Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
BUTTONS READY
FOR APPLICANTS
Those Wanting to Join The
Stars Bedtime Stories Club
Should Make 1t Known.
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
THE ONLY OBLIGATION
Every One Who Loves the Little
People of the Green Forest
. Is Eligible.

The buttons have
!: !: !: !.
3S> come, The buttons
AANtXSN have come.
A " N And The Stars
Al Bedtime Stories Club
= Si is ready to begin to-
NO morrow m n ing
E bright and early. to
send out one to
every boy. girl or
'Brown-up'' who wants to Join the club.
Tho worry first button goes to Sam
wall, because he was tho very nrst boy
who asked to belong. You saw his pho
tograph yesterday in The Star-so. of
course. you know, without telling, that
he deserves the honor. which he literary
picked up in the street.
You remember how it happened: A
wise person who insists upon going TO the
heart and soul of things CHANGED to
stop SAM" in passing. to get boy s
opinion of the Little Stories for Bed
time" which are published daily In The
Star. sam" knew all about Mr.. Burgess
Little People of the Green Forest. which
meant also, that he loved them Ana
when the wise person let him know about
the Bedtime Stories Club, which The
star was about to form. he laid instant
claim to the honor of first membership
The wise person promised. And the
promise stands.
Some unfortunately learned people-the
ones who claim to know human nature
from A to izzard-warn us never, never
10 praise a child, so, of course, we
mustn't but
ConfidentiaIly, we couldn't begin the
club roll with a nicer boy than Sam. !"
could we? And there's everything In q
good beginning.
Applications Expected Tomorrow.
AS the Bedtime Stories Club had its
first mention in the noon edition of The
Star, yesterday mailed applications for
membership cannot possibly be received
until the post office gets up tomorrow
morning OF course, there are such
things as hand-delivered letters and tele-
phone calls. but
officially with the first day of the week.
and Just talk now about the new club in
case-strange things will happen-in case
there should be somebody who missed
days Star. Thornton W. Burgess, who
knows all about the Little People of the
Green Forest. the Sunny Meadow and the
Smiling Stream. writes the Little sto-
ries for Bedtime which are published
daily in The Star. These folklore yarns
are so Uncle Remussy in story charm.
so reliable. from a naturalist's knowledge
of the little animals of our fields and
woods. and so popular FOR both reasons,
with The Stars readers-which means
about everybody-that it seemed good
idea to link together all those who cared
TO pledge themselves to be kind to help
less animals and to protect them, when
they can. from enemies whose only mo-
and none of the responsibilities that the
usual club entails. The one outward
ssfnbol connecting club members will be
4 button-a red button-wfth a likeness
Date Dol. rI-hn Ia a m n
home as if he were in his own brtar
patch and membership certificate with
YOUR name officially inscribed, and which
certihes that it lis given to show that
the holder is a friend Of Old Mother
Nature, and promises to be kind to her
children and to protect them from their
enemies
Only One Obligation.
That is the only requirement for
membership: to be kind II you can
pledge yourself-to yourself-to fulfill
this one obligation of membership and
will write your application to The
Stars Bedtime Stories Club" you will
receive button and certificate.
And that will mean you belong.
Every boy and girl who loves the
Little People of whom Mr.. Burgess
writes, and every 'grown-up." no mat
ter how old, or how away up in inn
cumstance, provided he. she, or they
believe in being kind, is eligible to
membership. For kindness knows no
sex, nor age. nor creed-nor any other
Of the disabilities that hamper most
of our relations to life.
Which looks as if The Stars Bedtime
Stories Club was going to reach out
everywhere and take in everybody.
And no club could ask for anything
inner than that!
Even cynics who demand facts ought
to be sociable and join this club, for
Mr.. Burgess is no sentimentalist who
sacrifices the nature habit of an ami
NAL for the sake of any story he might
make out of it. His natural history is
as correct as if he had put, say, Nanny
Meadow Mouse in a dull book instead
of in the. Green Forest. where she has
a heap better time. And any child
will be a better man or a better woman.
some day because of the love and ma
ture knowledge implanted by the Lit
tie People of The Stars Bedtime Stories
Club Oh. yes. it's going to be a great
big club that reaches out everywhere
and takes in everybody-meanfng, OF