Evening star., 1946-06-16
lust Between
Ourselves
BY Philip H. Love-

At a teen-ager's party the other
night, I heard a girl tell two boys:
1T burns me up the way some
fellows beat around the bush when
they want date. Why don't they
come right out and ask, instead of
hemming and having and limiting
around? For instance, If either of
you wanted to take me to the movies
tomorrow night-there's a swell
show at my neighborhood theater,
by the way-you should ask me
right out. II I didn't want to go,
I'd say no, and If I did, I'd say
yes-and that would be that.
See what I mean?"
There was an embarrassed silence.
Finally, one of the boys turned to
the other and asked:
whats the matter-cat got your
tongue?"
This letter came recently from the
boys and girls of the fourth grade
Of Buchanan School-"composed by
all of the children" said an accom-
panying note from their teacher,
Miss Evelyn Fernsner, and copied
by Carol Plant:
Friday was special day for the
fourth grade of Buchanan School,
because we mailed a gift package to
a needy Dutch family. The reason
we did this was we were studying
about the Netherlands and, also, we
wished to do our part to help those
who are needing food. The family
we are helping is the Rev. and Mrs.
j. Vunkerink and their daughter
and three sons. They were in con-
centration camp in the East Indies,
but are now in Hilversum, Neither
lands. All the boys and girls in our
room helped to bring dried and
canned foods. clothing and other
articles like pencils and paper,
needles and thread, toothbrushes
and combs, etc. Miss Fernsner took
a picture of us, and we will put it
IN the box we send next week. Why
don't many of you children enjoy
doing what our room did?"
- ~ .-..
Mozelle Bigelow, Eastern corre-
spondent of The Junior Star, re-
ports that she finally made Quill
and Scroll the national honor
society for high school journalists
and that her contributions to this
page helped. Other Fasteners now
wearing new @. and S. pins are
Beverly Hall, Barbara Hutchinson
Mary Clements, Dorothy Cherry
Roxanne Rice, Patricia Briggs, Nora
Quinn, Esther Ludke, Betty Long
and Henry Gatsinos.
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Junior jottings:l Rhoda Seidel
IA, of Macfarland Junior High
School, is campaigning for members
for the new Washington Chapter of
the Tommy Dix Fan Club. Right
now, she reports, the organization is
planning a talent show to aid the
Society for the Prevention of Can
Ger. If you are a Tommy Dix fan
she urges, call President Lucky
Seymour. Franklin 1884, or Secre-
tary Janet Klien, Randolph 1928.
=. Favorite foods of "Jacque'
Henderson. Mckinley High School
senior, are avacados and mush-
rooms. Doris Seidel, associate
editor of the Central High School
Bulletin, on the other hand, prefers
corned beef sandwiches and dill
pickles. Her hobbies, incidentally,
include writing and tinkling the
piano. Martin Stohlman has
succeeded Cesar Augusta Caceres as
editor of the st. Johns High School
Sabre. A poll of 18 Woodrow
Wilson High School students, taken
by members of Mrs. Ann Thrasher's
bookkeeping class, indicated that
the average boy spends $273.68 a
year on clothes and the average girl
s57622. Henrietta Brown,
Dunbar High School, hopes to be-
come. a professional ice skater.
Jere Stern, Stuart Junior High
School, offers these "daffynitions" ::
THE Gay Nineties-a gig and gal:
the Roaring Twenties-a flower and
f1apper; the Dizzy Forties-a plane