davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-08-04

lector can learn from stamps. It is
the easiest way I know to learn
historic events, important dates and
monetary units.
For few years after collecting
began, no one paid attention to the
dates of issue. watermarkS, kinds
of paper, methods of printing, per-
forations, or other variations. Then
Berge-Leyrault, in 1867, began to
study such features and soon col
lectors followed his lead by using
these valuable aids in identifying
various stamps. Lithography, pho-
togravure, Typography and engray-
ing are the principal printing meth
odS. Before the invention OF the
perforating machine by Henry
Archer in Iceland in the year 1854.
sheets of stamps had to be cut apart,
but now sheets are usually pierced
so that the stamps can be easily
pulled apart. "Rouletting" is the
process Of making little cuts with q
toothed wheel without the removal
of any paper. Cutting away the
P"PS1 Ny PdAtslACo 70 luIul u llIle OF
small holes is called ''perforation.
The cancellation Of a stamp often
affects the value, especially of an
old stamp. The condition of the
stamp also affects Its value.
Rare stamps are stamps of which
only small numbers were issued or
stamps on which errors occur. A
sheet of United States Air Mail
stamps on which the airplane was
upside down was originally sold for
$24. Single stamps from this sheet
have been sold for $500.
Any one can start stamp collec-
tion by saving stamps from his own
mail, having friends save for them.
trading with other collectors and
buying packets or sets from stores.
without realizing his progress he
absorbs a great deal of knowledge
OF important personages and events
and the work involved Is fascinating.
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Adams Group Displayed
At CorcOran Gallery

The Corcoran Gallery of Art is
curiously modest about it's acquisi-
tions. One learns from its latest
annual report that a number of
gifts were made during the past
year. These are on view in several
galleries.
By Herbert Adams, noted Ameri-
can sculptor who died last year at
the age of 81, there is a group of
medals and small bas-relief por-
traits, given to the gallery by his
widow. These are on display in
the room devoted to contemporary
American sculpture, on the first
floor. The little portraits include
two placques, in bronze, of Peggy
CAN'T, young girl with curls over
her shoulder, and Mrs. b." smil-
ing, elderly woman. Both works are
beautifully finished and full of char
acter and individuality. There are
also two medallions in porcelain
bisque, with appealing heads of in
fants few months old.
Another little portrait is that OF
jules Jusserand Ambassador from
France some years ago and affec-
tionately remembered here by many
people, on the diverse of a bronze
medal Mr.. Adams designed for the
American Historical Association in
1925. Classic figures distinguish the
bronze medal Of honor designed for
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You Can Have Fun
Playing This New
Pendulum Game

Look at a grandfather's clock.
See how the pendulum swings back
and forth, slowly, never bending.
That's where three boys one day got
the idea for new game which they
called pendulum"
Usually, three boys play at time,
though sometimes more have to be
called in. One boy is counted out
as 'it." and he must be the first
pendulum. The other two boys are
the springs of the clock, and 1t Is
their job to keep the pendulum 60
ing without stopping, just like real
clock.
The two springs stand facing each
other, three feet apart. Midway be-
tween them the pendulum takes his
place. He must hold his body stiff,
arms straight at his sides, looking as
much like pendulum as possible.
When all three are in place, the
spring behind the pendulum gives
him shove and he sways forward
to the spring facing him, keeping
always rigid. The two springs keep
the pendulum going back and forth
as long as he can stand rigid and as
long as every one can keep from
laughing. Take turns being pen
dulum and spring. The boy who
can swing" the longest Is the win
ner.
There is lots of excitement In the
game when fat boy gets the Job
of pendulum. Three or four boys
may have to be used to push a
heavyweight back and forth, but
this makes it all the more fun to
play.
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Ever since 1899 I have been going
to a beautiful summer camp in the
Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and
there I met my first horse. 1t was
love at first sight. I ride there
every summer and some day I hope
to have horse of my own. I do
think that it Is a shame that some
people have horses, not because
they love them, but because they
are wealthy, and because they want
to be zone of the boys" of society
Some people, not only myself, but
others too, really love horses and
understand and know them, and
they are not allowed to have one.
Besides riding horses I paint
them. I have about 40 various
horse stories and text books. I
have about 30 horse models. I re-
ceiVe horse magazines and I have
scrapbook, five inches thick, that
has nothing but horse pictures in it..
I also have some very educational
and interesting United States Cav
airy textbooks and from them I am
learning the anatomy, functions,
care and feeding, some diseases
and many other things about horses.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
News Of Art and Artists
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
Stitution avenue and Sixth street
PAINTINGS and sculpture by great
masters. Special loan collections
Index of American design. August
through September Is.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection OF Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
lean paintings from private collee-
tons and other gifts and loans.
Smithsonian Centenary exhibition,
opening August 10.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
avenue and Tenth street-Special
exhibition contemporary American
etchings.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
and 3 streets s:W.porisr,tsl W.pe,ns,nsI ana snd
etchines by Whistler and other
hibits.
CoRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART.
Seventeenth street between New
York avenue and ? strset-Amsr-
w. A. Clark collection. Berryman
cartoons. CARRIER etchings and
drawings.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-first street-Chang,
paints. laf exnlel,1Sesa eonsemporaTy na American
painting, opening today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Capt.
toll and First streets-Division OF
Prints-Tennessee centennial ex-
hibition. Belgian typography.
ARTS CLUB, 2017 I street NV
Summer exhibition.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
and C streets NV.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K
streets NV Paintings by Ameri-
can Indians, throug1 August.
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Bredin's Garden Bench
Received by Corcoran

The Corcoran Gallery was the re-
cipient last season of an oil painting,
Garden Bench" by r. Sloan Bre-
din, from his widow. This artist,
who died in 1888 when only 50, was
known for his interiors and land
scapes with figures. He was skillful
in relating the figure to the back
ground, so that it seemed a part of
the whole, neither too prominent
nor losing itself in the setting. BY
his well-related painting he asso-
ciated the two elements in a de-
lfghtful interchange of color.
THE Garden Bench" is occupied
by a young mother in white, with a
peach color jacket, and two little
girls, against a tapestry like back
ground of flowers, and the Whole
painting is bathed in warm sun
light. 1t is hanging in one of the
south galleries on the second floor,
near the rooms containing the Clark
collection.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Vim a Cash Prise
Writing. DRAGGING
For Junior Star

If you are not more than IS. or
have not yet finished high school,
you are eligible to write or draw for
The Junior Star. AS many as five
cash prizes Of 81 are awarded for
the best contributions published
each week. and writers of stories
which In the opinion of the editor
are Of suf1lcient merit are issued
cards identifying them as Junior
Star reporters. Here are the rules ::
/. All contributions must be original.
2. Stories. articles, poems. etc, must be
written on one side of paper; II type
written, they must be double spaced. Draw
ings must be in black ink or crayon on
rolled or folded.
g. Name and address, telephone number
and school of the contributor must be in
the upper left-hand corner Of written con-
tributions and on the back of drawings,
4. The editors choice Of winners is final
and he reserves the right to publish any
contribution In whatever form he thinks
best. regardless of whether 1t is awarded
prize He may also withhold prizes
be original.
Checks for contributions awarded
prizes today will be mailed this week.
Address your contributions to:
Junior Star Editor, 727 Star Build
ing, 110l Pennsylvania avenue NV,
Washington 1. D. G.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Sad Story of Pepsi
Whose New Hat
Went to His Head
Prize Contribution
BY Mory Froneis DevIin. 8
Cothelie University Compus School

Sofhoiic University Sornpus School
Pepsi, the Turtle, was very, very
happy for his great aunt, Octopus
Turtle, had sent him beautiful
white linen hat with pink trimmings
and he was the proudest turtle in
all the world. He went walking
down the road very slowly-as turtles
willard every one thought, as he
passed, Pepsi is very different to-
day, he's usually so playful and nice.
He went along the road feeling
very, very proud. Then all of a
sudden little voice said:
Please come and play with me
Pepsi"
Pepsi was startled. He wondered
Now, who said that?" He looked
all around him and then he looked
down and there he saw Notey
Cricket. Pepsi said:
Il can't play with you in all my
elegant glory"
What's so elegant about you?'
said Notey rudely.
why, don't you see my beautiful
ldt! SdlQ FepSl.
Whats so beautiful about it?'
said the Cricket. "It would make q
fine supper for me. Come and play
now"
mo, I will not" said Pepsi, and
he walked on very proudly. But the
thing was-the wind had blown his
hat of behind him. Notey thought
What delicious supper this would
make me-" He couldn't resist the
temptation and he ate up the hat
every speck of it.
Meanwhile, Pepsi had gone into
his house. He looked in the mirror
to see how beautiful his hat was
but what was this? There was no
hat on his head! He went rushing
down the road, asking everybody he
knew. At last he came to Notey
Cricket's house and asked Notey ii
ne had seen anything of the hat.
Why, Pepsi, I just couldn't helr
it. The wind blew your hat off and
you didn't notice it, and it made me
a delicious supper" said Notey.
oh Notey," sobbed Pepsi, now ]
have no beautiful hat"
We'll, you were too proud any.
way said Notey. "and I know Jus,
the thing to make you forget all
about it. Let's go down to the bank
OF the river and cool off"
Soon Pepsi had forgotten all about
the hat. And the next time Aunt
octopus sent him a present, it wa.
book and 1t didn't on IN bis bo, 4
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Qbe 9unior &tar
Uncle Rays
Corner
By Raymond coffmon

A scientist named Edward For
bush has made a list Of the helps
which are given to men by seagulls
and terms.
I'm thick summer weather" he
says, "the sight of terms or gulls, or
the sound of their voices. gives
warning to the mariner that he Is
nearing the rocks on which they
breed"
Another use of these birds, is to
show the fisherman where to find
a school, of fish.
Gulls visit ships which are COM
ing into port, and the traveller Is
cheered when they appear. I re-
member watching hundreds of gulls
which came to my vessel while I
was crossing large lake, on my
way from Switzerland to Germany.
AS walked to the deck, / saw that
the gulls we're diving down to get
pieces of bread cast into the water
by other passengers.
Gulls Glide Easily.
obSdlliCu plCCC VI Cdhc diiu
did my share in feeding the gulls.
Sometimes they caught little pieces
of cake in midair.
Seagulls have webbed feet and can
swim. They spend most of their time
above the water, however. Their
graceful, gliding flight makes it a
treat to watch them-they can
travel hundreds of feet without
Tapping a wing
One kind of seagull is called the
Laughing gull" This bird may be
seen during the summer breeding
season in marshes of the British
Isles, not great distance from the
coast. 1t gained its name from the
hoarse, cracking noise which it
makes-a noise which sounds like
laughter.
Terms (also called Arctic terns")
are relatives of gulls and are like
wise sea birds with webbed feet.
Their flight is both powerful and
graceful. They can hover in the air
for hours, hardly Tapping their
/ wings.
| HOming Instincts.
| The breeding grounds of terms are
| on sandy shores or in marshes.
Sometimes they make no nest at all,
letting their eggs lie on a beach.
BY power like that of homing
pigeons, terms are able to make
their way back to their breeding
grounds. They have been taken
hundreds of miles away. while kept
in closed baskets aboard ships, and
have been set free Time and again
they have found their way safely
back to the spot where their eggs
were laid.
At one time tern was taken $50
miles from Cape Hatteras and, after
being marked, was set loose. Later
it was found safe and sound at
Cape Hatteras.
Arctic terms fly beyond the Arctic
Circle in summer and in winter they
go southwark to the Antarcticl 1t
is figured that they fly as much
as $4,000 miles while making one
northward and one southwark trip.
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the American Institute of Archi-
tects and the bakelite plaque for
the Research Corporation. A bronze
medal of honor for the City Gar
dens Club of New York is a gay.
light design of flowers and
a fairy in a fountain. The ninth
work in the group is detail of an
angels head from Mr.. Adams
WEIGH Memorial.
Several Adams Figures Here.
AS the sculptor was already rep
resented in Washington with his
beautiful Mcmillan Fountain, and
bronze doors and several figures at
the Library of Congress, 1t is graft
flying that this collection of his work
on small scale has come to the
Corcoran Gallery, as 1t enlarges our
appreciation Of the versatility of
this gifted artist.
Mr.. Adams was born in 1853 in Con-
cord, VT, of old New England stock
He studied at Boston Tech and Mas
sachusetts Normal Art School before
going to Paris for five years, where
he studied under Mercier. The re-
finement and beautiful finish of
Mr.. Adams work led critics to COM
pare it to that of Renaissance Italy
This likeness was most evident in
his exquisite portrait busts, some in
polychromed plaster, others in COM
binations of materials. such as mar
BILE, wood, fine metals and jewels.
The sculptor and his distinguished
wife, writer and critic, lived in
Greenwich Village, New York, dur
ing the winter and had summer
home In Cornish, N. H., where they
were neighbors and friends of
Augustus Saint Gaudens. whose in
fluence was discerned in some of
the younger sculptor's work, par
ticularly bas-reliefs.
Almost every honor and impor-
tant award was bestowed upon Mr..
Adams. He was president of the
National Sculpture Society, as well
as president of the National Acad-
emy of Design. New York (being
one of only two sculptors so hon.
ored in the organizations long his
tory up to that time). He was also
the sculptor member Of Washing
tons National Commission of Fine
Arts.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Zerega's Summer Glass
Closes With Exhibit

Andrea Zerega's summer class In
painting is closing its season with
an exhibition of more than 20 items,
mostly oil paintings, at Interna-
tional Galleries, 2010 S street NV,
which will remain until August Is.
The portraits, landscapes and still
life on view include some promising
works. An arrangement involving
a violin, flowers, ceramics, ETC., In
yellow, orange and browns, was
painted from different viewpoints
with good results by Martha Moffett
Bache, Emily Craig and David San
dow. Margaret Caldwell did the
best portrait of a red-haired model,
while little blond girl was studied
to good effect by E. Wilder Lincoln.
In the landscape group, Luella By
buth's glimpse of the Georgetown
Canal impressed me as the best.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
RecOnVerSiOn
Prize Contribution
By Anna AyIoion, IS

IoFf Junior High School
Automatic laundry, that will wash
your dishes, too;
It's reconversion that's on its way
to you.
Electric blankets, postwar cars,
A rocket ship that will take you to
Mars.
A pressure cooker with an automatic
switch,
Woolen garments that do not itch.
Houses made from plastics and
glass,
Shoes fashioned from straw and
grass
Now you'll see that that's my version
OF a peacetime reconversion.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Made in America Exhibition Opens
Tomorrow at National Gallery
By Florence S. Berrymon

Caucasus. These will constitute two
of approximately so travelling exhi-
bitions to be sent out by the fed
Grafton during 1867.
For more than two decades Wash
ingtonians have been able to study
the collections of the Textile Mu-
scum, which is one of the outstand-
ing repositories of fine examples in
this field in the United States. The
eagerness with which organizations
outside of Washington look forward
to the opportunity to see some of
them is demonstrated by the fact
that museums and art galleries in
10 cities have already engaged the
exhibitions, two months before they
will start on their travels. One or
the other will visit st. Louis, Mo. :;
Milwaukee and Racine, Wis; Terre
Haute, Ind; Akron, Canton and
GAINESVILLE, Ohio; Scranton, Pa;
Springfield, Mass; Manchester
N. H., and Norwich, Conn.
The Textile Museums objectives
in lending these exhibitions for ma
tional circuits are educational as
well as esthetic. The public is in
vited not merely to study the relative
merits of the design, color and
craftsmanship of representative ex-
amples of rugs from the chief weav-
ing centers of the Near East. AS
semi-antique rugs similar to these
are still offered for sale in depart
ment stores and rug shops, the ex-
hibitions will be accompanied by
labels indicating the qualities that
distinguish good from questionable
items. Several bad" comparatively
modern rugs are included in the
two groups, and their faults are
pointed out, for comparison with the
good examples.
Rugs of Ancient Origin.
These rugs are chiefly pile carpets,
a type of weaving which probably
antedates the Christian era. Frag-
ments were found at Dura -Europas
by the Yale Expedition, while pieces
a millennium or two older were found
III LSyI. lll GIL al Va Quill RiluA1aiby
the Textile Museum points out,
many factors contributed to con-
fusion in design and technique. The
Near East has been an international
crossroads from very early times
Even in the days when trans
portation was primitive. weaver
might see, admire and be influenced
by rugs from another region; might
move to another locality or marry
some one from another town.
Hence the strange thing is not
that there is confusion in designs,
but that some characteristics or
individuality persisted in the weav-
ing from a given place, as is ex-
emplified in these semi-antique
rugs. Today, Of course, there is
nothing left of the simplicity Of
former days.
The Textile Museum hopes that
the public will study these rugs
with the idea of learning to identify
good examples such as may be
available for purchase. Good rugs
give distinction to room and sell
dom clash with other decorations
which are in good taste.
n ~
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Stamp Collecting Keeps Track
OF History Money and Dates /
Prize Contribution
BY TerriIl Schukroft, IS
Swanson Junior High School. Arlington

Stamp collecting is a popular and
fascinating hobby. The late Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt owned more
than 80 albums of stamps. King
George VI of England and Lily Pons,
the opera star, are collectors, also.
Postage stamps were first issued
in 184O, when Rowland Hill, an
English schoolmaster, proposed that
the British government adopt a
plan of prepayment OF postal fees
through the use of stamps. The
types of / and 2 penny sheets,
and 2 penny stamped en-
velopes and small l and 2
penny labels were issued to the
public on May 6, 1910. The sheets
and envelopes were laughed out of
existence in a few weeks (though
they returned later, for New South
Wales adopted that part of the
scheme). The gummed labels. how
ever, were well received. In the
United States. a private mail agency
at Philadelphia issued our first
stamps in 1841. The first United
States Government issue, authorized
by act of Congress, appeared in
1847. The number of foreign coun-
tries issuing stamps rapidly grew
until soon every important country
and colony in the world had its
stamps. Soon after, the hobby of
collecting began.
Stamps commemorate famous
events, such as the World Fair or
the Paris Exposition. They cele-
brate inventions and discoveries,
such as the invention of the flying
machine in Italy. Famous people
are honored with stamps carrying
their pictures. Germany has
series Of composers. Many stamps
have the emblem of their country
on them. And, too. scenes OF the
country and pictures Of the peasants
are depicted. Some stamps show
animal life.
It Is surprising how much = col.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Guide to New Books
For Young Readers

The Lost Children Of the Sho-
shones, by Evelyn c. Nevin WEST
minister: $2)-How one of the
favorite heroines of the West, the
little Indian girl Sacajawea
achieved fame by guiding the Lewis
and Clark expedition through the
wilderness. Beautifully illustrated
by Manning de V. Lee.
Scatter the Chipmunk, by Cath
crime Cate Coblentz, with pictures
by Berta Schwartz (Childrens: SD
Story of happy-go-lucky little
who is always in trouble,
Evening star., 1946-08-04

post in st. Johns parish has been
filed.
The Department Entertainment
Committee is making plans for the
department anniversary celebration
on October 18. The Rev. John w.
Daily Post will meet Wednesday
night ut Holy Comforter Hall.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Catholic War Veterans

During Dept. Comdr. Brands alb
sence. on vacation during most OF
August, matters of importance may
be taken up with Senior Vice Comdr
Raymond L. Gilbert, 804 Thayer
avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Application for . charter for
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D. C.. Group Lends
Ruds for Exhibit

The Textile Museum of the Dis
trict of Columbia has lent TO the
American Federation of Arts two
collections of semi-antique rugs
from Asia Minor, Persia and the
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Ode
Prize Contribution
By Dorothy KimeIbIott, IS

Calvin Coolidge High School
You haunt me in the movies,
You haunt me on the street.
I have to look for you each night
Before I go to sleep.
You follow me so closely,
You really cling to me. ..
Oh! Discarded chewing gum
There is really none like thee.
Tough Hide
The skin of the yak beast of bur-
den in Tibet is so tough that driv-
ers use stones instead of whips to
spur on the animal.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Downtown Parking for Shoppers;
Representation Still Problem No. |
By Jesse G. Suter


District legislation the
the District
the acts in question bore dates of enactment Immediately preceding
closing of final adjournment a
other
those bodies
Despite the disappointment pending
legislation
which Mr. Joseph McGaaghy
Trade wrote the members both the
the District Columbia
legislation that will make this city better place in which work and
live He added: Il believe
trend that direction overwhelming
residents