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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-28
THE CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
They Are Made Happy Through
Thought for Each Other.
MEMBERSHIP COUPON.
International Headquarters,
New York City.


International President, Mrs Louise Hogan,
Post Office Box 200, Washington. DC.
National Metropolitan Bank, Washington,
d. c., Depository for the Children's
League Funds.
No dues. no central fund; no salarfed off,
! Gals. All help goes direct on call from the
president, through the press and other ave-
| nHes that are open for this work. Further
Information given on application to the
editor Of this page.
PLEDGE.
| I promise to try every day to add happi.
ness to some ones life by being kind.
| l promise to try to earn each month q
| penny, postage stamp, n nickel or a dime
| and keep 1t ready to send to any one our
| president may tell us is In need Of such
| help, either here or abroad.
l PROMISE to write to my president once a
month and tell her what am doing to helm
| others and what can do to help her help
others.
l promise to help the Chiidren's League
| them such books selected by my
president and printed on our list
Please enroll my name and send my badge
| In inclosed stamped and seif-addressed en-
! velepe.
Street. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Town or City. Observation-Disclosures.
State and County.
| Age Of Applicant, If under 20. ...........
adults may 1oin.)
Date of Application Observation-Disclosures.
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Aunt Dorothy's Corner

My Dear Children. What a merry. busy
week this has been for us. has it not. with
Thanksgiving day. the boys and girls home
from school, theaters to go to, friends to
visit good tines to talk over, and Christ
mas To plan for.
| wondered on Thanksgiving day what all
my young friends were doing and noped
that whatever it was and wherever you
were YOU We're all having very jolly time
IL seems strange to think how near at
hand Christmas really is and how few are
the weeks we have left in which to do the
many things l am sure all want to be-
fore that day comes.
Remember, dear children. how much bet
ter it is to get all our gifts ready little by
little il possible, instead of in grand gen.
eral rush just at the last. when every one
IS apt to be more or less tired and the stores
are overcrowded
| am quite sure that the boys who have
learned something about carpenterlng and
burnt woodwork or others who understand
photography or drawing and painting. can
easily think of many little presents to make
which would be appreciated quite as much
as any costly article purchased in store.
AS for the girls. with the countless things
they can do in the way of all kinds or
needlework besides the things they know
how to make in common with the boys. IL
should he possible for them to think of hum
dreds of dainty gifts with which they can
please their parents and friends when
Christmas day comes. L think more than
half the fun of Christmas time Is getting
ready for 1t, don't you? Don't ever forget
that matter how small your gift is, 1t
will give pleasure to some one, and that the
kind thought and the CHEEKY word which ac-
company 1t often count for quite as much
the gift itself. Simply do your best to
give what you can. / hope you Will all do
whatever you can think of to make some
one happy this Christmas and in the mean
time let us not waste moment making
our preparations and giving all possible
help to Aunt Dorothy in her plan for the
relief work. 1 shall go to see Little Red
Riding Hood" of course. and | hope as
many of you as can will be there also For
those of you who live so far away to
make 1t impossible I will write all about
the performance in my next letter after 1t
is over.
With my love and Aunt Dorothy's. 1 am
Yours sincerely.
FLORENCE BELLE MERRYLEE,S,
('hjldren'S Editor
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Il 2 %4rP RllX|
oA WI
Dear Aunt Dorothy:

Dear Aunt Dorothy:
Although l am a stranger to you. 1 am
not stranger to the children's page in The
Evening Star. / enjoy reading both your
letters and the letters written by the chill
dren. l haven never before contributed to
its columns. but l enclose a story which l
have written. called THE Welcome Home"
do not understand about the prizes. Is
a prize awarded to the author of the best
story? Although L may not be successful
enough to get prize, hope that my story
will be good enough to be placed in your
columns very soon. I shall anxiously wait
for next Saturdays Star in which hope to
receive an answer to my letter Sincerely.
ISABEL A.
Write again and often. Watch our prize
announcements.
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
1 am a little girl ten years old. I am in
The Star and I am always anxious for
children's page from the Saturday Star. My
at the post with him. I go to school two
miles from the post I want to join the
Children's League. My mamma gives me ten
cents a week for washing the dishes and
will give ten cents a month to the league.
Please send me badge This is my first
letter to the children's page.
MABELLE S.
Fort Ethan Allen. VT.
Write again. are glad to have you join
and we are sending you badge.
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
/ hope you will like my little dog. He is
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The ChiIdren's Hour,

When the nursery tea is over
And sticky fingers clean,
And hair all brushed and tidy
What nurse calls lit to be seem
When the boys-well the dolls and the soldiers
The farmyard ducks and the geese
The tops. the trains and Noah,
Are granted little peace.
And the rocking horse poor fellow,
That has worked so hard all day,
Is allowed to rest his rockers,
And doze In his wooden way.
For distant bell Is ringing
And the children caper and crow:
We're to go wnstairs to Mother(
That's the bell for us, you know.
She read to us lots Of stories,
And games we shall play well,
And SO you qnite imagine
How love the downstairs bell
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Clock Made Of Bread.
New York Herald

From the New York Herald
clock made entirely of bread has been
exhibited in Milan. The works are COM
paratively large, and for several years kept
good time. The maker was a native of
Milan, who devoted three years of his time
to the task. He was very poor and, being
without means to purchase the necessary
metal for making a clock he set apart
regularly each day part of his bread, eat
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my luck. Enclosed you will find picture
which drew.
AS you said the children should still call
you Aunt Dorothy, 1 will address you by
that name. Yours truly,
Thank you. dear.
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
I am of the many readers and ad-
mirers of the children's page in The Even
ing Star. / watch eagerly for it on Satur-
day evenings and spend many a pleasant
hour reading it and looking at the pictures.
have noticed for some time that several
readers contribute to the page in the way
of drawings and short stories. so thought
1 would like to send something. too.
Now. while am not an author to any ex-
tent, l do love to draw. and so l concluded
that a picture would be the best thing 1
could send you, Aunt Dorothy l hope you
will like it. for. though it is not very good,
tried hard to make it so.
Hoping you will answer my letter In the
children's page next Saturday, or. If you like
it we'll enough, publish the picture as we'll,
ELIZABETH C. Old.
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
Reading your letter I found that it said
just what did few weeks ago. l said in
my last letter the amount l had for the
mergency fund and l will try and add as
much to it possible l am trying to do
all that comes my way in helping anybody
and will continue this for the coming year
Having had my little membership badge for
some time I am very glad we Will be able
to get the little silver ones soon
For the little story / wrote called AT
Rehoboth | received the annual Report
Book" and four little pamphlets from the
general superintendent of the hfe-saving
service. The fact of having the operetta
pleaSes very much. and to think now
thankful the poor woman will be when she
receives all the money.
Hoping you will soon be well and strong
again, l remain yours truly.
ROGER P. H., Aged Q.
Write again. Roger We are always glad
to hear from you. and add to your fund so
you may get one of the Children's League
savings banks. See directions on another
part of the page. headed -Children's League
Emergency Fund
Dear Editor:
Could you send me copy OF the rules
and conditions under which one can join
league circle as | would like to aid in scat
tering pleasure and sunshine l nave read
with pleasure the childrens page for long
time. but have failed to save many OF them
l am glad to say have kept some, though
Among the many things / like in the page
are the puzzles. letters and reports OF ear
nest workers. Your eager reader,
ELMER s.. Aged IA.
Please read the league coupon and the in
structions, printed each week, and be sure
to read all the Aunt Dorothy letters All
The Star children may join individually or
il. circles by filing out coupons and sending
stamped self-addressed envelope for
badge and by keeping their pledge. Read
about the Children's League banks on to-
days page.
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At Half-Past Three.

''Ibo show me the hands that rock the chairi''
Cries the child with the golden hair.
>. IT'S the wind, my child, the wind
He locks before. behind.
But the hands he cannot find.
so the wind has neither hands fingers,
And long the thought he fingers.
But perhaps IL has, and you cannot SEE
Argues the child Of half past three.
MARGARET KIRBY TAYLOR
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PRIZE NOTICE FROM AUNT DOROTHY
Every child helping in the operetta Little
Red Riding Hood" to be given by Mrs.
Glover on December IA and Il at 10
o'clock, at the Lafayette Opera House. for
giving Christmas cheer by the Children s
League. is entitled to membership In the
league a badge and prize from Aunt
Dorothy" Each child must fill out cou-
pom from The Saturday Star children s
page and send it to Box 20., with a stamped
self addressed envelope. to receive this
prize. All children selling tickets are
counted helpers AUNT DOROTHY.
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NUMERICAL ENIGMA.
Americanized. 1. Red. 2. Mermaid 4
End f. Candy.
PIED STATES.
l. Pennsylvania 2. New Jersey. 3 Ar
kansas. 4. Texas. g. Michigan 6. Massa-
ehuSetts-
TRANSFORMATIONS
1. God-dog. 2. Poem-mope 3. Tour
rout. 4. Turn-runG
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Letters. stories. etc, are received from
and hereby acknowledged with thanks
Ossian Ryan. Roger Hollingsworth Ma
belle Smith. Elizabeth c. O'Daniel, Mary
Tanning Agnes Childs. Martha l.. Rose.
Margaret Rucker. Cordela Bradley. Ruth
Gordon. Violet Lawrence Elva Magruder,
Kathleen Prescott. Adelia Burdine. Mary
Quigley. Roger Starkweather Daisy Heiser,
Edw ard Gisbaum. Ruth Hudson, Elmer
Stewart and Frances Mclaughlin.
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TranSpoSe to learn and leave costly
Transpose marsh and leave part OF Q
house.
WORD SQUARE.
1. To confirm
2. A girls name.
3. mineral substance.
4. Imperfect.
BEHEADINGS
Behead to delay and leave a confederate.
Behead peril and leave resentment.
Behead of various colors and get "A fruit
Behead to defy and leave a verb.
LADDER
Uprights:
Left-A state.
ss*s Right-Another state.
Rounds:
ssss 1. Premises.
2. A wind instrument.
CHARADE.
My first is something you ride in
My second Is a vowel.
My third is trap.
My whole is a council OF state.
B. p. q
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Letters. stories, drawings, etc. are re-
ceived and hereby acknowledge with
thanks from Constance Philpitt who must
try again; Coralie Montgomery. Rene
Hughes Eleanor French. G. Moore D.
Lewis Mattern, Bessie Birch Edward Rob-
son, Marie Robertson, Charles Keleher
Robert S. Hutchinson, Edith Buckley, Mary
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TRANSACTIONS
TranSpose a nobleman and leave true
Transpose to learn and leave costly
Transpose a marsh and leave part Of {
house.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Lending Money.

Years ago read that young man
should be satisfied with low and safe
rate of interest and take the advice of
those more eXperienced-to no, know
it all. l have been very fortunate in
not losing money lent to friends. FIRE.
quently | give small sums to old
friends who are now deadbeats and
wish to borrow for few hours or
days. never get such sums back and
never expect to when let it 60 But
whenever | have lent $50. more or less,
to friend and expected it back it has
come. | think this is due to my use
of a discriminating judgment before
lending. Once it cost me good deal
over thousand dollars cash to dis
obey my better judgment and go into
a side-liEe business with friend
did not get the counsel of those to
whom | should have gone. and | re-
fused to follow my own feelings ]
was ''roped' in by talk
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
The Man Himself Studies.

What is the cause of criminal care
lessness?' Two years ago man ask
ed me the above question. He had
been having trouble and have been
thinking about the subject ever since.
1t may be due to ignorance. Some
claim that people are not as good nor
as bad as they appear to be-if we
knew more we would be better But
we will know more if we are any good
and have our goal in the right place.
The idea that experience is a dear
school but fools will learn IN no other,
might be revised to read: 1t is a
wise man who learns by experience; :;
fools never learn. Though a man is
not to be blamed for being born ig-
norant. he can be blamed for re-
naming ignorant, and continued or
repeated carelessness may be called
criminal.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Health Helps Money Making.

I began talking with man soon
after we left the morning train, and
some remark brought up the subject
of his health.
He said: Il have not been feeling
well for three weeks
Your health is generally good, ism :.
it?"
Yes. am usually as strong as an
OK. but | have been working too hard
and | wish my vacation came to-day
in place of a month from to-day"
How to take care of yourself while
yoa overwork is pretty good subject
to study"
Yes, | should say 1t was. | sleep
pretty well, although l dreamt last
night that I was a cashier in a bank
and was taking an inventory of the
stock when the papers in the safe
caught fire"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Sunday Recreation,

Statistics say that Monday is the
careless day of the week and the day
for mistakes and accidents. This
must be due to people using Sunday to
get untuned rather than to become
better tuned How is it with the vio-
lin and strings? Is it better to loosen
the strings when not in use or should
the instrument be kept all the time
in tune? | may select Sunday for
a subject in order to learn how to
use the day to my profit. heard
Moody say that he had learned by ex-
perience that he could not preach
seven days a week and keep free from
headaches. The teacher and preacher
live the longest of any class of work
ers, SO the hint from MIR. Moody is
worth remembering. What do you
know about Sunday recreation?
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Questions.

Can you report something which
was fine in theory but a tizzle in prac-
tice?
What is your remedy for serious
trouble due to foolish sport'
What have you learned by expensive
experience?
What do you want to know which
you would be willing others should
know?
Are you willing to join us in build
ing lighthouse thoughts on lifc's dan
gerous rocks?
Are little errors the sources of big
mistakes?
Can you recall laushable laugh
last event?
Have you record of fakir's funny
reasoning?
How could the accidents you know
about have been prevented?
Have you spoken to a stranger while
thinking him al acquaintance?
Have You been injured while watch
ing to see if some other person would
get injured?
Can you think of a good illustration
of profitable politeness?
Old or new or both. What are two
or three of the difficulties you have
to contend with in your work?
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Ones Sphere of Usefulness.

One Of the most important things
for us to learn early, is what we are
able to do and not to do. AS for my
self. | believe | was born without a
sense of money value. and as l look
back and note my expenditures and in
vestmerts, feel that | might have
had a nice little property to-day had
put my wasted dimes and dollars reg
ularly in some trustworthy place. 1t
has taken me a quarter of century
to recognize my inability to lend mon
ey commercially, or in a wise way so
cially, and feel like saying to all
young people the quicker you can find
out what you can do well, and what
you are unable to do well. the better it
will be for you.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Hard to Believe.

!. That any one would try to start
an orchard by planting dried apples.
.. That any one would stock mule
stock farm with mules.
3. That people would make hole
in the ground to fill another and keep
on till they ran the hole out of town.
4. That man would move his Office
furniture and also his telephone with
out notifying the telephone company
and then complain to the company
that the telephone was no good-that
1t had not worked since he moved. But
this last act is on record and dupii-
Gated.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
How Is This?

Mistakes may be due to coaxing a
person to promise or try to do some
thing not possible for him to accom-.
plish. Weak people are easy promis-
crs and some people can coax the
birds out of the bushes; so every
time your heart beats some one has
promised to do an impossibility, and
thus the list of b!unders and breaks
grows.
1t may be due to bad example Can
an employer who is careless have
employees who are careful? Can a
poor worker keep good workers under
him any length Of time? If as | re-
Gently read thirteen in every hundred
think let them think on the last ques,
tions.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Men, Methods and Work.

Tho manager, for very successful
money maker, said that he worried
over the big things, while his employ
er worried over the little things.
The manager got along with the
employees and the details better than
the proprietor did, but the proprietor
got along with the whole business
much better than the manager could.
Some men can keep anything run
ming lovely if some one else will only
see that pay day is passed in good
shape. The man able to attend to
payday requirements might rattle
the whole concern if he were to see to
little things.
A man able to make hundred dol
a hundred dollars a month a man who
can do some things better than the
employer can do them.
Few are able to get a living doing
Just what they wart to do, and very
few are willing to limit their efforts
to the things they can do the best.
One man told me that more men
failed in his line of work for lack of
ability to handle men than for any
other or all other reasons.
Few men know how to interest
animate, educate, and keep on good
terms with other men. In some cases
the more you know the more in the
background you have to go, due it may
be to having more knowledge than
skill.
In one case Of an unpopular fore
man going on vacation and a popu-
lar workman taking his place for the
day, the product was over twenty per
cent more than usual
If ten thousand men OF all kinds
should find themselves. out Of work,
one might create ideas, another exc
cute them, another organize and man
age the others.
Some could do some parts of the de-
tail work twice as well as some of
the others could. One would be a
good buyer Of material and another a
good collector of accounts.
Some would win honors and some
would get disgraceI, but they would
finally drift or climb, fall or jump, to
positions just as We find them today.
Only this difference-the successful
might make better use of their success
and the failures profit by their ex-
pensive experiences more than they
have been doing during this century.
If this possibility were to be ac-
complished the next century would be
more than hundred years ahead, and
the common humdrum life would be
quite ideal.
If o',r best intelligence we're to ac-
company our every action much would
be done. We all know why things are
Tot better than they are.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
ADMIRAL SCHLEY
ENDORSES PE-RU-NA.
Pe-ru-na Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio
GenfIemen:-'I can cheerfuIIy
ru-na and believe with good effect.

DMlKAl SClLEi the foremost notable heroes
n Nineteenth Century that
OF every Spaniard of steady clear head
daunted courage and prompt dec sion.
Approached by friend recently. opinion as to
cthcacy OF Pcruna the
slightest hesitation he remedy his endorsement
pead on later euna has been
where it is favore remedy
Such endorsements indicate wonderful that
Peuna has the minds American people
the question that great and famous Admiral chy
could his endorsement
than his conviction the remedy all
is
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
say that Mrs. SchIey has taken Pc
w S. SCHLEY, Washington, DC

The fact Pruna has all and has its
the hearts of people The natural tmidiy which
have felt remedy
Gratitude has inspired thousands of
public for Peruna who heretofore would
not have entcd to such publicity
Never before the annals of medicine has it happened that
have been willing
unqualified and public endorsements proprietary remedy
No of advertising could have accomplished such result
caah of whatever
phase This why receives
notable and unique
Address Drug Mfg Columbus, Ohio for free
Iteratu atarh,
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
Punishment for Wife Deserters.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has
affirmed the corstitutionality of the
act passed by the Legislature at its
last session which provides for the
punishment with Imprisonment at hard
labor of men who desert their wives or
fail to support their wives and chil-
dren
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

Thoy equal those
that have been cost
ing You from S4.N
to 500 The i'm
lnense sale of w. l..
Douglas shoes proves
their superiority over
all other makes.
Sold b. retail shoe
dealers everywhere.
Look for name and
price on bottom.
That Douglas uses Cor.
Colt proves there IL
value In R0ngIas shoes.
Corona Ii the highest
grade Pat.Leather made.
Fau Color Eveie,s nsrd.
Oar 81 GjN E01e [ inc cnun
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16
THE DENVER SANITARIUM
German Trea ment for COnar
tIG... In, Mamie ful Su1cGna

Latest German Trea tment for ConaumP-
tion Sane sin Wonderful Success
In Germany.
Special de artments for Con sumption. Mental and
Nervous diseases. Alcohol. Morphine and other
drug addictions. Other chronic diseases. Confins-
nent cases. Specinh Ettenti"- paid ts Dietetio-.
Bathing. Exercise, Massage SIset apparatus for
treatment by X-ItHy, Violet BAY, Ozone Static f>r
adic and alyunlc electricity etc. Sanitarium il
situated in Denver's eleanest, healthiest
and prettiest suburb. Bnrnum car leaves Arap-
ahoe st, on the hour. Sanitarun one block from
ear line. Private ambulance. Phone Main 3iUI.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

II you don't get the biggest and
best it's your own fault Defiance
Starch is for sale everywhere and
there is positively nothing to equal
it In quality or quantity.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

First Bear-Have you ever met Pres
!dent Roosevelt? Second Bear-Not
formally; | only know him by gun
sight.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle eX
cept green and purple.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

An author says: THE three de-
grees of lawyers progress are get
ting on, getting honor, getting hon
est"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

what Is a 'wry face like" That de-
pends on the spelling: Il w-r-y. face IS
crooked. bit Il rye face is red
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

Chicago preacher Is engaged in de-
nouncing club women. II is ten to on,
that he will prove to be II cubbed man
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

If you want to guess what your friends
say Of you when you are absent. listen t'
what they say of others in your presence
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

FITS rermauenayt yt urco y nts I Nervousness. ate
hrst day OF DR.. Kline y Grnat Nerve Ke.tu rer
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