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Latest School News JUNIOR LIFE Recreation Told by the Pupils Board Published weekly by the school children of Wilmette under supervision of Wilmette Playground and VOL. 2 NO. 39 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 13~ 1929 Eighth Graders at Boys at Howard ' Pupils Mobilize to Lend Aid to Little Howard to Present School Organize Feathered Friends as Winter Advances Plays for P. T. A. Manual Arts Club The eighth grades of Howard are busy working on plays. The pupils are writing the~e for the program the eighth grades gi\·e the Parent-Teacher a:;;sociati.on on Pebruary 4. The three best plays p1ck~d from the two rooms are going to be g1ven. At first we were going to g·ive the play <'ailed "Ten Minutes by the Clock" but Mrs. Stalling and Mr. Todd thought it would b.e mo1·e inter('sting if th e playfi were wntten by the pupils. Rome of the PU_Pil~ w rt> not Yery t>nthuslastic about th1~ but we h:we to tolerate it. Rome of the studet!t::; tr.it:>d to era wl out Of it but Mrs. ~talhng n1pped that in the bud. The story IS a~ followfi: . Wednesday, December 4, was Composttlon. Mrs. Stalling said we could write ?Ur plays and the ones who weren't wrltmg plays-but l'lhe didn't finish her Instructions just then as there was a mad scramble for the story books on the table hut MrR. Stnlling finished her instruction thE'n by saying those who weren't writing playR could write sentences on every rule of punctuation on pages four and five of the Students' Guide. All of a sudden, ~orne of the boy.s who were trying to ~ · raw! out of writing plays suddenly had 1deas for ~ play but 1\frs. Stalling made them write the sentences anyway. The JllayR ha."e to be in on December 18. There Will be many lights burning late at night. -Margrette Reynolds, 8B Howard. Erect Shelters and Feec:ling Places for Birds While Studying Species That Remain in A rea During Cold Weather The 6B and 6A classes of Howard have been studying the birds ' · which are around us in the winter time. We are all trying to put out some Rhelter or a feed counter at which the birds can get something to eat. We are all very much enthused over thi~. Suet is one of the foods that most birds like and need. Peanut butter is also very welcome to our little feathered friends. To give an idea as to what some of us are doing I will tell you what I am doing. I am building a feed tray, with the help of my father, and we are going to fasten it to the window sill and put food in it. I am going to tie suet on the trees in our yard and put a dish of peanut butter on the top of one of the post.s in our yard. One of the reasons why we should help bird::; in the wint<'r is that the snow often covers the ground and they can't find food. Another is becau~e the birds are so much comfort in the winter time. When we builrl l'heltf'r::; for the birds w e must be sure and put them out of reach of the cats. Mrs. Jones, our reading teacher, told us about .some of the birds. One of the birds was the hairy woodpecker. If he went to the tree where hf' was accustomed to fin~ing his suet and it wasn't there h~ W~ \\;ere seated In our seats in Mrs. Rtalhng s room during the usual grind when one of th(' . bo~rs grew inquisitive, for on 1\Trs. Stalltng s desk was a nice candy box. Ht:> picked up th<' box-mind you, the tf'a('hf'r wa.::; out of thf' room. . "Well," ~aid h<'. "Someone surely was mce to g[ye Mrs. Stalling thi.s box." Slam! went the door and down we Wf'nt into our seats. Mrs. Stalling walked in. "I do hopp nobody has bePn snooping into my cookies." Very meekly, "No." She opened the box nnd behold it was n delicious box of cookies. or' course ~here wa~ a hig howl. "Oh, Mrs. Stallmg. you know me." "We will be real good if you'll give us a taste." Mrs. Jones and Mrs. GrovE's must have scented cookies In the air for they made a timely call. Mrs. Groves looked long4 fngly at the cookies as she picked one out. She safd, "This fs ju.st what I need to sweeten my temper." The three teachers munched cookies while we unfortunates looked on. As the teachers left the room we yelled. Mac Hutchins was yelling and MrR. Jones popped a bit of cooky into his mouth ;;That i~n't fair," yelled the rE'st of· us. Well, teachers aren't supposf'd to be privileged characters but they should be by law," Mrs. Jones said. We settled Into our seats murmuring disgustedly, "Teachers needn't be ::;o Scotch." -Mary Louise Moreau, 8A Howard. Candy Box of Cookies at Least Interesting would make an awful fuss. But his cousin, the downy woodpecker, is an altogether different bird. If he doesn't find the suet where he expects to find it, be will fly over to the peanut butter dish. If there is nothing there, then he will begin to make a fuss. Another interesting and friendly little bird is the chickadee. If you are walking along in the woods, he will sometimes perch on your head or should ·:' rs. He is always willing to eome to you, just to be friendly. The tufted titmouse is very different. If you have some p~anuts in your hand he will come and get them. But he comes just for the nuts, and not to be friendly. But whether the little birds are fr~endly or unfriendly or just wnat you m1ght say, bashful, I like them and I wish they woul-d like me. When you con::;ider how much the birds do for us we really nre not paying them hack enough. The birds eat the insects which Rre harmful to our orchards and crops of grain and others. In the course of a day one chickadee can eat 5,000 cankerworm eggs and if there are manv ehickndE'es around the fields the cankerworms will soon be nearly conquered. So you see, our little feathered friends art' helping u:> in their own way. 1\Irs. Jones asked us to be able to tell about the different kinds of birds we have seen this last week. I have only ::;een ~bout five or six different kinds. But sometn:te next week I am going to go on a mce long tramp and see how many different kindR of birds I can find · -Eilene Weakly, 6A Ho~ard. As most of the boys in Howard school know, a club having to do with metal work, wood work, leather work, electricity, and aeroplane modeling has been organized. This club is supervised by Mr. Ball, the manual training teacher. Of course a club of this kind is quickly suppli~d with as many members as desired and the organization is well under way hY the first meeting. It was voted that the club be named the handicraft club. It was also voted that we hold our meetings on Wednesday afternoons from 3:30 to 5 o'clock. The officers in our · club are as follows : Mark Simonds, president ; George Maxwell, vice-president; Philip. Hoelz, reporter ; AI Brown, metal work foreman ; Bob Willis, wood work foreman : Frank May, leather work foreman; Reginald Green, electrical foreman, and Harrison Storms, aeroplane modeling foreman. In this club the members may manipulate any machine in the shop and make any project we want to. It helps us do b('tter work in manual training and quite n few other arts. To get in this club the boys had to write themes Rtating whY they wanted to be In this club and what t hev would make. Mr. Ball chose from these themes the boys admitted to membership.-Philip Hoelz, SA Howard. Howard and Stol!l Eighth Grades Clash in Speedball Our last speedball game was played with 8C Stolp and waR it a game! It felt ahout ten below zero but I didn't think it >vas half that bad. Neither team had a full team. We had eight and 8C had seven. The game came out in our favor a::; we wished it would. At the end of the half the Rcore was in our favor, 3 to 0, and nt the end of · the game the score was 8 to 0. They won the kick-off so we chose the way we wanted to go. We decided to go north and go south at the half. Henry Hoffmeyer made the first goal. The second half started with us going south. We went down the field like nobody's buRlness and, of course, made a goal. This goal was made by Frank May. ·we played for a long time, it seemed, hut we had three minutes to go. George :\Taxwell threw a toss tn Bob Hermanson who made a touchdn" .· which ::;cored two pointg. Both teams gave a cheer and ::;tarted for home. -Frederick Aschbacker, SA Howard. Local Girl Scouts Give Program at Arden Shore On Saturday, November, 30, the Girl Scouts went to Arden Shore. We went in automobileR and arrived there at ~ o'clock. We first gave two plays for them, "The Takeoff Murder" a.nd "The Pirate's Revenge." We then sang some of our scout songs and they sang some songs for us. We had ice cream and cake. After we had finished, the ones who wanted to go down to the lake went down. It was all lee down there and I nearly slid into the water. We came back and went home. This finished a fine afternoon for the Girl Scouts. · -Phyllis Carleton, 8C Stolp. Else a Heavy Winner in . Life Football Contests I had won two tickets to the Northwestern games, one to the Indiana game and one · to the Illinois tilt. I had enjoyed those two games so I thought I would try to win a ticket to the last game In the Northwestern football season, which was Notre Dame. To win a ticket you had to guess the total score of the 16 games played the following ' Saturday, I went early Friday morning and bought my Wilmette Life and put my total score 200. If you won a ticket you usually received it the following Wednesday in a green envelope. I waited till Wednesday but not ticket came so I thought I didn't win a ticket this time. But on Friday, the day before the game, on our dining room table was a green envelope addressed to me so I knew that I had won a ticket to the Notre Dame game. -Else von Reinsperg, 8C Stolp. , Last. Thur~day ~e had volleyball practice w1th M1ss Sk1dmore. She is teaching the girls how to play. I think there can be only nine on a team. The one who iR up firRt getR two trials to trv to "sock" thf' hall over the net. The one who is in the center mav help her or one who is nenr the net. ;rhen when her two ~rials are up, ~he next person is up and 1t keeps on gomg ·until the one who waR up first is up. You muRt not try to catch it or pick it up. You have to keep it going back and forth over the net. I think it is going to be fun playing volleyball. Our captRin is Ellene w·e~k ly. Miss Skidmore said that we could not play a game until we had all our girls nnd know how to play. Miss Skidmore said Rhe didn't want any star players but good players. It will he too bad for 6A if they don't work hard and play some games pretty ~oon. -Eleanor Sperede~. 6A Howard. Howard Six-A Girls . Hold Practice in Volleyball Howard Third Graders Present Indian Drama We had an Indian play. It was about Davey Drummond. Davy was a white boy, Davey went on a hunt with his father. He got lost. He slept in a tree all night. Soon some Indian boys came. Their names were Wild Hare and Brave Badger. They threw stones at · Davey. Then Davey woke up. He went with the Indian boys to the lodge. He saw the chief, Wise Owl. Brave Badger was twelve years old. All Indian boys who are twelve years old should go into the forest. They named Davey, White Chief. One night White Chief crept out of the lodge. When it was morning Wise Owl went to hunt White Chief. White Chief was aiming at a turkey. Wise Owl shot White Chief. An Indian maiden, Yellow Butterfly, saw White Chief and ran for help. It was Davey's mother that she ran to. White Chief saved his familY from the Indians. We invited our parents, the third grade of Logan, and the first and second grades of Howard. We made our own costumes. · -Eugenia May Church, Howard. TO SING CAROLS A group of girls are going caroling on MondaY. December 23. The girls are Kathlyn Ho}Jvay, .loan Guthridge, Helt>n Calvert. Phyllis Carlflton, Ruth AnderRon. Ruth Solomon, Eleanor Ricks and R·Jth Bristol. We plan to have several practices. We hoJ)e we will get around to many homeR.-Ruth Bristol, 8C Stolp. REJ,p THE NEEDY ln our assembly Friday morning, Mr. Harper talked to us about the Tuberculosis association and other societies of charity. He told us how we could help by buying Christmas seals. I am sure that everybody enjoyed hfs talked. -Ruth Bristol, 8C Stolp. Do Your Best to Boost Christmas Seals Sales If you want to help somebody you can buy Rome Christmas seals. The Christmas Real::; are on sale at the schools. A lady came around to our room and Raid they would not be allowed to sell Christmas seals from house to house as it has been a great bother to the people. This rule was made by Mr. Harper and it is a very good rule, I think. The rea~on they are on sale is to h('lp the people who have tuberculosis. Let us try to do our sharE>. -Ruth Sutherland, 6B Howard. GIVE PROGRAM FOR P. T. A. On Tuesday afternoon almost all the grammar school grades gave Interesting short programs for the Parent-Teacher association. The kindergarten ga\·e a Uttle elfin play, the second grade gave an Indian play, MlsP Witcher's room gave an interesting play and the sixth gradP 6B, and 6A had three girls out of each room sing some songs. The Glee club sang a few songs and altogether the program wu very Interesting. -Lots Jane Roberts, 6B Howard. Friday morning the 8C Stolp class tri~d its skill at glass blowing in Mis;s Stevens' class. Miss Stevens is their science teacher. The bubbles turnE'd out to he every shape and size. One bubble resembled· a lima bean and another looked like an egg. They were blown like this. First cut the glass to the desired length then clo.se up the end of it by holding it as vertically in the flame as you can. Then hold the lower part of the rod In the tire turning it so that it will heat on all' side~. until the glass begins to bend. Fill your lungs full of air and then take the glass from the fire and blow. If you're lucky you can blow a bubble in it. Miss Stevens sells the glass for two cents a rod and the larger ones at four cents. THE YULE'I'IDE SPIRIT -Eleanor Ricks, 8C Stolp. Right now is a very exciting time of the year. Everybody is bustling about HIS FAVORITE SPfJR'r trying to g~t their Christmas lists over favorite winter sport is icP sl<n tin"' with. Everybody is planning whom they I My have many reasons for it. It iR l'nlCl should have at their house for Christmas but the same if you dress up wn ··m vacation. Mothers and dads a~ makinr' you just .£.all enjoy it. I like ice skatin~ h"out their Christmas cards. And some children are planning how to help the cause It is so mucb !!m. When T first on the ice I knew I would like it ooor children who won't have a very nicP got could skate Quite well for the tlrRt time. Christmas if the children won't help them. I I think. Skimming over the ice if you; -Allan Stahl, 6A Howard. ankles are weak is nretty tiresome. b11t just the samt> it is lots of fun, I think A SKATING WE'~L GO -Billy Shearer, Grade 6A. The skating pond up at Howard will soon be flooded and I am glad. They A TITLE IN SIGHT have the lights up now and they would The girls of 7A Howard kickball team have flooded it last night if it hadn't been have won the championship so far but so warm and :w_indy. And when they we still have Stolp to play, It we beat do flood it I'm going skating. And how! them we get the championship pennant. -Billy Wade, 6A Howard. -Barbara Behr, 7A Howard. Stolp,Eighth Graders Try · Skill at Glass Blo'wing