Evening star., 1938-12-18
YuletideSpirit
Is Shown bv
Contributor
Girl Sends in Poem
To Help Drive for
Poor Kids
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Page Editor.

ouhAoh Fase hIlLoI
From Ruth Anne Kelly, 13, of 2113
K street NV, we have just received
note that strikes us as being an
excellent example of the proper
Christmas spirit.
The message accompanied rner,
submitted as an entry in our weekly
contest. Had the verse arrived a
day earlier, 1t might have won a
prize; as it was, however, this
weeks winning contributions already
had been selected and set up in
type. In fact, every inch of space
on today's Junior Page had been
disposed OF with the exception of
the column occupied by these more
or less random remarks.
But Ruth Anne's note made 1t
clear that failure to win a prize
wouldn't feaZe her.
II don't win a prize" she wrote,
Il hope it (the poem is printed in
The Star to help the drive for the
poor kids in Warrington"
In recognition of Ruth Anne's
generous spirit we are publishing
her verse right here. It's called
YOU Are Santa Claus" and goes.
YOU are Santa Claus
To all poor girls and boys,
To those who have no clothes
And those who have no TOYS.
Won't you help these helpless
people
And make they Christmas full
They will thank you more and
more,
Each and every girl and boy!
This would be a much happier
world for all of us if the kind of
spirit shown by Ruth Anne were
more widespread-and especially if
1t were spread out over the entire
year. Far too many of us are prone
to think of helping others only at
Christmas time, when we can be
reasonably sure that those others
also are preparing to help us. What
is needed is more of the spirit shown
by Ruth Anne-who is genuinely
anxious to do something that NAV
prove helpful to others less fortunate
than herself, whether she wins a
dollar or not!
y y
One thing or another: Lawrence
Harris, 16, of 30 Hanover street
NV, a student at Armstrong High
school, makes hobby of Mexican
handicraft work. He has a collec-
ton that includes cloth silhouettes,
coconut-shen dioramas, soap book
ends, cement lamps, vases and mir
rors, beaded pennantS, straw pic
lures, etc. He learned how to make
such things under Miss U. l.. Porter,
Spanish teacher at Terrell Junior
High School Robert MulliniX,
10, Damascus, Md, writes in to tell
OF "a narrow escape" that he had
when he was about 4. L began
chewing on an electric cord" he
says. i chewed on it about ~
minutes when my mother discot-
cred what / was doing. She rushed
at me and l gave scream and fe.l
back into chair, stunned. I We
stunned for about a minute. Tn.5
letter, hope, will be a warning To
other boys and girls It's q warn
ing to us, too, Bob! Marie Nolan,
l3, OF 41l3 Fourth street NV. re-
ports that she and her family had
"an interesting trip to historic Will
Iamsburg, Va. Eighth-grade
girls at Taft Junior High School
have organized an IS. F. w. Club"
whatever that is. The meaning of
the name Is secret, according to
Vesta Lee Furniss, 13, of 35O5
Twenty-fourth street NE, one of
the charter members Lillian
Brown, II, Charles Town, w. Va,
reports that her brother has "a pref
ty black-andwhite rat named Char
lotte." Helen Cohen, Thomson
School fifth grader, living at 1901
Twelfth street NV, was given two
kittens recently. They were so
young that she had to feed them
with an eye-dropper, and now, she
says, they've grown 80 fat that they
can hardly walk. While I am in
school" she adds, my 4-year-old
brother takes them for a fresh-air
walk in my doll carriage" Jane
Bryant, II, Germantown, Nd, has
a winter garden" consisting of
moss, plants, etc, growing in an old
glass ice tray. Her teacher at Da-
mascus Md School taught her
how to make it. E. And here's wish
ing every one of you the merriest
Christmas you've ever had