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THE EVs NING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1918, Who Make ‘‘Comin’ Through New ——ae ' Soldier Boys Passing Through City Are Made to Realize Their Country Appreciates Them by the Attentions and Ministrations of the Red Cross at the Newly Opened Rest Rooms and Informa- tion Booths at the Pennsylvania and Grand Central Stations and “Comin’ Through New York” Becomes a Pleasurable Experience--Red Cross Activities in Greater New York in Detail. By Hazel V. Carter. 46 OVD sugh New York” is one of the big: t treats to the be C the troop trains—and the treat is generally on the Red Cro With tho opening of the new Information Booth for Sold @ndé Sailors at Pennsylvania Station yesterday and a similar booth and rest Teom at Graud Central Station last Monday, additional good times are in Store for those who come through this oity. For the less fortunate, who are hurried through without stopover, thers tg always a equad of women from the Bmergéncy Canteen, under the direc: Gon of John S. Wlieworth, Director of the Canteen Service for the Atlantic Division, waiting to pass along smiles and welcome with the sandwiches, fruit, sweet buns, chocolates, hot coffee and “smokes.” The Division Canteen Director has a two assistants and two aides, all of them women in uniform. They are into training schools for nurses can Obtain all needed information at the offi¢e, where there is a ¢hart pre- either at neadquarters or on call bY| pared for information. Also direc telephone during the “waking hours,” | tions will be given for other lines of which are from 6 A. M. to 11 P, M.| Red Cross work ‘These aides are ready to go to any AN CORTLANDT CHAPTER of the nearby canteen stations and! challenges its # rs in the bi ISON SQUARE assist the loca! women in serving the| Red Cross family with its record soldiers during these fours. during the drive for the Second War, wes . a And here are a few of the alice! Pind. been started. Also there ia an une | (f ” things the boys are writing home on! With a population of only 11,000, evs ha re Ad ebb thant which . ells the postal cards which the Red Cross! this district contributed more than eye"! COS En eestHencne a often furnishes to the troop trains: | $703,000 to the war fund. ‘This is an aie | “The Red Cross girls sure treated But ef ine bl ye pated Bh M67 TTL ITALY" in New York es fine in New York. Gave us apples,| iy equally commendable, and the as come to the front to help eandy, cigarettes, post cards, flowers| friendly challenge is worth accepting, ‘te lt hildren of France, | and books. A little group of Italian children, RS. SUSANNA Q. CUMMINGS, Chairman of the Speakers’ Bu- | Peau of Brooklyn, is acting Chairman | of the Auxiliary Department during connected with the Charlton Stre Memorial Church in New York have Just turned in to the Junior Depar ment of the Atlantic Division, $28. “I have just been treated to somp| bot coffec and cigarettes by some Red Cross workers. They certainly are | 00d to us boys.” | i a eee FOURTH OF JULY ee July and August, in the absence ot wry : “Mary, you can't realize how good| Mrs, Harry Wembridge. M lich represents the proceeds of a Pe here in New| _ unior entertainment. This will go] ~ : Wis She Red Cross are to us |QEVENTEEN now auxiliaries were to help the children of Prance Country to Celebrate France York. I want you to help them all formed during Jt 3 : sh fee. ; i Sereas acy NOW, Maven tHRt willl os cit avy ask LAKE hci | buen GatOhned te tutte oree| Fourteenth!’ as Ally Did Keep you from getting lonesome” — | { * Maredlanes 4¥s MAHOU Losacy, | REFHIAN Ibi: Glunus HIER TbhEy have tec | Our Fourth j The new information booths ati aM. c. A., one Christian, one Episco.{livered with the expressed wish that | | Pennsytvania and Grand Central Sta-| pal, and a lodge. they be p ted to Armenian chil- | i tions: are established in accordance | . hey - | dren. Just as Franco, two days | } with a general request sent out from|[ ONG ISLAND CITY is proud of P week at the Acad r Lesa east ha ee & | f ational headquarters to chapters ts Junior Red Cros of 12,00 AJ SSR eran Work- | will this country .a week from to- ' @sking that railroad canteens be es-| Membership. ‘The schools have co- ne eal Payee Lid : bid dnolketsllt morrow celebrate Fra 8 Fourteenth | tablished in the stations to handle| Operated with the chapter with such jhe making of hospital garment! of July, the anniversary of the day in| e/almost double the supply of hospi 4 ne supervision rs. Vs | ally edo ult * of tho Bureau of Military Relief of armenia shipped. Warten, andi wore yoluntesre. ste Lae han At a Ae eae the New York County Chapter of the| pe 4 for in order that the chapter Deer Sen eee ee hands and captured and demolished the Bastille, that prison where any ordinary pe chucked and kept extraordinar upper classe: Details of the plans of celebrating July 14 have not yet been completed, but they soon will be under the gul-| dance of the Committee on Allied Tribute to Francs The main celebration of Bastille Day will be on tho evening of July 4, at Madison Square Garden, in which will be an immense mass meeting of Americans and Ameri- cans of French descent, under the Chairmanship of ries Evans Hughes. The addresses will be made Red Cross. 1 The space at the west side of the main waiting room at the Grand Cen- tral, formerly occupied by the New York County Chapter as a demon- stration and knitting both, will be used for the new service. The use of the loop underneath the station by the New York Central will discharge the majority of the passengers from the trains at a point which will bring the Red Cross booth and rest room| into special prominence, At all hours of the day and night men in uniform can find out where to| #0, what to do, and will be heiped| House is also on the direct line of with personal troubles in reaching|motor travel through the Herksuire friends, &c. | Hills, and affords motorists an oj A PAVILLION on Lake Que has been rented for the season by the Red Cross of Canaan, N. Y {and bas been made dainty and at- | tractive with fresh musins and white paint. Here at the Queechy Lake [ted Cross House a refreshment station [is in daily operation from 9 in the morning until 10 at night. A well equipped workroom, with wide win- | lows looking out over the lake, is open from ¥ until 6. ‘The Red Cross in Pasis nm might be by order of any person of the so-called | Red Cross Auxillary of tne Temple, Brooklyn, will meet oa Monday hereafter instead of Friday, |from 10 A. M. Lunch will be served usual, but dinner service will be discontinued until fall. Donations for the luncheon are being asked for, as every particle of food dona saves that much for the Red Cross | as WENTY charter members instew 1 | of ten will be a requirement yenore orming new auxiliaries in P- | Brooklyn, according to the Executive | portunity for Fest and refreshment, | cou qittea, 1k de fet: (hat ‘untess| ITH the announcement of the | there is a certainty of at least twenty | enrolment of the youngest |members It is not advisable to form | : auxiils he future. Red Cross member, Dorothy Atico, |*U*laries In the future campaign to enroll graduates! Of registered hospitals as Red Cross nurses ready for active service has shown excellent results in Brook by Nr Jusserand, aL lym, The quota allotted has already | ten months old, of New York, comes| AAIAPTERS in the Atlantic Diel- | pegules dusser it date been doubdied. Over 200 women | news of the oldest member. He ia] sion aré urged to show the mov. | Re ng, the Ambassador of Great Wishing to enter training schools for) John Smith, 128 years, a full blooded | ing picture films of Red Cross work| Britain; Samuel Gom national Rurses have applied. Indian of Case Lake, Minu, ¢ labor le + and Iynace Paderewski, | which can be procured by writing the Enrolments will be welcomed at any| There's no age limit. Z who has become well known as a time at the Campaign Commities Rureau of Chap Development. ft worker for Poland, headquarters, No. 160 Montague | ROOKLYN ayxiliarics using more| These pictures stimulate interest in iroughout the entire country, on Street,_apd applicants for entranc: than 300 yhrds of gauze per! the Red Cross and by eh Reais at aad Pepi d eed j Week may have it cut free of charge | small admission fee chapters cessful effort of unshackling herself, RADWAY’S READY RELIEF | ‘” two of their members will Bive| to local fund Ky special arrange-| Some larger places in which they | opeshale day & Woek to fold guuze for | m with the French Government, | will be held are Denve Kan heir own use at the Supply Service,| trench official wa fatines. Gat sas City, New Orleans, Chicago, No, 130 Prerrepont Street, ror Rola! war pictures, not tn) prttadelphia, Omaha, St. Paul, Pitts: jes | distribution through news weeklies. burgh. Knoxville, Memphis, Savan- . | AP WENTY CASES of standard giro | have come under the Red Cross juris- | nuh, Cleveland, Boston and Rock 1s- For +Rheumatic—Muscular and eight double size cases wers | diction LEN Sea a fea apa ry ° ra Ppa iho Atlantle Diviaic aeaaie inia oward Taft is Chairman | or Neuralgic Pain fhipped from the Mrooklyn Supply || 7? antic Division has the fol-| 49’. 'committes whion is working te partment last wee “|lowing five war pictures ready to bring about the country-wide tribute D a 3 quantity of Redwar'e in vig issue: “Humanity’s Appeal,” portray- | to our ally. ” ies the ovens ig cay MeKay Kelly, No. 975! tng reconstruction work among re- ere will be other phases to the | ‘the skin, starts the circ *urk Avenue, returned home! patriates at BD id Service on |New York celebration, of course, be Sethe bices Snd‘scsthes the Suet, this week from Italy, whore she has|the Western showing tho | Sides the mass meeting, but their na- aw: 25 | been #ince December as a member of | Norton-Hurjex unit in action; “in tho [ture has not yet been definitely de- | the American Red C , Ruins of Rhelms,” where the children | ided upon, One thing is certain: that e an Ted Cross Commission! pay and go to school with gas maska|@l New Yorkers on that day will, 4 eady 50c to Italy, ARGUCInele Ke crinee Th AHH | possible, fly the tricolor from. thelr “The we eing done e by h poi : ‘over the top," |homes or business 5 Unfortu- fi he work being done there by the) With poill ver the ton.” and | nately (so far as fes 3 are i Red Cross is tremendous,” she said, | thd “Vershing's Men in F |concerned) the 14th of July falls up! a) ef ["In Naples alon 000 refugees hagery }a Sunday. Otherwise there might be ® TO yeare awagg, (taken caro of Taormina apiune were distributed by tho | eee ga eeantn ai. of g | Tfugees numbered’ more than {2 Brooklyn Chapter during June|” But the local workers for the fete SETI normal population. ‘Cuntorna nie’ | 1,iR7 aweaters, 633 mufflers, 451 hel- | Owen Johnson, the author, 1s at thelr TAKEN INTERNALLY been cstablished the length ang | mots, S01 pairs of wristlets, 2,793] head, and they include representatives ’ THe Py APS temst | broadth of the country, Laboratories | pairs of socks and 1,059 comfort bagy, [Of nearly all the existing war socictien cramps in bowels, Ket 1 varn a tiving, hase SMSROAMIER RN ARiak {make the ¢ s striking ge possibe » have a Wats rooklyn Chapter has been! inq to jet France know how wo ay particularly requested by tne! preciaty he r slebratl n of our Fourth, | Atlantic Division not to purchase| which included even the dedication of TROTTED IDC 9 SOD TMH HIE ‘ sh outside sources any of the|# street in honor of our Ixecutive ’ gh i r ‘ the Avenue du President Wilson m | materials arrics stock, @VeN |) Maybe some Now York thoroughfare The World’s 1918 % | though at times we may be able} will have Its title put into lrench, «lo gel more expeditious deliveries | - ——_ 3 thereby. ‘The reason for this request |Spate Is Threatend With General % |» that the Government has agreed to | Strive, Summer Resorts Annual]; *!" muti in purchases PARIS, July 6A Feneral steike of x gauze, cotton, outing flanne; aod inish workers has been called for x July 16, according to a Hav “ «0 ueb vaterials at the prices |? id Pnan) ; Government and on prac patch from Madrid decision Bigger, Brighter, Better Than Ever! ¥ same terins of deivery, | followed the failure of the Minister of 0 Ne specific understanding | Public Works to induce the malco Si P; f A : * that chapters would refrain fron out: | ent 0 # in Astur to Bub ix Pages of Automobile Tour Map | side purchane of thes materials, ‘tnis | thelr case to arbitration. ‘They’ voved wx {condition is imposed because such| by a large majority to raject tho ffer| % purchases tend to demoralize market | of arbitration and to strike unless ali Hundreds of announcements of % ) con né and make more dimeut| their dem ne w " granted by tne! H be middle of the month | Hotels, Boarding Houses, Resorts, * | or <j Peery . * tho Government task of regulating for the Summer Vacationist. x Free ° f Hig mameaeume aad qestine ofl lthose staple materials { ; : ‘ : trial o : . Py | Price 5 Cents; by Mail 10 Cents * SM tent latncekeaihare haan 4% e discontinued for the present by “ea ; ne the Brooklyn Chapter, All auxiilar! For Sale at All World Offices and % GBD TION | er rercesves to rea coms ee your nearest Liggett Drug Store. a | jets In as soon as possible, not making gw] f . k e Jan extra one more than they hove at | ADDRESS « or SIC: Ss S$ | res nt on hand, Kx drains should | % | be held until notified, and extra bags “ Ww ™ © Cn aa a |may be sent in, otherwise ali ma- The World’s Summer Resorts Bureau Be terials will have to be made up in| kinmeruptiona, me other form, a Pe ‘| Gets for thal tree wore to Ding || ome other form, as nothing else will be received in front line packet work, | either at the Academy workroom o.!/ St 180 Pierrepont Street World Building, N. Y. 1-T, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. One of the City’s Active Groups of Red Cross Women | across the street to her friend's hom COAL SITUATION INNEW YORK WORS THAN LAST YEAR . aT ae Due to Embarrassing War Conditions and Greed of Profiteers, York’’ a Pleasure coal, coal! During the zero temperature of last winter it was on everybody's mind, figuratively speaking. There was little in people's bins, literally speak- ing. Large industries closed their plants for five days to relieve the |situation. This was in January. Then | followed a series of fusliass Mondays, |throwing hundreds of thousands of fps to mouth workers out of a day's | wages, More than any other one | thing, it helped to pass the Daylight Saving scheme in Congress, At one time 112 ships sailing for other ports were held up in our harbors because of empty bunkers—with little prospect of getting any. | This is the situation and much worse that New Yorkers face next |winter, unless something miraculous oceurs to mine the coal and to make the price reasonable. Tho report of the Federal Trude Commission, made’ public last Satur- dey, throws some light on the mat- ler, Give heed: During 1917 the bituminous coal op- erators had very much larger mar- | gins of profit than in previous years. In 1916 the profits of operators for coal sold f. 0. b. wore lower than normal, yet the margins of 1917 were two and sometimes three times nor- mal. With three bituminous coal operators in Pennsylvania they raised their prices from 20 cents a ton re- 60 ON 14-MILE HIKE TO GET OCEAN BATH 13,000 Camp Upton Men Will Go to Tangier Club To-Day and Return at Night, Thirteen thousand men from Camp Upton will march seven miles with to-day from the can- full equipment tonment to Tangier Service Club,|ceived in 1916 to 90 cents a ton In yn the ocean shore of Long Island,/1917. One company collected a margin As many as can bo provided with of $1.45 per ton. This same company bathing suits will enjoy an ocean in 1916 received a margin of 41 cents th, At night the men will march) per ton. Another company didn’t hog ck to camp. things so much and merely collected The margin of cents per ton. Tangier Club is conducted by the a Knights of Columbus in conjunction | ye: before they collected 13 cents with the War Camp Community Ser- | margin. vice housand men from Camp Coal prices F. O. B. were fixed by Ke cutive order during Aug. 21-24. Upton there every day The € his exe: These were later modified by the Fuel gan paching. wv SYNOPSIS OF NEW LAW | Latest Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort | If it is necessary to enable a recelver ot @ railroad to borrow money for its maintenance and {t appears of suf- ficient Importance to the public and persons interested, the receiver's cer- tUficate may be made a lien prior to all other liens.—Central Trust Co. of N. Y. vy. Pgh, 8. & N. R. Co, N, Y. Court of Appeals ‘Terms, “cold pressed provincial medicine oil” and “pure medicinal cod liver oil,” used in contracts for sale of such oll, being descriptive of kind and quality,’ were words of warranty.— leonard y. Carleton Hovey Co, Su- premo Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts, One who has not been heard of may be presumed to be dead at the expira- tion of seven years from date of his disappearance, or when he was last heard from, and known to be alive.— B re Rowe's Estate, 170 N. Y, Sup. 42. Though a physician may advise re~ moval of a patient ¢o a hospital, in an ordinary case he has no authority to order such reenoval.—-Medln v, Bloom, Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts, Where, after a receiver is appointed in State court, bankruptcy proceed- ings are instituted, they te authority of the State cou such receiver has no power to render property in his hands, as in the custody of the law, and the that since Nov. 1917, to January, 1918, there bad been holding in one coal pocket 7,000 cars of loaded cov, is was in the Altoona district. This amounted to 350,000 tons of coal, in't be moved because of ht congestion on the Pennsyl- iroad. Other similar cases were discovered he time. In connection with the distribution of coal it may be pointed out tha. prior to the official regulation of job- bers’ and of retailers’ margins in Au- gust, 1917, was evidence that many of the margins were unduiy igh when compared to the pre-war margi nce the regulation was established most of the jobbers’ transactions ba deen carried on within the fixed mar- rin. Whenever violations have been letected the jobbers have been forced to refund the overcharges, Jobbers’ nd retailers’ margins do not repre- ail expenses incurred by them from the time coal is purchased until it 1s cent net profits alone, but also include | Compiled by William McMahon State court should direct him to make surrender,—Healy v. South Side Trust Company, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Pennsyivania, ‘The fact alone that a patented arti- cle has been commercially successful is an unsafe test of invention—Na- tional Sweeper Company v. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company, United ton Cireult Court of Appeals, New In @ proceeding to revoke a tiqnor tax certificate, a defendant cannot ar of right demand a jury trial.—Sisson ¥. Todd, Supreme Court, New York. Declarations of an agent are not competent to show agency.—Martin ¥. | Paddelford, N. Y. Sup., 684. Where testator left investments in trust, income to go to life tenant, in the absence of any other expresston io the will, the interest earned, tut not payable, on such investments at the date of his death, become part of tne principal of the trust, In re Fithian.— N. Y. Sur. N. Y. 750. Where Public Service Commission has found that rate schedules filed by water company are unjust and un reasonable, its onder that company should be paid utier such 3 for | water furnished during a certain pe not consistent and cannot be 1—Borough of Ben Avon vs Valley Water Co, Penna. su ‘ourt, due to war demands and restrictions In producing the great tonnage o* the year, the mines employed 335.6 ju The mumber of fatalities amone |the workers was 1,062 ee, | INSIST ON $2.50 WHEAT. DeterfMined to Carry Inmne foune Votes To-Day, WASHINGTON, July 6. — Senators from wheat growing States to day re newed their Aight for an tncrease of tha | | Government minimum wheat price te | 82.50, by blocking efforts to pass a re on continuing de appropriations until the reg | 8 can be passed | rris of Nebraska and | lahoma demanded that the {resolution be held up until the House | could vote again on the Senate's wheat rice amendinent to the Emergency | Agricultural Bill. They declared that the continuing resolution were passed ernment has constructed dressing Administration, As high as 90 per| sold a een ab ar . ns and provided bathing suita for cent. of products sold under| ‘The output of the coal, mines of firat the wheat price controversy won 000 men contract prices renorts, toe! Fennerivanis ih Uti is Secmiaton Beh ee Fey “A modern hotel of forty rooms ts the April operations, covering 12, ,001 tons, of which $7,535,770 tona| Plans were mate for @ vote tn club's, headquarters. A ‘Knights of tons actually mined in West Virginia,| were anthracite and 170,209,331 tous! the House to-day on the Senate Columbus secretary will be stationed Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Ulinois| bituminous. The production of coxé| amendment, Chairman Lever of th: there rmanently and women from and Kentucky, sow cee overare| reached a total of more than 26,000,000 House Agriculture £ jommittee Plunnes o Women's South Shore Club will, margin between claimed I. 0. B.| tons. i ark the | o-Tnaint “on ‘Hts favo charge ofa canteen, A muite’at | ming cost and actual realization from| ‘ne year was without parallel fusal fo accept the amendment. Shou the hotel has been set aside for Gen. § of about 54 cent inst a| the entire history of the coal mining | {he House again reject the proposal, Bell and his wife and they are ex- pected to spend week-ends there! throfigh the summer, cents to 15 cents. It was disclosed by inves: Cat Ont and Save These Magazine Pages and Make a Complete Kiddie Klnb Year Book pre-war margin of an average of 10| ndustry, not o on output account of the of coal and | unprecedented KIDDIE KLOP MAGAZINE: Edited by Cousin ELEANOR: tal nn appropriations until ‘appropriation bills | the departm: ‘the regular 1 gation| coke, but on account of the conditions are completed would be passed to-day. interesting Contribations From Our Own Kiddie Klab Members Volume 1. PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS —No. XXII. | ‘ HER BIT. Nellie sat curled up in an arm chair thinking Robert was fighting “over there, He was her only brother and had enlisted as soon as the war was | declared. Nellie was thinking of how he could do her bit. Suddenly she jumped up and ran let's have help U--le ‘Oh, Marjory,” she cried, club to see how we cou! Sam, The days following were busy ones for the two Little girls and their friends. Cards were printed which read: “Odd Jobs Done for Low Prices uch as minding babies, washing &c.) Inquire, Misses Ells- word, Dennis & Co. « dish DRAWN BY GLADYS GREENBERG, ‘These cards were distributed every- where in their neighborhood. The result was that all the little girls who belonged to the club had their War avings Stamp cards filled. In this way Nellie did her bit and ¢ | ¢ | THREE CHEERS! ''Three cheers for our brave boys ip nelped Uncle’ Sam, ait Frum CELIA ANTOPOLSKY. | phree cheers for our brave boys in blue, ONCE—AND NOW. | Three cheers for our army and navy, Once upon @ time I was a little girl| Three cheers for our nation so tru With pretty sky-blue eyes and little Three cheers for their brave, Doble golden curls, | mothers, : I wore a pale blue dress and round; Who are cheerfully striving each my neck a pearl day To make one soldier boy happy Who is out in the midst of the t nd my hands and polit never s 1 was n were fray !Three cheers for our President Wil- | But now my childs passed, in ve grown t a last, son, And I'm heeded ike tho rest—“over| ‘Three Sheers for the Tied, White and there, Blue, So Vii dr now all in white With a Red Cross pla in sigh And M'll sail off to the figt there. : I will not go to fi | But instead with my a soldier in the Infantry Corps j Will tend some mother mewhere in France,” fighting to And help make over! Koop “Old Glory” from being trod in there the dust. tten by ANG Kenmore [LICA SAMBRON, - At firat be wishell to eniiat, but mother felt badly about it, so he was jonly able to wait patient! until h | was drafted and you can imagine h joy when he was cailed’to defend the colors. He is mother's joy and was her chief support. He is loved by all | who know him, His name ts Julius », and h eis twenty-seven years 0? age. Let us all hope with God’s help r that he and the other brave boys will | return unharmed and healthy. * Your Sincere Cousin, b Str THE CROSS OF MERCY. SADIE GELB, aged thirtecn years, | No. 221 Henry Street Dear Cousin, Hloanor: Seeing that you would like to have the names of our brothers tha: are Drawn by Edwerd Henee, Ne 607 East 75th Street, THREE CHEERS FOR OUR BOYS Three cheers for our brave Gen, Pershing, Who {s lcading our boys safely through God help them, we pray night and mornin, God bring them once more to the side Of a mother of sweetheart or father, Whoever has yearningly cried: “Just let me know he's not dying, Let me know that he's happy and well. Oh, guide them and guard them and bring them At last home in safety to dwe!! By BERTHA SCHNEIDER (aged thirteen years), ‘we { “LETTERS FROM COUSINS | Dear Cousin Eleanor: My brother is, fighting, I am proud to let you know that my two brothers, Arnold, nine- teen years old, and Francis, eighteen urs old, inteers in the Naval itia and have made four trips the great Atlantic, They are now on their fifth trip and we hope they arrive safely. They are not on the same transport, but are in the same fleet. 1 also have nine cousins that havo volunteered. They are mother’s nephews Most are soldiers who have experience, All are aiming at tho same thing, and that is “to put the Katser out of business.” Hoping that we will tmve a long War Service Honor Kol!, I am One of your Kiddie Cousins, HELUN CLEVELAND, aged four- ley Avenue, Weat |ARE YOU HELPING SPEED THIS LETTER ON ITS way? | _Saturday, July 6, {KIDDIe KLUB TRIBUTES KIDDIE KLUB SONG. Hark, hark, what we heart Bands are playi dren singing, Kiddie Klut 9 town, Save your co ne by one, When six you have into the Kiddic Klub come. They had a big party And raised money for Uncle Sam, Selling Thrift Stamps all they can. So save your coupons and send them to Cousin Eleanor ‘Then a Kiddie Kiub member you'll be. I saved up mine one by one. | I'm a member and I'll tell you I'm mighty proud to be one, too, Written by FLORE? ODELL, aged ten, No. 22 t Kock- ville Centre, L. I. THE KIDDIE KLUB, One day as I went to bed T heard @ tap at the window, I opened it and there on the windowsill stood a fairy no bigger than your thumb. 1 kind ly invited her to come in, which #he did. “What Is it th me to tell you?” she inquired. “About a club," L answered. She drew herself near to my ear and be gan “v Via t you like best fo ty down in the lower world a I was flying to-day 1 chanced to meet a crowd of children, althouga Uey saw m *, gathered tn a bi and beautiful house on Park Row New York. I aw their loader which chanced to be kind Cousin Eleanor with her Kiub members, ready to go to the Opera House ti which they were to act. I followed them and soon found myself in large building. I took the form of a bee then and danced with them till the performance stopped. Then | heard Cousin Eleanor exclaim that was beautiful “I soon got tied of in the world so I flew \ home ir Fairyland and w » After ward I heard you cry for a friend se I came to you!” “Do you like my story?” asked the fairy when she had finished “Yes, it is very delightful and the morrow I shall try to join th wonderful club,” said ‘L Written by MARY aged twelve years, No, m ADELMAN, 190 Second Drawn by Edith Shiner, aged thir- teen years, No, 294 St. Paul’ " + Tompkinaville, & bade Sys