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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1919)
| The Kiddies’ j f Korner f ^ MADRE PENN ^ INDIAN LORE The Twin Stars Two Bright Eyes went wandering out To chase the whippoorwill; Two Bright Eyes got lost and left Our tepee—oh, so still! X, Two Bright Eyes was lifted up To sparkle in the skies And look like stars—but we know well That that’s our lost Bright Eyes. She is looking for the camp; She would come back if she could; She is peeping thro’ the tree tops For the tepee in the wood. THE GITCH-E O-KOK-O-HOO After the Great Spirit had made the world and the creatures in it, he made Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo. This was like an owl, but bigger than anything else alive, and his voice was like a river plunging over a rocky ledge. He was so big that he thought he did it all himself and was puffed up. The blue jay is the mischief maker of the woods. He is very smart and impudent; so one day when Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo was making thunder in his throat, the blue jay said: “Pooh, Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo, you don’t call _ that a big noise! You should hear Niagara; then you would never twit ter again.” Now Niagara was the last thing the Manitou had made; it never ceased to utter the last words of the great spirit in creating it: “Forever! For ever! Foreverl" But Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo was net tled at hearing his song called a “twitter,” and he said: “Niagara, Niagara! I’m sick of hearing about Niagara. I will go and silence Niagara for always.” So he flew to Niagara and the blue jay snickered and fol lowed to see the fun. When they came to Niagara where it thundered down the Gitch-e O-kok o-hoo began bawling to drown the noise of it, but could not make him self heard. “Wa-wa-wa,” said t lie ^Gitch-e O kok-o-hoo, with great effort. f "Wa-wa-wa-wa,” said the river / steadily, easily and forever “Wa-wa-wa,” shrieked Gitch-e O kok-o-hoo, hut it was so utterly lost that he could not hear it himself, and he began to feel small; and he felt smaller and smaller until he was no bigger than a sparrow, and his voice instead of being like a cataract, be came like the dropping of water, just a little Tink-tank-tink, Tink-tank-tink. And this is why the Indians give to this smallest of the owls the name of “the water dropping bird.” When the top is wider than the root the tree falls down. From “Woodmyth and Fable,” Er nest Thompson Seton. Acknowledge ment to Century Co. SEWING FOR DOLLY STORY TELLING I have always enjoyed telling and reading stories to children and I have always found children the finest lis teners. I was reared in a children’s hoarding school; we used to sit on the floor in a circle and tell all the stories we knew and then there were those of us who were good at “mak ing them up.” So it was natural that when I had children of my own that I should find myself brimming over with all sorts of stories that I had read, heard and could “make up.” Story telling is as primitive as the family itself. Mothers have always told stories to their children. Christ, the great teacher taught by means of story telling. There is no lesson that cannot be taught, no truth thut cannot be brought home through the telling of stories. Stories entertain, stories discipline and stories teach. No stories entertain more than fairy tales and the myths. The good fairies, the wicked gnomes, the great giants and the generous Santa Claus only the faith and heart of the child can understand. The same story, often told, may be varied and given added interest by turning it into a lesson for the hcild. Take the story of Red Riding Hood for example, it may teach color: “She wore a red hood like your little red chair, like the shade on the lamp, etc. Soon the child will begin to make smiles which will show it knows one of the cardinal colors. This story may be turned into a wee lesson in physiology mil numbers—two hands for feeling, two feet for walking, two ears for hearing, anil one “great mouth to eat yoa up.” The mother may also tell how the teeth, the tongue and lips aid in eating and speaking. A bed time story will put the lit tle one to sleep without excitement or fretfulness. The Bedtime stories by Thornton W. Burgess, published each evening in the World-Herald will interest the mother as well as the child. Remember, mothers, you must love the fairies, the animals and the stories if you would possess the charm and the inspiration that makes story telling worth while. Perhaps baby is stubborn, grouchy or crying for her way ahout some thing. “Come, let’s read a story" or "Once upon a time” are charms that never fail to hold the attention, draw a smile through the tears and drive all the ugly feeling awav. As the child grows it comes to the mother with perplexing questions con ceming the mystery of birth. 1 be lieve it is the sacred duty of the moth or to answer these questions. Answer • lainly? No, for this great truth told in its bareness would be crude and re pulsive to the child, it must be e'othed with the beauties and wonders of nature. Told by means of stories of the unfolding of leaves and flow ers; of the growth of bulb and seed; -'f the hatching of the hints and of how the baby animals lie close to their mother’s heart and are nour ished by her heart’s blood. It must be a story' of nature, ever licautiful, ever wonderful or the lesson may be lost. The helpfulness, the beauty, the ! sympathy, the understanding in story telling is unlimited. A charm, a bond is created between mother and child that cannot be broken. The charm i is hereditary. I listen with interest' to the stories my older children weave to entertain the little one. When I think of how they wall tell stories to their children and these to chil dren’s children; of the lessons and truths that will thus be taught; there comes to my mind the last lines of Longfellow’s beautiful poem which tells of the immortality of influence: “Long years after in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke And the song from beginning to end I found again in the heart of a friend.” from the boys over there Chateau Thierry, Dec. 19, 1919. Mr. George Wells Parker, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir: We wish you and our many friends in Omaha to know that, although in a far away country, our hearts are still with you and the true and loyal friends we left in Omaha. Before this year goes to join the many buried years, we take this occasion to say that our baptism of fire has brought home to us the fact that wre are for tunate in having such true friends as those we have left behind us. We are sending you a helmet cap tured on the Battle Fields of France, and with it we send our best wishes and kindest regards. Hoping to join you soon, we are Respectfully yours, Corporals William McKinley Pierson, 2604 Patrick avenue; Harry Watson, 2638 Seward; William Henry John son, 2429 Lake; Frank B. James, 1105 South Thirteenth; Tolton Price, 4416 South Sixteenth; H. Louis Rob inson, 1015 South Eleventh. THE BEAR CAT’S BITE You stayed at home, I know, ’tis true, And you know you did your bit; And Omaha’s Black Yankee boys Sure gave the Huns a fit The cannon balls were falling And the machine guns thy did pop; But ’spite of all we know that you know That the Yankees didn’t stop. We went through Argonne forest In a way that broke the spell; But a bunch of boys like ours Would as lief had gone through hell. The curtain of fire you read about Was sure an aw'ful thing, And while we sped through Argonne The foe cut our right wing. We had orders for a skirmish And did with free good will, ' rd finished by taking a gun nest High up on a hill. The last drive was some fatal And the world will ne’er forget, ow Kaiser Bill jumped off his throne And ain’t through running yet. We are sending you a helmet Ami you’ll know us by our names, We’d have sent you a whole dog gone German, But he wouldn’t look the same. -Corporal William McKinley Pierson, Bear Cat Regiment, 805 Infantry. MOTON MADE MEMBER OF ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 14.—Upon in vitation of Will H. Hays (white) chairman of the republican national committee; Dr. Robert R Moton, prin cipal of Tuskegee Institute, has ac cepted membership on the Roosevelt ermanent memorial national commit ’ce. Dr. Moton also Pec a me chairman rf the Negro sub-committee of the me morial national committee Other members of the national com mittee include membe's of Col. Roose velt’s cabinet; ex-President Taft, Hon. t Chas. E. Hughes, Senate Lodge, Car dinal Gibbons, President Lowell of Harvaid university and other repre sentative Americans. The press dis patches state that „his committee is rot a partisan effoit, but rather a means thlough which the friends of Col. Roosevelt may in a large way evidence their applic ation of him and his service to the countiv. BARN OWL (Atuco pratincola) Length, about seventeen Inches, facial disk not circular as in our oth er owls; plumage above, pale yellow; beneath, varying from silky white to pale bright tawny. Range: Resident in Mexico, in the southern United States, and north to New York, Ohio, Nebraska, and Cali fornia. Habits and economic status; The barn owl, often called monkey-faced owl, is one of the most beneficial of the birds of prey, since it feeds almost exclusively on small mammals that Injure farm produce, nursery, and or chard stock. It hunts principally in the open and consequently secures such mammals as pocket gophers, field mice, common rats, house mice, harvest mice, kangaroo rats, and cot ton rats. It occasionally captures a few birds and insects. At least a half bushel of the remains of pocket go phers have been found in the nesting cavity of a pair of these birds. Re membering that a gopher has been known in a short time to girdle seven apricot trees worth $100 it is hard to overestimate the value of the service of a pair of bam owls. One thousand two hundred and forty-seven pellets of the barn owl collected from the Bmithsonian towers contained 3,100 skulls, of which 3,004, or 97 per cent, were mammals; 92, or 3 per cent, of birds; and 4 were of frogs. 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