Evening star., 1939-10-29
Wo Girls Combine Dolls and Nature Study Home
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE, .
Junior Star Editor,

It's amazing how far ahead OF
the calendar some of my young cor
respondents manage to sprint.
Take Jacqueline Monroe, for in
stance. Halloween isn't quite here,
yet Jackie, as she is known to other
sixth-grade pupils at Fairfax Va0
Elementary School, already is think
ing about Christmas.
Christmas is coming" Jackie
pointed out in letter received
few days ago, "and children will
want to earn some money"
Not only children, Jackie, but
many grown folks, too, including, l
might add. yours very truly. In
fact, I can't think of many people
of1hand who wouldn't welcome some
extra cash for the coming Yuletide.
But to get on with Jackie's letter:
III you have a tiny space in your
paper will you ask the boys and
girls to write and tell others how
they earn their spending money?
l used to get so much fun reading
this special item
The last sentence refers to the
spending money" contest conducted
recently on this page. Well. there
still are a few spending money"
Contributions on hand and these
Will be published from time to
tlme-as rapidly as space limita-
tlons permit. In the meantime. I
think Jackie has the right idea and
Ill be glad to receive articles from
young people who have developed
unusual methods of earning money.
especially Christmas money.
Jackie, who is IL, earns money,
she said, by sewing on all the fam
lily buttons" For this she receives
a salary of Is cents a week-a rather
handsome sum. think, considering
that she has no income tax to pay.
With her sister, Jo-Jo. 8, she also
does" the family dishes.
Il guess you know how sisters ar
que, she wrote. and mother doesn't
like arguments. So the first one
to start something (out loud) is
left in the kitchen to do all the
dishes alone and the quiet one
doesn't have to help. 1t was ter
rible at first. it seemed like l would
never have any help. l couldn't
help starting an argument. and Jo-
10. who is always very quiet, would
just hand me the towel and walk
out.
AT the end of the week the one
with the best record gets a quarter
and the other dime; and the first
one doesn't even have to touch
dish on Sunday. Or, if the week |
results in tie. mother does all the /
dishes alone and Jo-Jo and l get |
a quarter apiece
A letter more in keeping with this
particular season came from Leona |
Grlmelsman, II. student at Cul-
pepper (Va) School. She suggested |
that every boy and girl get a big
pumpkin and make it into "a real
scarey' Jack-o-Lantern. AS to Just
how to achieve such a Jack-o-Lan-
tern, she explained
Il am going to make mine with
large round eyes. l am going to use
small green tomatoes to put in them. |
For the nose. I plan to use a big |
crooked carrot. For lips. I will use
apple peelings and for teeth, yellow |
and white grains of corn.
TO make him look even more i'm
portant, I will make him a make
believe corncob pipe. Don't you
think that will make him look funny
enough, sitting on post at night?"
Yes. Leona, I certainly do! In /
fact, If should come across such a
Jack-o-Lantern late Tuesday night |
I'm not sure that I'll be able
TO stop running in time to get out
next Sundays issue of The Junior
Star!
Junior jottings: Charles Stebbins,
16 of 1919 Rhode Island avenue
NV. says the Central High School
football team expects to hold the
championship which they won in
1888" . Stgra J. Schottroff, II, of
Rockville. Md, is equally proud of
Richard Montgomery High Schools
soccer title. For two years now we
have held the Montgomery County
high school soccer championship
she points out. !