Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-25
DOESN'T COST ONE
CENT FOR S. B. S. c.
Just Promise Yourself to Be
Kind to Little Folks of
Green Forest.
CANNOT SEND BUTTONS
WITHOUT STREET NUMBERS
Applications for Membership Al
ways Should Be Accompanied
by Home Addresses.
Here is something

Here is something
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which must be writ
A6ASEHN ten all over again
M~ Kun because 1t Is too
is, WOt important to be mis-
III understood.
u SO s0 The Stars Bedtime
NII@ Stories Club. as most
EYSS Of us know. was
launched in the noon
edition of last Satur
days Star Since that time so many let
ters have come asking what it costs
to belong and making other inquiries
that show a misconception of the clubs
object that 1t is necessary again to re-
peat the rules And that's funny. be-
cause there are no rules to repeat.
The one requirement for membership in
The Stars Bedtime Stories Club IS that
you pledge yourself--to yourself-to be
kind to all the Little People Mr. Bu,g CESS
tells about in his Little Stories for Bed
time" which are published every day IN
The Star. And If you are kind to them
it will give you the same friendly feeling
for all other little creatures that you
may come across in the woods and
meadows and streams. and make YOU
want to protect them from enemies whose
only motive is to destroy. That is the
clubs only condition-to be kind. AND
If you feel that you can keep this prom
Use all you have to do is write To The
Stars Bedtime Stories Club and say that
you want to belong.
And don't forget your address
Cannot Guess Addresses.
OF course, we all know that The Star
is as wise as the Wisest owl in the
Green Forest. but-well, now, you
couldn't expect even The Star to know
where to send your Peter Rabbit button
and the certificate that goes with it,
unless you give the number of your
house and the name of the street you
live on. could you? And now. We have
that off our minds, let's get rid of an
other important question.
There are no dues. There are no dues
There are no dues. That makes three
times and out.
And as you don't have to pay cent
for anything, please don't inclose stamps.
Is that plain? Observation-Disclosures
stamps.
And about photographs If the S. B.
S. (Which is short for the Stars Bed
time Stories Club-if the club was to
publish all pictures sent in. there would
be no room in the paper Cor news And
then what would the Papa-men and the
Mamma-women and all the other grown
ups do? Why, it would be perfectly
awful.
lish every photograph. because each is
pretty enough for the whole town to
look at. but since there is no space for
more than the few pictures that have
been published-of the first members,
of the first one to acknowledge a but
ton or for some other value apart
from the picture itself-you can see
how impossible it is TO find room for
photographs, So 1t would be wiser not
to send any more, though, thank you
ing returned.
There is every indication that this is
going to be very big club, which
will extend in every direction, having
already reached Boulder Col And The
Star means to do all it can to foster
love of nature in the hearts of those
who Join. The S. B. S. c. invites every
boy. girl and grown-up who loves ami
Mr.. Burgess writes about to wear a
Peter Rabbit button so that the Lit
tie People of the Green Forest will be
able TO know their friends.
One man-Mr. Cynic, by name--said to
the S. b. S. C.: If you have no dues
of any sort and sending out buttons
and certificates enough TO cost a pot of
money. where does the profit come in?''
He actually couldn't understand But,
poor fellow maybe when he was a little
child he didn't know about the Green
Forest and all those other wonderful
places where the Little People live. Sth,
it is never too late to la1rn-and SO maybe
just mayhs-Mr. Cynic will be wanting
a button yet. Splendid things like that
are always happening-whch shows what
a fine world this is to live in-provided
you know how to live!
Then there was another man-a really
remarkable man-lived in the business
world on Slang street-who said, one day
to a convention of other men: When
ever you see a good thing, push it along"
The moral Island morals always come
in handy-the moral is, that the S. B.
$. c. Is such a good thing that all of
us should turn in and
Push!