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i i1 y5 rsESasS iSiSKOS IM 6 IR3S lis If i i THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY DECEMBER 12 192d wwiwweMwigMBajjiiJi wwwm ji JyaJi js5 yjvt 35 atcaB SI so A aW ggg8te ifgJay vgyjjj JSl fast IT J9 i Wr ANNAS PAGE 0 Conducted by Cecilia Reynolds Robertson The Cousins Club tflfZL 0 Is awlU ho vd to vyvxke ex fss done Andhen oHujov 1 have ire urJ hkM tv sv iU L5 sv Drawing and verse by Margaret Merrill Prize 2 Christmas is coming and what should we do To make it a time of rejoicing and cheer I think my dear children IT1 leave it to you To answer this question can any one here Tell what is the meaning of Christide and why We give to our loved ones the gifts of the heart Since ever the great star appeared in the sky The teve gifts to deai ones has been a big part Of the days happy hours Well tis Love all the while That should be within us forgetting of self And service to others a glad cheery smile I think this is better than all of the wealth Expended on presents in giving my dear To give of yourself is the best Christmas cheer AUNT ANNA Watch Ye Town Crier for news of the date and place of the holiday costume party A A Dear Aunt Anna I read your page very Sunday and am very anxious to be a member For my pen name I would like to have Mayflower as to remember always about the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth colony in 1620 EVELYN WARPL age 11 Dear Aunt Anna I am 12 years old and would like for my pen name Violet May I join your club I will try to be a true blue cousin VIRGINIA RUETH Dear Aunt Anna Will you please let me join our happy club7 I am five years old I do not know how to write so my sister Lis is writing for me For my pen name I would like Pen if it is not taken I have a little blue elvet suit with a lace collar to ear to jour Christmas ball Now I must close EDMUND PENDLETON STMONDS Washington Dear Aunt Anna Last September two kittens were dropped in the back yard When mother told my friend and myself about them we were perfectly delighted aad each chose a kitten to take care of My friend who belongs to your club chose the black one and called it Boots and I took the gray one and called it Tluff Af teT we had fed them we took thetoi in in the park and played awhile One day we decided to feed them milk in a bottle with a nipple it worked fine but all the time we had to be buying nipples because they bit them in two Fluff was deformed in his back les from being thrown er the fence we think so had to have him chloroformed to oui great grief We still have Boots and he is very lively because he is only about three months old He is always teasing Obo the dog who is very jealous of him BUBBLES Nancy Lac Letting the Old Cat Die Drawn by Anne Thomas 602 Riverside Drive New York Ive been swinging so high high high And now I am going to let the cat die Up in the trees so high high high And now let the old cat die die die A A Dear Aunt Anna I have a doll that would also like to 30m the dolls corner Her name is Katherine She is an infant She has light hair and her hair is real her eyes are blue She also has a bottle that 1 can put in her mouth I hope Granny Scrapbag has eaten her dinner when my letter arrives PRINCESS Sarah Motley age 9 Cooke School A Trip to Burnt Mills Prize 2 Dear Aunt Anna It has been almost half a year since I wrote you and my cousins but here I am again This time I am sending a story about a place I hiked to last Saturday which I think may interest some of the other cousins Granny Scrapbag will not like it because it contains only hills and rocks which are too large to be eaten and which dont belong to her anyway And Aunt Anna what has become of the other boy members I would like to read stories about their hikes and camping trips Please ask them to write HIKER BURNT MILLS ANTJ SLIGO CREEK Sligo Creek rises in Maryland and flows down the hills which separate It and Rock Creek until it reaches the ba About 7 miles from Washington at the place called Burnt Mills it has a beautiful little fall and a useful one too because the water power from it is used to run a mill The mill now standing there is the third one built on that spot the first two having burned down A long concrete flume carries the water from the dam above the falls to the mill where it turns a turbine or Iron waterwheel inclosed in a case It is a pity that the big groaning mill wheel is no longer ifere but I suppose the new turbine does the work betteV It fills the little valley with a rattla of gears a rumble huge mill stones and a delicious smell of fresh grist Inside the mill everything is covered with white corn dust and bags of grain ahd meal are piled in a corner Sometimes the dusty miller leans over the lower half of the quaint Dutch door and then you have a scene which might well have dropped right out of the past The Boy Scouts have recently been granted about 40 acres of the most beautiful land around Burnt Mills so the woods are sure to be preserved The country is hilly and Sligo Creek seeks its way along the deepest valleys with many a little fall and deep pool It is bordered by great rocks and the steep wooded hills Several of the rocks have been bored all the way through by the grinding of water turned pebbles examples of natures milling At the foot of the fall there Is at deep pool in which the boys sWim in summer The fish collect there in winter because the depth and the current keep it from freezing Tou can walk all day around the rocks and tills and never tire of their natural beauty but if you should tire of Burnt Mills remember that there are many spots equally beautiful around our city if you only hunt for them Note To reach Burnt Mills take the car to Silver Spring and ask some one there for the Burnt Mills road It is about 2 miles from Silver Spring JAMES MOONET Junior High School The old Fire Horse work is done he lived he had his day No longer down the open street hell race and larch and sway But oh it was a stirring sight when he went forth to win His hoof beats echoed clear and sharp above the noise find din Adventurous Knights Prize 1 Dear Aunt Anna Am writing to your page after a lapse of five months I am eagerly awaiting the announcement of the date of the Christmas party as are also my sister and brothers who want to join the Cousins Club My brother John Is 9 years old and wishes to take the pen name Sir Galahad During vacation he read so many romantic stories about knights and their adventures that he delights in making wooden swords With the cover of a washboiler and top of a stew pan for shields he and my brother Denny tilt so fiercely up and down the yard until mama routs them with a broom My but he gets off some funny sayings One Sunday mama called Johns attention to the rosy cheeks of a pretty little boy and John said Ah his cheeks arent red hes pot a fever My brother Denny is 7 jears old and is a great movie fan His favorite film is The Still Alarm so he is taking Jack Manley for his pen name When he was a little more than 5 years old he heard papa mention the word tomorrow and he broke in with there is no tomorrow every day comes back in the morning Papa says that is poetry but advises Denny not to try making a living at it but use it only as a side line My sifter Rita is 4 years old and no doubt when she goes to school she will have something to say to her dear Aunt Anna Her pen name is Muriel MARGARET KERWIN DANE Ye Town Crier A Japaneesy person by the name of Yo Sin Fat Was fond of writing with his pen transcribing and all that And so we gave him for a task the Christmas invitations Which he decided to send out to all our vast relations A A Drawing Jjy Ted Hall Little Denny Martin goes back to his first love A motor driven fire truck is all right but Denny shares with some other folks love for the dashing fire horses that run so joyfully to a fire as if they knew that the safety of the city depended upon their swiftness Dear Aunt Anna I am 10 years old and in the fifth grade In reading over the Cousins Club page I find it very interesting May I join9 Tf so for my pen name I would like Black Eyes Hoping Granny Scrapbag lb out Christmas shopping I remain EDNA KIATTA pFtt ALI Dear Aunt Annie I would like to change my pen name from Briar Rose to Sailor Girl as my brother is a sailor I have a doll that would like to join your Cousins Club also She has brown eyes which open and shut brown hair and is about 22 inches tall She was 4 years old her last birthday Her name is Dorothy I hope her letter will be printed in the paper or else I think she will be disappointed Sometimes I take my dolls and play school with them She has a little brother and two more kewpie doll sisters Aunt Annie I am going to tell you how I became her mother Well one day I went to a little girls birthday party and a doll was to be given to the girl that found the most peanuts So it happened I was the lucky one Dorothy wants to know if she may come to your Christmas party RUTH BRANDT Yes bring doll Dorothy A A Dear Aunt Anna I have been reading The Post Boys and Girls Page for a long time and would like to join May I For my pen name I would like Happy because every one calls me that I am 13 years old I am in the eighth grade and go to Cranch School JOSEPH CECIL What a cheery nairiL A Oh Aunt Anna What do you suppose has happened now9 I wanted my pet chicken to join th pets corner this week and it was killed and eaten for the Thanksgiving dinner What could be worse than that Do you think it was right Aunt Anna Well anyway my sisters have chickens which could join the pets corner CARNATION Athlyne Spahr Well of course that was rather hard on the chicken but it is more of an honor to grace a Thanksgiving board than just an everyday table Prize 1 The chicken was something of a hero Lovingly DOROTHY AUNT ANNA Child of Yvonne Rapeer Dear Aunt Artia1 May I please join the dolls department I am very lonely as I have only a baby sister who is blind I think she will go to the hospital soon They scalp you and cut off your legs and arms and and everything As I was saying I am very lonely Maybe the dolls who belong will give me some company Dear Aunt Anna My name is MarjOrie Anne Just think I was so insulted the other day I heard my mother say that she was getting too old to play with lolls Christmas I will be 2 years old Dont you think Im a big girl My hair is brown and my eyes are blue MARJORIE ANNE Owned by Ruth Nebeker The Christmas Gift Dear Aunt Anna I have not written to you for almost a ear but I am going to be a true blue cousin hereafter I am sending in the first chapter of a pirate story and hope yon will like it Next week my dog Rover is going to join the pets corner and he is going to tell you of his life Are the parents allowed to come to the Christm party I hope Granny Scrapbag doesnt get my letter for she might get indigestion and be unable to attend the partj FRIAR TUCK Waltor Thorne age 13 years Junior High School 8 A 2 Xs your pirate storj our own Pid y8u understand that it had to be original Yes indeed the parents may come Dear Aunt Anna I have been reading the Cousins page every Sunday and would love to join I know it is lots of fun For my pen name I would like Raggedy Ann Love to all my cousins From VIRGINIA MINNIGERODE 8 Oxford street Chevy Chase Md Dear Runt Anna Please may I join Cousins Club I have read your page for a couple of years and would like very much to join I am 11 years old and attend the Sacred Heart Academy SUNSHINE Elizabeth Leonard age 11 Dear Aunt Anna I would lJte to join the Cousins Club I am 12 years old and I am in the sixth grade I have a baby brother 1 month old and another brother 11 years old For my pen name I would like Priscilla VERA CARLSON A A Dear Aunt Anna I am 10 years old and I go to the Morgan School For my pen name I would like Princess Kitty KATHERINE MURPHY Dear Aunt Anna I am a twin goldfish and my pame is Goldie My twin sisters name is Sylvie and considering that we are named differently I think we get along tiptop together We are the only occupants of the little town of Goldflshbowl and quite a happy home it is but for a pest that calls himself a kitten He is about eight inches long and his list of pranks is longer than he is This nuisance wont keep his fins or his whatever he calls them out of our domains I believe he calls them paws and those paws are always busy with mischief either fishing for us or our dinner So goes our dally life but the point is may Sylvie and I join the pets corner if we be very good little fish I think that bothersome kitten is going to write a letter too but I hope I get the prize he is too self conceited GOLDIE the goldfish My little friends name Marion Hoffman Dear Aunt Anna My chum and I have formed a health club It is an outdoor girl club th clubroom being a dell of stately shading locust trees Every fair day we hold a meeting and perform our stunts There are only four members counting our seKes so we are called the Health Quartet Our aim is to be healthy and make all the rest healthy who care to join Our club apparatus is very limited at present but we hope to have more than just a chinning bar and swing pole with a game of croquet set The quartet also are pretty good at setting up drill by now Already we are getting healthier or at least our parents say so Your niece RED BIRD Virginia Monk age 9 Dear Aunt Anna As I have been looking at the papers I find lots of things about the Cousins Club so I thought I would like Jo join the club Now I vv ill tell you something about myself I am 10 years old and live at Mount VerVion It isa bgtutiful place I go to Lee School iAletandria Va I am in the fourth grkSCaSI go up on the train every morning I have lots of fun for lots of other children go up on the tram too School opens at 9 oclock But when the trairl is late it makes me late I get home at 4 clock ELIZABETH WALLACE Mount Vernon Va Dear Aunt Anna May I join the dolls corner My name is Dolly and I am three years old I am 15 inches tall They were having a great deal of fuss whether I was a strawberry blonde or a bleached blonde but they finally found out that I was a real blonde I have many fancy dancing costumes which I hope to wear at the Christmas party Hoping to be one of the doll cousins DOLLY Owned by Rebecca Sherr Dear Aunt Anna Oh I am sure that the party will be a success I love to dress up and my father used to laugh at me when I dressed up my little brother He is as big as I am now so I dress up my baby brother or at least I try to but without much success I dont believe any boy likes itwhen his sister superintends Aye aye Lets let the little mouse join I dont think the cats will bother him I love to draw but have not rad any black ink fori a long tfme so could not send any I have some now THE NIGHTINGALE Younne Rafeer The Playtown People Take a Walk I If 35 few Ella and Delia and Crickety 3ree and Baby an Tumblety Tim AH went out for a walk one day and they fell out and thn fell in thpy wanted to go to a movie show but little Crickety Crea Decided she didnt want to go and so they con ldnt agree And bo that ts the way that they fell out and that was what It was all about lM eomlng back the wrong way they took and they tumbled knee deep into the brook AH except Tumblety Tim Tim Tim and that Is how they fell la Merrill THE TALE OF A TRUE KNIGHT The black knight nas fallen In a trial of skill within the court vard of the castle of learning he was felled to the ground and his leg was broken in twain His armor was taken from him and he was carried anaj He stajed from sunset to sunrise in the castle of affliction where white robed ladies and squires attended to his wound He was then conveyed to his own castle In his chariot His sire tenderly carried him up the lone and winding stairs that led to his chamber The nightingale his sister then changed her name to Florence Nightingale and she lived up to her new name right faithfully For three long dreary weeks the knight lay on his bed of agony During these weeks he had procured a violin and as soon as th news got about a noble ladv of the tribe of Rebecca came to instruct him in the art of music Today the surgeons knife cut tn twain the cruel cast In which his limb was imprisoned and the knight will rise a minstrel Dear Aunt Anna The accompanying tale is true My brother did break his leg at school and he is learning to play the violin What do you have to do to be true blue please I see from reading your page that a little girl is going to play the violin at the Christmas party and that another little girl will dance I have taken singing for quite a while and have sung at school and at the Womens City Club I sins In dif Cerent languages May be you would like to have me sins THE NIGHTINGALE ag 11 Yvonne Rapeer Indeed we would love to have you lng A A ren MAKE the children happy this year with Mother Goose Stories and Rhymes the 2Cth Century Way Remember how you used to love to ha ve your mother read about Little Bo Peep and Mary and Her Little Lamb And the hours of fun you had with the singing games Miss Jennia Jones and the Farmer in the Dell and all the other childhood favorites Think what it would have meant to have had them sing to you on the phonograph You could have played them over and over again if youd wanted to All this ana more is now ready and waiting for your children in Bubble Books that sing What are Bubble Books Each Bubble Eook tells a different story of the little boy and his wonderful adventures in Fairyland It tells how he blows the Magic Bubbles from which come the lovable characters so dear to childhood And the songs these little people sing are beautifully illustrated in colon and recorded on real Columbia records Three records come with each book and can be played on any phonograph They are called Bubble Books because the characters in the stories come from the bubbles Go to any toy phonograph book or department store today and get a set of Bubble Books There are twelve now ready and more are in 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