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Latest' School News JUNIOR · LIFE WILMETTE, ILLINOJS, FEBRUARY 14, 1930 train arrived but to our dismay it was a one-car local. The conductor informed Miss Davis that there was no ~pecial car and it was too late to get one. Miss Davis thought it would be best to wait for the 1 :55 as it was a larger train. Miss Davis immediately called up the North Shore mnin office and saw to it that we had a sp cia! car coming h9me. The 1 :55 pulled In slowly and 31 7C's piled in slowly in the the last car. As the last car was not special for us we had to sit where we could find a vacant seat and the partners were conse<]uently separated. At last we reached Adam:-; street anq we all got off. Many of the girls were tr:-1in si<"k because the car was overcrowded. When we arrived at the Art institute we toolt off our wraps and got our chairs and followed 1\Tiss Upton to a room in whkh there wore medieval paintings. These paintings told Bible storiex aR in medieval times people could not r ead. At 3 o'elock w e left th e Art institut r for the North Shore station. As we got on the platform our train pulled ln. W e all h eld out· breaths. Ye~ there wns :1 ~pecial car on it. Thl" trip coming hom e was much more inter ·sting than the o1w g-oing down. -:\farjorit~ W<·iller, 7C Stnlp. ing tickets to the best writers of the JuNIOR' LIFE to see the Saturday matinee at the Norshore theater, A great change bas been made. The changes are as follows: Tickets may be used to see any picture in the week the ticket is dated for except Saturday night, Sunday and holidays. This ticket admits one to the Teatro Jel Lago in "No Man's Land" instead of the Norshore. Those people who are chosen this week need not be disappointed if tickets are not issued because these tickets are now being printed and you will receive them on the following week. -Rudolph Kaspar, 8B Howard. Told by the Pupils Published weekly by the school children of Wilmette under supervision of Wilmette Playground and Recreation Board VOL. 2. NO 47 The E!ighth grades of Howard school presented three plays before the LoganHoward Parent-Teacher a~sociation on Wedne:-:day, February 4. There was -:tlso a. play entitled, "Communication-Past, .Present, :rnd I- uture," given by Howard 7A. Seventh Graders of Stolp Children Write Science Clubs Offer Movie Tickets for Medieval Paintings Study Plays, Present Meet on Feb. 5, Best Junior Life I terns Tuesday, February 4, the 7C cJas:-; of The WILMETTE LIFE and Playground went to the Art institute. The train Them at P. T. A. Stofp Name Officers and Recreation board have been givwas to leave at 1:38 p. m. At 1:38 the On F eb ruary 5, at fourth period, which was science, we had a meeting for the clubs of 8B. There are fiv e clubs, which are Photography, Chemistry, Astronomy, Nature and lladio. The officers of the clubs were elected at this meeting. Mis:-i Stevens said that anybody who wanted to have a show case for an exhibition of their own should ask her and she would let them have it. 'L'his is something for your collections of Indian r elics, stones, butterflies, etc. The officers of the Chemistry club are: Bob Willis, president; Lois Cote, :-;ecretary; Jack Edmonds, vice-president : committee members, Teddy Hoskins and Georg·~ Rheinhardt. Officers for the Nature club are: Ruth Pavelicelc, pres ident; Ma rgrette Reynolds, secretary. Officers of Photography club are: AI Brown, president; Mark Simonds, vicepresident; Ellen Jordan, secretary: Lois Sandberg, treasurer. Officers of the Astronomy club are: Jane Weber·, president; Elizabeth Koerper, secretary. Officers of the lladio club are: Allan Roth, president and secretary; Gardiner Johnson, vice-president and treasurer. Due to the ::;mall m embership in th e Radio club th e boys have to double un on the officers. 1\Iiss Stevens said she would try to give us at least one perio<l a week for clubs. - Marg-rette Reynolds, 8B Howard. I The names of the playR were aR folIc Wf:: "The Stolen Princess," by Virginia J nne:-,; "The Irate Farmer," by Frank l\ra~· of Howard 8A. The play given by llob Wlllis of 8B was entitled "The Midnight Cr.r." The announcer, Margrette HeynoldH Haicl that Mrs. Stalling, our litenlture and compo~-;iti.on teaeher, wishNl to state that these plays were written by individual~ and not by a group of childr<:>n. The first play, "The Stolen Princess," was about a princes~-; who was stolen from her ca~tle by an old witch who put her to the ta:-:k of scouring an old pan which nen:r Rt>emed to get clean. The four fairi es appear and tell her that she must work unselfishly, courageouHly, cheerfully, and helpfully, and the pan will shine. She then follows the fairil. . s' ad \'ice and f'he finds that it works ·and then with the help of the fairies she finally gf'ts rid of the witch. Next appears a young princ·e and he tell~ her that he also wa~ kept a prisoner by the old witch. The fairies dance and the play ends w'ith the announcement that "they lived happily f'Ver after." The second J lay, "The Irate Farmer," Y:a:-; about !';Orne boy!'; who trampled some oats down in a farmer's field. The farmer catches them and l1riug-s them to their scoutmaster. He tells their scoutmaster what they hav<> done. The boys tell the farmer that they are very sorry and that they didn't mean to trample his on t!-' down. The farmer is also very much surprisf'd when he drops his handkerchief ;...nd one of the boys very politely picks it up and ~.;h·f's it to him. Another ':>oy c .mes in and gives the farmer a pock~t hook, which the farmer has lost. The f.~rmer is very much surprised when the toy refuses the reward that he offers him. ThiH play was a little shorter than the other Jllays, but it was very interesting. The third play, "The Midnight Cry," "as not a mystery play as it may seem but it was the story of a baron who came to the Calderwood castle to visit the Calderwoods, not only to visit them but to ~et the crown jewels and then make his <·scape, At midnight he enters the lady's l'oom and gets the jewels. Lady Calderwood screams, and awakes Francis, her ~on, who comes just in time to save the haron. Francis and the baron duel and then the jester of Calderwood appears a nd ~hoots the baron with his musket. They get the jewels back and all honors are gi\'en to the foolish jester, who in the play is very comical, and who always iuterferes with the baron and his plans. ~l'hP jester is very funny through the wholf" play and is very fond of his wooden dog, "Sir ('atamont," which he pulls with him wherever he goes. Thus the plays .-nd, and everything went fine except that tl1e curtain was pulled by mistake in the middle of one of the jester's speeches, v:hich we hope wasn't noticed very much. J af'k Edmonds was responsible for the ~ound in Bob's play, and Nancy May played the plano to which the fairies dancNl in Virginia's pla~·. We are sure everyone enjoyed the plays. -Violet M. Lance, 8B Howard. Tuesday, February 4, the Senior assembly at Howard had a most interesting prognun. The RB and 8A of Howard school wrote plays, three of which were given. 'fhey were as follows: "The Midnight ('r~'." by Bob Wlllls of 8B: "The Ir~te Farmer," by Frank May, SA; and "The Stolen Princess," by Virginia Jones. Jn the "Midnight Cry," Willis was the jt>ster, Alfred Brown, Earl of Calderwood; Mark SlmondA, Count von Spiegel: June Ahlstrand, Lady Calderwood ; Fayette Lilly, cook; and Allen Roth, Francis the earl'R son. The two sl"r\'nnts and the ;mdd were Ponlos, Teddy Hoskins, Yenka, GE>orge Rhelnhardt and Lots Sandberg, It was very exciting. "The Irate Farmer's" characters were: 1- armer, Frank May : three Boys Scouts, Uob Hermanson, Frank Christy and James Chambers. "The Stolen Princess" was Vlrghlla JoneR. There were four fairiPl"'. a witch, and Prln~ Charming, The prince. wu Pupils Present Interesting Program at Howard Howard Eighth Graders to Have Sleigh Ride-Maybe The eigi1th grades of Howard school have l;een disappointed for three weeks at not h ~. ving their sleigh rid party. It seems that Wednesday iH the only day that it is possibl e for us all to go. Here are the sad events: The first Wednesday proved to be too cold. We then asked if we c<·uld have a party which question was put to Mr. Todd, our principal, but we were turned down again with the reply that we should wait until the weather was suitable to have a Rleigh ride party. The following Wednesday Mrs. Stalling, 8B teacher, was absf'nt. We then had to wait patiently till the following week, when there didn't happen to be enough ~now on the Rtreets. We have just about given up all hopes for it to snow, but we probably will have all our plans laid for a party when it will snow. -Violet Lance, 8B Howard. Science Pupils Find Home Experiments Entertaining Miss Stevens, . ou1· 1-'dence teacher, ha~ suggested that W<' try some expl:'riments at home. The magic penny was interesting-. We put a penny in a pan and asked someone to ~o;tand n.way far enough so he could not see the penny. Then W !' poured water on thl:' penny and it reflected so that he could see the penny. We tried another, the pin holP camera. '\Ve are going to get points for everything we do so Miss Stevens thought trying this was a good idea. - Mary Louise Schaeffl:'r, 6A Howard. UAVE PRACTICE GA Tuesday we had a practice bask<.. thall game with 6R Six B has only onr tt>am. which is the fir~t team. They 1'1 re not ~wing to have any second team in girls' Lasketball. At the end ·of the practice game the l'l<'Ore was 21 to 2 in 6A'!'= favor . Dorothy Hill was the one who made 6B'~ basket. Miss Skidmore said if we wantecl to have good players we had to prncticP hard enough. I think 6A has a pn~ tty good team. -Eleanor Speredes, 6A Howard . HEADS l P! "F. The new safety postc>r is just lih Ff·bruary because the girl anfl thr· hr,v ;, rr· all wrapped up ann it is snr·win~· n·rv hard .and this is what th1· p<·str·r H:tv~ "Keep you head and f·yf·s up. r..,,-,r,k !" A car is coming and thf! little hr,y' ~ hr·arl Is down. The girl Is looking- 11p aH Rh l· should. -Helena 1\flckl!y, 6A Hr,war,l. stolen by a witch and waH finally r':HI'.:l.l tl!d by the fairies and Prince r;harmfng. Altogether we thonght It a m"~t fn~~r esting program. -Ellene Weakly, &A Howard. If you were not present at the auditorium Tuesday, February 4, you certainly missed a good program if you like history and geography. And if you do not like these subjects you certainly would have from that day on. The assembly was g-iven by Mrs. Groves' 7A. It was an illustration on one of the seventh grades studying communication. It showed how they sent messages in olden times before 1800 and longer and how they send them today and what in·vrntions they hoped would come in the next few yeat~R in the line of communication. I enjoyed it very much because social :::cience is one of my best subjects. I always have and always will enjoy Th er e have been a fine lot of mishaps social science lessons given by Mn:. Groves beca use she makes it clear and around the Howard school building lately. It all bt'gan with the ht·eaking of two understandable. windows, which (;e rtainly m eans bad -Mildred Haugh, Howard 7B. luck. Maybe because the eighth grade~ werf' giving ·thr e play~-; and three is an unlucky number brought it all on. l\1r~ . Stalling said that whether we w er e ~uperstitious or not these plays had to The Howard SA second team battled g·o off all right. Tue~day being the d~y Stolp 8C second team at the Howard we were to give the plays of course Mrs. !:,Ymnasium Monday, February 3. Mr. Stalling was in a mad rush getting thi s Hall coached the g-ame. Th e lineup was: and that just right. Mrs. Stalling happened to be out of the Stolp Howard Bean c Strubing room. We were buzzing about the plays Bowen rf Hoelz when we saw Mrs. Jones peering in on Melchoir If Chambers us. Of course we went right on with our Minor rg Green work like angels. W e were all taken Rogers lg Christy back when we saw Mr::;. Jones still there, In the first half, Green shot a basket smiling as she held a sandwich in her and Stolp tried for a free throw but hand. Can you beat that? A teacher eating missed. In the ~econd half Strubing made a basket, th en Bowen shot a basket during school hours. That's just another and Ho lz made a free throw. The final of those queer incidents happening around score was 5 to 2 in Howard's favor. The school. Not to mention the fact that second team has won all of their game~. Te<l.Qy Hoskin's arithmetic book disap. --Elmer Erickson, SA Howard. pear~cl. Miss Steven~· valuable star book she finds gone. Pauline Jones' hat mysteriously leaves the room and last of all we got a grammar test. I still agre~ with the boy who vowed that spirits lurked in the building. Friday, January 31, we heard the eighth -Mary Louise Moreau, 8A Howard. concert in series B. The concert was about the brass choir. Mr. Damrosch gav~ a short summary of the origin of the horns and trumpets. The horn was used many years ago in hunting and the trumpet was used by soldiers at battle Some members of the sixth, sev.enlh fields and at royal weddings. The first and eighth grades are making astronomy piece was a "Torch Dance." The piece notebook~-; to compc>te for prizes offered in ~hows a group of peoplt:: dancing with November. The notebooks will contai11 flaming torches at royal weddings. Then star maps, newspapet· clippings and other came. the "Flying Dutchman" by Wagner, material. Miss Stevens, our· teacher, will showmg the storm at sea. The last piece send the four best from the grn.des to was the Finale from Symphony No. IV. Columbia university to be judged. We I think every one liked the concert. have to make notebooks for class atHl -Reginald Green, Howard 8A. why shouldn't we Iceep on through the summer and try for a prize? SEEK CAGE TITLE -Reginald GrE!en, Howard SA. The 6A first tE!am of bnys from Howard schOfJl is out for thf~ basketball title. We A GOOD TURN hr.tve won all but onf! of our games and L<~st summer when I was at the circus that rmf: was tlf:d. The gam1:s were a.s (rJ!!rJWH: JfrJward GH J, 4-- GA I, 4; Bt. J saw a very kind act. After the circus Francl!4 JJ f;..-prJHirJt,TJPI]; Jf11Ward GB 11, 2 was over I saw a real old lady trying to ·-GA I, ~; JJrJwanJ 6A II, (J-6A I, 13; J!<·t clown thf! steps. Just then a boy cam,. along and helped her. After the St. .1-'ranr..:IH G 1, (J GA I, !t. hoy had helped her down the lady tded "' glvn the boy somP. money but he wrr; u Y u o wr· n.A y woulfln't take it. At. I fr1wrtrrl wr: ;at: fltUtJylng tlH: why and th1: wh~:n: r1r llght rayH. Tht: H f: rayH 11J[F. WIND ar1: ct,rnty,~f;f] ,,, w:tVI:H r,r cllffr:n·nt fJ.h. hnw tho wind does blow, l1:11gth~ >J.rranglng thf;msf;IW:H at:cc,rcJing wind blowH high, the wind blows low, f.r, th~'!lr IFmgth. Tt11: lnfra.- r(;{] an: the 'rho 'rhn wind slngA heighho, heighho, lr,n~ ~!st ;, rJ(] ;,r~ thf:n :f11ff; hfl the cwl. 'ThfJ wind blows over the drifted snow. Frr,m lh~m th~ rays are graduated down - Yvonne Woerner, Third grade, t(J the flhr)rtest, ultra. VlrJlct. Central. Mishaps at Howard Prove When It Rains, It Pours Howard Eighth Grade Team .Defeats Stolp Cagers, 5-2 .. Howard Pupils Listen to Eighth Damrosch Concert Pupils Make Notebooks, to Compete for Prizes -------