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The Detroit Times Page for Boys and Girls^
Future Authors in Detroit Public Schools
In Co-operation With the Department of English in Detroit Eighth Grades.
Essay by pupils recommended for publication in The Times in reward for application and merit.
“A Hunting Trip”
By Clarsncs Moore.
Foliating with good rod-bloodod boy
lading la this atory of a boy'a h’ujt
lag trip, by Clorsnea Moore, an A
! Seventh grader, of the N’ewbei i >
* gchool, In bia eaaay :
A few yeaxa ago while 1 was living
I|a tbe country, aome friendo oaiue
I from Detroit, to visit ua. and aakod
ipe to go bunting.
n m We arose about I o’clock the next
laorning and having eaten, we at-art
*d for the wooda. We reached tbe
Khanty In the woods and put our lunch
away. Haring done ao, we wait out
Jio hunt game We had not gone tar
rhea we heard a queer nolle In one
if the treea. After looking a lone
fm* we discovered It was a coon
ytag between some branches.
When we aaw that we could not
pt S shot at him, my father eelied
k club and threw It at him. It hit
he branches on which he was lying
,n4 the coon came down to the
! round. ’ One of the men seized him
j ff hind leg* and hit his head
iplast a large atone nearby.
***ir we had gone about a half
a, we came to a stump fence
we saw a few rabbit track*,
we were hunting for the rab
>le, the coon came to life and
a mighty leap and broke away
he ip*"
Tue dogs started after the coon
Sod at the same time one of the mon
Bred at tho coon, but abet one of the
«08* Instead. The other Bogs over
took tho coon, and brought It back
Where wo were.
We weat to the shanty and ate our
dl—a i Haring eaten our dinner we
bunted on our way home and got 10
ffSbbtts and one squirrel.
There are flftj*flve spades of oak
pMi in the United States, ab*it
meanly divided between the east and
Hfi'Jlm west. The eastern species and
SirUcularly white oaks are the most
Quaint Customs of the
World's Queer People
‘Ay * ?^^WHpuSOkvv^
A HUNTER OF NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.
IA Africa nearly all the natives are hunters, because their living large
ly depends on it 8o the native Is an expert at stalking game—even human
VMM. Hla weapon la usually one with a very short range and he must get
OBNr enough to hla game to make his shot or his blow certain* In some
pgrta of Nigeria the hunters wear head-dresses with horns like the an
tlkps. In our photograph Is a member of the Nupe tribe with a head piece
raeaibllag the hornbllL
SERFS A REAL BASEBALL GAME TO BE PLAYED INDOORS
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Itapi tad Girls as Well as the Grown Folks Will Find a Great Deal of Amusement and Will
Develop More or Less Skill in Piling Up Hita
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y i Let’s kMp the baseball seasou open'
t A winter!
5* J What . the use of stopping tbe game
t .Aft because the weather le getting
■ «MT Os course, we can’t play It out
• <M doors la the winter time. Nor can
, sfl Os ua utilise the big floors of the
. V jjhfeaaslaara for torpor baseball. But
V mrt'ii a game that we can play that
Will bars some of the Interest ot
f baseball, keep ftreeh all the term*
that are used in the regular games
r m the outdoor diamonds and nt tin 1
K 1 tame time permit mother and the
Eipgtg to get la on the fun. Some crit-
Nm wtft sneer ni the game ar» say
ypht U rssemhlsf the oM-fsshtoned
set one of thoe* crit-
L|S liaflfg It and see whet happens
Effc Vlm*
-i.* r ' JC* f.
pH necessity for the game t*
iiKMSri m&H tvs fsst long and three
WSimwH* & wltmood la laid off on
She end and scattered
\Km itSHIil are marked the p<>
players. These post
hr boring holes la the
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BY AUNT GERTIE.
“OU. look at the striped horse,
maouna!"
Two Itttlo girl* were standing look
ing through the railings at the sal
male in the Zoo, the other day. And,
aa Artist Barnum and 1 walked by, on”
of them called out about the “strtpei
horae.”
We turned to see what it could be.
Guess!
It was a zebra- —a striped creature,
to be sure! You know, boy* and
girls, the zebra belongs to the horse
family. The liUle tot was not so tar
off. after aIL
The zebra's real home i* over In
Africa, but there are not many left
there now. So we see them in zoos
and menageriez, where they are very
carefully kept and protected.
The zCbna is not a* large as a horse
nor as high as a horse. But It is
very much the shape of one. Its dis
tinguishing feature is its coat. The
general color of this is a gray-white.
The broad stripe* are black.
The zebra has rather long ears and
a short mane. The habits of ail ze
Cmmr /
board at least three sad s half Indues
in diameter. Then at various points
j on the board, as shown lu the skefen,
sre placed wooden pin* about two
inches high. These pins shou.d bo
very firmly attached. The board is
provided wrlrh legs, the legs at the
mar being considerably longer than
lu front so that the board will
slant at a fairly good sngl*. though
the angle should not be too great, if
me (root legs are mad* three Inches
high and the back leg* a foot high
the angle will he great enough. The
legs should be put on with hinge* to
make it possible to fold them against
tha under part Os the board tyr c«u
vealeaoa la storing. «
Z STANDS FOR ZEBRA
bras are very much the habits of wild
horses. They eat the same kind of
food and run in herds in the same
way.
The flesh of some species of zebra
is good to eat and the hides are usou
for leather.
Next time you go to the zoo. or the
circus, watch for the animal, with the
striped coat, that looks not unlike a
home!
If the water-borne foreign trade of
the United States were per capita
equal to that of C,reat Britain it
would amount to $14,000,000 per an
num.
By Barbara Cxyxswakl.
That the impression which the im
migrant receives in America is not
always a pleasant one, but that, what
ever unpleasantness may be found, the
fact of freedom more than balances
tho ledgar is 6hown in an ingenious
fashion by Barbara Csysewski, a mem
ber of B eighth grade of the New
berry school, in the following essay:
We Mved In a little town near Lub
lin, a city where my grandmother
lived. Lublin is located as far from
Warsaw, the capital of Poland, as
Chicago is from Detroit. The town
In which we lived was about 60 mile*
away from Lublin, but as the travel
ing was not comfortable, we did not
go to visit grandmother very often.
One day my father received a let
ter from my uncle in Detroit, telling
him to come and Join him in business.
My father had heard so much about
America and her opportunities, that
he soon started.
After my father left for America, we
went to live with my grandmother.
She owned a large apartment house
and had invited us to visit her many
times before.
The apartment houses there differ
from those over here. There they
have a court paved with cobblestones
in the center, and the building built
around it. The window* of my grand
mother's rooms faced the street and
somewhat resembled our bay windows
but were much wider on account of
the thickness of the walls, which are
sometimes two or three feet thick. I
•pent many days on these windows
playing with my toys and looking out
upon the street.
One afternoon mv mother came Iq
looking very hanpy. Grandmother
asked her what had hanpened and
•he said she had received a letter
from my father, saying she should
start for Detroit a* soon as possible,
and aa the money 'had come in the
letter, we started the next week.
We sailed on the Princess Alice, a
steamer which saß* on’v during the
summer season Most of the second
class passengers were Jews, some
Americans end the rest Germans. T
do not remember much about the boat
•teept one special day.
Tha game la played with rings
made out of rope having an inside
diameter of not more than two and a
half or three lnchea —large enough to
give ample chance for oatchlng on
the pins, but not ao large but that
they will drop through the holes The
scoring is dono by Jilts *nd not by
i runs. Each piu represent* a hit or
some kind. If It is nesired, the scor
ing may be done by bases, a* each
of the different hits 1* for a different
cumber of bases. Tho holes aro the
outs. The game can be played by
any number of persons Loin two up.'
When more that! rw** people nlny.i
sides are chosen, Just us lu the rogu- 1
lar baaohsil g.iMio, the sldeu roi’ro
sjnticg the team*, hatch side throw*
one player after the other until It I
ius mud# throe outs. Hie sntne rule/ !
follow when two people *r«» playing,
♦ xrept that »*rli person throve until
three are out The number or tuning*
to ba played Is usually fixed nt nine.
It will be round that the game Is
not nearly so simple as it socins, and
that considerable :d:UJ I* required to
amass enough hit* to win a game
Tlie board < an bo placed at any die
tame from 20 to 100 feet away. It is
uuuallv played by bolug set up at
one end of a room while the players
stand at the other.
THE DETROIT TIMES. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1913.
“From Russia to America”
44 A* Trip to Owen Sound”
Lulu Salchow.
A aay'a outing and a visit to a uew
place, is thus naively described by
Uilu Salchow, of A-Scveuth grade, of
the Newberry school
summer while I was spending
part of my vacation with my grand
parents In Pesboro Ont.. my uncle
from Detroit came on a visit with his
family in hig auto.
While they were with us. my uncle
took us out several times to see the
country and go fishing. One day he
took us to Owen Sound, which is 15
miles from Dosboro. The country
there is very stony and hilly. Large
stones are luid across the road in
some place* like a pavement. On
ouo hill which was particularly beau
tiful and overlooking Owen Sound, we
got out and took some picture*. My
grandfather was with us, and ho. be
ing well acquainted there, showed us
the places of Interest.
We watched some boats come int<*
Georgian bay, which was very inter
esting. and I was sorry we could not
stay longer. The fishing there Is
grout. My grandfather bought a flve
pound whiteflsh for fO cents. We
walked around in tho park for a while
watching the swans in the canal.
There are hill* on both sides of this
canal, which made it soem to us like
a valley. At one end of the canal
there is a waterfall.
* We finally went to a hotel, ate our
tuppor and then bought some sou
venirs at Knox’s 10-«toro, and then
started for home When we arrived
In Desboro. It was Just getting dark,
and we all felt that the afternoon had
been well spent.
One morning we came on deck and
were surprised to And the decks dec
orated with bags and the sailors pol
ishing the brasswork and cleaning the
cannon. My mother asked the Ger
raan captain in his native tongue if
( we wera near land. He said we wou'd
j not reach land for a couple of days.
! hut that It wag Independence day.
and as wa were nearer America than
Europe, we were to celebrate it. That
evening was the most exciting r ha\e
ever witnesed. The band played the
national airs, the people danced, old
and young, the cannon boomed ami
the children raced around the decks
singing at the top of their voices. 1
went to bed very late that night and
nothing happened to the end of our
journey.
M> mother likes Europe better be
cause she says there the people are
j more Interested in themselvs, and
j their person, and manners, and the
i children show so much more respect
j for their elders, while here the peo
ple care only for their money, and
most of the children show no respect
at all for their elders. The only thing
she really like* here is the freedom.
In Russia the Polish ]>eople are not
allowed to w'ear red and white to
gether. because they are the Polish
national colors, and are forbidden to
sing their national song, while In
Germany thev cannot even pray or
wTite In Polish. Neither of the coun
tries allow the schools to teach Pol
ish history, and all the lessons must
be learned in Russian or German, but
In Russia, in many of the places. It’s
taught secretly, the children bringing
their Polish hooka to school in double*
bottomed baskets. Mv mother attend
ed A private school where she learned
to read and write in Polish. Every
morning one girl was chosen to stand
outside the door where «he w»s in e»M
view of the hall, and if anyone came
along, she would make some sign *o
*he teacher, who would at once hide
her hook and change the lesson.
Mother’s teacher had been caught
and put Into iail many times for it,
but she thought it her duty to teach
them about their country, and con
tinued to do !t under a different name
each time. The Polish history Is
beautiful, and the national song has
been recently translated bv an Ameri
can. Miss Loveland. I will road one
•tnnza:
“God who our country through long
generations,
Surrounded with brightness of Thy
*lory,
Covering her with the shield of Thy
protection.
From all misfortunes which would
overwhelm her.”
Os course, it is more beautiful in
Polish, and is sung by many Polish
people.
A KNOT TO KEEP AIR
IN THE PIGSKIN
If you have trouble keeping your
football filled with air, here’s a thine
that might help yon. T£e leakage
is probably caused by your failure to
tie a proper knot in the cord over the
ontiet valve of the Inner rubber ball.
Or if there is an automatic valve it
tuey Irak, and a knotted string over
the end would help Make one loop
with a cord and then another just
like 1L us shown In Fig 1. Puss the
end of the cord under the first loop
and then ptilj both ends The knot
will never become loosened until you
looten it The way to make thla knot
was held an a prized secret for many
years by a famous English football
team. .
StocV raising is the basic industry
of no* 4hi n Paraguay. The amount
of cap.tal invested and the applica
tion of modern methods of adminis
tration on a large scale are destlfTFd
to give this part of the republic a mo
mentum heretofore 'g“**lng in the
country* affairs and bring it Into
i definite relations with Uie outside
world.
EXPERT IN CHILD RAISING TELLS HOW
TO REAR BETIER, STRONGER CHILDREN
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Mrs. Patience Brown (upper), who has Invented a “back to ths soil”
method for raising children. Virginia Brown (lower) her eix-year-old
granddaughter, who is a sturdy example, proving the truth of her teach
ings.
COMBINING THE PLEASURE OK SKAT.NG AND RIDING
A BICYCLE
Did you ever have to trundle a
wheel along the street for blocks
fiom your house to a repair shop to
have a tire fixed? Every boy lms a:
some time or other. Here's a way to
avoid it. If the tire happens to be
on the front wheel —the one that i»
punctured or torn—Just put a skr.te
on the wheel and you can ride tbe
NEWS FROM
AMERCAN GAME TRAILS
Canadian government s experiment
with buffalo near Walnwright, Alber
j ra, is a great success. Started in
June. 1909, with 721 head in fenced
in preserve of 110.000 acres. Herd
now numbers 1,500. Over 300 calves
born this year.
United States government will feed
elk In Yellowstone park this winter
and save the 40.000 herd from starv
ing.
Utah will use shooting license
money to establish public hunting pre
serves In Salt Imke. Davis and Box
Elder counties. The idea Is to give
the poor man. as well as tho rich
man, good game shooting.
Lieut. Whelen. U. S. A., has dem
onstrated in a test that the wide
spread idea that jacketed bullets wear
! out a barrel i* a fallacy,
j a rifle, rested near the muzzle on
1 a hard substance, will shoot very
i high. Rest It near ahe forearm, If
possible, on a soft substance, such as
a glove or mitten.
The general belief that license is
needed to hunt in uny of the 152 na
tional forests is wrong. License 1»
only needed for the establishment of
a permanent camp, but the holder gets
“„ P ™| U ,lve right to hunt or «.h
You cannot hunt In the national
park* or game reruges.
Forest rangers, in a round-up in
the Gunnison national forest, killed
Tour benrs. 50 coyotes and 21 wild
cats. This to protect antelope and
I’cer.
('hunt s Dalton, a silver fox farmer
of Prince Edward ' Island, sold be
tween 40 and 50 fttr* to the London
market last year, getting nn average
of I1.S&0 P p f R ,r or ov ‘* r 150,000 for
one vear's output.
M >l Garland, surveyor of the port
|of Pittsburgh, claims there's a flock
of 3ou of the supposedly extinct |>hh
i seng« r pigeons in the woods near his
home at Fotewood this fall. Natural
lists f xciteo and begging him to trap
seme ol them.
Probably the hlshest death rate of
any city in the world belong* to Coch
abamba. Bolivia, where there was a
I mortality of seventy five In each one
I thousand last year.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21.—“ Back
to the soil,” Is the Better Babies’ un
swer of Prudence Brown, who inintiat*
ed and taught the first public kinder
garten in California.
By the "son.” Mrs. Brown means a
sand pile in the back yard.
"A sympathetic study of child na
ture will prove to anyone that what
they need is not starched frocks and
immaculate fingernails, but plenty of
sand. clay, water and sunshine.
Mrs. Brown bases her knowledgo
upon 25 years' teaching and expert-
bicycle. If the back wheel Is the cno
giving the trouble, change your good
front tir«- to the back wheel and #ut
the skate on the rtm of the tr*»r.t
wheel. Asa mutter of fact, you don t
need but one tire for h bicycle If you
want to ride, anyhow, the skate serv
ing as a fine front wheel any time
you want it to do so.
Try, Try Again.
”Miss Wombat, will you be mine?”
‘Never.”
The young man was jarred, but not
w’holly discouraged. Presently he
came back in this fashion:
"Well, will you let me be yours?"
Help!
“Tragic, wasn't It?"
“What?”
"Helen was engaged to that aero
naut and they had a falling out.” —N.
Y. World.
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i JATUftMf NO«MIN«*
euce in the role of mother end grand
mother.
"I would as soon deprive a child
of food as of contact with the earth.
Mothers should put a sandbox In the
apartment or flat if they have no back
yard.
“I ani an advocate of natural edu
cation. The part of the teacher is
merely to make a response to the
child and to provide means of expres
sion. The child’s only avenue of ex
pression is in plastic material such
ah sund, clay and paper and if the
child is to develop properly, physical
ly, morally and mentally, these things
should be within easy reach.
“The spirit of Monteesorl and
Froebel should be in every home and
schoolroom. Thild gardening, which
should be the most Joyful work in
the world, has become burdensome
drudgery, with overworked and over
weary teachers the result’*
Mrs. Brown is a graduate of the
National Kindergarten college. In
Chicago, from which she received the
degree of master of education. She
whs left a widow with two small chil
dren and was milking cows and grow
ing fruit on a southern California
ranch when she became Interested In
kiudergarten methods.
Her four-year-old granddaughter,
Virginia Brown, is a sturdy example
of her teachings. She is as large as
a child of six and Juat as far ad
vanced.
Virginia has a play-room In Mrs.
Brown’s flat planned by Mrs. Brown.
Its features are a sand pile w'lth mod
eling and drawing board and n case
for molds, blocks and tools.
“I do not believe in punishment of
any kind." says Mrs. Brown. "Chil
dren need nurture, not punishment,
whether at home or In school.
“In dealing with children w# must
have first the right attitude of mind
—the appreciation of the value of
child life to civilization.
“We must never forget that they
are citizens in the most important
stage of development and have their
rights to free, self-active ezpreaelon.
We must provide plastic, conservative
materials and environment In which
simplicity, harmony, order and neat
ness predominate.”
“My Life in Russia From
1904 to 1909”
By Florence Parxen.
A story of the fear of death in a
Russian revolution, a harrowing ex
perience for a young child, and Anal
emigration to America, the land of
the free, is told by Florence Parzen,
a Russian lass of the A-Sevonth grade
of the Newberry school, as follows:
Nine years ago nezt February, my
father came to America and left my
mother and his children.
About five days after my father left
the general strike broke out. Food
and money wa# scarce and pcopij
came to our store to buy supplies.
Mainnm was very busy, so she
called my brother Herbert In to help
her. One morning he pulled at mam
ma's apron, and told her that the
woman that Just went out, had taken
some eggs and had not paid for them
In the middlo of the strike, the
revolution against the czar broke out.
and no place was safe. We did not
dare to stir out of the house, and
had to close our store. The rebels
would even break Into houses, killinu
the occupants and taking everything
of value. Sometimes we were even
afraid to light the lamps and Were
without foo' 1 or drink. All travel was
stopped, and the telegraph wires were
rut, so tha» Russia could not com
municate with the outside world. Mv
mother sent manv letters to papa but
lie did not receive them. Reading
about the terrible times at home in
the newspapers and fearing for our
safety, he decided to come home.
One nivht we were sitting in the
dark when we heard a knock at the
door. We all held our breath and
were too frightened to move, but at
length mamma onened the door and
a man dressed in black came In.
Mamma drew back and we children
began to shriek. He told us not to
be frirhtened. and we immediately
recognized hla voice. It was papa,
fie staved with us for two and a half
year§ and then went bark to America.
In about a veir and a half pana
sent for us. and we arrived in De
troit, August 3. 1909.