Evening star., 1942-11-01
Brent School Girl Brother Collect $500 Pounds Scrar
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

One hobby is enough for most
girls and boys, but not for Mary
Ida Bowman, 7, of 1401 Kennedy
street NV. She has four hobbies.
Mary Ida, who is in the second
grade at Brightwood School, likes
her dolls best Of all. She has been
collecting them since-well, "ever
since I can remember" is the way
she puts it. Her collection totals
somewhere between 40 and so dolls,
most of them gifts from relatives
and friends.
In the photograph on the left,
readers will recognize dolls repre-
senting Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
Charlie Mccarthy and perhaps other
celebrities. Mary Ida's collection
is a sort of doll hall of fame. Among
the famous characters, real and
hctional, represented in it are the
Princesses Elizabeth and Beatrice,
Shirley Temple, Sonia Henie, Judy
Garland, Virginia Dare, Betty Boop,
Scarlet O'Hara, Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs. Mary Ida is not at
all sure that she has favorite, but
If she has, she says it is the dwarf
known as Dopey.
The dolls are kept in a bookcase,
and Mary Ida finds time to play with
them every day. One day not long
ago the bookcase toppled over, pin
ming Mary Ida beneath 1t, but she
escaped without suffering any in
jury more serious than ruined
fingernail.
s. X X X X
Every doll in Mary Ida's collection
has name, and she has no difficulty
remembering all of them. She has
exhibited some of the dolls at
school, and last year one of them
was awarded a prize in hobby show
held on the public playground near
est her home.
One of Mary Ida's dolls belonged
to her mother, Mrs. Mary Battle
Bowman, when she was a little girl.
It is named Hannah, for Mary 1da's
great grandmother. incidentally,
Hannah is very much at home, since
the house she occupies was the
residence of Mrs Bowman's parents
the late DR.. and Mrs. Louis j.
Battle.
Mary Ida's other hobbies are sing
ing, playing the piano and ice
skating. She has sung twice on
the WMAL "Children's F'rolic," the
first time when she was only 3.
"The Good Ship Lollipop" was her
first selection, and last summer she
sang always in My Heart" She
hopes to be a professional singer
when she grows up.
You would think that keeping up
with her school work, playing with
dolls and learning new songs would
keep Mary Ida too busy to devote
much time to her piano and ice
skates. But she manages somehow
to practice her piano lessons every
day and to 60 skating every week.
OF course. she is an extremely busy
young lady. but she doesn't mind
that in the least. To her. it all
adds up to "a lot Of fun"
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Junior jottings:
Demetra Bacas, j. S. correspond
ent at Coolidge High School, has
become a member of the editorial
staff of the student newspaper, the
Courier :. A Victory Corps SINH
lar to the one at Montgomery Blair
High School, Silver Spring, Md, is
being organized at Woodrow Wilson
High School The Wicket, stu
dent newspaper of Georgetown Wis
itation Convent, has been awarded
first honors in the annual survey
conducted by the Catholic School
Press Association Eddie Spudis,
who has contributed several poems
to the j. S., is the new sports editor
of the Anacostia High School Pow
Wow Phyllis Schwartz and
Carolyn Morgan will alternate in
the leading feminine role of the
Roosevelt High School operetta,
Riding Down the Sky" to be pre-
sented November 10 and 20 {.
Everett Quinn, Coolidge, was born
on Corregidor, the island fortress in
Manila Bay now held by the jap
anese Wilson students found a
variety of ways to occupy them
selves during the summer Bob
Crowell, John Lowenthal and John
Barker worked on farms; Hansford
Sullivan and Buddy Brewton tried
tree surgery, Joan Crowell served as
nurses aide in a hospital, Jane
Peters acted as receptionist in a
doctors Office, Eddie Henshaw, Dom
aid Sparks, Dick Morse, Charlie
Murray and Kent Thorup held Gov
ernment jobs and Peggy Babcock
and Donald Merritt did turns with
newspapers !. And, speaking of
newspapers, Shirley Turner. j. S.
correspondent at Roosevelt, has
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