Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
NEW PRIZES


most pleasurable feature of Mr..
~ Tafts visit?. Not the parades,
nor the floral decorations, nor yet the
magnificent banquet with which Los
Angeles paid honor to our great chief.
These things were all very enjoyable,
and showed the loyalty and patriotism
of Los Angeles, but the one part of all
this celebration which pleased me was
the fact that so many of the Junior
boys and girls took advantage of the
opportunity to come and call upon me.
1 am quite sure that I saw more of
my nephews and nieces on Monday
and Tuesday than I have seen at any
one time since the big midsummer
frolic.
The unfinished story seems to be at
tracing a good deal of attention these
days, and boys and girls are doing bet
ter work each week with the tales.
Fairy stories make a big hit with the
young writer's, and some of them
combine a good deal of originality
with literary skill in working out the
conclusions Others, however, get
along excellently, through the main
part of the story, and then when the
conclusion comes they make a sad
business of it. 1t seems impossible
for some of the young writer's to
know when and how they should
stop.
Many of the most talented of the
writer's make it hard for me in Sc
lecting the best stories. They write an
excellent story but write it careless
ly, with no attention to capitalization,
no paragraphing, and in an untidy,
blotted fashion. Such stories cannot
win the prize, and yet when 1 have
edited, punctuated and Photographed
the stories and they come before your
gaze in the clean, printed page, it is
hard to understand why the story did
not receive some reward
1.-The four things which make me
happy as a king" the topic this week,
ought to bring forth some interesting
letters. Many of you will know that
the inspiration for this topic was
taken from Stevensons little verse.
"The world is so full of number of
things
I'm sure we should all be as happy as
kings"
I read this to a little 4-year-old girl
the other night and then asked her
what there was in the world that
made her as happy as a king. She
Immediately named four very beauti-
full things, things which would make
any boy or girl or man or woman
very happy. Perhaps, if you are all
interested in this topic, and send me
a great many nice letters, I shall tell
YOU what the four things were which
this little 4-year- old girl named, and
l am sure that you will all feel with
me, that she made a wise selection.
The Halloween topic may be along
any line which is appropriate to this
season, and need not necessarily be
of the amusing stories concerning the
day. There are many beautiful Hal
loween myths which can be written
up nicely, and l am sure that the topic
will bring me a delightful variety of
letters.
A word about the new prizes will in
terest each one of the boys and girls
VI ulllOl NlOiAis
The cash prizes will still prevail in
the writer's contests, while in the
drawing department there will now be
two prizes instead of only one. The
Marshall fountain pens, which are to
be given as first prizes, are from San
born-Vail's and are specially desirable
adjuncts of the school outfit. The
knives and baseball mitt will delight
the boys and girls alike, and one gen
erous girl informed me yesterday in
the office when 1 told her about the
new prizes. that she hoped she would
win a prize soon and she would take
the catchers mitt, as it was just what
her brother had been wanting.
Then the school pennants will be a
delight to many girls and boys as well.
The pennants will be the regular
fifty-cent pennants at Tufts-Lyon's
but in case the winner desires one
of the more expensive ones she may
apply the fifty cents upon the value
of any others handled by these dealers.
I shall be glad to know how these
new prizes please the boys and girls,