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lht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 1924 
Boys and Girls 
By Edward M. Tuttle 
Let’s Work With a Will and Work With a Heart 
And So Make a Page From Which We’ll Ne’er Part. 
My best vacation experience was a re¬ 
union at my aunt’s house. There were 
43 relatives there all the time. It was 
given in honor of my grandfather who is 
85 years of age and who is still young at 
heart. When we came home there were 
four auto loads all along together and 
we came over the Berkshire Hills and 
the beautiful Mohawk Trail. 
New York. Martha Dudley 
(10 years). 
seed pods have a most exciting way of 
popping open. Just a year ago we had 
a Nature Puzzle on this plant. Look 
back to the September 29, 1923, issue of 
Our Page. 
An Interesting Letter 
I live on a 50-acre farm about two 
miles from town. I go into high school 
Drawn by Griffin Foster (13 years ) 
New York 
Memory Verse 
Among the stubbled corn 
The blithe quail pipes at morn 
The merry partridge drum in hidden 
places, 
And glittering insects gleam 
Above the reedy stream. 
Where spiders spin their filmy laces. 
At eve, cool shadows fall 
Across the garden wall, 
And on the clustered grapes to purple 
turning; 
And pearly vapors lie 
Along the eastern sky, 
Where the broad harvest moon is redly 
burning. 
From “September,” by George Arnold. 
Sent by Miriam Tilden 
Massachusetts. (14 years). 
Here is Our Page illustrated with 
photographs once more, except for the 
little heading and the drawing of the 
ovenbird which were so appropriate that 
your editor felt they should be used. 
Each picture is interesting and you will 
Three Misters—Picture sent by Alice 
Cooley. Pennsylvania 
enjoy looking at them and trying to im¬ 
agine more about the lives of these boys 
and girls and their pets and projects. 
Plans for October 
For the past two years, you remember, 
we have made our October page a special 
Hallowe’en number. I think you will 
like to do it again this year, especially 
since the page will reach you the Satur¬ 
day before Hallowe’en and give you plenty 
of time to carry out any of the sugges¬ 
tions that may be made for celebrating 
that event. We will want drawings and 
photographs and poems (either original 
or quoted) and stories and letters telling 
of Hallowe’en parties. If every reader 
takes hold to help we can have a page 
even better than last year’s, but we will 
have to “go some” to do it. Anyway it 
will be a good page. I know. Send all 
material to reach your editor by Octo¬ 
ber 4. 
Our Coming Anniversary 
Did you know that Our Page will soon 
be five years old? It was “born” on No¬ 
vember 1. 3919, and since then has ap¬ 
peared in the last Rural New-Yorker 
of each month. We ought to do some¬ 
thing to celebrate, don’t you think so? 
Then, too, November 1 comes again this 
year on Saturday (the day The R. N.-Y. 
is published), which makes it doubly ap¬ 
propriate. What can we do for our an¬ 
niversary that will be interesting and 
worth while? Couldn’t we have an extra 
page just for that? Your editor will ask 
Mr. Collingwood to give us the space if 
you will agree to help fill it. Let's try! 
One of the finest things would be for 
every reader who has written to Our 
Page in the last five years to write us a 
birthday letter. Of course, some of the 
boys and girls who were 15 and lfi years 
old five years ago are quite grown up by 
now, and probably do not consider them¬ 
selves our regular readers any more. But 
we hope they have not forgotten us, for 
we have not forgotten them. Most of 
them are at work now, but some may 
still be going to school—at college or a 
special training school. Perhaps some 
have already married and begun the mak¬ 
ing of their own homes, the happiest of 
all experiences. Your editor would re¬ 
joice in a long, friendly letter from each 
one, and hopes that these plans we are 
making will reach the eyes of many of the 
“alumni” of Our Page. 
Then those of you who are still regular 
readers can write of other things. You 
can tell how you first became interested 
in Our Page. You can tell which of the 
many things we do each month or have 
done since we were “born” you like best 
and why. You can make suggestions for 
the future. You can send specially ap¬ 
propriate drawings or photographs or 
memory verses or original poems or 
words for the box. It seems as though 
we could make a wonderful Birthday 
Page, doesn’t it? Send your contribu¬ 
tions to reach your editor not later than 
October 10. Better do it as soon as you 
can, then you won’t forget until too 
late. At the top of each letter put the 
words “A Birthday Letter.” 
September 
There a.*e twelve months throughout the 
year, 
From January to December, 
And the primest month of all the twelve 
Is the merry month of September ! 
Then apples so red 
Hang overhead 
And nuts ripe-brown 
Come showering down 
In the beautiful month of September! 
—By Mary Howitt 
Sent by Harold LeDuc 
Massachusetts. (9 years). 
Vacation Experiences 
I am writing to Our Page to tell of 
my experience on my grandfather’s farm 
last Summer. It is in Western New 
York, over 400 miles from here. It is a 
long, tiresome journey but after getting 
rested and acquainted I enjoyed it very 
much. My two sisters and I had a great 
time exploring the place. We hunted 
eggs, rode on the hay wagon and helped 
my uncle milk the cow. Grandfather 
took us all over the farm showing us the 
apple and pear orchards which did look 
very nice to us at that time as we had 
never s n so much fruit before. We fed 
the chickens and had a little chick for a 
pet. While there we took a trip to 
Niagara Falls. We thought the place 
was wonderful. I am sending a picture 
we had taken while on the farm. 
One of your little readers, 
Pennsylvania. Alice Cooley. 
For my best vacation experience I went 
to the little town of Luzerne, a Summer 
resort in the Adirondacks. There are 
four beautiful lakes; the largest is Lake 
Luzerne. All along the lakes there are 
many pretty cottages and camps. City 
people come there for the Summer 
months. 
My cousins took me for a boat ride on 
a brook that connects Third and Fourth 
Lakes. We caught a few fish such as 
rock bass, pumpkin seeds, and river shin¬ 
ers and we also picked some very pretty 
pond lilies. My cousins also took me up 
on a high cliff. We could look down on 
the Hudson River and the pretty valleys 
and Lake Luzerne. We could see the 
campers swimming and boating on the 
Drawn by Charlotte Booth (1G years ) 
New York 
lake and we could see Potash Kettle Mt. 
and its rocky cliffs and ledges. It was 
a beautiful view. 
New York. Irene Kingsley 
(13 years). 
During my vacation my aunt and uncle 
from New Brunswick, N. J., asked me to 
visit them. They said they would come 
for me in their car. I stayed nine days 
there. While I was there my aunt and 
uncle took me to the shore and a lot of 
other places. Then they took me over to 
a girl friend’s home in Plainfield, N. J. 
I stayed there five days. While I was 
there they took me to a place called 
Washington Rock. Then my aunt and 
uncle came for me and took me home. I 
had a very nice time. 
Mother said that Jackie was asking 
for me while I was away. Jackie is my 
little brother. Besides going away there 
is a place quite near here where I can 
go in bathing. 
Mr. Tuttle, did you ever see jewel- 
weed? It is very odd. When you put 
the leaf in water it turns silver. It looks 
very nretty. The jewelweed has a little 
yellow flower and a medium-sized leaf. 
Our school doesn’t open till the eighth 
of September. I am in the eighth grade 
at school. I like school very much. 
Pennsylvania. Marjorie Blake 
(12 years). 
Yes, your editor has seen and played 
with jewelweed many times. Not only 
are the leaves silvery in water but the 
with our neighbors. I will be in the 
sophomore class this Fall. 
I sometimes play a game I call Catalog 
Shopping. I get a pencil, a paper, and 
catalogs illustrating clothing, furniture, 
etc., and pretend to have a certain num¬ 
ber of children. I write down their names 
and ages. Then I get clothing for them. 
I write down the names of the piece of 
clothing, the color, the material and the 
price. Sometimes I furnish a house. I 
sent for a house plan catalog to a large 
mail order house, but any plans will do. 
I have lots of fun, at the same time learn¬ 
ing to spend money wisely. 
This Summer we watched a very in¬ 
teresting robin family. They had a nest 
in a plum tree. One afternoon we dis¬ 
covered that the old robins had taken a 
baby one as far as the gate. We watched 
for quite a while as it flew from place to 
place. At last when it had reached a 
cherry tree we stopped watching. Late 
that afternoon it began to rain. Mother 
found the baby robin sitting almost 
drowned on the ground. We picked it 
up. wrapped it in a warm cloth and 
soon it became lively and flew away with 
its parents. Alice Belt 
Ohio. (14 years). 
The “game” that Alice plays by her¬ 
self is one that any girl would enjoy. 
Boys too could play at the same game in 
Part of My Onion Crop—Picture sent by 
Pearl Fisher (13 years) New Jersey 
respect to furnishing a house or equip¬ 
ping a farm or workshop. Alice’s letter 
also included answers to the enigma, the 
Nature Puzzle and the Book Puzzle and 
she finished by saying: “The Book 
Puzzles are very much like the book re¬ 
ports we write in first-year high-school 
English.” 
Good Bird Study 
The answer to the Nature Puzzle is 
ovenbird. I have never seen this bird 
but have heard it several times and know 
it by its “teacher” call. 
For two years I have been studying 
birds and have had so much pleasure 
from it. One needs a field glass and bird 
book to be able to identify birds. A friend 
who knows the birds takes bird walks 
with me. Father and mother often go 
also. One doesn’t need to live in the 
country to study birds. A friend of mine 
in the city has seen about twenty kinds 
of birds in or near her yard. She has 
flowers and two trees. 
My favorite place is an old apple or¬ 
chard with a small brook running through 
it. I have seen many birds there and it 
is a delightful place to play. There is a 
small woodlot about a mile from my 
home with a pond and a variety of trees 
and shrubs where there are many birds. 
I have seen 80 kinds of birds this year 
and all within two miles of my home. 
It would be fine for everyone to know 
something about the birds. They are such 
beautiful and interesting creatures. I 
am planning to feed them this Winter. 
Dorothy Fisher 
(13 years). 
A Cartload of Puppies—Picture sent by John Lennon (10 years), New Jersey 
New York. 
