Evening star., 1948-03-14
Just Between
Ourselves
BY Philip H. Love.


The Ringing Bros. and Barnum d
Bailey Combined Shows--or, In few
er words. the circus-will pay its
annual visit to Washington May 10,
10 and 20-three days only.
Down on Langdrum lane ut sis
pm. on Saturday there was a big
rush all on account Of q cat up q
tree. The firemen thought q house
was on fire. Two police cars came
to keep the crowd back but q cat
was all that it was. Also q hook
and ladder truck came to get the
cat down."
That interesting item Is from the
Langdrum Lane Tribune, q three
page newspaper published every
week by three young residents of
Chevy Chase, Md. John Mcleod Is
in charge of news, Jack Hanson Is
the sports staff and Randy Mcleod
has the ofIicial title of helper"
The Tribune consists of three
sheets Of typewriter paper, each
printed" on one side. Hand letter
ing Is used, and additional copies
are produced by a duplicating de-
vice.
Page l Of the issue that came
to my attention contained the item
quoted above, three paragraphs OF
neighborhood social news and the
first installment Of a continued story
on hamsters.
Most of page was devoted to a
roundup Of sports news and page 3
consisted of an installment of con-
tinued comic entitled Billy Junket."
Here are two sample sports items:
Last week when I said, don't be
surprised If you get broken
window, meant to say that the
Langdrum Lane Lions would not
do the damage.
"Walcott says that he will mock
Joe Luise out as soon as he can in
thier next bout in June. - I"
The most interesting item Of all,
however, was the one carried under
the headline, "Hamsters Have Be-
come Popular Pets on Langdrum
Lane" Here's the full text:
THE Jack Hanson and Jon and
Randy Mcleod households received
two pairs Of hamsters this week.
"All the hamsters in the United
States are descended from one
female and her litter of twelve
TO Be Continued"
u y -
Shirley Johnson's poem, MY
Duck Sniffy," printed elsewhere on
this page, was accompanied by a
note saying:
I'VE would like very much to have
q baby duck In our schoolroom.
They cost 75c. That Is a lot of
money, we know, and we do not
have 1t; so we thought If one of us
wrote a story or poem for The
Junior Star, maybe we would win
81 prize to buy the duck and his
iced. We hope so. We have plan
ned to call the duck Junior, for The
Junior Star.
we will learn many things
about animals from the duck. A
girl in our room had one last year.
but he died"
I'VE have always wanted a dog.
and daddy said If we got a home
with a back yard, we could have
one" writes Mildred Shipe, II, of
723 Second street N. E. "A few
weeks later, when we got a house,
a cute little brown dog came walk
ing In without being asked. A few
days later, she presented us with
f1ve pups. We got homes for four
and want to keep the other. But
our trouble now Is what to do with
Mother Brownie. So, If you know
OF any one wanting a darling dog,
send him here"
An item in this space Sunday be-
fore last reported that Dorothy
1nglee, Anacostia High School, will
be represented in the National High
School Poetry Anthology by a poem
entitled The First Snow" which
was published In The Junior Star
under the title Till Spring" The
first part Of that statement is cor
rect, but the second is an error.
Dots poem in the j. s. was submit
ted under the title THE Powers OF
Snow" and I confused 1t with her
national anthology poem The
latter, 'The First Snow" belongs
exclusively to the anthology. In
the same issue of the j. S. typo
graphical error changed the name
of Laura Peck, also of Anacostia,
to Beck. The J. S. is, OF course,