Evening star., 1938-07-10
Readers
Tell About
Hobbies
Editor Presents
Roundup of
Good Ideas.

~ HTED up from school by now7
- Then this is . good time to
IN start IT.. . hob hobby;
II you are looking for suggestions,
perhaps the readers of the Junior
Page can help you.
Today the editor presents . round
up Of hobby ideas submitted BY read
ers In letters to the Letter Box.
Though the writer's did not receive
. prize, their letters are interesting
and should offer ideas for boys and
girls ready to begin . hobby.
For unusual hobby paragraphs I
am sending mine," writes Lydia Rec.
tor of Alexandria. Va, Route No. 2.
MY hobby is collecting samples Of
the well-known products of the United
States. So far my samples have come
from New York, Pennsylvania, Chi
cago and many other places"
Stuart Hyde, II, Of Bristow, Va,
constructs model airplanes for his
hobby. That is the way I spend
most of my time on rainy days." he
writes. Some Of them are very din
cult to build" he adds, but have
had much fun flying them and also
many happy landings"
Making paper models Of boats. air
planes, autos, trains, ETC., is . favorite
hobby with Kirby Harrison, .. Of 1914
Mount Pleasant street NV. 1T costs
very little" he explains. I'VE (my
brother and u use letter paper that
our grovn-up friends have discarded
and flour paste, crayons, scissors,
string. bits Of cloth. etc. We make
Indian and Eskimo villages, too"
And Kirby adds: I'VE like the
Junior Page in The Star best of all"
Collecting poems keeps Louise
Bateman busy in her spare moments.
Louise. who is IL and lives at Ana
costa Station, Route No. 4, continues:
Poems seem to express most every
thought 20 clearly and beautifully
that there Is no wonder I like them
50 well. I have over $50 poems in
my book. I wish you all could see
my book, AS it Is very interesting"
Both Elaine Rose, Is, OF 953 RAN
dolph street NV. and Demetia Bacas,
II. Of 7700 Alaska avenue NV, COL
lect post cards from foreign countries.
When I was . little girl I enjoyed
showing my friends the postcards
collected by my father during his
travels" writes Elaine. Soon my en-
thusiasm in showing them died down.
Then l realized the reason was be-
cause it wasn't my own collection.
Then and there decided to save
post cards that friends and relatives
sent me from places they visited.
Prom my post cards get q better
idea Of how places I study about
look"
Demetia Bacas writes that she BE-
gan collecting post cards last summer
on a trip to Europe. Il now own over
200 foreign ones and 100 from the
United States" she declared.
Speaking OF collecting. Bernard
Ardeeser, Is, Of 34l3 Twentieth street
NE, says he collects baseball pic
lures. Some I have are Of Charles
Gehringer, Luke sewell. Lefty Grove
and Ducky Medwick," he writes.
Bernard also is an active sportsman
and collected" three letters of his
school colors for athletic honors at the
end Of the last school year.
If you live in the country or near a
park, perhaps you'd be interested in
Doris Benson's hobby. Doris, who is
II and lives at Berwyn, Nd. writes
MY hobby Is studying birds. !
read in books about them and walk
through the woods to study them
I like to hear the many different songs
they sing and recognize quite . few
already. get up early in the morning
to watch the birds. Sometimes they
are singing, other times perching and
sometimes eating and building nests
A few birds I watched one morning
were catbirds, bluebirds, robins, blue
jays, meadowlArks and orioles"
MY hobby Is butterflies" writes
Alfred Whitmore, 13, OF Danville. Va
4 have about 100 or more dif1eren,
kinds and I expect to get more thi,
summer. I have nearly all colors you
can name.
Last summer I got a butterfly bool
to see how many of them I had and
found that had almost all o1
them. I have been saving them fol
about two years"
Virginia Bowen. II, Of $40 X street
NE, writes that her hobby is saving
pictures of movie stars. Il have ovel
. thousand" she declared. Il startec
saving them in 1887 during the sum.
mer vacation"
my hobby Is very peculiar for girls
but enjoy it thoroughly" writes Lu.
Gle Timberlake. 10, Of 2803 Woodley
road. 1T is baseball. I play base.
ball at school and baseball is my IA.
vozite sport"
Mary West, IL, Of 739 Fairmont
street NV. makes money out of he,
hobby, which Is drawing paper dolls
Il have drawn many different kinds
women. children. Spanish and Colo
NAL dolls, but my favorite is drawing
children.
MY sister and I thought that W
would sell them. 30 We took them tc
school and sold them for 10 cents
My sister helps me and We have 81
altogether"
n Banker.
""HATS the matter, sonny" sale
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