Show TILE SALT' LAKE TRIBUNE Page Eight Our Trouble JUNIOR JUNE 21 1931 Curiosities Here and There Painting Colors in Missing Rhymes j Department Curiosities may be submitted at any time Twenty-fiv- e points are awarded for each one published Mary Katherine Kinney Billings Mont write that she has lost her chart after marking it for about a week She would like to know what to do You may send 8 cents Page Mary Katherine and get a new cliart As you had marked your chart such a short time you might start in at the very first and continue until the chayt is complete It is as you say bad luck but ' then it can easily be remedied BRUSH WRITING In writing Chinese a fine pointed brush Is used Instead of a pen The Chinese have no alphabet so a character for each word has to be memorized Children are taught only a thousand of the more common characters School books iq Chinese use these characters In place of letters for type AIDE WALTER GARCIA Elko Nevada & UNITED STATES RAILROADS There are enough railroads In the United States to make a single track reaching to the moon and more than half way back again These railroads If placed side by side from New York to Chicago a distance of 1000 miles would be 330 tracks wide About one and carloads of freight are moved In the United States each year for every man woman and child In the country! If all this freight could be loaded into one freight train and taken past a given point at the rate of one car per second it would require almost four years for it to pass by This train would contain more than 125000 cars each carrying sixteen tons or 32000 HELEN PETERSON pounds Page Lois Cole Ogden wants to how to go about starting a Knighthood club Have you a chum or sister or brother in the club? If so your work is half done If not the best thing to do is first of all to get one or two of your beat friends to Join When they are Knighthood members decide on a special to day to meet something do a name and a motto For instance you might decide to meet on Tuesdays at 4 p m to read books about Knights to be called "The Sir Lancelot Circle" and to have for your motto: "Bead and know one-fourt- h Learn" Choose the best reader in the group to go to the library and get a book — perhaps Howard good Pyle's stories of the knightsbutwould the be as good as anything librarian will help you Then beMeantime let gin your meetings all your other little friends know about your club Wear your badges and be very mysterious and gay Of course they will be eager to Join too and before long you will have eight or twelve members — plenty for a good lively club Knight Crusader Margaret Dudley 131 F street Salt Lake has been very very 111 for some time She had to give up her school work before ttie end of the year and has been confined to her home— even to her bed for many weeks Readers of The Tribune Junior who have enjoyed Margaret's work and have passed many happy hours reading her stories and poems can show their apprecta- tlon by dropping this member a little letter full of bright gossipy news to cheer her up We are sure that dozens of you will seize this opportunity of making Margaret happy— Just picture card will help Try ltl Anna Baxter Calpet Wyo asks ' how many points we give for a story: She wants members to write to her st Calpet Wyo We give 100 points for a story Anna unless it lias to be divided Into Installments Then each Installment receives 100 points Richfield ' MTCEAN (2) Johnny’s house Is very light That's the reason you’ll leave Sara's hair like (4)— — com Looks so pretty In the morn Johnny’s hair Just won’t stay down ’ It Is a lovely golden (5) Sara Lou and Johnny Ed Picked fine apples big and (6) Flowers too and don’t you think ? They are pretty if painted (7) hue Tinged with lovely sun-goIp the sky of brightest (8) an opportunity for you to display your skill as both poet and painter by correctly solving the puzzle poem Of colors in rhymes Cut out the accompanying drawing and mount It on a piece of cardboard Next read the poem and supply the missing words each of which is the name of some color and Is necessary to complete the rhymes Then with your colored crayons or set of water colors paint each part of the drawing according to the color named In each completed the poem: rhyme it (3) Is ' This Story EMMA C By Poets paint pictures with words and artists put on canvas beautiful scenes in all their natural colors Here ld A PUZZLE PROBLEM The number of the house in which Sara Seef lives is composed of four figures the sum of which Is equal to Sara's age The last figure is four times the first The second figure is two less than the third The sum of the first And last figures is twice the third Here Is Every morning may be seen Bright and early on the (1) Johnny Ed and Sara Lou Dressed for playing In gingham What is the number of Sara’s house and how old is she? Moral This is the story of a little boy who was sent away from home to school The reason was that at home he did very much as he pleased He ate the wrong things had no regular habits of living and even did not sleep as much as he should "We will send him away” said the doctor "until he gains five pounds” But the little boy was not happy those first days away from home One morning he said to his teachdr "How long do I have to stay at tills place?" She said to him "Your mother wants you to stay until you have nice red cheeksr&nd a round fat arm When that time comes she will take you home" "I could put on a the child said “That would make my cheeks red" "But that wouldn't be real” the teacher told him "We like real things In this school Rouged cheeks won't fool your mother anyway so there isn't any use of pretending something that Isn't true Pretty soon your cheeks will be really and truly red and you will be a big heavy boy" “I can moke myself heavy now" he said "AH I need to do Is to stuff my pockets full of nails" "But that would be cheating” the teacher explained "Besides no one would think you were heavy Just be- cause you had nails hi your pocket You would merely be telling a false- - AN OLD WAGON Have you ever visited the first floor Of the slate capltol building? There are many curiosities there One thing of particular interest Is the wagon which Brigham Young rode in across the plains The wheels are wooden large and have a rim of steel The seat is very low The wagon Is worn and unpainted When one compares this wagon with the fine cars of to-day— even our - poorest cars— the Indeed a curiosity wagon EMMA JULIA JENKINS Salt Lake HELEN KELLER A - ' " " Biography —z Helen Keller was horn In Tuscura- bla Alabama June 27 1880 She was a normal child and could hear and see and had leahied to talk when she was 19 months old At this time a severe Illness robbed her of sight and hearing and soon she forgot how tc little-rouge- " hood or acting one whlct) is Just ns bad What your inother wants Is a boy who is truly heavier than he was when she brought him here’’ 1500-mil- figure Has A Real THE HUMMING BIRD The humming bird is a very curious bird It is only as long as your finger and its beak is as slender as a pin It feasts on nectar which it sips from flowers It eats spiders and other insects Often a humming bird Is found on honeysuckle with its beak dipped deep into one of the flowers It seems as if the bird is standing still in the air but its wings are moving very very fast to hold it there It sounds like a tiny airplane and that Is where It got Its name "humming bird” The female humming bird has a pure white breast with shiny green wings the male generally has a dark orange breast When summer is over these tiny buds fly to Florida and when spring comes again to the north they make the long trip back again Tiny as it is e the humming bird makes the trip He flies at the rate of fifty miles an hour moving his wings at the rate of 1000 a minute - beats WALTER BROMAN Salt Lake When the citizens of Beanburg awoke the other morning they were greatly mystified to see thatallduring the night the billboards in parts of the town had been covered with bold In black big posters bearing letters the one word ALLO Great excitement followed the discovery for sente saw In the strange word the meaning of which no one knew a message of warning written in the form of a cryptogram Various conjectures were made as to the meaning of the mysterious word Ip the absence of any explanation the excitement continued to increase until the principal of the high school announced that he had found the meaning of the queer word' and that instead of it being any message of warning it was ail the work of some practical Joker which really should cause no one any concern What do you supose Is the message conveyed by tills cryptogram of one -"or? i ' -- t - talk Little Helen was often found in tears because she oould make no one understand her wants Then one dav a wonderful woman Miss Anne Sullivan found her and with untiring patience and devotion heloed her to learn Miss Sullivan taught Helen bv the ue of sign language The girl even learned to talk She graduated from a comnlete college course and at the age of 24 she received her B A decree from Radcllffe Since then she has traveled all over the countrv lecturing She has written manv book among them br which is extremely in- forAe Hr or e KNTOHT MARSHAL JACOUETTNB Lakeside v- - MAYBE nE WAS DREAMING The man who wakes up and find: - himself famou hasn’t beep asleep |