Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Just Between
Yourselves
BY Philip Fl. Love

cleanup:
Irene Porter, II, of st. Mary's
Academy, Alexandria, wanted a
hobby that was, as she puts 1t, use
full as well as ornamental. So she
became collector of pitchers-big,
little, new, old, all kinds. Some
came from foreign countries, and
value them highly" she writes, but
we continually use them to get full
enjoyment from this interesting
hobby" -. Two former Junior Star
writer's are fighting the Germans
Tech. Sergt. Irving Falk, Anacostia
High School correspondent, who is
in Italy, and Pfc. Urquhart Dixon,
Parker-G Gray alexandria, High
School poet, in Germany. The
Junior Red Cross was ready for the
liberation of the Philippines: Chill
dren of the islands are receiving
1000 pounds of candy, $500 gift
boxes and $4,000 pounds of dried
milk. :. Liveliest local high school
paper to come to my attention this
year is the fastener, put together
by a staff, headed by Editor Betty
Lou Mann, Managing Editor Shir-
ley Tatelman and Associate Editor
Mary Ellen Long. DR.. Regis Boyle,
journalism teacher, is faculty ad-
wiser.
A note from Kathleen Lucey, IL,
OF st. Louis School, Ashton. Md.
tells of one of the most interesting
phases OF farm life-hog killing.
After feeding our hogs on corn for
two months and keeping them
penned up, they were weighty
enough to be butchered,' she SAYS.
The Lucey family soon had a good
supply of ham, bacon, shoulder and
other mountaineering country
meats. . The most fun, Judging
from Kathleen's letter, was what
she calls sausage party" held
the night after the hog killing. Al
ter knives were sharpened, she
writes, every one took a pile of
meat and cut it into little bits.
Then we ground it up, and we had
sausage. Some of it We canned.
and we ate some of it fresh" AS
one who loves country meat in gen
eral, and sausage in particular, I
can only say: Yum-yum. A
story by Shirley Pobst, Fairfax, Va.
telling OF her collection of match
covers, brought a generous response
from ]. S. readers. Il have re-
ceived quite few covers in the mail
and offers of several collections.
she reports. One reader phoned
the j. S. for Shirley's address, ex-
planning she had about 200 covers
70 send her. Members of the
editorial staff OF the Holy Cross
Academy newspaper, the Cleaner,
attended the Catholic Press Con-
terence in Baltimore. Marta Rover,
editor of the paper, conducted a
discussion on Planning Interviews"
Rea Rice and Dick Guy are
turning out some snappy cartoons
for the Wilson Beason. Reas series
is titled Winnie Wilson" and
Dicks, Willie Wilson" They make
a good combination. E. The editorial
stan OF the Dunbar High School
News Reel includes girls and boys
with these meaningful names: Ran
som MARY and Leon, Gay (Rlta).
Gray laura, Just Mary, Burr
(Jonellel, Dimes (Hilda), Rivers
tCharlotte) and Joy (Gretta). =.
Dunbar, incidentally, has a musician
OF unusual talent in William
Branch. who plays trombone, clari-
net, bass horn and melophone.
Lucy Turk, 10, st. AIMS School,
dropped in the other day to tell
me about correspondence club
to which she belongs. Lets Sur
prise EN- Club" is its name, and
its purpose is to buy War Bonds as
gifts to crippled children. Each
member pays 10-cent War Stamp
to join and pays another stamp as
dues about every month thereafter.
Soon as the club has enough stamps,
it converts them into a S25 bond
and presents it to a crippled boy or
girl. Latest recipient of a Sur
prise En-" bond was a 13-year-old
Columbus (Kans) girl. Anne
Rickers, Eastern, corresponds with
more than 300 servicemen. Most of
them are friends of her brother.
who Is in the Navy. Ashton
Mossburg, whose travel hobby was
written up in the J. S. some time
ago, is on the go again. His latest
postcard is from Keyser, w. Va.