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STORIES AND FEATURES VERSE
A Friendly Telk, Garry Clevel11nd Myers, Ph.D.... . . . . . • . . . . . . 3 A l'reyer for Today, George Ryder ........... . ....... . . . . .. . 10
Scorebooby, Edith Jennings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 My Conscience, Catherine Urban . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • ... . .. .. . .. • • 10
Highlights Among Books, reviewed by Mey Hill Arbuthnot . . . . 6
The HallowHn Porty, Solveig Poulson Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Weter From the Rock, Jemes Burleigh ....................... 9
Goofus end Gallent, Gerry Cleveland Myers................ 11 THINGS TO DO
Our Own Pictures, Stories, Verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 · Uniforms end Costumes .. ~.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Carol Dresses for a Party, Edith Vestel. ..................... 14 Metching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Timbertoes, John Gee ................................. 16 Word Fun . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. • 15
Semmy Spivens, Dorothy Waldo Phillips..................... 17 Following Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The Beer Family, Gury Cleveland Myers.................... 19 It's Fun To Cook, E. Elizebeth Hester, Ph.D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Children's Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 For Wee Folks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Lonely Goblin, Barbee Oliver Carleton ... . .............. 21 Brain Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 35
Christopher Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Creations for Halloween. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • • • • . 36
How They Use Their Mouths, Blanche Lamb.................. 23 Test Your Wits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • . • • • 31
Little Lost Beby, Suzanne Serbin and Jeanette Chernoff . . . . . . . 24 Hidden Pictures, John Gee.................. . . . .. . ....... . 39
Mystery of Spook Hill, Barbee Oliver Cerleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Helloween Party Ideas, John O. Cole...... . . . ..... . ..... ... 43
How My Teacher Has Helped Me, Poul Witty, Ph.D........... 31 Breakfast Puzzle, Elsie L. Waters .............. . ... . .... . . . 44
Copper, Herbert B. Nichols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Sewdust end Nails, Lewry Turpin........... . . ... . . .. . . . .. . . . 45
Mr. Lembert •nd the Cow, Phyllis Fontaine .......... . ....... 38 Masks for Oecotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . • • • • • • 46
The Negro Spirituel, Irene Bennett Need hem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Ghost Welk, Marion Bonsteel Lyke......... . . .. . .. ...... . ... 47
A Singing Story, Merien end Stanley Fletcher. . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 42 Headwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • . • . . • . • • . • . . . • • • 41

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 AFriendly Talk
by the Editor
UPPOSE you had a piece of candy in your hand
S about to eat it and· another child grabbed it from
your hand and ate it himself. How would you feel
then? Suppose you snatched from this other child
a piece of his candy just as he was about to put it
into his mouth. How would he feel?
Suppose another child sneaked around and took
your candy or a toy or something else of yours when
you were not looking. Then if you found out what
he had done, how would you feel? How would you
feel if he had destroyed on purpose something of
yours just for fun?
When another person takes or tries to take some-
thing of yours while you are right there you may be
strong and smart enough to drive him away or make
him return it to you, or make him sorry for what
he did. Or you might have the help of a stronger
person, even a policeman, to protect you and your
possessions.
But most of the time when another person tries
to harm or take what is yours, without your permis-
sion, he tries to do it when you can't see him or even
know that it was he who did it. He might take your
candy or money or a plaything when neither you
nor anybody else was looking. If you find out later
that he took one thing in this way you might suppose
"I like to talk things over with my dad when he
and I do the dishes."
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he would take something else. You would not feel
quite right toward that person.
Now just imagine f Qr a minute you were in that
person's place. Then you would hardly feel very
happy, either. You would worry for fear some per-
sons might suppose you had destroyed or taken some-
thing when you had not. It might require you sev-
eral weeks, months, or even longer, to cause all per-
sons you ever saw or knew to believe you could be
trusted. But you could succeed by and by. Then
what a happy feeling it would be to have everybody
believe so surely in you again.
Suppose you owned a drugstore, hardware store,
or dime store, and a boy or girl came into that store
and took something he did not buy when he supposed
no one was looking. If you caught that child steal-
ing you might wish he never came into your store
again. In case that child did come in again you
would watch him pretty carefully. How would this
child feel when he saw how he was being watched?
As you go on imagining you are the storeman you
might think you should watch boys and girls who
handle things in the store without buying them. Lots
of children like to handle such things without ever
thinking of taking them. But because some children
do take things from stores in this way, the storeman
supposes he should watch anybody he does not know
well when that person is handling things. So you
and I see that it is never wise for us to handle any-
thing in a store which we don't mean to buy nor
have bought. For the same reason we won't go into
a store with any other person who handles things
there in this way.
Isn't it a nice comfortable feeling when you and
I know that nobody ever felt he should watch us
for fear we might take something? Isn't it a happy
feeling when we always know that everybody trusts
us anywhere all the time? ·
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UMPKIN Meadows had
P acres and acres of pumpkins.
That is how it got its name.
Every fall the farmers in
Pumpkin Meadows found their
cattle mysteriously set astray. The
pasture fences would be broken in
places and whole stakes missing.
In autumn, when pumpkins were
ripe, not only were fences broken,
but the pumpkins themselves were
scattered and broken as if a herd
of cattle had trampled them.
It became so alarming that the
farmers in Pumpkin Meadows
had a meeting and decided that all
this strange disappearance of
fence posts and mangling of
pumpkins had to stop. They
planned a night watch when the
October moon was large and high
in the sky.
And so, one clear October night
before the pumpkins had been har-
vested, and when all the fences
were found to be in perfect shape,
they started their vigil.
Now, in one field Farmer Scar-
borough was on watch. He was a
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good old soul, but his neighbors
often poked fun at him because of
his comical ways. He had turned-
up toes, turned-up nose, and al-
ways wore a tilted cap, rain or
shine, hot or cold. One very
peculiar manner of his was to be
easily startled at sharp noises. He
would jump till his cap would al•
most pop off his head when a cow
or horse suddenly stomped a hoof.
Behind his back his fellow farm-
ers, instead of calling him Scar-
borough, would say, "There's old
Scarebooby."
The night that Scarebooby was
at watch, the moon was large and
yellow, for all the world like
huge round pumpkin. Scarebooby
sat under an old oak tree, smoking
one of his pipes-he always car-
ried two. Every once in a while an
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acorn would plop right at his feet
and he would jump as if shot. It
was chilly and he wish~d some-
thing would happen, even some-
thing scary, because he was get-
ting sleepy. He was in the middle
of a big yawn, when suddenly he
couldn't seem to shut his mouth
because he was so scared. For
there in mid-field came striding
three giants taller than the oak
tree under which he sat! At every
stride the earth shook1 and at
every quake Scarebooby jumped
with fright. He got behind the
tree trunk and peeked around to
see what the giants would do. He
was so scared his little cap b~bbed
up and down like an oak leaf
dancing in the cool night breeze.
Each giant went to a different
corner of the field and began
yanking up fence posts as if they
were matchsticks, and af ter they
had their hands full, the cows
which were in the pasture galloped
off bellowing with fright and dis- .
appeared over the brow of the hill.
Then the giants laid the fence
posts down at one end of a closely
cropped part of the· pasture where
the cows had ·been grazing, and
started toward the oak tree !
Scarebooby in his fright jumped
for a good purpose this
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leaped so high that hf )Vas able to
a grab the lowest limb. of the oak
tree, and he hoisted himself up.
But the gi~nts h~q not seen him.
They had been trying to find pump-
kins that suited them best, and
they gathered them and put them
into their pockets like so many
marbles. Thett they set up the
fence posts, ten of them, at one
end of the smooth ground and
went back to the tree. And what
do you think they did? One at a

time they stood at the foot of the
tree and, using it as a toe mark,
they took pumpkins out of their
pockets and started BOWLING! The
pumpkins, glistening in the bright
moonlight, would rocket down the
smooth pasture at the giants'
strong thrusts, and the fence posts
would go down with a loud clatter
like tenpins. Scarebooby was so
surprised at all this, and shook so
at each crash of tenpins, that he
finally fell out of the tree!
One giant boomed, "Oho, do
you see what I see? Is it an insect
or a man? What a pipsqueak!"
And at that he reached out and
grabbed Scarebooby and lifted
him just as you would have lifted
a dolJ. Scarebooby wriggled his
turned-up toes, twitched his tilted
nose, and reached for his cap
which was almost knocked off his
head by the giant's big fist. But
the giant only laughed and said,
"You can be our pin boy."
Then the giant set him down,
quivering from cap to toe, and
By EDITH JEN N INGS
Illustrated by Sidney Quinn
tied him to a stout bush so that he
could not escape, and ordered him
to set up the fence-post tenpins.
Scarebooby was afraid not to do
as he was told, so he set up all ten
of them in a neat triangle. It took
him a long time, as the fence posts
were very heavy for him.
The giants went back under the
tree and rolled pumpkins at the
posts. As time went cm, however,
the giants grew tired and sat un-
der the tree to rest.
Then Scarebooby had an idea !
He took out his penknife and dug
the inside out of a couple of the
biggest pumpkins. From each
pumpkin he cut out two eyes, a
grinning mouth with sharp teeth,
and a small triangle for a nose.
Now how was he to light them?
Looking about him, he noticed
some cattails within reach. That
was it! Candles!
He cut two small dry cattail
stumps, and then he took out his
two trusty pipes. He placed a cat-
tail into the bowl of each pipe.
And then he set the pipes inside
the pumpkin heads and secured
them by pushing the pipestems
well into the soft sides of the
pumpkins. After using several
matches to get the cattail candles
well lighted, they glowed with a
yellow blaze. Quickly and care-
Highlights Among Books
Secret of the Andes
By Ann Nolan Clark. Illustrated by Jean
Charlot. Viking Press, New York, $2.50.
(8-12 years)
Every since Cusi could remem-
ber he had lived high up in the
Andes Mountains with only one
other human being, old Chuto,
who was the guardian of a preci-
ous herd of llamas. Cusi was
happy until the day he caught
sight of a family-father, mother,
and children-far down below in
the valley. Then Cusi knew he
must leave Chuto and find out for
himself about the world of men.
In the great city, Cusi never knew
why his people, the Incas, helped
and protected him everywhere he
went. It seemed to have something
to do with his golden earplugs.
And he never knew why he felt
that he must return to the lone-
liness of his mountaintops. There
old Chuto's devotion to preserving
the royal llamas, and the guarding
of a golden treasure and a hidden
shrine, these all had a secret signi-
ficance which Cusi only half un-
derstood but to which he knew he,
too, must devote himself. His
quest had circled. Cusi returned
to loneliness and a trust.
This is a strange, exciting story
that will leave the reader breath-
less and with a deepened respect
for an ancient Indian people.
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fully he set the lighted pumpkins
on two of the tallest fence stakes,
and waited behind the bush.
Soon a giant shouted, "Well,
let's get back to our bowling.
Where's that pipsqueak pin boy?"
Just as the giant stood up to
look for Scarebooby, he saw the
lighted grinning faces of the
pumpkins. He let out a fearful
roar, and he and his friends
jumped across the meadow in one
mighty leap-and they have never
been seen since.
Reviewed by MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT
Author of "Children and Books"
.The Animal Fair
By Alice and Martin Provensen, Simon and
Schuster, New York, $2.50. (5-8 years)
If MISTER DOG is just a little bite
of a story, TITE ANIMAL FAIR is a
huge one with every kind of pic-
ture, nonsense-verse, story with-
out words, puzzle, and game
imaginable. The colored pictures
are beautiful, so beautiful that
the words don't seem to matter as
much as they should. You will
laugh over "Pretending," "The
Artist," "The Wart Hog," and
"A Guessing Game." You will
want to look at the pictures, "In
the Fall" and "In the Spring,"
again and again. And you will
have fun with the guessing games.
If you like surprises and a little
bit of everything, here it is.
Biquette the White Goat
Written and illustrated by Francoise. Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, $2.00. (3-6
years)
Mimi needed goat's milk, so
Mimi's mother bought a beautiful
little goat by the name of Biquette.
Mimi's mother had a little coat
made for Biquette to travel in.
But when the village children saw
her, they began to yell, "A goat in
a coat!" ..and nearly scared the
wits out of her. So Mimi's mother
Of course Scarebooby became a
hero in Pumpkin Meadows, and he
was called Farmer Scarborough
in a dignified manner, and no one
ever laughed at him or his funny
ways. Several of his friends gave
him some new pipes for presents.
Ever after that, in October, all
the people in Pumpkin Meadows
would make pumpkin faces and
set them up in their windows to
scare off any giants that might
be abroad, eager for a night of
bowling.
had the little goat travel at night
when all the village children were
asleep. Mimi loved Biquette at
sight, and Biquette was happy be-
cause she never again had to wear
her stylish coat that made the
children yell.
Golden Hamsters, Snakes, Frogs,
Toads, Minerals, Rockets and
Jets, Lightning and Thunder,
What's Inside Me? Whafs In-
side Engines? What's Inside Ani-
mals? The Sun.
By Herbert Zim. William Morrow and Com-
pany, New York, $1.75 or $2.00. (7 years
and up)
It is hard to say who will enjoy
these books most, you or your
parents. The information is fas-
cinating. There are simple experi-
ments which you can c a r r y
through for yourself or with a
playmate. The type is large and
easy to read, and the pictures and
diagrams make the text more
clear. Mr. Zim's comparisons help,
too, as - "A ball of coal the size
of the sun would burn up com-
pletely in 3000 years. The sun has
been burning for perhaps 3 bil-
lion years and still has a long way
to go." By the way, THE SUN is an
especially exciting book, although
a father liked WHAT'S INSIDE EN-
GINES? best. Try these yourself,
and others, too.
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l' l' bags t o m a k e m a s k s,
Mother," said George Mason on
the afternoon of, Halloween,
"'cause that's the number of kids
in our block. And all ef them will
be coming here for our block
party."
"Six?" questioned Mrs. Mason.
"Then I'll give you a few extras
to make up just in case somebody
tears one or something. But, let's
see, I thought I counted seven
children the- other day when we
were talking apout it."
"We did count seven, but one of
them was that new boy way down
at the corner,'' answered Mary,
"and he w9n't be comjng. He
doesn't seem to want to be :friendly.
He never come$ outside 9-n{l the
only time we ever see him is when
he's looking out the window."
"Yes, Mother, that's right,"
said George earnestly. "He's
either a scaredy-cat or else he's
mighty bashful. He's been in that
house for over a week and he
hasn't (;!ven come to school yet. I
think he must be a drip."
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like that kind of talk, George,"
she said sternly. "He probably
needs somebody to be friendly
toward him. Put on your jacket
and run down now and ask him to
come."
George pulled his jacket on,
muttering to himself, and ran
down the block toward the corner
house. In a few minutes he was
back, eagerly bending over the
dining-room table where Mary
was drawing faces on the brown
paper bags. George picked up
sci~sors and began to cut out the
eyeholes. 4'Nobody answered the
bell, so I put a note under the door
telling him we were have a block
party for all the kids and would
like him to come," he said.
"I hope he does," Mary an-
answered, "'cause we're going to
have lots of fun, I know. We've
made the black cat and the tails for
that game, and we've got the ap-
ples tied to strings, and all the
other games are ready. When we
get these masks made, that's the
last thing to d9."
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Illustrated by Bernice Baker
That evening a strange group
gathered in the Mason living
room. George was a pirate, Mary
was a ghost, Sally and Jill were
gypsies, and Tim was a ~owboy.
But Terry made everybody laugh
because he was dressed like a
clown and acted like one.
"The kid on the corner didn't
come. I thought maybe he'<;l be too
scared," said George.
Mary looked troubled. "Perhaps
he didn't get your note," she said.
"Gee, I hate to think of any~me
being left out."
"Well, he had his chance,"
George answered. But George
didn't look happy. After the gu~sts
had put on their masks and were
playing the first game, he whisp-
ered to Mary. "I'm g9ing to run
down and see if that kid found the
note," he said, and slipped out into
the night.
It seemed to Mary that George
was gone a long time, but finally
the door opened and he came in.
"Hey, kids," he exclaime<;l, "do
you know wh,~.t? That kid on the
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corner has a broken leg! I've just
been down there and his name is
Paul and he and his folks just got
back from the doctor's office a lit-
tle while ago and that's why he
didn't get the note until it was too
late to answer. And he's a nice kid,
but kind of shy. He's going to get
crutches next week and then he
can come to school."
The children gathered around
George. "How old is he? What
grade is he in?" they wanted to
know.
George started to answer but
suddenly he stopped. "-Say," he
exclaimed, "I've got an idea. Since
Paul can't come to our party why
don't we take the party down to
his house? We could, easily. We
can take the games, and the cutout
decoration, and we've got paper
cups and plates for the refresh-
ments, and I'm sure Mother will
help, and we've just started, so
why not?"
"Oh George," exclaimed Mary,
"maybe his folks won't like it."
Mrs. Mason smiled. "I think
they'll be very glad to have an al-
ready-made-up party for Paul,"
she said. "He's probably feeling
kind of left out of things, espe-
cially on Halloween night in a new
neighborhood. I'll wrap up the ice
cream and Mary can put the
cookies in a box. The rest of you
each take something and let's get
going."
In just a few minutes the troupe
of children and Mrs. Mason stood
on the doorstep of the corner
house. George shifted his load of
paper plates and cups and table
decorations, and rang the bell.
They all marched in.
"We're a Halloween party!
Surprise!" they shouted. Then,
while Paul watched with happy
eyes, Sally and Jill set the cutout
decorations about the r o o m,
George and his mother set the
table, Sally and Paul's mother
took the refreshments to the kit-
chen, and Terry and Tim ar-
ranged the games. Then the party
began.
When it was over they all
agreed that it had been lots of fun.
"It's the best Halloween f've ever
had," said George.
"I know it's the best I've had,"
said Paul. "And I certainly thank
you-everyone. I didn't want to
leave our old home to move here.
And then when I broke my leg it
was even tougher. But now-" he
smiled, "now I'm glad, because
you're all such swell kids!"

Vhich a.r-e in uniforms i' Which in cosh.a.mes?

"Whot is the difference between a costume and. a. un ifor-m i>
'Who uJears each uniform?
Wh!::J do persons u>eo.r uni for-ms? Costumes?
v+lkh is worn for a longer tirne,os 0. rule?
"Which one ,s usu.all~ uJorn for fun?
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 Water From the Rock By JAMES BURLEIGH
Illustrated by Bernice Baker

/\ LL who travel in the desert

f l soon learn that the water sup-
ply there is limited, and that they
must carry water with them for
their needs. When the company is
small, it is not too hard to carry a
sufficient supply. But when the
company is large, then the hope
must lie in finding supplies in the
desert itself.
The story of the wanderings of
the Israelites, who were led through
the wilderness by Moses, contains
many incidents relating to the need
for water. Not only were the
twelve tribes a large company in
themselves, but they had their
flocks and herds with them, and
that ca.lied for a very large supply
of water, indeed.
As the Israelites began their
journey from the Red Sea, their
route led across the desert. Their
first water supply was a brackish
pool whose waters were bitter and
unwholesome, and which they
named Marah, which means "bit- search for water as soon as they water around the camp, but they
ter." But the Lord showed Moses erected their tents, but the region had seen no trace of it at all.
a certain tree which, when thrown was all ravines and gullies, rocks Moses went out of the camp to
into the water, transformed it into and cliffs, and they returned to the place where the pillar of cloud
sweet and wholesome water for the report that there were no signs of was hovering.
people and the cattle. water anywhere nearby. By this "\i\That shall I do to this people?
At their next camping ground, time the little ones were becoming They are ready to throw stones at
they found a very large oasis which thirsty and fretful, and the cattle me," he said in his prayer to the
they named Elim. It had twelve were moaning as they went every- Lord.
bubbling springs-perhaps an where looking for the water their V cry quickly came the answer
underground stream rising there to thirsty bodies needed. Soon the cry from God: "Go on before the peo-
the surface of the sand-and tl~e was repeated as a loud complaint, ple, and take some of the leaders
water was good to taste and use. all round the encampment: "Give with you. Be sure that you take
These water supplies were above us water to drink!" They blamed the rod you used at the River Nile.
ground, and the Israelites did not Moses and Aaron. I will stand on the rock in Horeb,
need to search for water when they "Did you bring us out here into and tell you what to do."
encamped at Marah or Elim. the desert to kill us with thirst?" Moses had the rod in his hand as
But when they moved on and they demanded. "Is the Lord he called the elders. They followed
made camp at Rephidim, there was among us or not?" they shouted. the pillar of cloud as it went over
no visible supply of water. The The headmen of the tribes told the cliffs. Two of the men said to
headmen of the tribes made a Moses that they had tried to find Moses, "We looked for water here
HIGHLIGHTS F.OR CHILDREN 9
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but did not find any." But Moses
did not answer them.
Then Moses heard the voice of
the Lord: "Moses, strike the rock
with your rod, and water shall
come out of it that the people may
drink."
Moses lifted his rod as the elders
of Israel looked on in silent amaze-
ment. For a moment it was high
above his head, and then he struck
the rock. Instantly water came
gushing out of the rock, and began
to run down over the sand !
The people soon came with their
vessels. Water was dipped up from
the stream for the children. They
carried some back for the sick and
the aged. And the cattle came
crowding around the stream to
drink its sweet and cool waters.
Moses, in a song he later com-
MATCHING
Point to the camel at the left of the line. Find the same camel at the right of the line. Do the same for the ·
the rest of the animals.
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posed, called the water from the A PRAYER FOR TODAY
rock "honey and oil" because it By GEORGE RYDER
was so sweet and wholesome. And
Please, dear God,
the poets of later years mentioned
Help me today
this incident in their histories. One
To be kind to others
wrote (Psalm 78), "He clave the
In every way.
rocks in the wilderness, and gave
them drink as out of the great
Help me to smile
depths. He brought streams also
And to be gay
out of the rock, and caused waters
To all my friends
to run down like rivers. Behold, he
Throughout the day.
smote the rock, that the waters
gushed out, and the streams over-
flowed." Another (Psalm 114) MY CONSCIENCE
said God "turned the rock into a
standing water, the flint into a By CATHERINE URBAN
fountain of waters." Thank thee, dear Lord,
And water was supplied for For the tiny voice
their needs, according to tradition, That tells me when I'm wrong;
as long as they traveled toward That speaks within
Canaan. And, when I listen,
This story is based on Exodus 17. Helps me to be more strong.
Octq_ber, 1953
 GOOJUS .anD G41LL41DT By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS
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"My daddy says I must never read books in a store

drugstore without buying them. unless I have bought them."

"The man at the store gave me back ten cents "Sir, I think you gave me too much change- five
too much, but I kept it. It's mine." cents too much. It is yours."

"What did you bring me? Bring me something?" "Did you have a nice trip, Daddy? We missed
you."
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN II
 OUR OWN
PICTURES
STORIES Ve~1a Jean Kowalski, Age 5
Box 144
Filbert, W. Va.

VERSES
EXPLORERS
It's hard to remember explorers
and dates,
GHOSTS ON HALLOWEEN
And where they went to meet their
Ghosts are really very scaring,
fates;
Just to watch one's awful daring.
But I'd rather stay right here and
You'd scream, you'd faint, you'd
right now,
fall to the floor,
Than scanning the seas from the Vickie Jo Recd, Age 3
You'd think that death was a- 2602 Avenue D
Mayflower's bow. Council Bluffs, Iowa
knocking at the door.
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For New England's the place I'd

Once I visited an old haunted
rather be,
house,
Than starving on land or drown-
Everything was still except for a
ing at sea;
mouse.
And stay right here in a quiet
I opened the door- it rattled like
home-
heck,
. Far away, let explorers roam.
When then at my ear I felt a so£t Patrick Fairbairn, Age 10
peck. 27 Marcia Rd.
·watertown, Mass.

I turned around and what did I MAKE-BELIEVE .. UNIVERSE

see- Did you ever feel like I do,
SOME THI NGS IN WHITE WERE Eyes wandering through the sky?
STARING AT ME! Doesn't it look like a fairyland Jimmy Peters, Age 5
213 Schiller St.
Then next thing I knew I was in Oh, so very high? Elmhurst, Ill.
bed. The stars are the fairies,
It all was a dream going around in The moon the fairy queen.
my head. The comet is the villain
Who makes the princess scream.
So now on a dark spooky Hallo- The planets are the emperors
ween night, Of all the pixy lands,
I just simply won't turn off the The Milky Way, the great knight
light. Which on the stone wall stands.
Even though the ghosts are only Then pretty soon the sun will rise
superstition, And put them all to bed;
When the next horror show comes, Then shine upon the universe, Burt W. Leach, Age 6
Grande H otel
I won't pay admission. All merry, happy, and red. Trieste, Italy
Richard Green, Age 10 Harriett Flemming, Age 10
4603 Boulevard Pl. 5423 Columbus Ave.
Des Moines, Iowa Van Nuys, Calif.
.12 October, l'53

Gerry Smith, Age 4
2906 Lebanon Rd.
Nancy Fletcher, Age 5 Wichita Falls, Texas
605 Sunset Dr.
Oceanside, Calif.
Emmett Boyd, Age 7
608 N. Lincoln
Kent, Ohio
Jeanne Kay Filiere, Age 9
Attica, Ohio
UNESCO'S AIM
The purpose of the UNESCO
Is to teach the people, who do
not know
How to eat and drink the proper
food
And always be in a friendly
mood.
The UNESCO sends food clothing
'
And medicine to countries where
' down to think. Then all of a sud-
The burden of sickness is too heavy
For the people to bear.
Each country makes discoveries
In science and education:
The UNESCO wants them to
Be shared with every other
nation.
~ The United Nations tries to see
--~ ~ That we make friends with our
enemy.
And so we hope that eventually
Ralph Dale Laughlin, Age 9
Highway 54 We'll all live together in har-
Camdenton, Mo.
mony.
Peter Steinberger, Age 9
60-90 Putnam Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Please send your drawings in black on white paper about eight by eleven in h
a note from your parent or teacher stating that your drawings stories or / es, '\\'It t your name, address, a_nd age on the ba~k. Also enclose
Honesdale, Pennsylvania. No contributions will be returned. ' ' erses are your very own. Mail to HIGHLIGHTS FOR Ca:ILDREN,
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
FALLING LEAVES
The leaves are falling
For winter is calling,
Tumbling bumbling down
To make a blanket on the
ground.
Sally Von Voltenburg, Age 7
1838 12th Ave., S.E.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
A DOG NAMED FLO
O NCE upon a time there lived
a mama dog named Flo. She
was very sweet and smart. She
lived in a big red-brick house. Flo
had 'two litt1e girls and a little boy
to play with each day. When she
woke up in the morning she would
go around to the back door and a
nice lady would let her in. Up the
stairs she would go to jump on the
children's bed and lick their faces
till they were awake.
One morning she didn't come to
the back door to go and wake the
children. The children ran down
the stairs and out the back door
to look for Flo. They called and
called but no little dog came. They
looked under a big basket in the
back yard ; they looked under a
pile of leaves and they looked be-
hind all the trees. Still they
couldn't find Flo. The nice lady
came out to look also, but she
could not find Flo. They all sat
den they heard a faint noise. They
listened and it sounded like it came
from under the house. They all
ran to see what it was. Guess what
it was? Flo and six fat furry pup-
pies.
The children decided to forgive
Flo for not coming . to awaken
them, because in a few weeks they
would have six little puppies to
help Flo wake them up and play
with them. Flo was happy once
more.
Lynnda Landon, Age '13
608 N. Marshall
Henderson, Texas
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Carol sat up in bed. Now Carol was ready to go.

"Oh, oh," she said,
"I must hurry.
It's time for the party." Then she remembered.
"It's Halloween.
I'll wear my mask."
The first graders were giving a party.
All the little brothers and sisters were Carol knew the way to school.
invited.

Mother had said, She went right into her brother's room.
"Take your nap. Everyone looked up.
Then I'll dress you." Everyone laughed.

Carol jumped out of bed.

Where was Mother?

But Mother was taking a nap, too.

"Oh well, I'll dress myself."

On Carol's bed were some clothes.

She picked up a dress.
She put it on. Carol took off her mask.
"It's Carol!
It was too long. It's Caroll
It had some funny holes in it. Give her the prize.
"But it's all right," she thought. Give h~r the prize."
All the children were calling at the same
She put on the coat. time.
It had some holes in it, too.
It had no buttons. Just then Carol looked at the door.
There was Mother.
Carol found a big safety pin. She was laughing, too.
She pinned the coat together.
"It's all right," she said to herself. Miss Smith said to Carol's mother,
"We are giving a prize for the best Hallo-
There was an umbrella on the bed. ween costume.
Carol thought, The children want to give it to Carol."
"I'll take that, too."
Mother W[.!S still laughing.
Carol opened up the umbrella. "Those clothes!" she said.
There was very little cloth on it. "I laid them on the bed to give to the rag-
"But it's all right," thought Carol. man I"

14 October, 1953
 WORD FUN
WORDS ABOUT WEATHER
Which of the following words refer to weather?

EMPTV stormy foggy hailstorm over

cereal ready headache windy
rainy zero drought goat
far steam frigid sultry
easily finger swing hand
sunny damp fair round
icy raw foolish dear
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PLURAL EYES AND HEAD
CF\OOKED Nora PEELS a PAIR of PEARS
bird birds
box boxes while the big bell PEALS.
pansy pansies These STAKES mark the place
monkey monkeys where we once fried wonderful
man men STEAKS. WHITE
child children You are too PALE to· carry
mouse mice such a heavy PAIL.
1Nt:LAT£D knife knives What wo~LD you do if there
When we change a word were no WOOD?
from s1ngular to plural we Have you HEARD about the 6l
either add s, add es, or change new HERD of cattle Mr. Mc-
the spelling of a part of the Cann has?
word. Most of the time we How long will this silver-
just add s. WARE WEAR?

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Down come the autumn leaves. Fa.ther Timbertoes mode a rake. Tommy raked the leaves into piles.

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October, 1953

HELLO THERE:
"It is very nice of the church
schools to plan a Halloween picnic
for us," . announced President
Sammy at the October meeting of
the Surprise Club. "Let's think
up a good surprise for the pa-
rade."
Suddenly Martha ran in with
shining eyes. "Well, I have had
the most wonderful surprise," she
said. "My big brother David, who
vvas in Formosa, has been given a
thirty-day leave, and is now on a
plane flying home."
Everybody was so happy for
Martha.
"What a wonderful surprisel"
When David returned, he
brought along a Chinese friend
who had flown back with him and
was on his way to the Chinese
legation in Washington. The
children hurried over to Martha's
house to meet him.
"Tell us about China," they
said. You should have seen those
fascinated faces as Li Im Foo
talked with them.
"I like your Halloween with its
ghosts, masks, and witches," he
said. "We Chinese have many
festivals, and we dress up and
wear weird masks, too. We carry
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
By DO~OTHV WALPO l>H ILL I PS
'PIC:.TU IUIS •v THS A"T ..O"-.-
gay lanterns and large colored fish
and sometimes a great green
dragon." Then he told them how
the dragon got to be an important
part of the village processions.
"In my little village in China,
the grownups have told their chil-
dren this story down through the
years," said Li Im Foo.
"Can't wait," said Sammy,
moving closer.
"They tell about an old magi-
cian who lived in the faraway
hills," cont inued the young
Chinese. "He spent his life mut-
tering things and making things.
Sometimes the magic potions that
he mixed would explode and
frighten the villagers all across
the seven hills. He did not share
with others and he was selfish and
vain and arrogant."
"What's arrogant?" asked
Sammy.
David explained. "It's when
you show off or brag or answer
back."
"I get you," said Sammy. "We
call those bad habits 'weeds' and
we try to pull them out."
"I get you," grinned Li Im Foo,
and went on with his story.
"Naturally the muttering ma-
gician had no friends, and the
children no longer visited his
castle because he frightened them
away. So, sad to say, his only
companions were bad things-
weeds you call them ?
"Down in the village the peo-
pie were making lovely paper lan-
terns and weird masks and gay-
colored paper fish to carry
through the streets at the yearly
rice festival. They laughed as
they worked together. The mut-
tering magician muttered more
than ever. And, because he did
not like to see people happy, he
decided to spoil everything.
The muttering mag ician
" 'I, too, shall take an animal
to the procession,' he chuckled
wickedly. 'I'll mix all the bad
things together and out of that
magic potion I'll make a scary
dragon. He shall have bulging
eyes, and real f iJ·e shall come
through his nostrils.'
"Now, it happened that a lonely
little boy named Ching Lee had
climbed the hill and was peeking
through the castle window. Hel-
ter-skelter down the hill he ran,
calling to the villagers, 'He is
making a dreadful dragon and I
fear that he will send it to our
f es ti val.'
" 'That gives me an idea,' said
the wise old toymaker as he
thoughtfully twirled his ·pigtail.
'Let us all build a big painted
canvas dragon for the procession.'
"My, how excited the people
were as they all worked together !
" 'This will be a most important
dragon,' smiled the old toymaker,
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'because he is being made of GOOD
things. First, he is made of GIV-
ING, for all of you are giving your
time and your ideas. Then he is
made of LAUGHTER and FRIEND-
SHIP, because we are all helping
one another. Our dragon is made
of SHARING, because some of you
have made the paint, some have
brought the canvas, some have
gathered the bamboo for the
framework, some are making the
lights for his eyes, and some are
making the smoky stuff for his
nostrils.'
"And so another dragon grew
and grew. And because so many
GOOD things went into the making
of him, he was twice the size of
the bad dragon. Naturally every-
body kept the secret from the
mag1c1an. When the great day
came, it took fifty persons to get
under the canvas body and carry
the wriggling animal through the
streets. He was magnificent. He
was terrific.
"The muttering mag1c1an,
hearing the drums, the music, and
the temple gongs, jumped on the
back of his fiery dragon and came
roaring down the hill.
" 'This will frighten them to
death,' he muttered. But when he
joined the procession, the dragon
didn't scare a single soul. You
see, they already HAD a dragon.
And because theirs was such a
jolly, prancing dragon, the ·people
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Dear Sammy:
My bad weed is not hanging my
clothes up. I wish you would tell
me how to start wanting to, or tell school, but the teacher never sees scotch? How are Yanko and Co-
Yanko to come to Creston. I am
the only child in the family and am so that flower's almost grown. I
10 years old. I am in the fifth
had become quite fond of dragons.
So when the second one came,
they just said, 'Pooh! We have a
bigger and better dragon than
THAT.'
The bad dragon
"And the more the bad dragon
snorted and blew fire through his
nose, the more the people's dragon
laughed and jumped up and down
and blinked his merry blue eyes.
"Then quite suddenly the bad
dragon turned on the magician.
'You said that I would frighten
everyone,' he snorted angrily.
'Why, I've never felt so foolish
in my life.' And with that he blew
a cloud of smoke that sent the
muttering magician spinning into
the air until he landed PLOP in his
cold, clammy castle."
"Gee," exclaimed Sammy ex-
citedly. "What happened to him
and what became of the bad
dragon?"
Dear Sammy:
We also have a dog Lori. My bad
weed is talking to my friends in Aunt
me. Lately I haven't been doing it, lumbus?
am 9. Please tell Aunt Dorothy to
"The magician was never seen
again,'' answered Li Im Foo.
''And they say that the bad
dragon got angrier and angrier
until he turned into stone. The
people placed him outside the tem-
ple to frighten away evil things-
for all inside the temple must be
peaceful and beautiful."
Li Im Foo took a photograph
from his pocket. "Here is a pie·
ture that I took of the temple,'' he
said. "You will see ·the great stone
dragon guarding the doors."
."Well, thank goodness he didn't
live long," said Martha.
Li Im Foo turned to her. "When
something is made from wrong
things, little one," he said, "it can't
last long. But that which is made
of good things will get better and
better, and be very powerful."
The children crowded around
their new Chinese friend. "Thanks
ever so for the story," they cried.
"Let's make an exciting paper
dragon for the church school
Halloween parade,'' said Martha.
And they DID. It was a terrific
success.
Happy Halloween!
Aunt Dorothy. k~
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his wife ran over to
Martha's house to
hear the story.
I hope you have a nice time with
Dorothy. How is Butter-
Thomas Jacob
70 W. Elizabeth Ave.
Bethlehem, Pa.

grade. write more stories about Sniffer- Dear Sammy:

Larry Bakerink scotch and Detective Spivens. I am 7 years old. My worst
307½ S. Elm St. weed is I do not like to have my
Creston, Iowa · Thank you. How old are you,
Dear Sammy: Sammy? mother comb my hair. Be nice to
I have three brothers-David, Katherine Doerr Billy Bates. Your friend,
4105 Linden Hills Ellen Adams
age 6, Henry, 5, and Chuck, 1-½1 Minneapolis, MiruL Rockville, Conn.
18 O ctober, 1953
 WHEN PIDDY BRAGS By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS

Piddy: "My daddy could carry a house." Piddy: "My daddy could lift the world."
Pug: "My daddy could carry a mountain." Pug: "He couldn't." Piddy: "He could."

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Woozy: "Piddy's always bragging about you, Mother: "Don't tell him that, Daddy. I don't like
Pop." to hear people brag."
Father: "Piddy, you ought to brag about your Piddy: "I don't, either."
mother sometimes."
 e
i drclls
Fountain
HILDREN of the United
C States and its territories have
built a fountain, as a symbol of
their hope of peace, in front of
the United Nations Headquarters
in New Yark City. From every
state as well as the District of
Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands, chil-
dren contributed a total of $50,000
for the gift of this fountain to the
United Nations.
When this fountain was dedi-
cated June 26, 1952, Miss Joy
Price, a high school girl from
Seattle where the idea of this gift
originated, unveiled a plaque on
which appeared this:
"Presented to the United Na-
tions by the children of the United
States and its Territories as a ges-
ture of friendship to the children
of the world and a constant re-
minder of our hope for a peaceful
world through the United Nations.
"Dedicated June 26, 1952 by
the United Nations in cooperation
with the American Association for
the United Nations and the Gov-
ernors' Wives Committee."
The dedic<:1,tion ceremony closed
after a moment of silent prayer .
or meditation with the. singif1g of .
20
"The Song of the Fountain" by Why black pebbles? The archi-
the Interracial Chorus. tects had decided that for reasons
of beauty, only an alternating pat-
ANCIENT PEBBLES FROM
tern of black and white pebbles
THE ISLAND OF RHODES
would give the desired effect of
When plans for this fountain
waves to the concrete floor of the
were drawn up, they included a
large decorative fountain.
portion made from black pebbles.
UN planners in their wide
This r equired a long search. Many
search both in the United States
and varied materials were in-
and abroad found that pebbles and
cluded in the construction of the
g ravel came in a variety of colors
Headquarters Building - wood
-white, blue, red, and even pink
from the Belgian Congo, panel-
- but not in black. Finally a
ing from the Philippines, marble
woman in Santa Barbara, Cali-
from Italy, and carpets and furni-
fornia, Mrs. Marian Davis, hear-
ture from a host of countries in
ing of the search, remembered
. Europe and the Middle East-but
having seen black pebbies on the
r.one was more difficult to locate
beaches of Rhodes during a visit
than the eva·sive black pebbles.
to that island.
Finally the government of
UNITED-NATIONS DAY
Rhodes volunteered to supply the
October 24, 1953, will be the
pebbles, and a number of women
eighth birthday of the United Na-
and children, families of local fish-
tions. Each year the United
ermen, gathered 760 sacks of
States Committee for UN Day
these black pebbles from the shal-
suggests ways of celebrating this
low waters off the coast of Rhodes.
day and interesting more people
They worked for one month and
in what the UN does. This year
were paid by the Greek govern-
the theme is KNOW YOUR UNITED
ment. The cost of shipping the
NATIONS. Among other things,
pebbles was also borne by Greece.
the Committee js suggesting F or helping us assemble the foregoing in-
"Magazines for Freedom" - a formation, especially about the black pebbles,
we are indebted to Miss Margaret Nebengahl,
plan for sending old . copies of Question and Answer Corner, Department of
Public Information, United Nations, New
American ,magazines abroad. Ym~ -lli
October, 1953
 Lonely
GOBLli
BY BARBEE OLIVER CARLETON

Illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer

sparks into the night. Only one honk, indeed! Who made that
little fairy stayed to peep at him horrible noise?"
from a milkweed pod. The brownies held their lan-
"Then go it," croaked t h e terns high and peered out into the
goblin. But he brushed away a darkness. The little goblin came
little tear with his grubby sleeve. slowly forward.
Then he·clumped on into the lonely "Oh," they laughed. "A horrid
night, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP. goblin! Off with us!" And away
Down by the pool the brownies they all flew, laughing like silver
were playing, leaping to and fro bells.
on the cat-o'-nine-tails. The goblin The cat-o'-nine-tails went bob-
stopped to watch them. "Oh, they bobbing up and down, then they
OWN in the roots of an old, move like music," he said. "And were quiet, too. Again the little
D old tree lived a little goblin, all their laughter is like silver bells. goblin was all, all alone.
by himself. Here, all alone, he I'll get myself a brownie to live He bowed his head to wipe away
ate and he slept. He worked all with!" a tear. Then he saw himself in
alone, and he played all alone. "Halloo," he cried in his frog's the pool. And he knew why the
He talked to himself since there voice. fairies and the brownies had flown
was nobody else to talk to. By and Suddenly there was silence. away.
by he spent a great deal of time "Ugh," said a brownie. "Honk- Ah, what a horrid sight he was!
sitting on his doorstep.
"Lonelier than ever," he said
to himself one night. "I need
someone to live with." So off he
clattered through the forest to
find someone.
Down by the waterfall danced
a shining ring of fairies. The
goblin stopped to watch them.
"They move like music," thought
he with delight. "I'll get myself a
fairy to live with!"
THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, the
little goblin, grinning and grin-
ning, clumped into the moonlight.
"Oh fly!" cried the fairies.
"Quickly! QUICKLY! Oh, what a
horrid sight!" And off they
whirled, this way and that, like
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
He made a little crying noise. And
oh, what a horrid sound he made!
He closed his eyes and hid his
head, and so sat still for a long,
long time.
High and higher climbed the
moon. All the little animals of the
forest came out to sniff at him and
comfort him. But still the goblin
hid his head.
Then something came toward
C OLUMBUS was forty-one
years old when he discovered
America in 1492. H e was rather
tall, with a hooknose, blue eyes,
light-reddish complexion, and red
hair and beard that had turned
white when he was thirty.
This information was stated by
his son Ferdinand some years
after his father's death. Ferdinand
was constantly with his father be-
tween the ages of twelve and
eighteen.
Also Columbus was temperate
in his habits. Said F erdinand: "In
eating and drinking and the adorn-
ment of his person he was always
continent and modest. Among
strangers his conversation was
affable, and with members of his
household very pleasant, but with
a modest and pleasing dignity.
22
them with a fearful clatter, and
all the little animals went scat-
tering back into the shadows.
TH UM P IT Y, T II UMP IT Y,
THUMPITY. Somebody croaked,
"HALLOO !"
The little goblin looked up.
There stood the nicest hobgoblin
with the nicest sort of grin. "A
fairy told me about you," said she,
"and I came as soon as I could."
CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS
In matters of religion he was so
strict that for fasting and saying
all the canonical offices he might
have been taken for a member of
a religious order. And he was so
great an enemy to cursing and
swearing that I swear I never
heard him utter any other oath
than 'by San Fernando !' "
Columbus Was Very Religious
Las Casas, who saw Christo-
pher Columbus in 1500, and whose
father and uncle had been ship-
mates under him, wrote later:
" In matters of the Christian re-
ligion, without doubt he was a
Catholic and of great devotion ;
for in everything he did and said
or sought to begin, he always in-
terposed 'In the name of the Holy
Trinity I will do this,' or 'launch
this' or 'this will come to pass.' In
whatever letter or other things he
wrote, he put at the head 'Jesus
and Mary be with us on the way,'
and of these writings in his own
hand I have plenty now in my pos-
session... .
"He observed the fasts of the
Church most faithfully, confess-
ed and made communion often,
The big hobgobtin held out her
funny soft arms, and the little
goblin stumbled into them.
"Why," said the hobgoblin,
"you move just like music. I've
always wanted a little goblin just
like you."
And when the hobgoblin hugged
him and laughed, the little goblin
thought it sounded just like silver
bells!
read the canonical offices like a
churchman or member of a re-
ligious order, hated blasphemy
and profane swearing, was most
devoted to Our Lady and to the
seraphic f a t h e r St. Francis;
seemed very grateful to God for
benefits received from the divine
hand, wherefore, as in the prov-
erb, he hourly admitted that God
had con£ erred upon him great
mercies, as upon David. When
gold or precious things were
brought to him, he entered his
cabin, knelt down, summoned the
bystanders, and said 'Let us give
thanks to Our Lord that he has
thought us worthy to discover so
many good things.' H e was extra-
ordinarily zealous for the divine
service; he desired and was eager
for the conversion of these peo-
ple ( the Indians), and that in
every region the faith of J esus
Christ be planted and enhanced.
And he was especially affected
and devoted. to the idea that God
should deem him worthy of aiding
somewhat in recovering the Holy
Sepulchre."*
• See ADMIRAT, OF THE OCEAN, Volume I ,
pages 62-64, by Samuel Eliot Morjson. Little,
Brown and Co., Boston, 1942.
October, 1953
 BY BLANCHE
Illustrated by Gertrude Allen
SQUIRREL can crack nuts
with his sharp teeth. He
I W a s p s "manufacture" t h e
K~ta.. makes little holes in the nutshell
I"' NcSTlN~~OU: and breaks it open. Squirrels
l-a.ai.-ii.--••never have to go to a dentist. They
have very sharp, hard teeth. But
boys and girls should never try to
crack nuts this way. Their teeth
are not strong enough.
The robin has no teeth but he
manages very well with his sharp
._M_ o_s_a_u_,T_o__ beak. You have probably seen him
pecking at the ground for insects,
or pulling a worm out of the
ground with his strong beak.
Robins use their bills to gather
and arrange the material from
which they build nests. And they
also protect themselves, their eggs,
and their babies, by flying at their
enemies and pecking at them.
The woodpecker has a strong
bill, too. He pecks holes in the
tree bark and finds insect eggs and
----- ~- - - • grubs that might harm the tree
if he didn't eat them. The wood-
pecker also uses his bill to make a
home for himself, hollowing out a
place in a so£ t part of the wood.
T he beaver also builds his home
with his mouth. He cuts down big
trees with his sharp teeth. He cuts
the branches into pieces he can
RO~IN
LAMR
use, and pushes them in place to
build a dam and a cozy home.
building material for their paper-
like nests. They chew bits of wood
into a sticky, soft paste, then
_ _v_.s_Q
shape it with their jaws. A wasp's .,.GAA _u
_,~_R_e-_~_
jaws work sidewise. They are
hinged at the side, as in all chew-
ing insects, and bite inward like
pincers held horizontally.
T he grasshopper has sharp
scissorslike jaws with which he
cuts off and chews the leafy vege-
tation which he likes best to eat. . .._ __.-,
The hummingbird has a long
slender bill, and a very long
tongue which he uses to catch
insects and to get nectar from
flowers.
The mosquito has a long needle-
like mouth. Only the mother mos-
quito bites animals - and she . .....,,....,..._..,..,._
doesn't really bite. She pierces the
skin with her long mouth and
sucks the blood up through it.
The common toad has a long,
sticky tongue which darts out at
a fly and catches it quick as a
wink. Just try to catch a fly and
see for yourself how fast Mr.
Toad works. PA~ER WASP
AND NE-~
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e baby animal had walked all morning.

nd most of the afternoon.
He was hungry.
l--Ie was tired.
He was lost.
He couldn't remember his name.
He didn't even know what he was.
He wanted his mummy.
"I'm lost," cried the baby animal.
"I don't know what I am.
I can't remember my name. I
I want my mummy.
- ...
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,-;

WHOSE BABY ANIMAL AM 1?" \_r

He met Mother Dog. 1
She was knitting a sweater for her baby dog.
The baby dog was chewing on a bone. :1 \ \

"I'm lost," cried the baby animal to Mother Dog.

"I don't know what I am.
':(·, \i)
I I \\
I can't remember my name. ,' I
WILL YOU BE MY MUMMY?" ~~9
. ~ ~- _,-...~
"Can you sound like a dog?" said Mother Dog. · : . ~ ?-...-
"Can you say Bowwow, Bowwow?"
"Ugh," said the baby animal.

"I'm sorry," said Mother Dog. ~,

"You can't be my baby.
You don't sound like a dog."
· Hemet Mother Cat.
She was icing a birthday cake for her twin kittens.
The kittens were sipping milk from a saucer.
"I'm lost," cried the baby animal to l\lother Cat.
"I don't know what I am.
I can't remember my name.
WILL YOU BE i\IY 1\IU1'DIY?"

"Can you sound like a cnt?" said i\lother Cat.

"Can you say l\leoowww, i\leooow,,·,nvww?"
"Ugh,': said the baby animal.
 By SUZANNE SERBIN and JEANETTE CHERNOFF

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Illustrat~d by Alice Chapin : • \

--~:4~✓,

"I'm sorry,"- said -M~ther Cat.

"You can't be my baby.
You don't sound like a cat."
He met Mother Bear.
She was reading a story to her baby bears.
The bears were licking ice-cream cones.
~I'm lost," cried the baby animal to Mother
"I don't know what I am.
I can't remember my name. ,
WILL YOU BE MY MUMMY?"

"Can you sound like a bear?" said Mother Bear.

"Can YOU: say Grrrrrr, Grrrrrr?"
,,
"Ugh," said the baby animal.
· "I'm sorry," said Mother Bear.
"You can't be my baby.
You don't sound like a bear."

He met Mother Squirrel.

She was spanking her baby squirrels. ..
The baby squirrels were crying. ~ ,
"Keoooooo, Keoooooo." . ~
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So .. ~. the baby animal did not ask Mother Squirrel to be his mum
And .. . ........ then ..... .... . .
He met Mother Elephant.
She was all alone.
She was weeping.
"I'm lost," cried the baby animal to Mother Elephant.
"I don't know what I am.
I can't remember my name. f!';/ 0-
WILL YOU BE MY MUMMY?" ,.
/;
-6/1
"Can you sound like an elephant?" said Mother Elephant. .._...,.._.,:-:s:
"Can you say Ugh, Ugh?"
"UGH I UGH! UGH I UGH!"
"Ah, I'm glad," said Mother Elephant. Cl
"You are my lost baby elephant. { ·
Your name is ELI. ,.... \.
I AM YOUR MUMMY I" r

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 FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS

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Move your finger from the rabbit to the log.

From the pig, under the circle to the apple.
From the dog, over the circle and and under the square to the cat.
From the bee, under the square, over the circle, and under the triangle to .the flower.
From the bird, over the circle, under the triangle, under the square and the cross to the tree.
To the parent or teacher:
Give each complete direction before the child begins to carry it out. He must keep it all in his mind. You can vary this to make harder
directions if you like. It applies a principle used in a famous intelligence test. The exercises help prepare the preschool child for reading, prac-
ticing him at looking from left to right
26 O ctober, 1953
 It's Fun To CooL By E. ELIZABETH HESTER
Associate Professor
Foods and Nutrition
The Pennsylvania State College

N APPLE a day keeps the

A doctor away." That's an old
saying. Apples are good for us,
6 medium apples
Ingredients
}f cup brown sugar
}4 cup water }~ cup flour
btit they won't keep the doctor }f teaspoon cinnamon Ji cup butter or margarine
away.
During the fall months we have
more apples than any other time Equipment
of the year. Some people like ap-
ples crisp and tart. Others pref er
them soft and sweet. There are
many varieties to meet our many
likes. They come in different col-
ors, too-green, yellow, and red.
oven casserole rn1x1n9 bowl par1 n9 knife
Those of you who are going to
school probably like to put an ap-
ple in your lunch box. Maybe you
iike to munch on one at recess or
after school. They are good just
raw.
Apples are also good when I

cooked. Here is a dessert that is

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+ t 2

easy to make-apple crisp. Maybe liq~;d 9 radua:led meo.sur1n9

Mother will let you make it for
dinner one night. This recipe will
serve four people.
How to Begin
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
1.
2.Grease the casserole with a
butter. Hands and finger-
little
nailsclean? Then use your finger
tips.
3. Measure the cinnamon, flour,
and brown sugar. Put these in the
mixing bowl.
4. If the butter or margarine
is in a ~i-pound stick, cut the stick
in half. One-half the stick is the
same as }4 cup. What an easy way
to measure butter ! If you measure
it in the }4 cup, then pack it down
and level off the top. Add the but-
ter or margarine to the mixing
bowl.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
mea.su.r1n9 cup measuring cu.ps
S. Blend the ingredients in the
bowl.
6. Peel the apples, q u a r t e r
them, find cut out the core. Then
slice them into the greased
casserole.
7. Pour the water over the
apples.
8. If the apples are not very
tart, you may want to sprinkle a
little lemon juice over them. Taste
· ONE slice and see.
9. Spread the brown sugar
mixture over the apples.
10. Bake at 350°F. for about
30 minutes. When the dessert is
clone, the crust should be brown
and crisp and the apples should
be tender.
spoons
How To Serve
This is good served warm with
thin cream or whipped cream.
For a special treat you may want
to put ice cream on top. Say, that
really is good!
Do you like to cook? Want to
do it again? If you do these
things, your Mother probably will
be glad to have you cook and help
her with dinner. Put away the in-
gredients. Apple peels and cores
go in the garbage can. Wash and
dry the equipment you used. Wipe
the table where you worked. Did
you spill anything on the floor?
Then you had better look for the
broom. A good cook should be a
good housekeeper, too.
27

addy pointed to the minced
P ham. "And a pound of that,
please, Mr. Witherspoon."
Steve grinned at his younger
cousin and glanced at the provi-
sions already stacked up on the
counter. "Don't you think that's
enough for a midnight snack,
Paddy?"
"It's to keep up our courage,"
Paddy said darkly.
Mr. Witherspoon smiled. "My
soul and body, what's all this?"
Paddy glanced at the older boy
and decided that Steve's look
meant not to say too much.
"Steve's father wants to move
to town to go into business with
Dad, and he's interested in. the
old house on Spook Hill."
C 1e ever, :Mr. Witherspoon's
clerk, moved closer to listen, too.
"But," continued Paddy, "he
thinks it's funny the way the
owner wanted to sell it quick and
cheap. They moved right out last
week and wouldn't even go back
to show the place. So . " erspoon doubtfully.
Mr. Witherspoon· frowned. "So
you boys are 'going up there to
find out why. ·•·M y soul and ..body,
don't you ' k1;ro~. what .folks say'.
a~out that place?"
BY BARBEE OLIVER CARLETON
Illustrated by J ohn W. Robison
Paddy's voice shook a little,
but he acted careless. "Oh, the
town has always had some talk
about a ghost. vVho's scared of
spooks?"
Cleever· spoke in his slow drawl.
"I saw the owners before they
left, Paddy. They said the spook
had come back. You know what
that means."
Steve looked puzzled, and Mr.
Witherspoon exp 1a i n ed. "The
story goes that years ago a neigh-
bor saw a horseman come riding
down the hill in a cocked hat. He
entered the old house at midnight,
and nobody ever saw him or his
horse again. And," Mr. Wither-
spoon shivered, "nobody ever saw
the family that lived there again,
either. Disappeared, the whole kit
and caboodle of · 'em. That's why
the house sits empty most of the
time. Soon as a new lot moves in,
they see that ghost and out they
go. No questions asked."
Steve shrugged. "Thanks, but
we'll go see for ourselves."
"Good luck," . called Mr. With-
Steve frowned as they left the
store. "This won't scare Dad off,
Paddy. . ~ut . if he , thinks 1\fom
wouJd . feel nervous about · it, : he
won't .. go through with the sale.
-'.
And there's no other house avail-
able. We'd just have to give up
our plans for this year, anyway."
Paddy kicked a stone disgust-
edly. "But you're a swell guy.
You've just got to stay, Steve."
Steve gave Paddy a playful
punch. "Lead on. We've got a
date at midnight with a ghost."
ft was dark when the boys
reached Spook Hill, and the cozy
old house now seemed forbidding
under the great elms.
"Come on, Paddy," u r g e d
Steve.
They entered the dark kitchen
through the creaking door, and
silently prepared their sleeping
bags for the night.
Once Paddy glanced at the old
clock on the mantel, and a shiver
ran down his spine. He whispered
hoarsely, "Look there, Steve."
Steve looked. "Says midnight.
What qf it? It's not running."
Paddy shook himself. "I don't
know. But it's a funny time to
stop on."
The boys waited until late to
eat their lunch, first exploring the
old house by candlelight. By the
time they had cleaned up, their
·eyes were heavy in spite of them.
"Let's turn in, Paddy," said
Steve with a cheeriness he didn't

feel. And although both boys
swore they would not sleep a wink,
the moonlight hadn't traveled far
across the floor before both were
sleeping soundly.
Much later Paddy awoke, every
nerve tingling. What .had dis-
turbed him? He rose on one elbow
to listen. Ticktock, ticktock. Chills
chased along his spine as he heard
the dull tones of the old clock
striking midnight!
"Steve!" he whispered.
Then they both heard it-the
gallop-a-gallop-a-gallop of a horse
riding hard along the ridge. The
boys sprang from their sleeping
bags and stared from the window.
In the white moonlight they saw a
misty rider in a cocked hat, bent
low over a horse. Frozen to their
post they watched, as the horse-
man rode up to the great front
door and tapped so£tly. Instantly
a door upstairs swung open, and
slow steps descended the creaking
stairs.
Steve sucked in his breath
sharply, and Paddy swallowed.
Then out of the kitchen they fled,
through the dew-wet grass and
down over the hill. They stopped
for breath at the bridge.
"A fine pair we are," snorted
Steve. "Come on, we're going
back."
"Th-that's just what I was
g-going to suggest," p a n t e d
Paddy. "Only d-do you think . '
the right thing?"
But Steve was alre~rj.y halfway
up the hill, and Paddy, unwilling
to wait alone, ·galloped along be-
hind.
"Sh!" warned Steve. "Let's
creep around the back."
The boys pressed their noses
against ~ dark window. There in
the moonlight sat two misty fig-
ures, and their voices came plainly
through the broken panes.
"My soul and body," laughed
the man in the cocked hat. "I
never saw two boys move so fast."
"Mr. Witherspoon!" gasped
Paddy in a whisper.
"Well," drawled the figure that
was certainly Cleever, "nothing's
holding us back now from getting
this place ourselves and making a
good piece of money on it. By the
. time that new highway goes
through here, we'll have twenty
overnight cabins lined up on this
hill."
Paddy felt Steve nudge him,
and together they turned and hur-
ried home through the woods
leaving the men to their short-
lived plans.
Once the boys had finished re-
la ting their adventure over a
sandwich to Paddy's father and
mother, the whole puzzle
into place.
"You see," said Paddy's father,
"Ed Witherspoon and Cleever
have apparently learned of a new
highway going through near here.
They saw the money-making pos-
sibilities of Spook Bill as a tourist
camp, and spread the old ghost
story to scare out the last owners.
Probably even made the 'ghost'
appear, as they did tonight."
Paddy interrupted. "And I'll
bet · it was Cleever who started
up the old clock just before Mr.
Witherspoon showed up."
Paddy's father continued~
"They must have worried plenty
when Steve's father bought an op-
tion, or the first right to buy the
house. But when they heard of
your plan to spend the night there,
it was a perfect setup. All they
had to do was scare you out, and
then buy up the place for them-
selves."
"Not a chance," chuckled Steve.
"We'll be the spooks on Spook
Hill now."
"And you'll be in our patrol,"
cheered Paddy. "Yippee!"
Beyond Spook Hill came the
dim hoofbeats of Mr. Wither-
, spoon's horse, heading home in
the moonlight.
 HOW MY TEACHER HELPED ME
M ANY of you readers sent
letters to HIGHLIGHTS on
the subject "How My Teacher
Helped Me." I have read these
letters with great pleasure. There
is not room in this issue to publish
all these fine letters. But here are
parts of two letters, one written
by Sheryl Sobel and the other one
by Shirley Ann Berdine :
I am interested in birds. My
tea.cher has helped me learn many
wonderful things about birds that
I have never known. She helps me
have fun, too. She has taken my
class on two trips already. vVe're
going on another one next week.
Sheryl Sobel, nine and half years
old.
She is a wonderful teacher. She
has been so kind to me. She helps
me in all my lessons and is always
ready to answer my questions. She
always understands when things
go wrong.
Shirley Ann Berdine, ten years
old.
Pupils in the first and second
grades of the Children's School of
Northwestern University wrote
about their favorite teacher, too.
Here is a part of a letter written
by one of them :
The best teacher I ever had was
Miss Anderson, a teacher I will
never forget. She was always
friendly and we all loved her.
A letter from Lynne Williams,
eight years old, shows how fine
some teachers are. Here is her
letter:
The teacher I like best is Mrs.
Edna Lehman. She is my favorite
teacher because she was nice to me
and never kept anyone after school.
My favorite student teacher is
Miss Anderson. She did not MAKE
us do something, she asked us IF
we wanted to do it. My other stu-
dent teachers were .t hat way, too!
There was not a ·bit of selfishness
in them. They were sweet, friendly,
and fun.
My teacher is a teacher I'll never
forget in my whole life. Miss Peter-
zack was a nice teacher, too! And
the best artist I ever saw!
I loved all my feadiers.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
By PAUL WITTY
Professor of Education
Northwestern University
There are many other good
teachers scattered throughout the
United States. Such teachers were
described in a contest conducted
for the "Quiz Kids" program. For
several years the Quiz Kids pro-
gram ran a contest to select the
"best teacher of the year." Boys
and girls sent in thousands of let-
ters about the teacher "who helped
me most." In these letters, the
children said they were helped most
by teachers who were: friendly
and kind, patient, fair, and had a
sense of humor and a good dis-
position, and were interested in
them. They liked, too, the teacher
who helped them learn to read and
to succeed in other school work.
Here are some of their com-
ments:
I learn plenty ,because a fellow
can't let down a teacher like her.
( from a boy eight years old)
She is very fair and doesn't like
the smarter pupils any better than
the ones that aren't so smart. It's
very easy to t,ell her your troubles.
( from a girl ten years old)
Every room I enter as I pass to
my different classes is the same.
Same pictures on the same kind of
walls in the same kind of rooms.
Miss X's room is different. Along
.the walls there are colorful and
cheerful pictures. Book jackets are
pinned up. They are interesting
and inspire us to read . . . When
you read this letter you cannot
hope to imagine how I feel toward
this teacher. She is a supreme per-
son. I have discovered one thing
this semester and I think I'll always
remember it. Some teachers are
human.
( from a boy twelve years old)
Here is a letter written by a
seven-year-old girl. It is one of
my favorite letters. And it is a
very good letter, too. I think you
. will like it.
Remember me? I wrote you last
year. My name is Jane. I am seven
years old. I am in second grade.
I want to tell you about the
teacher who helped me mo'st. She
was my teacher last year. She
teaches first grade.
I loved first grade. We learned so
much. We learned to read and to
write and do interesting things.
Like caring for fish and watching
turtles. Planting funny seeds and
watching them grow. We took
walks and watched the seasons
change. VITe listened to the sound
of the wind and smelled the flow-
ers and leaves. It was a happy year.
It was really not like school. It was
lik'e living in a make-believe land.
Each morning when we came to
school our teachtr would be at the
door to say hello to us. If we had
a new dress or new shoes she al-
ways knew. She said they were
pretty. When you did your work
she never hurried you. She always
smiled and whispered, "You're do-
ing good!" I think she loved us.
She taught us to speak distinctly
and listen carefully. She made us
think. I remember this from last
year. She said we should always be
kind, and good, and truthful. If we
kids do this, our country will be
good.
All the kids want to be in her
room. Her room is pretty and all
the kids love school in that room.
They don't want to stay home ever.
When I get ,big I want to be a
teacher like my first grade teacher.
I hope I grow up fast.
Your friend,
Jane.
In these letters, many boys and
girls mentioned the happiness and
fun brought into their classrooms
by good teachers. One pupil wrote
this:
When my teacher comes into the
room, she .brings a good deal of
cheer and sunshine. Before class
she laughs and jokes with her
pupils, and although there is order
in her classroom at all times, if
something extremely funny hap-
pens, she joins with us in our
laughter. If a teacher is cheerful,
it seems that the lessons are so
much easier.
Children in classrooms of these
teachers are not only happier but
they learn more than many other
children. As the great poet John
Masefield once said: "The days
that make us happy, make us
wise."
31
 WHAT HAD THEY SEEN?
Irma: ''It came galloping across
the s t r e e t and almost hit a
woman."
Rudy: "Then it dashed back
across the street between the cars,
and crashed right through a big
glass window in the furniture
store."
Ralph: "When we got there,
some men had cornered it in the
store and tied it with ropes. Boy,
it was big. Its horns looked just
like a hatrack."
Irma: "People came from all
directions, but the policemen made
them move up the block on both
sides of the street. They stopped
the cars, too."
Ralph: "And then the men in
the store led it to the door and
turned it loose."
Rudy: "You should have seen
it. It was across the street and
over the fence into the park in
four leaps."
Can you guess what they are
talking about?

MORE OR FEWER PERSONS WHICH ARE GOSSIP?

A re there more persons-
Who can paint a doghouse or who can paint a
beautiful picture?
Who can bake a pie or who can boil an egg?
Who can sew a button on a coat or who can make
a whole suit?
W ho can eat a cake or who can bake one?
Who can ride a pony or who can ride a bucking
bronco?
Who can train a puppy or who can train a lion?
Who can drive an automobile or who can pilot
an airplane?
"Lorenz has good times with his father."
"Bud is always kind to his little brother."
"Did you hear that Marie's mother is not her
real mother?"
"Today our teacher caught Billy taking money
from her desk."
"They say that Toby's father and mother often
quarrel and get into fights. "
"When Oscar lost his lunch money today, Fred
shared his lunch money with Oscar."
"Lewis and Steve helped little T ommy find his
puppy."

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••
••
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••
••
"How do you carry nuts?" ••
"I have pockets in my cheeks
••
and can carry as many as four •• When Jim's mother was sick, he pre•
pared the family dinner and had it ready

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hickory nuts at a time." when his father arrived from work.

32 October, 1953
 By HERBERT B. NICHOLS
of the U. S. Geological Survey

H A VE YOU ever stopped to

think how important copper
is to us? Not just to make the pen-
Illustrated by Bernice Baker
near as we can tell, goes back to
about 5500 years before the birth
of Christ. Brass is only half as
nies that jingle in your pocket, Copper is a good mixer. Small old. The earliest brass makers
though everyone needs some. But amounts of it give glorious hues were the Romans and even they
what is more important today, it to glass and pottery. The greens didn:t know zinc as a metal. They
takes almost pure copper for the and blues of malachite and azurite, used an earthy material called
wires in giant generators that two beautiful copper minerals, calamine, one of the ores of zinc.
manufacture electricity; for the are as handsome in jewelry as the The calamine was melted with cop-
wires that run all over the coun- colors of rare gems. Tin with cop- per to produce brass.
tryside bringing electricity to your per makes bronze, probably man's It is in the Bible land of
house and mine; and for the wires oldest alloy. _Abraham, along the Tigris and
that are hidden behind the walls Adding zinc to copper gives it Euphrates rivers, that mankind is
as they carry current to electric- the golden gleam of brass-makes believed to have first found copper
light bulbs, or to electric plugs for it into the "poor man's gold." And and put it to use. Learned men
Mother's vacuum sweeper, the German silver, so-called, is not tell us that probably chunks of
electric refrigerator, and the elec- silver at all but a combination of copper turned up as rocks in
tric stove. copper, zinc, and nickel. stream beds. In trying to pound
Copper wires carry the current The earliest use of bronze, as them to make crude hammers or
that spins Father's electric razor,
too. The farmer's work is a thou-
sand times lighter these days if
power lines run to his farmhouse
and barn. And there's hardly a
factory in the land that doesn't
have extra-thick copper wires
carrying large quantities of elec-
tricity to run big motors, giant
machines, or extra-hot electric
furnaces.
A five-cent piece has copper in
it, too. Even though it may be
called a nickel, it is made of three
parts copper and only one part
nickel. Actually, until coinmakers
at the mint began coating steel
pennies with zinc a few years ago,
every American coin had some
copper in it, even silver dollars,
fifty-cent pieces, and quarters.
Dimes are one part silver to nine
parts copper. Gold coins need
some, too, for both gold and silver
are soft metals and must have
copper to give them strength and
make them last longer. Primitive man le1rned to shape tools and weapons by pounding piec:es of c:rude c:opper.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN 33
spearheads, primitive man discov-
ered that, instead of breaking off
chips or flakes, his blows made
dents that allowed him to shape his
weapons. When they were finished
they were really harder than the
stones with which he started, and
my.ch, much sharper than the old
stone weapons. Copper tools have
beeri found not only in Asia but
also in Europe and America,
showing that this was probably
the element that led men out of
the Stone Age and into the Age
of Metals.
At first, only tools and orna-
ments of almost pure native copper
were fashioned. The metal was
found not only as pebbles and
boulders in stream beds, but in
places where mountains had
cracked in earth's more ancient
times, and molten rock, gases, and
metals had oozed up from below
to form veins. Some of the veins
were thick with copper. Rich
pockets turned up in Sinai, on the
island of Cyprus, and on the
shores of Lake Superior. The
holes the ancients dug to get the
metal out were found again in
modern times by prospectors who
combed over the old sites hoping
to find deposits · that had been
overlooked. -
Perhaps when we know more
about the ancient civilizations of
China and the Far East, this and
other similar mysteries will be
solved. There is room for lots
more study. We do know that
China has mines of copper and
tin almost side by side. But how
ANSWERS, Breakfast P u z z 1e
and Riddles, page 44.
1. Because her hands are where
her feet should be. 2. Because they
are grand, upright, and square. 3.
It is twenty years older. 4. A spell-
ing bee. 5. After you put on one,
the other is left. 6. A toadstool. 7.
A rope.
34
early were they in use? That's the
puzzle.
Those who study the relics le£t
by the Egyptiahs tell us that, with-
out bronze tools to cut the stone,
the pyramids could never have
been built. In one pyramid a
bronze rod was found, the oldest
piece of bronze known. The cop-
per might have come from nearby
Sinai, but where the tin came
from, to mix with the copper, no
one knows. Perhaps from eastern
Asia, central Africa, or from
Spain, France, or Britain, though
almost 3,000 years were to pass
before Phoenician sailors would
be carrying tin as a regular item
of trade.
Old writings show how proud
the work111en were of tools that
"never seem to wear out. The
metal is everlasting." Their
symbol for everlasting was the
"Ankh," ·a circle with a cro_ss at-
tached below. It is still used today
as the symbol for copper, the ever-
lasting metal.
Scholars 'have traced the origin
of the word copper to a corruption
of the word Cyprus, an important
copper-producing island in early
times. The symbolism of copper
makes an interesting story all by
itself, tangled up as we know it is
with myths and mysteries. A great
deal of what we know about an-
cient peoples and how they lived
has come down to us through
these stories or myths, though
many are not exactly true and are
told with hidden meanings.
The explorers who followed Co-
BREAKFAST
lumbus to the New World were
surprised to find that copper was
known even in this wild country.
The Spaniards found the Incas of
Peril using copper tools to fashion
their beautiful stonework just as
the Egyptians had done, much
earlier. In Mexico, the Mayans
beat native copper very thin to
form breastplates, ornaments, and
small copper bells. Farther north,
though the Indians were still prac-
tically in the Stone Age, they
so.metimes used copper instead of
stone for their spearheads and
arrowheads. But there wasn't
very much of it. Except around
Lake Superior, copper things were
very scarce. Even here everything
had been made by hammering the
native metal rather than by the
more difficult treatment of poorer
ores that must be melted and cast
into molds.
Those early explorers hunted
high and low for the source of In-
dian copper, but it didn't turn up
for many years. When it did,
they found it right where they ex-
pected, on Lake Superior. Sev-
eral "diggings" of native copper
were uncovered, but in the end it
took a squealing pig to show the
way to really rich deposits. One
story says a pig tumbled into a
hole that turned out to be a place
where the Indians had dug and
stored their supplies for hundreds
of years. That area on the Kewee-
naw Peninsula proved to be the
most wonderful copper ore body
that had ever been found - the
"Calumet and Hecla," it was
called.
Later we will tell you about
modern copper mines; where
America gets _most of the big pile
of metal it needs; how ores with
very little copper can be used; how
hard it is to refine the almost
J.-'ure copper needed for electric
wire; and how our most precious
bronze relic, the Liberty Bell, got
its crack.
October, 1953
 pai I di shp~n
(j
jug
~
watering can
0
9lass

CONTAINERS
\Vhich is the best for pouring water into
glasses at the dinner table?
CP
pitchey
~ teal<ett}e
For heating water on the stove?
For hauling water in a child's wagon?
For milking a cow?
For watering flO\•Ycrs?
For drinking water?
For washing dishes?

\GIL~
~
turtle,
bear

li
toad

cow
giraffe

Which of these creatures hibernate

( sleep all winter) ?
Which do not?

Which creature is breathing the fastest?

Which person is breathing the faster?
Which person is taking steps the faster?
Why?
About how old do you think the child
is? The man? The dog?
How do you know the man is older than
the dog?

HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN 35

<Er@arti®n~ l@r ll!lalll.®w@eoo

CROWNS FOR HALLOWEEN

By ELLA L. LANGENBERG
The crowns are made from orange construction
paper about 4 by 12 inches. First make your pat-
tern, using practic~ paper cut the same size. Try
several different designs. The top may be cut in one
or more points, or it may be cut in curves or scallops.
Choose the shape you like best for your crown, and
cut one like it from the orange paper.
From practice paper, cut or tear shapes of cats,
witches, owls, ghosts, scarecrows, pumpkins, or
other Halloween symbols. Choose a pattern that
looks well on the crown, cut it from black construc-
tion paper, and paste it in place on the crown.
Put the crown around your head and paste ex-
tensions on the band to fit.
HALLOWEEN COIN PURSE
By RUTH EVERDING LIBBEY
Cut out two circles of orange felt the size you
wish your purse to be. Then embroider eyes, nose,
and mouth with black yarn, or cut them from black
felt and glue them on.
Sew the two circles together by overcasting
around the lower half of the outside edge. Sew on a
green rickrack handle large enough to slip over your
wrist.

make a pioneer money pouch or a Scottish sporran.

Cut the open end of the eiwelope to a point, as il-
lustrated, and fold back the flaps on the dotted line.
Fold back and paste the corner at the other end of
the envelope.
Slits may be cut on the sides, .below the flaps, so
that a ribbon or string may be threaded through
--------· •• 6 ... ,
each side with a knot to hold it in place, or a ribbon
may be stapled to each side.
ENVELOPE POUCH If you are going to play pioneer or Indian, color
By CATHERINE URBAN the pouch brown to look like leather. If you are
The next time a large sealed envelope comes to playing that you're a Scottish clansman, color the
the house, ask Mother or·Daddy to open it carefully pouch in a plaid design and paste a bit of fringed
at one end so you can use the empty envelope to paper at the bottom.
~" October, 1953
 BAG-O'-LANTERN
By FRANCES ANN JOHNSON
Not all Halloween jack-o'-lanterns are made · of
pumpkins. Not at all! You can have just as much
fun with a bag-o'-lantern. It is easy to make, and
there is no danger of fire because you will use a
flashlight in place of a candle.
You will need a middle-sized paper bag, the heavy
kind that the clerk fills with groceries. Be sure it is
clean and has no holes in it.
Lay the bag flat on the table. On one side draw
two eyes, a nose, and a wide grin with some funny
teeth in it. Open the bag out full and cut out the
eyes, nose, and grin.
Gather the mouth of the bag around the upper
end of the flashlight. Leave the switch button un- Hold up the flashlight and press the button. The
covered. Tie the bag on so it can't slide up or down. light from inside will shine through the openings
Now the paper bag is like a head. The flashlight · and show the comical face.
is the neck. y OU have a Halloween bag-o'-lantern.

JACK-O'-LANTERN ORANGES
By MARGARET FERGUSON
Oranges will make tiny jack-o'-lanterns to shine
spookily on a Halloween party .table.
First cut off a slice from the stem end of an or-
ange as shown. Use a spoon to hollow out all the
pulp carefully until the shell is smooth and clean on
the inside.
Next draw a jack-o'-lantern face on one side of
the hollowed-out orange. The orange skin is so thin
that, if you are careful, you can use pointed scjssors
to cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth. Push one blade
through the skin inside the lines you have drawn.
Then clip just a little at a time.
Use a birthday cake candle or an inch-long piece
cut off the end of an old candle, to light each jack-
o'-lantern. To fasten the candle inside the orange,
hold the candle bottom over a match flame until part
of the wax is melted. Stick it down in the orange
quickly. The melted wax will harden aµd hold the
candle in place.
Color half a toothpick with green crayon and
stick it in the top of the orange for a stem.
HALLOWEEN NUT CUP
By ALMA C. DENNY
Make .a pattern of the jack-o'-lantern nut cup as
illustrated. Trace around it on orange construction
paper, and cut out. Fold upward on the dotted lines.
Paste each tab to the inside of the next jack-o'-lan-
tern to hold the cup in shc1:pe.

HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN 37

 MR. LAMBERT AND THE COW
O NE DAY Mr. Lambert
bought a cow. He set out to
lead her home. She went very well
at first but, after a little while, she
refused to follow him.
She stopped in the road and
stood still. Then she started to go
backwards. Mr. Lambert braced
his feet and pulled with all his
might, but the cow would not
move.
"Have you noticed that Marjorie always looks right at you when
she speaks or listens to what you say?"
"Yes; maybe that's the reason we all like her so much."
"Besides she often uses your name when she speaks to you, and
that helps make her attractive."
"I guess you're right."
38
.
By PHYLLIS FONTAINE
In a little while a crowd of peo-
ple gathered. They were ready to
tell Mr. Lambert what to do. One
man tried to pull the cow. An-
other man got behind the cow and
pushed. Another man got behind
HIM and pushed. But the cow
would not move.
All at once Mr. Lambert got a
bright idea. He would twist the
old cow's tail. The idea worked
very quickly. Like a flash, the cow
leaped forward. Mr. Lambert was.
afraid to let go.
So they went sailing through
the air, like a kite and its tail. And
for all I know they may be going
still.
TEST YOUR WITS
Martha spilled a pail of water
on the linoleum floor in the kitchen.
Soon she was able to put most of
the water she had spilled back into
the pail. How did she do it?
Suppose you saw a big apple
floating on a still, deep pond and
you had a light fishing pole which
didn't quite reach from the bank to
the apple. Without wading, swim-
ming, or using a boat, how might
you get the apple?
Gifford was wrapping a pack-
age to be mailed. Around the out-
side, he wanted to tie a strong
cord. He could find only two pieces
of such cord. He tied the longest
piece and it was just a bit too
short. The other piece was still
shorter. What did Gifford do then,
do you suppose?
Suppose you look down into a
very clear pool of water and see
your image (reflection). Does
this image appear to be looking
up or looking down?
October, I ~53
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fUGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN 39
 THE NEGRO SPIRITUAL
I '
N THE year 1620 the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, seeking a land where
they could be free to worship God
as they chose. Just the year be-
fore in 1619, a D u t c h ship
brought twenty Negroes from . group sang the chorus or next
Africa to Jamestown, Virginia.
They were quickly sold to the ways the same. For example, the
Colonial settlers.
So while a group of white peo-
ple from England found freedom
from religious persecution in
Massachusetts, a group of Negro
people, who had been free in
Africa, began a life of slavery in
Virginia.
These Negroes from Africa
came from many different tribes.
They spoke different languages.
Some had been rulers, some had
been hunters; some had tilled the
soil. In their homeland, Africa,
they had all sung in the evening Negro leaders feel that the Chris-
in their camps. They were accus-
tomed to singing while they poled about
their boats up and down stream,
and sometimes when they walked
on long journeys.
~o
By IRENE BENNETT NEEDHAM
Illustrated by Jerome Weisman
In this new c o u n t r y they
worked long hours. In the eve-
ning when they rested in their
cabins it was natural that they
should sing. Since no one could
read
A
or write, they did as Negroes
in many parts of Africa do today.
leader who was particularly
good at making up rhymes sang
a line of the song. The rest of the
line for which the words were al-
leader sang, "Swing low, sweet
chariot." The audience sang,
"Comin' for to carry me horrie."
This is repeated several times
with slightly different melody.
Then they continue.
Leader: I looked over Jordan an'
what did I see.
Audience: Comin' for to carry me
home.
Leader: A band of angels comin'
after me.
Audience: Comin' for to carry
me home.
Religious people t a u g h t the
Negroes about Christianity, and
tian religion with its teaching
a better world to come gave
these people just the hope they
needed. The stories of the Jewish
people in the Old Testament and
their slavery in Egypt inspired
such songs as
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land.
Tell ole Pharaoh to let my people
go.
Since this religion with its hope
of heaven made life bearable for
these people, it is only natural that
the religious songs they sang
sh.ould express deep feeling. You
feel it when you hear the song
properly sung because they put
the feeling into it when they made
the song.
They were singing in a strange
language so they often got their
Bible stories a bit mixed. But they
were very serious and very earn-
est. There wasn't much chance to
teach their children except as they
sang together. The music had to
be good to make others want to
sing it. The words had to mean
something to each person. Good
tunes were remembered.
Unfortunately little effort was
made to write down these songs
before the Civil War, so probably
many of them are lost. Although
they must have been sung locally
as folk songs, it was not until
1871 that they were introduced to
the public of America and Europe
by the Fisk Jubilee singers. And
more recently famous singers like
Marian Anderson have brought
them back into popularity by sing-
ing them on the concert stage.
Americans love spirituals and
are proud of them, and partic-
ularly proud are those Americans
whose ancestors created these
lovely songs in their new home-
land.
If you have a record player,
your record collection is not com-
plete without one of these beau-
tiful spirituals. They are uniquely
American.
October, 1953
 SWING LOW., SWEE'X CHAB.IOT
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Com-in for to car-r~ me romt. r iJ[

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H IGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN

41
A SINGING STORY
- m, ~~~o~~ @lnl<si i'ii'~~lb{!;V ?lb~1f~(};:ll~,;l
Jrrofes:ior of Music, 1Uni11ersit':j of llllinois

IDadd~ made Bobb~[ a. pumpkin head.

1Il had. h ol es for e~es. lft had one for a. nose.
l(t ho.d. fierce teeth. ]ft had. a.co.nd.le insiQ.e.

JPl,obb!:j's mot.her 9ol o.n old. sheet .

She got a po.per ba.9.
Bobb~ cul holes in the bag -lo see through.
lH!e put the 60.9 over his head .
Mother fa.s~ene.d. the sheet a.round. hi m.
1flle held. the pu.mpkin heo.d in fr o n t of him.
••JLook o ut Do.dd:;! lf'm a. gobl in," 50.id. Bobb:; .

The doo rbell ro.ng . M ot.he r opened the door.

.. lfilere's another goblin," so.id Bobb~.
"And u.Jha.~ a.terrible old witch! "5a.id Mlolher.
.. ~oo! "said. th e 9061 i n o.nd. t.he w itch .
..Boo!" so.id. .Bobb~. " 1f k.now ~ o u. •
You're just Mo.r~ a.nd. J'ohnn~."

..M~! "fou a.II look sca.r~," so.id Mother.

H'Wi-1:.ches and goblins seem to be ever~u.>here lonight,,, sa.id. Jlba.d.d.~.
"Now w e'll al I 90. douJn t he st.reel and. sea.re p~ople,"said. B obb!:J•
The~ went douJn the sb-eet. The!:::J sa.ng a sco.~8 song.

Look. ov.t! 'lookout! lLoo~ o~tt Look.out! The witch-cs a.nd. qob-lin:, ar-c ell a-.bou.t!

This 1tory will be Included In THE SINGING STORY•

BOOK by Stanley and Marian Fletch~•• illust rate!1 by
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By JOHN 0. COLE
ALLOWEEN is the open
H season for gay, mysterious
costume parties. But in the midst
of the fun and masquerading, do
not forget the food that is so im-
portant if a party or get-together
is to be successful. Try these £un-
to-eat, fun-to-make favors.
Apples and Halloween go hand
in hand, so a party favor using
apples is very appropriate. You
will need apples; ice-cream or
sucker sticks; orange and black
drawing paper; empty ice-cream
cones; and peanuts, jelly beans, or
gumdrops.
Ask Mother to help you prepare
her favorite recipe for candied-
apple syrup. Push a sucker stick
halfway through the core of each
apple. Dip the apples in the syrup,
and place on wax paper to cool.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
When the apples become sticky,
place three halved peanuts, gum-
drops, or jelly beans on one side
of each apple-two for eyes, one
for mouth.
Cut a round disk about 3 inches
in diameter from the colored
paper, and place on the top side of
each apple before it completely
hardens. Make the crown of the
hat by placing an empty ice-cream
cone upside down on the disk, or
make a cone-shaped crown from
paper and glue to the disk. The
witch is now ready to ride on her
stick to all guests with wishes of
good eating.
Another witch can be made
with the following: cookies and
cupcakes, jelly beans, cinnamon
hearts or peanuts, and empty ice-
cream cones.
Ice your cupcakes and your
cookies, preferably large ones,
with a confectioner's sugar icing.
Before the icing hardens, place the
jelly beans, cinnamon hearts, or
halved peanuts on each cupcake to
form a face-two for eyes, one
for mouth. Then place the cup-
cake on its side on the freshly iced
cocky. Place an inverted ice-cream
cone on top of the cupcake for the
hat, or make one from paper as
suggested for the apple favor.
Nuts, candy, and apple cider
will round out the party refresh-
ments to the delight of all the
witches, skeletons, and ghosts that
haunt your party.
SOUVENIR GAME
Suspend apples by strings in a
doorway at proper height to be
caught between the teeth. The first
successful player receives a sou-
venir such as a paper pumpkin,
black paper cat, orange-and-black
candies, or the like.
RING AND GOBLET
Tie a key to silk thread, and
have the player hold it suspended
within a glass. Then ask him to
say the alphabet slowly. When-
ever the key strikes the glass,
write down the letter he has just
said. Then have him begin the
alphabet over again, and continue
in this way until he spells out
what he will do when grown.
APPLE SEEDS
Tell your guests that apple
seeds will act as charms on Hal-
loween. Wet two and have your
guests in turn stick one on each
eyelid. Name one HOME and the
other TRAVEL. If the seed named
TRAVEL stays on longer, the player
will go on a journey before the
year expires. If HOME clings bet-
ter, he will remain home. Now
have the player place all the ap-
ple seeds on the back of his out-
spread left hand and, with loosely
clenched right hand, strike the
palm of his left. This will cause
most of the seeds to fall. Those
remaining on the hand show the
number of letters he will receive
in the next two weeks. If all the
seeds drop, he must wait patiently
for his mail.
43
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1:.:"'4 Little Girl: "Oh Papa, it's rainipg."
:!
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,,
Busy Papa: "Well, let it rain."
·i
Little Girl: "Yes, Papa, I was going to."
>
I
Old Man: "Here, young fellow, what are you
j
,., doing, fishing here? Don't you know you ought to
~. :..:;..~_ /"",.._•
be in school?"
-~.::J.-.,...J.-r-.L....r-'-....--JL-..r......,r-'--,-~--~~ 1ff Small Boy: "There now, I knew I'd forgotten
something."

"My grandfather plays the piano by ear."

By ELSIE L. WATERS "That's nothing- my grandfather fiddles with
Finish each row to spell something for his whiskers."
breakfast. Answer, page 34.
"I knew a man who swam across a river three
times every morning before breakfast."
"Why didn't he make it once more so he could get
MIGHT YOU FALL back to the side where he left his clothes?"
While lying on the floor?
While standing up in a canoe? "I'm awfully sorry if our hammering disturbed
While lying in the middle of a you. We were just hanging a picture."
big bed? "That's all right. I just came over to ask you if
While sitting properly in a you would mind if we hung a picture on the other
chair? end of the nail."
While stepping on a banana
peel? "Can you read Chinese writing?"
While lying on a grassy lawn? "Only when it's written in English."
While swimming well?
While standing on a rocking
chair to reach something above
you?
While climbing high in a tree?
While picking up shells from
the beach?

RIDDLES
1. Why is a woman deformed
when she is darning socks?
2. Why are pianos noble char-
acter,s?
3. Why does a man's hair turn
gray sooner than his moustache?
4. What is more wonderful
than a horse that can count?
5. Why do you always put on
your left shoe last?
6. What stool has only one leg?
7. What is it that one man can "Not a day goes by without Tommy picking up some
carry, but a hundred men can't stray animal on his way home."
stand on end?
Answers, page 34.
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 DOORKNOB
RINGTOSS GAME I -

By LAWRY TURPIN

AIN OR shine, Fourth of July, or Halloween,

R this game is fun. It is easy to make, and lasts
a long time.
The pumpkin can be made of %-inch or ¼-inch
wood, and the nose of the same or thicker wood.
The rings will not preak if you use ¼-inch plywood.
Rubber rings from canning jars can be used instead
of wooden rings, if you wish.
Make a pattern from the squared drawing, and
draw around it on the wood, with the grain run-
ning the long way. Saw it out with your coping
saw, and file and sandpaper the edges. Drill two
small holes up near the top, for cord to go through.
Draw the nose, saw it out, ¥ind sandpaper it. To
fasten the nose, start nails on the back of the pump-
kin. Then put glue on the back of the nose, put the
nose in a vise, and nail the pumpkin to the nose.
With a compass, draw as many 4-inch rings as
you want. Three might be enough. In the center of
each, draw another circle 2½ inches in diameter. To
cut out t~e center, drill a small hole just inside the
inner circle, remove the blade from your coping saw,
EACH SQUARE REPRESEN TS ON E I NC H.
put it through the hole, and refasten the blade in the
frame. When the sawing is finished, take the blade
Put the two ends of a 20-inch cord through the
out again the same way. holes from the front, and tie them in a long loop at
Paint the pumpkin yellow or orange. When dry, the back, placing the knot where it doesn't show.
paint on the eyes and mouth. Or you can cut them Hang up the pumpkin on a doorknob, and see how
out of black paper and paste them on. Color the many of the rings you can toss onto the nose. Have
rings any way you like. fun!

i-llGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN

45
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By FIFTH GRADE CHILDREN

Westmore School, Lombard, Illinois
Signe Erickson, Teacher
If you want to make masks for decorating your
room or schoolroom, choose plain construction paper
and cut as directed at the top of the page. Use paper
of different colors to make them as funny as you
can.

O ctober, 1953
 y MARION BONS'STrlEEJE~L=-LL YYKKEE......;.._~~~;1 ;.!~~~')1
HALLOWEEN party can
A get off to a good start by hav- ~ ·'· -~
ing the guests come into the house ~ ,. rt
by way of a Ghost Walk. This °W.i:;11 , .~, /!~,;·
can be as scary as you think your -;. ~~}J fl·~~:'
g uests will enJ·oy. Young children . \~ •!}:'ti;;, :i:'···•'t
1 .. . t' .... .
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will not like it at all but they do - i; :'-:.\ ;%: --~ "! "J_
like to help behind the scenes. Be -_, t~ ·: ' ·•·: · .:\
sure not t9 scare them. Boys and · --· ·•/~.: :;
girls•
over nine will want
•
to
• •
show .
'. ' /. :;•. ·: ·:.:
: y ; -;,.., l:~r• ,~;;.,. •-""..r"'
,('.(; ,1•;.;jw:
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their bravery. They thmk 1t 1s fun '.. ,:; ;• .. )i,~-Y. ~!hi- ,:f~x ,};::§
to _play tricks on each other. -;;} -~ , >·,,'.· . J{it; ~:• .,_ll~~tl
Have the guests come to the ¾,," 1-· ' ·,.tf·f •-"7f:{~~~-:,.\
basement door where some masked ''""f( ~"'' \:•;:; ' · --..{ 1JJ:1=··'
person will tell them to enter at · ~ itt~
their own risk. Weird noises a.nd clotheslines about two feet apart.
dim lights casting ghostly shadows Guests will feel their way through
will send chills through them even this corridor. Someone can guide
though they are walking around a the timid ones with a flashlight
familiar, safe house. Make the pressed against the other side of
Ghost Walk as long as possible, one sheet.
twisting through the basement Lay a few old piepans where the
before going upstairs. traveler will be sure to step on one. pan and swish it slowly back and
Here are some ideas for things He will wonder what he is getting forth. Prepare some balloons by
to make or do. Try the ones that into. blowing them up, twisting the
might be used in your house. Hang a wet piece of cloth, torn necks and pressing tight with a
String a clothesline, waist high, like fringe, to tickle faces as they paper clip. Pull the paper clip off
along the route to guide the guests. pass under. and let the air rush out close to a
It can be tied to something, posts Cut a large skeleton from stiff person's face as he passes by.
or furniture, every few feet. cardboard. The head and body Put stones in an old baking-
Use dim lights, except in short should be in one piece, the arms and powder can and shake vigorously.
stretches which can be pitch-dark. legs in two pieces each. Paint with Sandpaper, fastened to two
Set up a pumpkin head with an white or luminous paint before wooden blocks and rubbed slowly
electric light connection. Have a putting together. The bones of the together, sounds like someone
little brother turn it on suddenly arms and legs should be cut long walking.
just as a guest approaches. He can enough to overlap at the joints. Hide behind a chair and moan
be hidden under the table that sup- Fasten them together loosely with softly.
ports the pumpkin. paper fasteners put through A single loud blast on a whistle
While you want to remember to punched holes. Tie strings on the will make a person jump.
have the journey perfectly safe, back so it can be moved like a As your guests get to the end of
you can have people walk up a jumping jack. Hang some dark the Ghost Walk in a darkened
board onto a low box and down curtains across a doorway. Some- room, tell them to remain quiet,
another board. one can stand in back and just then to shriek loudly as another
Cover a card table with a reach through to hold and move brave person comes through. The
blanket, with openings like a tent. the skeleton. noise will increase as more people
They will have to crawl through There are several simple ways get there. Late guests at the base-
to follow the rope. to make weird or startling noises. ment door will need lots of courage
Hang two sheets or blankets on Put some gravel in a flat baking just to start.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN 47
 Which is bigger, a dishpan or a cup? If Tony quarrels less than Tilly, what may you
Does a. dog sleep? say of Tilly?
Did you ever hear a lion roar? If Joe is your cousin, is he also your sister's
Do you chew your orange juice? cousin?
What may cause a baby to cry? Find as many different kinds of locks and keys
Can you see your back between your shoulders? about your house as you can.
Which would you rather have on your fingers, Find the doors which can lock themselves as you
jam or tar? close the door. When a door locks itself, can you
What do you think of a boy or girl five or six open it without a key from the inside or from the
years old who still wants his mother to feed him? outside? What is there on a lock which you can
What day comes after Saturday? change, so it won't lock itself when you close the
Do animals eat most of their food cooked or raw? door?
Can a hen fly as high as a crow can fly? As I was driving slowly by a school building, I
If you had a million dollars, what is the first thing said to myself, "They are having a fire drill." Why
you would buy? What is the next thing you would did I think it was a fire drill and not an escape from
·buy? The next? a real fire?
Name as many kinds of balls as you can. When trash is burned, why does a newspaper
What is the bit of a horse's bridle? burn faster than an old book? Why does a news-
Which is easier to cut with a knife, meat or but- paper, in single sheets that are crumpled up, burn
ter? Wood or a potato? A green twig or a dead faster than a newspaper that is neatly folded?
twig? Why does a thermos bottle keep warm liquids
When you buy berries at the market, why doesn't warm and cool liquids cool?
the clerk pour them into a paper bag as if they were
sugar or salt?
In what ways are a pancake, a saucer, and a pie-
pan alike?
Suppose you wished to cut an end off a round
stick about the size of your wrist. If you cut it with
a saw, would it be easier to cut straight across the
c;ooo-BvE./
stick, or slanting? If you used an ax?
Which would you choose first to crush in your
pocket: a peanut, an egg, or a tomato? Which last?
Is white cabbage more white before it is cooked or
after it is cooked?
"The puppy has been playing with my cap," said
Sid. How could he have known this?
Name three good ways of cooking eggs.
Suppose you had just taken a very hot roasted
potato from the oven, and had to carry it in your
bare hands a distance of fifty feet. How would you
do it? Would it be easier to carry a piece of ice the
size of a potato the same distance in your bare
hands?
October, 1953
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