The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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light and sandy. In the Fall people from 
here go down to the river and get all the 
melons a Ford will hold for a dollar or 
two. CHARLES GRAHAM 
Illinois. (12 years). 
In such ways a boy may keep busy and 
happy, and a letter in the same envelope 
from Charles’ older sister, Anna, contains 
the following paragraphs on things a girl 
may do: 
Through the Summer vacation I learn 
to sew, cook and do housework. It is 
then, too, that I get ready for the special 
days of the year. I use correspondence 
cards for this purpose. Buff ones may 
be used for Thanksgiving, blue for birth¬ 
days, pink for Valentine’s Day, and white 
for Easter, Christmas and New Years. 
The edges of each card are gilded by 
using a brush and gilt paint. Pretty de¬ 
signs are painted with water colors after 
the gilt has dried. A turkey, pumpkin 
or fruit is appropriate for Thanksgiving; 
a bouquet of flowers or a bird for birth¬ 
days ; a white heart on the pink back¬ 
ground for St. Valentine’s Day; an East¬ 
er or calla lily, chick or rabbit for 
Easter; a Winter scene or a picture of 
Santa Claus for Christmas, and bells 
Who Says Geese Are Wild?—Sent by 
Edna Tullar (16 years), New York 
for New Year’s Day. Then when the 
special days come round, it is only neces¬ 
sary to write a cheering greeting or a 
short message on each card. 
For the last year or two I have been 
gathering seeds from different sources. 
This Summer I will draw and color pic¬ 
tures to represent the fruit of each seed 
and mount on a large piece of mounting 
paper for a seed chart. Spare moments 
may also be spent in studying, reading, 
music, crocheting and bead work. 
AN ORIGINAL GAME 
I am sending a game which my sister 
and I play on a rainy day when we can’t 
get outdoors. First we each get an old 
geography book, then we each select a 
page of some map of the States of the 
United States. We then take different 
cities or towns and write a list of 12 or 
15 questions pertaining to them, for ex¬ 
ample : . 
1. What town or city in New York 
State do we represent when putting 
money in the bank? Ans.—Deposit. 
2. What one in Arkansas would we 
use. to send some cards to our friends? 
Ans.—Stamps. 
Now I am going to give you eight 
questions and am wondering who can 
give the correct answers: 
1. What city in Oklahoma is a beauti¬ 
ful bird? 
2. What city in Louisiana is a legal 
holiday in our country? 
3. What three in Oregon are names of 
boys we frequently hear? 
4. What one in Wyoming is the name 
of a razor? 
5. What city in Arizona is the name of 
a piece of sheet music? 
6. What city in Colorado is the name 
of a brand of cigars? 
7. What city in Mississippi is the name 
of a large car? 
8. What city in Georgia is the name of 
a noted discoverer? iielbn lyke 
New York. (11 years). 
This is fine! As a starter, you can try 
to answer Helen’s .questions. Then you 
can make up some of your own. Will 
Helen please send in her own correct 
answers so that we can print them next 
month? 
Pretty Little Robin 
Pretty little robin 
Singing all day long, 
With his piping little voice 
He singe a cheery song. 
Strawberry Pickers Are We—Sent by 
Eugenie Davignon, Louisiana 
Pretty little robin 
With his breast of red, 
Sitting on a little limb 
Swinging overhead. 
Pretty little robin 
Calling to his mate, 
If she does not heed his call 
His love will turn to hate. 
Pretty little robin 
The bird we love so well, 
And he loves his little ones 
More than we can tell. 
Pretty little robin 
He has gone to bed, 
To sleep there with his little ones, 
Whom all day he has fed. 
Pretty little robin 
Sitting in his nest, 
With his head tucked in his wing, 
He has a happy rest. 
Pretty little robin 
Made by God's own hand. 
And he loves Mother Nature 
Who makes things cool and grand. 
—Ethel St. Claii 
New Jersey. (13 years). 
Our Book Puzzles 
Last month’s Book Puzzle seemed to 
be a hard one and only a few answers 
came in. Yet this is a book, or rather a 
whole series of books, to delight the 
hearts of all girls, and I have known of 
boys who found them interesting, though 
perhaps they would not admit it right out 
loud. Possibly these are books that are 
more common in villages and towns where 
there are public libraries and homes. 
However, keep in mind the “Little Col¬ 
onel” stories and read them when you 
get the chance. 
The following letter answers the April 
Book Puzzle and also gives a new one. I 
hope more of you will recognize this and 
send in the names of the title and author. 
Perhaps there will be some drawings, 
too. 
The answer to the Book Puzzle in our 
April 26 issue is “The Little Colonel,” 
by Annie Fellows Johnston. I have sev¬ 
eral of the “Little Colonel” books and 
“Simple Simon”—Sent by Ralph Harris 
(4 years), New York 
intend to read the whole series. Some of 
the other books about her are “The Little 
Colonel’s House Party,” and "The Little 
Colonel’s Knight Comes Riding.” Also 
many others. I have a grown-up cousin 
who has read all the “Little Colonel” 
books and has met the real “Little Col¬ 
onel,” who lives in Kentucky and looks 
as the story says. Annie Fellows John¬ 
ston also wrote “Georgiana of the Rain¬ 
bows.” 
May I send a Book Puzzle with this, 
please? 
This book is about two little children 
of a woodcutter’s family. It is written 
in play form. They go on a wondrous 
search for a blue bird that will live on 
earth. Bread, Sugar, Milk, Light, Fire, 
Water and their (log and cat accompany 
them. They go to the Land of Memory 
where they see their dead grandparents 
and sisters and brothers. They go to the 
Kingdom of the Future where children 
who are not yet born live and make 
something to bring to earth when they 
are born. The children are blue, as is 
everything else, and some are inventing 
enormous grapes and apples as big as 
melons, and others diseases and other 
things. They go to “The Forest,” where 
trees and animals plan to kill them, but 
are prevented by Light. They also visit 
the Palace of Night, the Palace of Light 
and the Graveyard. In the Palace of 
Night they are shown some of Night's 
mysteries. They meet the Sicknesses, the 
Ghosts, Cold-in-the-Head, the Wars, the 
Shades, the Terrors, and many others. In 
the Palace of Light they meet the lux¬ 
uries and joys of the earth. In the 
Graveyard the graves move and crosses 
are thrown down. They catch many 
birds that seem blue, but not the right 
one. Finally they get home, and when 
the boy gives his pet dove to a neighbor’s 
sick child it turns out to be the true blue 
bird of happiness. The parents think 
the children’s journey has been a dream, 
for the night before they went on the 
journey they had gone to bed and they 
told of it the next morning. The name 
of the girl is Mytyl and of the boy 
Monarch of all He Surveys—Sent by 
Margaret Jennett (14 years), 
New Jersey 
Tyltyl. The dog’s name is Tylo, and the 
cat’s Tylette. cornelia amoss 
Maryland. (12 years). 
May 
May the month of flowers, 
Apple blossoms, too ; 
Gone the April showers, 
Here the glistening dew. 
All the world rejoicing, 
Hearts are wondrous light; 
Buds already bursting, 
Summer-time in sight. 
Day is swiftly closing, 
Night is drawing near; 
Twilight slowly fading, 
Summer-time is here. 
—Norman Hallock (16 years). 
Connecticut. 
Decoration Day 
Our Page will be out this month just 
about Decoration Day, and several read¬ 
ers spoke of this in letters. The beauti¬ 
ful thing about this day when we honor 
the memory of the brave men who died in 
the service of our country is that we use 
flowers to express our feelings. And 
there are so many flowers to be had at 
this season, not perhaps all that are 
mentioned in the following poem, but cer¬ 
tainly most of them. 
BRING FLOWERS 
Bring flowers, bring flowers, the sweetest, 
the best, 
To garland the beds where our brave are 
at rest. 
Bring pansies for thoughts—unforgotten 
are they ; 
Bring laurel for glory they won in the 
fray ; 
Bring lilacs for youth—many fell ere 
their prime; 
Bring oak leaves for Liberty, goddess sub¬ 
lime ; 
Bring chrysanthemums for the truth they 
implore, 
Bring lilies for peace—they battle no 
more; 
Bring violets, myrtles and roses for love ; 
Bring snowballs for thoughts of the heav¬ 
en above; 
Bring hawthorn for hope which sur- 
mounts earthly strife; 
Bring amaranth blossoms for immortal 
life. 
Bring flowers, bring flowers, the sweet¬ 
est, the best. 
To garland the beds where our brave are 
at rest. —Selected. 
Sent by Charlotte Booth 
New York. (15 years). 
About Enigmas 
Our Page always seems like a visit 
with all the boys and girls. I do not like 
to write letters, but I get so much pleas¬ 
ure from the page that I am paid many 
times for writing. You asked for pic¬ 
tures of Spring, so I am sending one of 
myself in a cherry tree. This picture 
was taken on our farm. I think the 
cross-word enigmas are lots of fun. The 
answer to this month’s is a-r-b-u-t-u-s, a 
very pretty Spring flower known as the 
Mayflower in this section. I am send¬ 
ing a new cross-word enigma: 
My first is in water, but not in oil, 
My second in ground, but not in soil, 
My third is in lay, but not in set, 
My fourth in rain, but not in wet, 
My fifth is in do, but not in wish, 
My sixth in plate, but not in dish, 
My seventh in candy, but not in cake, 
My whole is something we all should 
make. roy bergman 
New York. (13 years). 
Notes 
Mabel Allatt, a 17-year-old’ Now Jer¬ 
sey reader, wrote the couplet printed in 
the Box this month. It is a great thing 
to “feel in tune” with each other and 
with the world in which we live. 
All letters, answers to puzzles, draw¬ 
ings and new material of every kind for 
the June page should be sent to reach 
your editor by June 7. 
I must caution you to be very careful 
to sign your letters and give your post 
office address. Some are forgetting to do 
this lately. 
You will find printed this month a 
number of original poems by our read¬ 
ers. which are very good indeed. It is 
worth while to express your thoughts and 
feelings in verse, and if you learn to 
keep a regular length of line (meter) 
and to make good rhymes you will usual¬ 
ly succeed very well. 
The 12 photographs used on Our Page 
this time are fine, and they make a 
strong contrast to the pages of drawings 
we have been having. I think we wi:l 
probably plan our next picture page for 
the month of September. Keep it in 
mind. Thanks are due all who sent 
photographs this time. Those for which 
postage was enclosed will be returned as 
fast as possible. Some are being kept 
for future use. 
Before our next pages comes along 
every reader will have completed tin- 
school year and have started on the long 
vacation. Make the most of it for hap¬ 
py work and play in the great outdoors, 
and don’t forget to let your friend and 
editor hear from you once in a while. 
Address Edward M. Tuttle, in care The 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 30th St., 
New York City. 
A Lapful of Rabbits — Sent by Leo 
Wright (11 years), Michigan 
Five of Our Boys With a Pet Donkey—Sent by E. Barnhart, New Yorh 
