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THE GUIDITE CLUB Santa Claus Will Be Guest of the Guidite Club Good Wilt Xmas Party Pec. 27th With Christmas only 15 days off old Santa Claus has started from his Artie rendezous with a huge Wad of toys candies, fruits and clothing addressed to the Goodwill Christmas tree that is scheduled for the evening of December 27, when the Guidite club shall play hosts to thousands of children throughout the city of Omaha. Uncle Gil is putting forth every effort to arrange for a free show for alt Guidites and their friends t« be held at the Ritz theatre. Uncle Gil is urging all Guidites ta be kind and obedient to their parents in order that he will be able to make a good report to Santa Claus when he arrives on the morning of the 24th with all the nice things for good children, as he has already told Uncle Gil that he would not give any of the children whose parents mad a bad report for them, any of the toy, candies, or fruits, that he is bring, ing from his toyland warehouse in the far North. So dear Guidites lat's be nice, by observing the fol lowing ’’don'ts”—Don’t stay out late at night. Don't fail to do what ever mother or father tells us to do. Don't take that which does not belong to us. Don’t fight. Don’t mark up our school books. Don’t fail to have a good lesson for your teacher. Don’t mis® Sunday school. These are Santa Claus’ orders, o GAMES A Snowball Tarty This is for a Christmas social, and is based chiefly, as is the “Christmas Stocking Party,’’ on the description given below. A large cedar tree in the center •f the room is loaded with white packages of all sizes and shapes, which look like huge snowballs, ■right colored decorations, but no candles are added. On a table, close at hand, is a box filled with pieces •f cardboard about two inches square, each bearing a number. The packages on the tree are marked with corresponding num bers. Each person draws a card from the box and then looks for the package bearing the duplicate number. Usually the search will be Image* than might be supposed and many parcels are hung so h:gh that a step ladder standing near mu9t be called into service. No assist ance should be asked or given. When the mysterious snowballs aae unwrapped all sorts of pretty, quaint and funny articles appear, floestfl in the party all draw sev eral cards, therefore it is necessary to hawe inexpensive gifts. Sugges tive gifts are scarf pins and dolls, silver penholders and tin horns, ■ainty ornaments and shrill whis tles. books and cow bells. Probe me in Mathmetics Write the figures up to 9 on a blackboard omitting the figure 8. ■elect any figure desired, such as •; multiply it by 9. Take the an swer (27) and multiply the above Sgurs by ift, and your answer will »0 end in 8’a. This can be worked on any other number. Place on the board a row of five op six figures, such as 3 5 8 9 6 7. Add these figures and the answer Will be 38; subtract this number from the total amount, which lea ves 3 5 8 9 2 9. Have someone ooooss out any one of these num bers and read off the balance which be 3 5 9 2 9. Add these fig ures together, which will make a tytal of 28. Take the next multiple of 9 above 28, which would be 36, I For children who cannot afford to take music lessons from private teachers, the Federal Music Pro ject of the WPA is conducting classes in many sections of the country. Teachers are accomplish ed musicians selected from local re lief roll on the basis of th, ir ad aptability and experience. Above, left, a teacher is instruct ing two young pupils in elementary piano technique through the use of I dummy keyboards. At right is an j entire class learning the scales in this fashion. Below are pictured a • violin class and a group engaged in the study of advanced music the ory. i These and many other activities of the Federal Music Project are designed to provide “an opportun ty for Ir.e Negro's expression in nusic which will make for the de velopment of a richer American civilization,’’ according to Dr. Ni kolai Sokoloff national director of he project WPA photos Who Knows? 1. Who wrote the overture ‘Poet and Pheasant?” 2. Who wrote the song “The Rosary?” 3. Who wrote the “Humores que ?’’ 4. W'hat famous song to Goethes text was written by Schubert at the age of eighteen. i Answers I 1. Franz von Suppe. 2. Ethelbert Nevins 3. Anton Dvorak 4. The Erlking • —o Irish Change Names Following the example of other nations, the Irish Free State spent considerable energy In changing place names from English to Gaelic words. Irish names have been re stored or substituted for more re cent English changes. Kingstown Is now Dun Loaghaire (ptonounced Dnhn lera or Lwera), Queenstown Is Cobh (prom nnced Kov—English cove), nnd Kllkenney becomes Clll Chainnigh. and the difference between 36 and 28 would give you the number crossed off. which was 8. This can be worked with any multiple of 9. John Brown’s Body Have someone play “John Brown’s Body Lies A-Moulding in the Grave” then leave the last word out eath time you sing the verse through until all the words have been left out but the first word of the line. “John.’’ When any one sings a word that should be left out he should drop out of the game as a forfeit. APPLICATION-OTTDTTE CLUB Please enroll me in The OTTTDITB CLUB. I promise to abide by the rules as set forth in The Omaha Guide. My Name is ___Age__ My Address is___ •itv--State_________ •ohool Grade-Name of School_ Parents' Name •ate of Birth •tit this out and hrini? or mail to “Uncle Gil", Omaha Gnide OM ATT A NEBRASKA The Guidite World of Music • « By Miss Ethel Jones Deanna Durbin An inspiration to all young singers is the success of Deanna Durbin, the little fifteen year sing. ' or who is quickly rising to fame in Hollywood. Bnrn in Canada in December 1922, she came to Los Angeles with her parents when she was a year old. | Although she sang when a very small child, her voice did not at tract attention until she was ten years old. One day her sister heard her singing “Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes.” When she had finished she had her sing it again. For an hour Deanna sang while her sister Edith played. That night Edith spokte to her father of her sister’s remarkable voice. “I be lieve she has a great future as an opera singer.” she said. But there was no money for teachers .nd training. Two years later, she accompanied her sister, who was a school tea her, to a neighborhood school re cital. To please her she sang “Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes.” A cinema agent looking for talent for a new picture “The Life of Schumann Heink,” was in the atdience. He was astonished and immediately selected Deanna Dur bin to play the role of the great Schumann Heink, at a salary lar ger than the entire salary of the Durbin famly. This was the begin ning. On account of the death of Schumann Heink the contract was not renewed but through Mr. Sher. rill, Deanna was placed under Andie de Segurola, twelve years a baritone with the Metropolitan op era company. And today after months of coaching under de Se gurola and Henry Roster- director of the film, she is known as Holly wood’s "Modern Jenny Lind.” And just 16 years old this month, she < has been voted radios most popul ar new star. . o NEW MEMBERS Weldon Rom, 13. 2914 No. 30th St. Geraldine, 16, 2809 Ohio St. Pitfalls In English Which I)o You Say? I feel bad, or I feel badly. She looks bad, or She looks bad. ly. Right. I feel bad. She seems fain/t. He seems faint. The apple tas/tcs sweet. The rose smells sweet. She looks bad. The medicine tastes bad. He writes badly. She sews poorly. They sing sweetly, I spoke faintly. She touched it lightly. He works rapidly. Wrong I feel badly She looks badly. He works rapid. Device If you have trouble in deciding whether or not to use the ly form of the word, ask yourself if there isany real action expressed in the sentence. If there is aotion, you need ly; if thene is no action, you do not need ly. Reasoning In sentence 1. I feel bad. Did I lo any feeling? Did I use my fin. •ers in touching, feeling anything? s there any physical action? The nswer to these three questions is lo. Then do not need ly. In sentence 2. She feels faint. Is here any action? Is she feeling .nything? No. Omit ly. In sentence 3. He seems faint, s there any action? No. Omit. ly. In sentence 4. The rose smells weet. Did the rose do any smell ng? It isobvious that the rose, laving no nose, cannot smell. The peaker performed the act of smell ng. The rose did nothing. Omit ly. In sentence 5. The apple tastes weet. It is clear that the apple iid nothing. The apple cannot taste. It has no tongue. Omit ly. In sentence 6. She looks bad. She did nothing. It was the speak er who did the looking. Omit ly. In tentence 7. The medicine tastes bad. The medicine did no thing. The invalid did the tasting. Dm it ly. In the last sentences, the words writes, sews, sing, spoken; touched irid works, are all action words The I QUESTION BOX 1. How many Negro licensed pl ots are there in the U. S. ? 2. Who is Joe Louis’ dietitian? 3. What was the first Negro tank in this country? 4. What two Negroes were win. ners of the U. S. Congessional Medal of Honor during the Span, ish American War? 6. What black man won the title of being called by modern military critics “The Father of Strategy?” Answers 1. Twelve listed under the bur au of air commerce. 2. Frank Sutton. 3. 'The Freedman’s Saving and [Yust Co. 4. Robert Penn and Sgt. William Tompkins. 6. Hannibal, the Carthaginian •eneral who defeated the mightest rmy of Rome. i -o—i j He Proved it During the recitation of a col lege class in natural philosophy, the professor observed a tall lanky youth in a rear seat, his head was drooping, his body relaxed, his yes half closed, and his legs en cumbering on adjacent aisle. “Mr. Frazier.’’ said the profes sor. The freshman opened his eyes slowly, but did not change his pose “Mr. Frazier, what is work?” “Everything is work.” was the drawling rely. ’’Sir,” exclaimed the professor, “do you jmean to tell me that is a reasonable answer to my ques tion?’’ #i i | “Yes sir.” “Then 1 take it that you would like me and the class to believe that this desk is work ? ” ‘‘Yes, sir,” replied the youth wearily. “It is woodwork.’’ and requires the ly added to the words which describe how the ac tions were performed. How does he write? badly. How does she sew? poorly How do they sing? sweetly. How did I speak? faintly How did I touch it? lightly How does he work? rapidly. Jncle Gil Offers Prize For Best Scrapbook Uncle Gil will give a prize of one dollar to the Guidite member who turns in to him the most complete scrapbook carrying clippings of questions and answers as may be found on the Gudite page each week. Included in scrapbook aside from questions and answers there must also be found articles of an educational nature, as may be found on Guidite page for example, "Facts About Boulder Dam,” in order to be eligible for the prize. Uncle Gil hopes to be able to find a Guidite who has a complete scrapbook dating back to the be. ginning of the Guidite elect cover, ing questions and answers on Ne. gro history, music, articles under the caption of the Gu'dite World of Music, by Miss Ethel Jones, Arith. mctic questions and answers, poems etc. Now dear Guidites if you have failed to keep a scrapbook ge busy and start one for it may b< you that will receive a brand new crisp new dollar bill from Uncl< Gil for the most complete scrap book. This offer will close on th< 27th day of December. Famous Quotations Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. We cannot educate our grand mother, we say; but tihere are grandmothers whom we can edu cate. The children of today are the grandmothers of the future; we can educate them. The saddest thing is to be en dowed with liberty to do as we please, and then to please to do he wrong thing. A man who is true to himself has neither time nor inclination to be false to others. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for a loan oflt loses both itaelf and friend. Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven. And though no sci ence, fairly worth the seven. -o Jokes "If your honor please. I’d like to get off the jury.” said a juryman to the judge as the trial was about to begin. "You can’t got off now without good reason," said the judge. "I have a good reason.” "You must tell it, or serve said he judge. “But your honor, I don't think the other fellows would care to have ne serve." "Why not? Out with! We haven’t .11 day to fool!” “Well, I’ve got—got—I’ve got the—” stammered the embarassed uryman. 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