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out there for all the city to enjoy?
 Their drawingsl 0, such a lot ot roosters and birds and elephants as smiled al everybody from the walls. Aunt Ann stood and looked at them. and just wished she could have every one of them to put in the paper.
 Now there was a rooster, a rush ing train, and a bird on a swinging limb that Aunt Anr particularly wanted They were drawn on whits paper and were made with ink, or a right black pencil, and she knew they would show up fine in the paper. If you drew them, won't you bring them in so we can print them? It was 8 Bessemer school that contributed the hustling engine.
 Don't forget that the Fresh Air and Humane club wants you for a mem ber, and that there are lots of little folks you can make happy and well little sick children--by just a lit- tie work. If you already belong to some little club that gives plays where you make money, Aunt Ann would like the whole club to join. If you are a member of the club, try to get some other little boy or girl to be a member. It doesn't cost any thing but just some work for other children poorer and more unfortunate than you are.
 white Aunt Ann what she can do for you, and send in lots of letters This is your page, and don't forget, we want you to like 1t every bit. Aunt Ann is printing special story about some faries and a chicken for Marion-and for all the boys and girls. What kind of story would you like Aunt Ann to have written for you know? With love,
 AUNT ANN.
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ALL ABOUT SOME FAIRIES AND A
 WHITE CHICKEN WHO WAS SORRY

wouldn't fuss with anybody to save their lives. But they can be very stern.
 Bring him some perfume of roses to eat" said the papa fairy.
 "I don't want any perfume of roses snapped the chicken. T can't eat that"
 Bring him some color off of the yellow leaves to eat" said the fairy.
 q can't eat that" said the chic6en. i've got 10 have some bread
 Bring him some shadows under the fern leaves" said the papa fairy. Those are the only things the fairies can give to those who are ugly. He must starve to death. and we can't help it."
 And then everything got awfully quiet, and the chicken began to fesl terrible.
 He saw that he could never get out again, nor see his mamma. if the fairies didn't want him to. And he knew how mean he had been to say such ugly things about them, and lie was as sorry, as chicken could be, He had been before, but he wouti have almost died before he'd say SO.
 Then he just cheeped right out and made himself say it so everybody could hear it.
 T said some awful things about you fairies, and I'T sorry. and I want you to know it, everyone of you!"
 And when he said that, guess what happened? whole line of fairies began 10 trail in with enough bread and corn and nice worms that chick ems eat until Bob was just crazy with happiness. And then a fairy took him by ore foot and led him just out side the brush heap and showed him where there was q nice lot of sweet
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Little Miss Mary Carl, 9 years ol' has moved away from Birmingham to far-away Washington state. She was the little girl Who advertised in the children's page it's first issue begging that someone exchange something with her for some pictures out of which to make a scrapbook..
 It wasn't but mighty few days befofe letter came from Mrs. R, H. Clark saying that she would give the pictures to the little girl.
 The AgeHerald delivered the bun de to Mary and you should have seen how her eyes grew bright and now she danced and clapped her hands as she saw pictures of goblins and fairies and butterflies and oh, he loveliest things that anybody could pick She told The Herald to thank Mrs. Clark "a hundred milliop times" for her
 There follow some exchanges which beat the expectant-the hopeful hearts--of children. Read their dds very carefully and see if you can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-15
Hey! What's the Matter?
 That Aunt Ann Doesn't Hear About Friday Nights ?

Is 1t lots of fun with you. you It. tie children, every Friday night? If if isnt, things are not like they ought to be.
 Most all fathers and mothers Aunt Ann has talked to this week are planning some specially happy things for their boys and girls-both for Friday night and Saturday lunch.
 VIf your father and mother aren't, wAl then you ask thom to, and plan something to make them happy. also.
 Fun doesn't cost a cent, and If your, father and mother are poor and can't take you to every ice cream par Tor or everywhere you like to go, you know thousand ways they can make a merry time for you right at home, don't you?
 Think fastl Bet you can remember a thousand happy times you've had right out in the back yard or around home. where you could wear an every-day dress or suit, and where everybody didn't tell you to hush when you wanted to hollo. Or can you?
 That's a fine story for all you boys and girls. What was the best time you ever had in your life?
 Write Aunt Ann letter all about it. Maybe 1t will show fathers ana mothers what good time you did have, and they'll let you have an- other one just like it.
 Who will be the first child to get such letter into the office?
 These are busy times all over town with the children. They had won derful time at the fair. They saw everything that grown-ups had pre- pared specially for them, and they entertained the grown folks them selves:
 Do you know what the children put
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York hotel when Barney was there, but Barney shied away from him un til he was assured he didn't have to take any medicine by acknowledging an Introduction.
 When Barney found out that he was safe. he sat on the Castoria man s knee and they became fast friends,
 Barney has been talking over the telephone to his Aunt Mary ever since he was two years old. And, gee. Aunt Ann is proud of him, because he was the very first boy to join her Fresh Air and Humane club.
 He came right up into the office with a whole dollar and looked into his Aunt Ann's eyes and told her that he would never be mean to any little bird, or dog, or rabbit, or lion | only he always wanted the lion to be in a cage.
 ! On the window sill out at Barney s home at 1519 Fourteenth street. south, he fed little lame bird and made it we'll again.
 Now, isn't that fine thing for one of Aunt Anns small boys to do? 1 Most every day he has one or more of ! his boy friends to lunch with him and they often discuss the serious prob l lem's of The Age Herald's children's | page at these times
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water in cool oak leaf. And clticken just drank and drank.
 we have been around you all the time,' whispered the fairy-a9er since you were an egg. And we have protected you all the time. and when we saw the big dog awhile ago We pulled you into the brush heap though you couldn't see US. But when you said you were sorry, We just knew you were. We knew you loved Us just the same, and couldn't do anything but Just show you we loved you, too.
 But you've got to promise that you never, never will talk that way again, for it will not only make the fairies hate you, but grown-up peo- ple-and every other chicken on the yard
 And Bob promised. Then he was just turning around to go back and live with the fairies forever when he saw q heavy stick he hadn't noticed before right in front of him, and he couldn't get back In. The fairy was gone.
 He sat down then and waited for a long time But he felt like he hadn't squared himself enough. and couldn't be content. So he scra tened this message on the ground with his left foot. which is nearest the heart, where the fairies couldn't help tut see lt:
 You have been sweet to mo when I was ugly to you. I am' going to be that kind of chicken always. And if there is anything that I can do tor you, or anybody, that is beautiful, I'll Arap r y,, raClx do if
 And Bob has never violated lis word to this day.
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ALL OFF FOR THE
 BIG 'POSSUM HUNT

What ike to do Friday night:
 Edmond Williams and go up into the woods about 9 o'clock at night and blow our possum horn till we get all of our dogs together. Then we go into the good hollows, and hollo to our dogs. Then we hear the leader of the pack get on a traii. That first sound calls the other dogs to the trail and all of them then get together, and If 1t is a possum trail. they will not go far before freeing him when the big dog gives 8 long howl, you know.
 That means they have treed him. Then we go to the place where they have treed and either cut the tree down or cut 8 larger place at the place where he goes in. When we get him we let the dogs smell him and put him into sack. Then we get few more. and then set the dogs on a fox trail and let them have a nights chase. and then we go on home and listen to the dog $ music on the mountain. Yours truly.
 BOB KIRTLEY.
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CE7ILDREN'S LETTERS WILL TAKE
 ! EVER YBODY BACK TO LONG ACC

MaySe you don't like, these same things for Friday night and Saturday lunch that these children do.
 Everybody has personality all his own, and God doesn't give the same one to any little boy or girl. Life wouldn't be fun at all If He did that. Everything has to be different.
 But, gee, how you will enjoy read 2ng these letters and picking out the things you like or don't like! Grown up or what not, your mouth will water or your teeth will set on edge at the suggestion of certain foods that you want, or wouldn't eat to saye your life.
 ~If you're grown-up, get back to the age when you went to o'school and try to set down your impressions or what you would have written to an Aunt Ann of those days if you had been called upon to state.
 Aunt Ann is crazy to have some letters from men and women telling about their childhood days. and lt' has always been hobby of hers to print the pictures of men and wom- en as they used to. look when they were little hoys and girls. Have you such a picture of yourself? If so, won't you send 1t in telling what your ideals were at that timee
 Remember that although this IS supposed to be children's page zrown-ups are expected to laugh over 1t. and sigh over it, and maybe cry over it, remembeting-jus remem- beripg.
 Here are q bunch of letters for you, written in all the various styles ot childish handwriting and with all the little touches of human things that children naturally write into their letters Youll love them from the one that says; q want to do & little '1bopptng in the evening"" to the one That tells all about q little girl who is just crazy about lying in ham mock and listening to her father ana mother tell of their younger days
 Robinson School.
 Dear Aunt Ann l am going to tel you the kind of lunch l like best Tor saturday: I like pork and beans ana
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This boy undoubtedly has one of the most wonderful records fo1 re- narkable progress in school that the whole city can produce. He is 10 years old.
 He is of foreign birth. and last year. without any knowledge of English, started m the first grade at the Henley school. Before the year was out he finished every grade that the school offered as one of the very best students and is this year in the high school.
 Q. C. Carmichael, his school prin- cipal last season, says that the SC cret of his success not only lies in the fact that he is unusually clever but in the fact that he works night and day. He simply lives with his books" says MT. Carmichael and nothing Is too hard for him to tackle"
 He is the brother of little Sam Pollock, the extraordinary mathema- tician who is between : and s years old, and whose picture was printed 8 short time ago
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INTERESTED IN
 CITYS BIG FAIR
Robinson School,

ItOpInSOn NChOOT,
 ST. VII Grade. Dear Aunt Ann:
 Next Friday night after supper l would like to go to another big fair. When I get there I would buy my ticket and go in and start the journey to good time. I would like to see the fireworks first, then l would want to go and see the exhi bition hall and see the drawings from different schools, then I would go and see the Johnny Jones show. then go in the bug house and lose myself among the mirrors. Then I would buy some fruit and a rubber ball, and by this time l would be ready to come home
 CHARLES O. BOARTFIELD,
 Ape 13
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The Exchange Corner

furnish any of these books or arti- cles. If you can. you will make them very happy If you don't believe this, remember your own childhood and how badly you used to want things but didn't know just how to get them Maybe you never did get them. Don't let these boys and girls do without if you can help it.
 All ads are inserted free. Be sure in sending them. to give your name telephone number and address.
 Bessemer Ala. Dear Aunt Ann:
 If you have a male bull puppy you would like to exchange for pair of Black Minorca chickens I would be glad Co exchange with you or any body else. Please let me know 8, once. l am waiting. I am 12 years old and going to school My address is R. w. Crawford, Bessemere, Ala. route 8, box TT.
 would like to exchange one large size black dog named Blickum for 8
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THE KIND or LUNCH
 LIKE BEST FOR SATu RDAY

As the best papers select the best subjects to write on I have decided 10 write for The Age Herald on a subject we'll known to all.
 would like some potatoes cooked in the peels and then skinned and pour onion gravy over it. Then scme stewed tomatoes cooked well done.
 Then some cranberries made into jelly and put on bread. Then pam cakes, erits. oatmeal and other ce- reals. Then a little ice cream and cake for dessert.
 As l have not that big a capac- ity l could not possibly eat ali that 1 have mentioned.
 My stomach feels so empty l could eat it all and more. As 1 said pe- fore it Is very empty. go I must
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PLAYING ACTOR ON A
 SWING LOTS OF FUN

Dear Aunt Ann.
 Friday night I always play wi:h my friend l do not play when it Is hot. My friend has strong swing that we act on.
 I would like to go to bed Friday night and get good sleep. l would like mother to have some dinner and between meals l would like to have some sliced oranges so I can gain on my weight. Your unknown friend.
 LEONARD ALLEY,
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artists-and they're mighty good ones. too. and come all ages from six years old up to young manhood and worianhood.
 can you make cartoon? Let's see. If you will notice. 1t is drawn on the whitest paper Mir Williams could find, and with coa, black ink. This is the only sort of drawing that will print. If you draw with pencil, go over your work with black ink.
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Here's picture for you drawn by a boy who has been taking lesson through correspondence. He is E, single detail of the rooster's crow. the rising sun or the youths big toe as he reaches back to eject the rooster with the book that he knows the least about.
 Tho Age Herald is finding lots of
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WANTED.--To exchange. the book Treasure Island" for pair of pig cons. William Causey, Chesterfieid Apts., Seventh ave. and Twentieth st., north.
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stop as I have not enough energy to write more, being so hungry.
 HERMAN POSNER, Age IS Years, Senior Seventh Grade. Robinson School.
 Birmingham, Ala, Monday Night. Dear Aunt Ann: Friday night would like to go to picture show. Saturday at lunch would like vie and buttermilk. Every day I skate if I can. I go tosUllman school. My teachers name is Mrs. Riley. am in the junior fourth. I am nine years, seven months old My ad- dress Is 1928 Cullom Street. My fathers name is Mir R. R. Darden. Yours truly. ROBERT DARDEN, JR, Dear Aunt Ann; You ask me 10 write about what l do on Friday afternoon, but I never do the same thing on one Friday afternoon that do on the other. so l write about only one. One Friday afternoon after school was out and by some chance I did not have to stay In, l got my gun and set out for the woods. I went to the foot of the mountain and by then l was thirsty so l went to the spring. When I got there l saw something drinking. It had no neck. When 1t saw me 1t turned and ran and so did I. I decided that was not thirsty I climbed up the noun tain and shot rabbit. When I , started down the mountain I saw a rattlesnake coiled up in my path ready to spring. I cooked my gun and 1t sprang at me and bit my gun which went off. The shot hit the snake but it did not kill him be- cause he ran away. I went on and got home before long. liked my rabbit very buch.
 GEoRGE TARRANT VII Or. Jr. Age IS.
 Robinson School. Dear Aunt Ann:
 thought lNwould write my story on What Like To Do on Friday Night"
 always like to study my lessons on Friday night so l can have Satur- day free from study.
 also like to go to church on Fri day night when my church has a meeting. because l do not have to get up so early next morning.
 Well. as l have one more lesson to copy. will not write any more this time, but will try and write mere next time. l am, yours truly,
 MtRGUERITE VANISH.
 Robinson School. bear Aunt Ann: -I do not like to write compositions, but I will try my best. What do you know about such q subject as what I would like best to eat on Saturday. As have only l5 minutes to write. I will begin: would like so many things that l don't know which 1 would like
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WANTED-To exchange book.
 Alabama History" for 'Billy's Marriage" by Porter. Estella 7o-
 trimouli. 2a1l Fourth ave, n, Phone
 Main 4077.
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A LONG WAIT

Frorn Boston Transcript.
 Father fas he Starts to carvel-BS the way. my dear. I've got to attend q bankers dinner tomorrow. They expect over d hundred.
 Tommy-Gee: I'd hate to be the youngest where there's that many to be helped.
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WANTED.-To exchange book The Hidden Spring" for 8 book. "The Crisis" Sidney Green, 7os Twenty fifth st., n.
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WANTED TO exchange book "Ethel Hollister, First Year as q
 Campfire Girl" for the second book Ethel Hollister, Second Year as Campfire Girl" Marie Good win. SIS Twentysixth st. n., city.
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The junior of The AgeIerad is for boys and
 e sketches and photographs of interest young people ceptab Write only side of and address md all mail Aunt Ann, AgeHerad Birmingham by Wednesua!
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WANTED.-To exchange. four kit tens for good rabbit. Robert Bradshaw, 2602 Eighth ave, north
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wANTED.--To buy ore bantam rooster. prefer red one and young. Frances Howard, 1874 Ave C.. s. Phone 5S48-J
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WANTED.-To exchange one skate
 mobile for a doll. Dorothy Brun- son, 2224 Seventh ave-, north. Main 1716.
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wANTED.-To buy . book, ''BetsS Wales. Sophomore" Pauline WI.- loughby. eos Twenty fifth st.. II, Main 531i.
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FOR SALE.--BoolS of Real Things iT
 Nature" for 45c, in good condition Eugene T. Underwood, 703ia Nine teeath st., h., city. Phone M 621l.
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wANTED.-To sell one fifth grade reader for 25c. Looks like new Call at 2o2t Fifth ave, n. Frank Jones.
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This little girl has just come from s masquerade party. Oh. but she had good timel
 It was given by her Kindergarten teacher, and oh, ever so many chill dren were there, looking so funny. They were all dressed just like folks were during George Washington's time, and 1t was hard to tell they were children at all. Some of them looked like little grown-ups. .
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WANTED.--To buy one or two sec ond hand story books. Alma Cra- mer. 171a Eighth ave. Il. Main SS05.
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Powell school. VI ST.
Helps Little Boy

HeIpN JfttIe BOy
 know a very small boy who does not know the value of houses and IS very destructive. He likes to play with fire and so it is my duty to make him stop. Six years is very young, but his life Is in danger. Often there are matches in his pock- cts. I sometimes catch him and take them away from him. He is peter than he used to be but still plays with fire every time he gets a chance. sometimes burn rubbish too near the house but next time l will be more careful.
 MILTON ALLEN. Powell school, grade z
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Miss Leta Duffy is already having the best time small girl could have. For she is learning to cook biscuits and lots of other things Her father, Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, thinks that little girls ought to know these things, and so instead of telling her she mustn't worry the cook, he just lets cook show her the way to make everything taste just fine.
 Isn't she beautiful little girl?
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Meet Little Mir. Barney Monaghan!
 This little boy has had a most won derful life, even though he is only years old. He has practically been the mascot of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York for tour months, and, oh. what fun it was to be tossed just like a ball between the eleva- tor men and the colored maids, and be petted and made over by some of the richest people in the United States.
 Every time the elevator girls saw him they cried out, There's Barneyw and rushed after him to ask him all about the south and all about Bir- mngham and all about Greensboro, Ala, where Barney is just crazy about playing with Aaron and Moses. Now, you don't know Aaron and Moses. but they're two heavenly nt- tie darkies Barney would rather play with than to eat.
 Their suspenders hang down over their backs. and lots of times there are patches in their pants and holes in their faded little shirts, but their hearts beat just as true to Barney as any hearts in the world could beat. And every moment that Barney is away from them they are thinking up games and stories and songs to amuse
 
 down for 8 visit.
 Barney has another distinction. He has met one man who makes Castoris l for children. He was at the New best. would like beans, potatoes. chicken and cake and bread and tea. Well, Aunt Ann, l will close before think of something else to eat. Your friend.
 ETHEI.YN FRANKLIN
 Senior Seventh Grade A.
 Robinson School Dear Aunt Ann:
 l thing it is very nice of you to give us q place in your paper for i our letters l nm going to take the chance and write a small letter. | l think this is good subject to write on. l believe in eating because | it Is my middle name. For Saturday 1 l want to have fried chicken, sweet 1 potatoes, boiled eggs. beef roast. turkey, birds, rabbits, iced tea, grape juice. ice cream, barrel of apples, a bucket of candy. crate of oranges 1 and plenty of cakes and pie. l think this is all I could eat for dinner, and don't expect to eat anything until supper. Well. l am getting so hun gry, will eat my books and desk ii I don't get something ta eat after 1 writing this letter. Yours truly, FRANK VAIN. Junior Fourth Grade.
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football outfit. The dog Is all right. He has four perfectly good legs, one on each corner. In haste. Mat Lynch, care F. M. Lynch, First National Bank building, city.
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How Can You Stop Fires?
 Children Are Learning

This includest forest fires as well. Too much timber is being destroyed.
 The school authorities over the land are cooperating and every child in the schools everywhere has been asked only this week to be very much alert to see that they are never the cause of any destructive fire.
 October 10 was set apart by the Presiden. as the day each year when all children will learn about fires and their cost. They observed Non- day of this week as this day. Fire drills were staged and children wrote themes concerning the event. A number of letters from Powell school girls and boys telling how to prevent fires and touching on the great Chicago fire have been re- ceived.
 You win like to read these let ters.
 If ali of the letters Aunt Ann has received do not get in. others will be printed next week for they set forth mighty good things that everybody should think about.