South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01
NinifYed L!ack Writes About:
Some Temptations of Childhood

start down the steepest hill you can
find.
The bottom of the hill? Oh,
we'll you mustn't think of that
when you're getting the scooter
habit-the yell is the thing, and the
thrill and the top of the hill! You
can think about the bottom of it
while you're waiting for the doctor
or the trained nurse oh, it's no
end of fun-the scooter, I'm free
Co confess that / hate the sight Of
a scooter, myself-but then, I'm not
six years old, and l don't wear my
ankle socks, so Of course, I'm pref
udiccd.
But about this ten cents down
and ten cents a week-isn't it love-
ly? 1 ran across il i'm a not far
distant city. It's advertised in the
windows OF the store where the
scOOters are for sale And if YOU
go inside. the salesman will tell YOU
that he'll trust YOU just as easy.
All you have TO do is TO put down
your ten cents. and give your right
name and address, and tell what
school YOU go TO. and where your
father works. and what his business
is. and how much he gets week
and out you go, carrying the scooter.
You take it yourself. and there's
no collector going TO be sent TO the
/ house after the rest of the money.
/ TN only take you u weeks and a
+ half 10 pay for il, and what's ten
cents a week? Your father and
/ mother need never know a thing
about it-let them think YOU met
/ Santa Claus down for a summer
4 -f4 ft-fra h.
/ looks so we'll that he gave you the
| scoOter-just like that.
The Carnelian Club.
Ten cents down and ten cents a
/ Week-isn't il perfectly grand? SO
modern and up-to-date and adj
: vanced-why. yOu'll feel like a regu-
lar grOwn-up,
And when YOU get the scooter that
way. maybe YOU can persuade them
70 let YOU have a baseball and a bat
ON the same plan-who knows?
once upon a time there was a lit
tie girl VINO lived in a country
town. and one day the storekeeper
i'm the country town had had some
perfectly wonderful rings in his
show case. right next 10 the all-dav
suckers and the licorice sticks They
were little gold rings-oh. solid
gold. of course And they had two
. little carved hearts made Of carne-
Liam. Oh, they were the prettiest
things YOU ever saw-and they were
only 30 cents apiece,
The little girl saw the rings. AMI
she bought one-and had il charged
20 her father. And the girls at
school admired il very much. so she
took her two best friends in and
bought them each a ring. and they
started the Carnehan club. and il
was very eNclusive-you couldn't be-
long TO il unless YOU had a carnelian
ring. And the little girl bought
rings for every member of the club
and they elected her president Of
Do, and said she was just lovely. And
she was so popular, and SO happy.
She planned 70 make the club a
real power for good. You couldn't
belong unless YOU were noble and
high-minded and didn't cheat on ex-
animation day or anything. But she
could never wear her ring home
from school because she knew If
hre mother saw il she'd ask her
where she got it-and somehow she
didn't want 10 explain just then.
Some day she would. when her
mother was in just the right mood
And then
The bin came home
\ Lesson For Life.
The charging habit had grown
there were ribbons on the bin, and