Evening star., 1938-10-09
Busiest Girls
Program Is
Outlined
Child Finds Time
For Variety of
Activities.

Jacqueline Monroe, TO- Of Burke,
Va. must have been just about the
busiest child in the Washington area
during the past summer, for here's
what she did
/. Sold vegetables, butter ana but
termilk.
2. Kept buttons sewed on her
younger sisters and brothers clothes,
as well as on her own.
3. Made a quilt for her dolls bed
and started work on one for her own.
4. Made Ave samplers" including
one with the Lords Prayer on 1t for
her Sunday school room.
S. Picked more than 800 four-leaf
clovers and mounted them on card
board.
g. Began work on set of embroid-
cred towels for her Sunday school
teacher
7. Found time for a daily swim
and, in addition, to go "on many
picnics on Sundays"
And, to top it all off, Jackie, as
this energetic little lady is known to
her playmates, sent the Junior Page
Editor four snapshots Of her sister,
Jojo, 6, and herself displaying some
of her handiwork. MY Auntie Bex
gave me a camera for my birthday"
Jackie wrote, "and these are the first
snaps I've taken"
The photographs were very good,
as snapshots 60, but they were not
large enough to reproduce well. so
they can't be printed here They
were not so small. however, that the
editor couldn't see that Jackie and
Jojo are pretty little girls, and he
hopes to be able to publish a better
picture Of them some other time.
Jackie decided to sell vegetables.
she explained, because her parents
garden produced more than the fam
lily could use.
Il called on our neighbor. half a
mile away" Jackie said. "and asked
II she would like some nice fresh
vegetables She said she would
Three times a week. Jojo and
would take our baskets and deliver
carrots, cabbage. onions, corn. but
ter beans or whatever We had. to our
neighbor. Also, we took a quart of
fresh buttermilk and print of butter.
That doesn't sound like very much
money" Jackie conceded, but I also
made 10 cents a week for keeping all
the buttons sewed on our clothes
My baby brother kept me buster than
any one; he pops buttons OF every
day"
One day Jackie showed the neigh
Dor her doll quilt.
Then" Jackie continued. "she gave
me large quantity of new material
and a pattern for a 'Grandmother's
Flower Garden quilt. and I started
right then to make a quilt for my
own bed. I have it all put together
now,, and Dad Is going to make
frames so I can quilt it before cold
weather. Our nice neighbor was so
pleased with it that she bought the
lining and the back and gave them
to me
II wanted to do something for her,
so We took picture Of her house
and mother drew 1t on linen and I
made her a cross-stitch sampler of it.
This pleased her 20 much that she
bought Jojo and me all the dresses
We needed to start school. Now We
each have - different dresses So
took my money and bought school
books--as many as could.
II have made four samplers since
my first one" Jackie went on. "One
for my Sunday school room with the
Lords Prayer on it, and all very
pretty
Then picked four-leaf clovers. and
have more than 300, all pasted on a
big piece of cardboard.
MY hobbies now are fancy work
and am making my Sunday school
teacher set of towels to dry dishes
on.
All of the transfers for my en-
broidery come from The Star. and I
send for them in my own name.
I'VE have to leave home at 7:15
in the morning for the school bus.
and I have lot of time before 8
to work on my embroidery. I am in
the fifth grade at Fairfax Elementary
School, and my sister is in the first.
love to 60 to school. and to do
everything else other little girls do.
This summer has been interesting
and lovely for me- Mother and Dad
took us on many picnics on Sundays.
and we had stream that was all
damned up for swimming every day.
Now we are all ready to settle down
and study real hard"
Jackie and Jojo are the children
of Mr.. and Mrs. John William Mon
roe.