Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sister Tells How Lael Has Helped Her My Little Black Lady Dear Editor: I am very happy to contribute something for the alumni issue I think this is a splendid way of ' EASTER RABBIT Easter Rabbit! Easter Rabbit! Hde them while I sleep I will hunt them when I wake Pretty eggs to keep ! VEVEDEEN WOOLSEY Salt Lake City Age 12 Thanks Alumni The alumni members had our place Many years ago What should je-d-o in that odd case? I really do not know I solved the problem very well By setting aside one day When in their honpr I would tell All the thanks that I could say MARGERY JO FERRELL Age 11- - Salt Lake One evening about er the mlddie of May while enjoying a stroll in the garden my eyes for some unaccountable reason lowered from the blazing heavens to a branch of one of the grape vines and rested on a mute black creature among the blossoms This was my introduction to Easier Rabbit! Easter Rabbit! Conte quickly do! Please give mesome Easter eggs Colored red and blue - Page Three Writers Pay Real Tribute To Our Paper top-notch- Tribune: 13 MARCH Probably no city anywhere near the size of Mona has such an enviable reputation for turning out high scorers in our Tribune Junior contests With one medalist one (these from the same family) two workers who tie for 5th place and a scofe of others whose contributions have helped to make our little paper Mona can well be an inspiration to all other towns of the state’ The group shown above have all done splendid work They are left to right: Danelda Young Anne Garfield Mary Nielsen Alice FoWkes Ruth Sperry Fay Nielsen Reva Shepard and Ruth Warner In the year 1929 on the day before Easter this poem was published In the Knighthood of Youth column In The Salt Lake Easter Rabbit! Easter Rabbit! See The sun is getting lowf Dear Easter Bunny — Bunny Tis time for you to go It was written by my sister Of who was Just 10 years old course we were all proud of her But that was only the beginning Since then Lael has written many stories and poems and drawn many pictures Just about'iiye years later she wrote her farewell letter to The Tribune Junior and that was also published Since Lael has stopped writing for this paper she has had some poems and drawings published in magazines She has jtept all the things she has written and put them into a scrapbook Since it is common for younger children to imitate their older sisters it is not strange that the rest of the family hgsToubwed Lael She has been a real help to us showing how we can mke our stories poems or drawings better Mother said that the condition perpetual “litter-ary- ” of our house shows plainly what this family likes to do JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING this Black Widow Spider Ashe was a of lthough something stranger to me there was no chance for mistaken identity in this case for the tiny red hourglass glowed against the black satin of her bodice like a living ember on a dark night 1 knew that newspaper frequently at- tributed death to the bite of her species and had read accounts of people becoming violently ill from her venom but it was the first time I had been privileged to meet the little lady and I welcomed the opportunity to study her So despicable a character must at least be Interesting I reasoned She would be ag- fearsome and always ready to pounce on human beings maliciously and intentionally to do them bodily harm that is if she were as vicious as her reputation So her appearance presented something of an advantage and suggested a bit of entertainment for that otherwise uneventful spring evening But the Black Widow could not be bothered with inquisitive human beings for she had work to do that night She had previously spun several stout strands bf silk and attached them to the largest part of the branch and as I watched her she swung like an acrobat to the lower branch which rhe bound with silken ropes For the next ten minutes the spider worked industriously with her shuttles and loom until she had constructed a careless gressive sort of web of pattern The web being completed she sought an approximate center spread out her eight skillful hit-and-m- iss legs and hung there silent and motionless' head downward The poise and patience of a spider are among the marvels of nature For hours at a time I have watched this black widow hanging in her net like a motion less pendant of ebony undoubtedly disturbed by the pangs of hunger but never impatient nor attempting to force the issue A seemingly lifeless thing in a maze of glistening filament wait-an- d Until t myself waiting watched to see I have grew weary if there would be any shift ol 'position I could detect no alteration and I would leave her to the Providence which fills the larders of patient spiders I would go to her the next morning' only to find her in the same position I had left her the previous day Undoubtedly she had not eaten for several days and I deelded to assist the Providence that had so carelessly overlooked her Arming myself with a fly swatter I walked 'along av the path and finally brought down a Juicy fat fly I dropped the insensible fly Into Black Widow’s snare and almost Instantly she sprang into activity Rushing upon the victim with the fury of a demon she threw about it a mantle of entangling silk and spinning round and round soon had the luckless buzzer completely covered in a silken shroud She then cut it loose from the meshes hooked her hind feet into the shroud and climbed the silken ropes hand over hand to her retreat where she feasted in solitude One morning I went out into the garden and as I approached the vine I saw that Black Widow had moved To where I do not knpw but she had probably found a warmer abode for the winter I do not know to this day what took my little Black Lady but I am thoroughly convinced that Black Widows will not attack humans except under the greatest provocation CLARRISSA WILLIAMS Murray Medalist December 1933 June V Hicks who used to contribute from Burnt Fork Wyo is now a student at East high school Salt Lake freshening remembrances and I renewing old friendships have met some of the finest people I have ever known through The Tribune’ Junior and I appreciate their friendships The present contributors to the Tribune Junior are certainly doing a splendid piece of work and I wish to congratulate them The hobby and radio clubs are a great improvement I think The medal party last summer was certainly a success and it was indeed an improvement to be able to broadcast a portion of -the" program so the ers could enjoy it too I am looking forward to the alumni issue as I am so anxious to see the contributions of the members who used to contribute out-of-to- when I did Very truly yours EMMA JULIA JENKINS Top Notcher January 1933 Dear Editor: Once more I deem it a great ' pleasure to be able to feel a part of The Tribune Junior In other Alwords I’m tickled to death though it has been about two years since I last wrote for your paper I hope quite selfishly to be remembered as a very ardent reader and contributor of The Tribune Junior However I am often reminded of the good times I had when I received letters riom my penpals who are also alumni of the And often I feel that I paper have lost something very dear when I stopped visiting you regu- larly I am enjoying school quite a bit this year and as usual I am getting pretty fair marks in my work I am participating in the dramatics and debating clubs and have written several poems for the “Norcachlan” our school paper Enclosed you will find a poem I wish to contribute to the paper I hope you will always consider me as a friend V Sincerely yours BERNELL WINN Smithfleld Utah |