Evening star., 1941-02-16
Maryland Boy Earns Money Making Doll Furniture and Animal Plaques
Just
Between
Ourselves
= By PHILIP III. LOVE.
Junior Star Editor.

Sophie Epstein, IL, OF ia y street
Sc, has given an old hobby a new
twist-and rather profitably, too.
Writing poetry is Sophie's hobby.
She began 1t years ago, while con-
fined to a hospital. A friend who
treated her kindly during her ILL
ness and convalescence inspired her.
The first poem she ever wrote, she
says in a letter to The Junior Star,
was dedicated to him in appre-
ciation."
Life has not been too easy for
Sophie since then. Because of her
health, she has not been able to
attend school since she was 8. AL
though she has had the benefit of
private instruction in her home,
she has missed the pleasures of
everyday school life. But through
the years, she has found happiness
in her poetry. And that first poem
has been followed up with poetry
Of many types" she says, adding:
I'm 1896 I wrote a poem about our
great President and sent it to him.
In week or two, I received a reply.
This encouraged me further"
More recently, Sophie was rum
maging through a pile of greeting
cards that she had received from
relatives and friends.
Looking over these cards gave
me an idea" she writes, that I
might be able to help people to give
a more personal touch to their
greetings by putting their thoughts
into poetry-thoughts they weren't
able to express themselves Nearly
every one I approached seemed in
terested."
Thus Sophie developed what she
considers "a very profitable and en-
joyable hobby" And this past
Christmas, she reports, she sold
more than 1000 greeting cards on
which she had written original
poems.
Though 7 could have charged
higher prices for my greetings" she
concludes, Il was less interested In
profits than in the pleasure the
work brought me-"
y
or all the letters received by Jesse
c. Suter in connection with his work
as first vice president of the Out
door Cleanliness Association. none
has pleased him more than the fol-
lowing, written by Jeanne Beck a
pupil at Buchanan School:
We have been studying about the
improving of our community and
have heard of your association. We
realize that cleanliness is very i'm
portant IN any community. and
we are trying to get other citizens
to cooperate in making our COM
munity clean and attractive. Thank
you for what you are doing for
our city"
Jeanne's note pleased Mr.. Suter
because 1t indicated that boys and
girls can be as interested as adults
in maintaining the beauty for which
the Capital is noted. AS he wrote in
reply:
washington has earned the repu-
tatlon OF being one of the most
beautiful cities in the entire world.
but its beauty Is greatly marred by
Uttered streets. alleys and
parkways. It will help a lot
If our girls and boys in the schools
take notice Of this unloveliness and
really care to have part in max
ing the Capital of the Nation at
tractively clean as well as beauti-
full
Junior jottingS.
Central High School Cadets have
organized a corridor police force
to protect students lockers during
classes. according to c. H. S. Cor
respondent Charles Stebbins. II
Did you ever see dream walking?"
asks Jean Schmidt. Is. Eastern High
School. We'll, did" she answers,
That's the only way I can describe
the way Deanna Durbin looked on
the night of the Presidents Birth
day Balls" Jeanne saw the movie
star three times all together, wait
ing outside a downtown hotel more
than three hours the last time.
But" she adds, I'll never forget
how she looked; it certainly was
worth waiting long time for E.
Alice Louise Reed, II, Anacostia
High School, writes in to say: Il
see you are printing more articles
written in the first person. I'm
getting to like the idea" Well, how
do others feel about it? Bob
Willenborg, II, Eastern High School,
recently wrote an article for The
Junior Star on his postmark collec-
ton. Since then. he reports, his
collection has been doubled. "A
Mr.. Johnson sent me a large pile
when the story first appeared Bob
says. He is on trip through New
England and sends postcards from
Interestingly named towns along
the route. I have received over 80
this trip"