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Almost Time to Say C” ppy New Year Again -— When you turn to Happyland today, It will be the last Sunday of the old year. Before you read an other Happyland it will be. time for Peter and Polly, Billy Squirrel, Uncle John and all of your other friends to wish you a Happy New Tear, with all Its days, weeks and months stretching out before you fair and smiling. They 'will be yours to make of them what you will. j ” It Is a wonderful thing to have a new year In which to carry our work for others Into st^Jl bigger and better things. If you have had sad times this year and things have seemed hard and hurt you. try your very best to lay them aside now that you may greet the new year with a smile. Think of the new days you will have, each with Its wonderful chance to make It count for oomethlng. If you take care of each day Just as It comes and make of It what should be, then you do not have to worry about the tomorrow. Many Christmas cards, some of them beautiful, and loving little letters found their way to Happy's desk the last week. They came from the north, south, east and west, from big and little Go-Hawks. Some had traveled very . j,_/ar and others only a short way. It would take p'' many hands, as well ns days, to answer each one, | so there is nothing to do hut to send through f Happyland a big, loving thank you to you all from P ‘ .roar- .-------— i' _ ' ' ■* SYNOPSIS. Editor Shirley wishes to make a trip with a frienil, l»nt hesitate* to leave hi* mother alone. .lark rarrnll and the t.o Ifawk* decide to look after Mrs. Shirley dtlrfng the editor's absence, and lie leave*, feeling his mother will not lie lonely. Jack spends a week at the Shirley home, then in torn Donald. Piggy and Tinker. After a boh ride. My*. Shirley brings little Inme Jimmie home tor a visit. Prudence and Patience also siicnd a week witli the Squaw Isily. Jimmie takes ttie Gn-Hawk* to a rehearsal at the theater where his l father works, and tha children stay on for tha matinee. Afterward they are nil hungry, and little Jimmie is so tired that 1 the “villain’* of the play takes him home. The Go-Hawks nr* all much thrilled over their day at the theater, and Patience longs to become an actress. They decide to give a benefit performance for Jim . ml*, and they go to sea the Squaw I,ndj oboo* it. j (NOW OO Off WITH THIS STORY.) (Continued Prom Last Sunday.) “\V« think he's the neediest on* we know, though Piggy says ha hasn't a rent. Benefits must be for people who are sick, and Jimmie's a crlpplq."' Prudence was much impressed wltV the suggestion she had made. “I'll write the play tonight.” Pa ; tlence’s tone of easy assurance would have been the despair of ambitious playwrights who labor long over their inductions. "Anybody ought to he W- imle to writ* a play In one night. Then you can all learn your parts ■ tomorrow night and we'll sell tickets. tVho'll print them?” “I will.” Jack felt as though R were time he came to the front. “Piggy and Don can sell them, and Tinker can rig up the stage." “We can't all be In the play, for somebody has to take In the tickets Jnd look after the curtain, and when % faint it will take two' to carry me off on a rug. Drag me off will be ;he best way.” Patience was fa’st planning detail*. “Why are you doing to faint?” Don ald could not imagine anyone doing •uch a thing for fun. _ “I suppose I will he the leading "'tdy and she most always faints.” i No one thought of questioning that Patience should be the leading lady If she wrote the play, but several of the lads secretly hoped if they had to be in it they might he the vil lain, for in their estimation his was the only part worth while. Airs. Shirley was much amused at the comments, and assured the children they could come every day to prac tice. They planned to present the play Saturday. True to her word, Patience com pleted her “play” in one evening. It was something of a combination o( Lthe two productions the children had witnessed the Saturday preceding. Any point that had appealed to her she had endeavored to embody in her own effort. Particularly did she make her own pqyt a dressy and a tragio one. She fainted twice, and in the last act was to take place her death. It was not that »he had ever eeen anyone die upon a atage, but it seemed to her that it would be a climax much to be, desired. “She planned to alnk back among her plllofcs, murmuring faintly, "’Tl» oyer, you have ruined my life, moth er, and now I die of a broken heart.” The mother, in the person of Pru ijlwce, was then to shriek, and throw *»reelf in aorrow upon her daugh I tf!T, not in any manner, however,! . -y which would "muss" her costume. For tableau effects In this touching home scene she suggested that the Squaw Lady, representing her grandmother, should he seated at a spinning wheel near the window. , "Grandmothers don't use spinning wheels any more," objected Donald at the first rehearsal. (Copyright, 1924.) (Continued Next Sunday.) IN FIELD I AND FOREST !k=ss== This la the time of year when there la ,but on* way to recognize our tr*e friends. Forester* end hunters and all who spend much time in the woods never have a hard time in telling one tree from another. It is not so easy In the crowded cities. The hark of the tree is one of tthe surest signs, and yet it is not al ways easy toN”Vnow a tree by the hark, for so many of them look alike, even though they ere not even re lated to each other. Every tree has a covering of bark, the thickest being on the trunk and the thinnest on the younger branches. First of all, let us look closely at the white birch tree growing cn so many of our lawns. Its bark is in thin layers and the outside layer looks like white satin. At first it is so shining and pretty that it Is a shame it peels off around the trunk. Underneath its branches you will find three-cor nered patches of black. Have you ever wondered what the narrow slits in the bark mean? If It were not for these breathing holes it would be hard for air to get Into the layer under the bark. These slits are filled with a spongy substance through which the air Is able to pass. The pretty satin-like bark Is shed at the lower part of the trunk, leav ing dark underlayers, checked Into blocks. Darker and rougher the trunk becomes as the tree grows older. However, any time you look at the branches you can always tell what kind of hark the baby tree wore. And now a Happy New Tear to you all from UNCLE JOHN. Happy New Tear! It's a few day* early to gay It, but next week It will be a little late. Today I am going to give you a receipt for: Fruit SaJad. Ona of the pineapple diced, two cups of whit* grape*, halved and seeded, on* cup of celery, washed and cut In small pleres, one-half cup of chopped walnut meats. Mix with mayonnala* dressing and aerv* on lettuce leaves. Fruit *alad la alwaya a* nlca to have for holiday parties or a holiday night supper and we have It nulte often at our house. That Is why I thought you would like te have this recipe. POI^t,T. THE GUIDE POST to Good Books for Children Choose one of these hook* to read each week. Perhaps you had bet ter cut th» list out each time and take it with you to your city library. It Is prepared for the Happyland boys and girls by Mis* Alice M. Jor dan, supervisor of children's work, Boston Public library. This week aha suggests: Burnett, F. If., ‘‘The Secret Oar den.” Cotes, R. J., "Story of Ronny Sahib.” . J,ll( l a. Ttose, "Peter and Polly In Sum mer.” Macdonald, Cem-go, “The light Princess,” Tuppnn, K, M , ‘in the Days of Alfred the Orcat. Weed, <’. M , "Stories of Insect life.” Coupon for HAPPY TRIBE Every boy and girl reader of this paper who wishes to Jnjti the Go-Hawks’ Happy Tribe, of which Janies Whitcomb Riley was the first Big Chief, can secure his official button by sending a Z • cent stamp with his name, age and ad dress with this coupon. Ad ‘ our letter to "Happy.’’ cate per. Over 125,000 members. MOTTO Make the World a Happier PLEDGE "I will honor and protect my country's Hag." <1 promise to help some one i I every ito.r- I wlii try to protect | W the birds, All dumb animals, trees I | and plants.’’ - ->* One of the Boston Go-Hawks Philip Jarvis, has sent to Happy land a drawing for a Dutch wlndmil that he ham just finished. He writes that tho real ones are made so thal they may be turned around for the sails to' face the wind which ever way it blows. A small one inay be made on the same plan. The roof part, A, is put on thr bouse part, B, by means of a swivel. form, over which cloth is stretched, and it turns independently of the topi No matter how hard the wind blows, when it catches the big fan blades it will swing the top in the right direction and the big wheel will be In motion. If you like you can put a real birdhouse on the bottom. Happy New Tear everybody from PETER. A Little Bird Told Me— | -—-' Marine Bright of Waldo, Ark., was 12 years old December 14 and would like to find a twin. Halne Zimmerman of New Hav en, Conn., is trying very .hard to get some more new members for the Happy Tribe. william Montgomery of New Haven, Conn , wants to join the Co Hawks, for his teacher has told him how many kinds things the Go Hawks are doing. _ /____ \ NEWS THE 1 FROM '■ NURSERY The Doll House Family are plan ning to keep "open house" on New Year's day. All the member* of the Nursery colony are looking forward to calling, for the Doll House Family have a beautiful home and It Is a great pleasure tcf go there. Such excitement in the Nursery yesterday. Cuddly Down, the small est Teddy Bear, was sitting In the Nursery window watching Bill make a snow man In the yard below. Dora, the maid, was cleaning and dusting In the Nursery and opened the win dow so she could shake her dust mop. How It ever happened, Dora says, she Just doesn't know, but some way he hit poor Cuddly Down and knocked him right o'ut of the win dow, and down, down he fell. He landed right on top of the Snow Man's head (X know the Snow Man was surprised), then tumbled off on the ground and Bill picked him up. Bill carried him up to the Nursery, so Cuddly Down didn't even get. cold. No, he wasn’t hurt, either. Wasn't that fortunate? Tom and New Tin Soldier and their Regiment have had a busy time lately. A very ferocious black kit ten (or at least Alice Cornelia, the Talking Doll, say* It Is ferocious) ha* wandet-ed Into the Nursery *ev 1 era] times and the regiment has been r-; Another Way to Be a Good Go-ffau'h On New Year’s day a good Go Hawk resolves to be kind, unsel fish, loving and honest. Not only i docs he keep this resolution on New Tear’s day, but wake* up each morning after with the thought that he will try to live up to his resolution made the first day of the year. So remember thi* way to lie a good Go-Hawk. v_: called out to protect the Entire Nur sery. Tho Black Kitten Is not allowed within Nursery villa limits and Tin Soldier Guards have been placed at different points. The last two days have seen no signs of Mr. Kitten and It Is to he hoped he has Iet;t this part of the country. From Agnes O’Malley of Clinton, Mass., comes this ‘.'basket" of. nuts that I am sure you will ;. enjoy "cracking" with me. When is a blow like a hat? Answer—When It Is felt. What ts the longest whip used to whip children. Answer—A rod. If a mason fell off the staging Into the mortar, how would he feel? Answer—Mortified, of course. Which Is the mors Impudent, cake or pie? ' Answer—Pie, because It has more crust. What do you expect at a hotel? Answ-er—Inn-attention. What is the finest ship In the world? Answer—Friendship. r - . . I How are lawers related? Answer—They are brothers In law. If you detected a false ghost on what grounds could you accuse him of murderous Intentions? Answer: On the grounds he was trying to frighten people (fry ten people). What Is that which has form with out substance and size without weight? Answer: A shadow. THE SINGING DELL - : i A Little Walk By HAPPY. I took a little walk today All up and down the nurs'ry floor. And then I went to grandma'* room And knocked politely on her door. "Come In,” she said. "I'm very glad You came today, for It must be Quite cold outside. I know that you Have brought a New Tear'e wish to me." I told my grandma that I wished I had a hundred grandmas who Bake fat cookies all the day, And then could tell me stories, too. I wish that ev'rv little child Might have a grandma Just like mine; A grandma for a New Year's gift. With a smiling face and eyes that shine. That storks might bring them If they knew How much we need to have them here. A baby and a grandma, too, Would make a fine and glad New Yea r. C& JINKS! THATSA k A • A (BUSTE.R OF A RESOLUTION I A ^ _ | 1 — i-X— . 4 l^e^er Ko&en *— « HIJ9 KiDDIC./* MAKE A GRAND NIP'S/ V'EARj’ REJ^OLUTION BUTDWOVER THAT THEWE UNDERTAKEN A BIT MORE THAN THf V CAN HANDLE _ __ _Bv ftARRrf on Capy OH'POPyr-ou/ that's a fine idea an resolution IS-TO DO ir YOU follow IT TOUll •4IU4-* HAVE NO HEART ACHES NOW RUN ALONG AN US TO ' TOUR NEW TEA«S MY! BUT IM VERY (rlAD L,_ YOU UL RASCAlY PRQAREPj ^~r><ATa US-MR CHUCA | IN-YOU MUST HELP15 w^vE «yolved to US EAT OUR NEW) ^^SeTrs C TEARS SPREAD V Ifn oo v~— \ iavyzy-but im clad to see you - you*e ' ' jes'in TIME FO* ouf» BIG FEED ah'J~ YOU MUS'JOIN U5 5-* ) j-TT ToT~7^C^ _• q 0r’ €—-i> J j ailus olao to/ __> j—> HURRAH - THIS IS grand fun v»e’l JZS'SEE WHAT SAM HIT SQUIRREI HAS STORED AWAY ,11 L n_i Letters From the Little < Folks of Happyland Prize. Jimmy's Host. It was the Week before Christmas. They had drawn names at school and Jimmy had drawn Billy's name. Jimmy was a poor boy with very little spending money. Billy was a rich boy who had everything he wanted except a boat of Jimmy's. The boat was a big handsome one that Jimmy had made. It was beau tiful. None of the other boys could boast of such good craftmansl.lp. When he took It to the pond near his place every one of the boys and girls wanted to ride In It and he was not stingy with It, you may be sure. Billy was crazy over It. Jimmy could not afford anything nice that he thought Billy would like. He knew Billy would love to have his boat but how he hated to part with It! He loved It as a brother. The last day of school before the Christmas holidays found the children In their seats looking toward the front where sat a beautiful Christ mas tree. At the foot of It were presents of all sizes. There was one big package which all the children were homing would belong to them al though they didn't know whai was In it. Jimmy was looking at this pack age with hungering eyes. Another big package near It was looked at almost as much but as It was not as big as the other why look at It as much. Soon came .Jack. Jack opened his package to find a beautiful knife, Just what he wanted. Many other names were called. Billy. The big package was handed to him. He opened It to find Jimmy's boat. How wonderful! Next was, Jimmy. The other big package was handed tu him. It was a bicycle from Billy. He felt more than repaid that he had given his boat to Billy. Then he thought. Why anyway If I ran make one boat like that, why can't I make another? And he did. I wish some of the Go Hawks would write. My age Is 12 years. My address, Box 268, Bayard, Neb. Your friend and Go Hawk, Florence Pincke. Want* Ictterm. Hear Happy: I am sending a 2 cent stamp for a button. I have only a few goats for pet* Winnie. Snowball. Nannie and Billy. I wish some of the Go-Hawks would write to me. I have two brothers: one ts 6 years old and the other In 2. The oldest is Phillip and the youngest Is Teddy. I am 8 years old and In the fourth grade at school. I like school very well and my teachcer'.* name I* Miss Eentz. Yours truly. Magdelene Schmidt, Route 1. Talmage, Neb. Wants l<* Join. Pear Happy: I would like to t>e aomf a member of the haypy tribe. X have a little puppy. It will be a year that I have had him this month. Well that is all I have to say. Happy. 1 sm 12 years old and am In the seventh etude at s< hool. This is all I have to say. Please send me the button as soon as you can. Tours sincerely,. Jack Shencn, 303 Kerr avenue, Hastings, Neb. I.ovrs Itinls. Pear Happy: J have a good teacher. 1 love birds .and promise to be good to them. I go to school in the court I try. 1 sm in the second grade. 1 have a large doll that Is 14 Inches tall. I am sending a stamp for nty Go Hawk button. My name la Alice Schulxkump and 1 live In West Point, Neb. ——— lakes School. Pear Happy: 1 am sending you a 2 cent atamp for a Go Hawk button. I sm 8 year* old and In the fourth grade at school. I like school very much and my teacher's name Is Mias Walker. I have one sister, she la 11 years old and la In the sixth grade Goodbv Happg. your friend, Wilma Jewell, Wlnnetoon, NVb. Will be Kind. Pear Happy: I am a boy. My age is 11 years old. My address is S>20 North Twenty eighth street. Omaha. Neb. I am In the Sixth grade at school. X w ill promise to- be kind to dumb animals always. I am enclos Ing a 2-cent stamp to get a Happy Go Hawk tribe pin. Tours truly, John Tsui Shreves. jr. Our Pel a. -1-W Tcsr Happy This is my first l»t ter. We have three vats and one dog Our cats' names are Pussy Purr Mew. another Tommy, another Puss, Our dog's name is Teddy, 1 have two sisters and two brothers. My sister just wrots to j-ou last Sunday 1 sm sending you a 2 cent stamp with th;s letter for a button. Tour new friend. Hilly Harvey, age 8. (Vaad. Neb. \ Sixth I,tailor. Pear Happy: I am enclosing a 2 cent stamp for a Go Hawk button. 1 have olte slater. 1 am 11 years old and in the sixth grade at school. I have one kitten. 1 promise to be kind to all dumb animals]. 1 will close now From yours truly. Muriel Jewell, Wlnnetoon Neb. Dear Happy: Enclosed find n 2 cent stamp and a coupon with Which I expect to get a Gollawk button. I am 10 years old and am In the sixth grade. My teacher# ram# is Miss Kavton, whom I like very much. I have a black cat whose name if Smut. She is a very playful cat ar.4 loves to be carried on my ehoulder. She had three little kittens, one wa« black and the other two were gray but they died. My brother wa» so sorry that he wrapped them all i» black, put each in a separate box and * buried them. He had a regular fu neral at home. I must close because my letter ia getting long. Tour new member, Itubymax Matzke, 311 South Eight* street, Norfolk, Neb. A New Go-Hawk. Dear Happy: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Tear. I thought I would write to you. f read a piece in the paper and this is It. See the little sunbeam Darting through the room. Lighting up the darkness Scattering the gloom. Let me be a sunbeam Everywhere I go Making glad and happy Everyone I know. I am a little girl. My age is 9 years. Now I will close my letter. Goodby. Happy, Maurtne Hill, Elm wood, Neb. A First Grader. Dear Go-Hawks: My name 1* Franci# Eidlne Elder. I am a little sick girl. X am 6 years old. I have a dog and * cat. My dog's name Is Ted and my cat's name ia Flossie. I have three pet ducks. My father takes me to school every morning. I am in the first grade at school. I am aendin you a 2-cent stamp and the coupon and will you please send me the Go Hawk badge. Thanking you for the badge. I am our friend Frar.cla El dine Elder, Riverton. Neb. Second letter. Dear Happy: I am sending my sec ond letter to you. X received my badge and am sending you a poem Once there was » little boy and he had a little run. And his mother said, "here la tom" fun." Then he said, "I will have a little fun. X w :l try to shoot the suni” I wish some of the members of the Go Hawk tribe would write to me.— Elmer Pribnow. Scribner, Neb. A Seventh Grader. Dear Happy: I was reading ef tb " Go-Hawk club and I thought that I would like to join. So j found your cupon and 1 out It out and though" I would send it. T ani 13 years of ag and I am in the seventh grad# at school. If I find any more coupons I will give my friends each one I read Happyland every Sunday and I think it is wonderful. Here :s a I-eent stamp for my button. I hate a vers# t send to you. I .ikes tlappvland. Dear Happy: I wish to join the Go Hawk tribe, so am enclosing a j ren? s'amp for my pin. I read the Happyland every Sunday and I Ilk - it ' ■■ niv If. I am IS yearn o1 : and In the sixth grade at s hool. M> teacher's name is Miss I/tvejoy. Hop ing to receive my pin soon. I will close. From your friend, Blanch Smith. IIS E. Washington Street. Norton, Kan^ \ New Gw-Hawk. Dear Happy: I would lik# to Join the Go-Hawks. 1 *tn * year# old an> in the fourth grade at school. I #m sending a Jcent stamp for a pin. I hate a pet dog named Queen and s sister named Agnes She is 10 months old. Yours truly. KUeen Corcoran, ill» Camden Avenue. Omaha, Neh. Ill Vie Bird. I.lttle bird sitting, in a tre*. Why are you shaking your head at me* Why don't you turn It the other way And shake It at the tree? Goodby, Happy, I will writ# yew some letters sometimes little Dorothy had been particular It cr ss. Nothing s m#d to pies*, her and It was hard to find out Just why the oh.Id was crying and »■ fretful. Eat* in the afternoon ah» found her aunt out in the sard, and because she was not allowed to plat .n the anow, she Wgan crtlng again. Her aunt said: "Well, Dot t i#, what ate you crying about now*'' The child re pile,! through her tears “I think l atn cr j ing about the same thing Its crying about th - morning '' Harrs who is -n'v <5 » ars old h'* been much Interest#,! |r\ tb# la about the high ivst of Uv-ng. last week he «sld to hts mother; Mother isn’t It a good thing thM thev don't chars# In th# #l#valcr* when •'anything els# ia #o high*' l