THE BEE
: OMAHA. SUNDAY.
MARCH 27,
11
My Bookshelf I- A Busy Bee Who Loves Rabbits
Stories by
Little Folks
(Prize.)
The Leaf From a Farm Boy's Diary
Lillian was visiting her grand
parent:? on the farm. One clay when
it was raining very hard she said to
her grandmother: May I open the
oJd garret door, grandmother, and
see what 1 can find?" "You may, ray
child, said Grandma., 15ut it is
very du ty, for we have not been up
there for years and years.
Lillian got the key and flew out
fa the garret. She opened a trunk
and found many old hoop skirts,
she out these on ana also tound a
sweet little bonnet. Then she
thought she would clean it up (the
garret) and play like it was in the
times of George Washington.
She was ducting off so'mc pictures
hanging on the wall when she spied
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a piece of soiled paper between the
caves. She pulled it out and it ran:
October 1, 1832. Got up at 6 bells
and had to thresh wheat and rake
hay. Hard work but, O boy! We
will have a swell time tonight at the
barn dance.
October 2, 1&32. Had a swell time
last night but such a cruel world.
1 had to clean up the barn such a
mcssl There was popcorn, gum,
candy and everything you could
think of to clean up.
October 3, 1832. I woke up feel
ing fine and had to go and gather
enough eggs to make six cakes, for
we were to have a family reunion
that day. Such a jolly time we had
with our aunts, uncles, cousins,
nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Put in the morning here the paper
Was torn. Oh, said Lillian, and I
waited to finish it so badly. Oh,
t know," she said to herself, "I'll go
ask grandpa for the rest of the
diary."
She went in the house and her
grandpa sail: "Well, if here isn't
grandmother when she was 10 years
old. Lillian could hardly keep her
' patience for she knew it was impo
lite for her to talk when someone
else was talking.
At last he stopped talking and
Lillian started to tell about her treas
ure. Her grandmother told her about
what was torn off while Lillian lis
tened eagerly. Then she kissed him
and ran out to take off the clothes.
Inez Hardy, aged 13, Columbus,
Neb.
I The Wilderness Mine, by Harold
Bindloss.
The tale of an ambitious young
English engineer, and an abandoned
silver mine in the Canadian wilder
ness. The characters are human peo
ple and the plot full of exciting pio
neer adventures. (Frederick A,
Stokes Co., Publishers.)
Why Cannot Animals
Talk?
The answer to this Question de
pends on what is really meant. We
Know that many animals can express
something of what they feel to each
other, and to us. The different cries
of a baby are a kind of talk; so arc
the differences in the sounds a dog
makes.
But as we usually mean the word
talk, animals cannot talk. Even
if they imitate our words, their talk
is meaningless to them. The an
swer to the question why this is so
is that, the brains of animals, even
the cleverest, and such as may have
lived all their lives in human com
pany, and so have been educated as
much as may be, are so vastly in
ferior to our brains that animals have
not mind enough to enable them pur
posely to use special sounds with
special meanings.
lhe throat, voice-box, tongue and
mouth of an animal are in their wav
just as good as ours. Indeed, a dog's
voice takes longer to tire than most
men s voices. It is the nature of the
brain of the dog that prevents him
from talking. To talk as human be
ings talk requires at least a little,
though perhaps not always very
much, of the special powers which
the human mind alone has. and
which so far as the wonderful brain
is concerned are connected with the
great size and marvelous structure of
one of its parts, with which no ani
mal has anything worthy to compare.
Book cjf Knowledge,,
The Pet Cat.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter to you.
I am going to tell you of my sis
ter's litle cat. It's name was Spot.
They named it that because it had a
brown and white stripe. It would
play hide and go seek with her, and
played like her scholar. After we
had it a year, it went down to the
depot and got poisoned. It came
back to our house that night. We
gave it some milk. It drank a little
bit of it and went off and laid down
and died. Ruth Vegg, aged 10, 616
Grant street, Holdredge, Neb.
For the Live Boys of Omaha
The Easter rabbit was an early vis
itor today at the home of Master
Patrick Anthony Pelzer. Little
Patrick was up at daybreak search
ing every ndok and corner of the
house for the eggs Bunny Rabbit
leaves for extra good little boys and
girls. Oh, so many eggs Bunny left 1
Enough for Patrick's little sister,
Mary Ann, and some of the eggs
were in a beautiful green basket.
Patrick was delighted when he found
that Bunny Rabbit had remembered
his little sister. Mary Ann is but 7
months old and little Patrick's great
est pleasure is giving her wonderful
rides on his rocking horse.
Patrick Anthony, who will be 3
years old Decoration day, is the only
son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Peteer.
What She Said.
"Grandma Grumpy
Was weak and- dumpy.
And she lived across the way.
She looked for hours
At the precious flowers
We were raising: for Easter day;
But 'Some little sillies
Can grow (treat lilies.'
Was all that we heard her say.
And by and by
When the Easter sky
Had coaxed them to open wide.
She lay in her bed
And all she said,
When we set them down by her side,
Was, 'Some little sillies
Are sweet as their lilies,'
And she kind of smiled and cried,'
Why is a cross, crying child like
the first letter of the alphabet? Be
cause it is in tears and out of humor,
and so is the letter A,
6 amp (Bre (Suvls
An All Day Hike
For Camp Honors.
entertainments during the spring vacation.
(Honorable Mention.)
A Poor Girl.
There once lived a poor girl. Her
mother was a widow, and of course,
the poor girl had to help her mother
with the work. One day the poor
girl's mother got sick. The little
girl did not know what to do. She
sat down in a chair and began to
cry. While she was crying a fairy
came to her and said: "Why are you
crying, poor girl?" The girl said,
"My mother is sick and I donSt know
what to do." "Do not cry," said
the fairy. After a while the fairy
left. The little girl fell asleep and
so did her mother. When they
awoke they found themselves in a
beautiful palace, and before them
thv saw thi k-itio and niiffn sittinff
on a throne. The mother was well
and the poor girl did not cry. The
N girl and the mother did not know
where they were, but after a while
the little girl said, "I know how it
comes that we live in the palace.
nr. i . t i
ncu yuu were mik a uiuu i kiiuw
what to do, so I sat down and began
to cry. Soon a fairy came to me
and said, 'Why do you cry,' I told
her that you were ill and I did not
know what to do. Then the fairy
left, and I fell asleep. When I
awoke I found myself in this palace."
"YAV11. T pness th fairv helnprl us."
said her mother. The girl said, "Oh,
wasn't that kind of her." And they
lived happily forever. Agnes Vejras
ka, aged 10, Milligan, Neb.
The Ikaha group held an all day
hike Friday. Starting from
Chandlers Crossing at 9 1 o'clock
they '"hooked" a ride twice, the sec
ond ending just south of Union
church. A roaring fire was built on
the hill where they cooked a lunch
of bacon and potatoes. At 12:30 the
group started south and east. They
entered Fort Crook, where many
birds and plants were identified for
honors. The group is keeping a
record of all birds seen during the
migratory season, for a nature
honor.
Group Meetings
The Lewa group gave a kensington
at the home of Miss Evelyn Gifford
Tuesday afternoon. Two honor
guests were present, the Misses
Thyra Anderson and Harriet Fair.
The Nawakiva group met at Miss
Lois Spencer's home Wednesday
afternoon. They decided to have a
hike, candy sale and several other
The Touda group is a new Camp
Fire composed of the following girls:
Misses Lore.Ua Gill, Isabelle Dohan,
Ellen Lynan, Zcta Tate. Allingham,
Agnes O'Conner, Clara Parks, Mary
Curtin and Louise McDonald. They
met Monday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. George MacDonald.
The Witawentin group met at the
home of Miss Bernice Ferer Tuesday.
They planned to entertain the moth
ers of the members at their next
meeting, when a ceremonial will be
held and a special program given.
This meeting will be held at the
home of the group's guardian, Mrs
Jack Bramson.
ine casiyoKi group ncm a cere
monial Thursday evening. Their
guardian, Miss Margaret Boggs, was
unable to be present. Miss May
Louise Guy conducted the council
fire. Miss Guy was assisted by Miss
Alice Leon, guardian's assistant.
The Wohato group and their
guardian, Miss Leva Swanson, hiked
along the river at East Omaha Sat
urday. They practiced "fire build
ing" on the river bank.
Dot Puzzle
What. does the welcome Easter bring?
Carols of Joy the children sing.
Praise to One who has died to save,
Hope that springs from an empty grave.
It tells of a prison with broken bars.
Of life and beauty beyond the stars.
And when the raya of our years are
told.
Out of the sepulchre, dark and cold
God'a lilies shall crown the Easter.
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What Makes Snowflakes
! White?
A snowflake is, as you are no
doubt aware, made of water affected
in such, a way by the temperature as
to change it into a crystal. Water,
of course, as you know, is perfectly
transparent. In other words,, sun
light or other light will pass
through water without being re
flected. A single snowflake also is
partially transparent. That is, the
light will go through it nartiallv. al
though some, of it will be reflected
back. When a drop of water is
turned into a snowflake crystal, a
great many reflecting surfaces are
produced, and the whiteness of the
snowflake is the result of practically
all of the sunlight which strikes it
being reflected back, just as a mirror
reflects practically all the light or
color that is thrown against it. If
you turn a green light on the snow
it will reflect the green light in the
same way. When the countless
snow crystals lie on the ground
close together the ahili tv tr rpflpct
he light is increased and' so a mass
of snow crystals on the
looks even whiter than one single
snowflake. Book of Wonders.
My School.
Dear Busy Bees: I will tell you
about my school. I am in the Fifth
gradeat school. Wre had a program
the 25th of February. I was in a
flag drill and a dialogue. In the
dialogue I was Mrs. Smith. I was
in three songs, too. We had our
program down in the gymnasium.
After our program was over our
teacher told our mothers to come in
our rooms. Then we each got some
canay ana an apple.
The Fifth grade and the Fourth
graces Mad their program together.
We have a nice lawn in front of our
school. We have a giant stride,
three swings and two slides on our
Play grounds. Yours truly. Mary
Hanak, age 11, Gregory, S. D.
The Value of Decision
Can you make up your mind? It
sounds easy, but a whopping big per
centage of folks can't manage it.
Once a business man told us he
would rather have a bov he InVorl
make up his mind wronc half it,-
nme than not to make it nr. at ait
You have been around with fellows
who never knew what they wanted
to do. You could never be sure of
them one way or the other. They
were always fiddling around while
you wanted, and by the time you
found out what they really intended
doing it was too late to do anything.
Now is the time for voti fellows tr
make up your minds to make up your
minds. If somebody asks you to do
something, start in todav to form the
hrbit of deciding immediately, and of
sticking to what you decide. It will
show on your salary check later on.
Conundrums.
What wild animals are found in
France? Lyons (lions).
When is a naughty girl like a per
turbed whale? When she is pouting
(is spouting).
The Clown.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter to you and I am sending you
d poem, wnicn t made up myself. I
am 11 years old and in the sixth
grade at Spalding academy, which is
the name of the school which I at
tend. I know a Jittle clown
That is cominir into town
To show you some of his tricks
And show you how to handle sticks.
Plans Developing
For Camp Sheldon
Summer Program
Plans are about complete for the
Omaha boys' period at Camp Sheld
on this summer. Last year 115
Omaha boys attended the camp at
Columbus, which is the finest
equipped and supervised camp in
this part ot the country. This year
there will be a special period of 10
days for Omaha boys only and 125
Omaha boys and 16 leaders will be
taken.
After the first 125 sign up for the
camp, a waiting list will be started.
Any boys dropping off the list will
be replaced from the waitinjr list.
Registrations will start April 15 and
each boy will make a deposit to hold
his place in camp.
the dates will be Tune 20 to 30.
immediately after school is out. Any
boy in Omaha 12 years of age or
older is eligible to attend Camp
Sheldon which is conducted by the
state Y. M. C. A. E. E. Micklc-
wright, boys' work secretary of the
Omaha Y. M. C. A., will be in
charge of the activities and program
of the camp for this period and
Omaha leaders will be in charge of
the boys. C. Carl Weigel will be
physical director for the camp, and
J. S. Arnold will be assistant pro
gram director.
lhe camp this year will be better
than last year. A better program
with more interesting things than
last year is planned. Plan to sign
up April 15 for the places won't last
long and there are no more when
the 125 are gone.
E. E. Micklewright, boys' work
secretary of the Omaha "Y," will be
director cf activities and program
at the camp and J. S.' Arnold will
assist in this work. Carl Weigel,
assistant physical director at the "Y"
and a most popular man with the
thousand "Y" boys, will be the camp
physical director. Sixteen Omaha
leaders will have charge of the boys,
eight boys being in a cottage in
charge of a leader.
Motion pictures taken last summer
during the Omaha camp were shown
the boys last week and many of
them have already signified their in
tention of attending . camp. Camp
Sheldon is the finest equipped and
supervised camp in this section of
the country and boys who get to go
are really fortunate.
Series of Socials
To Be Held for "1"
Boys During April
There will be a series of three so
cials for "Y" boys on Saturday
nights starting Saturday night April
16. These will be in the nature of
group socials with small numbers
of boys and a program which every
one can get into and enjoy himself,
according to E. E. Micklewright,
boys' work secretary, who is in
charge of them.
"The first night we will take all
boys with last names from "A" to
"H", inclusive, the second night boys
with names from "I" to "P," and the
last party will take bovs with names
from "Q" to "Z." It is expected
that about 150 boys will come to
each of these parties, says E. E.
Micklewright.
Moving pictures, games, contest.?
of various kinds, boxing, music and
refreshments will constitute the pro
gram for these parties. The idea of
the parties will be to get all the boys
acquainted with each other and to
make friendships.
Older high school boys will assist
as leaders at these parties and every
thing possible will be done to make
them the best parties of the' whole
season at the boys' division.
Movie Show at South
Side School Raises
HAT t K 1
money tor lviacnine
Last Monday night the South Lin
coln school entertained over 2,000
people at their moving picture enter
tainment at South High school Audi
torium. Jack Pickford in "Seven
teen" was the main attraction and
two reels of comedy and travelogue
completed the program which was
run for the school by the Boys' Di
vision of the Y. M. C. A.
Miss Jessie Robeson, principal of
the school, was in charge of the en
tertainment and great credit is due
to Miss Robeson's untiring efforts in
putting the entertainment across and
making it a success.
The money from the show was to
purchase a motion picture machine
for the school and enough money
was realized from the entertainment
to purchase a fine machine which
will be the property of this school.
This will be the second school in
the city to have a moving picture ma
chine as a part of its equipment and
the machine will be used to great
advantage in teaching the children in
many ot their studies.
Arnold Organizes
Bird Club for Boys
Special Program
F or Spring Vacation
A special program is being ar
ranged at the boys' division of the
"Y" for the spring vacation which
comes next week. Hikes of various
kinds and to different places are
being planned, events of various
kinds in the building are being ar
ranged, and a complete outline of
the activities of the wesk starting
April 4 will be printed in The Bee
next Sunday morning.
J. Shailer Arnold, assistant hoys'
work secretary at the "Y." will be
incharge of the special activities of
this week and he is working on a
program that will appeal to hun
dreds of the boys in the membership.
Clever Costumes at
"Y" St. Pats Party
There were 23 boys in the costume
contest at the St. Pats party held
at te boys' division of the "Y" last
Saturday night. Four hundred boys
took part in the party and enjoyed
every moment from the time it be
gan at 7 o'clock until it ended at 10
o'clock.
The party was in charge of E. E.
Micklewright, boys' work secretary
at the "Y" and he was assisted by
high school boys as leaders. A five
act vaudeville show for the boys was
the main feature of the program
with four comedy moving pictures.
Sandwiches of nabisco wafers with
green ice cream constituted the re
freshments. The prize for the classiest costume
went to Steve O'Donnell of 209
South Forty-eighth avenue and sec
end place for classy costume went
to Clifton Smith, 6140 Florence bou
levard. For the most green, the prize for
A boys' bird club was organized
at the boys' division last week by
J. Shailer Arnold, assistant boys
work secretary. Mr. Arnold has
taken special work in college on
birds and nature studv ami is an
expert along this line. He has been
out on many bird trips already this
spring and there are few people
better qualified for leader of this
club' than is Mr. Arnold.
The club will be confined to Y.
M. C. A. members only and only
15 boys will be taken on each birdfcaw
trip. If more boys show an inclin-
ation for this sort of work during
the spring months, another club will
be organized.
Hikes will be taken once a week
in the spring months to the deep
woods when the habits of the birds
may be studied. Last week on one
of his bird trips, Mr. Arnold iden
tified many birds on their way to
Alaska and other northern points to
make their summer home.
Boys who arc interested in birds
will do well to get in touch with
Mr. Arnold at once and sign up for
the bird club. Mr. Arnold will also
be in charge of the nature study
work at the Omaha camp at Camp
Sheldon this summer, from June 20
to 30.
first place went to Boyden Hilliker
of 3316 Myrtle avenue. He had on
20 different green garments. Sec
ond prize went to Edward Snell
with 17 garments. Charles Rice won
third place with 17, Robert Davis,
fourth place, with 12 pieces, and
Forest Epley, fifth place with 12
garments.
The party was a great success in
every way and every boy went home
feeling that the St. Patricks party
was most worth while.
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The Little Folks Are Robbed of Art
Easter Egg.
"Well, I've made arrangements for
our Easter egg," announced the gen
eral as he drew up a chair and sat
down beside the Lady of Fashion,
who was mending a pair of the
Dunce's Stockings.
"Did you get the egg from that
old hen we bought from last year?"
asked the Lady of Fashion.
"No," answered the General. "She
is too expensive and besides she is
such a grouch. I hate to have deal
ings with grouches. I made arrange
ments with that old yellow hen who
lives at the big house on the next
street. We will get the egg tomorrow
morning.
"What is the market price now for
eggs?" asked the Lady of Fashion.
"Well, they're rather cheap now,"
said the General. "We only have to
pay seven grains of corn, bnfe we
have to go after the egg. Tljc old hen
won't deliver it."
couldn't help me with at all. There
are signs of company for dinner at
the big house, and that always means
chicken for dinner and we always
wonder who will be the victim. 1 just
simply can't keep from worrying
rfbout it."
When the egg was ready for them
the little folks rolled it out of the
nest and paid the hen her seven
grains of corn.
Gogo and the Turk made a clever
rack out of several poles and some
string, into which they rolled the
egg.
Eight of the strongest Tcenic
Weenies -caught up the poles, and
the little people set off for home.
"If you see an old rooster on your
way home you'd better keep out of
his way," said the old hen. "He's
a lazy old wretch that's always
eatin' eggs, and my advice would
be to keep out of his way."
The Tcenie Weenies' hurried
across the yard and they had just
passed through a hole under a pick-
tiny wet spot on the ground where
the egg had been.
f:
!
"Hardly," answered the hea
haughtily. "It's quite unusual to
lay two eggs in a day, but I'm mad
enough to lay one," and the hen
glared at the rooster who came
mincing into the yard.
The hen kept her promise nd
appeared at the shoe house early the
next morning, where she laid the
Teem'e Weenies a beautiful egg, and
the little folks had a. wonderful
Easter dinner.
His cap is peaked tall and slim,
Red and blue around the rim.
Hear him holler hear him sen-am.
I like buttermilk and cream.
I never saw a suit like his;
It's all ruffles, puffs and frizz.
Hear him holler, "Hi, Ho!"
Dancing, skipping on his toe.
MarieKrausnick, Aged 11, Spauld-
A' (!'
Johnny and Spots are elooking for Myrtle,
Draw all the dots, you'll find she's a -
llne through the dots, brginnlng
Complete the picture bv rirnu-imr
line through, the dots, becinnlna- at Fir.
Will the winner of lat week's prize
please send name ami S'i'kws to Busy
Bee editor.
T.etters and stories written on both
sides of the paper will not appear In
print.
The old hen promised to lay the
egg and have it all ready at 10 o'clock
the next morning, but when the
Tcenie Weenies arrived at the chick
en yard they found the hon still sit
ting on her nest.
"Sorry I haven't the egg ready,"
said the hen. "But I'm rather wor
ried this morning and it's always
hard for me to lay an egg when I'm
wprricd."
"Sorry you're worried," said the
General, bowing beautifully. "Is
there anything we can do for you?"
"No," answered the hen. "I'm
worried . about something you
et fence when they suddenly came
face to face with a huge rooster.
"Where did you get that egg?"
asked the rooster gruffly.
"We just bought it from a Iioh
in that yard," answered the General,
pointing through the fence.
"Well, clear out and drop that
egg; I'm hungry," said the rooster,
and he looked so cross and ugly the
Teenie Weenies skipped out of his
way as he advanced towards them.
The rooster cracked the shell
with his great bill, and in a few
minutes he had gobbled up the egg
and then he devoured the shell. In
fact, there wasn't a thing left.but a
lhe rooster was such a powerful
fellow there wasn't a thing to be
done, so the Teenie Weenies hurried
back to the old hen, where they
told her about the robbery.
"The wretch!" exclaimed the old
hen when she heard the story. "Just
like a rooster. Strut around and
make themselves important and
then eat honest folks' eggs. We'll
fix him. I'll come over to your
house early in the morning and lay
another egg for you, and it won't
cost you a single grain of corn."
"Can't you lay one now?" asked
the Dunce, who wanted to be sure
of the eea for Eatie
