The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1897, Page 24

2 \ MOTTO_ or >z C. "ACT WELL THY PART THERE ALL THE HONOR _LIES STONE < RULBY FLOWER =/ LILY A Thooght for the| Wcsk. J “‘The cup that is full wil! hold no more; | keep your head and heart full of good | thoughts, that bad thoughts may find no | room to enter.” e | GYeet('ng. ‘ The members of C. R. C. shout wel- | come, thrice welcome to the mizhty army | of Christian soldiers tarrying in our midst. To each and every one we extend the hand of fellowship and sympathy. At | thy feet, Oh noble workers, we gladly lay the richest treasures of our glorious State | and pray that peace and joy may ever at- | tend thy footsteps and taat success may } | | | | | ) | | | ever crown thy efforts for the right. OOf_Bac\ge. Every gooa, faithfal member of C. R. C. should certainly wear its badge, and be | proud of the privilege. How pleasant it | will be 1n the years to come, when you | are ‘‘old and grav,” to be able to take the pretty little silver vin out of the case | where you have so carefully placed it, and recall the happy hours you spent as a member of the pioneer juvenile news- paper club of the Pacific Coast. | Send 50 cents with 2 cents postage for a | badge. Address Editress of Children's | Page, Ob, this is the boat we always take When we go for a sail on the little blue lake. Butalas! One day, To our great dismay, 1t took a freak, And sprung a leak; We baled away, That hot, summer day; But it did 10 good, for the water kept coming, Then fast as we could, home we went running. LAURA GREEN, Alogt the Ly, The favorite flower of the dusky sons | and daughters of sunny Italy is the pure white lily. LEGEND OF THE LILY OF THE VALLEY. The fairies were enjoying a revel on the lawn, and each airy sprite carried a tiny cup in which to collect dew for the fairy queen’s breakfast. Neglecting the com- mand that they should retire before the | sun appeared, they danced until his rays dried up the dew drops. Then each fay | found, to her terror, that the small white | cup, which she had suspended on a blade | of grass, had become fixed to it and could ’ not be detached. They all wept, dread- ing the anger of their queen, who would be deprived of her breakfast. But the good fairy godmother came to the rescue; and pitying their distress, she touched | with her magic wand tbe blades of grass, | thus changing them into broad green leaves, which hid the little white cups £DITED By | over again; won’t we? | develop wind and | boy is examined by a physician to dis- | able to undergo the hard trai L eJcT from the gueen's sight, and shielded her disobedie:c elfin subjects from her royal wrath; and ever since we have had these exquisite lilies of the valley. e Oov Foovth. A good time? Of perfectly glorious time. “I went away up into the redwoods,” cries johnny. “Ob, I went to Fanny. “Istayed at home, but my fireworks were grand,” exclaimed another. There! There! That will do, my dear children. talk all at once that in your letters next week you tell me about your good time— where you went, how you got there and what you did. Please don’t leave out your fireworks and we'll just live itvall Why, we’ll be able to almost see those splendid rockets and to hear once more the fizz, bang of firecracker and boom of precious cannon. Bv)‘j’ of (Breece. The Spartans are a nation of athletes. At work or play they are always trying to muscle; their games are all trials of strength and skill. There the seashore,” | is no other place in the world where a de- | formed or crippled person is 1 ooked upon with so much pity as among the modern Greeks. The physical training of the young Spartan begins almost as soon as lie can walk and talk. At the age of 4 or 5 every cover whether he is physically sound and ing which is part of his education. Unless it is found that the boy has some ailment which wou!d make it dangerous for him he is taught to sleep on the hardest of hard beds, to rise at 4 o’clock in the morning, to go with bare feet and head in cold weather, to run, to leap, to wrestle, and to bear pamn without flinching. A boy who cried if he got a thrashing would be Jooked upon as a coward by all his play- mates. It is not difficult to believe that such a training builds up stroag, sturdy, fearless men. At 5 vears the Greek boy beBins to at- tend the government school, where he | learns to read and write, to know Greek history and to be patriotic. It is interest- ing to a foreigner to note how persistently | the love of country is drilled into the schoolboys. Twice a day the children ‘.~ine the Greek national hymn, which tells how their grandfathers threw off the course we had. A | says | Suppose instead of trying to | yoke of the Turkish oppressor seventy- five years ago. One of the favorite games of the Grecian youth is to play at kiiling Turks. It is no uncommon sight in the smaller towns and even in Athens to see half a dozen or more youngsters engaged in this interesting amusement. In these miniature battles the Greeks are always victorious, of course, and the boys to whom falls the lot of becoming Turks for the time being have to submit to being killed in a variety of blood-curdling ways, and to being left for dead in the street until their conquerors permit them to come to life again. Then the two parties change places, and the former Turks, now become Greeks again, have a chance to show how they would deal with the ene- mies of their country. The Greek school- master is apt to be a well-bnilt fellow, with the national fondness for ail kinds of open-air games, who will encourage his boys to excel in all such sports, to try a dash barefooted into the snow on a win- ter day and to know the delight of a dip into cold water of a morning. The influence of this kind of training shows itself very clearly in the games of Greek boys. They nearly all involve strength and skill, and most of them are young Greek likes to spend nine-tenths of his waking hours out of doors. Putting the quoits—the diskos—has been called the national game of the Greeks, and almost any day onecan see groups of men and boys busily occupied in trying to outdo one another at it. Frequently after the Sunday church service half the con- gregation will ad journ to the nearest open field and spend the greater part of the afternoon 1n Lurling the di-kos. But of all the Greek boy’s good times the best are the hours which he spends on the water, or in the water, for he is a gen- uine amphibian, and learns to swim almost before he knows how to walk. The whole of this southern peninsula is 50 cut up by narrow bays and deep estu- e OB e i €550 wé-f-- played in the open air, for the healthy | aries that no part ot it is more than a dozen miles from the ses. Boys of five and six are taken out hy their fathers or elder brothers and taugit first of all not to fear the water, then to swim, and float ana dive. Youngsters who look as though they had escaped from carcless ‘nursegh’ls go plashing along in the face of big waves, as plump and jolly as young cupids. The boat race, lemmodrom!a in Greek, is in high favor, and the Spartans are all ac- complished oarsmen. But the controlling passion of the Greek youth is to dive from the highest rock he can find, going straight as an arrow from a bow into the water, he is dead, when he bobs up serenely, laughing at their alarm. Swimming under water is a trick of which the young Spartan is thoroughly master, and races of 200 yards or more beneath the surface are part of his amusement. & PGP where he paddles about below the suriace l until he has made his friends believe that | FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1897. Some Impossible Things. Like Johnnie’s pocket without a string, Like a robin redbreast that cannot sing, Like a primer without an A BC, Like a field of clover without a bee, Like a peacock without a tail to spread, Like mother’s needle without a thread, | Like a grown-up world without girls and boys Is a Fourth of July without & noise. . g At the Merchant’s Office: Privileged Son (meddling with open letters)—Papa, what a funny name is signed to this latter. “Persimmons”! Indulgent Father— | You’re mistaken, my boy; I have nosuch correspondent. P. S.—Here's the letter. It has two names, “Henry Smith” and *‘Per Simmons.”” .- Nurse had given Charlie some gruel which burnt him, it was so hot. Strug- gling manfully to keep it in he at last burst out: “Oh, nurse, I can’t keep it in; my mouth leaks.” SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 1897. Dear Editor: 1 am going away to stay on my papa’s ranch for & month. Itisin the Napa Mountains and is a lovely place. When I get there Ishall write and tell you all about it. I like the idea of the C.R. C. gallery very much, and I am going to send my picture as soon as I come home from the country. I read ‘.Little Sine's Fourth of July,” and think it is very nice. 1 like stories about negroes very much, and hope some more will be published in the Children’s Page. Antoinette Crawford and I often talk of the C. R. C., but she has not written for a long time, and I think she shou!d, as she is a mem- ber of the . R. C. Yours lovingly, MAE REYNoLDS (C. R. C.). SaAN FRANCISCO. Dear Editress: We are having vacation now, and I am enjoying myself very nicely. One And bade me come up there and see What wonderful things she had to show That we never see in our world below. WHAT 1 SAW. A milkmaid tripped down the milky way, Where the seven little sisters were busy at play, And these seven little sisters, what do you think ? They took the ““Big Dipper’” to get a drink. MARIE PARISH, C. R. C. EBBBBBBREEDE - day we went on a picnic to Mill Valley, which SP O ENEREEEE 3 When I went to bed the other night The moon was shining clear and bright, And what I saw you’d never guess, ’Twas a fairy in a starry dress. And the lovely creature beckoned to me | Btill, diving seems to have the greatest fascination for nim, and the rocky shore outlines of his native land give him plenty of opportunity to indulge his fancy. At the risk of being accused of stretching the facts, I will say that I have repeatedly seen young Spartans, for their own amusement, dive from the summit of cliffs sixty to seventy feet high, and I have been told that leaps of 100 feet are not considered extraordinary. It makes a stranger hold his breath to see these lithe young fellows go shooting through midair, but the boys themselves revel in the sport, returning again and again for another try. “Itisa grand feeling; it is as if one were flying,”” explained one curly headed lad, and in truth it looks very much like flying. Every Greek boy grows up with the ex- pectation of serving in tbe army. The regular term of enlistment is three years. The sons of the wealthy men buy exemp- tion from two years of se:vice by hiring substitutes, but every citizen of Greece is* required to give at least one year of his life to the service of his country. There- fore every Greek has at leasta taste of miiitary life and discipline, and a smatter- ing knowledge of military affairs. March 25 is Liberty day in Greece, and it is celebrated in much the same manner as our Independencs day, with fireworks and speeches and processions, and a salute of 101 guns from all the batteries. And on Liberty day—or any other of the 364, for that matter—it would be impossible to conyince any Greek boy that all the Turks in Eurove and Asia could ever conquer his beloved land. And all American boys will hope that he is right. Behind the Emblem. Are these—the painted folds that fiv On morning mist and sunset sky— The guardians of a land? No, if the patriot's pulses sl2op \ How vain the watch that hirelings keep. 0. W, HoLyEs, isa very pretty place. There is a large cas- cede up there, and we walked about a mile to see it. There is water running ail over the place end we went in wading. We picked blackberries and ferns, and down by the creek is an old mill,which was built in 1837 by John Reed, and when it was time to leave I felt very sorry, for I was having such a lovely time. I think I shall close by wishing you and all the members of the C. R. C. a very happy va- cation, I remain. your constant reader, JULIETTE DRiscoLL (C. R. C.). LARKSPUR. Dear Editress: 1 shall send.you my photo- graph as soon as Ireturn to the City. It is small, but is the one most recently taken. The name of our camp is “The Owl,” be- cause my father is employed in the Owl Drugstore. The first night we were hero a nest of young owls were ina tree right over our tent and they hooted all night, but the old owl moved them away. We have a horse and she is very gentle. She is akind of yellow color and her name is ““Daisy.” She is 50 gen- tle that Icanride on her back and drive her all alone. We also had a dog, but we sent him home again. A very pretty yellow kitten came here the other evening and we gave him some milk, but he climbed a tree after our canary and we had to drive him away. We have two tents and a kiwchen, all sur- rounded by redwood trees. Itisvery pretty here. The weather has been quite warm and Idid not feel justlike making any sketches, but I shall soon, and assoon as they are fin- ished I shall send them to you. Your friend, ETHEL MCCLURE (C. R. C.). TEMESCAL, OAKLAND, Cal. Dear Editress: T am nine years old and have wished to write to you foralong time. Papa has taken THE CALL for many years. I have been golng to the *‘Chrisian Brothers'' school for one term and a hglf, and am in the fourth grade. 1 mm enjoying my vacation very much. Papa, mamma, little brother Johunie and I took a trip to Redwood Canyon a little while ago, intending to camp there, but we found it was a little too early in the season, so we stayed just three davs. The scenery on the way and at the spot is very grand, and sleep- ing in a tent is too lovely for anything; it seemed just like a plessant dream. The coy- kept up a constant howl during the night, MARY. J. PARISH, C. R. C. but we were not afraid of them, for they were 1ar up in the mountains. The wocds were full of birds and we enjoyed thetr sweet singing in the early mornings. We picked wild flowers and ferns every day with wiich to decorate our tent. We were sorry to have to leave our frienas, the birds, flowers and trees, so soon, but we left them, loving them, hoping some time to come back and live with them & little longer. Now, dear editress, as this is my first letter to THE CALL, please do not say it 1s too long, or throw it into the wastebasket. I am so anx- ious to become a member and ge. a badg: am your friend, THOMAS SULLIVA Ross VALLEY, June 23, 1897. Dear Editress: We are stopping in Ross Val- ley for the vacation. 1havea pair of bloom- ers and like it up here. I found & bird in a nest. The poor little thing didn’t have any feathers. Every day I go and 100k &t it. Itis vacation up here, too. Iheard thatthe whole school are in one room and it reems very funny. Ionce wentto a country school like that in Bradley. Ithought I should like to attend that school regularly instead of be- ing a visitor. Ianswered some puzzles and contributed a story and some puzzles. The puzzles and the piece are original and I hope you will publish them. I wish you and all the members and readers of the C. R. C. have as nice & time as I expect | to have. Yours respectfully, GRACE SoH. CASTELLA, CAL. Dear Editress and Readers: 1am so giad to be a member of C. R.C. and shall send for a badge very soon. Is Mamie Kellogg & mem- | ber? I am going to Yreks and shall tell you about my trip when I return. Iam a Catholic and we have a lovely little churcn in Dunsmuir. Your loving friend, ANNETTA E. GERARD (C.R. C.). SUNOL. Dear Editress: 1 have never written to a paver before and I hope this will be printed. We live on the Thermal Rancho, Sunol. It consists of fruit irees and a large stock range. There are 1700 acres in all. Sometimes in the fruit season we have as | many as thirty men working at once. Your friend, ALICE CHAMBERLAIN, COMSTOCK, Cal. Dear Editress: We haven't wriiten to you since last November. Weare so glad we be- | long to the C. R. C. Weare going to send for | the badge some time soon. Itis bird-nesting | time here now. There are so many birds that lay such pretty eggs. There are orio'cs, linnets, swallows, doves, cedar birds, bluejays, bluebirds, canaries, tom- tits, humming birds, quails, yellow-hammers, robins, larks, snow birds, grass birds, wood- peckers, martins, mocking birds, the thrush and many other kinds. Orioles’ eggs .are light blue, with brown lines on them. Blue birds’ are very small, about as large as a canary’s. They lay little blue eggs. Hawks’ eggs are aboutas large as a hen’s egg, with brown spots. Cedar birds’ eggs are blue with black specks. Brown birds’ eggs are light blue with brown spots and lines. Doves’ eggs are white and they lay but two. Bee martins’ eggs are light yellow with brown spots. Snow birds’ and grass birds’ are the same, only snow birds build i trees and grass birds in the grass. The cutest of all eggs are Jaid by the humming birds; they are very smell and white. Your little friends. LAURA and FLORE! GREEN (C. R. C.). LoMPOC, CAL. Dear Editress: 1t is a long time since I wrote to you. I think the children’s page is very nice, and I never let a Friday go by without reauing it. Our school has closed for the summer. Last Wednesday our schoolteacher invited us all over to her house and gave us & treat. I think she is very nice. I think Alice Bell, Eva Navone, Retha Waldau, Max Selig and Eagar Randall are faithful members and Ishall try to be in the future. Ishall send for my badge before long. I shall send some puzzles 8nd try to answer some. Your con- stant reader, M. AvLice Horx (C. R. C.). NEW PPZZLES. L Pictorial puzzle (an adage). Belected. IL Anad EDGAR RANDALL (C. R- C.). Selected. H. M. WiLL1ams (C. R. C.). IIL. Beheadings. (a). Behead, a weapon end have a fruit; again, and have an organ of the bod (b) Behead, “to give permission,” and have “to rave”: again, and have an insect. (c) Behead a small branch and have a con- ceited fello gain, and have *‘to dress.” () Subtract one hundred from & smal stream and leave “to exhale.’” (¢) Subtract fifty from sport and leave “to requite.” 3 (d) Subtract fifty from location and leave gait. (¢) Subtractone from pigment and leave “to gasp.” 8.—EmrLy Housrox (C. R. C.). V. CROSS WORD ENIGMA. ¥ My 1 is in village, not in town. My 2 1s in tan, but not in brown. My 3 is in cat, but not in mouse. My 4 is in cabin, not in house. My 5 is in ton, but not in pound. My 6 is in mastiff, but not in hound. My 7 is in one, but not in two. My 8 is in finighed, not 1n thought. My whole is a season Of jolly fun, When boys and girls May shout aud run. 0.—THEO. Joos (C. R. C.). VI. Riddle. If u negro carrying a turkey on a platter should let it fail, what four great complica- tions of evil would be the result? 8.—Viora FurTH (C. R. C.). VIL Additions. (a) To jump+an animal—a game for boys. (b) Low+4a round toy—a game for boys. 0. —-GRACE LoH (C. R. C.). VIIL Easy word square. 1—To take into the mouth with the tongue. 2—An animal. 3—A vegetable. 0.—BESSIE A. SULLIVAN (C. R. C.). IX. Diamond. 1—A letter in shining. 2—Instrument for writing. 8—Tne surname of a bright member ot C.R.C 4—The egg of insects, 5—A letter in shining. X. Take!{ of a fruit, 1£ o1 a tropical fruit, 1-5 of & fruit and 1-5 of a small fruit, and you will have Ep. the nam Ep. Answers for duly 4. L Because we shoe (shoo) them both. 1L (Erron). WORD SQUARES. L O TP DR A LEER YARN Iv.@ EL LA () FLAG LOAN LOVE LAST AVON ANTS GENT V. Addition. Car-+rot=carrot. Pine+apple=pineapple. Black-+board ~blackboard, VI. Discoveries. Eager—age. Heart—ear. Sinewy—new. Lifted—Ted. Placed—ace. DIAMONDS. VIL P TE A PEACH ACT H VIIL B B A A BADGE A GE E IX. Ohio. X. Patriotic days of July. (a) July 4—Declaration of Independence. (%) July 14—Fail of Bastile in 1789, Celes brated as Independence day by the French peonle. (c) July 24,1783—Simon Bolivar, the 1ib- erator of South Americs, was born in the eity of Caracas, Venezuela. Bolivia, a State of South America, was named in Lonor of him. Solvers. Answers to puzzles of July 4 have been re. ceived from the following members of C. R. C.: M. Eva Navone 9| Beckie Helno ¢ 5|Mamie M. kel I 0/ Alice Bell 0 9| Ruby Ha 9 ¥or June 27 (delayed): Madalena Lugomar- _|Ethel Willlams. 4 si0 ... . 8|Thev Joos.. . 5 From non-members for June 27: Gertrude Klemm...... 3|Eveline McMahon.... 1 Ellis Haruman . 1|Lilian M. Tkin.. 3 For July 4: Eva Pries. William R. is Bessie Sullivan.. Lietters Acknowledged. Besides letters published pleasant commu- nications have been received from the follows ing members of C. R. C.: Mamie M. Kellogg, I Theodore Joos, Charles H. Uwens, Bessie Orchara, Ida Wightman. | Alice Bell, R. Maude Mallory, | Alice D. Jobnson, Madalena Lagomarsino, | Fioy Hays. Frances Laplace, From nou-members: Leon Augustus Doyle, Annie C. Glann, Mary E. Martellg, Eva Pries, | Nettie Leach, | Anate Greir Mabel Ora Martin, Besste Sullivan, Hazel Bell, ¥ieda Munsier. Alva Cridge, Exchanges Received. Weeklies: 1. Harper's Round Table. 2. Youths’ Companion. 3. Golden Days. Gorrespondents’ Golumn. 1. R. Maud M.—Mrs. 2. Florence Krause—Try again. only one side of your paper. Ethel F.—Your little poem very good. Was crowded out. Ishall keep it for next Fourth. 3. Floyd Smith—Your puzzles were not cor- rectly formed. Try again. Write on .—WiLL1AM R. ELus (C. R. C.). IV. Subtractions. (a) Subtract ten from certain animals and -eaye enemies, 4. Members—send your photographs as soon as possible. Tintypes will do. 5. Eva Pries—The only item of expense is for the badge.