Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Apr 1933, p. 14

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*acti'vites of fnyîng, crawling, biting and eating, two student writers at, the Howard school have chosenl to reveal the following life Étoriyâ of two prominent-mtmbers ofthe'iusect wo rld.' BEETLE TELLS HIS LIFE I live ini the'ground as a grub in the winter. Sometimes 1 arn called a larva. I1 cat and eat so much, 1 want to go to sleep. When I1 go to sleep they cali me a pupa but when I wak- en 1I'find myscîf a cifferent shape from what 1 have been. 1 am. green- ishgold and they say I am the aduit Japanest beetle then.* WcIlive and eat on fruit and.sWeet lcaves. On thé way, wc eat and mnakç lace %work of the Icaves. 1 have- a cousin in Vir- ginia and nny relatives are scattered ail over in what they cail states here. People gay we are deýtfutde, thaï we are harmful. But how can we help it? We have to eat, don't wc ?-Pris- cilla Pollock, Howard 8C. THE..LIFE OF A MOTH The lifeof'a Polyphemous is.a very interesting one. The-jegg that bas been laid by thc mother soodÇhatches out and grows to be a large cater- pillar. He is in that staue for rnite. *,**r*u, anai U~wVIIL ¶AUwII 10 rel muscumn to spend the day. First we went and saw the animal and bird cases. Thenwe weuit upstairs1 to- theý room' of botany. We then Went to sce the Egyptiani mumnmies.. While wc were in the basement we ran across somne more animal cases. After this* we looked ai the Indian cases and went home. We had a .very pleasant day at. the museumn.-Pris- cilla Pollock, Howard .8C.' Arthur Blamnes Frost *forFaire of Bulbs, One day 1, was hufituug for a flowcr pot. 1 was fixing any garden., I want- ed some flower pots to put over some plants. I found some fiower pots in a little while. In one of them there were a few bqlbs, 1 antd thgrn -n my garden. in a few days they looked as if they were dead. 1I only could blame Mr. Frost who came a few days before.-Arthur Green, Howard 4th g rye Snoopy Fails in Effort to Bc a Peeping Tom Our cat, whose namie is SnooDv. re-t Ir came ,about that there was. only 1this one Young man alive. He thought that .those ,persons 'who -had killed his family* certainly wouldni't kilI hlm. He was very rich, su he hired a hun- dred guards to protect him. Itwas twenty-~five minutes to 12 o'clock.- Then it was twenty minutes, then ten, then -five. At midnight a shrill shrick:filled the air. The guards, fan to his room, and there he was dead. No .unte knows how he was killed. Thus ends the midnight mur-. der 'case.-Dick Wernecke, -Howard. 8C. Room Paper Is Netting .,:a Profit--for Howard 8A. Is 8A of Howard school proud?' Just think, with our little rooum parper 'at three cents per copy or teun cents a month, for two months, wc bave mnade a clear profit of several dollars. Wc cleared $9.98 the first t1wo mouths. We have ads in it from "va- nrous Wilmette stores. In order to get an ad in our paper, a business man bas to pay twenty cents. Our staff is coming just fine with the pa- per and he hope, as the year gues 011, Happened to Cat Qne Monday noon I camie home just as usual but when I called iny mother, she didn't answer. Finally* she came to the porch and said .that Mitii was dèad. 1A4tzi was our cat. 1 asked my mother-how it happened. She told. me and here it is, Mitzi was in the yard and saw 1a mail .looking up in a trcc.. Then Mitzi came down and a dog and the cat were flghting.: The dog hurt Mitzi, and she rau up in the tree. Then she, came dowu balu way and futhe rest-of the distance to tbe ground. She got, up, went a littl i way, and fell down. She did it- again and then fell down and died.-Robert Matson, Grade 4, Howard. school. Play at Senior Assemnbly Has Piano&,Soo, Songs Recently we had a play given to the senior assembly by members of 7B. It took place in the king's court when great musicians came to play for the quecu. There werc piano solos and sougs. AIl acted and did their numbers well. We ail enjoyed the play.-Bob Cochran, Howard 7A. VISIT HISTORICAL One time our famiiIyi ýs out and is very pretty -with large, «kind. of" cyes, one on wiug.-Bob Tansill, Howard IB. Delights in Playing With Feet and Ankies ring vacation-my sister and ber out cat.rHe was not nunt Decause he thereé was a-kitten-Sitti-ng .ou the 1'bed I liked best was Lincoln's -carniage.- landed in a snowdrift.-Jack Hayt, and so far we have a cat.-Ray Drei- Charles Fifer, Howard 5B. Howar 5B.bus, Howard 4th grade. STUDENTS RESUME WORK GIVE DEMONSTRATION STUDY ABOUT HOLLAND School upened Monday, and we arle Several weeks ago the flrst to the Inu Miss Olthoff's room we started aIl back workiug. It was queer to he fift graes ad ademost'atio tostudy about Holland in geography. walkiug to school again, especiall v in The fifth grade put on a show of W got from page 99 to page 107 lu this weather, right after spriug vaca- sports and other things, and-th our flrst assignment.--Charles Ceder- tion and the day aftcr Easter.-Ran,- other grades did -ld dauces. The berg. Howard 4th grade.. dolph Mcandlish, Howard 7A. demonstration was held in Howard H loward 6C. meet. her studies at the-, Education., ig soon to Collegr of A. two, eachi Rip Dut

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