Show l t o- - TITE SALT LAKf TRIBUNE JUNIOR Peggy Learns It 27 I- - V mother just Oh In Tap-- i have let me all Today we announce the close ofl the sewing contest If you have kept an- up with the weekly lessons you ham all your samples ready If you hum not you may have time to do at lea-!part of them this week Mount your samples neatly and mall them toTha Tribune Junior They will be returned after the winners have been announced They must reach our office before midnight Monday 5 May The contest Includes the running stitch back stitch basting stitch hemming overcasting pinking buttonholes three ways of Bewing on buttons open seam French seam seC of five pm tucks lap felled seam seB of six side tucks soft pleat two stitched pleats box pleat with stitched edge box pleat with freo edge gathering shirring and sewboth ing lace onto material stiaight and gathered And any little girl who can do all these things is in a fair way to become a fine seamstress! The close of this contest will sea the distribution of a vast number of pouts There are twenty dfferenti btitches The regular awards of 100 50 25 and 10 pouita will be made for each stitch — a total of 3700 points Add to tills the grand award for the best complete bet of samples tin addition to any individual awards the set may receive) and you get a grand total of 4200 points for this one contest You ought to get some of these to add to your score Don't let them all go to one contestant! Spread them all over the big point list with a fair share for your own name ) 500-pol- nt OUR TROUBLE DEPARTMENT ——— — Knight Billie Oberhansley Cedar City writes that he cannot find any bristol board anywhere in his home town her classes that morning In the last Peggy made blunders she began to feel very hungry and she felt very dizzy and thought that the class would never end She to finally ran home and said her mother “Oh mother crying my head aches so and my stomach simply feels Dancing Is one of the oldest means of expressing one's emotions These two girls Helen Winkler and Ruth Mitchell students of the Sandy junior high school are well trained m all the phases of dancing both old and new Their favorite variety at present Is tap dancing which they are learnmg under the direction of Then Peggy out her story to her mother poured That afternoon Peggy stayed in bed and right then she decided not to drink coffee again MARGARET DUDLEY 13 Years 7B j BRIGHT SAYINGS their teacher Bright Sayings may be submitted any time Twenty-liv- e points are awarded for each one published One day in primary we had a memory gem that started like this: If a string is In a knot Patience will untie it The teacher asked was patience is One little boy answered: "It must be at your fingernails” AIDE CLEO FAIL When I was about 3 years old riding with my mother on was I a Bamberger car We hit a cow Later we were telling about it and I said: Oh yes! We got wrecked on the electric hamburger ” PAGE JANIS GRIBBLE East Ely Nev Little Ivine age 3 had heard her father singing "The Vagabond Lover" All the next day she went around singing "I'm Just a lovable lover in search of a wheat camp it seems" PAGE JUNE LARSEN V Salt t One t day my her shoes pike cousin Marguerite mother holding her Mother" she asked "may I borrow doubletrees to put In my shoes?" PAGE GALE POULSON your Orangeville One dnv my father sent me to buy a writing tablet My little brother 6 years old vent along When got to the store" he said: "We want a writpill ing KNIGHT CLISTA LARSEN Palrvlew My sister went to orchestra practice at a lady's house one day The little boy looking out of the door saw the children coming down the street with their instruments He exclaimed "Oh mamma are they going to have oyster practice with their (He meant "orchestra practice with their Instruments") KNIGHT BANNERET PHYLLIS YELLAND Ely Nev school we were having the story of William Tell The teacher asked what is the difference between emperor and empire One boy raised his hand and when she called on him he said "An emperor Is a king and PAGE MARGLERITE STONE McGill Nev an empire Is the man who judges a baseball game" One dav i‘L In Miss A Katherine Jen- - What lovely thoughts you poets hid about the "May Queen ! There far the contrione from would expect Everything to willows herself pussy Queen May golden haired little girls and fairies were looked upon as the true May Queen Knight Marsha Mary Jane Walters Bristol Silver Nevada won first place with a charming little poem Knight Banneret Janet Higgs Bingham and Knight Constant Richard Poll Wichita Palls Texas shared second honors Janet with a dainty little poem and Richard with a sturdy humorous boyish interpretation of the charming holiday that comes tills week Herald J Russell Johnson Evanston Wyoming and Knight Marshal Margaret Dudley Salt Lake were awarded 25 points each Aide Helen Seelev Fort Duchesne and Esquire Helen Rice also of Port Duchesne were given honorable mention These last two contestants are newcomers to the point contest Their work shows great promise if they will continue and will be just a little moie careiul in choosing the words they use Aide J a ills Gribble East Ely won first place for a poem sent in by a child under 9 yeais of age MY MAY QUEEN I know a maiden with golden hair And a crown of Jewels bright She has sandals of green on her dainty feet And a dress of purest white was seg physical education director re-of the Sandy Junior high 'Many quests are received each month from different organizations and communities for these girls to demonstrate their talent To Helen and Ruth It is dancing that makes life really worth living and after all what bet- ter way Is there of expressing one's joy at being alive? more variety in than My maiden dances on the gl ass Where beautiful flowers grow And she lives 'neath the sagebrush dull and gray Where the desei t breezes blow The petals sweet make the white of her dress Yellow pollen the gold of her hair The sunshine makes her jeweled crown My May Queen is a daisy fair ALDE JANIS GRIBBLE age 9 7 East Ely Nevada THE QUEEN OF THE MAY felt her coining the day before I heard her yesterday And I saw her oh! I saw her Down in tlie meadow today I Her secret is out beyond a doubt And you should have seen my ex Her hair was wreathed In daffodils Her maids were buttercups: ' And she flung from her hands apple Johnny-jump-up- board get i ' heavy glossy white paper unllned It will do if the drawings are done carefully in black ink Page Wendell Petty Sallna sent a clever drawing for the Easter contest but as it was In pencil it could not be considered Draw in ink next time Page Wendell Your next badge casts 5 cents and so does your chart which means that you must earn 10 cents Esquire Delbert She couldn't have kept her secret long For the brook Just broke away And laughing and babbling to all the world Here comes the Queen of the May!" KNIGH T MARSHAL MARY JANE WALTERS age 13 Bristol Silver Nevada ‘ Right after the list of point winners (In the very same story) you will find all the contest sub- We shall be Jects announced watching for some poems from you Page Margaret Esquire Jeanne Tisue Salt Lake wants to know whether she can get her Herald shield and her Knight chart at the same time Yes indeed Esquire Jeanne Since you neglected to get your shield when it was due you are entitled to it now MAY May goes tripping through the mea- dows Scattering flowers all along Grasses bend to give her greeting Birds salute her with their song Herald Gwen Johnston Blackfoot Idaho asks What Is Hope Nelson's address’ When does this big contest end9 Has Lorraine Davis Idaho Falls Joined yet? hilLside Hope Nelson's address Is 114 North Main Salt Lake City Utah This big point contest will close about June 22 Lorraine Devis has not sent In her application blank yet Blossoms spring beneath her feet Buttercups and dogtooth violets Shed their subtle fragrance sweet May goes dancing tluAugh the wood- land Dainty ferns their fronds upfold And the modest woodland violets Offer her their blossom gold Happiest month of springtime e Aide Lois Cole Ogden sends us a snapshot and xajs she holies we will publish it We should like to Aaide Lois is far too tiny and dim Please send us anotiier one so that we can use it will you? sea- son but It How we love each jojous day! With our songs and merry laughter We are thanking you dear May Page —KNIGHT BANNERET JANET HIGGS age 9 Bingham Canyon wants to Artna Draper Hiawatha know how much an Aide shield costs The A MISERABLE MAY DAY The girls told me this morning That It was near May Day They seem to think as much of that As father does of pay day They wanted me and my friend Bill To make them a May pole For the school was having a May D$y play And they had the leading role So Bill and I we took an axe ' Page Margaret Sperger Salt Lake asks how to learn what the weekly contest Is to be about s May goes skipping o'er the a t Cas-tlega- pression When I saw her under the willow boughs With all her gay procession blossoms And darling We know that you have tried hard to find Bristol board Knight BUlle and that you are eager to enter the drawing con- tests We are Just as eager to have you so we will tell you what to do If you cannot find bris-to- ld te Esquire Delbert Alexander wants to know how much his next badge will cost Corner for Young Poets butions on this subject Orangeville Your Samples In class I Thre Sewing Contest Closes Send PAIR OF CHARMING DANCERS other cup of coffee" said Peggy one morning rubbing her poor little aching head "No Peggy you shouldn't drink any coffee at all and you sometimes drink three cups a day" said her mother as she left the room As soon as Peggy was sure her mother was far enough away so she wouldn't hear her she quickly tiptoed over to the stove and grabbing and coffee pot hastily poured herself another cup of strong coffee She was so afraid her mother would come and find her disobeying that she gulped down the whole cup full of nearly boiling coffee which she found didn't make her stomach feel Then still 'feeling very pleasant hungiy she pushed aside the oatmeal and eggs her mother had fixed for her and went to the cupboard and got a big piece of chocolate cake A few minutes later when he mother came In she said to Peggy "Did you eat a good breakfast dear? Did you like those eggs and oatmeal?" Yes mother" said Peggy showing her mother the empty dishes that the eggs and oatmeal had been In Peggy had really as soon as she had fui lslied her coffee and cake taken and scraiied the eggs and oatmeal out into the garbage Then Peggy left for school thinking what a gTeat joke she had put over on her mother and never thinking how she was harmuig her body Now Peggy was really a very brilliant pupil but when she went Into class that morning she couldn't help thinking about those eggs and oatmeal she had thrown into the garbage can What if her mother should find them! She happened to be thmklng so much about this that when her teacher said "Peggy where is the Yukon river?" Peggy answered In the garbage can" All of the children burst out laughing and the teacher said "Evidently you aren t listening very well this morning” t 1930 Pest to Obey Health Habits Is ' SUNDAY MORN I NO APRIL "7 Aide shield costs 5 cents Page Anna THE SNOOKS The editor finds that many a letter Comes from a Snook who knows no better Than to say: "Sir It I would have wrote — ” really aimost spoils the note' “I should have written" to a Snook Is as unknown as aminit Giookl i ' |