Show TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING MAY 22 1932 Papre Six Golden Interesting Facts Share the Interesting facts you distover Twenty-fivpoints are awarded for each one published e A Geyser There is a certain geyser in Yellow-(ton- e park called the Giant geyser It is very mysterious because of its Irregular eruptions It had erupted (quite regularly for many years but recently tourists have been kept at t safe distance as no one knows when It will erupt again The last time it erupted was three or four years ago At that time it threw water several feet in the air for 25 hours It made ft very disturbing noise causing a great commotion among the tourists an Egg Why Yea Can’t Hard-Bol- l On the Top of a Mountain The pressure of the air on the top t a high mountain is much less than It is at sea level or at the level of Therefore the boiling our cities point or the temperature at which water changes to vapor is much lower Increased pressure Is needed to heat the water still more therefore an egg cannot be cooked In the ordinary way because the water cannot be made hot enough to so cook it Price HAZEL CHRISTENSEN Pin Money The term “pin money” had Us origin in the time when pins were considered a luxury and were very expensive Only the rich could afford them The allowance a husband gave bis wife to purchase pins was called “pin monev” FERN IVY GARDNER Age 11 Salem The Oyster The egg of the oyster Is so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye When the oyster is hatched it Is about the size of a fine needle point and it looks like a white dot It at once fastens itself to a piece of stone shell or anything that is hard The oyster grows until when it is a year old it is about the size of a quarter After this it grows an inch a year for from four to six years You can tell how old an oyster is by the shell The shell has layers one of which Is added every year Scientists claim that there are oysters that are nine Inches thick and that have lived 100 years ANNA MAE JAMES Age 13 Milford e e e A Trick A man by the name of Lord has proved that he had 11 Here is his method: Begin fingers counting on the fingers of both hands 2 3 —I etc Then start counting back again: 10 9 8 7 8 (on one hand) and hold tip the other hand and say 'And five and six are 11” JANE WATSON Rupert Idaho Sun-drear- y JIave You Tried to Play Fruit Basket? A good game to play at a party is Fruit Basket This game is familiar to most of us Everybody sits in a circle on chairs One person gives each person a name of some fruit The one that is “it” will stand in the middle of the ring He or she names many kinds of fruit If he guesses the name of one of the fruits in the circle the fruit named gets up and whirls eround twice Then “it" may take the seat if he is quick enough If “it” finds it difficult to get a seat in this Way he may say “Fruit basket turn over” Then everyone has to change eats Then the person left without a chair is “it” KNICHT CONSTANT EMMA JULIA JENKINS Rexburg Idaho i Guess These Mixed Fruits Each group of letters spells the name of a fruit if properly arranged Can you straighten them out? 1 2 8 4 8 6 7 8 0 Plape Argone Perga Abnaan Nipe plape Rheycr Erpsa Hcepsea Mplsu N pus re Answers: Apple NIGHT BANNERET GERALDINE ROBB Age IX St Anthony Idaho If you have found the golden key to any difficulty share it with others Fifty points are awarded for each one published So brother Ben proceeded Asking her all he could But Bessie hard had studied Firmly her ground she stood Then Ben in desperation Said “Here’s one you don't know How do the apple blossoms Inside the apple grow 7” Tinted so clearly So delicately traced Wet petals of pink And white interlaced Pale golden anthers Like a sliver of gold Or a sunbeam astray From nature’s own fold FRUIT The sun is darting rays of gold That hint of glories yet untold The apple blossoms on the tree Promise fruit for you and me pinkness Against a blue sky 6o heartrendingly lovely When the rain has gone by RUTH MABEY Balt Lake e e e Rain-drench- The earth so green and fresh Tells of wonders You can guess! The summer breeze in frolic and fun Tells us fruit time's just begun I’ve never seen an orange tree And growing bananas escape me But I have tasted many a time Both of these in their prime But what does it matter so long as it's fruit? Let us partake of this lovely recruit FECIT Little blossoms pink and white Fill the heart with glad delight You chase away the cares and gloom And fill the air with sweet perfume Soon you fall to be replaced With mellow fruit of sweeter taste Your branches heavy with the strain Of laden fruit through sun and rain Are soon released by wind and man For food both fresh and in the can And then when winter comes along With frozen breath and snowy song Your fruit delicious brings more cheer Until your blossoms come next year KNIGHT CRUSADER CLARISSA WILLIAMS age 12 Murray APPLE BLOSSOMS “Now Bessie” said big brother “In school the teacher said FOR GRANDMA’S CAKE is sometimes quite a problem to know how to put all the candles on grandmother’s birthday cake so this is what my aunt did: In The Tribune Junior she found a list of the famous people who were born in February which happens to be the month in which my grandmother was bora Then instead of putting a candle for each year she put a candle for each famous person This idea worked out successfully and proved most interFRANCES FARNES esting too Age 12 Salt Lake It "Let’s see now In the springtime" Began our tiny Bess “The apple blossoms every one Turn inside out I guess!” JANET HIGGS age It Bingham Canyon VIRGINIA JUDD Rupert Idaho A TRIOLET Intended my fruit tree to grow Fresh fruit to bear for me But alas! for I did not know— (I intended my fruit tree to growl) That water must be given a tree Intended my fruit tree to grow Fresh fruit to bear for me 1 MARY BARKER Age 13 Ogden TO IRON WE £ THINGS My friend Pauline told me that when her mother wants to iron a handkerchief or other small article she doesn't bother to set up the ironing board but takes out the bread board and puts a folded towel on it This Is a handy little ironing board and saves time and work MYRL GARDNER age 8 Salem FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Here is a little device which has proved to be a Golden Key lor me and my sisters: We made a wall pocket of oilcloth and bound the edges with harmonizing bias tape We made pockets to hold our K of Y charts and one big pocket in which to keep our Tribune Junior contributions or those that had been finished but not yet copied in ink Now we do not misplace our charts or our contributions This saves time extra work searching for misplaced things and half-finish- ed temper A similar pocket hung near the kitchen range is very handy to hold hot potholders FERN IVY GARDNER age 11 Salem BRIGHT SAYINGS FOR THE FAMILY great help to all people of the family young or old if it is made a regular practice to spend some part of every evening when all the family is in the house to read aloud Have anyone who is a good reader read some of the classics of literature aloud for just a few minutes each evening We do this at our house and fmd it very helpful We have read Dickens Thackeray and some of the more modern authors to the family Father works hard all day and he would rather rest than read mother has stockings to mend and so my older sister reads to all of us We choose our books carefully so that what we choose will please the little sister as well as my father and mother The book review corner In Tribune Junior and other places is consulted and if the report proves enticing we read the book We are on "The Man in the Iron Mask" by Alexander Dumas at present and it is very exciting This little period where the radio is shut off and school books laid aside for a few moments helps wonderfully to keep the family closer together and to improve the minds of everyone concerned We do not always read fiction but sometimes we read lectures travel books and biographies but they are all so very interesting and even exciting KNIGHT GERALDINE SIEVERT Modena It Send In some of the cute things your little friends have said Twenty-fiv- e points are awarded for each one published One day L was walking along with She 6aid “Beryl my little sister you have worn your galoshes only two times this winter If you don’t wear them they will get rusty” ESQUIRE BERYL THEURER Age 13 Providence One day I was tending two children The little boy got some ice and put It oa the stove Of course It began to melt His sister watching him said “When you put ice on the stove it get all Juicy” PAGE HEJEN ANDERSON Age 12 Providence e e was When my sister Elizabeth about 4 years old she was in a car with some friends They were passing the salt beds Mrs Trostler said “Elizabeth these are the salt beds” Elizabeth piped up “Well where are the pepper beds?’’ PAGE LEE O'MALLEY Salt Lake e Mother was shelling popcorn for Christmas and Joyce was helping her Mother told Joyce to put all the red pcorn in one pan and all the white another so that we could see which popped the best “It doesn’t make any difference said Joyce “It all comes out white anyway” PAGE ALICE MAE FRAZIER Age 10 Fillmore One night when I was studying my geography I looked up and said “Where's Greece?” “In the skillet” replied my small sister smartly PAGE NORMA NEILSON t i Mona - grape pears Keys You must learn how the apple Grows rosy round and red” PEACH BLOSSOMS A cloud of peach blossoms After the rain Return to my memory Again and again My uncle had bought an egg producing mixture to feed his chickens Shortly after purchasing it he- discovered his little boy out in the chicken yard throwing the mixutre right and left and shouting “Produce! Produce! Go ahead and produce!" FERN IVY GARDNER 10 orange cherry pineapple banana caches plums prunes We had no idea that our subject “Fruit” would bring such delightful responses from our contributors The four little poems below Indicate how well our young poets handled all the delightful aspects of this subject Other poems will be used in other parts of the papef e Salem My cousin age 4 was left to steep alone one night when his older brother who generally sleeps with him went to a party A hoot owl waa calling outside his window After a while the little fellow began to cry and his mother went to Eee what was the matter “That old thing out there” sobbed my cousin “keeps saying 'Who who s’eeps wif you?' " KNIGHT MAURINE RIDDLE Age 11 Driggs Idaho Why Not Make Fruit Salad Is nothing which makes a betsalad than a combination of fruit and there is nothing more healthful to have in the diet Girls and boys too can have lots of fun helping their mothers by experimenting to see how attractively they can combine various fruits Here are a few combinations that go well together: 1 Diced watermelon pineapple and orange 2 Apple celery raisins and let- There ter tuce 3 Pineapple bananas walnuts and marshmallows cherries 4 Sliced unpeeled apples spread with cream cheese and peanut butter and laid on lettuce leaves 5 Halved strawberries pineapple orange and grapefruit 6 Pears and cream cheese balls oa lettuce 7 Apricots oranges and sliced bananas 8 Shredded apples grapes and stoned cherries 9 Banana upright in a slice o t pineapple with cherry top 10 Grapefruit celery pears and pimento cheese FARNES KENNER Age Salt Lake It LOVELY FRUITS Nature is holding a fair With her luscious fruits all in view Each one seems to take the prize I don't know which to choose Do you? There are spples rosy and red There are peaches golden light And the berries in dewy freshness Are like sparkling Jewels bright And all these lovely fruits Speak of day beneath the sun Of workers who reap the harvest With gay delight 'till day is done They gather the purple plums And pears pearly and yellow And golden golden apricots Ripened by the sun snd mellow FARNES KENNER Salt Lak Aft It Is a BIDDEN FRUITS Find the hidden fruits in the fol- lowing sentences: 1 It appears to be quite deserted 2 They will be on sale Monday 3 Shop run east to the comer 4 Sara is in Salt Lake 5 The sun was hot but the cap pleasantly shaded his eyes 6 I hope a chest of gold will be found 7 Don’t keep me longer Anna 8 May rap extra hard for they may not hear you 9 They ban an alien from entering their country 10 Fairies or angels could look ne sweeter Age 12 FARNES KENNER Salt Lake Answers: Pears lemon prune apple peaches melon grape nana orange ral-I- n ba- Fresh water was supplied to a swimming pool discovered at Kish Iraq stated to be the oldest city in the world by a system very similar to that in use today The pool was built 1500 years ago |