Evening star., 1922-06-02

The Invisible Color Book, the new
feature of The Sunday Star. has made
. a great hit with the juvenile popula-
tion of Washington In their simple
but emphatic language, children who
d, were fortunate enough to get the in
itial copy last Sunday have so testi-
fed. Furthermore, they are looking
forward anxiously for the ensuing
editions of this supplement. which
furnishes them with at least an hour S
wholesome and educational amuse-
'ment
OF course, the novelty of the magic
book attracted and held the children s
attention until they had experiment.
ed with every picture. But the novelty
OF this book will not soon wear off,
If the testimony of the boys and girls
who enjoyed the first issue can be
taken as a criterion.
In order TO learn at first hand pre-
ciSely what the children of the Ma
tional Capital thought of the new
g feature of The Sunday Star, A re-
porter visited number of the public
schools in every section of the city
and talked with them during recess
periods. Although the reporter in
terrupted their brief respite from the
warm classroom. the kiddies were not
reluctant to express their opinion.
Fine
Great"
Many Detail Delight.
These two adjectives predominated
In descriptions. Many, however, went
into details to depict how they
brought out the magic colors of the
pictures in the book; how they cut
out and pasted together the three
bears and their home. and how they
constructed the dolls nursery, which
were some of the features in the
unique book.
Few children were found by the
reporter on his visit to the schools
who had not seen the Invisible Color
Book in last Sundays Star. Those
few, in their childish curiosity, liter
ally bombarded the reporter with
Gated Significantly that the magic
book will not be overlooked next
Sunday IF papa buys a copy of The
Star
At the Wallach School. at Sth and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue southeast. the re-
porter found Miss Julia Rawlings. the
principal. on the playground directin g
the play of group of youngsters
who We're enjoying recess. Play
was abruptly suspended when the
kiddies espied a number of the Star
magic color books under the arm OF
the reporter The children followed
him like they would a circus parade,
all praising the book, and in the
next breath asking for another copy.
In this group were Harold Kotzin,
Dorothy McCron. Lee Sweeney, Ellen
FELTON,. Bob Dunnigan, Louis Hum
mer. Kenneth Ellington, Charlotte
Parker. Myrtle Thorn. Helen Hutchin-
son and a host of others whom the
school bell called back into their re-
RpeCtive classrooms before they could
give the reporter their names.
Reception at School.
The reporter then went to the JEFF
ferson School, at 9Th street and Vir-
ginia avenue southwest, where the
kfourth grade greeted him en- masse.
There We're several girls and one boy
in this group who had been so un-
fortunate as to miss the invisible col
. or book last Sunday, but their class
mates lost no time in explaining to
them the merits of the supplement.
7 ne Jefferson School children also told
Ese reporter some things about the
<Sunk which he had not previously
known. besides disclosing the fact
that father and mother had paint ed
some of the pictures in their book s