Evening star., 1938-07-24
Reader Tells
toMake
Extra Money
Other Subjects
Discussed in
Old Letters.

been sent In to the Junior Page
Letter Box recently that the Sc
- lection Of prize winners has be-
come a real Job.
As the Letter Box is designed to
offer an exchange of ideas among our
readers, however, the letters which
contain original suggestions for hob
bies vacations. pets. ETC., are given a
preference. Also, II letter is not
published in the Letter Box two or
three weeks after 1t is received 1t Is apt
to be discarded In favor Of new mail.
In looking over some Of the old mail
We have found 4 number OF letters
which for various reasons did not re-
ceive . prize. Today, from these files.
We are publishing excerpts which we
think will interest readers:
Barbara Spittle. Is, Of 2l2 Charming
street NE, writes that she makes
spending money in four different ways.
After explaining that she receives rs
cents q week for washing dishes at
home Barbara continues:
The second way Is by going to the
store for friends In the neighborhood.
That way get 4 few nickels and
dimes.
The third way is by watching small
children.
The fourth way is by cutting lawns.
For small lawns get Is and rs
cents. For larger lawns sometimes
get so cents"
Ruth Miller. IL, of lll7 North Tay-
lor street, Arlington, Va. tells about
tadpoles in letter on AN Interesting
Pet"
Several times while on visits to
the country l brought back tadpoles,
but as soon as they got legs they
died" she writes. I'VE couldn't un-
derstand why.
Recently l got another tadpole
Soon it got legs and its tail grew
smaller and smaller. I thought it
would soon die My mother said that
perhaps it could not swim after 1t
got legs and lost its tail, 50 we poured
most of the water out and put stone
in the flsh bowl. Sure enough 1t
lived"
Ruth also wants to know il a Junior
Page reader can win a 81 prize more
than once The answer is yes. How
ever, If the choice lies between a
letter written by a boy or girl who
has already won a prize and a boy
or girl who has not yet received an
award. the latter probably would be
the winner.
Writing on My Hobbies" Betsy
Hayford, l3. of Haymarket. Va. writes
that she is getting to be regular COL
lector and they tell me that my room
looks like junk shop" Some OF the
things she collects are shells and In
dian darts.
Flowers are another thing" she
writes. Il have a great number of
them pressed and labeled. Many have
interesting stories connected with
them, sometimes legends or supersti-
ton or some use that they were once
put to-"
Louise Hauser, l3, Of 735 Twelfth
street Sc. writes that her hobby is
drawing Il like to look at pictures
in magazines" she says. and to study
the way certain objects are drawn. As
have grown, have learned a lot of
things"
Wanda Clark. who won a prize last
week on Vacation Hints" declares in
a letter that her hobby Is writing.
Poetry is her favorite form of writing,
she says, and incloses the following
sample Of her work:
Our Garden.
Life Is the garden
And We are the seeds
And II We are going to choke
Out the weeds,
We must labor and laugh.
When trouble we meet
And trv to make others
Not feel our defeat.
Always grow upward
Never bend down
Except when we're helping
Some one near the ground
Then when we've bloSsomed
Though often we fail
Wen be clad that we followed
The steep. upward trail.
Ralph Jones. jr.. II. Of 6207 Melville
place. Chevy Chase, Nd. writes that