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Show L ..Our Bop and iirls.. I Edited by Aunt Busy. it LETTER-WRITING DIRECTIONS. . rvrite on one side of paper only. T,o not ha vp letters too long:. ddreiS a" letters t0 "Aunt Busy." Intermountain ' CMlholic.'alt Lake City. Aunt's Busy's Juvenile Clubs. Pear Nieces and Xepliews: Aunt liusy is anxiously anx-iously waiting to hear from her young friends about licr proposed club. Do not forget that Aunt jJufv will give u prize for the most appropriate j name, which will be decided by the editor of the Sfllt Lake Herald. Aunt Busy expects to hoar from all over the United States, but she mu-.t hear ! sunn as all replies should reach her by Nov. 22. ! She feels iiite encouraged about her recent sug- sfimi. Only today a dear little pirl told her ;i!iul the frond work being done by a number of her little friends. The children are saving a penny each week un-f un-f iil Thanksgiving day, the money then to be given ic Salvation Army dinner for the poor. Four .ilir little girls (also Aunt Busy's nieces) are to I meet next Monday afternoon after school and make doll clothes to present to seme poor children I fur Christmas. I So, altogether, Aunt Busy feels that the chil- dre a are interested in the good work and the club will be an assured success. ) Aunt Busy suggests to the Salt Lake nieces I and nephews that they join the Ouild of St. An- 1 thonv, which has been organized at St. Mary's ' cathed:-.l. I Membership in lhe guild will be an easv and j pra'tical way of donating toward charity. j Kach chili can surely save one penny a week. i Why not form clubs of three, four or more little ; friends, name the dub, and all put in the pennies at the same lime? Aunt Busy will organize one this very mo- nient. She will name it the St. Lawrence club, and I will start by giving it ' cents. ! Nieces and nephews who wish 1o join this branch, send in your penny to the guild, with your i . name, and club name St. Lawrence. . , , j In regard to the name for Aunt Busy s club, replies have been received from Miss Vella L. O'Brien of Kobinson, Hah. and Miss Nellie Stew- art of Salt Lake City. Aunt Busy will not be surprised if the Ogden I boys win the prize. I Bv the way. she wants to lvar from Montana, especially from Columbia Falls, in regard to this s club name. I Remember that all answers must be in by Nov. I -' The prize is a one dollar bill, donated by old i :iU-vx BCSY- Letters and Answers. Ogden. Oct, 2(5. . Pear Aunt Busy: I fear John McDermott and ; TA McFadden are trying to get ahead of me in writing. But let us fool them. You print my let- ) m-t first. Please, dearest old auntie. A mean burglar tried to get into our grand j ' church. He broke one of our beautiful stained glass windows. What do you think of that? Toil To-il morrow will be- a big day for us. A contest in catechism is to take place. John McDermott is j ? captain at one side and your own little Veasy 1 at lhe other. I hope Father Cuslmahan bets on ; my side. If he does he will be sure of his money. By the way. Father Cuslmahan has promised, n gold medal to the best in the church history class in the Sunday school. The big boys are to stand the big girls. There is quite a crowd and I hope the boys will beat. My brother George is in the class and I will bet on him. I am all wound up today. Your loving nephew, HAROLD VEASY. Aunt Busy dearly loves to hear from you. liar-old, liar-old, and she would have liked to print your letter let-ter first, as you requested, but she always prints the letter that comes under her hand the first, so she will act fair in the matter. Aunt Busy regrets re-grets to hear about the beautiful window being broken. Do you know, dear Harold, that Aunt Busy is quite certain that the boys will -win the medal? Aunt Busy thinks that her ''own little Veasy" is one of the finest boys in America. Write soon again, Harold. ( Kobinson, Xov. 8. 1!M3. Dear Aunt Busy: There is no Catholic school here, but we will soon go to the Convent school at Eureka a'ld prepare for our first communion. We are tired of not bein" able to go to mass or Sunday school. We can learn much better from the kind Sisters. Dear Aunt Busy, name lhp elub you spoke of "The Aunt Busy Belief club.' Your loving niece, VELLA L. O'BRIEX. Aunt Busy is pleased to welcome, a new niece and she hopes you will soon be able to attend the good Sisters' school. . Your suggestion for the club name is very good, Vella. You are the first of Aunt Busy's many friends to reply. White soon again, dear. Leadville, Colo., Oct. 18. Dear Aunt Busy: I am going to school. My playmate gave this question, and I cannot answer an-swer it: J)hn is 21 years old: his sister is twice as old as .lohn was when the sister was as old a John new is, How old is John's sister? I read your nice advice to your nephews and nieces every week. Your little nephew, EDDIE DUG G AX. Dear little Eddie, Aunt Busy has an idea that John's sister is just about your age, let us say about 12 ye ays" old. Of course you are quite young. By the way, dear, why do you not write your letters let-ters yoursejf? Your penmanship resembles that of a dear cjld friend of Aunt Busy's. j . " Salt Lake City, Xov. 6. Dear Ajtmt, Busy: T think your idea for a club among your nieces and nephews is a fine idea, and I suggest ; tliat it be named "Aunt Busy's Sunbeams." Sun-beams." Your loving niece, XELLIE STEWART. Aunt Busy is pleased to know that you like her proposed club. She thinks the name you suggest sug-gest is vry appropriate and pretty. Ogden, Oct. 26. Dear Aunt Busy: The Ogdenites will not go back oir you but, between play and study, we do not havs much time. We expect to have a little play here- at Christmas. The Elks are having a circus here today and the whole school went to see the parade and had a nice time. 3Jy brother James and I are in the first communion class. James is an altar boy and served every Sunday in vacation. The Sunday school has grown so large that the Father had to get three new teachers. teach-ers. I :vish you could see our Sunday school. I read The Intermountain Catholic every week. I think Aunt Busy's part is the best. Love from all the gijrls and myself. Your loving niece, j TERESA O'COXXOR. Oil Aunt Busy's spectacles just fell from her funny, old nose when she actually received a letter from 'an Ogden niece. You are very welcome, Teresa. Rev. Father Cuslmahan must be very proud of the dear Ogden children, and of course you all love him. Who would not? Aunt Busy is going: to send a holy picture to your good brother, James, vho served mass all during vacation. She wishes 'that there were more altar boys like him. I thank you, dear, for your kind words for Aunt Busy's department. She is very fond and proud of her little correspondents. Much We to all the nieces and for your own dear self, Teresa. Eager to Learn. It was Winifred's first day in school, says the Tribune. She had five words to learn, and each j was spelled with three different letters. It was really very confusing. They danced into one another's an-other's places whenever she looked away from the page. After an hour of earnest effort, however, she felt, sure she had mastered them, all but the last, of which she was still a little uncertain. Tn the book, and when her stubby forefinger was glued to the page just beneath ibis refractory syllable, lhe letters obediently assumed the order of R-E-I). But a minute after, finger in mouth and eyes on ceiling, they sometimes seemed to be E-D-B, D-E-ft, and various other perplexing combinations. It happened hap-pened that Winifred's associates kept their places during recitation, and somehow the class was called and in ''full blast" while the newest and lit- , tlest girl in the school was still struggling, with the difficult word. "Winifred," suddenly called the teacher, "how do you spell 'bed'?" "Why, Miss Em'ly," returned the small scholar, "that's just 'zactly what 1 wanted to know!'' And she couldn't imagine why all the little girls about her laughed, and the teacher .bit her lip and gave the word to some one else. Redheaded Boys and Girls. English scientists have been collecting- statistics regarding the 'intelligence of school children. Among the interesting results of their observations observa-tions are facts which show a relation between color of the, skin and hair and mental proficiency. They say that the auburn haired boys are generally at the head of their recitation classes and that blonde girls are the best at learning. The auburn and blonde girls come out best in arithmetic, but are not good at composition. Dark haired children of both sexes seem to have better bet-ter imaginative qualities than the fair, ones and have much better style in composition. The dark boys behave better than lhe fair and are more sensitive sen-sitive to praise or blame. . . x Russia's Great Church. The chief procurator of Russia, in a late report re-port to the Czar on the state of Russian religion brings out the fact that the power and wealth of the Greek church is immense. There are 66,780 of these churches in the empire. During the past year 833 new places of worship were consecrated. In connection with these churches there are 16,-65S 16,-65S monks, 36,146 nuns. There are 2,050 head priests, and 43,743 ordinary priests. These, together to-gether with 58,156 deacons, make a grand total, along with seven other divisions (the figures of which are not exactly given, of 170,000 persons in an official position. A sum of nearly $30,000,000 was paid by the Russian people last year for the support of this vast force. Nevertheless the oii ficial goes on to say that family worship is rapidly disappearing, and even grace at meals is rarely heard. Drunkenness and immorality are greatly on the increase, and the clergy, especially in the smaller places, seem unable to cope with these evils. |