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JUNIOR ASSOCIATED NEWS Saturday, August 19 1922 PAGE TWO Junior Associated News DO YOU KNOW? THERE WAS AN OLD SOLDIER, AND- Editor CAROLYN E. OIRTY JUNIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dennis Junior High School Mabel Bortner George Hayward The word Vaudeville is a corruption of Vaux de Vire, the name of two picturesque valleys -on the Bo-cage of Normandy, and was originally applied to a song with words relating some story of the day. The Bastille, the famous French prison, was originally the Castle of Paris, and was built by Charles between 1370 and 1383 as a defense against the English. The Yellowstone National Park is situated, the greater part, in Wyoming, the remainder partly in Montana and partly in Idaho, and comprises 3,575 square miles. The earliest use of natural gas of which there is any record is in China, where for centuries it has been conveyed from fissures in Garfield Junior High 8chool Ruth Richard Raymond Wilson Baxter School Claron Sberer Justin Knuchel Sevastopol School Martha Johnson Myron Eubank Warner School Mary Reynolds Harry Sterling Hlbberd School Lorena Grleswell Edith Stephenson Vaile School Ellen Bartel Mark Fred Starr School Inez Bish Joseph Moore 8chool Elsa Peacock Whitewater School i Clara Garthwalte Finley School Zela Edith Weist Martha Louise Smith St.

John's School Robert Nelwoehner Roland Fulls Saint Mary's School Ruth Wolke Saint Andrew's School Herschel Ohler P'- Qf ca 5 Si. salt mines to the surface through hollow bamboo and used for bury ing purposes. The bookeepmg system by double entry, originally called Italian bookkeeping, was taken from a course of algebra published by Burgo, in the fifteenth century, at Venice. he had a wooden leg. stork at the Paris zoo.

This stork lost a leg in a battle with another His keeper fitted him with a wooden leg and now he gets about very nicely, thank you. "STICK-TO-ITIVENESS" In suming up the things necessary to make up a good character there is one thing which is often left out but without which no life or character is complete. It is "stick-to-itiveness," Junior folks. Much has been said about the subject that many of the boys and girls FUN ON A BARREL By DAN BEARD National Scout Commissioner are studying in school. Many people are asking why certain lan But they never knew what fun they were missing until Lon Thrasher (he's an old man now and a prosperous banker) got four oil barrels down at one of the docks and persuaded his father to cart them up to Bank Lick with his team and dump them into our swimming hole.

guages, history, are studied. The thing to be considered is not OLD SOUR FACE 1 i The old swimming hole, down on Bank Lick Creek, the boys said, was just about the bulliest sort of a swimming hole there was, with a shallow barrel for the little fellows and a deep part with a steep bank for the bigger fellows to plunge into. They had a chump- raft for the beginners (you know what a chump raft is because I have described Those barrels were moref un than anything else they ever tried. They had barrel races, and found that it took a mighty good fellow to be able to stay astride his barrel until the race was finished. them before) and they had a log 1 what or where you study, but how you study.

If you have not the ability to stick to a subject, then boys and girls, you may be sure that you will never derive any good from it. One student may study history and get nothing from it except a jumbled up lot of dates and figures which will later mean nothing to him, while another may obtain a vast knowledge of the lives and customs of other countries and races. The study of languages may mean to one boy or girl nothing but a drill in grammar while to another it may be the means by which the thought of peoples of foreign countries may be obtained the knowledge of which may in later This fellow seems to have a grouch. Maybe that's because he'll miss his schnapps when he leaves Germany to tour America. He's Bill, a canine comedian.

The more skillful tried to ride them standing up, lumberman fashion, and got many a good ducking while they were learning to stand on the cranky things. But before the summer was over some got so expert that they could "roll" for a long time without being pulled off and Lon Thrasher could even stand on his head and hand on one without falling off. So I want to pass this advice on to you fellows. If you want to have a summer's real sport in the swimming hole just rummage around town and get a couple of oil barrels. Try the garage.

Perhaps you will be able to get some empty gasoline barrels there, for little or nothing. They will make the pleasure catamaran moored out in the deepest part with a spring board on it forgiving, but they should have had a Lincoln rail on one side (I'll tell you what a Lincoln rail is a little left open but in winter greased paper was placed over them. The desks and seats were similar to those in the town schools. The teacher was supposed to be in the schoolroom verv earlv to swppn nut years lead to valuable positions in other countries. Mathematics has often been unjustly criticised but there is no study taught which teaches a student to be as accurate as does this one.

It also requires concentration and thought. It may be that some of you Junior boys and girls do not care to go to school, but there are some things that folks must learn to like. Stick to it and in time you will learn to of the swimming hole double for you and the "gang" or the scout troop. later on). They, had a slippery board on the bank, and a couple of dug-out canoes.

There was some charcoal handy, too, where they used to blacken their faces and bodies all up when they got tired of swimming and felt like playing Indian. They had some blue mud and some yellow clay to add to the variety of colors too and they would dance around there on the bank like a bunch of savages and end up in a mud slinging fight. Then over board all would go and wash up. But let me give you a word of warning. After summer is over, take the barrels out and store them in some one's cellar or garage or barn.

Otherwise the ice carries them away or they dry up and fall care for what now appears to be a hardship. The man or woman, boy or girl who has a grain of "stick-to-itiveness" in his or her to pieces on the banks. the room and build a fire. The copybooks were to be collected and examined "and new line of copy was written in each. The quill pens were also examined and mended.

During this period the teachers conducted "loud schools" and itwas not until 1820 that the first wholly silent school was taught by Maria Hollman of Macksonburg. There were'so few pupils and of such variety of age that classification in the schools was impossible. The patrons of the school possessed few books and were usually very poor. Most of the students were given a copy of Noah Webster's spelling book and any who were more advanced and wanted reading were allowed to bring, from home whatever book the family might have. After a DUDil had crone thrnucrh makeup is bound to be successful FACTS ABOUT OLD RICHMOND the speller two or three times he slabs which were split from logs and made smooth with an ax.

A door was cut in one side of the building and a rude wooden shutter was swung by wooden hinges from the inside, a string was passed through the door thus allowing it to be worked from the outside. Some of the houses were heated by charcoal placed on a hearth in the center of the room or burned in large kettles. When fireplaces were installed they were usually built in the middle of one end of the room and were made of rocks and sticks in untempered mortar. A log was often left out of the door and always one was cut out of the wall opposite the fireplace and through these openings air and light was admitted to the room. In the summer these windows were BE ACCURATE One of the things which every boy and girl should learn is accuracy.

This is one trait which stands out far above any other. No firm will keep for any length of time an employe who is not accurate. No one cares for a watch or clock that "will not keep correct time and so it is with human beings, they are not wanted if not accurate. What do you think would have become of the Allies in the recent war if their infantry, sharp shooters and machine gun men had not been accurate. Accuracy was one of the things which helped win the war.

Be careful in everything you do, Junior folks, and you will gradually become accurate in your work and in your play. was considered able to read. All pupils were required to pronounce words readily so that he would be (Continued from Last Week) The schools built in the town were far in advance of those in the country. The path which led to the country schoolhouse was marked by a line of blazed trees which ran in a direct line from the house of each family whose children were sent to school. Most of the houses were erected on the edge of a wood or in a field of stumps.

The earliest houses were built of round logs or poles and were covered with "clap-boards," laid on each successive course and extending from one end of the building to the other. The floor was usually made of puncheons or able to read readily. The louder and taster a student could read, so much the better. Few teachers were able to teach crrammar sue cessfully. Kirkham's Grammar was very popular among both teachers and pupils as it was written in very; easy style.

(Continued Next Week).