Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1925)
Stars Are Extra Bright in Winter Time I low niHiiy of you have ever happened to notice on any of these clear winter nights seven very bright stars? They are known as Pleiades and appear only in the winter time If you are nut out then, go to your window, push your curtain high and see If you can find them, for there is a special story about these particular slars that will make you enloy finding them yourselves somewhere in the big sky that seems to hang so low at night. Pong, long ago there lived an old lady who had seven hoys They were full of fun and frolic and all day wauled to play. They really did not want to slop playing even to eat Perhaps because their mother was old was the reason that It was always hard for her to understand these lively hoys she wanted them to learn how to work and they never, never wanted to work, for they thought life was Just made for them to play. So their mother scolded them hard almost every day one day these lazy boys came in so late from their play that their mother sent them to bed without their supper. Of course, they were hungry, oh. so hungry, just as children are who play but of doors all the day long. So the next morning they rose very early and ran downstairs, thinking surely their mother would give them breakfast She was still very angry wilh them and so would not give them anything to eat. These seven chil dren were then very, very hungry and sad, too for they feared that per haps never again might they have anything to eat ^ Now the mother did not know it, but her sons had been learning magic. If she had known It most likely she would have scolded harder than ever. That morning when she would not give them anything to eat they ran out of doors They began running round and round the house, singing their magic songs. After a while the mother heard them singing, so she stepped to Hip door to see what they were doing. AVhat do you think she saw? Their feet were,slowly rising from the ground, hut they stfll kept on dancing anil the glad young voices were still singing It seemed to the mother they were laughing at her as they sang. Running out of door, tar she was very much frightened, she tried to catch their feet and pull them back to earth. , Up, up they went higher and higher while the mother called to them to return, hut her cries did not good. Finally they were lost to sight in the great skies above, where they were changed into Seven Slars. They were named 't he Pleiades. Because those slars were boys who did not like to W'ork they are only to he seen In the winter time In ihp spring and summer when planting and reaping have to be done, IliPii those lazy Seven Star brothers are gone. A'ou m y search the skies, but you cannot find one. A’nu must decide fo yourselves what happens. It all goes to pros' lhal no one should play all the day long w her there seems to lie so much to do. .Isn't this true THE 5QH71W Uliy ~ [g| (), mill.** a trip «%•!.. a Innul lint lir^itatn* to !♦****«• Iiih ■notlnr -ilono. Jack Carroll anil tin* <■*» llawkft decide to look after >lr*. Shirley «1 orinit the editor's u line in • anil lie ilruartN frelinc nl« mother will not he lonely. Jack anemia » week at the Shirley home, then. In torn. Donald. I'Irrv anil Tinker. After a tinb-ri«le Mra. tet»lrley lirinffa little lame .limmie liotnr for a visit. I'rmlrnee end Pulionh- aim spend a tvrrk with the a«iiiw\v I .ml*. Jim in i«* take* the tio-liawkn 1-«r a rehearsal n 1 Dir I heater, where hia father works, anil the i-liililrin atay on to I he matinee. Tile tio-Hawka are nim-h t ill illril over the day at tile theater anil I’eehlr to il>r a benefit play for •limmie. I'atiein r n rites tti•* play anil is tile leail iiir lad* ami an evening performance is given nt the Squaw l-mlt'it. A good* VI aired audience greet* the actors as the eveiling scene* H(4> ,|iirn. (Continued from I/ist Sunday.) This necessitated the immediate dropping of the curtain, and the vil lain and the hern rushed to the res cue of their love, while the house mng with the wild cheers of the au dience. Everyone thought it was all a part of thQ play and wore delighted with so thrilling a, close. •limmie. the theater-wise, felt there Should he a curtain call, and so kept on patiently clapping hla hands, meanwhile sending piggy to tell the entire company to line up on the at age when Tinker raised the curtain. Some of the audience had started downstairs for home when the bell rang and the curtain rose. Patience stood a little to one side, bowing to the audience and then to the other members of the company, who were alf laughing heartily. Once again she sank languidly to the floor, much of the consternation of the lit tle chap on the front, seat. “Golly! the herryine’s got ’enf again—the villian had oughter catch ’er and not let 'er fall.” lie had seen a melodrama once and had his own Ideas of villains. Doth from the standpoint of the audience and the members of the company the play was a. success "When the front door had closed af ter the last one of the noisy children, all of whom had been loath to leave, the Go-Hawks spent a few minutes congratulating each other. Patience w as particularly self complacent: “I d love to be an actress forever, and Pm going to faint once in a while to keep In practice.” * “f should think you would faint whenever Aunt Sallie scolds you. but don’t faint when we are playing.” JVmald had no desire to continue the features of the play off the stage. “If you do. then I’ll have to Invent something else to catch you.’’ With these words of Tinker the children •e pa rated for the night. CIIW’TKK Xlir. Piggy Hunts Disgrace. Piggy Hunt whs In disgrace, and the difficulty, now of three days' /--- \ Coupon for HAPPY TRIBE Kvery boy and girl reader of llila paper who wishes to join the tfo-Hawhs' Happy Tribe, of which •lames Whitcomb Klley was Hie first dig t hief, ean secure his official button by sending a 1 - rent stamp with his name, age and ad dress with this e o u p o n. Ad dress your letter to "Happy," rare this paper. Over IJ5,IMM» members, MOTTO "To Mu he the World a Happier riiM-i*." • PLEDGE "I will honor and protect my country 'a lag." ‘‘I promise to help some one every day. I will try to protect I lie birds, all dumb animals, trees ami plants." V___ .standing-, had begun to ■sailme se lions aspects. That certain of Piggy's schoolmates should doubt his honesty, when they had never known him well, did not trouble hint so much as the fact that he fancied some of the Go Hawks looked at him a little doubt fully. Kven about the most simple matter his teacher’s voice took on a touch of severity. Piggy's mother, when the affair was reported to her by hi* sister, Ruth, pleaded with him to confess to his wrongdoing and to tell the trultb.j Through it all Piggy grew morn *tub iMirn and silent, hut he believed there Was one person who would stick by I him, and that was the Squaw I^ady. ' lie longed to go and talk with her, hut. had been so embarrassed over ! the whole offair that lie had shunned ' even her society. Through a missing cent whs | Piggy’s downfall, the cent he had not taken, the cent which his schoolmates land teacher were all inclined to be ! lieve he had. They reasoned that, since Piggy was the last one to have (barge of the lx>x of pennies, which I v hen counted was found to be one short, who could have taken it. save he? (Cepyrifrhf. 1$26.) (Continued Next Sunday.) Edith Keblitig of Fitchburg. Mass., lilxes to read “News From the i Nursery” and many other tilings in | the I la Phyla lid page each week. IN FIELD AND FOREST i__r= -- ----i: .rr-iTT^: One of our young (lo-llapka who live* in Ohio write* to 1-fappyland ihot *iie <1I<1 not know how many think* one rnnid leu rn . a hout tree* in liie winter, ll probably floe* teem odd tr^ study treea In the winter, for we are ail apt to think nf tree*, flow er* and birds much more often in the Hummer. "When tree* have put on their leafy dreeee* in summer we rannnt aee the framework at all and vet one ran learn ninth tyjrnut a tree by studying it* shape. I like beat nf all In the winter to study a tree that stand* a IHIIe way apart from others, for then It I* usually growing nat urally. in some parts nf the woods near my little hull .e I lie tree* are ho rln.se together that tlrev never tan have a rhanre to grow a* they should, for l hey eannut set the iniii and the air 11n.t they need. I.ook and you will find that every branch and Iwlg always reaches to ward tire outer am face of Ihe pyra mid, where all during lire wittier Ihe Ireea baby litnl* liitve been sleeping. They will not often their eye* until they are sure that spring la here. Then Ihe |eafy shot* will cover the lop* of Ihe tree* with rap* of preen, Kvery hrarirh anti twig thl* aunt trier w ill he a ill Me longer than laat year and there will be a new layer lit wood tinder Ihe biam hc*. It links and trait*. Next summer you may hear aotne one aa.V, *’How fast that tree grow*:'' If you look you will find It ha* had plenty of sunshine. Trees, flowers, a* well as children, need sunshine. l'NCl.K JOHN. Kdward T-. Maguire of Sr v Re 1 ford, Maaa., goes to Ihe vncuibinn’ ami I* leertiln* Imw to hecuine a carpenter. The Trees. When walking oil Ihe nwd one •ley, I aaw a tree all red and gray, lla leave* were aalllug tlirovigh Ihe air |JUe little traveler* everywhere. MARTHA IIAVK.M'OHT, * year* old, Nharou, Maaa. i[Fetch's Workshop! It surely keeps one busy making toys for tlie children who live in our neighborhood. Sometimes they break their toys and then they always brtr.g them to mend. Mors often they come begging me to make a new toy. That is the reason T just finished an ex press wagon for Jimmie, the Utile boy who lives just around the corner. T'se the half of a box for the body of the wagon and spools for its wheels. Place two wheels on a wooden skewer, the ends being di awn through a strip on the top of the cardboard bent above it. Now glue the top surface of the cardboard to the bottom of the cart. With a pair of wheels «n tlie front and the back this makes a very good express wagon. 1'se any color crayon or water color that you may fancy to paint the wheels. PETKR. fPOLLY^TTT^ni COOK.^-r*-1 BOOK. |_)j We always like popcorn on winter night at our house and today I am giving you a. recipe that you mav like to try when you’re having some of your friends In for the evening. Tracker Jack. Th?ee tablespoons sorghum molasses, one tablespoon butter, one half cun sugar, one-third cup water, one fourth teaspoon salt, two tablespoons vinegar. Boil until It threads and add soda after taking from stove. Pour over a gallon of popcorn. Sometimes Friday or Saturday evenings when we go skating we bring tiie crowd back to our house| and lv **» nop”M ••mcI' an oyster' stew. Isn’t the winter heaps and ht'.ps of fu n? Pul.I.i. I HUM-V*MATS JIMMINY! ITS AWFUl\ ™ TROUBLE- COLD POPSY-BUT THERE'! SONNY N0 SN0V< rOR MY NEW /SLED-BOO-MO-0 tr-* -‘ ... . _ \ V I___1__. f-j-; NON-Wtll JLS DASH IT ON SIDE HUE AN'WITM THIS coin weather Shell f reete in GREAT SHAPE TO NIGHT SOS TO MORROW T8UU HAVE A BUSTER OF A ■ "wtlL-FOlKS- ) TOO BAD AN’NOW1!!?0 (THERt ,> A H£AVt BEAUX HOST feoU°*MON BE GOING l l THE SINGING DELlT I NEWS FROM Uet me introduce to you a new ar rival in the Nursery, Uulu of Hono lulu Uulu made a long trip from her native Island to the United Slates In charge of a lovely lady who likes dolls very, very much, even If she Is grown up. For a wTille T,ulu stayed in the lovely lady's home In the mid dle west, and then one day she was given to Janet's aunt. Janet's sunt thought right away: “Oh, how Unlit will enjoy the Nursery and meeting all the nice Nursery people." So she rolled Unlit In a white tissue paper, put her In a hat box and, ofter a trip of two days and two nights, Uulu leached .lanet's home. Janet and Bill are much delighted with her. for Uulu Is very different from the other dolls In the Nursery. She Is brown skin ned. wears a short skirt of fringed grass, a string of beads around her neck, and twined acrosa her shoulder and around her curly black head is a lei, as they call it In Honolulu, or a wreath of bright orange. You see. when the big steamers arrive and leave for Honolulu, friends of the people on hoard give them strands of flowers as tokens of their friendship, and these sre called lels and are worn around Ihe neck and shoulders. So, of course, Uulu had lo have one when she left Honolulu. Then she has lovely black eyes that open "nd shut. Now, don't you think It very nice she has come to the Nursery to live. Tom end Ned Tin BottMler have Issued invllations for a skating party next Friday evening. Just where the f-- N Another Way to Be a Good Go-Hauk A good (io-llawk is careful never to rome into the house with snow or‘mud on his feet. He is thoughtful of mother and dors not want to soil her pretty clean floors or rug*. Ho remember litis way to hr a good Go-Hawk. _:---> ’{mmtmmaauifuaifiMai/aaffflfftsainamiX skating is tn take place Is a secret, anrl the guests are all wondering about it. Alice Cornelia the Talking Dol! has already ordered a handsome new skating costune for the offalr. I do wish Alice Cornelia wouldn't llilnk quite so much about her clothes' What has long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes? Answer.— Fire tongs. Thirty white horses on a red hill. Now they tramp, now they champ, now they are still. Answer.!—Your teeth. A riddle, s riddle as I suppose, A hundred eyes but never a nose. Answer.—A sieve. And Barbara Young of West Ha ven, Conn., adds a few more. Whw is a jailer like a musician? Answer.—Because he fingers the keys. What great man Is allowed to sii before the queen with his bat on? Answer.—Her chauffeur. Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger and Baby Bigger, which of this interesting family is the biggest? Answer—Baby Bigger, because he Is a little Bigger. Ruth Scath sent Billy Squirrel these nuts: What two animals always follow when you run? Answer—Your calves. As I was passing over T.ondun bridge I saw a boat with five people In it and still there wasn't a single one In it. Answer—1They were all married. My Birthday. By HAPPY. My birthday is a happy time. It is the day that I may wear The dress 1 like the best of all, And carefully I brush nty hair. Then mother kisses me and says, “You most give many smiles away. Or else your hritInlay will he lost, And just like any other flay. “A birthday is a time to give Kind words and smiles to ev’ry one"— So mother says—I'm sure she knows The way to make a birthday fun. V_/ TINY TAD .TALES - Four-year-old Russell was very much Interested in watching his mother put some fluffy white king on a cake. lie Inapee'ed It closely and the next laimed: tin. mother, hr re is one place you never lathered «l all. ’ Pe>ier Pofebii HI/3 FRIEND/3 THE ./’WELL VAN CHUCK-C LONGED FOR ACTION AND EXCPITEME NT DIO THEY GET IT ? - YOU BETCHA &Y TlARRiy^N ^APy TTiow-twat's too bad but ill { fix you right up in a jiffy- i 1-——Y JI S' start TM'Oi: PUMP --- OOlflAN /steady\ , > ITS BOUT ! I S FULL-POP : V“"—TT* . . . . %u4L J-WITH THESE PESKY BUCKETS L ) OF WATER ILL MAKE you one - } WHALE of a SLIDE-hear ME?] .3 'OMVKES ^____s 3 SOME BBIGMT >}■ ^ FELLER m : u\, i I 1 77T~ |__to_ J WMEH-WMS COOD NEWS lil GIT RIGHT i*to MY BEST BUBS ( -JI ■ WRY fine or! ; DOM MEM ON IT- ME-CMOCKS ; YOU TO CAIL- NR S HAVE A HARIT OF STAYING VAN CHUCK r-i—IN TOO MUCH - WHAT we ^A v’ffj} HEED IS MORE ACTION Lfe •ILL JES LET YOU OUT THIS SIDE DOOR AN YOU CAN TAKE th' short Cut across tm‘ . FIELDS Letters From Happylani Readers PI«**«(WHtf to Me. Dear Happy: This is my first let , ter to you. I would like to have a button. Am inclosing a 2-cent stamp for one. I am 8 years old. 1 have no pets. My papa work* at the Western South Dakota Commission company here. I have two sisters and one brother, Bertha. Kvelyn and Frank. There's an awful lot of snow on the ground. 1 was glad when Santa Claus caQje I go to school every day. My I teacher’s name is Miss Aiphin. I like her awful well. 1 wish some little friends would write to me. My ad dress is Mis© Winifred Myers, Rapid City, S. 1).. 423 New York street. Second letter. Dear Happy: This Is my second let ter to you. I have two brothers and on© sister. My brothers* name© are He toy and Christian and my lister's name is Dorothea. I lost my button sc f am enclosing another stamp for another button. I promise to be kind to all dumb animals and birds. I go to school snd I am in the sixth grade. I like school very much. I am 8 years of age. My teacher's name is Miss McNeill My birthday Is the 23d of December. I read your letters every Sunday.—Leonard Johannson, Bennington, Neb. A New Member. Dear Happy: I am sending you * 2-cent stamp to join your Happy Tr ibe and I wish a Go-Hawk button. I am 3 years old and in the fourth grade at school. My teacher's name is Frances Churchhill. I have a dog for my per and his name is Ring. I have one brother and his name is Jack and a sister named Mary. I will promise to be kind to all dumb animals. I will close now because my letter i« getting long. Yours truly, James Belcher, Route j, Fairmont, Neb. A Fourth Grader. Dear Happy: This is my* first let ter to you. I wish to join the Go Hawk dub. I am endowing a 2-cent stamp for which 1 hope to receive a Goll.wk button. 1 am S years old arid in the fourth grade in school. My teacher s name is Mrs. Gameron l like her because she 1s a good teacher. i promise to b© kind to all dumb animals and to protect the birds Your friend. Wayne Anderson. Brady, Neb. First letter. 1 )ear Happv: This is my first let te? to you. I promise to he kind to all animal* I am sending a 2-cent stamp and a « oupon. hoping to get s pin. We hav© for a pet one dog whose name is Rat. I am 9 years <»ld snd in the fourth A at school. Goodby. Happv Your new member.' Katherine Silaby, Box 437. Bayard, j Neb. A New Member. Hear Happv: 1 decided that T want- i ed to join the go-flaw ks club. 1 wish foi you to send me one of (h«»*e hut ions. If you please. Knclosed is a 2 cent stamp. I have one pet dog and >ome little pet colt* and one little pet pony. I promise to help someone every dav. 1 will try to protect the Mlife, all dumb animals, trees and plants. From Klvin Miller, Belvidere,! Neb. A New Member. Dear Happv: 1 have eiu K*#ed a 2 , cent stamp and hop© I will leceive] m v Go-Hawk button leal soon. 1 have done a good deed today. 1 amj starting in to do them. 1 am 7 years old Mv birthday is the fourth of March. I am In the second gl ide at school. Mv tea* her s name 1s Miss Verona flecker. Your new friend. • hnrles Pemberton Arnot, Scribner. Neb. My Pets. Dear Happy I am sending a 2 cent j stamp to join your club. I have lots i of pets. One of them it a pony, her name Is Lady, and another is a dog. his name is Ted I named him after our cousin, Ted. I hav© some ca naries, thflr nanvee are Dick and Bet ty. ! am to years old snd mv birth* dav f© October 17—I.enure Klder, B F. D. 1 Riverton. Neb. IJI<©« \itimaU. Dear Happv I so© all other chil dren like to be Go Hawk* so I am go ing to Jofn the club. T *m veiy fond of animals I have a dog snd 1 like him very much. So enclosed f.nd a .‘vent stamp for s pin. So 1 guess I will slop now fur my letter Is get ting long Yout* truly. l«arry Bovle, <511 West Ninth sheet, Sioux Oily, la. I .ike© School Dear Happv I would like to Join the Go Hawk* 1 have a white pet kitty. Her name If Snowball | like school very much. Our teacher's name is Miss Woodward I am ©end ing a 2 cent stamp for a button 1 will promise to be kind to all dumb animals. Well mv letter Is getting long. *o I will »lose Yours truly. Mar garet <'oilman. nu-k. 1 'ear Happy: I want to Join the - Go Hawk* club. I am sending you v J cent stamp \ have one pet Its name Is Dick I am 12 years old nnd mv sister is 9 Please send me one of your badge* l am kind to •II dumb animals Your* truly. Bloomer Peters. Walnut, la \ N• vv Go II v w I* Dear Happv Please ©end me a (Jo Hawk pin I hav© enchenl 2 cent* In stamps J w til try to !*• a g«M*l Go-Hawk Mv name is l.vte (•feller* Mv iddtess i« at ; West N nth slice! Grind Island. Neb Mv age I* 14 , > •o* N Had Iaits nf Fun. Dear Happy and all good Go Hawks: I will write to you one* more to let you know how much I en joyed the Thanksgiving and Christ mas. vacations. I spent Thanksgiving In Dcs Moines and visited the Capitol building, also the historical building and saw a great many interesting things. I also spent a very nl>« Christmas and received many gift*. I hope all the Go-Hawks had a mer ry Christmas and a happy New Year. I also wish you. dear Happy, a very happy New Year. Goodin, t remain Roger M. I.ucas, Missouri Valley, la. Receives l/cller. Dear Happy: I got my new Go Hawk Inittun. 1 was very glad to get it. I got a letter from on* of the llttls Go-Hawk girls. Her name was Alice. 1 was glad when Christmas rame. My mother was down from Omaha to see me. It I* muddy here in Imogen*. Ia. We had some snow but not lately. I don't think I will get a new sled this year. I have an airplane sled, f had tiettec close now. Your friend, Geraldine Hilllary, Imogene, Ia. A Third Grader. Dear Happy: 1 am a little girl * years old and In the third grade at school. I have a little brother a years old. He was 5 last Christmas. We had his first birthday party. W# both want to join the Go-Hawk chib ar.d I am enclosing two 7-cent stamps and the coupon and wLsh you would send us Jwij Go Hawk buttons, on# f°r Hobble and one for me. Yours truly, Charlotte Goldsmith. 7411 Stons street, Falls City. Neh. Will Keep pledge. Dear Happy: I am a girl * years old. I would like to Join vour chili. I will honor and protect my country s flag I promise to help someone ev ery day. I will try to protect ail animals, trees and plants. I have a little canary. His name Is Sunshine. I hope Mr. Wastebasket is traveling in Kates Park. My letter Is getting long so I most close. Yours truly, Kleanor Jeffrey, 117 South Thirty second avenue, Omaha, Neb. A Second Grader. Dear Huppv: I am a little hoy 7 \ear* old and in the second grade at *< hool. I have one dog: her name is Dixie and three gold fish for pets. My birthday is the second nf June. I promise trl he good to dumb ani mals. I am sending a 7 cent stamp for a Go Hawk pin. I would like very much to find • twin.—Malvia Shays, aged 7, Kenesaw, Neb. Wants to Join. Dear Happy: I should like very much to join the Go Hawks. I *m S years old and in the fourth grade at school, l'or pets I have a dog named Bunny. I had a cat but it died I would like to have some of the Go Hawk* write to me. I must close for this time. Goodby. —Robert L Heaton, Route i, Box 1, Corning, la. \ Fourth Grider. Dear Happy: This is the first letter I have tier written to you, but I have alwa>s read your section In The Omaha Sunday Bee. I am In the fourth grade at School and have a very nice teacher. I am s years old. I lust the coupon that was in the paper, but 1 am sending a 7-cent stamp for a button. MadeKu Jenkins. JL* South Jefferson Avenue, Denison, la. \1 ants I etters. Dear Happy: Unclosed you w 11 find two 7-cent stamps for which 1 want iw.i Go Hawk buttons. I hare read the letteis on your pace and bars been very much interested in them. 1 am In the sixth grade *t school. My teacher's name is Miss Auchmu ty. 1 like her very well. I wish somebody would write to m* Tour ionng friend, Ronenn Heffley, see | 1". Stanton, Neb. IJkes Teacher. lVar Happy: I want to join vmr <lub. 1 am sending a ? cent stan.p for which please send me a button. I go to school every day. I am in the fifth grade M\ teacher'* name Is lleolah Kwain. i like her very well. 1 have two kittens for i»e:s Hoping J will get m> button *tH*n, Wilma W ilhclml. Chapman. Neb. _ \ . Halits to Join. Hear Happy Kndoaed find two •* cent stamps, one for my sister and one for mvsclf. My stater s teacher i* Miss Waring. 1 would like to Join the t«o Hawks club M> father take* The Omaha IW t ha\e no pets \lv letter is getting long so 1 will .lose V« ur friend, Carol Williams, Iko fcJ, l Albion. Neb. THE GUIDE POST to Good Books for Children t'hooae on. of those books to reed ««rh week. Perhaps von had bet ter cut the list out each time end Uke It with you to >our . it> library. It Is prepared for the Happy land lw>\ s and girl* h\ Miw Alice M Jordan, *upertntendent of children* ,, Work llioton puhli, likrtuv Tlv* w -ok she sue test. A loot. 1. .kt • .lark mid JIM ” lit« w n k P The I .onceotnrat lk«ll " H-'klwIn J* ... ' tMil rt --ok Htwr* les." lllll. t\ T tilt tiling a Kh-e." latnc Andrew. H «'k of K-'n n e **