Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. január-június (24. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1941-01-30 / 5. szám

January 30, 1941.

Verhovayak Lapja

Page 7

CHILDREN’S PAGE

Tommy Jones wandered around the large pond on his dad’s farm. He would lie for hours under the shade of the tree and dream beneath the blue sky. Sometimes the deep croaking of a frog would rouse him from his dreaming.

One day he saw a big turtle near the edge of the water. He watched it slowly walking. Tommy came forward with stick in hand. He tapped its back and was surprised to see how quickly the turtle drew its head within the bony shell. Tommy laughed. It was funny to see this queer animal with such a slow walk, hid ding its head so quickly.

Tommy sat quietly on a big rock, until the turtle put its head out again. Then he offered it a morsel; the turtle snapped at it.

Tommy Jones has found a turtle, but there are several more around that he does not see. Can you find them? DONT COUNT THE TURTLE THAT TOMMY SEES!

Little prizes will be atvard ed to ten children sending in the correct number of turtles to be found in the picture.

Cut out the picture, put x’s or check marks on, or circles around, the turtles, or shade them with pencil, pen or crayon, or use any other mark of easy identification, and tell us how many there are; then send in the answer in a letter or paste it on a penny postal card.

In order to give all Verhovay children living in the various parts of the country equal chance to become winners, we are now using a different way to pick the winners. Here it is: Two weeks after the Children’s Pa<ge comes out we will gather together all the answers, mix them up, and

front anywhere in the pile pick out the answers until ten correct ones are found, and by that method find the winners. This gives a child living far away, for instance, in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, etc., just as much chance of winning as one living in Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Detroit.

In sending in your answers, be SURE to include your complete address and state your age.

Address your answers to: CHILDREN’S PAGE, THE VERHOVAY JOURNAL, 345 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA.--------------O-------------NEW YEAR

Everyone is happy On a night called New Year’s Day.

The ground is covered With sncnv so deep,

Which is so pretty On a cold winter night.

It is the beginning Of a Happy New Year;

A beginning of another twelve months.

When the clock strikes tidelve o’clock It is New Year.

Everything is so still,

So cold and white,

So happy and gay.

As we were floating In the clouds so happy;

As the snow comes drifting doum

On New Year’s Day.

But as we think Of people who aren’t gay; But sadness and sorrow Has come over them— People poor,

People across the sea.

But we wish we could Make theirs also A happy New Year.

GIZELLA KNEFELY Mansfield, Ohio

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AMELIA

NYERS

THE DECEMBER WINNERS

Well, it appears that our children are so well satisfied with the Verhovay pencils that we must continue awarding them indefinitely, and the December winners have received their pencils for answering correctly the picture puzzle of the last Children’s Page issue.

These pencils are mechanical, that is, they can be refilled with fresh lead when refilling is necessary, are shaded a beautiful cream color with silvery metallic borders, and surrounding the VFIA blue circular insignia are the name and address of the Verhovay boldly appearing in blue capital lettering. With each pencil are included a generous sup ply of lead and several extra I erasers, and the whole thing j comes in an attractive gift box.

We had a little difficulty in selecting the prize winners for last month, because the children used their own definitions as to what constitutes a “chicken.” Some counted 11 because they did not consider the “peeps” as “chickens”; some 15 because they did not think of the “hen” as a “chicken”; still others 16, counting all except the “peep” in Sally Ann’s arms. However, in selecting the winners, none of these three choices was ignored, because each was correct, depending on one’s point of view. We hope that another misunderstanding like this will not occur. Oh well, learn and learn.

And now for the December winners:

Albert Kohler, Age 6, Box 221, Wheelwright, Kentucky.

Margaret Prokay, Age 11, R. D. 2, Rochester Mills, Pa.

Rose Mary Pongo, Age 12, 942 Doud St., Racine, Wis.

Irene Szabó, Age 12, 1211

CHILDREN:

This is your part of the Verhovay Journal.

We invite you to send us your writings so that we can publish them on this page.

We are more interested in what you send us than in what we pick for you.

It will be nice to see your names under the writings and other Verhovay children will enjoy reading the articles.

So let’s get started!

Be sure to give us your names, your addresses, and tell us how old you are.

POLLY LEARNED A POLKA

“One — two — three. One — two — three. One—” “Polly, what are you doing?” Mrs. King interrupted her daughter’s counting at the dinner table. “Forks and spoons are utensils used in eating food. What are you doing with them?” she demanded, for Polly continued doing the queerest things with the silverware.

Rebecca St., North Braddock, Pa.

Florence Kohler, Age 14, 231 Spring St., Youngstown, Ohio.

John Shurilla, Age 10, R.

D. 1, Poland, Ohio.

Anna Beres, Age 12, Box 2Í3, Mona, W. Va.

Irene Maye, Age 11, 724 So.' Harrington, Detroit. Mich.

Magdalene Mihal, Age 10. 1125 V2 River St., Braddock. Pa.

Steve Dany, Age 11, R. F. D. 3, Courtland, Va.

Congratulations to the newest winners!

The prizes were mailed January 22, 1941.

Keep up the good work, children, and don’t become discouraged. You all have a chance of winning. Remember that the ones above did not think they’d be winners.

Don’t let those turtles get away from you. Find them and let us know about it Get ready—get set—GO!

“Oh, I was just marking time and pretending they are dancing.”

“The idea. After you have finished your dinner you can practise dancing in your room.”

After dinner mother and daughter were very excited over Polly’s dancing. She had had three lessons in ballet and showed definite talent for the art. Ballet was molding her body gracefully and building her health. She was learning French, too, for ballet retained its French language Miss Annette, her dancing teacher, had taught the first rudiments of music: the staff, treble and bass clefs, measures, bars, and explained the time signature; also the values of the notes and the rests, and that counting must be regular. Polly learned that to be a dancer she must sense the rhythm in music.

“One — two — three — four,” counted Mrs. King, admiring the graceful wTay her daughter performed petite battements tendus.

“Your arm positions are also improving,” she remarked, as Polly went through the five arm positions with only two mistakes.

“Do you really think so, Mother? Miss Annette says I need lots of practise to learn to hold my arms in high first position. She says I must hold my arms as though I were holding a