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the bird upland put it in the*nest*was',Hry Then I remembered that I had no way of reaching the nest. For a few minutes I was "puzzled about what to do with the bird, when the mother, crying and scolding, re minded me that she was able to take care of her children without my help, and she did. Edith Howard, Seventh Grade, 2600 Park Avenue. Garfield School. BUILDING WITH CANVAS. One day we decided to make a tent. We worked for one hour and did not succeed. Then the girls decided to give up, but one girl said, I have a pole ready for the front of the tent," so we began again. We worked until supper time, and we went at it again after supped. When it grew dark, one girl said she would go for a lantern because we wanted the tent done by the next day. We worked until half-past seven and then my mother called me. I promised to be in by eight or half-past eight, so she said that I might stay until she called me. At eight mother called me but the tent was finished and our* first problem was solved. Edna Lundsgaard, A Fifth Grade, 546 Humboldt Avenue N. Harrison School. I COOLED BUT How were we to get the candy cooled? There was no use in putting it in the icebox, because the iceman had forgotten to leave us any ice that morning. Perhaps it might be cooled down cellar, so down cellar it was carried, the carrier burning her fingers to a white blister by for getting that the dish would be warm. It gaye her com panions much amusement because she would not drop the dish for fear of upsetting the candy. But the candy would not cool, even down cellar, so it was carried outdoors and set in the snow. Surely it must cool in just a few minutes. When we went out, a very discouraging sight met our eyes. The dish had not been set evenly in the snow and nearly all of the candy had run out. The problem was solved, but not to our satisfaction. The candy had coolednot in the dish, but on the snow. Helen Miles, 2106 Third Avenue S. Eighth Grade, Emerson School. MINDING THE LEVEES. "Oh, yes. It is very easy. All you have to do is to steer." Thus I argued with mama. At last she con sented and I went out with my bro ther to try to run our automobile. He "cranked" it and when I found my self alone with all the machinery I felt rather queer. My hands began to tremble and then my brother said, "Put on slow speed." Quickly I obeyed him and pressed my foot hard on the pedal. "Put on high speed," was the next order, and I hastily jerked the lever down, which gave the car a lurch forward. Seeing a team coming I felt rather nervous and was almost ready to give up when, I thought'I would try to turn the wheel. Pulling hard to the right I nearly ran into a tree. But gradually getting used to it, I put on more speed. Ever since then I can run the car nicely, but I think that that was the first really great problem I have ever had to solve. Eighth Grade, Margaret Murrish, Madison School. Hampshire Arms. A TEIP TO TOWN. When I was about 7 years old I went up town with another boy. He stopped in front of a store to look at something in the window. I walked on about two blocks before I noticed that he was not with me, but when I turned back he was gone. I went to a policeman on the corner and told him I was lost. He asked me where I lived and I told him. I had a nickel in my pocket, so he said, I will put you on the streetcar," and when he did so he told the conductor where to let me off. Just as I got on the car the lady next door got on, too, and she asked me what I was doing up town all alone. I told her I was lost and the conductor was going to put me off at the right place. She took me home and after that my mother never let me go up town with another boy. Sixth Grade, George Martin, Greeley School. 2702 Thirteenth Avenue S. ON CREDIT. One day when I was 9 years old, coming home from school, I looked in a store window and saw a large doll. It was the most beautiful doll I had ever seen. I stood for a long time looking at it. Then I wm in and asked the price of it. It was $5. I walked slowly homeward thinking only of the beautiful doll. At last I remembered my birthday was coming soon and I would be sure to re ceive $5 from my Uncle Johnnie as I had on all my other birthdays. The next night I went in and told the man I wanted the doll and would pay for her afterward. He gave it to me and I went home very happy and told my mother all about it. She did not look very pleased, but she said nothing. My birthday came, but no $5. I soon grew worried and thought I must give my doll back. Finally I took the doll to the man and told him all about it. He laughed and said my mother had paid for her two weeks before. There was no happier girl in the whole world than I, when I thanked my mother. I love my doll still, because I had worried so about keeping her. A Sixth Grade, -^Anna Paulson, Holland School. 901 18% Avenue NE. AS HOT AS I WAS RED. "Oh, look here, Vernie, what a large one I have found'" "Oh, isn't that just perfectf" i*Let's save that for mama." "Yespbut do you think it looks quite like a tomato?" "Surely it does." This conversation took place between Vernie and her sister, Laura, one day when they had gone into the gar den to pick ripe tomatoes for their mother. They had chanced to come upon a red pepper plant whose large fruit they had mistaken for a ripe tomato. Laura was sure that it was a tomato, but Vernie was doubtful.- She first thought. THE JOURNAL JUNIOE, BHNOTAFOLD& ^IINOT^^.STODAY^MOSNmG, NOVEMBER 25, 190e said she could tell by the s*nell that it was not a tomato. /'All right, to solve the problem I wiU-taste it," said Laura, taking a large bite out of the ripe fruit. In a few seconds she was convinced that it was not a tomato. The fruit burned her mouth, her -eyes filled with tears and she could scarcely breathe. Vernie ran to the house and brought some water for her sister. It eased the burning sensation a little, "but," she said, I have solved the problem and I know the answer. It is not a tomato A Eighth Grade, Ruth Porter, Adams School. 723 Tenth Avenue S. t HARD BUT SAFE LANDING. One day, when I was about 5 years old, I was acci dentally left locked in the barnyard. When the cows came up I was frightened. It was cows on one side and a sheep on fence on the other. good, so I looked around and finally discovered a broken wire. It left a hole big enough for my small body to go thru. But* how was I to get up high enough? Just then I spied a milk stool and, bringing it to the hole, I climbed up, and went thru the hole like an eel. I lit hard on the other side, but I did not care. I had solved the problem of getting away from the cows, anyway. Eighth Grade, R McFariand, Lake Harriet School. 4502 Washburn Av. S 6 OUT OF LEADING STRINGS. One time I visited where the people had a baby about 1 year old. He could not walk, and I thought it would be nice to teach him. I let his go-cart down so that he could wheel it. He tried it and walked at once. He pushed it PLENTY OF TIME. City Man (with important engagement)Suffering Caesar! How do you expect I'm going to catch that train at this rate of goings DriverAin't your ticket good for thirty days? Judge. Copyright, 1906. all over the house. Then his mother sa'id, "Take the chair away from him and see what he will-do." I -did so, and he fell and bumped his head. When he stopped cry ing, we let him try again. He kept falling until St last his father said, "Come here, Russell," and he walked right over to him. We were greatly pleased that his first problem,that of learning to walk,had been solved. Seventh Grade, Edith Straiton, Margaret Fuller School. 1123 W. Fifty-third St. TWO SMALL BOOTS. Once there was a girl named Esther who lived in a nice country home One day she went with her mother to town where she saw a pair of the nicest doll shoes she had ever seen. But she did not have any money with which to buy them. Coming home she made up her mind to save enough money to get them. Some time after that she had enough, but she did not know how to gefc to town. One day their nurse had a headaehe and went to sleep, so Esther managed to^o downstairs and reach the road leading to town. It was a very cold and foggy day, but finally she reached the store and bought the shoes. She came back just as quietly as she went, but the next morning she awoke with a sore throat, and was quite ill for awhile. When she was nearly well, her mother showed her a little white box. She told her mother that it was the fault of those shoes that she had fallen ill. She pr6mised her mother never to do anything like that again. A Fifth Grade Ruby Swanson, Schiller School. 3618 Marshall Street NE. A "GREAT" RIDE. One day when I was quite small my sister asked me if I would go to the dressmaker's for her coat. I was glad to do it because it meant that I would ride in a streetcar and sit in a big seat all by myself and pay my own carfare. Then my friends would think me "great." My sister gave me 50 cents, which I thought a large sum for a little girl to .carry. I walked way up the aisle to the first seat, in the car so that I could watch the motorman and look out of the"window. The conductor came to collect the fare and I handed him the big^50 cents. He gave me the change and I sat there ceunting and counting the money over and over again. I thought there was 10 cents missing, so when I got off I told the conductor. He counted the money and said that it was the right change, and I left the car still puzzling over the difficult problem. -A Sixth Grade, Ruth Sandberg, Tuttle School. 1? 1032 Twelfth Ave. SE. THERE WAS A REASON. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I don't see why we have such hard problems," I said one evening. We had been given ten problems in arithmetic to do at home. I just can't get that answer right." I am^very sorry to say that my mind was upon a party that was to come off the next dayT After working on the problem (or I thought I was) for an hour and a half, I retired. The *iext day I gave them to why ui my teacher. As I expected, I received a scolding.r*But, worse yet, the teacher said that it was a test, and those who fell below grade would receive "U" on their cards. I had worked only one, and of course I received the threat ened "U." That taught mc not to try to think of more than one thing at a tim^. Catherine Stevens, Seventh Grade, 1057 Fifteenth Avenue SE. Holmes School. BECAUSE SHE SAID "WHY." Well, when Columbus went to see the queen of Spain, "You may take your seat, young lady," said Miss B. "Wow, why did she make me take my seat this-time?" I wondered. Was it just because I had used that word "why the middlediof mt^need sentence?useles /ound that crying did littlre ginnin" tin see that I no that word ia a sentence of that kind. I struggled to rid myself of that habit. Little by little I began to see improvement, and at length, presto! I had "solved the problem," and thrown "why" to the seven winds to be torn to bits. A Eighth Grade, Edna Washburn, Washington School. 721 Eighth Avenue S. THE TIMES TWISTED. The boys were playing ball across the street while I was confined to the miseiable wood-chopping job that most boys have to do at the very times when there is something else going on. I heard a loud chorus of boys yelling and shouting. I dropped the ax and started on the run across the street. Before I reached the grounds I heard mother say, "Well, if he plays ball now he will have to chop wood later." I stopped a mo ment, and tried to solve the hardest problem I had ever had. But I de cided to play ball then. I went across the street and saw that the team had struck a hard team to beat. My words proved so, for when I came to leave the field it was half past six. When I reached home, everybody was get ting ready for a concert.- I ate supper and thought all I should have to do would be to join the parade, but te my disappointment I was told that my wood must be chopped. I did chop it, but was not at all satisfied with the result of my problem. Ernest Watson, 3025 Tenth Avenue S. Eighth Grade, Horace "Mann School. A PURPOSE BEHIND. When I was 5 years old, my grandfather was staying with us. Grandpa and I were very close friends and when he was out walking I was sure to be with him. One day he asked me if I would like to learn how to read. I was very happy, for I knew that meant that he would teach me how. If I could read, I thought, I could stay up like brother Ben. As soon as we reached home after our wa'k I took my first lesson. It was great fun and I was very happy, but after the first few weeks it grew tiresome. I knew I could not stop, for grandpa believed that "if a task is once begun, never leave it till it's done."o I studied and took every word grandpa said until I knew how to read and that first hard problem was solved. Sixth Grade, Margaret Jones, Adams School. 2307 Seventeenth Ave. S. FUN AT THE BLUFF. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon when our neighbor's children, my sister, brother and I went to the river after wild flowers. We crossed a bridge a block long and then went down the river a quarter of a mile, until we came to some blue-bells. We stripped the plants and went on until we came to a great hill on the bank of the river noted for its height, and decided to climb it. When we reached the top we started down again. The rest of the girls went down with the help of the boys and my brother promised to come back and help me, but for fun they did not return. Then I tried to solve the problem of getting down. I had three baskets and two pails of flow ers which the rest of the company had left for me to carry. I told them they would have to come for their flowers or they would not have any. I finally decided to climb down. I took my pail and had gone half-way down when I lost my balance and fell to the bottom. When the rest got their pails we went home and that was the way I solved my first problem. Edith Clark, A Sixth Grade, 3335 Chicago Ave. Horace Mann School. NO GYPSY MONOPOLY. One day in summer I was standing out on the side walk when a covered wagon came past. I was small and had heard about gypsies. I thought they were going to take me. When I saw them coming I ran as fast as I could till I was out of sight of the wagon. Some time later, after mother had looked everywhere she found me, but when we reached home, a covered wagonthe same wagon from whieh I had run awaywas standing in front of the next house. I said, Mother, look at that gypsy wagon!" She laughed and said it was only, a moving van. Minnie Pie,, Seventh Grade, 1115 Dupont Ave. N. Grant School. A Sure Way. To keep fish from smelling cut off their noses. f*a*&k *t*-otf I was just be- BEING USEFUL. When I was about 5 years old, I was always up to mis chief or doing things that displeased others. Once when mama had gone to the store I decided to do the dishes. I had washed and wiped them and was about to put them away when I heard someone at the door and it startled me so that I fell off the chair with an armful of dishes. It was mama at the door and she asked me what I was trying to do with her dishes. I asked her not to be cross, as I had solved my first problem in trying to make myself useful to her, tho the fact is that it being my first attempt to-wash dishes, mama had to do them all over again, Florence Warren, 1011 Fremont Avenue N. A Sixth Grade, Grant School.