THK BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, APRIL 3. 1921.
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Vjamp fire
Papillion Group
In Charge of
Easter Music
The Abanakee group met at the
home of Miss Alice Ayer Monday.
An election of officers took place
ith the following, result: Presi
dent, Miss Madeline Andrew; vice
president, Miss Katherine Bullock;
lecretary, Miss Helen Anderson;
treasurer, Miss Dorothy Hunter; re
porter, Miss Phyllis Wcberg.
The Tanda group held a meeting
t the home of Clara Parks Tues
day. An election of officers was
held and the following elected:
Secretary: Louise McDonald; treas
urer, Zcta Tate Allingham; reporter,
Mary Curtin. The girls also chose
their names and blocked out their
symbols.
The Witonolu Group
Give Party in Honor
of Their Parents
The Camp Fire Girls of Papillion.
Neb., gave an Easter party at the
home of their guardian, Miss Gladys
King. After games had been played,
Misses Noreen McCdV and Irene
Stone served a luncheon which they
had prepared themselves. This
group had charge of the musk
Easter Sunday at the Presbyterian
church and all the members sang
in the choir.
Groups Elect Officers
The Witonohi group entertained
their fathers and mothers at, the
home of their guardian, Mrs. Brown
lee, Friday evening. The evening
was devoted to dances the girls have
been learning. Persis Benedict and
Eloise Potter in colonial costume did
a stately minuet. Misses Vera Kin
kenon and Irene Conrad as highland
lassies gave the highland fling. The
group members sang "Songs We
Sang at Twilight Kound the Old
Plantation Home." Later the girls
terved a supper they had prepared
especially for their parents.
Group Announcements
The Ayita Campfire group has not
held a meeting for two weeks be
cause of the illness of their guardian,
Miss Ruth Bracken.
The Hchalo group met at the home
of Miss Vertha "VValdrath Wednes
day afternoon. They practiced
campfire songs.
The Weloca Campfire Girls are
very proud of a letter they received
thanking them for their Easter gifts.
These girls made dainty Easter bas
kets and filled them with candy
Eastern eggs for the shut-in kiddies
it different Omaha charitable insti
tutions. Why I Ride a Bicycle.
That's easy to tell:
It makes me happy and well.
(t beats your feet
Every day in the week;
Since I've owned a wheel.
How happy I feci.
When in a hurry,
o need to worry;
And when to school I start,
i r.evcp cause a tardy mark.
To work or play
It takes me quickly every day.
On Sundays I'm a little slow.
But to Sunday school on time it
takes me, though.
Yhen my mother says to me,
'Marie, I want an errand done:
Hurry, now. don't be slow, run."
Then my bike a help, you know.
And faster than the wind we go.
To picnics in the summer, and par
ties in the fall,
My bike helps best of all.
The best present I ever had
Was my bicycle from my dad.
These are a few reasons, but not all,
Why my bicycle is my best pal.
Marie Tracy, Aged 12, 1306 Park
Avenue, Fremont, Xeb.
Can a Plant See?
The eyes of plants are very simple.
The business of a green plant, and
especially of the leaf of such a plant,
is to receive and use the light that
falls upon it. It -is, therefore, in the
leaves of plants that we find their
eyes. Simple experiments which
have r.ow been made many times
over, with many kinds of plants
show, to begin with, that the leaf
is sensitive to light.
For instance, if the direction of the
light is altered, in a very short time
the leai turns itself, so as to get the
light fair and square upon its surface;
and some leaves- will do this as oten
as the direction of the light is
changed. We may, perhaps, get
rather wrong ideas if we say that the
leaf sees the light, yet that must be
what happens; only it is a very sim
ple kind of seeing. It is perhaps,
rather like the very first kind of see
ing that is done by a new-born baby.
Book of Knowledge.
Spot and Grace.
Dear Busy Bees: I would like to
tell you about mv pet dog. Spot. He
is very clever. When I go out to
play he takes the rope and runs
around the house with .it. I hide
tround the corner of the house and
I frighten him. We have a cat, too,
and he is about as clever as our dog.
But he sits in the corner of the room
and when our dog comes in he
inmps out and scratches him. Grace
Garhill, 116 Blaine St., Holdrege,
Neb. .
Farmer You young rascal! What
are you doing up in my apple tree?
Boy Please, sir, I'm frightening
away the birds; they're such awful
thieves. Boston Transcript.
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"Let everything; you do, dear,
Anfl say and think be true, dear.
Falsehood always brings distress
But truth wlH never fall to blesi
Its hlesslng be on you, dear." A. JI. P.
Does the Air Surrounding the
Earth Move With It?
, This is oi!c of the old puzzling
questions which many a high school
student has had to struggle with to
the great amusement of the teacher
who asks for the information and
such other scholars who have al
ready had the experience of trying
to solve it.
To get at the right answer you
have merely to ask one other ques
tion. If the air docs not revolve
with the earth, why can't I go up
in a balloon at New York and stay
up long enough for the eath to re
volve on its axis beneath me, and
come down again when the city of
San Francisco appears under the
balloon, which should be in about
four hours? If that were possible,
travel would be both rapid and com
fortable, for then we could sit
quietly in a balloon while the earth,
traveling beneath us, would get all
the bumps.
No, the atmosphere surrounding
the earth moves right along with the
earth on its axis, if it were not so,
the earth would probably burn up
at least no living thing could remain
on it since the friction of the sur
face of the earth would develop such
a heat that nothing could live in it.
The Book of Wonders.
My First Letter.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter. F would like to join the Bee
Hive. We get The Bee every day
and Sunday. I enjoy the page of the
Busy Bees the most. I go to school
every day. My teacher's name is
Miss Wallace. I like her very much.
This is a little valentine verse:
Oh. may I be your Valentine,
The First you ever bad?
While the world is a pleasant place,
Warm and good and glad.
Oh, may I be your Valentine?
I who look behind,
Know that love's the best thing
' You may hope to find.
Evelyn Benne, Aged 8, West Point,
Neb.
An Old Bird
Over 80 years of age, Joey, a
greater sulphur-crested cockatoo, is
spending his declining years in the
parrot house at the London Zoo.
He was recently deposited there by
his master and mistress, in whose
family alone he has remained for
four-score years. Prior to his adop
tion his history is unknown except
that he originally came from Aus
tralia, so that it is quite "on the
cards" that he may become a cen
tenarian, As befits his venerable age. Joey
is not herded with the chattering
throng in the main" hall, but is per
mitted to sit aloof in, an adjoifiing
private department, where he spends
his time reflecting, apparently on his
ill, fate. For, though his eyes arc
very bright, his legs have given way
and he has to use his wings as
crutches.
Education, possibly, not being in
the Victorian era what it is today,
Joey's linguistic attainments are
somewhat limited, for all he can say
is " A little bit for cocky." No doubt
this served his purpose in happier
times.
A Third Grader.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter to you, and I wish to join your
hive. I am in the third grade and
I am 8 years old. My teacher is
Miss Hall. I go to Westward
school. This is all I will say, and
next time I will write a story. Yours
trulv, Ella Frances Macartney,,
aged 8, 721 Tlattc Ave., York. Neb.
E. O. Hoppe,
noted English
photographer - ar
tist, and some of
his "whimiscal
dglls."
The dolls are
designed to fulfill
a definite decora
tive purpose in the
home of the beau
ty lover.
A South Dakota Bee.
Dear Busy Bees: I have one sis
ter and three brothers. My sister
is 3 years old. Her feme is Mildred.
My brothers' names are Clark, El
mer and Clarence. Clark is IS, El
mer is 20 and Clarence is 21. Elmer
plays in the Gregory high school
basket ball team and Clark is first
sub. I am in trje fifth grade in
school. I am 11 years old. There
are 22 pupils in the fifth grade.
There is a nice $ark in Gregory. It
is in the northwest part of town.
Yours truly. Dale Hansen, Aged
11, Gregory, S. D.
The Twins Cause a Lot of Trouble.
'The Lover twins would run away.
Toor Mrs. Lover tried everything
she could think of to break her off
springs of the habit, but just as soon
as her back was turned the twins
would start for parts unknown.
Once the two little fellows ran
away and did not return for almost
two hours. When they came home
their mother gave each of them a
tiny bundle tied up with paper, and
totd them that it was their clothes
and if they wanted to run away
they should take their clothes and
find another home. The poor twins
cried for a long time, and finally
their mother told them if they
promised not to run away again she
would take them back.
The little chaps promised, and for
almost a week they did not run
away, but soon they were at their
old tricks again and their' little
mother had to spend most of her
time looking for them.
At last it became such a difficult
task to keep the two youngsters at
Some the little mother took the mat
ter up with the General, and that
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Stories by
Little Folks
(Prize.)
How Agness Helped.
One hot summer's day Agnes sat
by the window looking ' into the
busy streets. Her mother had gone
to do some charity wor.k among the
poor, and so Agnes was left alone
with her nurse to amuse herself. She
had many toys, but she grew tired
of playing with them and they laid
in her playroom for months without
being looked at. She was too young
to realize that some of the poor chil
dren had few clothes and no toys.
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bed her mother told her about the
poor children, who had hardly any
clothes and no toys. When Agnes
heard this she was very sorry and,
although she was only 9 years old,
it touched her heart to hear of any
one who was suffering.
The next morning Agnes was up
very early. She dressed herself
quietly, tiptoed to her playroom
and selected 10 of her prettiest toys.
When her mother left that morning
she took Agnes with her. Agnts
divided her toys among the poor
children, and when she went home
she was happier than she had been
for many weeks Happy Francis,
Aged 10, 3816 North Eighteenth St.,
Omaha, Neb.
(Honorable Mention.)
A Mountain Top Adventure.
There were three boys who lived
in a town at the foot of the moun
tains. Their nicknames were Phil,
Al and Jim. They belonged to a
band called "Triumvirates." It w.is
early in the spring. "Jim" heard a
bird singing its spring song. He
said: "Al, don't you knoyv it is
spring. Let's go up the mountain
gentleman called a meeting in the
library, at the shoe house, to discuss
the question.
Mr. and Mrs. Lover, the General,
the Old Soldier, the Doctor, and the
Lady of Fashion were at the meet
ing. Mrs. Lover told the rest how
hard she had tried to keep the twins
from running away.
"I have done everything I could
think of," the little mother said.
"I've talked to them, I've whipped
them and even tied them to the bed
stead with strong silk thread, and
they have cut the thread and skipped
out.
Have you given them a real good
whipping?" asked the Old Soldier.
"Yes, I have. I've whipped them
a dozen times. I have to do all thc
whipping, for Mr. Lover won't touch
them," said Mrs. Lover and she gave
her husband a reproachful look.
"I shook 'em a time or two," put
in Mr. Lover.
"Have you ever tried sending
them to bed without
asked the General. '
seems to punish the
than anything else
any supper:
That always
Dunce more
and have the honor of being the first
people to be up there." .
"You don't think that bird lias
melted all the snow in the divide, do
you?" iAI answered. Fhil said:
".Come on, Al, be a sport."
They started up the mountain and
found the snow would hold them up.
When they reached the top of one
peak the wind has blowing witli
great force. They went a little v.:k
farther and it began to snow. Thiy
walked on with the temperature fall
ing continually. They walked until
they could stand it no longer. They
had to stop and sit down. A I had his
feet frozen and was unable to do
anything. Phil and Jim gathered
some firewood and lighted a tire. By
this time the snow was three feet
deep, and more now was falling.
They sat there a while and heard the
"crunch, crunch" of a heavy animal
walking in the 'snow. It was a
mountain lion. They realized they
would freeze if they did not go on.
They put Al on a log and dragged
him with them. They finally reached
the summit house and found all but
the north side covered with snow.
They broke the large shutters and
got in. As soon as the fire was built
Al and Jim lost consciousness. Al
was first to recover. He found he
was entirely surrounded by little
creatures with bright eyes. Upon
inquiring of Fhil what they were lie
found they were rats. When Al .iad
talked a while to Phil, Jim recov
ered also. The following afternoon
the boys were made ready to go
borne. They were thinking of whr.t
they would tell their parents. But
they explained simply by thinking
and thinking and then telling their
slorv
I hope some of the "Busy Bees"
will write to me. I will answer let
ters I receive. Ruby Pinney, 13
years,' Seward, Neb.; R. 3.
My Pony.
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Once I had, a pony
And he was not homely,
He had a face
That looked like maize;
And his tail,
It looked like it was struck by hail;
But he was not homely
Because he was my pony.
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His name I've forgotten.
But maybe it was Dobins:
I used to ride him to school,
And he would jump every pool.
He looked very cunning
When on him 1 would go hunting.
I was on him one day, ,,
As I am sorry to say,
I met a car and he ran away.
Dobins is my pony unto this day.
Maude Trudove, aged 13, St. Ed
ward, Neb. '
"I have," answered the mother.
"The time they ran away and played
in that old ink bottle and got their
clothes all ruined with black ink, I
sent them to bed and gave them o-ily
bread and water for supper, but their
father sneaked up to the bedroom
with a piece of raisin pic and fed em
while I was washing the supper
t'ls''eS- .
"Have you tried kindness?" asked
the Lady of Fashion. -
"I have in great quantities," -.aid
Mrs. Lover icily.
"Well," said the Doctor, who Ivil
listened quietly to the talk, "the cl-.il-
dren ought to be out in the sunshiiu
at much as possible, and I think I
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have a scheme that will keep the
little fellows under your eye and rt
the same time give them a chance t
get plenty of good fresh air and sun
shine." "Tell us," said the General.
"My idea is this," continued the
Doctor. "That old mason fruit jar,
which we used foa greenhouse 1-st
spring, is standing idle and I bcli - e
hat if we fixed a good door in thc
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For the Live Boys
First Trip of Bird
Club Thursday Morn
The Omaha Y. M. C. A. Boys'
Division Bird Study club was com
pletely organized last week with J.
Shailer Arnold in charge of it. Mr.
Arnold has had wide experience in
bird study and will make a most ex
cellent leader for this group of
boys.
The first trip of the club will be
next Thursday morning when the
opening and put in a lot of good d.'y
sand for the twins to play in wc
could keep them out of mischief."
"You .mean that we could shut
them in the jar and let them play
there?" asked Mrs. Lover.
"That's the idea," smiled the Doc
tor. All the little folks thought the
Doctor's scheme a good one, and tha
following day the General ordered
the jar fixed up for a play house.
The jar stood back of the Lovers'
bungalow and quite near the school
house, which made it handy for the
little mother.
A gooJ stout door was flxed ; tl,e
niouth of thc jar with a hoIe aboVe
the door for ventilation, and a great
quantity of dry sand was carried in
and scattered over the floor of tlie
jar for the twins to play in.
The twins were quite contented t.i
play in the jar, and their mother was
able to look after her household
duties without worrying about them.
"It's such a relief to know tiie
children are playing here in the su i-
shine ..nd that I don't have to worry
about them," the little, mother tolJ
the Lady of Fashion ne day as the
two little ladies stood watching the
twins through the glass of the jar.
"Yes, it must be," said the Ln'y
of Fashion, "to linow that the fruit
of your marriage is thoroughly
canned," and the Policeman, who
was passing, chuckled to himself as
he hurried along.
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boys will meet at the end of the
Forest Lawn car line with their
breakfasts, carfare and a tin cup
each, for a trip into the woods in
search ot the feathered denizens.
The trip will occupy most of the
morning and the boys will swim
on their return to the "Y" at noon.
The members of the bird study
club thus far are Charles Reh,
Horace Jones, Arthur Brown, Keith
Ray, Raymond Carley, Russel Hunt
er, Charles Giltner, Carl Lindell,
Robert Helflefingcr, Howard Hawk
inson, Dean Hokenson, Bert Morris,
Elba Rominger, Clark Holbrook,
Charles Rice. Edwin Radzuweit,
Harold Randell, P'.yron Bernard,
Ralph Barn's, Hugh Hickox, Paul
Hoffman. ,
The club plans to take weekly
bird trips in search of birds of vari
ous sorts during the spring months.
The boys are enthusiastic over '.lie
idea and will get a great deal of
read good from it.
Spend Your Vacation
At Boys Division
The motto of the boys' division
of the Y. M. C. A. to thc boys of
Omaha for thc spring vacation
which starts tomorrow is, "Spend
your vacation at thc boys' division."
A snecial schedule has been arranged
for the boys during the holidays and
the rooms will be open for use from
9 a. m. to 9 p. m. every day next
week.
Every member of the boys' divi
sion is welcome every day. Boys
may bring their lunches and stay the
entire day or may secure their lunch
es at the "Y" cafeteria.
The game room, reading room, and
thc whole boys' club rooms will be
open to the 1,000 boy members, and
it is thc desire of the men in charge
to have the boys make the greatest
possible use of it during thc week
that they are out of school.
"The idle boy is the one who is In
mischief," said J. S. Arnold, assist
ant boys' secretary, last week. "We
will keep the boy's busy every day
during the vacation with things that
they like to do and thus keep them
out of mischief.''
So take the tip, "Y" boys, and
spend thc whole vacation at the
"Y."
Grade Bible Club
Closes Saturday
The grade school boys' Bible
study club, composed of 175 boys
from 12 to 15 years of age, of which
J. Shailer Arnold, assistant boys'
work secretary at the "V" has
charge, will close its year's work
with a chicken pie dinner at thc
Y. M. C. A. next Saturday noon.
The whole affair will be a special
occasion and a special dinner will
be served starting with chicken pie
and ending with ice cream.
Following- the dinner the boys
will taks thc International Bible
study examinations in an attempt
to put Omaha first among the cities
of the United Stales in this line.
Last year Omaha was second, miss
ing ''the capiure of first place by
only 20 diplomas.
. 'The different classes will luvs
separate tables at the closing din
ner next Saturday, special decora
tions will be on the tables, and it
will be an affair long to be remem
bered by the boys. The honor roll
of boys who have not missed any
sessions of their club this vear will
also be read at that time by Mr.
Arnold.
(..'oiiuudruing
What birds are very numerous i:i
every garden? Storks (stalks.
What food can always be ob
tained in a bowling alley? Rolls.
What kind of granite is soft?
Pomegranate.
What pretty dishes do wc find in
the fiields? Buttercups (butter cups).
My Bookshelf
"Winged Warfare," by Maj. W
A. Bishop A book made by the
war.' Had there hern no war there
could have been no such book as
this. It is the wonder book of the
air and tells, simply, the adventures
of one of the world's great heroes
who wins in rapid succession all four
military honors. The book is of
special interest to boys of 14 and
over.
'Election day has come; papa hit hat
and KlasKen took,
'I'm going lo Dm polls.' he auld with
grave and thoughtful look.
We Ites&lf looked up all aurprlaed,
and said beneath hfr breath,
I wouldn't go hh far aa that, I'm
afraid you'll freexe to death.' "
'Y' To Send Boys to
Fremont to State
Gymnastic Meet
The state Y. M. C. A. boys' gym
nastic meet will be held in Fremont
Y. M. C. A. Saturday, April ). Ten
leading Y. M. C. A.'s hi Nebraska
will send teams of boys there to
compete for the state championship
in gymnastic w,ork. The Omaha
"Y" has entered a team of youthful
gymnasts.
Last year at the meet at Lincoln
the Omaha boys' division carried off
second place and the local boys are
striving for first honors this year.
A strong team will represent the
local boys' division at the meet.
The members of the Omaha boys'
division team will be Robert Keyt,
Wallace Marrow, Richard Kucharo,
John Madgett, Willard Williams,
Porter Forcade and James Carroll.
C. Carl Weigel, assistant physical
director at the "Y" will accompany
the boys and be in charge of them
while they are gone.
of Omaha
Vacation Program
At 4iY" Attracting
Hundreds of Boys
Vacation started on Friday last for
the thousands of school boys and the
boys' division of the Y. M. C. A.
has planned a busy program for its
thousand boy members during the
week that is ahead. J. Shailer Ar
nold, assistant boys' work secretary
at the "Y," is in charge o-ftfTw-pro-''
gram and expects a great turnout
at every event planned.
The program started last Friday
with a showing of Jack Pickford in
his' picture, "Scvcjitccn," to the boys,
several hundred of whom attended,
Saturday noon thc next to the last
Bible study session for the Saturday
noon club took place.
Tomorrow the real program Starrs.
It consists of the following activi
ties: Monday: All-day hike, leaving fh
"Y" at 9 o'clock. Boys should
bring their own lunch, carfare and
a tin cup. Return at 4:30 p. m.
Tuesday: Game tournaments
starting at 9 a. m ping pong, cue
roque, checkers and chess. Sign up
Tuesday morning at boys' division.
Free movies Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Wednesday: Several fartm-v irir
starting from boys' division at 9 a.
m. Free movies at 2 p. m.
Thursday: Hike for Bird club.
Meet at end of Forest Lawn car
linc at 7:30 a. m. with breakfast. A
feature movie will be shown at 2
p. m. in the new picture, "Rip Van
Winkle."
Friday;: All day hike, leaving
boys division at 9 a. m. Boys should
bring carfare, lunch and tin cup.
big swim at 4:30.
Saturday: Regular gym classes,
thicken pie dinner for Bible clu!.
Making Plans For '
Summer Campings
Last -Thursday night the Camp
Sheldon club composed of the bovs
who attended the Y. M. C. A. camp
at Columbus last summer, met and
talked over plans for this summer's
camp. The local bovs wilf have one
whole period at the splendid Uie
camp and will fill it with 125 Oma
ha boys from 12 to 15 years of age.
Older hich srlinnl fill,-,u,. r
, " "..'v-...-, man u
them star athletes of the schools.
ni oe me cottage leaders for the
boys.
Thc boys discussed thc new camp
honor pins which have been adopted
for the camp and every one agreed
that thc camp this summer would
be the best one yet held. The same
tale of ranin fpp ill l,nl.t
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CIU'Illii all ranm rvninnc
Jvegistrations tor the camp
will
open on .'vprtl and every
Sliclton club bov ask-rrl for
Cat: in
an ad-
yauce registrations so as to bold for
mmseit a piare in tlie camp. wait
ins: list will llP rtfalili'cl,..,! ..I.
thc 125 places arc taken ami the boys
who sign up aftrr this will have to
".in iiicir iiirn in gn.
E. K. Mirklru'riclit t
secretary of the Omaha 4Y," will iic
m cnarsc ot the tamp HuriiiK thc
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assisted i.iy j, Miailcr Arnold,
sistant bovs' u-orL- r-i a,-,.
Car!
Weigel will be camp physical dire
tor. v.. .m. Hai.er, state hoys won:
secretary, will hp ramn dir.",-!..,- iVr
the entire summer. He made liosis
of friends last summer u-itli ili. f tmi.
ha boys who attended the camp.
A New Bee.
Dear Busy Bee: This is mv fnt
letter to The lire. I read 1 he B.r
Hive every Sunday. I enjoy leading
it very ninth. I have two sisters ami
two brothers. We go to the Assunm
tion school. I am in the third P.
George. Begat, aged 8. Omaha