Evening star., 1938-09-25
Some Notes
OF Interest
Juniors
Unusual Hobbies
Show Readers
Originality.
BY PHILIP Fl. LOVE,
Junior Page Editor.

junior Page Edltor.
~ o FAR as hobbies are concerned,
there seems to be no limit to
the originality OF our young
~ readers
We thought we had heard just about
the last word on unusual hobbies last
week when Bernard McClellen, IL, OF
Colmar Manor, Md. reported he has
been having "a lot of fun" by cutting
up Tarzan. Moon Mullins and other
comic-section heroes and reassembling
the parts to create wide variety Of
amusing new characters.
This week, however, Ann Bradley,
IL Of lis West Thornapple street,
Chevy Chase, Md. bobs up with an
even stranger hobby. 1t is writing
what she terms descriptive contrasts" ="
Il know that sounds very baff1ing,"
Ann confesses. THE best way to
explain is to give you sample"
A S THE first part Of her specimen,
Ann offers the following para
graph:
THE music was soft as it noated
out over the quiet waters. The sun
had Just set, and the colors, once bril-
liant, had faded to pastes, which
were caught in a faint tinge by the
waters Of the sea. The eulls were
again gliding in silhouette against the
fading colors. showing a hue even
fainter and more delicate than that
Of the sea. Peace"
Then, for contrast, she adds:
The sound of the booming drums
rang out into the jungle to be caught
by the hills and repeated, vibrating
and thrilling The sound of native
feet stamping the dust in wild dance.
The weird sound Of native voices,
mingling, discordant, wild and hideous.
War;"
Ann, new student at Leland Junior
High School. modestly concludes:
Most people don't like what I
write, and it would please me very
much to see it in print"
Well. there it is, Ann, right in the
first column Of the Junior Page. And
we think it's swell
A MOTHER odd hobby is that of
- Dorothy Rose, IA. of 5sls Con-
duit road NV, who collects song
hits
Il spend all my allowance for sheet
music" says the Western High School
student. AT 35 cents a copy l can't
buy 50 many. but when I hear a pref
ty song over the radio I buy it and
learn it. I now have a large selec-
ton Of the most popular pieces"
Dorothy has been taking music les
sons for about a year.
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JUNIOR jottings:
Gordon Harris, IL, Manassas,
Va, collects newspaper clippings about
the Washington baseball team and its
members :. Fred Junior Wilburn, 9,
Of SILT Third street NV, fourth
grade pupil at Barnard School. is so
fond Of his pet kitten, Tiger, that he
writes in to say: Il wish all boys
and girls liked animals as we'll as I
do and would always remember to
treat them kindly. I wish lived on a
farm, where I could have more of
them" =. Bobby Tupper. g. of SIT
North Lincoln street, Arlington, Va.
is still mystified by the discovery of
two tiny ducks on his front porch
last Easter They were all soft and
furry" Bobby says, land they looked
real funny when they walked That's
why named them Woddle and Tod
die" Bernice Greene, Is, of 228
E street SW is almost as puzzled
concerning the origin of her pet dog,
a white puppy that followed a friend
to the Greene home one very cold
night about two years ago. Some one
had cut the sleeve out of an old
sweater and put it on him for a
coat" Bernice tells us Well, our
guess as to Bobby's mystery is that
the well-known Easter Bunny had at
least q paw in it, but We must con-
fess that the question of where Ber-
nices dog came from leaves us bafded.