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JUNIOR
EDITORIAL
CORNER
Junior Call, Third anil Market streets,- San Francisco, November 13, 1910.
'..Good- morning, Juniors:-. '
»-\u25a0:.-.• * s every one happy today? If nay one isn't, I'm mighty sorry, because
I'm as gay as a lark myself. I've been* up'sincc dawn. Took a run out
toward the park, arid still got home in time to button the Pup's collar. After
breakfast . I. filled ray fountain pen (didn't come to grief this timej either) 1 ,
and here I am. Good morning again.
- Hoorayl I helped the editor this week on the puzzles, and, would you
believe if, there wasn't an answer received in an envelope! When I told
him, he shook his head and surveyed me in wonder. "Alonzo, you're a
wizard," he said; ''how do you do it?"
"Tut, tut!" said I; "all they needed was to have the situation explained
to them, and;you see. how quickly, they came to the rescue. I'll tell you one
thing^aboutUhe Juniors:. If you get in a tight place and need a little help,
all youhave to do is to say so, and they're right to the; front at a minute's
notice. 'live never .known them to fail. .They're just the finest youngsters
in the world, anyway!"' And the editor agreed with me. '
Now, I'm .going to talk to you today 'about the suffering carelessness
often brings upon: the horses in our midst, and those of you who have your
own horses prick up your ears and listen. Did you ever stop to think what -
useless-misery is inflicted, upon '.the animals by. the use of a too tight check
rein? And another' thing that should be carefully watched is" the blinkers,
iforjfoften these become .bent, and, if not noticed quickly, are apt to cause
blindness. ','-'. : , \u25a0 • • \u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 • \u25a0 .,'\u25a0"..'
-,>- I have known people who would drive a horse into town from the
country,, hitch". hirirto a convenient post and let him stand; for hours after a
long/drive without food or, water: : An'd the post chosen would most probably
be : without : shade or ; of - any « kind. These people , were not naturally
unkincl;- they were' simply thoughtless and, credited the horse with possessing
a 'constitution \u25a0\u25a0 impervious to winter colds or summer heats, when,- if the
truth were'but known/lie, is "as sensitively constituted as the average human
animal."'- \u25a0',< ''\u25a0\u25a0>;.;' ' *,:'.*^r:M ''/:\u25a0,
;A: horse's teeth should always be carefully watched, in order to provide
against the pain of an ulcerated tooth, or'aches of . any kind, for, that matter,
as- he can have a toothache; just 'as quickly -as either; you or.' L: Did you
ever \ hold i a. piece of: ice against your teeth for; a moment and experience the
acute^pain it gives you? >You can; appreciate, then, somewhat the suffering
a' horse is forced; to endure \u25a0 when" a; frosty bit iis>put into". his mouth. [' Isn't
it /terrible, ;-boys ; arid ;girlsj;to think{of ;thc silent \u25a0 sufferings sorne; of .these'durrib
brutes;: go with, patiently, \ uncomplainingly? f,: 'Arid don't you think
weall .ought 'to: do -what we. can to lighten the burden? : .If you have horses
of . your . ; own, see that^they hay eT the right kind of ', care. "\u25a0 Pet ;. them; once in a
whiles and talk -to ; theiri.- That : ,-hclps.-a' lot. 'I've t; heard 'many a ; t horse v say
that the work he had' to do never seemed so hard if he had a. kind 1 word arid
a s loving, pat ;tb:carry,;him; through^ the day. ,.; " ; • ' .
v - Keep 'yourUeyes open when' you're out-.if you see'any one abusing a
horse,' report it :to the humane society. Be a friend .to the animals. We all
neeil your and understanding, be we- horses, 'dogs or cats. Don't
'forget that: we: can't talk, and be patient with us when we try to speak to you
in our .own-ways.' '.. ; , ' " v.
. ; That will; be all for today, Juniors. : My pen has, run ;dryT Write to me
without 'fair this: weekr- So long until- 1 next Sunday. With love, ALONZO.
SHORT BARKS FROM ALONZO
Two fantail pigeons, one bright day,
Dropped in to see'Alonzo gay; ..';.'.'.:
The Pup put on a baseball mitt
And with the fans made quite a hit.
\u25a0This week mother leaves for St. Louis, and great will tie the gathering
of •anti-pqundites. The Pup »has decided to stay at home and help me run
The "Junior Call. He answers all the purposes of a first class office boy.
R Heard on a 'streetcar:
"Mamma, mamma! What is a lapdog?"
"Hush/ dear, hush}" :
"But, mamma, I want to know. Tell me, what kind of a dog is a lapdog?"
'.'\Vhy~er— it's an odd little creature, dearie; that comes from — Lapland.
Now, willyou be quiet!" - '
Huh! \:
I'm. glad my master isn't a duck hunter. My friend, Bill, who is a
Llewellyn setter, went hunting yesterday and spent the day dodging buck
shot, plowing through soft bogs and swimming after disabled birds. When he
was "not working he Shivered and shook so he couldn't be quiet. And theu he
had the audacity to tell me in the evening that he'd had the time of his
life/There's no accounting for some people's tastes. \u25a0•\*3
People who have a large supply of advice to unload on the market
shouldn't cheapen their goods by giving it away. The wise man with the
advice habit nowadays rents a hall, charges an entry fee of $2 and pleases
everybody—-himself best of all. ". \u0084
Christmas time is known for toys,
July fourth! for fun and noise;
New Year for its brand new rules,
April first for April fools. , *,
But Thanksgiving is the time
When the turkey's in his prime,
When his wings he closely furls
And makes glad small boys and girls.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1910.— THE JUNIOR CALK ' —
Paper Farms and Country Places
An Interesting Play for Rainy Days
ONE of the most amusing plays for
rainy days for a family of chil
dren who have a nursery or play
room Is tho furnishing and equipment
of an entire household, etc., from pic
tures cut from magazines and papers.
This is a play that iasts a long time. It
may go on for weeks — Indeed for an
entire season.
It is possible to use the wall as a
background If you aro permitted to do
so, and this may bo done by putting up
sheets of plain colored paper on the
wall to which the pictures that you cut"
out may bo pinned. It will make tho
room look better, perbaps, If .all these
sheets of paper are of the same color,
and green is a good hue for this pur
pose.
If your parents do not wish you to
have the walls used as a background
for your^plctures a large screen will be
quite as good. You may pin your pic
tures directly on this without putting
up any additional background, unless
you want the paper background, be
cause it looks prettier or more appro
! priate.
THE. FARM
If you have not the screen and the
wall is Impossible then lay your pic
tures out on tables and the tops of
chests of drawers, etc. -You can keep
them in a.box when it is necessary, and
on rainy/days when you are playing
indoors you may bring them out and
set up, the paper house and farm. , Be
sure to keep all the objects belonging
to each scene in individual boxes, or
compartments so that they will not be
: mixed.
You may furnish your house most
elaborately, if you wish or you may se
lect the 'simpler styles of furniture.
Among the advertisements published In
newspapers there are all sorts of pic
tures of furniture, usually only'ln black
and white, but sometimes you may also
find colored pictures.
After the house_ has been furnished
y.ou may furnish the barnyard. This
requires different sorts, of animals
cows, horses, perhaps some pigs. You
may have a fine stable at one side, sev
eral large treos, a fence and anything
else that is suitable for a farm yard.
Then there are the other farm animals
and the houses where they live. For
instance, you may lay out one largo
section with a 'picture of the outside
lot tb,e house in one corner, a stable and
barnyard with all the proper animals In
another; a chicken yard and houses,
with the chickens, guineas and turkeys
In another; a vegetable garden back of
the house and a garden In front of it.
There may be a carriage house also and
a big. barn in adidtion to the stable, and
outside of the barn you may have a
fine collection of farm implements.
TUELARGE ESTATE
Perhaps you do not care to lay out a.
farmhouse and grounds, but would
prefer to furnish a fashionable country
estate. You will then need a large
mansion, pleasure,: grounds, garage,
model dairy, fine stables and large
gardens for the outside of the house
and:a /great; many finely - furnished
rooms for the insldo.
For the" garage there may be a pic
ture of a suitable building and a num
ber of fine cars drawn up outside,, with
perhaps a chauffeur or two to complete
the scene. The pleasure grounds should
include a: tennis court, which you will
probably find pictured with players : on
the courts. If not, you may lind the
players elsewhere and paste or pin
them to the proper spots. Tha golfi
course may also bo a part of tho pleas-*
ure grounds. There should be a wide
stretch of lawn about the house and a
flower garden at one side or in tha
rear.' This garden is especially for
flowers, and you may cut borders,
(lowering plants of all sorts and beds of
bright-blossoms from flower catalogues.
" You may also have a same preserve
on the estate if you. choose making a
background of trees and pictures of
woods, and on top of this pinning your
woodland animals, such as would nat
urally be found in such a preserve.
Deer, foxes, wildcats, squirrels,* rabbits,
in fact all small woodland animals na
tive to the climate, would be suitable,
How to Play "Warning"
One of the players having been
choßcn "Warner," takes his stand at
the place marked oft as "home," the
rest remaining a little distanco
from it.
The warner then calls "Warning!"
three times, and sallies forth with his
hands ria^ped .in front of him. In
this position he must try to touch one
of the other players,, who strive to
make him unclasp them by pulling his
urtiiK, drawing temptingly near, etc. If
they succeed in making him loose his
clhbp, or If he does so by inadvertence,
he must run home as fust us possible.
If he is caught before reaching his
place as warner, he must go out in
the field and the one who touched him
becomes warner. If he succeeds In
touching any onu withuut unclasping
his hands the captive btcomcN his ally
and they both run home us fast as
and pheasants, partridges and wild
turkeys among the birds.
Kennels are also included in Iho lftrftfi
country place, and it Is very Interesting
to cut out dogs for the kennels, so that
If one does not care for house furnish
ing and profers outdoor things one mny
be sattsfled,.wlth pinning up a desirable
outside mansion, nnd Instead of fur
nishing suitable rooms for it may" In
stead sec that nil tho outdoor appoint
ments are correct.
Conservatories are n necessary part
of such an estate, nnd so you may show
both tho outside nnd inside of these
buildings. The Interior may be fur
nished with tropical plants of all sorts,
and besides, you may have a house for
tropical fruit or for forced fruit, and
ono for vegetables.
You may have a beautiful meadow
with tho ground covered with fresh
green grass nnd a blue sky nbovo. On
this background you may place
fine cattle or fine horses If you prefer
to devote your meadow to cattle select
the finest pictures of prize stock, and If
you wish instead to make a specialty of
horses you will find n great many pic
tures of beautiful horses both in the
newspapers and the magazines.
FURNISHING TOE KOOIHS
If you decide to "furnish the Interior
of such a mansion you must provide
for it on a magnificent scale, as inex
pensive furniture would be out of place.
Of course the furniture must go outside
the house, each room being marked oft
and separated from the others. You
will need drawing rooms, a large din
ing room, a breakfast room, a library,
billiard room, large ha 11,., ballroom,
kitchen, laundry, servants' dining room,
storeroom, : house keeper's room, but
ler's pantry and broad lower halls for
the lower part of the house, while up
stairs will be the family rooms, includ
ing a private sitting room for the mis
tress of the house, a day and night
nursery for tho children, family bed
rooms, and bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.;
for the guests. _ Then there must be
some servants' bedrooms, linen -room,
trunk room, store rooms, eto.
When you are furnishing the music
room, you will find plenty of musical
instruments of all sorts carefully pic
tured so that you may, cut them out
for your room.
"Another apartment which may well
be included in this country house is the
picture gallery. .This should be a long
room, usually, a narrow one, with > fine
hangings at the windows and a varied
collection :of framed pictures.'. on the
wall. - You : will often see framed pic
tures in the rooms published in papers,
nnd these you may cut out and .use for
your gallery. A few fine statues may
also be used for the. decoration of this
room. , -.
COI-LECTING PICTUHES
When you are looking for pictures it
will sometimes seem that everything is
to bo had except what you want. It is
best not to' try to. get the pictures for
only one part of the house or grounds
at one time, but Instead to cut out
everything that is sufficiently attract
ive to fit in anywhere. You should get
a number of pictures in this way be
fore you- start to lay out your grounds
or to furnish the house. Then you can
sort them out and put thorn where
they belong and after that it is easy to
fill in the vacancies, not at once, but
as you happen to get now papers or
magazines.
Another way of using pictures cut
from the papers and magazines for
rainy day play is to lay out a. village
instead of a farm or country estate.
The top of a table will do nicely for
tills plan, and the. pictures may be
pinned down if there is danger of
their blowing away.
In the village. you may have a row of
workmen's cottages, a row of country
mansions, the main » street with the
stores, the village church, tho court
house, school, firehoußO, town clock, li
brary, postofllce and any other build
ings suitable to a village. After you
have placed all the houses and other
buildings and set out trees and a vil
lage green you may put somo figures
into the plan, motor cars, steamcars by
the railroad station, old farm wagons
on some of the streets, etc.
they can. Once homo they are safe,
nnd they then Htart out hand in hand,
after calling the three warnings, and
try to capture another, without loosing
their hold. Every captured player Is
added to their ran Us, but every one
must be taken home first before he la
admitted to a share in the light.
The line of warners thus increas
ing, the difficulty of evading cap
ture grows greater at every accession
to their rankn, but It Is. also a source
of weakness, being unwieldy; and If
the hands do not hold to each other
tightly, a- player at large may break
through at any weak point in the line
and escape capture.
The Held of play must be within
rather narrow limits, for the only
chance of the pursuing party to make
captures is to pen or corner the fugi
tives.
The last player to escape being taken
becomes the next wurner.