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DEP‘T FOR BOYS AND GIRLS What Will You Make? Now that iceâ€"skating and hockey have run their course how are you goâ€" ing to spend your leisure hours? Why not test your creative ability and try to make something? Perhaps you have always intended to make a model sailboat, a pair of bookâ€"ends, or a footstool, but have not known just how to begin. There are any number of books on this subject which are at your service, just longing to tell you everything you will want to know. There is a particularly atâ€" tractive little book entitled, "The box book" by Showalter which tells how to make things out‘ of pasteboard boxes only, and uses most simple maâ€" terials which are to be found in any home. Every body will want to make the Buster Box and the Jumping Jack described in this book. Thursday, Feb "Clipper ships done in cork models" by Adams is another book that will keep you busy for some time. Here, too, you will need only very simple materials such as common corks, pins, thread, matches, paper and crayons. Each model is the exact reâ€" production of a clipper ship that acâ€" tually sailed the seas in the early hisâ€" tory of our country, and this‘ book relates the history of each one reâ€" produced. Here are a few more books which tellâ€"how to make many interâ€" esting things: Toys every child can make, Wright. Handicraft for handy girls, Hall. Boy‘s busy book, Fraser. Big book of boys‘ hobbies, Hall. Boatâ€"building and boating, Beard. Boy Mechanic. * + Story Hour The story hour for boys and girls is still being held every Saturday morning at halfâ€"past 10. Everyone is welcome to attend and bring a friend. New Poems for Old Poetry is in the air, and think not you can deny it. Take home Nathâ€" alia Crane‘s "The Janitor‘s Boy" and see what she says of John Paul Jones. Here is her opening stanza: " "Tis John Paul Jones the janitor‘s boy, He lives on the gunâ€"deck floor, Where all of the windows are action ports, And the dumbwaiters rattle and romr." And what do you think of this: ‘"Do you think it‘s any wonder, with the moonlight so divine, That my heart is all aâ€"flutter, like the washing on the line?" Now, too, you will like Vachel Lindâ€" say‘s "Johnny Appleseed and other poems." In swift, vigorous style we read of Johnny Appleseed‘s: march across the Appalachians. "Leaving behind august Virginia, Proud . Massachusetts, and proud Maine. Planting the. trees that would ‘march and "Modern Lyric Poetry" and "A Junâ€" ior anthology of world poetry" are both full of poems that older boys and girls will want to read. The "Inâ€"Betweens" It is quite simple to find books for the very young child or for older girls and boys, but the difficult matter is finding something suitable for the litâ€" tle inâ€"betweens. They too want Inâ€" dian stories, fairy tales and realistic stories which they can read and enâ€" joy and call their own, but unfortunâ€" ately, books for them are not as abundant as those for their older brothers and sisters. The following train On, in his name to the great Pacific, Like Burnam wood to Dunsinane, Johnny Appleseed swept. on." a Public Library 26 1931 list is a collection of books which have proven quite satisfactory with this age group. "Wanda and Greta at Broby Farm" â€"Palm; Two little sisters find plenty of work and fun on a Swedish farm. The illustrations are most attractive and. vividly colored. Anton and Triniâ€"Olcott. _ Anton lives in a chalet in the Swiss Alps and when his cousin Trini arrives from the big city for a visit, things begin to happen. Galley Jack crosses the lineâ€"Maxâ€" well. Of a cat who meets with pirâ€" ates at sea in addition to having many experiences serving on a Chinese Junk, a whaling vessel and an Engâ€" lish tea ship. from the big city for a visit, things| Indian twinsâ€"Perkins. These adâ€"| but he lo“lfl! to . begin to happen. ventures of Pigcon and Beaver Boy Several pairs 0 Galley Jack crosses the lineâ€"Maxâ€"| will interest readers just as much as| tens are now rej well. Of a cat who meets with pirâ€"| the other twin books. and Found depar ates at sea in addition to having many| Robin and Titoâ€"Robinson. Robin| dren‘s room, whe experiences serving on a Chinese|is an American girl visiting in Sicily,| for some time. T Junk, a whaling vessel and an Engâ€"| who has for her playmates the little| they have been un lish tea ship. Italian child, Bianca,. and Tito the} weeks for they ar Nutcracker of Nuremburg.â€"LumAs,\ Donkey. dition. _ Will the pere. . This tale, based on a German| Silver Bearâ€"Brown. 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MITLK h needs plenty of milk J P E R i O summer in the life of Lucy and Dora, with Arcturus the silver bear playing an unexpected part. f Nanette of the wooden shoes ~ Brann. About a little girl of Britâ€" tany with the noisiest pair of Sabots in town, and her cousinâ€"Jeanâ€"Pierve who ran away to be a sailor. Little Blue Man â€" Fanciulli. He was made of cardboard and had a beautiful blue cap to match his coat, but he longed to see the world. Several pairs of good strong mitâ€" tens are now reposing in the Lost and Found department of the Chilâ€" dren‘s room, where they ‘have been for some time. It seems a pity that they have been unclaimed these many weeks for they are all in perfect conâ€" dition. Will the owners please idenâ€" 13