The Minneapolis journal. [volume], April 29, 1905, The Journal Junior, Image 37

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7H# TEARY TIMES
Minneapolis Juniors Find It Hurts to Disappoint
Others Almost as Much as to Be Disappointed
Themselves.
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I TOPIC"WHEN YOU DISAPPOINTED"
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ny vacation days, besides ideas, and things equally im
portant, toohealth and rest and recreation, and fun
and all sorts of experiences to store away for future in
spiration. So that is all right.
Meanwhile it is good discipline
to do one's best whatever the
time or circumstance, since a
letting go of one's powers or
purpose nearly always means a
weakening of those forces. Hold
on tight to the determination to
do good work, your very best in
fact and tho it may not always
be possible to do excellent work,
you will not lose anything if you
make a strenuous effort. Alon^J
with the general dearth of ideas,
there were lesser things which
might be criticised any week ex
cept vacation week, but this will
be sufficient: Be careful to say
Just what you mean, and then
there will be no such curious de
scriptions as this, which was
found in a Junior story:
Many little vehicles covered
with roses and children dressed
in white, and Shetland ponies
tied with white roses and ribbons,
passed by." tH
MOKE THAN MISERTT
The Victim Squirmed but Tri
umphed Finally.
(Prize.)
0 0 THE little girl is writing
a poem about her pet kit
ty, is she?" asked my brother,
coming into the room where I
was writing.
Contrary to expectations I
made no reply.
"I brings up sad memories.
She does not even hear her be
loved brother. Perhaps a tune
would cheer her up."
He began a squeaking, rasping
whistle calculated to put my
nerves and voice on edge, but I
merely desisted from writing.
"I does not have a good ef
fect. I will see how she likes a
penny. It's such a splendid, in
spiring habit to save up pennies.
Perhaps she will get a dollar
some day, and it will i00k so
well amon the little coppers.''
Then he laid a penny tempt
ingly before me. But having
grown wise by experience I let it alone.
"The little dear would surely like a pillow: it's so
bracing."
Ho threw a pillow at me, but it had no effect, at.least
outwardly, on me.
"But of course," resumed my tormenter, "the best
thing to brace her up is the cold, 10-below-zero air. So I
will open the window .and to mate better circulation. I
will just throw these pillows upon the floor."
I could not endure this long. If it was disappoint
ment to my brother, it was misery to me. I kept my eyes
fastened upon the lid of my ink well, tried to keep my
teeth from chattering, and looked as glum as possible,
"And now the snake will finish up the job."
Wonder of wonders! I was mute. My brother went
to his drawer for his snake, but found it not. Of course
not it was buried deep in the sewing baskets, and my
brother, robbed of his pet, did not return.
A Seventh Grade, Gladys Harrison,
Douglas School. 1780 Lyndale Avenue S.
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E editor has in mind to write a new book on
economy, wherein Juniors may be persuaded
to save the surplus energy which causes some
stories to spill over the 300-word limit and
use it upon those occasions when ideas are
hard to catch. Certain it is that few really
good, Junior-ish ideas were captured this
week and aside from originality, there
seemed to be a large amount of trouble to
fill the 100-word space, which has been la
bled "must," with any kind of ideas. There
is a good reason for that: Last week was
vacation and everybody knows there is an
abundance of things to hunt upon long, sun-
Diggin' Garden
SOMETHING OF A WONDES
An Inhospitable Hostess Lunched While Hungry Guests
Looked Thru the Gate.
(Fifth and Sixth Grade Prize.)
NCE when I was quite small, brother gave me a niek
el. I wanted to go to the store, but he would not
let me because I was so grimy. I ran into the house,
washed my face and hands, went to the closet, took down
a clean apron, and putting it on over my dress buttoned
it all up wrongly. Out of the house I went and down the
street, turning in at the home of my friend. She was
busy making pies with the best flour the yard afforded.
The Jo\irn.Ll Junior
BUPPilMBKT TO THB MIH If APQIilS JOUBNAL
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL, 29, 1905.
I asked her if she could go to the store with me, but she
said she did not think so, and asked me if I would help
her, for she could not make pies fast enough to supply
the demand. She was disappointed for I picked my way
between the rows of pies, and standing by the gate I Bent
a few parting words back to her I 'm going to buy some
candy." She ran towards me, but I shut the gate and
hurried down, the street.
There were many children in our neighborhood, and
by the time I arrived home with my candy anyone would
think I was some wonder to see the children trotting
along behind me. I went into the yard, leaving them
outside by the fence. I brought out a little table and
my dolls and then emptied the candy out. I gave ray
friends outside the fence some mud pies I had baked in
the morning and then sat down to eat, while my guests
kept telling me what ood pies I could make. They stood
there until I had finished eating my candy, and when the
last piece disappeared the sorrowful group walked away,
leaving me in peace with my dolls. Conscience would
prick for I found how selfish I was in disappointing the
children. Grace Matthews,
A Sixth Grade, 1114 Chestnut Avenue.
Jefferson School.
AN INNOCENT AIE.
(Honorable Mention.)
Now, Anna, do get that silly expression off your
face and go down and entertain her. I will relieve you in
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
COMPARISON OP BOY.
and
THE WEEK'S ROLL OF HONOR
MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNERS.
Gladys Harrison, A Seventh Grade, Douglas School, 1780 Lyn
dale Avenue S
Grace Matthews. A. Sixth Grade, Jefferson School, 1114 Chest
nut Avenue.
HONORABLE MENTION.
Anna Dempsey, Eighth Grade, Clinton School, 2817 Colum
bus Avenue.
Arthur Wester, Eighth Grade, Garfield School, 242T Thir
teenth Avenue S.
Marjorle McFadon, Seventh Grade, Horace Mann School,
3117 Oakland Avenue.
Elsa Stenback, Fifth Grade, Adams School, 2428--Six-
teenth Avenne S.
Blanche MacClatchie, A. Fifth Grade. Calhoun. School, 3000
Emerson Avenue 3.
venta
NORTHWESTERN PRIZE WINNERS.
Grace Waldle. Eighth Grade, Dickey, N. D.
Rachel Graves, Sixth Grade. "Washington School, Anoka, Mtam. HONORABLE MENTION.
Panllne F. Fonda, Seventh Grade, Devils Lake, N. D.
Gladys bundle. Eighth Grade, Salem, S. D.
*rancis Kelly, Sixth Grade, Luverne. Minn.
Martha Hovorka, Fifth Grade, Adams School, 1007 W Sev
Street. St. Paul.
HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT.
Emma Gherhur. Tenth Grade, Larimore, N. D.
BOltn Undbers. Ninth Grade, Cofcato, Minn.
Ida Johnson. Nkuu Grade, Montevideo, Minn.
Agnes Peterson, Ninth Grade, Dassel, Minn.
Helen lluanretdt, Ninth Grade, Hawley, Minn.:v -"_
MAY DAY DOINGS
Northwestern Juniors Revel in the Merriment
^-Diggin' Fish Worms.
Attending the Opening of the Season of
Flowers and Fruit.
TOPIC"MAY DAY.'
A.SKETS and baskets plus picnics, parties and
poles equal May Day. Any Junior, even the
littlest, can do that sum. And that is about
all there was to the May Day stories. Of
course rain, and jokes and hidden watchers
created some diversion and therefore some
variety in the stories but for the most
part it seemed that there could not be a May
Day story -without a basket or a queen or
a May pole in it, any more than mere could
be a genuine Christmasy story without a
glimpse of a tree or a wisp of Santa 's-beard.
Indeed, so hard put were Juniors in the
chase for original stories, they not infre
quently leaped 'way beyond the first day of. May and
landed in the middle of the month somewhere"which
was against the rule." If the field is limited, it is much
better to be original in it than
to get outside "the fence alto
gether. Here is another little
sign-post to point out a path al
most lost in a tangle of weeds
which we might call "wrong
usages:" "Got" is considered
inelegant except in rare cases
where its use seems almost un
avoidable "nice" means ac
curate, precise, and a "nice day"
might mean anything except
pleasant weather "quite" means
wholly, entirely, so "quite a
few," "quite a bit" are absurd
phrases. One of the stories from
ninth grade presented an odd ap
pearance because only two "i's"
out of the whole number were
dotted. A dot is a part of tho
letter, so be kind and provide
it with that very necessary part.
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ON BAREFOOT TtA.Tr
Nothing Quite Like Wading in
Earth and Water.
(Prize.)
E nsed to live on a farm
until about four years
ago. While we lived there May
Day was always an exciting day
for us children, for on that day
if it was real warm and sun
shiny we were allowed to go
barefoot. About the first of April
every- spring we began to tease
mama to let us take off our shoea
and stockings but it was of no
use, for we always received the
same reply, "Wait until the first
of May- for I don't want you
going around with a cold, and if
it is pleasant and warm then you
may.''
Anyone who has ever gon
barefoot and knows the joy oi
'paddling around in a mud puddle
after a rain or wading in th
brook and feeling the soft watei
ripple around his feet or the:
pleasure, on a hot day, of dig
ging a hole in the ground and
putting hig feet in and covering
them up with the cool earth, and
all the other incomparable pleas
ures of going barefoot, can
imagine our disappointment if our "barefoot day," aa
we used to call it, was cold or stormy. In town none of
the girls our age went barefoot, so since we left the farm
we have kept our shoes on the whole year. Then I sup
pose we are too old anyway. But sometimes when I see
the little boys and fjirls playing around in their bare feet
I almost wish I could change places with them for a while.
If you have never gone barefoot you may think it is sillyj
but all I can say is just try it, and you will change your
mind and think with me that it is the best thing about
childhood. Grace Waldie,
Eighth Grade. Dickey, N. D.
HER MAJESTY WITH MUMPS
The May Queen Walked on Air Till Fate Provided a Crack
for Her to Fall Thru.
(Fifth and Sixth Grade Prize.)
HE incident which I am about to relate occurred when
I was 7 years of age. We had been practicing a
long time for a party that was to be given on the first of
May. I was to be the queen, -wear a wreath of daisies on
my head and have ten little girls dance around me, eacji
holding a ribbon attached to a pole in the center. I con
sidered it a great event and walked on air until one day
my pride had a fall. I was taken ill with mumps and
when the doctor arrived he told me, to my great disap
pointment, that I should not be able to go. It was only
a little thing but I have never forgotten it.
Sixth Grade, Rachel Graves,
"Washington School. It Anoka, Minn.
FIRST CATCH TOUR JOKE
(High School Credit.)
"What-.are you talking about and what are row
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