Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-06-26
Earning A Junior Chautauquaf
Ticket.

Just about year ago the work of tn
Junior Chautauqua began in close conneC
ton with the bigger movement, which W
might call the Senior Chautauqua. To-day
words Junior Chautauqua are magic word
for 10000 children in the towns of seve
States. All these children and many more
in these and five additional States. ar
now waiting anxiously for the coming wee
OF stories, games, folk-dancing and ath
letics, which is the other spelling of JUNO
Chautauqua.
Some of the children in this town hav,
been saving their pennies for months 4
earn the precious dollar that pays for
Junior Chautauqua ticket. We have heart
some interesting stories of how they, anC
many children of other towns, have earned
the lOnged-for ticket.
Many Methods. Some small folk secured
their money just by being good" and one
little boy, as reward for taking a mar
every day without the violent objections
of the past. Washing dishes. carrying fire.
wood, running errands. wedding gardens
and tending babies, all proved fruitful
sources of income. Jimmy Wilson picked
rotten potatoes out of the good ones
Billy Ford proudly announced
Il have Sass for the Junior Chautau-
qua"
How did you do itY" was the natural
question.
Il shoveled snow, and ! hope it will
snow some more, have three little BROTH
ers. and want to earn tickets for them all.
Last year they could not 90, and had to
tell them all about the games and songs
ard stories. So this year want them all
to 90 to the Junior Chautauqua too"
Perhaps the most valuable hint for saw
ing money came from little girl who an
nounced that her way was to get bank
that you can't open until it's full. And |
have SIS enough for five Chautauauas, 4"
she proudly added.
A number of parents have found the
prospect of Junior Chautauqua the best
possible stimulus for good school work.
81 got ten cents for every 100 on my
school report, and five cents for every
Excellent, says Mary Bird.
And if get Excellent in everything all
through the year. Ill get a whole Junior
Chautauqua ticket" answers her chum
Virginia
There is one Sunday School which has
offered Junior Chautauqua ticket to every
child with perfect record for attendance
throughout the year. That Sunday School
had better look well to its treasury, for the
outlook is that it will have many tickets
to buy.
OF course, the grown-ups are helping the
children in many ways. In Gettysburg
Pa, the teachers in the school are acting
as banks for the receipt of the children's
pennies, and as soon as a child's deposit
reaches the amount of eighty-nine cents
some philosophical men in the town ado
the balance of eleven cents to make uI
the dollar.
A fund of $50. In Bloomburg the womer
of the town have collected fund of $50
with which to purchase tickets for thes,
children whose earnings. small or large
must 90 to swell the family pocket book
These children are to be selected by thei
school teachers on the basis of their schoo
work
All this effort on the part of the children
means that they remember well the joy
of last summer, And this is true in re-
markable degree. The Director of the Ju
nior Chautauqua has visited all the JUNO
Chautauqua towns during the past winter
Everywhere the children surrounded her
telling what they remembered-the games
as they were played; the stories. worC
for word, as they we're told. And this
not in one or dozen towns. but in tn,
entire hundred visited last summer by tn,
Junior Chautauqua.
The Junior Chautauqua this summer will
be better than ever. There will be new
stories, new songs, new games. There will
be hikes" for children over twelve years OF
age. these hikes" to be accompanied by
special stories, There will be folk dancing
to the music of the "VictrOla," and track
meet one day for the elder boys. There
will be story hour in the afternoon, while
the grown-ups are having their session in
the big tent. And, on the last day. there
will be play. Mother Natures Garden.
In this little play the Junior leader will
take the part of Mother Nature, whose
four messengers. Rain. Frost. Hail and Sun
shine, 90 forth in every corner of the earth
returning with the children Of every nation,
each nation bearing its own flag, dancing
its national dance. and singing its most
loved song