Our <4og, «'Tommy" as wc calleci him, wasrun over last summer by some- one riding on Lake-avenue. We were vry sad, as we, bad been gréat'f riends with hirn it seemed so lonesome with- out'himn that I tried to convince, my. .mother to get us a:new dog. *Fially, one day w ee u idin and -we Vent pasta dog kennel. My niother said we couid stop there to look for a ,dog. After we had stopped, my mother and 1 looked at the'Boston bull terriers. There were so rnany cute littie puppies, -We didn't know ,which we liked the best. My mother1 said: that it was lime to go home in a iittie while.. ' 1When we got borne we told my father that we had seen some cute dogs. After we lied eaten dinner my niother, MY dad, iny brothers and I went back, to the kennel. After looking at the dogs we decided on one dog and took it home. The first thing sh& <114 was to jump alIi àvérus.' My father suggested naming her1 "Tessie" instead of 'i'ornmyY " Ail night she cried because she was afraid. She can do a few tricks already and we are very pleased with her. *-Betty Haley, Howard 6C.1 a lot et lun il pinîg m u msan bugles. We have, two mnare drummers, one bass. drummer, and. about ight bug- lers. Girls as well as boys, are wanted. We especially want th ose wbo. play the drurn., Pupils wb*o are neot taking les- sons pay a n.ominal fee, for each re- hearsal. Those Wbo are. taking lessons get te be in it f ree. The corps. meets every.Wednesday at 4:30.o'clock. Don'pt foret-i-f you play the druin or bugle, corne to ýthe Howard school auditorium at 4:30 o'clock.-George Schwall, How- ard 8C. Robert's Dog.Cornes Home Limping and Goelsto Bed Can you guess *bat happened toerny dog ? H-e is a littie bull terrier. We never let 'hi'iroui of the yard bt tone dey~ he dug a hole under the fence and got out. We. coulctn't find him. In a grease ail over bis eye. We think he was bit. by a car. He stayed in bis bed for about ten days. He is ail well now and we are glad he is. -Robert Frei, Howard 5B Father Gives Daughter nour, a ntie aIV8ii J* aUIUV Aimf. Lrie thought hc had ail the ingrédients but when Ilooking iri.the pantry, he f ound a cen of bakiing powder, be put in about a teaspoon. and one-haî*f full and theni inixed it, up to f ry. He went to the pantry to get af ryig pan, put somie grease m n it and started f rying "ýpan-. cakes." He took thern out of the f ryintg pan, 'and to bis surprise. they were about. an inch thick. That .night be askced My mother what was the matter with them. She asked hirn wbat be bad put. in1 theitn and when hé told b ler sbe laugbed and told humf sbe. woùld: make the paýncakes, nýext tîm'e. -Grace Centifanto, Howard 8A Illustrate Christmas $u tories 'iniArt Çass Orteacher bas been rcading us soine Christmas stories. Af tér she had inished reading a number of stories sbe put tbe naines on tbe board. We wcre to cboose a story f rom the board to write in our own words. In art we are to ilhistrate thé nmost important and rnQst interesting part of the story. The1 stories and illustrations are very inter- esting.-Harriette Jones, Howard 5A. pupil gave a short talk. on one of thle sciçnces in Uhich hie was interested, Thbé class..as a whole learned mnany things .o f scientific inersti Froin one talk ý. We learned tbat Egyptians thou.- sanids of year'ago, knew. as niuch, and more, about tbeè sun and moon and stars. Although the priées. of. Egypt por- trayed the sun as a god, archeologiss are'now discovering that tbey were as advanced in their' studies of nature and science as'we are.' 1 Tbe' direction of the great pyramid ini regard to the polar star is so exact our modern scientists' with ail: tbeir. tools couüld flot do better. Many amaz- ing facts were 'given, and some inter- esting experimients were made. -Imogenie Iaufrnan, Sto)lp lC. Emperor's New Clothes Are Very Hard to Find We are now dramatizing in Miss Flaskered's room about the ernperor's n ew clothes. He is always changing bis clothes and putting on new ones. Two weavers corne and tell hlm that if bie gives them. some gold they will make hirn the finest suit ever made. It is to be so thin tbat you can't even feel it after it's done. He marches down tbe street -without any clothes on, except rt fhifl to sit tp and ucg, M ries you say, "Speak" and he piý gfeow." He always tries to nq with us. But just the saine ru n.-Eleanor Hoesli, Central 1 Eighth Graders 4y .daddy then went in and got his the train got- to it, it f ell over. - The ji.J1cus5VU U>' iauaenI1. ano accordion.- He began to show dàrnage of this wreck was a peste We are discussing government prob-' ie how to play it. He showed me so bottie which. was in the way. The bottle lems in social science. In our book are uch. Daddy says I cani play it pretty happened to be mine, so when I cleaned tbree cartoons. The first pertains to ,el now.-Louise Graham,. Howard 6A . up the wreckage everything was ail the building of warships instead of right.-Howard Trienens, Howard 4th schools; the second is wbat sorne peo- STUDY ABOUT SERFS grade. pie think is brought about by high tai- This year in social science we are iff, and the third is about child labor udying about tbe lords, serfs, and PRAISES RADIO PROGRAM problerns. These questions are only a nded gentry in the tume 1100. Itis. At 6:15 o'clock over the radio, on f ew that the governinent attends to, iferent f rom our work in sixth grade station WGN, there is a very good and they are very interesting to discuss. i rnany ways but the real difference w rmta osad&swh ie -Edna Baughman, Howard 8A. -Dick Curry, Howard 8C. Jo hnson, Howard school. e -Peggy Petersen, Howard SA. t , Howard tober ý14.- I