Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-15
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Stories by Our Little Folks
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Ruth Anderson. Age II. Weston,

i NUN AnueISOuy ASe IL, weston, MD.
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THE Gate City of the West" /
wish to become junior of The Bee.
! One Saturday afternoon we took a
trip to Omaha in our Ford. We were
| going to take our aunt home, who
lives in Omaha on Decatur street.
After we had-been there a while we
went to our uncle's home on Corby
street. My brother and | went to
the street car track and took the
Florence car to our other uncle's
home on Grebe street in Florence.
Lstayed there. but my brother went
back to the others at Corby street.
Sunday my cousins took me to Flor
ence park. Afterwards we went to
Sunday school. In the afternoon we
went to my uncle on Corby street
and my aunt came and took my
cousin and me to Rivcrview park.
There were many animals in the
park and it was the prettiest one !
have seen. Florence park was pref
ty, too, it had slide and q flower
bed in it. ] have also been to Hans
com park, which is better than the
other two parks. / have been on top
OF the Woodmcn of the World build
ing. ! have been to the movies in
the Strand theater and like it fine.
Omaha is worthy of its name, THE
Gate City Of the West" l hope this
letter escapes the waste basket.
BY Agnes Holden. Age II. Petsrsburg, Nsb
| Dear Busy Bees: This is my second
letter to the junior page and | hope
to see my letter in print.
Once there was q little girl named
Margaret, who was the only child
of the family. Her mother was old
and had very poor health. Margaret
hated to work at home but delighted
in working for some one else. When
her mother would ask her to do
something for her she would get
angry and begin to pout and say, II
don't have to-"
The older she got the worse she
was. When she was about II years
old she got angry one night and ran
away to work for someone else.
II was cold and showing outside.
When it was dark she tried to find
. place to stay all night, but every
body refused her 4 bed, 50 she stayed
outside ali night and returned home
in the morning.
When she reached home she found
her mother dead. She started to
cry and her father said to her, "You
will always have something to re-
member, how you treated your
mother And this was true, for
after that she changed altogether.
She was good-hearted to everybody /,
and always stayed at home. She
lived with her father and kept house
for him.
BY Louis Zeleny. Age =. Linwood, Nsb.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
time ! have written to your page.
| read your stories every week and
enjoy them very much. walk two
and one-half miles to school and go
nearly every day. / don't 60 now
on account OF the FLU"
l am 9 years old and in the sec
ond grade. have one brother and
one sister that go to school with me.
Well, dear Busy Bees" think
I'll close, for my letter is getting |
long. ! hope Mr.. Wastebaskct has
gone for visit and hope to see my
letter in print. So, goodby.
NV Pet,
Emma Smith, Age IL. Crete Neb
Dsar Busy Bees: As didn't see |
my first letter in the paper ] will |
write again, Once we had three lit |
tie pigs; two of them died. asked |
pa if ! could take it. He said | |
might, | fed it milk and il, soon be-
came big and fat. 1t was so tame
that il would follow me. When i.
was almost 6 months old 1t weighed |
over 200 pounds Then | sold it and
got almost $40 Good-by, Busy Bees.
A Surprise.
Lucille Bauer, Age 10, Atwood, Kan. i
Torlfll'l! went the door bell. Bes-
sic shut the book she was reading
and went to the door.
"Miss Bessie Devereauxa" bluntly
asked the messenger boy.
Yes, this is she," said Bessie, her
heart in her mouth.
Message for you," and disap-
peared. BESSIE opened the envelope
with trembling fingers. Was it from
the War department. announcing that
her brother was killed. Killed! She
shuddered. Many thoughts raced |
through her mind as she opened it.
When she got it open it read:
will arrive next Friday. Have
surprise for you. Brother"
She read it with a sigh of relief
and ran to tell her grandmother.
1t seemed an eternity until Friday
The train was an hour late but Bes-
sic was there to meet her brother.
The crowd was SO dense Bessie
could hardly get through; but She
must see her brother? Who was /
that man over there in uniform with
black-eyed baby in his -armss In
a flash she reahzed if was her broth
er. She ran to him.
See here, look at the, surprise. It's
little French orphan found in a
deserted village"
20, isn't she cute? She's pretty,
too. Let's go take her to grand
mother.
@All's wen, let's go, Nannette, and
see grandma"