Evening star., 1940-11-03
Just
| Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP HI. LOVE-
Junior Star Editor.

effective way of preventing sucn
disappointments. 1t is an extremely
simple method, and I'm surprised
that it has not been suggested be-
fore
This summer" she writes, Il
came across a file box and declded
70 make some use of it. I thought
q while. then decided to make
book file. I went to the library and
made a list of all the books Ia
read since the beginning of 1910.
I sorted them alphabetically, by the
authors names. and put them on
special file cards. Every time l go
To the library I find some books l
don't have listed in my file and It's
really a lot of fun. Sometimes l
look through the file and find that
an author has written more books
than I've read. Then I hunt them
up until I have all that writer's
works. In this way come to read
a lot of books that I wouldn't
otherwise.
"I suggest this hobby to all girls
and bows who are interested IN
books, and especially to those who
aren't, because once they get started.
they'll really want to read a lot OF
books to complete their files
The suggestion strikes me as a
very good one, and I'm glad to pass
It on. In fact, I'm even adopting 1t
myself because if I had a nickel for
TO hOr0P q hook
I've already read, I could afford to
buy a couple of new ones!
From Lois Twilley, AnacoStia High
School. comes an interesting note
on her first taste of work" She
spent the summer working in
bakery and, she says, didn't mind
too much" She had some difficulty
at first in mastering the cash
register and memorizing the price
list. but, on the whole, everything
was as exciting as trip to the
beach" For one thing, the bakery
was air-cooled, and, for another,
she had an excellent opportunity to
study human nature. Most OF her
customers were interesting and
pleasant" she reports, adding: 1T
seems as though everybody likes
pie"
Another report of summer activi-
ties comes from Frances Morrison,
13 Leland Junior High School. She
and her friend, Frances Speidel, 10,
devoted the vacation months to
publication of newspaper, the
Plum Point (MdJ resort at which
they were staying. The girls lettered
the paper by hand, a job that be-
came increasingly irkSome as their
circulation rose gradually from 6
subscribers at the start to Is by the
end of the summer. Now the two
Franceses are saving up to buy
printing press, so they can resume
publication of their paper next vaca-
ton without so much work"
X x X x
Patricia Head, II, Gordon Junior
High School, also is saving for a
printing press with which to pub
lish a paper of her own. Pat calls |
her paper the Busy Bee, and it con
tains most of the news of the apart
ment house in which she lives. ut |
is a good sized paper" she says. 1T |
was started August %, when my
cousin was here to help me. we had |
six subscribers then, but I have Is |
now. Everybody enjoys it, including |
myself"
Still another young editor is Doris |
Kay Ostrander, who has inaugu- |
rated new paper at Phoebe Hearst |
School-the Star, representing the
boys and girls of the sixth grade. |
She sent me a copy of the first issue,
and I am glad to report that it is |
about as attractive as any such pub
hcation I've ever seen. Contributors |
to the initial issue are Douglas Chal-
mers, Arthur Cooper, Patricia Toll, |
Marion Candy, Bonnie Saunders,
Alice Van Ness, Ann Hammel, Vicky |
Buckley, Bette LIE Stourgeon, John !
Florea, Elaine Hanson, Jean Cum
ningham, Patsy Jerman, E. Heiss,
Jo-Anne Richards, Marshall Finnan,
Ernest Smoot, Joyce Kavanagh, Ar
mand Villaret, Martha Smoot, Claire
Sinclair and John Addison. Ar
mand, by the way, lived in Yugo-
siavia until about year ago.
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Janet Moran, one of The Junior |
Stars most active correspondents |
at Bethesda Chevy Chase High |
School last year, has made the rep
ortorial staff of the undergraduate
paper at Duke University. She |
writes:
Mother sends me The ]. S., and |
this week I had the thrill of seeing
my name in your column. I made |
the staff of the newspaper and am
really enjoying the work.
Our paper is supposed to be the
best bi-weekly college newspaper,
so I'm really proud to be working
on 1t. write all bulletins and cover
the women's athletic association and
the honorary German society.
'I think you've got grand group
OF reporters this year. I only wish
I could be one of them again"
y X ~
Another of last years CORE
spondents-Ruth Buchanan, who
wrote from Central High School
reports from the University of
Maryland:
"As yet, I haven't gone out for
the school paper. I decided to get
settled before adding extra work to
what seems to be an already heavy
schedule. The J. S. is always of in
terest to me, and I shall always
feel that I'm small part of it."