Show TTTE Essayists Grow Better as Time Gives Practice s f J 'J r d the festivities Then there is the school valentine box They certainly are pretty things Each teacher tries to have a prettier valentine box every year Some teachers have a little party with a few games and refreshments but the gaily decorated box of valentines holds the place of honor How happy we are when we see the number of valentines that have been addressed to us Each valentine means one friend we have and the more valentines the more friends I hope that no Knight will send those awful comic valentines to anyone Whoever 'does ought to have O’s on their charts for weeks It not only hurts the receiver of the comic valentine but it hurts the character of the giver I have seen how some of the poor children who receive these valentines look They know that it was not sent by a friend but by one who has no sense or they would not have sent it They consider the source But just the same it hurts and no Knight will hurt anyone if jie can help it I think there is a pblicy that all Knighthood members ought to low and that is to cut down the cost of the valentines that you give to your best friends and give everyone in your class a smaller valentine but see that everyone has one That would he a good deed and would cut out the hurt feelings and heartaches of those who are not as popular as others and do not receive many little tokens when the valentine box is opened Valentine’ day Is the day of all true lovers and we learn in Sunday school that we should love everyone even our enemies and so let us make It a point to see that our enemies receive a token with our names signed to It this year It will make both them and us feel good and I am sure that would be what the good St Valentine would have wanted if he was still alive KNIGHT GERALDINE SIEVERT Modena Age 14 fol- 4 L VALENTINE Pretty little valentine With your hearts so gay You'll make someone very r happy On the loved day - Oh here's another valentine With heart of gold And a pretty lltlle verse Underneath the fold All valentines are pretty And love each one does carry Each one who gets a valentine Is always very merry Each one gets a valentine On St Valentine’ day So I’ll put these In an envelope And send them on their wav KNIGHT CONSTANT FMMA JULIA JENKINS Rexburg Idaho We SUNDAY MORNING - — - ' Pag Sew FEBRUARY 14 1932 — Secures Pretty Cards For Small Boy Work FAMOUS BABY IIAS BIRTHDAY Anyone who saw Jack on that pass ticular morning would have though! him intensely sick Not at his ston-acor head but heartsick! It was positively terrifying to him to think that St Valentine's day was only day after tomorrow as well as mother’s birthday and he had no moneyt He looked around to see if anyone was coming because he was going to make a sacred vow and no one mud see him That would spoil ail Clenching his small fists he ran out behind the woodpile No one was in sight except Brownie and no vow would be really sacred unless Browiw ie was in on it at least to Jack it ap peared this way Calling the dog to him he stroked the silky fur and whispered something into Brownie’s Our essayists are improving week by week This time there were more than the usual number of essays that showed no trace of being almost verbatim from some book but bore Instead the imprint of the author' own thought and experience When you can write essays like the ones we are receiving you can write! Geraldine Sievert’s essay won first Zelda place and is printed here Hew ton Mona came second with a splendid thought on the significance of valentines Betty Renstrom Salt Lake was third with an historical resume of the various valentine customs Esquire Marybeth Jensen Providence and Knight Banneret Idaho Gwen Johnston Blackfoot both won honorable mention VALENTINE'S DAT Isn't the excitement of holidays fun? We have had Christmas New Year and the Lincoln day programs but we are not left to rest yet There is no rest for the wicked anyway we have more holidays to come The latest is St Valentine's day the day ef all true lovers It arrives as 1 its annual habit on February 14 There is much to do in preparation for the day First we must be awfully good and helpful about the house in order to earn the money for those little tokens of friendship and affection known as valentines Perhaps if we are extra good Mother will allow us to have a party There will be much preparation for I r SALT LAKE TRIBUNE —JUNIOR h understanding it will work?" he asked eagerly Brownie seemed to think so so It was all right Jack hopped skipped and jumped ‘(a mixture of all bo It over to Mrs Flanagan’s Beemed) house She didn't have any children but claimed part ownership in Jackie “What can I do for you?” she asked as she responded to his knock “Should I give you a cookie or do you prefer breadanbutteranjam?” Jack grinned at this sally and eating the snaek “Aunt Belle' had ready for him He was silent ui usual for him and Aunt Belle wa worried She led him over to hi favorite spot by the fireplace “I know” she saaid softly to hen self “he’s thinking of St Valentine day and his mother" Dear Aunt Belle! How many other make believe aunts are this kind? Most all of therru I judge for why are they called ats if they are not like really truly aunts Then in a bright gay tone she said “How would you like to chop some wood for me?” be-ga- - “Fine” Jack replied although he knew that Mr Chapman the hired man usually did the wood chopping In a few minutes he reported to Tdr She pressed something Flanagan cold and shiny Into his hand It wi a quarter “Oh no Aunt Belle" he protested earnestly “it was nothing honest!” “Won’t you take it just to pleas me? Of course you will Now take this note to your mother for me” Jack ran home his heart singing After that he went to the one store the village boasted picked out the prettiest valentine for his mother and the next prettiest ones for Mr and Mrs Flanagan Valentine's day found Jack and hi mother at the Flanagans’ for dinners and they all felt happy after (afte as his father does in some of his hair raising pictures but he can stand up prettv well If he but gets good hold on a table especially if that table holds something as enticing as a birthday cake with one Duming candle Harold Jr has just celebrated his first birthday Weighing only two and one-ha- if pounds when born he now weighs 20 and is as husky a youngster as one would care to see TRUE PET STORIES True pet stories may be submitted One hundred points are awarded for each one published at any time A STORY MY MOTHER TOLD ME When mother was a small girl a mountain rat got into their house The family tried every way they could to catch him The little rat gnawed a hole about as large as a man’ fist right over the fruit shelf At night he would gather all the apples potatoes and onions that were about as big as your fist place them on top of the fruit bottles and carry one at a time up to the hole When he had them up he would roll them down and go scampering after them One night they laid flypaper over the bottle and caught him But only his tail was caught so he bit it off and escaped The next night they fixed a box with some bait in it When the rat got in the lid would go down and the rat would be trapped But the next morning they found a hole gnawed m the box and the rat had escaped again The next night they made the box heavier and they captured the thief When the boys found him in the box he wa so pretty that they hated to kill him They could see where he bad bitten off his tail PAGE HELEN GESSEL Age 12 Providence MY GOLDHSH I want to tell you about my pet goldfish It had a pal Someone told us to let the water go a whole week without changing it So we tried it It had gone five day without being changed One of the goldfish was up at the top gasping for air day and night AH the air had gone out of the water It was dying Its mate tried to rouse it but in vain It was too far gone Finally it died When we change the water for this fish that lived he fights to get back into the bowl I surely think they are cute It is quite a lot of company for me I have shells in the bottom of the bowl for him to rest on and listen to I have rocks too dinner) KNIGHT CRUSADER VIRGINIA JUDD Age 13 Rupert Idaho This Trick Always Fun At Parties DOROTHY BREMER Age 10 Rigby Idaho THE LITTLE BROWN MOUSE That small thief the little brown mouse who is so fond of getting into our houses is one of the cleverest nest builders in the world Little mother mousie Is a wise about the choice of her nursery s if she were as large as an elephant Early one March we set a hen to hatch eggs and as her nest was a basket a sack was placed under and around It to keep in the heat When the hen was first set she had splendid feathers and a fine tail But as her three weeks of silting passed her tail seemed much broken it began to look very shabby and at last It became little better than a stump There was nothing against which she could have rubbed it to have so spoiled it When the chhks were hatched the reason was made plain A mouse had made a beautiful nest under the basket among the folds of the sack The chief part was made of tow scraped from the sack and of hay bitten small while it was finely lined with feathers from the hen’s tail She had nibbled these off bit by bit and the quills showed the marks of her teeth I wonder what the hen thought while ber tall was being stolen? CLARISSA WILLIAMS Age 11 Murray 9 Boys and girls delight In peifornw lug mysterious tricks that puzzle oO er people No doubt among our read ers there are clever magicians who have already made a reputation fut themselves among their friends Her Is a trick to add to their repetoire This is a mind reading trick and requires two people the magician and an assistant unknowh to the rest The assistant knows how the trick is worked but it is best to pietend to select him at random The magician sends his assistant from the room Then he asks the people to think of a number between 1 and 10 The person who thinks of the number tells It in a whisper or else writes it dowr destroying it afterward Calling the assistant back into the room the magician sits down quietly The assistant places his hands upon the magician’s head with the fingers upon his temples and looks into the magician’s eyes for s few moments Then the magician snaps his fingers and the assistant U'U the number Apparently he hns rend the mind of the magici How does he do it? Here is the secret: While the assistant's fingers are on the magician’s temples the magician clinches his teeth the necessary number of times Anybody who can feel or count can then give the answer ALICE KEEN Age 13 Salt Lake -- |