Evening star., 1945-06-10
| lust Between
Yourselves
j D.. DL.I:A IL
BY Philip II. Love

CTaVellng on ping ana prayer,
so guess I won't get much farther
than my own back yard this vaca-
ton. But that's all right with me !:
I've learned from experience that
there's plenty of fun to be had right
in my own neighborhood. And
there's just as much fun right
around your home, too, if you'll Just
take a little time to look for it.
If you have a yard that's rea-
sonably level and open, very little
equipment is needed to set up a
game of horseshoes or quoits. A
couple of metal pegs 1.-TWO pieces of
pipe will do) and few old horse
shoes or an inexpensive set of quoits
will provide endless sport.
If you have a pocket knife, the
old game of mumbly-peg will help
pass the summer hours. But, of
course, you've got to be very care
full with the knife.
| A board and an old sawhorse will
make a seesaw for the smaller fry,
and if there's good-sized tree
handy, you can easily rig up a swing
or trapeze for yourself. Swinging
is good exercise as we'll as pleasant
pastime.
The best backyard sport of all, in
my opinion, is badminton. A COM
plete set-net, poles, two racke.s
and a few shuttlecocks or birds
lis inexpensive, considering the
amount of healthful sport 1t provides
The only other game I know OF that
gives as much fun for as little money
| is softball-and, of course, you need
much more space in which to play
/ II there are enough bicycles ir
your neighborhood, you might get
up a bike club" You could plar
a trip a week over some pleasant
route-through Rock Greek Park
/ for instance-and wind it up with 8
picnic.
But you don't have to own q
| bicycle to visit the parks. You
can walk TO the one nearest you
and have just as much fun, once
you get there, as if you'd made the
trip in a limousine.
| One of the best coats Of tan I
saw last summer was worn by a
girl who spent her vacation at home.
She got it swimming in the public
pools, hiking in the park and play
ing in her own backyard. And, all
things considered, she had about
as pleasant vacation as anybody
| I know.
Junior jottings:
Eastern High School has set aside
q room as a memorial to former
students who have died in the two
World Wars. Contributions from
students. faculty and alumni have
| furnished it with two leather sofas,
three chairs, a screen, leather COW
cred window seats, built-in book
cases and a mahogany desk. A
plaque inscribed with the names
of the schools war dead will COM
plete the furnishings. -. Peggy
Schaaf, 18, was assistant principal
Of Woodrow Wilson High School on
Thursday of one week and War
Bond queen" on Monday of the
next She held the assistant princi-
palship as a part of student day
observance in which boys and girls
ran the school while teachers
watched from the sidelines. Les
Sanders was principal and Bill
Torrey an assistant principal, with
Marianne Bowen and Zev Wolf
as counselors. Junior Red
Cross members in San Francisco
have been serving as messengers
and pages at the United Nations
Conference. Out of IS We day
poems written by the pupils of the
fourth and fifth grades of Gathers
burg (Md.) Elementary School those
by Warren Thomas and Gera Lee
Crockett, both 10, were adjudged
best. Jean and Jane Strauss
Eastern seniors, are as like as
twins-which they are. Both are
feet S inches tall have brown
hair, hazel eyes, make their own
clothes, like ice cream and Bing
Crosby, swim on the Southeast Boys
Club team, dress alike and, they say
seldom argue.