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ir rJ' 'A I 7 i 6 r'i a ts S' BERTHE GRESSieRj? a Zf 1 4 iy i I aaasasSC Then we began to look around and up in a was i 4 Pet i i SNOWY OWL ARCTIC Cap PON Down on the lower Starred that she could gjp i is CT pe BY and and at the a kind him in to the greasy the entrance curtain to let I I I I I took want I am hot coffee and a some of the toys who cared if a that some of the at with wonder covered with three badly his hands away he disap west little yffi la 1 I to sell it to Hilly a near gay cart and her Interested several old i In bt T1X co Wl kn th th The dew birds from harm are my she exclaimed you shall always stay right here with Uncle James and myself and we will all be When Mr Richardson heard the story he wanted Jack to stay with them which poor little outcast Jack was very glad to do BY ELSIE KRUG AGE 13 DETROIT There are a few cottages on a beach on one of the lakes around Michigan and here in one of these my mother sister and myself were spending the summer Back of us was a dense wood and beyond that lay the railroad and a small village which consisted mainly of a post office store railway station and a few houses One day rather late in the afternoon my sister Hughie our neighboring friend and my self started out for the store We hurried along the old trail and as we neared the store the sky grew darker and it threatened to rain Sport our collie was with us We reached the store just in time to miss a soaking We finished our shopping and after the shower started back along the trail toward home We had not gone so very far on it when a nice man so we turned and hurried back over the A to ka trail as it was called and he scrambled down from the tree Sport stayed behind and barked We went back to the store and then took the road home It was longer but much more safer and we did not reach home until dark When we reached home we told of our ad venture and some men went to see whom the stranger might be They could find no one and concluded that he was one of a band of gypsies and was hunting bird's eggs when we saw him Sport commenced to bafk and would not go any further We tried to coax him along but he would not go and he did not seem to want stepped prince? rance she had a very decided opinion as to what a prince should look like Of course this one might have been stolen as a baby but no the re membrance of his unpleasant crafty face and of how the boy had looked at him just as a dog looks at a cruel master flashed before her and she decided that the prince was a fraud and had cheated her Aa this humili ating thought she lost all interest in the fair and began to notice that everything looked weather stained and poor Sick of it all she left the grounds and cross ing the white dusty road came to the wide fields which ran down to the shining river Here all was cool and fresh and pretty and with a deep breath of relief she sat down on the flower starred grass and watched the clear swift water flow over silvery sand and snowy pebbles that looked like huge pearls pet chickens and then had her supper next morning bright and clear the was thick on the flowers and grass and were singing in all the trees At 10 o'clock all the girls had arrived their baskets and Margaret ran out to each salt and pepper corn and butter in it girls I have some paper and matches and there is plenty of wood down sha greeted them The girls were soon building a great Are for the roast They waited until the flames had died down for they needed glowing coals for the corn Then they put the unhusked corn under the red hot coals It was soon done to a turn Then they unpacked the rest of the good things from their baskets What a jolly time they had down by the brook eating their lunch! They watched the little fishes eat the crumbs which were thrown to them After lunch the girls and splashed in the clear cool water They played games under the trees and told stories and riddles At 5 they took their baskets and went home They all told Margaret what a happy day they had had and thanked her for having given them so much pleasure alone They had quite a long talk and the boy whose name was Arthur was asked to come up to the house and see mother And because father was a man of great impor tance and owned most of Bardes the gave his most unwilling consent Arthur's intelligence his frank good man ners and his simple reserve about his un pleasant life quite won heart and before the week was finished Prince Zgiki consented to look out for another boy and Arthur started off to the great school which helped him to become one of the finest men in rance He is a great doctor today and well known for his kindness to poor children His real name is Well! that I may not tell you but this is really a true story th The Crossed Arrows EUNICE COLE AGE 10 HAMBURG NEW YORK upon a time there lived a little girl Clara She was seven and very good Ti ei Ci outside the tent That horrid man a Never! True she lived in republican and had never seen a real prince yet read so many story books that she had uth Once named Her favorite playmate was Walter Grey They time up together and in time married each other After they were married came the war with the north and the south (or the Civil Late In the Afternoon Margaret ed Her Chickens tl reproach I with meet She carried a basket with the apples take and his took hold of Marcella as she advanced in net turn and offered her ticket to The prince himself was quite a shock and as unlike idea of a prince as possible He was short fat and no longer young His gold spangled satin robe was tossed and shabby his voice a harsh whisper and al though two immense diamonds sparkled on his fat hands his nails bitten to the quick He looked into a great glass ball on the table beside him and muttered a long speech which she hoped was really Indian Then turning to a sad faced boy who held a long brass tray he took a folded paper from it and gave it to the child Clapping his hands loudly together Rare Member of turedSELDOM is an IM tlW let 1 THE DETROIT REE PRESS: SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 1910 Still sore at heart she began to read the paper fortune which promised long life money marriage lovers and great fame or quite a long time she sat there Suddenly she heard a voice petite She started and turned quickly to see Prince boy running toward her She jumped up and asked: you call said the boy with a smile brought you this You dropped it In the was the pretty little brooch mother had given Marcelle for a birthday present Eagerly she took it from his outstretched hand and pinned it in her dress very she said and then her curiosity being stronger than her 'politeness tell me all about yourself Are you Indian? Is Zgiki really a prince? I believe he is He is just horrid and I believe in his fortunes The boy looked carefully around then his face became serious and Marcelle noticed the beauty of his straight nose his white teeth his sad brown eyes and the thick black hair which clustered round his olive face he answered am not Indian at all I am just as rench as you and of course Zgiki is not a prince either But he calls himself 'prince' on the bills be cause it sounds fine Now I must go back' to him or be He turned to go but gave such a sigh that tender little heart grew full of pity poor she said so sorry I have nothing to give you for my brooch ex cept this half franc Wil you please But the boy drew swiftly back brown face grew scarlet he answered fully do not want your money hanny to serve The little girl put out her hand and his did not mean to offend you but I so much to thank you for my brooch don you toi THE SNOWY OWL turned over by members of the crew to John Boyd a Sarnia photographer The owl had a five fdot spread of wings and was anything but mild mannered one of Its favorite diver sions being to break a stout lath in two with a couple of strokes of its beak When Mr Boyd wanted to move the bird he held a stout stick in front of it A snap of the beak andwith the tenacity of a bulldog it would hold on for a long period Another stick was used to put the ugly claws out of commission in the same manner when by grasping the ends of the two sticks the owl could be carried about in safety or two weeks the bird was an ob ject of great curiosity then one night it es caped never to reappear ishing or Trout BY BEATRICE BERCHAL ORD AGE 18 DETROIT hundred dollars reward to be given to the person who finds a ring with an opal surrounded by a circlet of diamonds Signed Judge Jack Burton read this aloud to his mother and sister at the breakfast table one morning must be Miss engagement said his sister Dorothy but I wish I might find The Burtons were a very poor family and had moved to the village of Stockford but the month before They lived entirely upon the money Jack earned doing odd jobs about the village Mr Burton had met with an accident the month before which had left him a cripple As they arose from the breakfast table Jack said: I am going fishing today The man at the hotel will buy all the trout I can So saying Jack picked up his pole and bait and set off in the direction of the river It did not take very Jong to reach it and Jack soon established himself on a log He threw his line far out into the water and waited He must have waited for twenty minutes but still no fish "Plague on those he muttered not wait any So saying he began to pull his line in when he saw something glistening on the book To his utter amaze ment he found it was a ring Carefully he drew it in and disentangling it from the hook he started for the house he cried bursting in at the open door found the lost Then he told his story finishing up with get the reward Whoop That afternoon he took the ring to Judge Henderson the wealthiest man in Stockford and told him how he had found it The judge gave him the reward and struck by the honest face offered him a place as cash boy In his office Picnic Day BY PAULINE TRAHAN AGE 13 LINT MICH Sis Chloe was a little colored girl of thirteen us t0 either years She lived in a small house half a mile Then we began to look around and up In a from the town Her mother had died two years tree we could see a man He did not look like previously and she was left to Keep nouse lor her two sisters and a baby brother Her grand father worked every day but his small earn ings did not more than get thetn food to eat and sometimes there was not enough of that Sis Chloe was always working The table stove and two chairs were always just as clean and shiny as possible and no speck of dust escaped her sharp little eyes She had a brave loving little heart and grandfather Peters and the children made up her world When the grandfather hobbled home at night there was always the pot of steaming hot mush and the most comfortable chair waiting for him At last neighbors told the lady who owned the place where grandfather Peters worked about the little family with its small house keeper and she decided to give them at least' one pleasant day So she invited them to picnic on her lawn The children were delighted and could hardly wait until morning they were so eager to start The sun was just peeping above the big chestnut tree when the merry party made ready to start off Grandfather Peters had borrowed an ox cart for the occasion and the family rode the two miles to the country home in state Here they found that a table had been placed on the lawn at the side of the house and in the shade It was just loaded with good things to eat and Dinah the cook at the big house came out with a pot of steaming basket of toys To be sure had been used before but horse had but three legs or dolls were without noses? The children had one grand day They had all they could possibly want to eat and they played games on the lawn and in the meadows and picked daisies and buttercups down by the little creek Not until sunset did they make ready to go home The moon shown brightly and lighted up the tired little faces which were getting pretty sleepy None of them enjoyed it more than Sis Chloe for it was her first' real outing of any kind but the kind lady in the big house took care that it was not her last by any means the The ive Senses All the players sit in a circle No 1 begins by naming something being careful what his last word is as it must be rhymed with for the rest of the game Each player in turn tells what he has seen then No 1 repeats his first statement' and adds what ho has heard tho next time he tasted then what he smelt and lastly what he felt All do the same in their turn or example No 1 says: a ring of solid No 2 says: saw a boy fall off the The second time round No 1 says: I saw a ring of solid gold I heard a story twice told After going round the five times No complete rhyme would be: saw a ring of solid gold heard a story twice told tasted cheese that was too old smelled hay that soon would mold felt something I could not hold I I I I I And No might be: saw a boy fall off the car heard the war news from afar tasted jam in earthen jar smelled both turpentine and tar felt the eight of iron bar The verses should not be written for there is much more fun in trying to remember rhymea PETER JOHN KOENIG Son of Mr and Mrs Peter Koenig Jr Detroit These little people who are playmates Mrs Peter Koenig Detroit A Royal ish Who knows why the sturgeon is called a royal fish? Not because of its beautiful armor of shining scales or the strange tasting roe that is made into caviare and thought delicious by some folk but because according to an act of Edward VII which seems to be still in force all sturgeon belong to the crown king shall wrack of the sea throughout the this old act runs: and great sturgeon taken in the sea or elsewhere in the realm except in certain places privileged by the The largest species of the sturgeon is the Great Huso which inhabits the rivers and in land seas of Russia and is sometimes as much as 24 feet long while the smallest is the Ster let only about three feet long Sturgeons seek their food in the mud at the bottoms of the rivers ploughing this up with their long point ed noses much indoors as possible as the gypsies are said to be child stealers During that same week each father keeps his revolver charged and buys a strong new lock for the chicken house Nevertheless the gypsies make plenty of money for fortune tellers liles of strange hued candies wheels of for tune and merry go rounds attract all the young people and more than one child escapes a watchful eye sees all these mar vels and returns in safety to relate the ad venture to less daring companions On this particular day Marcelle had slipped away while mother was busy with cook and with a heart full of excitement as she clasped two new silver coins in her hand she gained the cobble paved street which runs the length of the little town It was noon and the sun blazed pitilessly down on the deserted market square for the people of Bardes dine at mid day Most of the tents were closed for gypsies eat just as other folk but the gaudy pictures of the won ders within were so attractive and dazzling that Marcelle gazed at them delightedly Oc casionally a dark red faced man passed her then a couple of untidy black haired women who chattered in their strange language But they did not seem at all inclined to steal her She wandered fearlessly from one booth to another charmed by tho photographs of the two headed calf the bearded lady and the Chinese sword swallower Before one of the soiled tents a small boy was banging a very big drum and a great placard announced In long black letters that tho world famed Indian Prince Zgiki revealed the future and told the secrets of the past for half a franc (10 cents) Overjoyed to find one tent open Marcelle cheerfully handed one of her bright coins looking woman who stood at and drew back a rusty green her pass in It was so dark inside the tent not at first see clearly and the air was stale and heavy with a smell of old tobacco damp earth and kerosene The audience was small just a few peasants who gazed at the raised platform which was faded red velvet and lighted by trimmed lamps A sense of disappointment Marcelle as she MARCELLE hummed joyously as she walked down the steep white road Lilacs raised their swaying purple tufts and the sun shining through the trees dappled the ground with golden patches As she swung along the road switching the buds off the hedgerows Marcelle was one of the happiest girls in happy rance Why? The month was May Marcelle was 12 years old and joy of joys! the fair and circus had come into the town and for seven days would delight all the children who were lucky enough to see it The town of Bardes in the north of rance is as pretty as a picture and very nearly as old as the blue hills which surround it Strange sights has it seed since Julius Caesar first stationed his rude Roman soldiers there but no invaders of old were more rugged pic turesque and lawless than the curious gypsy peddlers and circus folk who every year dis turb the quiet town During fair week each mother in Bardes becomes severe and keeps her children as sorry you look so unhappy Why run away from that old said he then he let fall by his side and walked quickly Marcelle looked after him until peared behind the high hedge then she too began to make her way home and she was still thinking of the unhappy lad when she reach ed her pretty house She was strange ly silent during dinner but as she sat in the garden with father and mother that evening she told them all about her adventure and the story of the brooch Mother scolded her just a little for wandering off alone to the fair but father seemed quite interested in the boy who living with dishonest people was himself honest he said go together in the morning and thank that The very next day father led by his happy girl approached the famous Prince and pressing a big coin into his high dirty hand asked to speak to the boy Roasting Corn BY HELEN ROBERTS AGE 18 BIRMINGHAM MICH Prize Story AVE you ever had a corn roast I I asked Margaret Harris as she ran across the street She was a girl of twelve with dark hair and laughing blue eyes and was full of fun She liked to have her friends come and see her and have a good time too says I may have one tomorrow she exclaimed The girls to whom she was talking were Carolyn Davis Dorothy and Mary Shaw Katherine Curtis and the two sisters Helen and Jennie want you girls all to come We will have lots of fun We will have our lunch down by the brook and for part of our dinner we can have roasted corn and apples I will 'bring corn apples butter salt and pepper Then each of you can bring something too Go and ask your mothers if you can come will The girls ran home as fast as they could to ask permision which was gladly given As it was late in the afternoon Margaret fed her A 1 A prlzo of a fine book given each week for the best story written by a girl or boy under 1 years of age The stories must be original that Is they must not be copied from books or other publications Write on one side of the paper only give and' address send to Editor Giris and Boys Detroit ree Press Detroit Mich A Cute Pet BY MARY TOTTER 11 Once upon a time i 0 tie and there was a trey The squirrel lived in thi i gray and a great big felio" know he did because eve nnil I 1 1 whAn went out tree he would come down out he would come down a He lived in the tree just about Visit With a hair) BY VALINDA PETZ AGE While playing on the hans day something appeared to it ed just like a fairy It said like to visit the bottom of Cc very much" rpli never been down there tore So the fairy bade her 1 she had brought for the ed off sinking down anu reached the bottom of th: S' 1 huge sea monsters and Marie afraid She was shown many and taken in some queer tertained so well that she never going to take her hon All of a sudden to her she was sitting beside th very spot as before Her urn were looking for her and i her with wet hair and the fun' hands They asked her about it un With Postal Cards Here is another interesting game with pos tal cards The hostess provides twelve picture postal cards each of which is stamped with a photograph of some subject of interest in some city of the United States Only one subject is selected from each city Thus Philadelphia State House' New York Tomb etc Each card is numbered and the players are given pencil and paper They are asked to write down the name of each celebrated object as they believe it to be identifying it with the number of the card The player answering the most names correctly wins the prize war) Walter Grey was to be a American army He bought his w'a self a bow and arrow and they were children again They bo: iuo bpui auu wueu lueir uriw down they crossed and stuck the reason that Valentines always rows crossed on them The lowers Ball BY LILLIAN OTTMER AGE 13 AW MICH The queen of flowers Queen Rose ra moning her royal trumpeters the trumpet row ers ordered them to proclaim thro if realm that all were invited to attend a bsl be held at Crystal waterfalls in Dewdrop brock on the first night of the next full moot And so it came to pass that the royal peters put on their gorgeous burnt forms and sallied forth to execute her i orders Upon receiving the mossace tie wh! flower kingdom was thrown into such sins and bustle as never had been seen hefce moon had never before had so mmh a ecu: On the night of the ball the old man brightest smile The first guest was the gay poppy eary usual so as to miss none of the fm came the carnation in her pink cress dr fled satin A swallow tailed butterfly servdu her steed In a short time the rcmai the guests arrived one of the prete the quiet lily of the valley who wa her daintiest white dress and rode on ana white butterfly Then the cricket band struck up a iJe ti tune and lo! the ball bad bec Rose and Lord oxglove led the grand ri I then came a waltz then a two ep minuet As the music stopped Queen with her partner Duke Cockscomb leg guests to a lawn where the feast J'a3 served The' kind fireflies and glow worm I promised to lend their illumination a 'I were to' be seen everywhere heaped high with the dainties fcl re XT fi 1 1 4 Lz AA flu klJ mented dewdrops love cakes are i things such as only fairy clu i And as the guests were about cry that they gave was "God save 1 PT'W How Ruth Bought Billv BY CLARA HUNTER AGE DETpap Ruth Stuart was sitting in her rco sadly looking out of the window On dollars and I have him because pa 1 am too extravagant Such a dear rc' she said to herself Suddenly a thought her and she ran up to the garret in a old stamp album grandfather ewe gi I have heard that some stamps are qp able Perhaps I can get enough gether to make twenty dollars!" she She had quite a hard time finding the for it had been carelessly put away as a of no value At last she found it and a queer lookmg it was Ruth looked at it disappojt tnd A4 old moth eaten musty book i worth a thing at she sighed She took stairs and decided to take it to a wtpT lecting friend of her and ee chance any of the stamps were woh Mr Arthur looked the stamp? over frown on his face am afraid there 2r here I would purchase" he said are a common and As he spoke an fell out of tho cover On it was a th ec scarlet stamp Mr Arthur soiu edly "Here is a stamp he saM a more than all your others If it is should like to buy it of yen It is a scarlet stamp of the issue of wi dent head on it" Then reaching for a stamp at! turning to a certain page he showed br a pic ture of the stamp and the price was om ba dred dollars! you will sell It to mo with your permission I would be glad to pay that prka for Ruth gasped One hundred dollars for tht llttlla stamp! Now she could have the pony with a cart and harness too Mr she cried "I amsoi1 lighted I am sure papa will let me sell I will ask him and let you know tomorrow" Her father allowed her Arthur and now Ruth has tnouse colored pony and a rides out every bright day The incident also made stamps and she has found opes with stamps on them that are quite va? able and she has a growing stamp collect'd the eathered amily on Lake Huron SELDOM is an Arctic snowy owi sucn as shown in the accompanying picture found in this latitude This bird a particularly fine specimen became entangled in the rigging of a steamer coming flown Laae tiuron fell to the deck where it was captured MADELINE KOENIG REDERICKS Daughter of Mr and Mrs redericks Detroit well as cousins are the grandchildren of Jack the Messenger Boy BY VIOLETTA McCUTCHEN AGE 11 TIAC MICH Along the streets of a large city in the ern part of the United States hurried a messenger lad His clothes were rather ragged and soiled but his face was clean and honest Jack for that was his name was trying to find 25S Washington avenue but his search seemed to be in vain inally a lady who was standing noticed his anxious expression stopped and asked him if she could be of any assistance He told her of his trouble and found that she lived address he was trying to find Being woman Mrs Helen Richardson asked and Invited him to stay to supper you any questioned Mrs Richardson as they walked toward her home replied Jack sadly both died when I was a little shaver My mother had a twin sister and I think her name was By this time they had reached Mrs Richard son's house and she soon had supper ready As they sat down she noticed a glittering ob ject around neck for it showed through his torn shirt In answer to her surprised Is he drew ft off and handed it to her It was a small locket set with a single diamond She opened it with trembling fingers for it reminded her of one she had seen in the past Inside wps a tiny slip of paper on which was written dear son may you some time be able to show this to my sister Helen and tell her I always loved her dearly Bless you my boy and may you always be kept of her adventure with tho 'r that she should never did she might not be able ehc IIP and to be more sure 5 took the slippers into the ho' Marie never went again 1 VW ws 1 I lit i It f'zxxv) i 1 I I 'v I WOT 3 ft ii a I Sv 4 he beckoned to the next customer to ad vance and Marcelle understood that had finished with her Tears of anger were in her eyes as she nMlWKflfBllil I I i ill 1 1MW wiK I IWlfi hKzi I MB1 If.