Show HwT THE SAL TLAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY Page Eight Ralph Spoils CHILD Visit By His Taunts Cousin’s ' The shrill cry of the train whistle ((led out In the distance and left Joseph Standing (lone on the platform t the little country town" of Pine Gulch He had come from the city to visit hia cousin Ralph and what a wonderful time he was going to have Joseph Was 10 years of age he had red hair that matched the sunset and blue eyes that matched the sky He surely would have been taken lor country boy if his face hadn't been to smooth and white and his clothes Joseph was wondering what he should do hil cousin Ralph aptl car with a strangpeared He was in er and as soon as the greetings were ever this stranger loaded Joseph’s belongings into the car and they set off the road bumping and humping along After a hearty sapper and a good flight’s sleep Joseph arose Jn the eager morning alive' with energyin and his new to do a little exploring out into went they surroundings Firstsaddled two horses the corral Ralph and motioned for Joseph to get on one He did and bang! He was no sooner on than he was off again sitting In a Oh! How they big cactus bush hurt Joseph picked himself Up and when he had got all the stickers out hand-kerchi- -- of his cousin spoiled by “City boys can’t do anything!” Joseph rose early on the day he was to leave and after a little preliminary stapacking was on the road to the tion again bumping and bouncing 'along About a block from the station there was a curve in the road and a deep ditch ran along the side of the road Just as their car met the curve the driver saw another cbr coming got excited and ran off the roadof and the headlong into the ditch Neither -the driver bu boys was hurt nor was the front of the car was buried to the s ‘ ditch "What shall I do? How will we ever get out of here?” walled Ralph ‘Well that is up to you You know city boys don’t know anything Come up to visit me eome time end I will how you some fun” said Joseph good naturedly as he picked up his suitcase and trudged down the road to the station CLARISSA WILLIAMS Age 13 Murray ' WHAT AM 1? I am bright end glistening I stay the winter long 1 bring fun to ell the children So please don’t guess me wrong BETTY COWAN NephL Answer: Snow To Learn Thrift One Should Have IN ORPHANAGE LIFE Real Allowance (Continued from Pate One feeling strikes them you will' prob- s ably spend them as the feeling-strikeyou and will never learn how much effort a dime costs nor how - much return it should bring you The solution to this is to have a TOO NOT definite allowance LARGE And this allowance is to cover certain specified expenses The amount will vary of course with thq age and habits of the child but the four important features are simply: The allowance must be fixed the expenses it is to cover must be definite you should spend it without too much direction and the allowance must not be too la'rge You boys and girls who read this are intelligent enough to want to help yourself develop a firm and 'successful character In our present way of living a knowledge of money arid how to use it is' of vital Importance So if you r parents haven't thought this thing out with you it is up to you during this Thrift week to talk it out with them Show them with this article and then them and decide what your allowance ought to be and do Be sure to approach this matter in an intelliaccepting gent and friendly way parents’ decisions without re- your - sentment They have your welfare most closely at heart and will help you do v'hat is best Now just a few practical suggestions: One Knighthood member we know gets 15 cents a week That covers shows Ice cream candy birth-- ’ for friends and relatives day gifts extras for the child She is 11 years old and manages very well on that amount as her parents buy all her clothes books music and necessary articles either for health or education Another Knighthood member a boy of 12 ha 25 cents a week This pays for his showS candy ice cream extra expenses and his pencils note paper and little things like that at junior high school Twenty five t cents isn’t much but he does very 5? well One of our most prominent cona week allowtributors had a ance when she was in junior high school She lived within it— it paid for extras only--an-d always had money in her purse If you ask for too large an allowance you are doing yourself more harm than good You are not learning what you want to learn at all Of course 5 cents a week wouldn’t pay for many shows but In certain circumstances 5 cents a week allowance is all that is possible and it is better than no allowance at nll-j- if you live within it If'you don’t you might as well not pretend to be learning the lesson of thrift A little child needs only a penny or two a week -- ’ was-spok- re ’ en -- Boss: Flanky did you bring Rudolph that football for a present? Flanky: Yes I brought it but Instead of going down the chimney it went through the window WALTER BROMAN Salt Lake Ina Learns That Thrift Will Pay Margery and Ina yere very good friends just graduating from senior high school Both had loved school up to the present time But now school life was over the two girls were in search of work Margery soon got a position as a stenographer for a college professor Ina got a job doing housework Each earned quite a sum of money during the summer months “Oh Ina look how much I have” shouted Margery as the two girls met after their summer’s work "I now have enough to go to college” But Ina was different She hdd thought of nothing but dances and e good time By the time school was ready to start again Ina’s money was all gone She had spent it ell for foolish things Margery went to college She paid her tuition herself And next spring when she came home again Ina couldn’t help seeing how much her chum had learned and developed This change in Margery inspired Ina and during that summer she Sally Days— Her Snaps and Sayings -- ksT V t sit-do- wn (Continued from Pace Onei asked the interested Visitor forgetting to sew as she watched "Well it must be confessed that sometimes there Is a law violator” laughed another mother "hut the small offender is promptly dealt with and the trouble soon ends" “And how Is the offender dealt with?” queried Dolly’s mother At that moment a small girl was escorted by two other children to the gate and put outside Not a word by any orre of the three and when the two "policemen” returned to tpe game it went on without comment Presently the small girl outside the 'gate announced that she was willing to play fair and she was readmitted Most of the players at some time or other had been put out of a game so there was sympathy and lack of comment for the little sinner And that the mothers said was one of the strong points of the children’s orThey had agreed that no ganization future reference should be made to the offender once pardon was asked Children are naturally quick to see the difference between right and wrong and to know that they cannot have all things their own way so by following some plan of in your play you can develop the lesson of fair play and the firm conviction that laws are made to be obeyed “As the twig is bent the tree's inclined” is a good old maxim and one that needs to be emphasized In these lays of loose Ideas about human rights and liberty If you make and execute your own laws you will not “wrangle and jangle” neither is there opportunity to tease or try to appeal from the verdict as is often done when parents and teachers make the rules Even jn school boys and girls are now often taught to formulate their own code and enforce it for no child likes to b “sent to Coventry” In the home the neighborhood end every-whethere must be laws for children and if you yourselves make end use them wisely you will get valuable training for future service ns good citizens HILDA RICHMOND I v Make Rules to Govern Group When at Play of him he looked around to see Ralph over in one corner laughing until Jo-- ' he g£ph thought he must burst When was through Ralph said with a sneer “Oh I forgot that city boys can’t ride horses” They went out to the pasture "Now Joe” said Ralph “you want to be careful or the bull wilt chase you If he does Just wave this iairont of JUm” and he pulled a large red did from his pocket Joseph s he Was told but if he had not made the fence In time it would have been Just too bad Day after day during Joseph s stay at the ranch many such things happened He was very happy when the 'day arrived for him to go homevisitIt had been a very unpleasant 1934 Today I will tell you about the children living at the "Home” an orphanage In Brooklyn N Y There were about four hundred and fifty children In the orphanage— about two hundred girls two hundred boys and fifty babies — The older boys and girls were each divided into two groups known as the Big Boys Little Boys Big Girls Little Girls Each group had a special care taker or "nurse" as they were called Mother’s caretaker was "Nurse Thomas” a small strict but lovely lady about 45 years old She used to play an organ in the evenings and the girls would gather round and sing Other times she would teach them to crochet or knit but when she read them fairy talee that was the happiest time of all School was held in the orphanage First the children would all march td the assembly room where they learned songs poems and psalms Then they would march to the separate class rooms (and have school lessons just as other children in the city After school different groups of boys on different evenings learned to make cane chairs and mend shoes gome belonged to a boys' athletic club and some to " a dramatic club and others to a glee club But all the clubs were made up of orphanage children and the meetings took place in the assembly room of the home The girls had cooking clubs darning class mending class handiwork club and also an athletic dramatic and glee club composed of girls alone of Thanksgiving at the orphanage Next week I will tell A— TRAVIS ANDERSON Central Idaho Mft ' 14 ’ worked and saved as she had never worked and saved before The girls had good times together but they spent little and when autumn rolled around Ina was ready to enroll at college with Margery Both girls were delighted to be to-- " gether Ina had learned that money is meant to be spent but spent wisely and while she regretted her wasted year she lost no time in trying to make up what she had lost DOROTHY E NEWTON Age 13 Mona ' |