Evening star., 1942-05-24
Style Conscious Local Serve Stores High School Fashion Board
Just
| Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

Hobbies are the hobby Of Bentley
Hoeber, jr., 13. Of 1912 North
Twenty sixth street, Arlington. Va.
Bentley, who is in the seventh
grade at Claude A. Swanson Junior
High School, is not content with
just one hobby, nor even with sew
eral hobbies. He prefers to make
hobby of adopting more hobbies.
AS he puts 1t, MY main hobby Is
collecting hobbies"
It was about two years ago that
Bentley decided to become COL
lector of hobbies-or, Us you might
say, q collector Of collections. Since
then, he has collected a dozen diff
ferent kinds of collections. in addi-
ton to taking up seven other hob
bieS.
Bentley's largest collection is
postage stamps, of which he has
4,275. His other collections, and
the approximate number of items in
each, are: Match covers, 5000;
marbles, 1000; autographs, 40; SOL
diers, 40; pins, 30; keys, 81; bottle
tops, 20; coins, 10; rabbit feet, 7;
arrowheadS, 6; bow and arrow sets,
3. The autographs, he says, are "all
important"
"Organizing clubs" leads Bentley's
list of other hobbies. Thus far, he
writes, he has formed a dozen Or
ganizations of various kinds. The
other hobbies on this list are making
jewelry, making cluos. drawing,
photography. writing stories and
writing poetry.
The hobbies so far listed total
10, but Bentley has still more.
Those are my main hobbies" his
letter concludes, but have about
IL minor ones. Some Of my minor
hobbies, such as collecting tinfoil,
will help our country's war efiort!"
A lobbyist who prefers to con-
centrate on one kind Of collection
is Mary B. Mark. 8. Of l41 Grafton
street, Chevy Chase, Md. pupil at
Blessed Sacrament School. She col
lects miniature dolls
AL lily dOllo al z dbOuI
long and they have real hair" Mary
reports. Some of them are dressed
in old-fashioned American clothes,
others in European costumes. In
my foreign series. have Spanish.
French, English, Scotch and Irish
dolls"
Mary'S hobby began on her sixth
birthday anniversary, when she re-
ceived tiny doll as a gift.
It now have about so of these
dolls. which I keep in my room" she
writes. when I get about 100. I
plan to get a cabinet and put them
in it. Then I shall have a fine COL
lection"
Still another hobby letter comes
from Jeralean Brock, 16, of Ban
neker Junior High School.
MY hobby is crocheting,' she
says. IT learned to crochet by
hooking strings together with my
fingers. I couldn't draw the strings
Olslll CllodSll, llO"SNCl, OSSotSS AlAy
fingers were too large"
But the finger work convinced
Jeralean that she understood the
principle Of the crocheting art. so
she invested in the proper kind of
needle and thread. and also in a
book of instructions.
The first thing I did" she writes,
was to learn how to crochet by di-
rections, Then I crocheted collar
with white thread. Ny mother
liked it so we'll that I gave it to her.
Now I am crocheting a bedspread
with popcorn stitches in blue thread
I think it will look very beautiful
when finished
The Montgomery Blair High
School Senior Glass has Cancelled its
annual play because of the war.
Among the newer students at
Roosevelt High School is Frances
Gerkin, who was in Hawaii at the
time of the japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor Woodrow Wilson
High School has new organization,
the Craftsmen Club. Membership
is open to any student who can
prove that he has completed "a
piece of woodcraft in a workman
like manner" Forty-one Mont
gomery Blair pupils have taken
Civil Service examinations for po-
sitions as stenographers and typiSts.
The offlcial flag of Calvin
Coolidge High School was designed
by Bobbie Bailey. Chosen by vote
of Bobbie's fellow students, 1t de-
picts a flying colt Runners-up in
the contest were Billy Seebode, with
a banner marked with big c, and
Eddie Mills, with one bearing a colt
and stripes. :. The Roosevelt High
School bank sold $14 4,432.25 in War
Savings bonds and stamps in IA
weeks. .. The prize of 81 awarded
to Demetra Bacas, IS, Of Calvin
Coolidge, for her story on John
Gerachis, art editor of the Wilson
Beacon, completed her second book
Of war stamps. She writes: Il en-
joyed the appearance of that story
more than any others, since 1t was
not accompanied by my own pic
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