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wooden depot to find the only applicant a rough man
who stepped forward and aske d, "Be you tb.e lady :MIS'
W. was 'spectingf" I replied that I was, smiling at being
'spected. Arrived at the farmhouse, my aunt came for
ward to meet me. But my cousin Alicehorrors! a little
four-year-old baby! And I had planned fun with a four
teen-year old girl. I was disappointed. But the next
moment I was the disappointer. For my other cousin, a
boy of twelve, said dejectedly, "She's a prl! Now all I
will hear I suppose will be, 'Oh, go away, your hands
are dirty, don be so rough, and please don't rvunple niy
hair.' He had expeeted me to be a boy, so he was dis
appointed. I felt very lonesome at this reception, but
soon won the good will of both my cousins, who actually
cried when I left. Mabel Niles
A Eighth Grade, 2203 Seventeenth Ave. S.
Adams School.
ASK TEACHEBiSHE KNOWS.
I do not like to disappoint people but I am afraid
I disappointed the teaeuer th is morning when we had our
spelling test. She read the averages as far down as
eight}. I did not hear my name so I think I must have
had a pretty low mark. When she said the rest were be
low eighty she looked very disappointed. I think most
people like spelling but I do not. They say that some
people are born spellers but I am pretty sure I am not
one. You can ask my teacher and she will tell you what
kind of speller I am. Some folk always say that spell
ing is easy, but you will notice that those people are
always good spellers. Albert Nelson,
A Sixth Grade, Spring Beach, Lake Calhoun.
Calhoun SchooL
SPOET ON THE TRAIL.
Our dog is very fond of chasing the fire teams.
Whenever he hears anybody shout "Fire!" he pricks up
his ears and ru ns toward the fire barn, which is a block
away.
One day having nothing to do I lay down in the shade
of a tree. Suddenly I had an idea. I sprang to my feet
shouting "Fire! fire! fire!" Sport toro -ross the field
and disappeared around a house. A later he re
turned, his head hanging low. J," I said, I
did not mean to disappoint you sc lly.'' But I could
not help laughing because I pictured him again and again
running across the field. George 03born,
A Sixth Grade, 3426 Elliot Avenue.
Horace Mann School.
A DELIGHTFUL RUMMAGE.
"Tan't I go even tho it is raining, mama?"
"No. you can't. Why, you would be sick in bed to
morrow if ou went in all this rain.''
I know why it rained," said my brother teasingly,
"just to disappoint you."
"Wellthen I'll disappoint it, and I shall have some
fun anwaj.
With that I disappearedout of the room and up
into the attic where I began to rummage in the trunks.
I opened the first and found it full of queer dresses that
I had never seen before. Oh, then such fun as I had
dressing up' I could not tell it all. I went down about
supper time and found the family eating. "What have
you been doing?" my brother asked. "I've been all
around looking for you." "Disappointing the ram," I
Baid, without giving any further information.
Sixth Grade, Irene Peterson,
Seward School. 2708 Twenty-second St. S.
THE FINGER OF FATE.
One day last summer as a party of boys were driving
past our home on their way to the country, I called to
them to wait for me. I ran into the house to get permis
sion from father to go with them. I joined them and -we
drove over to Mr. B.'s house to get another boy who was
to act as guide. But he could not go unless some one
watched the pig pen. We drew cuts to see who should
watch first. But luckily it did not fall to me. Each boy
was to watch for half an hour so that everybody should
have a turn. We started out, the boy led us to a berry
farm and told us to eat all we could because we should
be hungry in the afternoon. We rambled around' for a
while and then returned to relieve the other boy of his
charge. We drew cuts again, and,
"As if by sudden impulse as of fate
It was my turn to watch the gate."
took my char ge rather reluctantly, you may be sure,
and I amused myself by playing with "a small pig. I
rolled him over in the mud and then walked to a safe dis
tance to avojd coming in contact wjth the mother. I
gathered flowers for a while, and when I asked 'a man
what time it was he said it was only seven minutes past
the time when I took my charge. Oh, how time dragged
along! I was in despair I felt like leaving the pigs to
their own intention of running away. At last I did leave
them, and every one of them save one ran away and it
took two days to find them again. It was then I disap
pointed somebody. Arne Sorum,
A Seventh Grade, 2118 Seventh Street S.
Monroe School.
EVENT TO THIS DAT.
One day when I was about seven years old I was
playing in the yard with one of my friends, and I told
her I knew something nice, and she asked me what I
knew. I said: I will not tell you." Then she said:
"If you do not tell me I will never like you again." But
I would not tell her and she started home. I called to
her and told her I would tell her if she came back, so
she came back and I told her that her mother said 'she
was going to give her a surprise. She asked me what
kind of a surprise, and I said a party. Then she wanted
to start right out and invite some girls, so we started,
and she kept telling me all the time whom she would
invite. When at last we returned home her mother asked
her where she had been, and she said she had been in
viting some girls to her party. After dinner her mother
put on her clean dress and my mother put on mine and
we had to go to every house we had been to in the morn
ing and tell them there was not going to be any party.
And, so far as I know, she has not had the party yet.
Fifth Grade,
Calhoun School. Helen Stratton,
1202 West Twenty-eighth Street.
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ALL ON" A PICNIC DAY.
"Hurry and get your wraps," I heard a girlish voice
say at our door one morning. "Oh, yes, the picnic! I'll
meet you at the station," I sang in reply.
JHB JOURNAL JUNIOR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, KFBJL 28, XOT&
"My dear, you haven't done the practicing I told
yon to do befo re you could go this morning.' Praeue
ingi Oh, dear' I had thought that I was all done. The
twenty minutes at the piano dragged like hours. The
clock struck 9 I had done my practicing, but missed
my car. "I'll catch the next one," I said, hopefully,
starting for my wraps.
"Oh, mama!" came in dismayed tones from the
cloakroom the next minute, "my jacket has a big spot
on it and the rubber^'s off my cap."
"I'll sew the cord on while you sponge your jacket,"
Said mama patiently. "There,'* said I, coming from
sponging the jacket, "that's done, and I can catch th
9:30." Just then I stumbled, cutting my hand. I could
not go. But I was as disappointed as the girls were.
Seventh Grade, Virgila Stephens,
Calhoun School. 3032 Harriet Avenue S.
AN INFANTILE FAILURE.
It was my first public appearance, my maiden speech,
eo I could hardly be blamed. Nevertheless, Aunt Kate
affirms it was er greatest disappointment. I was the
youngest niece in the family and I think nature's lavish
finishing touches in outward appearance had occupied
so much time that the higher sensibilities had been en
tirely neglected. Howbeit, Aunt Kate and several other
admiring relatives, as only admiring relatives can, pro
tested, affirmed and agreed that they had discovered
some signs of budding genius for "the baby" coulcl say
"Little Jack Horner" quite thru!
We had been visiting Aunt Kate for some time and
at last the day had come jwhen a lonesome father could
IN A DILEMMA.
PhotographerThe camera won't take you all in, sir.
I'm afraid I'll have to photograph you inertwo half
length pictures-Chums.
wait no longer for our return and we received imperative
commands to "come home" in the form of a limited
ticket. But there must be a farewell reception and
"tne taby" muBt say "Little Jack Horner" -for the
company. Yes, I would if they gave me some candy and
let me go see daddy." The company sat still "and
waited. The young prodigy stood on a chair and made
her bowand that was all. All, did I say? Not quite,
for on a moment's inspiration, doubtless to relieve the
monotony of being stared at and nodded upon encourag
ingly, I began to ery. Nor coaxes, nor threats, nor prom
ises could quiet my prolonged wail, and the poor com
pany had to eontent itself with the efforts of big sister
to say "Three Little Mice," and the farewell speech of
the preacher in lieu of the event of the evening. Nor
could any later and more pretentious efforts quite blot
out the memory and stmjy of that infantile disappoint
ment. Tillie Will,
A Eleventh Grade, 1909 Clinton Avenue.
South High School.
WHAT WERE FINGERS FOR?
Cooking Club.
It seems strange that the use of forks began only
with our easily remembered forefathers that the ..Greeks
and Romans did not know anything of them, and that
in the far eastern countries their use is still unknown.
Up to the fifteenth century they were known only in
Italy. Elizabeth had three "forks" "garnished with
gold sleightly," and with "lyttle perles pendant," but
they were considered as curiosities and never used. In
deed, in that era it was considered bad form, and min
isters contended that to use them was an insult to God.
What were our fingers for? In Thomas Coryates' "Crud
ities," published originally in 1608, is this:
*'I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and
towns thru -which I pass ed that is not used in any other
country that I saw on my travels neither do I think that
any other nation in Christendom doth use it, but only in
Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers, do always
at their meals use a little forke when they cut their
meats. For while with their knife, which they do hold
in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they
fasten the forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon
the same dish so whatsoever he be that, sitting in the
company of others at meals, should inadvisedly touch the
dish of meats with his fingers, from which all the table
do cut, he will give occasion of offense to all the company,
as having transgressed the laws of good manners, in so
much that for his error he shall be at the least brow
beaten, if not reprehended in wordes. This form of
breeding, I understand, generally used in all places of
Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of iron,
Steele and some of silver but those are used only by
gentlemen. The reason for this curiosity is because the
Italian cannot by any means indure to have his meat
touched with fingers, seeing that all men's fingers are no*
alike clean.'*
Not untD the middle of the seventeenth century aid
England's nobility begin the use of forks, but they came
into use slowly, and even in the early part of the eigh
teenth century gentlemen who traveled carried a knife
and fork, because the inns were not likely to have them.
The Guardian Fawn.
The London Spectator.
A sambhur fawn I possessed in India, of the age of
four to six months', made a practice of chasing all dogs
that came into the compound, and did so with every ap
pearance of considering it the greatest possible fun. The
dogs, on the other hand, fled with their tails between their
legs. This fawn evidently, imagined itself to be the
guardian and protector of the establishment. I have a
vivid picture in my recollection of the gentle little beast
transformed into a perfect fury, its coat bristling on end
to make it look twice its natural size, head and tail de
fiantly erect, stamping sharply on the threshold with its
dainty forefeet, demonstrations intended to frighten
away two pariah dogs who cringed before it on the ver
anda, yet showed a great desire to intrude into the house.
The dogs finally sneaked off, depressed and defeated, and
the conquering fawn swaggered back into the room to
be praised by me, either for once disdaining to chase its
foes or deterred therefrom by its strong dislike to the
noonday sun.
You told me this horse has won half a dozen
matches against some of the best horses in the country.
The brute can't trot a mile in six minutes to save him.''
"It was plowing matches that he took the prizes,
sir."
Wrought Iron.
The British Museum possesses what is probably tho
oldest known piece of wrought iron. It was found in tho
pyramid of Cheops, and must be 4,900 years old.
Fear to Gaze on Royalty.
Formerly a Chinaman who gazed upon the emperor
or Empress while they were being carried along the
street lost his head. Since the emperor's return from
Singanfu this rule has been revoked, but the jpopulace
has not yet mustered its courage, and not long ago, when
the imperial party were in Shanghai, the streets were
deserted.
Like other men of prominence, Admiral Dewey often
comes across the irrepressible party who always affects
to be an terms of intimacy with notable personages.
Courteous and genial, the admiral has profound dislike
for this sort of nuisance. Not long ago, while out walking
in Washington, he was aceosted by an-effusive stranger,
who grasped his hand and said: "George, I'll bet you
don't know me." The admiral dooked his displeasure
as he answered grimly: "You win," and walked on.
Most Active Volcano.
Mount Sangay is the most active volcano in th
world. I is situated in Ecuador, is 17,120 feet in heigh*
and has been in constant activity since 1728. The sounds
_of its eruptions are sometimes heard in Quito, 150 milea
distant, and once 267 reports were counted in one hour.
THE SOUVENIR BUTTONS
A Junior button is given to every contributor for his first
paper printed, provided It Is neither a prize winner nor an
"honorable mention Only one Junior button is given a year,
and this is sent without application. The new year began
September 10, 1904.
An Honor button is awarded for an "honorable mention"
and is sent without application
An Houor button Is awarded to every Junior who has three
papers printed which are neither prize winners nor honorable
mentions These must be claimed by the winner, giving dates
of publication.
An Honor button Is awarded for an accented contribution
to the storyteller column, and is sent without application, to
gether with an order for a book.
Any number of Honor buttons may be won.
A prize button is awarded for every prize paper, without
application Two picture prizes only in one year may be won.
All of these, except the Honor buttons awarded for three
papers printed, are sent out the day of publication, and all no
tices of failure to receive them must be sent to the editor
within the week following publication.
THE HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT CONTESTS.
These contetts are for writers in and above the ninth
grade.
Two prizes of $10 each for pictures or books for the
schools are awarded every three months to the two high
schools winning the highest number of credits.
Winners of these prizes are barred from further contests
for the school year, tho their contributions win be printed.
No school in Minneapolis and no town in the northwest will
be given more than one credit a week. At least four papers
must be sent in on a topic for a high school to be considered
In the contest.
A Journal Junior Prize Button Is sent for the first high
school credit paper of each competitor during the quarter.
The third quarter began March 4 and ends June SO, ~X&05
Inclusive.
THE PBIZE-PICTUBE8.
The pictures which are given as prises during the school
year become the exclusive property of the schoolrooms upon
whose walls they are hung. They are to remain permanently
in the school which the winner attended when he or she won
the prize, and under no circumstance are to be removea to an
other school or to a private home.
Express charges on all prize pictures are paid by The
Journal.
HOW TO PfiEPABE THE PAPEES.
Write In Ink and on only one side oX the paper. Leave a
space jof three Inches at the top of the first page. Use no
headlines. Put the "number of words in the upper left-hand
comer of-the first page. Sign the name and residence at the
end at the right, the grade and school at the end at the left.
THE STORYTELLER.
jLny pupil of a public school, In any part of "the United
States, who is in oc above the fifth grade, may conujprate to
the Storyteller These stories may be true or fiction, and upon
any subject preferred by the writer. They must not be less
than 500 words in length, nor more than 1,000.
TOPICS.. FOR OUT-OE-TOWN WRITERS.
All writers outside of Minneapolis, whether distinctively
of the northwest or not, are to use the topics headed "North
western Topics." Pupils in the public schools anywhere la
the United States may write for The Journal Junior, but must
use the topics as given above.
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