Iam in the seventh grade at school. teacher's name is Miss Pinkham. Sheisa very good teacher and I like her very much. I have a Maltese cat whose name is Bil He is very cute. I like the children’s page so much. Hoping my letter will be printed in THE CALL, 1 remaia, your new friend, AL EAST OAKLAND, Jan. 20, 1897. This is my first letter to any paper and my first story. Will you please tell me how to be & memberof the C. R. C.? I hope my first letter and story will escape the waste- basket, Iam your constant reader and new friend, BERNICE SWANEY. Dear Editor: 8ax FRANCISCO, Cel., Jan. 19, 1897. Dear Editor: This is my secoud letter to you. I enjoy reading the Children’s Page, but would enjoy it more 0 have my name appear init. 1tryto soive the puzzles, but do not get them all. We have tacen THE CALL for twenty years. Hoping that my letter will not be thrown in the wastebasket, I will close now. Your new writer AUGUSTA KRUTSEN. 8AX FrANCISCO, Jan. 22, 1897. Dear Editor: This is my second letter to THE Cail Iwrote to you last year, and Idid not see my letter, but I saw my name among the letters acknowledged. [ Lope this letter will escape the wastebasket. Your little writer, JULIETTE DRISCOLL. .- PUZZLES oY Fan AT ANSWERS FOR JANUARY 24, 1897. 1 () Jar—class—Julia—us—real. (b) Julius Casar. 1L (a) Novice—hymns—entire—noise—tithe. (b) Necessity is the mother of favention. 1L last but not least is our large two-story school- nouse. It has four rooms, a library and four anterooms. Iam in the seventh grade. Mr. Kirk, our superintendent, says that it is the best country school in the State. Well, I must ciose now, hoping tosee my letter in the next issue of THE CALL. We take | THE WEERLY CALL. and I always look for the Children’s Page first. I enjoy Eva Navone’s letters. I have ouly seen one ietter from Fresno. Yourloving reader, 1M0 DICKINSON (C. R. C. I would like 1o be.) FRUITVALE, Cal., Jan. 19, 1897. Dear Editor: This is my second letter to THE CALL. Iaidn’t see the other one in print, so I thought I would write sgafn. I liketo read the Children’s Page, and study out the puzzles, I wili send you some beheadings and word squares. I go to the Lockwood School and sm iz the fourth grade. I hope you will printmy letter this time, as I would like to show it to my teacher. Her name s Miss Gib- son, aud I like ber very much. Your lLittie Irtend, E. CEcIL MCCLINTOCK. PETALUMA, Jan. 27. Dear Editor: This ismy first letter to The San Francisco CaLL My father has taken your paper for a long time and Ilike itso much. I have three pet goats and a dear little kid. A clear water creek passes right by our Bouse. One day we went fishing, not long 280, and my brother and I caught twosalmon SIX—3¢ dos. 1V. (s) Linnet. (b) Finch. (¢) Robin. V. Abraham Lincoln. VL But—ton. Button. VIL O—range. Orange. VIIL Car—nation. Carnation. IX. Plough—lough. X. L—osf. Loat. L—ode. Lode. L—oath. Loath. HOW TOMM~Y- MADE ONE SKATE 1am10 | New Puzzles. Change by prefixing and suffixing the sams | tetter. Example: Cnange & sound to rocks. | S-tone-s, stenes. | I (a) Changeagirl’s name to a titie. | (% Change a cofn to perfumes. | (©) Cnange a pece of grouna 10 openings. | ALice 1L WORD SQUARE. 1. To masucate. 2. Nickname for a tramp. 3. Black. 4. Will not. 111 BELL, C. R. C Noxa HERBEERT, C. R. C. BEHEADINGS. Whole, I wander off. | Benend me and I'm a household article. Again, and I'm s line of light. Once more and I am £n afirmative. LeNA Woopsox, C. R. C. 1V. Behead s thin piece of stone which is used in schools ana have behind time. | Again, and have a verb. ]~ V. Behead an article of | (a) furniture, and have a single thread or fii- | ament. Again, and have the fluid we breatbe. (b) Behead & covering for the foot, and | a garden tool. EDITH WALDAU, C. | VL Curtaila substance obtained from | »nd have a county in Cslifornia and a cit | Montana. EDITH WALDAU, C. R. | VIL Hidden names uf birds. | (2) My dears, how late you are! (b) Why do you esk? I tell you Inever was there. (¢) In the Gospel I can find many things re- vealed. VIIIL solvers. (®) Giaxmles. (b) Abcelllie. PL Names of my favorite puzzle EVELINE CORDAY, C. R. C. HISTORY. | IX. When did Roger Williams srrive in | America? What did he teach? | X. When was Abreham Lincoln born? Letters j-\ickr\owlzdged Besides letters published pleasant commu- nications have also been received from the | boys and giris whose names foliow: R.Ma | Mallory (C. R. C.), Bessie Orchard, Retha | Waldau (C. R. C.), Corine L. Bartlett (C. R. C.), | Chauncey P.” Williamson, Lillian Hill, Lulu Marsti, Lulu Shattuck, Rose Bristol, Fred | Anthes (C. R. C.), Antoinette Crawford (C. R. | C.), T. P. Trubody, Paul Peters (C. R. C.), G tle Unfried, W. Lyons (C. R. C.), Lillie McKee, Ollie Streeter, Minnie C.Dana, Charles Mc- Mahon, Lena Woodson. Emily Foley. Lott Ward, W. Tibbetts (C. R. C.),and the follow. members of the Easton School: Ezra J. CHa beriin, Willie Brown, Lida Baird, John L sen, Carl Almgren, Thilda Larsen, Edwin Moore, Alber: F. Snedden, Allie Sudden, Hil Anderson and Henry 3nedden. Jhose Who Have Solved the Puzzles. Correct answers for January 24 have been received from the following members of L. R. C.: Alice Bell, Ella R. Hartneil, Paul Peters, Beckie Heino, Retha Waldau and Fred Anthes. For January 17: Ethel McClute. From non- members: For January 17, E. Cecil McClintock, and from Lulu shatt or January 24. Suggestions for Motto and Badje for G. R. G. From Members: I *“Mutual To b printed in gol Mental Improvement.” or silver letters on ribbo: RETHA WALDAU. Badge, red, white and | 1L “Never Give Up.” blue ribvons. White ““C."” on the red ribbon, blue “R.” on the white and white *‘C.” on the blue A. CRAWF 1IL *Let Us Be as One, Under One Hea W. Ly Pnswers to Gorrespondents. Elia Hartnell—Your Rebus was d ceived, but in the rusi of holidsy Wor mis) A. Crawford—The address is Cliaton Har- rington, Trinidad, Cal | Retha Waldau—Your contributions are | good: but remember all of the puzzles can- not be published at ooce. Alice Bell—Please rewrite yOur suggestion for & motto, and oblige your EAitor. R. Maud Mallory—Your letter, poem and little story are most welcome. re- was