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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1907)
SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY NOW I am very sure tlio Busy fieoa really enjoy thoir de j)artmont. The skating was fine last week and the coast ing, too the best we liave had this winter hut the let ters have come in just the name, and Rich good letters, too. Hut several of the boys and girls have forgotten the rules and that makes the editor a great deal of trouble. Some wroto on both sides of the paper and some ukhI lead pencil instead of pen and ink, and one little girl forgot to give her address. Per haps if 1 tell you some of the reasons why we must insist upon these rules they will be easier to remember. Have you noticed how short your three or four pages of writing look in print t "Well, everything that is used in the paper has to he written out plainly so that the printers can read it and set the type from it. Just think how many, many shoots of paper that makes and how much time it must take to read them all over and correct them and set the type. The busy men who do thif work have no time to puzzle over poor-writing or writing that has become blurred rubbing among all those sheets because it was written with lead pencil, or that is hard to read because something has been writ ten on the other side of the paper and shows through. And, too, it takes more time and is confusing to turn all .these sheets. But when a Busy Bee forgets to ndd his name or address he is the one who suffers, for if his letter should happen to win a prize the editor would not know where or to whom to sond it. So you see there is a good reason for following even one of these rules. Several original stories have been contributed and they are all so good that the editor has decided to hold them a week, or possibly two weeks, until more come in that. they may be judged with others of the same class. This will be more fair to the con testants and I hope all will understand the delay. Can . we not have a great many original stories this week! Some Busy Bop has contributed a skating party story, but it is incomplete. As the page received has neither name nor ad dress no credit can be given for the story. It was very good, however, -what there was of it. "Won't the writer try again? So many good letters were sent in last week about trips that the boys and girls have taken that it was hard to decide which deserved the prizes. But only two can win each week so do not be discouraged and try again. Either write another story, about another trip or better still, try an original story. These will probably not be used until Ftbruary, but be thinking about them and perhaps they will be more interesting than the "little journey" stories have been. Several have asked if they may contribute stories by chapters. Not just yet, so please do not send any more that way. "A Visit to the Country," by Nellie Wood, was awarded first prize this time and "A Trip to the Canneries," by Sievers V. Susmanu, the second. Little Flossie's By Mud T WA8Floule'a birthday and ahs was full of excitement. Mamma was preparing things for a great party which would be given at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. About twenty little guesta were Invited to at tend, and all wuuld be sure to be them 00 time, fur FloHHle'H comrades knew that a party at her house meant more than the usual good cheer enjoy (d at the regular birthday party. While mamma was busy decorating the parlors and dining room F'losnie decided to -make her own little room more at tractive by adding some odd bits of furniture and bric-a-brac from the store room In the attic. She did not ray a word to her minima about 11, but de cided to surprise her when the little guests should be taken Into her room to lay off thoir hats, hoods and wraps. The room was already pretty enough to suit the tasl Of any little miss, for it was all In blue, white and gold, with the daintiest of cur tains and the softest of rugs. But on a special occasion like one's birthday Flossie felt that some extra touches were needed hers and there. She had seen In the store room a great gray fur rug which, mamma bad said was "shedding" and unfit to longer hold Its place In front of tiie library grate. It could not do any harm for on? after noon lying on the Moor of her room, Just In front of the little white Iron bed on which her small guests would put their wraps. Then there were a pair of huge Old candlesticks which lier papa had picked up at a curto shop, but which her mamma always laughed at and had relegated to the gttlo as unsightly things. But to Flossie they were "perfectly elegant" with their (lit bands and gay red flowers twining up their narrow stems. On her white man telpiece thiy would look most artistic, so thought the little Flossie. After running on some errands for her mamma, Flossie slipped from the dining room, where mamma was still busy with the table, and went up to the attic store room. It wss cold snd dusty and dark, for seldom did anyone save the servants go up there. Old carpets, broken pieces of '-nJture, battered boxes and trunks and itMH, WITH TEAKS 8TRBAJUNQ It wWr Birthday Party Walker cast-off picture frames and bric-a-brac lit tered the place. Flossie began to search about for the desired condlesticks which she remembered having seen on top of a packing box, but nowhere were they to be found now. The fur rug was there, but more than anything else Flossie wanted the candlesticks. After searching in every box and trunk and tear ing up things In general In her hunt for them, Flossie remembered that there were many things packed in a great closet which was built in the dark end of the store room. Thither went Flossie, climbing over boxes and heaps of debris to the peril ot her little neck, but reaching the closet In safety. A heavy door shut the contents ffom sight, but Flossie lifted the rusty hook which secured It from the outside snd pulled It open. Ah! There on a high shelf stood the longtd-for and much-admlrcd candlesticks, a goodly covering of dust hiding their gilt bands and red flowers. But some soap and water would make them us beautiful as new again. Flossie climbed on a box to reach her prizes, when the heavy door swung shut with a bang. Flossie was In total darkness, and was obliged to get down from the box carerully lest she step Into a basket of old-time glassware. When she reached the door she pushed against It In vain. The rusty hook which she had lifted and which she had left In a raised posi tion. It being too stiff with rust to be dropped backward had fallen Into the Iron staple which had held It secure. Flossie vainly threw the weight of her little body against the door; It did not shake It in the least. Then she began to call out as loudly as she could, but her weak and frightened voire died away faintly Inside the great, thlck-wulled closet that was most terrifying In Its darkness. Oh, what should she do? Away up there In that attic where no one would tyer dream of her being, and locked In the close, dark, cold closet whose thick doo. and walls would not allow her feeble voice to reach those on the first floor. Bhe knew her mother would call her, and receiving no response would go to her room to look for her. Not finding her little daughter the poor woman would become uneasy and DOWN USE rX.CS, 0TQOJD TWBST School Time Has Its Occupations and Holidays Their Joys ' .'".' . '.''t!. : f; '''I! : ' ih.:'VY;'r JP fi r; !k - ill ( :-V f ?T''? ! :, WAITING FOR RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS 1. Write plainly on one aide of too paper only ar.d uonioer the pages. 3. Use pea and ink, sot pencil 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. So not nso over SCO weds. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used. 8. Write your name, ageand ad dress at the top of the firs page. Tlist and second prises of hookc will be given for the boat two con tributlons to this page each wesi.. Address all ooxamnnloations to OHILSalTCI'l DEPABTM2NT, Omaha Bee. (First Pri:;e.) A Visit to the Country By Nellie Wood, Ago 12 Years. 2611 South Thirty-second Avenue, Omuha. This summer the very day school washout we started to a little town tailed Saline near Detroit In Michigan. Wo got there at 6 o'clock the next night. My little brother Raymond and I of course were very excited looking every thing over. Grandpa had a fine horse tolled Old Rock. My brother and I rod's him everywhere. Every evening we went down in the woods after the cows. Then we would gather black search the other living rooms for the miss ing Flossie. Then, In distress, her mamma would telephone for her papa to come home, telling him that their little girl was mixslng from the Itouse. Flossie sat on the box and wept, wept from fear and anxiety over her terrible Imprisonment. Would sha ever ever get out? Would the Invited guests arrive for the party and no Flossie to meet them? Would her tenth birthday pass In this ter rible dark place without food or water, when downstairs were all sorts of goodies awaiting the hour of th? banquet? "Oh. oh!" walled the little one. ' "Oh, oh!" Then came an idea. She must make some dreadful, ununual noise to attract attention since her voice failed of Its pur pose. She nould remove a shoe and with the heel beat as hard as she could on the door, crying out all the while, "Help, help, help!" Meanwhile In the dining room Flossie's mamma wus so busy with the banquet table that she did not miss the prsenre of her little daughter in the living rooms. After a whila, when all was in reidlneaj for the spread, she went to the library to call Flossie. She wanted her to see how iiTTir lAiiMirvcjiTfirrAi w I I ml J , , I I TOfra . fr y Oh, he is very, very bold; A soldier mobt brave to behold. ' He wears a sword sheathed at hi si . ; But the blade of steel hath ne'er been tried. Of the enemy lie feels no fear; To him the battle's roar is dear. He loves the din, the drum's beat, boat. And tramp, tramp, tramp of eonrades' ftcl. 'Tis safe for us to think and say Of him, our soldier brave and gay, That he will yet a general be And lead his men to victory. ANNIE JA2JES. 4iL& 'I I THE TAP OF THE V.Y.XX. AT SCHOOT berries nnl led raspberries. We had fun gathering eggs, too, and jumping off of the hay. The orchard was full of lovely apples and one day 1 ate ten. Dut the most fun was threshing. My brother and I watthed them all tha time they stayed at grandpa's. . . Wc had two little kittens. Mine wai black and white and 1 called him beauty. My brother's was a Maltese and he called her just Kitty. My cousin Arthur, my brother and I got sticks, tied a string on the end, put a pin for a hook and went fishing. We caUght three minnows, but we put them back again. On rainy days we weet out to the corn house and shelled torn with the toi-Uiheller, then wc would shell it with our hands. I got a blister, but I didn't care. We spent two months in the country and 1 never had a better time in my life. (Second Prize.) Trip to the Canneries By Pievers VV. Susmunn, As- I- Years. 138 North Thlrty-Flrst Avenue, Omaha. Last summer 1 took a trip in iowa and visited five canneries. Kour of these were corn canneries and the llfth one canned tomatoes. The susar corn is brought in by dainty the tuble looked. Not finding Flos sie there she supposed she hud gone to her own room to dress, for It wanted but half an hour before the guests would begin tj arrive. Knowing that she had not a min ute to lose the good mother hastened to her room to make her toilet, fe'-llng sure that If Flossie wanted her assistance In il: easing she would come to her. She had Just bejun to comb her hair when a queer noise fell upon her ears. It was faint a human voice mingled with strange pounding noise coming from some remote, coiner o? the house. Flossie's mamma put down her comb and brush and went into the hall to llHten. The sounds certainly Issued from the urper floor, pos sibly from the attic. But what could it mean? No one was there Bridget, the cook, was in the kitchen and Flosslo In her own room dressing. J And he was the only other person In te house.'"' While the good mother listened, trying to loeato tho source of the noises, they bo came more vociferous and distinct. The cry "Help, help, help!" came plainly from above. Wondering at so strange a hnppen ins. F'.osHle's mumma hurried to the attic store room. Once Inside she recognized her own little girlie's pleading voice, which -: J " 1 I K : s, muz--. farmers In big wagons. The wagon load with the driver is weighed and then sent on to the shucking shed to be emptied. The corn is shucked by country boys and girls for 2 Vi cents a bushel. The shucks are thrown on a broad belt that carries them to a high point on the building and from there dropped Into farmers' wagons to be fed to stock. The corn after being shucked is passed to women who cut out the bad parts. Then the ears are thrown on a belt that carries them to the second story, where they are put through a machine that cuts off the grains. Next the corn la put in a wire ma chine that moves around in such u way as to take all the silk out and drops the corn down a chute Into a room where It Is mixed with hot syrup. Then it is sent tnto the canning room, where the corn is canned. After the top is soldered on the cans are put in open 'steel baskets and put in the retort, where they a;e rtcame 1 for seventy minutes. Then the baskets are plunged Into a tank of cold water to cool and whiten the corn. After the labelling the corn is ready for shipping. All this 1b very interest ing to see. The Mask Bv Alice Temple, Aid 8'Yrars. Lexington, Neb. The other day papa brought a very ugly looking mask home. My sister Mary and I were in bed and mamma said Philip my little brother, could get into our bed, too. Papa called me to come out where he was. Philip got out of bed before me and gut there flrst and when I got there he was be ginning to cry. And what do you think! There was my big brother, rose above the din of pounding on the gieat door. Over tho boxes, trunks and piles of debris she huirled!y clambertl and reached tho clot-et, which she opened. Tlicre. with tenrs streaming down her face, a shoe In one hund, stood little Flossie, a most piti able looking object. "Oh, mamma, mumm:i!" she cried, pprnj Ing Into her mother's open arms, "I was afraid I'd never make you h-e-a-r. And I t-h-o-u-g-h-t may be I'd n-e-v-e-r get out of h-e-r-e!" "My sweet child." soothed mamma ten derly. "How came you in there; locked up, too?" she uked. Then, with !:cr shoe unbuttoned on hr foot. Flossie went down to her own room to dress for the party, explaining to her mamma as they descended the stairs how she happened to ho locked In the closet of Queens of England Mirjuerlt of France, second queen consort of KJw.irrt I, of F.nland, was rnrly orpharrd by the drjth of her royal father, Phillip le Hard!. K!nt of France. Bhe was a sweet-iompTed, high-minded damsel, and retained these fine traits of character throughout her life, .-h-1 was a tror.-ughly educated young prlncc-ns. be. tug as vrrtuous as she was refined and cultured. WI He Marriieilte wsi still- very young her elder lister, Prlnctas T'.'anclie. became t "e rclirnlng beauty i r.d favorite of Kurope. ' Edward I. of Fn.tlanrt. having Ivard her praises sung from afar, sotiirht her hand In marriage. At this time he was a grlcf-otrlokcn widower, still mourn ing the loss of l is beloved Queen Klra nora. Put he hoped to banish h's heavy eorrow In tho smiles of a second beauteous queen. Thus negotiation for ths hand of the beautiful Blanche were begun by the King of England, and the historians of those times declare tlmt the Princess Margueiite was substituted In the mar riage' t.eaty in the place of her more fa vor.'d sister Pianche "by a diplomatic ma neuver unequaled for craft since the days of l.ah and Karhcl." However tr.ix msy be, th ranie of Marguerite appears In the marriage t rt.it v where that of t.a::che was ap p Bed n be. At the time of her bethroihal to Edward the Prince Marguerite was Just enter l':g her twelfth year, but the final ar rangement b whi.'h she became Kd vs"'l's consort was nat consummated till many years Inter, as both F-dwurd and Hi Imther. r-i'e of l.arict'.su-r. bit terly rise:ite.l the iroslitutir of Ui. p'ain ct.ild, Mi:ri':e.l'f. for hei jjloi lour iy btautou tiittr, P'.anche, who wus in the full bloom of her young womanhood. T.iis pleie ot "diplomacy" was the work of I hill.i le Bel. brothr to Marguerite ejiii LLiuchs and KUi uL Fiance, who ,.-... I ' ON A Sl'NNT AFTERNOON Harold, all fixed up with a fur lap robe around him and that mask on and a hat on, too. Philip was very frightened and ever since he has been afraid of the mask. A Trip to Valparaiso, Neb. By Jennie Hansen, Age 10 Years, 4304 Patrick Avenue, Omaha. We left Omaha the 2d of August and It was raining very hard. Every thing went all right till we were just one mile from Elkhorn, when the train stopped. Then the brakeman passed through the car and we asked him why the train stopped, and he said the tracks were washed away. There were five other trains besides ours. After we had waited for some hours the train pulled out and we did not reach Val paraiso until 12:30, and I was very tired, but had had a nice time. A Trip to Lake Francis By Walter Johnson, Age 9 Yenrs. 716 South Nineteenth Street, Omuha. Two summers ago, when 1 was 7 years old, my two brothers and I and a party of friends went for an outlug to Elysian, Minn., on Lake Francis. We left Omaha about 7 o'clock iu the morning on the Great Western rail way and arrived there at 9 o'clock in the evening. Mr. Wilcox, who owned the place, met us at the depot. His little grand son was there and we had a fine time together. I learned to row a boat. We went boat riding. Ashing and bathing every day. My two brothers and I slept in a tent. .We all j had nick-names and I was called the "Mascot." One Saturday we hired u hayrack and rode to a nearby town called Waterville. Every evening we hud big the stor? room. "But," she added, with a happy Ikile la'.igh, "my room Is pietty enough as it ir. and never do I want to see thoso old candlesticks agnln. They got me Into prison, so they did and on my bl thday, too " But half an hour later, when all the happy little gu'sts were assembled Flos sie took grost pleasure In telling of her lato Imprisonment, even going Into de tails about her weeping and walling and pounding with her shoe on th door. "But it's an experience I do not want to re peat utiles I am quite sure mamma is within sound of my voice," she addud, Ir.urjhingly. And all the little friends laughed also, thinking, howevur. that Flossie had Buf feted a terrible orded and on her b'rth dsy. ton. which made It much worse, of coutte. hnd other and liiniier plans for the dis pcsal of his sU t. r B ant he. The misunderstanding bitw.n the two klncs secn.s to have been righted, for on MAUQl'ERITE OK rl'.Aia'E. the 8th of September, 1290, Marguerite of Fiance was married to Edward I. if England. To quote from a record of the' times: On Tuesday, the djy of t nr . Iui.v' nativity. In the twenty-set -n; :i year of the hint,', arrived dtm" M-t 'i et t. the diUKliter of K'l:,q Philip, ut Dover, and proie Ud tl " follow in? il i v ti CiTi'.er. lur ; and the ptearnt YlrjrK'iav aft r ramo Kdward. Klg "t K.n-'larid !!! the chu'ch of the Tiititly ;t I'anfi Irn v, mil esprtiBert the ..fore.isld Mergen-tt, Queen of England, of the age XX years. It Is a fact worth im-nti'ru.iK that Mar guerite ,f Frame Is the flritt q'uvn si -i-q ll'' I onuufsi not to njnv the iion'ir of a ci rnuut;on ; but the I'oywl ' xi hi-quer wi' ' in Hui li distress from ( otitLvj i.is varf' re tl.at the cor i f such a ' e lnoiiy wss tint to hi iMlalii l l,i h '.vevi r tnuih E-lwurd Inigri l.a.'e aished .:. To quote: Morsuerlte. queen-''nirl of Edw:.rd I. of England, is Hie .'list uueii siive the 'oniju--t who wus cot solemnly crowned and anoiuid. for Lttle Ones ,....- . . i , ; IN JANUARY. cam)) fires, and ono evening another party that was there brought over a big watermelon and we had a goo4 time eating it. A Trip to Cedar Rapids By Bertha A. Thies. Age 11 Years, Avoca, la. Last Biimraer my mamma, Bister and I were visiting an uncle near Lone Tree, la. While there we went up to Iowa City, and after having dinner we took the lnterurban to Cedur Rapids. We went at a very swift rate. It did not take us but about an hour to go, and when we arrived there we went up the street a short distance and had a dish of ice cream. As we were coming back our car stopped and I looked out to see what tho matter was, and there coming down the hill were two women with a tub between them and quite a few following. Then the men threw out some great pieces of ice and these people came after them, for they were out camping. At another place we set off an ice cream freezer. I do not know whether thera was any ice cream in.lt or, not. Then we went back to Iowa City and had a nice cool ride going home. It was getting rather late. A Trip to Chicago By Maurice Johnson, Age 1.1 Years, 1G2J Locust Street. Omaha. We 6taited about 7:30 in the morn ing and rode all day, arriving in Chi cago about 11 o'clock in the night. We were met by our relations at the depot and taken to cue of my aunt'a home. The people do not ride around tho city in street cars as much as in Omaha. They generally take the (3 vated roud; it goes 'much faster than the cars below, stopping only at sta tions v.'here the people get off and on. Tins goes nearly all' over the principal part of the city. Our aunt took us to Lincoln park, where we Law many varieties of animals and blrthi from all parts of the world. We also went through a museum In the park whiih had many stuffed ani mals and birds ajid other rare speci mens. We also went to the top of the Ma sonic temple, one of the highest build ings in the country, it being about twenty-three stories high. From theie we could see far out into the harbor, which was dotted all over with bhipa of all sizes. We could not see iuuth of the city on account of bo much s.uoke. We were to have gone bathing la Lake Michigan, but the water was not warm enough. We had quite a pleas ant visit and a nice return trip. Wishing success to the "Busy Dee Lcaguo" 1 will clone. A Western Visit By Mary Hslead. Aue 1.1 Yeai, Plillllpe, Neb. When I wus 1 1 years old my father, mother, three brothers and myself took a trip to the west. We went by tho Durllr.zton route to Hillings, Mont., ihfn on the Northern Taclflc to Seattle, Wash. From Seattle we took the steamboat State of Washington to Bell'.ngham. Then from there on the Rosa Lee to Dlaine. We visited my grandpa and grandma for two weeks. Wo came back by way of Seattle and viiilted the battleship Nebraska. We then went to Portland, then to San Francfsto, where we visited the Cliff House, (J.;ldtn Gate park and China town. We stayed ohe day there and drove out and aw the fruit ranches In the !t.ij,!8 Santa Claiv valley. Our next stop was Los Anr,el"s, from where v.e vU.'trd Ixing Iicach and various points of Interest. Ojr nex' stop ''as Sacramento. We stayed one day there. On our horicward tr'o r.-gs the forty iriles of bridge ucrojs the Great Salt lake. Crosding the Itocky mountains over the Denver & Rio Grande we went through the fatnoui Marshall pass, mopping one d.ty at Colorado Springs, visiting Manitou and the Gar den of the Gods. We made a short stop at Denver and then came borne.