1920 
?im RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Boys and Girls 
By Edward M. Tuttle 
Here is Our Page. Let us join hearts and hands 
and make this a real Merry Christmas. 
IIoio’h That foi a Tret /” 
Oh, Tine, Fine, DaddyV* 
Santa Claus Is Cominq 
Santa (‘Iiiiis is owning, 
< 'wiling In i t- tonight. 
('mriing oVr tin* h<ms<-tops 
In liis sleigh so light. 
Cwuing hfif with gift- 
For all good girls and boys. 
{’•ringing in his park 
Many Christina', joys, 
Ilf brings a hook for father, 
For mother, a rocking chair, 
Fur brother, brings a line gold watch, 
A comb for sister's hair. 
Ilf leaves a ball for baby, 
I’erhnpn a dolly, too. 
Tin <■ gift- should sniffy us all— 
At least I think they do. 
Ohio. Dorothy B., If} yearn. 
Menu ('Inixt man ! 3 ferry f'hrint man! 
The glad words ring out on every band. 
SpeiiI. them: sing them, l.ef the Christ¬ 
ina spirit fill you. It is good to live and 
love and give. Menu Chrinimag! 
Two pictures are in my mind today. 
One I love to think about. The other 
makes my heart ache. The first i of my 
no\> and 51 'rl* who '.Oil be reading the on 
Christmas Day. Well fed, well clothed, 
• arm, in comfortable homes with family 
and friends -what happy boys and girls 
you ought to In-! The other picture is of 
boys and girl- in strange lands across the 
• a thousands of them, millions of them. 
They are hungry, starving. They are 
• •lothed in rag -. They are cold and home¬ 
less, The are sick. The cruel war 
made them so. They did not ask for war, 
did not know why It came, do not know 
what it meant. They only know that it 
took all they had and that they are dying 
now. 
Have you ever been very, very hungry? 
I’erbap so, but you cannot imagine what 
it means to be alwajs starving hungry. 
Have you ever bad to wear old clothes? 
Perhaps, but you have never bad to go 
half Had in rags. Have you ever been 
cold and numb? J’eihap , but you were 
noon warmed again—suppose you were 
nlway- numb with cold? Have you ever 
been lost from home? Perhaps, but there 
a a borne somewhere and you found it 
again suppose you had no home any¬ 
where to find. Have you ever been nick? 
Yex, but the doctor and loving cure made 
you v eil- uppo e there was no doctor 
or anyone to cure for you. 
The e are hoy and girl- like you. They 
feel and think a you do. Only they 
speak another language. That, in all the 
difference. It i- but chanee that they 
were born where they are. They might 
have been you. You might have been 
they. What tlnn? 
In all the world today these children 
med l/e||» more than any other person'.. 
They have heard of America as the place 
where food and clothes and medicines 
come from, (nice a day one of them 
who need it worst may go to an American 
kitchen and get a bowl of coup, Home arc 
given boot, or a coot Hut there are j,ot. 
enough l.itchcue. There not enough 
soup. There are not enough 'hoes and 
coats. There are not enough doctor#. 
These tilings cost money. The money 
must be given. It lull I be given quickly, 
for Winter in here. 
We are told that $10 will save one 
child. What boy or girl among you will 
earn or collect or give that sum from sav¬ 
ings? What school will raise $ 10 ? What 
family will unite toxins- a ehild? I know 
that my boy# and girls will help. You 
have much. But even if you only bad a 
little mid could stand beside tbs-s<- other 
boy# and girls you would give them half 
of all you had. Money i-- being collected 
now in this country for tln-se foreign chil 
dren. It will be carefully spent by kind- 
hearted men and women, headed by Mr. 
Hoover. Do your Khars-. If you cannot 
give $J0, give all you can. Kvery dollar 
will help. I> 1 , not give money to agents 
whom you do not know, no matter who 
they say they are. You will probably 
find that someone in your neighborhood 
or tin- nearest village hast charge of »-enir- 
ing the fund. If not, send it directly to 
“childI'eedinu," The JAttrary Diyegt, 
.77 '/AGO Fourth I 1 emit, .Yen: York Oily. 
That magazine bast taken charge <•! rais¬ 
ing the $23,000,000 necessary to keep 
these children through the Winter, 
Give nave a 110*—you will alway# be 
happy that you did. 
Xow b-t’s lake a peep at (tome of the 
letters that have been coming to me lately 
in 
The Mall Baq 
I most exceedingly enjoyed the Boy#’ 
and Girls’ pages in In t week'# (Novem¬ 
ber 27) Issue of THE It l.' UAL NKW- 
Y 0 UKI. 11 . I bad not noticed them before, 
but happening to conn- across them, read 
them from beginning to end. I live only 
about 90 miles from New York City in a 
small town on the east end of Long Is¬ 
land. I have not written to you before, 
a- I bine not. long been familiar with Our 
Page. I am 14 years of age and am in 
the first year of high school. 
I thought the letter# about one’s tliaiik- 
fulness at Thank giving time were very 
good. In the letter that Eugenic wrote 
you asked what n meteor is, «o I am go¬ 
ing to tell you about it. 
A meteor or meteorite is a large, or 
sometime- a small stone that comes from 
space. It i a very metallic atone, and 
has been known to kill animals. 1 read 
a story once that told about a horse that 
wax put to pasture at night and the next 
morning he wu> found dead under a tree. 
Tin- owner never know what killed him 
until a few years later when a friend 
came there and examined the ground 
where the horse had died. He dug in 
the earth for two or three feet, and found 
a good sized stone which he called a me¬ 
teor or meteorite. He said that the me¬ 
teorite must have fallen from the skv and 
“(jtjtj.it, (Joor.H (Jtiadi 1 " 
hit the horse. A# I take it, a meteor ia 
an object seen in the atmosphere, and a 
meteorite is a stone found in or perhaps 
on the ground. Eugenie's rock was prob¬ 
ably a meteorite. I think the study of 
nature is the moot wonderful thing in the 
world. I am very fond of bird#, flower#. 
and insects, and like to study about them. 
Your friend, CARROLL U. 
New York. 
A letter from Jam- ,T„ Pennsylvania, 
brought up this same point. Sin- said: 
"Doesn’t Eugenic D. mean a meteorite 
instead of a meteor, as a meteor means a 
shooting star, but meteorite means a mass 
of iron or rock which has fallen upon the 
earth from space.” Perhaps some of you 
will be inf--rested to look in encyclopedia# 
and other books and read all you cun find 
about meteors and meteorite#. The time 
to learn about things of this kind is when 
they cotne to our notice. 
A OOOHK STORY 
1 am sending u picture of me and my 
flock of geese, I have one pet goose. He 
is a big gander. I like to play with him. 
I am six years old. We have 10 iiere# 
and have jit#* lived here a year, I like 
the farm Very much. 
.Mamma read# the Hoy#’ and Girls’ 
December 25, 1920 
left the rat# for her mother to tackle, 
which she did in greut shape. It. i# a 
job to control these pests on most farms, 
but it pay# to keep after them. I figure 
• bat every rut killed saves $5 damage. 
At that, rate our cat earns good wages. 
When bird-nesting time conies we try to 
keep her especially well fed and in tho 
barn. 
A LIVE ItoY 
Hello, boy# and girls! This i# my 
first letter to help Our Page along. I 
am 12 years old. I am in the first, grade 
in high school. I live in the State of 
Rhode Island on a .small farm. We have 
two or three cow* and one horse, Ned, 
and some hens. I have six pullets and 
a Hamburg rooster in a coop by them¬ 
selves. This last. Spring I bought three 
ducks, and this Fall I dressed them and 
sold them and made $8.40 on them. Hast 
Summer 1 planted a garden. I planted 
1 Vj peeks of potatoes, a handful of beun# 
and four quart# of yellow dent, fodder 
corn. I harvested five bushels of pota¬ 
toes, two quarts of bean# and eight 
shocks of corn. I cut tin- corn when it 
was about 4 ft. high. .lust before Thunks 
giving I drewseil four roosters of my own, 
and received $10.80 for them, I have 
J'liylUx and Her Floek 
page to me and I think the stories are 
nice. 
We have a cow named Sport; two cut#, 
Gray and Tom. We have a pet hen. I 
call her "Ro e beaded Comb Middle,” or 
Rosy for short. We bad quite 11 lot of 
chickens, but mamma canned some and I 
helped net- pick some of them. We have a 
few duck#, Indian Runners and White 
Pekin#, and some guinea# that, follow 
their mother hen all over the place. 
(0 a. pnvi 11 k, 
Wc are glad to see Phyllis and her 
flock and also tin- pet goosie gander. He 
looks very happy mid sclf-satinfiod, don’t 
you think? 
MOTJ1H AMI MIKE 
Several weeks ago 1 sent in a nature 
Mizzle and was very glad when I came 
ionic one week and found the answer in 
Tin: It ('UAL New-Yorker. Rut never¬ 
theless I was very sorry to learn that 
those beautiful little mock humming birds 
were what make- those ugly green to¬ 
mato worms. We found two tomato 
vorm on the lilac hnshe# after I wrote 
you before. I do not think 1 would ever 
kill one of the little "birds,” but I do 
think that I shall destroy every tomato 
worm 1 see. What kind of a worm is it 
which forms tin- Luna moth? We always 
supposed that, was tin- tomato Worm. 
Alike must be a pretty big kitten by 
now. I haven't, seen any nioture or read 
anything about him for a long time. Wc 
have a kitten that I think is about the 
same size as Mike, because in the Spring 
the picture looked a if Mike* was about 
the size of our Teddy Hear, Teddy Hear 
Is a white kitten. It ha# a very few blink 
hairs on ile bead, but one seldom notice# 
them. 
The leaves are now fast falling (Oc¬ 
tober 24) and I suppose Winter wiil soon 
be lure. Although I like the Winter 1 
am always glad when Spring come#. 
New York, EMILY A. 
We are very glad to bear from Emily 
again. She gave us a nature puzzle that 
taught us till something. The worm that 
forms the Buna moth feeds on hickory, 
walnut and other forest trees. It grows 
to In- about fl in. long and Is blui-b green 
with a pearl-colored head. There is a 
yellow strip'* on each side of the body 
and short cross stripes of yellow on the 
back. 
I am Mirpri -ed to think that any of you 
remember Mike, To be truthful, I must 
tell you that Mike took sick last Spring, 
and bad to be quickly and painlessly put 
out of the world. His place him been 
taken by a black kill'll with 11 very long 
fail, blit with no name as yet. She bn# 
been very busy today catching mice, for 
we cleaned out un old draw Hack. She 
now left one rooster und six pullet#. 
Good-bye. LAWRENCE E. 
Rhode Island. 
Of course it was a 
Gray Squirrel 
Even sonic of you who have never seen 
one goes ed the answer to last, month’# 
YVliat in it7 Here i# the list, of those 
who sent answer# up to the time this 
page was written : 
Genevieve R., Helen S., Marcia M , 
Mary !>., Ann W., Fr#ula Gladys 
Jeanette 1 ,., Thurlow Y., Eldeen P„ 
Marshal W., Milton IL, Jessie I’., Viola 
(?. and C. 12. K., all of New York State. 
Gludy# F., Geneva M., Prunella H„ 
Ernest, ()., Esther J>. and Ruby S. of 
Pennsylvania. 
Dorothy A., Edith C.. Catherine W., 
Laura R. and Ida P. of New Jersey. 
Alice A. and Pauline T. of Ohio. 
Gladys C. and Ira ('. of Maine, 
John .7. of Connecticut. 
Helen 15. of Maryland. 
Margaret W. of Michigan. 
Walter M. of Virginia. 
Laura II. of Alabama. 
Marjorie B. (State not giveu). 
There were several letter# giving «•\ 
perience# with gray squirrels. We have 
only room for two; 
This squirrel is similar to one living in 
our attic. He come# and gets his emu 
from our corncrlb just as be wisher-. The 
first, time papa saw him be got. bis gun 
and wiik going to shoot it, but be mv 
that he was sitting still, so be said: "Oh, 
let the poor thing go.” He has been in 
our attic two or three years., 
Michigan. MAHOAKET W. 
There i mil' little squirrel which I call 
Rosy and number it one of my many je ts. 
During the Summer, when we wen- can¬ 
ning cherries, I saw tin* squirrel tin* tiro 
time. Ah wc were pressing tin* pit out 
of the cherries we put them in a di li. 
This squirrel was somewhat bold, so be 
came and pul all the pits into bis tnmitli 
that tin* little greedy could hold, and then 
ran away. One day he came again. I 
followed him as he ran away. He took 
the pits to a 'lurry tree that wo# grow¬ 
ing nearby. He then let them drop out 
of bis mouth. 
Last Full, as my brother and 1 were 
gathering nuts, thin little Rosy made an¬ 
other trip. We found a walnut that xvn 
not good, so we tbought we’d play a trick 
011 him. We took one that was not good 
and mie that was good and laid them 
side by side. I f<• first, took one and 
weigh'd it, and then the other, but he 
took the good one and ran off. 
Pcunaylvauia. nmxri r * ft. 
