Evening star., 1940-02-04
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BY PHILIP H. LOVE-,
Junior Star Editor.

From time to time during the last
few months this column has con-
tanned notes on what winners of
the weekly contributors contest do
with their prize money. This is
an interesting subject, and I'm al
ways glad to receive additional in
formation concerning it.
The latest information along this
line comes from Jacqueline Monroe,
II, of Burke, Va, who writes that
she used her prize money to start
an interesting hobby"
'T am collecting horses" she con-
tinues. Il have china, plaster.
silver, wood, glass, ivory and bone
ones, also one of marble"
Jackie" as the Fairfax Ele-
mentary School pupil prefers to be
known, inclosed two snapshots of
her collection. The pictures are
too small for reproduction, but if
you could see them close up, as I
do at this moment, you'd agree that
the collection is highly interest
Ing one. 1t contains enough horses
of assorted sizes to take up nearly
every inch of table that appears
to be about 2 feet wide by about
4 feet long. Jackie is in one of
the snapshots, and she's a very
pretty little girl.
There are 81 horses in the COL
lection, and Jackie says they repre-
sent Mexico, England, Germany,
Italy, Japan and China. II am
now getting one from each State
in the Union that I do not have"
she adds.
In an effort to carry out this in
tention, Jackie recently took stock"
of her family's friends in various
States. Il was surprised" she says,
ito find that we have friends in so
many States. It won't be long be-
fore I double the number of horses
In my collection"
The horses were placed on the
table for picture-taking purposes,
she explains. Ordinarily, they are
kept nicely arranged in two Sec
tions of glass bookcase" She gets
lot of pleasure out of rearranging
the horses. Her favorite is "a little
brown half-grown colt"
Jackie's letter winds up with this
pleasing statement:
Il think our Junior Star gets more
interesting all the time. I hope we
can always have it."
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Which reminds me of letter re-
ceived not long ago from Balti-
more reader who described the j. S.
as the envy of Baltimore youth.
She added that she hoped to be able
to persuade one of her local papers
to inaugurate such page.
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Mildred Sears. a contributor to
the ]. S. for the last couple of years,
has been made editor-in -chief of
the Roosevelt High School Reporter.
She succeeds Marie-Louise Ralph,
also j. S. correspondent. who has
Just graduated Marie-Louise. in
cidentally, recently won prize of
5000 in national essay contest.
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And speaking of graduation, I
have just received the following let
ter from Elinor James of Fairland
Nd, who has been acting as j. S.
correspondent at Montgomery Blair
High School:
Il am writing to explain my long
silence as a junior reporter. Shortly
before Christmas I took time off
from school to type thesis for one
of my teachers, who was getting her
M. A. degree at George Washington
University. I expected to return to
school after Christmas and resume
writing the articles I had been
sending in; but instead, I continued
to type theses for G. w., and I am
now expecting to enroll there. =
! must give up my place as Blair
correspondent, which I enjoyed very
much and regret losing y"
Elinor was one of the j. SIS best
correspondents, and her place is
going to be hard to fill. Are there
any applicants?"
Betty Alice Wright, 3, OF LOtnlan,
Md, asks boys and girls to write to
'Miss Rosalie, Chestertown Hos
pital, Chestertown, Md" explain
ing: "One day when Rosalie was
cooking supper a can OF kerosene
fell in the fire. 1t exploded and she
was burned very badly. She was
rushed to the hospital and has been
there long time. The doctors and
nurses say if people will write to her,
she might not cry so much"