Show Tage Four THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 19 1933 7 Daily Practice In Any Art Will Tales of Real Dogs 'llw Kig Flack Mongrel That Reunited a Boy to Ilis Family Develop Talent His name wav ''Bum " He was giSomewhere gantic and jet black among the many hopelessly mixed bleeds which went into his makeup there mu-- t have been a Great Dane Or two For Bum looked more like a Gieat Dane than like anything else On my desk here is a photogiaph of Bum Also a photoglyph o( his young master whose first name Is Charlie and whose last name I am not going to tell jou Well call linn "Charlie Everyone Ls familiar with the fact that muscle can be developed from almost nothing by daily and persistent practice of the right kind Almost any child who starts in to take dancing lessons and persists week after week can learn to be an accomplished dancer Almost anyone w ho desires to can learn to play a musical instrument if he will subject himself to regular and unvarying practice Writing and drawing aie the same While innate ability largely makes things easier and gives an indefinable to work still almost anv superiority intelligent child can learn to w i ite and to draw if he will subject himself to daily practice of his chosen subject Those ’Who contribute to The Tribune Junior find regulaily in this woik Blank" I am not going to tell you his name is not proud of the story I am going to relate and because he because he lias done all he can to atone for the There mlly misdeeds he committed Is no use In bringing unwelcome no-tlety to him or to hu family Charlies mother was a widow From childhood Chailies best loved pal was his mongrel black dog Bum lie and Bum grew lip together They loved to get out Into the country and tiamp all day In the fields and woods They were hisepuiable Then Chailies mother mairied again His new stepfather seems to have been a veiy decent kind of a man He was piepaied to be good to his stepson and make friends with his alopson s big dog But Chmlie would not have it so He made up his youthful mind that lus stepfather was a brute and that lie hated him Also he had a diead that his stepfather was going to poison Bum You get the Idea don't you7 Here was a spoiled and jealous boy whose mother adored him And now a strange man was to take the place of his long dead father and order hun aiound Other bovs—and perhaps some of his own father's relatives — told Charlie that stepfatheis were demons As a result Charlie was prepared to find fault with eveijthlng this stepfather of his might say or do When a boy— or a grown person — gets into that moibid frame of mind theie aie always plenty of perfectly harmless things which fan the flame of hatted and the feeling of being ill Used As a result life grew more and more unpleasant in the Blank s comfortable fam-ll- v borne In a Chicago subuib Daily the bov and his stepfather dashed Daily Charlie's mother grew more unhappy at the enmity between these two people she loved Bum seemed to be the only happy member of the household The big good natured mongrel was willing to be friends with everybody even though he seemed to sence the feeling of animosity thut ran through the rest of the housemates Then one day Charlie and hU step-fath- had a hot quarrel Neither of them ever would tell what it was all bout whuh leads me to believe it was nothing of real importance For the fiercest quarrels have their stall m the pettiestusually things Anv how Charlie decided he would not etay another day under the roof of this allegedly brutul stepfather of And ! took ? Hum w ith him He started oft before daybreak his mother and stepfather Jhiie still were asleep i and Bum were good keis By the time their absence Had been noticed they had trudged JV"' n'aic unu uieir BDinty anu skill grows apace Tho who hare takfn advantage of thu opportunity this week are Clarissa Tier tramped seveial miles to the oubkuts of Chicago suburb Charlie's one idea had been to himself and Bum out of the reach get of the stepfather He had no other And he had only a few pennies plan and nickels and dimes in cash It was up to him to find ready somewhere to live and some way to earn food for Bum and himself By and by as he tramped along the suburban road he came upon an enormous advertising sign which had been partly blown over It hung at an angle buck over the grass behind the road Chai lie decided this was the foundation of fust rate summer home for his black dog andjumself Ha hunted around till he found some rotting shingles and scantling and other odds and ends from a hovel that had collapsed from decay And he lugged them to the signboard Thus with the sagging sign for one naif of his roof he built himself a ramshackle tepee He pulled a few armfuls of long grass from the fields for bedding and found a packing box which would serve for table and bureau and cupboard and chair Then he told Bum to stay there quietly until he should return He walked to the village a mile or so away and bought enough food for a meal or two for his dog and himself That was the beginning Farly every morning Charlie and Bum would go together for a long ramble through the woods and for a swim in a creek Then the boy would order his dog to go into the shack and stay there while he himself went to the suburb to look for odd jobs Charlie used to clean cellars and run errands and mow lawns and do any kind of work he could find to earn enough caxh to buy food for himself and his dog Then late in the afternoon he would come baik to the tepee and share his supper with Burn They would go for another walk and a wim and then would cuddle down Knighthood of Youth Fditcr The Salt Lake Tubune member of the Knighthood of J°u !° cnro11 nic Voiu °‘'e ®cpntfl- uhith I hove eat lied myself to pay fust button ribbon and chart I pledge my '(If to be in honest out strictly filling my chait - Name Parents Name Hate (f Birth AKp Add i e- -s (Sliod) Gtade In School Date of Filing Application I Earned Tins (City) Name of Schorl Muncy by (Explain til eh Williams Murray cross word Punic Aryal Grover Nephl cutout doll Arval Grover comic strip Norman Price Salt Lake ) comic rrT!u fDhalgh Perron dialing‘rip Keith Edgar Salt draw- Montague Lake in Thays Stanley Nephl drifting ’!!'! 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I! farnea Kenner lut Lynette Chegwidden Murray bus? work Jerry Stone Gooding Idaho bography Frnma Julia Jenkins poem together In the hay for a long night's sleep But this was a subuib of Chicago not the heart of darkest Africa So before long neighbois began to talk about the strange bov and his black dog and to wonder what they were doing there One of these neighboi s notified the police An investigation was made An officer came to the tepee while Charlie was in town at work Bum was caught and was cairied to the dog pound When Charlie came bat k that night his beloved dog was gone A passer-btold him of the visit of the police and Bum's capture Now the average runaway boy hag mortal terror of the police Charlie was horribly afraid of them He had been dodging them to the best of his ’!! "I y Briihi"‘ FrerkMrm Irn Clarlgs William He was told that Bum had no license tag therefore the mongrel must be put U death in 48 hours 'unless the license fee could be paid The boy had no money and no means for raising enough to pay for a license At thought of Bum's fate he forgot he was an independent man of the world and he bioke down and These Charlie was too heartbroken and bewildered to keep his miserable secret any longer He blurted out the whole story and he besought the questioner to save his dog from death As a result another worker went to the boy’s stepfather to learn more of the case His and mother hurried to the stepfather rescue Theie were more tears then a sane and kindly chat and a reconciliation (Copyiight 19J3 Me Naught cate Inc ) Syndi- Tiny Longbcnnl Finds An Fnciny Tiny Longbeaid s gulden w a growing fine and he was veiv happy One morning he was awakened by hearing Johnny Toadstool catling "Oh Tiny come quickly " Tiny jumped out of bed nd dreveed and ran out to Hie garden "What as the matter Johnny?" he asked "Black Beetle Is over there with his sharp hatchet and he will cut down your garden” Johnny said Tiny went over to Black Beetle "Why aie you m my garden?" he "I am hungry and I want something to eat" laid Black Beetle ‘1 I take you over to the forest and help you to find food will you leave my garden alone?" asked Tiny "Yes" said Black Beetle So Tiny took him awnv THAYS STANLEY Age I Ncplii A oo jpo loft jno loo )H 1(K) Joo luo (o loo joo t ns so fto W) Iq fto fco NO fto M mi Can You Answer cried A “social worket” happened to be at the station house and made Bum was taken from the dog pound and he and the whole family went home together to a new and muih happier life Know''” log loo rtlcl Fannie Sue Graham poem so Emma Julia Jenkins book review Elnaheth Snow Salt Lake book review jo Forsyth Burt book review ka Maurlme Riddle Drlggs Idaho eaay’!! 50 Betty Cowan Nephl drawing Farnea Kenner puzzle us Anne Oarfield Mona puzrle !!!!!!!! ‘as Fannie Sue Graham puttie 2S Bernice Johnson Shelley Idaho puaile AS Warne Hartwell park City recipe 5 Emma Julia Jenkina inteiesting fact 35 Clarissa W'lliams Interesting fact jh Marjorie MiUeu Ball Lake interesting fact 51 Thave Signify bright saying 25 Tha? Stanley bright saying js Bob Jolt s Hiawatha bright J5 saying Fern Prerkleton bright eaying 35 Ruth Sperry Mona bright aayln 3S The subject to work oa Uhl week i Bunn a That easy Ian t UT ability But when It came to Bum's safety fear took a second place Charlie ran as fast as he eould to the nearest police station There he demanded his dear dog Did Toil 2oo i0o 3oo jpO Q ueslions? See whether you can fill m th blank accurately 1 George Washington was th on of and 2 He was born in the of itate 3 He served the nation as president from to 4 He died i- n8id Was burled at 5 He married-and had children 8 His early occupation was that of a 7 He attained public recognition and k - FARNES KENNER Age 13 Salt Lake I Augustine Washington and Mary Ball 2 hebruarv 2 1732 Virginia 3 April 30 Haft-M- arch 4 1797 4 December 14 179ft” Mt Vernon 5 Martha Dandudg lus us no 8 surveyot 7 soldier member of Uie Continental rongi ess commander of the A mein an army and president of the Contitu-tiona- l A Answers' convention CU4r What Thit Jih med It’uhlle frames jor You My first is In fat but not in hat My second's In eat but not In feet My third ia In boss but not in mow My fourth Is In rate but not in ale My fifth ls In flute but not in flat My sixth U In fear but not In hee My seventh’s In room but not in gloom My eighth Is in you but not in to— Whnt Is iP FANNIE SUE GRAHAM ape 11 Salt Lake A |