Evening star., 1938-06-05
MY MOST EXCITING ADvEN.
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EEw boys travelling in a strange
country are apt to have an adven-
ture as pleasant as the one related be-
low by Stefan Zweig, 16, of 1902 Ogden
street NV. German boy who has
just come to Washington.
Dear Editor:
my brother and I just came over
from Germany. During our last vaca-
ton we hitch-hiked with our friend
George through Denmark. / tell you
now our incest adventure we had on
this trip.
Now we are standing on the Rad
huuspladsen' of Copenhagen, the cap
ital of Denmark. in foreign country
without money and without knowledge
Of the language. Beside us are our
bags and around us the enormous
traffic. 1t is already o'clock and we
have not found any lodging for the
night. What shall we do? We can
not afford to go in a 'Jugendherberge'
"a shelter for travelling youths).
For q minute We don't hear the
trsffic. Our only idea is: You are left
and nobody bothers about you. Sud-
denly Gunther cries, I have got it!
Come alongl' And he runs with us
to. the station, takes the telephone
book and says: DO you know what we
do7 We look up all owners of fac
tories and banks and ask them II we
could sleep in their house
Really marvellous idea! But how
terrible, all live in the suburbs which
are 10 miles from Copenhagen. Only
one man lives downtown just there
where we are now-Mister Sven Jens-
sen
Nov We are standing in front of
his house. Who of us has to 60? We
draw lots. George loses. He rings
and rings the bell. We two are out
side and think George is already in.
After hve minutes he comes back with
the result-nobody has opened.
4. We don't know what to do now.
The situation is discouraging. Sud-
denly nice looking young gentleman
who enters the house and must have
heard that we talked German asks us
IN German, Halo, boys, what are you
looking for?' We tell him our trou-
BILE. What, that's ALP he says. I
am sorry that you cannot sleep in my
nat, It Is too small. But hurry upr
In the next second he takes taxi
cab and brings us to the 'Jugend-
herberge' ship, an old retired warship
Soon we are on board and the gentle
man talks with the supervisor of the
ship. Boys he says, I paid for you
Tor three days. Enjoy yourselves here
IN this wonderful city. Good luckr
We had no time for saying long
thank speeches because the gentleman
had already gone.
In the first minute we thought it
was o dream, but then we thought:
How fine that one. man helps the
otherl"
HOW I SPENT ONE VACATION"
TUNE LOUISE MALONE didn't ex-
pect to spend an interesting vaca-
tion in q convalescent home. But she
was pleasantly surprised, she says in
the letter which follows. June Louise
Is Is and lives at 503 Tenth street S.W.:
Dear Editor:
"One summer about two years ago
spent my vacation in home for con-
valescents. Children who have never
been In home probably think it's mis-
cradle, and hope they never have to
90 TO one. thought that, too, but
found out couldn't have had better
time at the beach than I had there.
The home I went to was big farm
m Rockville. Nd, Every day we went
swimming In a large pool. We went
on hikes, played games and we went
on treasure hunts. I liked bingo and
treasure hunts the best because you
won nice prizes.
"One time we went on a hike and
another time q group Of girls made
dolls out Of crepe paper and wire. We
presented plays to the visitors and we
also had contests. The boys used to
60 out in the fields and watch the
farmer. We had baseball team the
boys against the girls.
II stayed at the farm for two months,
and while was there gained 8
pounds. I would love to 60 to the farm
again, but children over Is years old
can't CO."