Now York: Eleanor Walker. Augusta F.l'ol. 
Eva Dentils, tlnrolrt Inman. Minina Kohlel, ("or- 
nelhtfl Driscoll, Anna Yoilmans, Aria Lopor, ltnlli 
.smith, .Margaret Smith, Dorothy Shaw I salmi 
1 tn 11 1. Charles Monro, .1 r.. Ann* [•'eKsonilcn, 
Esther nolinUo. Inez Her tel. Sophia Blodgett, 
Until Watts, Marlon Friable. George Benedict, 
t’arhiita Itakei. Gordon Itopil, Mnranret Mae 
Uenzle, Bernice Becker, (lertrmlo Kramp. Bos- 
we Shlltter, Until Orr. Ueim AUntm*. Jessie 
.Mnohleisen. Gladys Feld berg, Irene Warner, 
ClilVovil tiurnee. 
North Carolina: Elizabeth Oliver. 
Ohio: Mar,v Ziiumerly. Esther Bowman, Ver¬ 
onica Uothweiu, Dorothy Hill, Jeanette Slater. 
Vermont: Warren Brown. 
Virginia Naomi Blonser, Catherine Coiner, 
\ irginiii llunloy. 
West, Virginia: Unth Lease. 
And here are some of the tilings read¬ 
ers had to say about ground moles: 
The answer to the “What Is It?” is a 
mole. I have seen two kinds of moles— 
the common mole and the star-nosed mole. 
The star-nosed mole had funny little 
points all a omul its nose. 
New York. kittii watts. 
Septum lior—Cedar wax wing 
October—Sour gnm. peppertdge or tupelo tree 
November- —Gray squirrel 
In 1 let ember, 11)20, we liad no Nature 
I‘lizzie, because Mr. Tuttle had none to 
print. We had one in January, 31 >23, 
and have had one every month since. 
Here is the list,: 
1921— - 
.1 a nun ry—Mask ra t 
February -Locust t»ce 
Man li-—CowbJrd 
April -Wild ginger 
May- Screech owl 
.Time —Ladybird beetle or ladybug 
■Inly -WoOdOhUck 
Align At - Mosquito eggs 
September—Porcupine 
October- .Inneo or snowbird 
November Bat. 
Ileecinlier Live forever 
1922 — 
January Sycamore, bnttonball, buttonwood or 
American plane, tree. 
February— Brook, river or si ream 
March—Meadow lark 
April Ilepalica 
May—Spider 
June Ground mole 
Your editor thinks that anyone who has 
followed these puzzles has learned a good 
hit about (lie things of nature round 
about us all. This is one of the best 
plans \ve have for Our Page. There are 
any number of puzzles that can be made. 
Keep them coming. 
Boys and Girls 
By Edward M. Tuttle 
This is Our Page. Through it we learn what the boys and 
girls in different States are thinking, planning, and doing 
THE MOLE MY CAT CAUGHT 
I have two kittens, Buster and Fluffy. 
In the adjoining backyard is a nude hole. 
Fluffy would sit hours at a lime by the 
hole watching until Hits unde would conn- 
out. One day the rutile came out while 
Fluffy was sitting there. He did not kill 
it, but cuffed and bit it. Finally it hid 
in a loft of grass. I took the kitten into 
the house, but just as soon as I let him 
out he went back lo the hole. The next 
time it came out Fluffy killed it. But In* 
did not eat it. 1 buried it in the garden. 
He still goes to the bole, but I do not 
think there are any more moles left in 
the hole. eva DENNIS (11 years). 
What Is It? 
We have been having such easy Nature 
Puzzles lately that it is time we worked 
a little harder. So put on your thinking 
caps and see whether you can answer 
this one, sent by Inez Hertel, a 10-year- 
old New l T ork reader: 
It is a flowering herb dearly loved by 
the old-fashioned housewife and equally 
detested by the small boy. It was and 
still is a most commonly used home 
remedy. The stem is stout and hairy 
and one to five feet tall. The opposite 
leaves are perfoliate; that is, the ends 
are joined together so that the stem seems 
to pass through the leaf. It has white 
flowers in late Bummer. It is very com- 
£y W. Grates 
July 
When the scarlet cardinal tells 
Her dream to the dragon-fly, 
And the lazy breeze makes a nest in 
trees. 
And murmurs a lullaby, 
It is July. 
When the tangled cobweb pulls 
The cornflower’s cap awry. 
And the lilies tall leau over the wall 
To bow to the butterfly, 
It is July. 
I think the Nature Puzzle was a mole. 
You asked for an experience with one. 
One Winter day, while ou a large hill 
behind our schoolhonse, which we call 
“The Peak," we were enjoying sliding 
down hill. Suddenly one of the boys 
called out, “Look at this strange mouse!” 
We all ran to the spot and found what 
I have since decided was a mole. He 
had a little red nose and red sputa where 
his eyes ought to be. lie was running 
aimlessly about, which we thought queer. 
His tail dragged between his legs and 
made a peculiar track. Though he could 
not see, he seemed to evade us and would 
When the heat like a mist veil floats, 
And poppies flame in 'the rye. 
And the silver note in the streamlet’s 
throat 
lias softened almost to a sigh, 
It is July. 
When the hours are so still that time 
Forgets them and lets them lie 
’Neath petals pink till the night stars 
wink 
At the sunset in the sky, 
It is July. 
By SUSAN HARTLEY SWETT. 
What beautiful pictures there are in 
the little poem selected for Our Page this 
month by Gladys Feldberg, a New York 
reader! The very words are music to the 
ear as we read them aloud. It is not 
hard to imagine each scene, each sound, 
described. Surely the poet has caught the 
spirit of this midsummer month, now 
almost gone. Copy the verses in your lit¬ 
tle notebook of poems, and while you are 
doing that it will be easy to commit 
them to memory. Repeat them over when 
you next step out into the July sunshine. 
IIow do you like Our Page with all 
drawings for illustrations? Your editor 
thought it would be an interesting change, 
especially when so many drawings were 
on hand. It is surprising, isn’t it, how 
well some of our readers can handle a 
pen. both in drawing and in letter writ¬ 
ing. Very many letters have come in 
since the June page. The postman has 
been kept busy. It is a good sign that 
we are growing steadily in interest and 
friendship. Often a letter mentions thar 
tin* writer has been reading Our Page for 
a long time, but has not found courage 
lo write before. That is a good kind of 
courage to find, though, and sometimes it 
means a treat, for us all in the way of a 
fine letter, a memory verse, a motto for 
the Box, a Nature Puzzle, a rhyme, a 
book write-up, a riddle, a drawing or a 
photograph. What a lot of things there 
are that we may do! Surely each reader 
can find some way to help make Our 
Page brighter, happier, more interesting, 
more helpful. That is the spirit we want 
to grow stronger in our big family month 
by month. Will you do your share? 
run around nimbly on his four little legs, imm in swamps or thickets everywhere. 
We did not know at the time, but do- \yjiat is it? 
scribing it to my father lu* said it. was 
a mole. cornf.lies dkiscoll. 
New York. _ A .. . 
_ Our Artists 
Nature Puzzles We Have Solved See what a fine lot of drawings we have 
Three readers were able to send the this month! Y’oin* editor had to choose 
complete list of Nature Puzzles that we them from among 11." that were sent in. 
have had in the last two years. Their Think of that! Every one showed real 
names are Dorothy Lee and Ruth Watts effort, and letter after letter said some- 
of New York, and Warren Brown of thing like this: “Here is my drawing. 
Vermont. Ruth said: “I am trying to I have tried to do m,v very best.” That 
get all Our Pages together. I have been is the right spirit, and I am sure that 
up in the attic* all morning scratching those whose drawings could not be printed 
around in IT years’ subscription to Tub are happier to have tried than those who 
K. N.-Y. I hope to have the list of sent no drawings at all. Try again, and 
Nature Puzzles complete before l send keep trying. Some day you will win a 
this letter." As I bnve done so often be- place on Our Page. 
fore, 1 want to urge you all again to keep Study the priuted drawings closely. 
Our Page together. You will be glad to There are many interesting things about 
haw the full set to look hack over now them. Each is different, though they are 
and then. The way I keep mine is to all on the same subject. It was a sur- 
paste them in an old copy of The R. prise to find that only a very few made 
N.-Y’. that will just hold the 12 numbers the birds look like chickadees. In most 
for the year. This makes a fine book. of the drawings they were just birds—no 
Coming back to the Nature Puzzles, particular kind. Now the chickadees 
here is Warren's record of them : were chosen for the rhyme because they 
You asked if any of us had kept Our are easy to draw with their little black 
Page long enough to send in a complete ca p 8 and black bibs. Ruth Watts did 
lis, Of Nature Puzzles on Our Page since ^ on tW int II( , 1(in Nivison showed 
we started Hu* plan. 1 have so l am 1 . 
sending the list. In February. 1!>20, Mr. real chickadees in attitudes that everyone 
Tuttle described tin* flying squirrel In* saw w j]| recognize who has watched these 
on his window sill. That wasthe first Wcndly ]it ,j 0 birds. Carlottn Baker 
Nature Puzzle on Onr Page. We ultlnit ...... , , .. 
have any more of them until July. R>20, made a very artistic drawing, but the 
when Nlr. Tuttle started the plan and chickadees are so small that they do not 
asked us boys and girls to send in Nature ( ,iit as clearly as they might 
w!mh| e \n..w < ‘w?i'a‘ he" meut'r Here 'is Nearly all of the bird bouses were pro- 
the list: perly drawn with a single round holt 
p» 20 — above the center of the box. This shows 
Aumw?—sphinx innta ur mock bumming bird that you really know how bird house: 
The Ground Mole 
Bo many of you knew last month’s Na¬ 
ture Puzzle and sent the answer that be¬ 
low you will find a long list of names. 
Not only that, but there were more let¬ 
ters about moles than have come for any 
“What Is It?” we have ever had. That 
is a good sign. We nngnt just as wen 
learn all about a thing while we are ut it. 
■So I am printing several of the letters 
and a fine little drawing. It would be 
interesting to have a discussion us to 
whether ground moles do more good than 
harm, or more harm than good. You 
probably have an idea one way or the 
other. Can you prove it? 
Those who sent the correct answer to 
the ground mole puzzle were: 
California: I’Iitll|) Ryder. 
(.NinncctieUi: Margaret Fleming. Walter ML. 
AI her l Kirk. 
Delaware: Ethel Wilson, Elsie Grasselly. 
Mary When timin. 
Louisiana: Eugenie Pavignon. 
Maine: Margaret Nivison. 
Massachusetts: Ethel Hurt. Eleanor Hart, 
Beatrice Ixham. . 
Nebraska: Alice Smith. 
New .Icrscv: Dorothy Gardner, Virginia Reed, 
Samuel Hocking. Helen Lmidnhl. Anna I’errong, 
Edith Applegate. 
More About Radiophones 
In response to the letter from Simon 
Snyder, printed last month, a number of 
readers have written of their experiences 
with radiophones. Here are three from 
widely separated States: 
I live in eastern North Carolina, and, 
like Simon Snyder, am interested in tlie 
radiophone. I once heard a splendid ser¬ 
mon preached by William J. Bryan. He 
was in Pittsburgh, Pa. 1 thought it was 
wonderful to be able to hear him, when 
he was so far away from me. 
Elizabeth Oliver (15 years). 
North Carolina. 
