Evening star., 1944-10-15
| lust Between
Ourselves ).
By Philip II. Lovs

Helen Van Doren, 13, Of $3.50 IL
linois avenue NV, has combined
two OF her favorite hobbies to make
q sort OF superiority.
The Paul Junior High School
pupil is very much interested in
aviation" for one thing, she writes,
and she also likes to draw. SO she
put the two pastimes together and
became an airplane artist. II love
Ito draw pictures OF Allied and Axis
planes" she says.
Helen sent me two of her sketches
One Of the new P59A Airocomet,
the other OF the Nazis' robot bomb
and both were very good.
But aviation and drawing aren't
Helen's only hobbies. II am also
interested In stamps, cooking, post
cards and many other things" she
points out.
Raymond w. Bellamy, jr., 10, of
Bladensburg High School, author of
one of last Sundays prize winning
contributions, reports that he's re-
covering from the leg injuries men,
toned in his article. after my last
X-ray," he writes, "the doctor said
I could walk, but not run, and no
sports whatsoever for six months.
OF course, I was happy about walk
ing, but the sports ban was quite
blow. I'll have to sit on the side
and watch the other boys play base
ball and football" Raymond shat
tered the bones in his legs when he
ran into the front steps of his home.
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Daisy Welch, 13-year-old Brad
ford (Pa) invalid whose skill in
Transforming peanuts and walnuts
into attractive dolls has been men,
toned here before, has developed
her art still further, according to q
recent letter.
Il still work on my peanut and
walnut dolls every day." she says. I
enjoy working on them very much.
have been making characters from
Uncle Remus' books for the Uncle
Remus Memorial Society in Atlanta.
Among the things make are frogs,
turtles, rabbits, Uncle Remus and
the little boy in the books.
Il also make soldiers, sailors,
WACS and Red Cross nurses, and
I have made a marine and an
Uncle Sam. With the money I get
from selling my dolls, I buy bonds
to help win the war. I also help to
support myself. as my mother and
father are both dead"
Junior jottings:
; Another issue of the New Moon,
, the Congress Heights newspaper
published and edited by Jim Lem
on, 14-year-old Anacostia High
School student, has come from the
press. It's still only pages, but
Jim says he hopes to increase it
to IL with the next issue. .. June
Sickels, IT, Central High School,
acknowledging receipt of 2 prize
dollar for recent j. S. vontrib-
ution, writes: II am planning to
lend it to Uncle Sam for awhile,
via War Stamps" The Boy
Scouts Of Canada have had 5000
copies Of their handbook printed
in the Dutch language for the use
of Hollands Boy Scouts, most of
whose literature was destroyed by
the Germans. The printing costs
were borne by the Baden Powell
Chins-Up Fund" originated in
: February, 1941, to aid British
Scouts who had lost homes, head
Quarters and equipment through
enemy action. The fund also has
sponsored a Polish edition of the
handbook. Junior Red Cross
members In Hawaii are making
Christmas decorations for all mill
ttary hospitals in the islands, thus
releasing the similar products Of
chapters in the States for shipment
to other points overseas. Members
in Peurto Rico are doing the same
thing for all that islands hospitals.