The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 77

Pag 6 PARADE OF YOUTH August 7 1938 August 7 1938 PARADE OF YOUTH Page 3 il 3 Animal Trainer Has Help! Help! Yourself and Others ha Comes Back TO HAMPTOMvA where MOST AND COLS SELL COAL WHEN MOST comes! 0 mcramA mms HAMPTQ Me Her Victory Over Illness $200 MONTENEGRO in its prime was 8504 square miles of rocky land on which the people could do little but raise cattle and fight For centuries it had to wage ceaseless warfare to keep its independence Then displeased with the trickery of its ruler Prince after the World War to Join Ju goslavia This stamp Issued In IjM i mm 1 i4J yj i BRAXIl WHERE SO MUCH brown it often 13 USED FOR FUEL IH locomotives! AT 15 THOMAS GILMARTIN was like most other boys: ho wanted to do things go places have fun But fate had other plans for him He became almost totally blind For seven years he groped about in a world of darkness He was a prisoner to his handicap he could do little without the help of others But all that has changed now-thanks to a dog! The pup Rascal is one of the famed Seeing Eye dogs let Mr Gilmartin tell you the rest heard of the Seeing Eye on a radio broadcast he relates at 8927118th street- Richmond Hill learning more about it I became anxious to have a dog Early this year I went to the Seeing Eye School in Morristown and after a month of training came home with RascaL 1907 is a -one UTH FOSTOFFtCE HAMPTON DRUGS Olga Fernando Inferiority Cam-plan Bothere Har Na Mara TO HAMPTON NIC A THREE n-one town the name of THE TOWN IS HAMPTON THE P05T0FFICE IS HVTN WHILE THE NAME AT THE DEPOT IS RUTHERFORD TON! HA HOtP jevrH MC (This column la designed se that Paraders in this conn try and foreign lands may help themselves and other Paraders If your Help! Help! is not published right sway please have patience as there may be oth-en before you And forget you print your own name address- and age you help Parade to get them accurate) Margaret Freeman McColl 8 Western boyzngals write Paul Emerson Naponee Will give tennis racket for one pair Silver King fan tail or tumbling pigeons or two pairs homing pigeons Boyzngals Interested in joining camera club write send self-addressed envelope Esther Steinberg 837 Twenty-Sixth street northwest Washington Pix Deanna Durbin Margaret Ann Blythe Sedley Va (19) Pix Shirley Temple Jane Withers Ann Arundale 149 Pearl street Trenton Boyzngals ages 15 to 18 interested swing music outdoor sports write Hiilmer Robinson 138 Seymour svenne West Hartford Conn (19) tickets especially from Southern Northern States Swap those from Connecticut for 'em Phillip Leach South Penobscot Me (13) charms pix baseball players match covers Bettle Hoidekoper Nosqsitt vim New Bedford Swap historical stamps match covers for pix Sonja Henie other match covers Cleo Price 1528 Sornth Second East Salt Lake City Pix Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Dorothy McCnrry Kouto 2 Forest City Stamps quilt patterns poems Texans write Dorothy Ninneman 27 Timber-branch drive Alexandria Addresses: Shirley West once of Lewiston Idaho Dorothy Philips once of Clarkston Wash Carolyn Goody East Booth bay Me (12) Pix Sonja Henie Deanna Durbin Mary Kato 435 Centra street Trenton Pix Deanna Durbin Joan Bennett Nelson Eddy Boyzngals my age write Good Swimmer And Proves It! A Horses Monkeys and Goats in Junglelarid 9 A day at the says Christopher Casey more to me than a pocketful of WWch might mean Christopher is one of the richest boy the world Every day is circus day to him because he has his own circus -f is an unusual circus It has a regulation ring a tent 24x24 feet animals but it give any shows of my friends have asked me why I organize a show" Christopher writes from 132 Jack-son street Batavia "But since my sole purpose in having animals is for my own amusement I believe It wiU be some time before I do Christopher wK 19 Wgaa thinking about his eircus years time a circus came to town" be recalls would get up in tho middle of the night to watch it unload and watch the tope go up" But it until last fail that ho bought a small monkey named Eve Then in other named Rosie timer he haa two foxes Molli and Mae which ho leada around like dogs Stars at the show are Major and Jiggs two SheUand ponies Major is only as high as his kpee and weighs 56 pounds In the manner of the circus he could be billed as the smallest horse!" Jiggs is only a little bigger Eve the monkey rides both pomes with the skiU of a race horsa jockey is very much attached to them" Christopher says The young animal lover spends from one to four hours each evening caring for and training his pets which include also in Arab-ian horse and six goats Newsfaets Scientists ear horses began as tiny creatures smaller than a dog As they spread through Europe they grew to their present size during thousands of years But those horses which went to the Shetland Islands north of Britain vm- iood scant and life hard They grew long shagp coats became smaller and smaller Yet those ponies once were full-sized horses! No But Smart Enough say Howard Owen is He want that might hinder fitting normally into Yale Yale Sure Howard 17 has just decided to accept prize achol- arship of the I Pacific Coast Worth $2650 good for years at Want te win a awell prise easilyT All right here's hew: What interesting fact do yen knew about tome spot In this some puce ye ve read about or been to or even something In year own State villager Bend it to Parade care of this newspaper Prfa every boy or girl whs send wln- 27 71 Send to anay rnt eao time a VT" flectoon entrieg will be M- UMwiefirel For all but 11 months of her 14 years of life Olga Fernandez has been crippled with infantile paralysis But she let that interfere with her school work and because she let It interfere she was graduated from elementary school with high honors and a 200 award! used to have an inferiority complex till I started going to special classes for handicapped children" Olga writes from 137 West Sixty-seventh street New York intend to use the 204 to help me through school" -Olga wants to be a dress designer I anything to do I always draw usually gowns or faces she writes Tve won a few prizes for drawing in newspapers and school" One Mighty And One Saved I Jerry McCarthy watched as his young pal Junior Brown 10 waded out Into the water In the harbor Suddenly Junior slipped and started thrashing around Then Jerry no longer watched but acted first I thought he was only fooling but as I watched him I realized he was in trouble" writes 16-year-old Jerry from 382 Franklin street Buffalo decided to go after him had become frightened so fearing we might both drown I had to punch him to make him let go After that It hard to get him Central High School where Jerry Is a freshman awarded him the its highest honor Christopher Casey Ready ta Lead Major in With Eve Up kruna worth cents unused The name means Mountain Montenegro used to be called chaos of mountains1 since In it the Dalmatian Bosnian and Albanian ranges meet These natural barriers helped the tiny country remain free Invaders-never could find water in the hills What springs there are hide behind rocks in places known only to the local Inhabitants WITH ALL its battling Montenegro had some softer angles A crippled or Infirm man could ways turn-minstrel and make a good living just by singing about Mon- tenegro's military heroes In this land of warriors Prince Nicholas was held in high esteem not because he could fight but because he wrote excellent poems! 1W Over 154 years the country ruled by bishops of the East rn Church From 1696 to 1851 the throne passed In each generation from uncle to nephew because the ruler a priest-prince was also a church official forbidden to marry PRINCE NICHOLAS no priest erred during the World War He plunged his country Into battle at tho first sign of trouble but tired of fighting and tried to make secret peace with Austro-Hungary When his people objected Prince Nicholas found life safer In Italy He was in France when the Montenegrins offered his throne to King Alexander of Jugoslavia Alexander incidentally was a great-great-grandnephew of one of the best-known Montenegrin priest-princes as BOSNIA and Herzegovina a former stamp-issuing country is now Just province in Jugoslavia AMERICAN FIRMS will print verml million stamps for Nic Tmg ua this year 1 i Doris Blankenship was considered a food swimmer but his chance to prove it was almost more than he had bargained for He Was 70 yards from shore In the pounding surf at Jacksonville Beach Fla Thirty yards further out were two friends And one was in trouble! as fast as I could In the rough surf Doris writes reached Eugene Roberson who was struggling for his life Eugene grabbed me in a death grip The only thing to do was to hit him a good lick" Then turning Eugene over to Smith his other friend Doris realized he rescue them but had just enough strength to make shore But so strong was the undertow he went under once Desperately he tried again made it summoned aid to his friends address Is 336 Inman street southwest Atlanta Ga Sevens Up! Number Even Appears on Calf 8 Head ST5" Wfim ijr 1 r4 Thomas Gilmartin and Blindness Na Langar on Affliction Notice Certain Age A goodly part of young Hollywood consisting of Deanna Durbin Jackie Cooper Juanita Quigley and Jackie Searl gangs up to present a story about a certain age you may recognize Melvyn Douglas Irene Rich and John Halliday lead the cast of adult players There are of course new songs for Deanna to sing and it's a Universal picture What AH A With boyfriend Jackie Cooper and other friends Juanita Quigley and Jackie Searl Deanna is rehearsing a play ia the guest house her rich father's estate when forced to get out to make room for Melvyn Douglas an employe of her father who is to vacation there Irked the youngsters the Deanna Durbin house with strange ii sifflj jr-j Paraders Help! Help! pleas have swamped us Su we may save space thus get mere request in we have stripped the column to the bme A Bnder'B name address and ge followed ty the Interests means the per son wants those things Looking at her collection of perfume bottles Helene Robertson sighs of them are a good tfiing for the cosmetic dealers they are If they were full Helene would come close to having a corner on the perfume market for she has 225 bottles all sizes and shapes My favorite is one made like i 1 i 7Year8 and Got a Jobj 'Held That Tiger by Mabel Stark aa told to Gertrude Orr RJk The Caxton Printer Ltd Caldwell Idaho illustrated with 29 fan-page photographs This is the life story of a woman who has spent 23 years of her life "breaking working spd training tigers No one has challenged Mabel claim to be the greatest If not only woman tiger trainer In the world Tigers she explains are the most fearsome animals on earth become less dangerous after they have been broken and worked awhile so do leopards and pumas But not tire tigers As they lose their Innate fear of man through close association with him they become increasing) bold One second off guard has cost many trainers their lives Miss Stark is well able to talk about that She has been clawed and slashed and chewed until there is hardly an inch of her body not scarred But she takes It all with that curious philosophy of the circus veteran She likes animals is fascinated by tigers She gives up a career In nursing to join up with a circus aa a girL She devotes a quarter of a century to the circus' And now the says had given the circus everything I had 4nd the circus in turn had given me what I had sought success in my chosen line" This might have been a horror book one unsuited for the faint of heart But Miss Stark tells it in a matter-of-fact manner makes no attempt at heroics It becomes worthwhile reading You learn lota about animals from That hut more Important you learn lots about the fearlessness and courage of one of the most remarkable women of her day BURMA WAS icparated from In- dia on April 1 1937 and now has Its wb stamp Usu AIRMAIL can now be gent between Belgium France and Italy without extra charge THINK there is no dog anywhere that could do for me what he has done Before he came into my life I could travel by myself only within a three-block radius of my home Each day was like every other not doing anything or going anywhere Even in the short time I have had Rascal the change has made me wonder how I stood such a monotonous existence days are gone now for- ever I hope With Rascal at my side I can go any place I wish He will stop at every curb take me around obstacles steer me out of the way of people on the sidewalk and automobiles in the street He obeys commands of right left and forward depending on which way I want to go We have traveled many miles in my own community and many others including New York City I have yet to come home with a bump on my head or a skinned shin as I used to 'Best of all 1 have to ask favors of anyone I fee 1 as independent as any normal sighted per-son Blindness I consider Is an affliction that once was mine but is no more" a my the and four Yale University 4 applied for I the scholarship I I on the sugges- I tion of my high sdc Ai- ni school princi- Howard Owen pal" Howard writes from 710 Da-! kota street Seattle Wash never previously considered it I knew only that I wanted to go to a good high school record speaks for itself Out of 39 grades he received three and one The rest were have no spare time" Howard says that which I use when I should be doing something else I spend It on photography fishing farming swimming music or handball I am working this summer on our farm and cherry Nawefacts Yale University third oldest in the United States got its start when some Connecticut ministers became dissatisfied with the way things were run at Harvard In 1701 they organized their own collegiate school So it remained for 17 years until Elihu Yale presented the school with books and salable merchandise when it took the name of Yale Today the New Haven Conn school has I total assets of about $83000000 All the sevens mixed up in the life of tjjie calf pictured above just had to show up somewhere Maybe why it has a perfect white figure 7 on its forehead Actually the calf itself was merely bom on the seventh day of the month But its ma who also belongs to William Schmidt New Holstein Wis dairy farmer is named Number 7 Further she is 7 years old has always been kept in the seventh stall bLpVSLRfortr Robert wo- eon-lStS North Third street Sheborsen At 7 Peter Holden Parkhurst left the third grade in school to try out for a job! He was successful so now is the star of the play Borrowed Time" which already has reached1 its 200th performance at the Long-acre Theater New York Peter drops the Parkhurst part of his name when on the stagey and takes his work very seriously Critics have lauded him as child actor of the century" -r GOOFY AMBITIONS WHATS YOURS? Chinese the 18-year-old describes is sitting like a Buddha Looking straight into his face he appears to be very angry but from the side he looks like a peaceful old gentleman smoking a long pipe He is the JekyU-Mr of the collection" Given several on her birthday four years ago Helen began saving the bottles in earnest Many were donated by friends She bought others on every trip she made Recently the whole group won her a blue ribbon at a bobby sbow i bottle is a personality" she 0ayj at 2212 Northwest Twentieth street Oklahoma City Okla they seem to be the cast of a great musical show assembled on the stage for the grand finale are American but I have several from Europe Mexico Cuba and South America" Netvefoctm The first bottles were of animal skins which were sewed up One leg was left open as the neck- This was closed with a plug or tied with string Such containers are still used for wine in southern Europe for water in China Thousands of years ago the Egyptians made glass bottles They also had them of stone ivory bone porcelain bronze gold and pottery Bottles are now made by blowing Blass Into molds of the desired shapes Bottoms and necks are finished last Done chiefly by machinery in the United States this Is an honored hand art in Europe the secrets of which are guarded Jealously by families of craftsmen- noises in an effort to get Douglas to leave Discovering them he falls In with their plans since he is anxious to get away from the boring afternoons of mother Irene Rich But soon Deanna conceives a on the older man and contrives to make him stay Puzzled when he learns the true state of afflairs Mr Douglas finally produces a Stai Deanna (Edna Mae) Durbin bright and shining Hollywood star at 15 was born in Winnipeg Canada but come to Los Angeles when she was 1 year old A radio and screen sensation since her first appearances Deanna has a bright operatic future predicted for her by voice experts Paralyzed Girl Writes With Toes Just a Dog? Amy Frost 11 street northwest Washington Addresses foreign boyzngals Paraders ages 15 to 18 write send pix Jack Koenemaa 1237 West Copper street Butte Trade my for and interested in ham radio Connie Peyar Box 251 Warrenton Address of Vivian Emery Evelyn "Baba" Clark 194-27 115th street Richmond Hill (13) Paraders interested journal-Ism write Terrence Genes Box 14 Fort Lawn Will give stamps for complete radios radio parts Prefer 1932 or later models Write first Margie Helm 155 Linnmoore street Hartford Conn Boyzngals interested In photography movie stills write Golf tips Betty Jean Jones Box 476 Station A Bakersfield Pix the late Jean Harlow Marjorie EUis Stockton Springs Me (12) Pix Sonja Henie Greta Garbo Dorothy Lamour Olivia de Havilland Campfire girls write Grace Byrd Overton Ellerbe (14) Boyzngals interested singing write Pix Paraders my age Give pix other stars for pix Deanna Durbin Lewis Holliday Jr The Plains Va programs Lorna Christensen Ephraim Utah Pix and info Deanna Durbin school newspapers small trinkets Bose Marls Nagren 1 YardvOle Unusual poems Mildred Sears 1111 Ridge road North Weodaide Sliver Spring Md Medium-sized stones plans Os Squibbies THAU TO lOAO A Ft MAIvJ CT for out-of-door fireplaces Swap pet pix pix postcards Boyzngals born March 15 write Elisabeth Skinner Charles Town w- Va Pix popular orchestra leaders pix postcards theater programs Autographed Pix Boyzngals Monica A Webb 59 Myrtle street Lawrence Mass '(15) Margaret Broadstreet Box 294 Troy (16) Gloria Frasso 92 Eden avenue Southington Conn (14) Nola Grady 600 Harding avenue Kinston 14 Virginia Gordon Hearn 820 Mercer street Fredericksburg Va Lucille Ladzinski 87 West Center street Southington Conn Taltha La wing 8X2 College avenue Newton (15) Peggy Kennedy 45-a Myrtle street Lawrence Mass (15) Peggy Boyette Matthews (14) Edith Carter Hancock Me (12) Dorothea Townsend Box 66 Bowling Green Va Mary Stasilowicz West Center street Southington Conn Elizabeth Grady 509 Harding avenue Kinston CL (14) Help! 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Continued on Page 7 Finders Not Keepers Bernice Fine writes with her toes Its no stunt If she write with her toes she write at alL A victim of paralysis for all her 16 years Bernice who has never walked who cannot use her hands for anything says: feel crippled at all and enjoy life as much as a normal person" She started using her toes while an infant and learned to pick objects off the floor By the time she was 6 Bernice had learned the alphabet Though he's never been to school become a proficient speller and likes arithemetic Her mother teaches her at home Not only does Bernice write with her toes but she has learned to play checkers draw and operate a typewriter Her address Box 147 Erlanger OeeorUr Simon Loess 310 Fittsboro street Cbaati mu Frances Bern Bladen Nebr has a flight i fancy which carries off this week's Mystery Prize A bit un-seasonal perhaps is death-lei bit but Who cares for seasons when poesy is in the air or some-thlngT Here it is captioned: SPRING SONG Spring is here The grass Is ris wonder where The flowers is And that ladies and gentlemen Is To Go Into the Swankiest Restaurant and Order a Paper Napkin a Glass of Water arid a Tooth- puA! Send hi year Goofy Ambitions nd receive the origins) of the cartoon Address Parade of Feuth care ei this newspaper all there Is to this here and now Squibbie contest Write a four-line jingle (your own honest-to-John original work) send It in and Mys-tery Prizes (maybe) drop in your lap That's the only way incidentally to find out what a Mystery Prize is So why don't you and you get busyT Remember anything goes Just so it's original Address all entries to Parade of Youth" in care of this newspaper He looks like Just another pup the dog in the picture above doesn't he? Well be to everyone except a certain young man To that man he means a new life a life of happiness activity with a promising future instead of one of bleak' despair v- Im possible? Then read own story of it You trial find It in the column Paget keepers losers weepers" the case when Robert Slattery and Robert Logan both 15 found a purse containing $360 The boya hastened to the police station with th8ir find and the purse's owner gave them each $5 00 Robert Slattery's home at 59 Chelmsford street Lawrence Mass Robert lives at 41 Camden street Lawrence Mass 1 1 bjLTm John O'Sul-Unn JIM Ci-OM tree Lserann Mass) Helena Robertson Shows Her Collection.