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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 1, 1924 
Boys and Girls 
By Edward M. Tuttle 
This is a special birthday pane 
To say we are five years of age. 
The beys and girls from many States, by picture, game and letter, 
Will make the birthday of Our Page grow happier and better. 
Drawing and verse by Anna Graham (15 years), Illinois 
Our Page 
“Our Tage,” a page for girls and boys 
.Is educational; one enjoys 
To read its pages, that I know 
For I’ve had children tell me so. 
But if we only look and learn, 
It is no very great concern 
Of ours; it is not right to shirk 
While “George” and “Mary” do the work. 
Let us all try to do something, 
Something that will make us all sing. 
For those who gladly do their share 
Will find relief from many a care. 
Now you know just why I wrote this, 
Dear country lad and country miss; 
Make Our Page the best it can be, 
Then we’ll be happy—don’t you see. 
By Emma Keidel (10 years) 
Birthday Letters 
Following are some of the letters that 
were written for our birthday anniver¬ 
sary. They are typical of the spirit and 
interest shown in all that were received. 
A happy birthday to Our Page and 
may it have many more! I have spent 
many happy hours with the page, and al¬ 
though I have read it only three years 
I have enjoyed it thoroughly, and eager¬ 
ly watched its improvement, for improved 
it certainly has. 
Three years ago some of my girl 
friends were looking over several papers 
and magazines and The It. N.-Y. was 
among them. In looking it over we 
came lo the drawings which were in at 
that time. We laughed a great deal 
over a drawing made by Norman Ilal- 
lock of Connecticut. It was to illustrate 
a rhvme, and we thought it very good, 
as well as the others. We decided to 
send something in for Hallowe’en which 
we did. 
I have learned many interesting things 
from Our Page, and I am sure all who 
read it do. We have all The Rural 
New-Yorker’s from the year 1921, and 
last Summer I gathered them up and 
took out the pages for Boys and Girls, 
and bound them together, leaving space 
to put in each new page as it came. I 
enjoy very much looking back at them. 
Oh hapnv birthday to Our Page 
And may it live to a ripe old age. 
Ellen Rickard (1G years) 
New York . 
Dear Mr. Tuttle: It certainly does 
not seem five years since Our Page 
started. It has been great fun to write 
to it and to read the letters from other 
boys and girls. I have all but. two of 
the pages and there is some difference 
between the first, page of two columns 
and those we have now. 
I like the Book Puzzles which we have 
because I like to read so well. I have 
read quite a few of the books that have 
been described on Our Page, and they 
are all good. I especially like the rhyme 
drawings, too. 
My sister and I had a flower garden 
again this year. It was not as large as 
the ones we have had other years but 
we had many flowers. I think the pret¬ 
tiest flowers that we had were large 
pink, red and white poppies. They 
started blooming in August and have not 
stopped yet (October 5). Although they 
do not last very long there are always 
many fresh blossoms every morning. Be¬ 
sides these, we have California poppies, 
Cosmos, cornflowers, Zinnias, asters, cal- 
liopsis, balsams, Petunias, Celosias and 
cockscomb, annual Phlox, white candy¬ 
tuft, Portulacas and Gladioli. The 
balsams and Zinnias have frozen, but all 
the rest are still in blossom. There are 
quite a few flowering shrubs around the 
house too. 
I am in my second year of high school 
and I like it very well. I like all my 
teachers this year, too. It is. a 15-min- 
ute walk to school, so on nice days I 
come home for my lunch. I tried to make 
a drawing for Our Page of a bunch of 
poppies and ajn sending the results. Also 
a photograph of myself standing by our 
front porch. 
Hoping that Our Page can have an¬ 
other “Birthday Special” soon, I am 
An interested reader and friend, 
Gladys Feldberg (14 years). 
New York. 
From the very first Gladys has been 
one of the most faithful readei^s of Our 
Page. It seems to your editor that hard¬ 
ly a month has gone by without a letter 
from her, and every one, long or short, 
has had something of interest in it. Now 
and then some contribution of hers has 
been published, but not very many. This 
has made no difference, however, as far 
as her writing regularly has been con¬ 
cerned. In these five years Gladys has 
grown from a little girl of nine to the 
wonder age of fourteen, when life is full 
of eager, new experiences. In the next 
five years she will grow into young wo¬ 
manhood. May they he great years of 
growing for her and for all of you girls 
and boys who read Our Page. This is 
your editor’s wish. 
Dear Friend : The way I got interested 
in Our Page was one night I was stay¬ 
ing with a friend. Her family took 
Tiie R. N.-Y. They showed me the page. 
In a short time my father signed for the 
paper. I have not been with Our Page 
the five years, but I can help Our Birth¬ 
day celebration. 
The leaves on the trees are beginning 
to turn all colors. We can soon rake 
them up and play in them. Sincerely, 
Aubrey Gregory (14 years). 
New' York. 
Dear Editor: I did not realize that 
Our Page is five years old until I read 
it in the September issue. I have read 
the page since it. w T as about three months 
old. and written, too. I do not intend to 
stop reading and writing to the page for 
a few years. I enjoy Our Page and al¬ 
ways look for the issue of The R. N.-Y. 
in w'hich it is. 
I go to high school seven miles from 
home. I am in my sophomore year, and 
it seems good not to be a green fresh¬ 
man. 
I think this letter is long enough so 
will close wishing Our Page many more 
birthdays. A sincere reader, 
Roy Bergman (13 years). 
New' York. 
P. S. I am sending a memory verse on 
the back of this sheet. 
It seems to be much harder for boys 
to get down to letter writing than for 
girls, but Roy is a shining exception, 
and a reader w-ho has done much for us 
all. We hope that he feels w'ell paid for 
his efforts in the greater interest he 
finds along the many lines which Our 
Page follows months by month. We wish 
his example would inspire many other 
boy readers to let us hear from them, too. 
To Our Page: Mr. Tuttle, you said 
that the readers should tell of something 
in w r hich they were interested. I will 
try, but I don’t know how well I will 
succeed. 
I live on a farm, and would not ex¬ 
change country life for the city for “love 
or money” as the old saying runs. My 
mother w r as born on this farm, which 
contains about 115 acres. To go on with 
what I started to tell, it’s this: I am 
especially interested in the pictures of 
horses and ponies. I like horses best 
of all the domestic animals. I have one 
for a pet. His name is Major. He is a 
chestnut sorrel with a white spot on his 
forehead and one on his nose. Major 
has one white hind foot, too, and his 
mane and tail are iron grey in color. 
One day my mother and father hap¬ 
pened to be away from home. They did 
not care if I drove the horse around on 
the farm. So I hitched Major up on the 
stone boat and drove him up a hill at 
the back of our house. It is very steep. 
The stone boat had runners on and the 
grass was dry. As I started dow r n the 
hill the stone boat shot toward Major’s 
heels. I fell off but did not draw up 
on the reins. Major sensed that every¬ 
thing wasn’t as it should be, and turned 
directly around so that he was facing 
me. He would not go on until I had 
scrambled to my feet again. Now wasn’t 
that animal intelligence? 
Well I guess I will quit for now and 
give some one else a chance. Suppose 
the waste basket will get this any way. 
I remain, An interested R. N.-Y. reader, 
New York. Avis Thorna. 
You see, Avis, the -waste basket didn’t 
get it after all. Your editor really has 
a very small waste basket. 
Dear Editor: I am going to tell you of 
the first time I saw the drawings in The 
It. N.-Y. One day as I was cleaning up 
my father’s desk I picked up The R. 
N.-Y. and went through it. I saw the 
drawings in it. I read all the boys’ and 
girls’ page and I sent in a drawing for 
the first time. I live on a farm. I am 
12 years old, and I am in the seventh 
grade. Each month I read carefully the 
boys’ and girls’ page. I look forward to 
it with great pleasure. Wishing it a 
happy birthday. Yours truly, 
Michigan. Mary Daly. 
Dear Editor: As this is Our Page’s 
birthday I am going to send you a letter 
about what we are doing in school. This 
year I am a sophomore in high school, 
Drawn by Charlotte Booth (16 years), 
New York 
and we certainly are looking forward to 
good times to come before long. All the 
sophomores who take Latin have formed 
a Latin. Club known as the “Standard 
Bearers of the Tenth Legion of Caesar.” 
We have programs every three weeks, 
and I am on the constitution committee. 
We expect to have an outing with the 
Olympic Club, -which consists of the 
juniors and seniors, at our fair ground. 
We will have games like the Romans; 
have wheelbarrow races instead of char¬ 
iot races, and pitch quoits or horse¬ 
shoes instead of throwing the discus, and 
have two spears for the hurling of the 
javelins. We are going to give prizes 
for all these games, and after it gets 
dark we are going to have a large fire 
and have -weiners and marshmallows to 
roast instead of a Roman feast. 
We certainly all are anxious for it 
and hope it will be a nice clear night. 
We are going to leave the high school 
building at the ringing of the bells at 
four o’clock. We will have for our chap¬ 
eron our Latin teacher and no doubt 
some other members of the faculty. We 
can hardly wait till Friday comes. I 
am, A happy reader, 
Martha Horst (15 years). 
Pennsylvania. 
To Our Birthday Page: The first time 
I sent in to Our Page the letter con¬ 
tained words for the box and how de¬ 
lighted I was w'hen the next paper with 
the boys’ and girls’ page came to see it 
printed. I have been sending some let¬ 
ters since, but have had no luck this last 
while back. Then there were a couple 
of months that I did not send in, as I 
put it off from day to day till 1 didn’t 
do it in time to send. But everybody’s 
letters Can’t be printed at one time. This 
time I am. sending a conundrum. 
Will have to quit now or I will not be 
in time for today’s mail. Waiting anx¬ 
iously to read Our Page, 
Margaret Farabaugh. 
Pennsylvania. 
Happy Birthday, dear old page! I 
haven’t been reading you all the time, 
but I’ve been reading you since 1921. 
Near the last Saturday of the month, 
when I come home from school, I say : 
“Mamma, has The R. N.-Y. come yet?” 
If she says yes, in I go after it. Oh 
dear page, if you weren’t in it what 
would I do? Hope you will continue 
for a great many years. 
Louise Gross (11 years). 
New Jersey. 
Dear Editor: The children’s page I 
think is wonderful. The way that I got 
interested was by glancing over every 
picture and the age of each child. It 
made me feel as if I, too, could do w'hat 
other boys and girls were doing, some 
younger than the others, but still doing 
their best. Not only their best, but 
with all their hearts they were ready to 
do what had been decided. So I w'ish 
every child a most happy birthday as 
well as Our Page. I wish every child 
could get The R, N.-Y. and see what the 
children’s page is. I wish those that take 
The R. N.-Y. w r ould show the page to 
those w 7 ho don’t know about it. 
Mary Ivasulis (14 years). 
Connecticut. 
These are exactly the wishes that your 
editor has in his heart, too. There are 
some who do not quite understand about 
Our Page, what it means to boys and 
girls, what we are trying to do and how 
we go about it. So it may be a good plan, 
on this special birthday page, to take up 
some of these things again, and explain 
them as clearly as we can. 
What is Our Page? 
It is the page (or double page, to be 
exact) for boys and girls published in 
The R. N.-Y. on the last Saturday of 
each month. This present number is an 
extra issue to celebrate our birthday, to 
take a little look back and a long look 
ahead. We are five years old today. For 
a short and affectionate name among our¬ 
selves we refer to this as Our Page. It 
is just that. It is made by the boys and 
girls who read it, for the boys and 
girls who read it. The editor simply 
takes what is sent in and puts it together 
in the most attractive, most logical and 
most interesting shape possible. We are 
free to do whatever the majority wants 
to do. Naturally at any particular time 
we are following certain plans that have 
been suggested previously but new ideas 
are always welcome. 
Who Belongs to Our Page? 
Your editor still receives quite a good 
many letters about like the following: 
Lately I have been very much inter¬ 
ested in your children’s page. I have 
often wished that I could put something 
into it, but I never found any directions 
or rules to follow', so I have never sent 
anything. If there are any rules and 
regulations please tell me, for I should 
like to draw for the page. 
I had never looked' much at the paper 
till about a year or so ago; then the one 
I looked at happened to have the chil¬ 
dren’s page in it. Since then I have 
watched carefully for the page, and I 
take great pleasure in looking at the lit¬ 
tle folks’ drawings and stories. The lit¬ 
tle poems are often very good. 
I am enclosing a drawing which I 
made for the Hallowe’en number. Please 
tell me all about the wmrk and if I may 
contribute. Frieda Haynes. 
New Hampshire. 
