Nimble little Russian hands give capital ideas to Santa Claus

Archangel children say “WE WISH YOU COULD COME TO US

. but we know you can't’

IND Sir, please tell us if By Douglas Mahanty on hand. There was beautifully this country ’way across carved furniture, and there were the mighty ocean is Amer- lifelike animals, useful boxes and ica?”” Grimy fingers pointed to a distant land on the baskets, dainty handkerchiefs and miniature Russian great map which hung in the bare Russian school- utensils of many kinds. It had taken many a play- room, and anxious faces turned inquiringly toward an hour to get these presents ready. What joy it was to officer in American uniform. give! If only they might have sent more It was winter in ice-bound Archangel. in order that the children in far-away The officer was Major Lively of the America could measure better their love American Red Cross, and the children and gratitude. were Russian boys and girls. They had “We wish you could come to us, little a good reason for plying the Major with Americans, and share with us the Christ- questions about America, for that very mas holidays, but we know that you day they had sent a large hamper of can’t,” wrote the children of Archangel. toys, the work of their own hands, to Then they said to themselves: ‘‘Because the children of the Junior Red Cross in the charming American boys and girls America. It was their Christmas present cannot slide from the ice hill, or come to the American friends who had done into our houses, we must give them a so much to help them. glimpse of some of the other things we They had spent weeks working over have in this country of ours, so many their gifts in order that each might be as miles away.”’ So they packed into their perfect as a Russian boy or girl could Christmas hamper, with the toys and make it. Dolls were dressed in the gay- other gifts, a small trough made from a est of colors, from tiny pieces of worn- hollow block of wood, just like the large out dresses; slippers were edged with bowls their mothers used on wash-day. warm white fur from some of the Arctic There were wooden flat-irons, too, like animals, and toys were made from the the heavy ones that sat all day behind hardy little fir and birch trees that grow the great stove in the kitchen. The chil- in that far northland. It was wonderful dren even sent some odd-looking gilded

to see the things these Russian boys and Where all the trees vessels with handles and a _ cover- girls could make from the little they had are Christmas trees samovars made to resemble the great [2] When Archangel’s sun hibernates with the bears, the toymakers’ fun begins

brass cones which are found in every Russian home. When Major Lively heard these words, he immedi- How the children love the samovar! They shine it ately thought of what the Red Cross could do for the and shine it, until they can see their own bright faces children, and how the schools might be kept open. reflected on the polished sides. Almost constantly This was the result: In the schools of Archangel, Red does the charcoal burn under the samovar, for the Cross luncheons were served each day. Russians use it morning, noon and night, to brew They were delicious luncheons, with hot chocolate their tea. “It would never do for the American chil- made out of plenty of American condensed milk. dren not to know our old friend the samovar,”’ said Milk in any form was a rare treat to these North the children, as they tucked the little toy samovar Russian children, and the daily cup of rich milk cocoa into the Christmas bundle. proved to be a magic potion. It made them under- Then the Russian children put in some miniature stand their lessons, and it made them enjoy their plav- crocks and tubs. They remembered the days when time. their mothers used to keep large jars like these filled All this food was a gift from the American Red with butter, pork, cabbage and other good things, Cross, and the Red Cross officers did not fail to tell that there might be food all through the winter’s cold. the Archangel children how many millions cf American For a long time now there had been but little put into boys and girls are active members cf the Red Cross. those jars. Just to think of them brought tears to the The children asked many questions, and they wished eves of the little Russians. very much that they could know more about the Sadly their minds traveled back to the first days Junior Red Cross and the American school children of turmoil in which hunger had come to Archangel. who belong to it. To be hungry for days is a very dreadful thing. It is no wonder, then, that with each blow of the It was then that the school children all over the hammer, every stitch of the needle, and snip, snap of city had begun to grow weak. the scissors, a message of love was sent to America. ‘Soon we shall have to close our schools,” said the “Greetings for the Lord’s birth, and God be with town officials, when things did not improve; ‘‘for lack you, dear American children,” the children of Arch- of food our children have no strength to study their angel say in Russian manner, as they gaze at the great lessons.”’ school map. : Heres a High School Sketch SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERTISING

By John McChesney

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[High School Juniors in Montclair, New Jersey, used this tiny play to prepare the way for their Junior Red Cross Sale last winter. The boys and girls who took part acted as sandwich men, each i ; ; . ; carrying a placard with a huge letter or figure. As the play progressed, the audience found that the letters stood for the various occupations which had contributed toward preparations for the sale. One by one, and at differen’. points in the sketch, the sandwich men took up positions at the front : . ca cai | of the stage, so that when the sketch ended the letters and figures announced ‘‘Sale Dec. 13-14. it

First Cit.: Here, hither! gentle creatures, come you’ First Cit.: First, Nick Bottom, the weaver. 1] here: (reads) | i

Being a anne, mechanical, you D ought ous nce walk’ es . BOTTOM: Ay, What sir, ho! —here, Robin Starveling, si. the tailor, and HI 1 Upon a laboring “eee day gg without eae the sign of : Mistress ce Starveling—the ie oe sign ’ of . our pro 1 your J profession? Speak, what trade art ieeslaat ssion! | caenr Do we not weave and sew? So “S” for sew, QUINCE: Why, sir, a carpenter. an it please you, gentle sir! First . s" Cit.: “re Where 7 is Se thy leather ~ . apron and ‘ thy rule? = »?> ppppee 7 Cy. 7 Answer as I ca!l you. i What dost thou with thy best apparel on? Where : is . the sign . of . thy profession? ; es Mi ine host st Pistol Pis g and Mistress Mistress Quickly. Ouick QUINCE: _— Truly, sir; . "Tis . here.—What, * Lucius, ° ho! PISTOL: TS . 7 lhe > sign S of our profession, pans “rr “F’’ for eats, i Lucius, I say! wherewith we furnish goodly cheer for abs Called ; you, : my lord? . Christmas > tide. OUINCE: Ay, marry, sir, the sign, the “‘C” which is LABORER: In short, good sir, by’r lady, we are labor- The sign of my profession; for I (¢nterrupts) ers all—artificers who have labored for A carpenter, 7 your servant Quince, ° and the market re where the Quince ince and < Snug . r< and } Snug : all the rest ; show forth ; their wares. : And The joiner, make toys for Christmas holi- by my halidom, love’s labors will not davs. ; be lost. SeconpC1r.:You, sir, what trade are you? Seconp Cit.:Ay, goodly wares for Christmas tide, good ARTIST: A painter, good my lord laborers of Montclair. But when, pray The sign of my profession, sir,—‘‘A’’ for tell, may we these jewels buy: artist, QUINCE: Beware the ides of December! Too late, And close at hand the sign of draughts- (solemnly) too late—the sale’s the thing, and that’s man’s art— the 13th and the 14th. For drawing, “D,’’ good my lord. First Cit. (advances to front and addresses audience First Cit.: You, sir, what trade are you? Go, go, good countrymen, and for this sale QUINCE: Here is the scroll of every man’s name Assemble all the good men of your sort, interrupts) thatis thought fit, through all Montclair, Draw them to 518 Bloomfield Avenue and to furnish forth gifts as you like them. shed your coin You were best to read them generally, Into the coffers, till the lowest pile man by man, according to the scrip. Do kiss the most exalted chest of all.

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Turkey herder in Agram, a city which wants to be “Thanks for cocoa!’ says the capital of a new coun- this note from Nina Len- tryv—Jugoslavia. Below gauer, of Archangel, seven is the white eagle of Po- years old. The note came to land, and at the right is America inside a toy samo- what you would be looking var, one of the gifts sent by at if you were on the front children of North Russia to seat of a Russian droshky. our own Junior Red Cross.

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sé Wait for me here,” This Belgrade boy said a French is glad to find some mother when she left new clothes waiting her tiny daughter at for him at the Jun- an American Red tor Red Cross or- Cross hospital. And phanage. The refu- baby spent two gee family above has whole days waiting walked thirty miles at the head of the and is here enjoying stairs, refusing to American Red Cross leave the place where food ina gun en- her loving mother placement on the had said good-bye. Tower of David. JUNIOR RED CROSS NEWS Another Name for Juniors has been Published Monthly, September to May inclusive, by Tut furnished DEPARTMENT OF JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP OF THE AMERICAN RED ( ROSS, \\ ishington, D.C by Col. Robert E. Olds, the American Red Cross Commissioner to Europe. Colonel Olds, who has been Vi I November-December, 1919 No. 3 telling National Headquarters of the Red Cross in Vational Officers of the American Red Cross Washington about sad conditions in the various coun- Wooprow WiLson, President JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, tries across the Atlantic Ocean, says that thousands WitniaAmM H. ‘Tart, Vice-Pres. Treasure ROBERT W. DE Forest, ALEXANDER C. KING, Counselor would die, mostly children, were the American Red Vice-Pr STOCKTON AXSON, Secretary Cross to withdraw from Europe, even though a whole LIVINGSTON FARRAND, Chairman Central Committee year has passed since the Armistice was signed and LOUGHBY G. WALLING, FREDERICK C. MUNROE, Vice-Chairman General Manage the world-war stopped. Then, after speaking of the Sono poet James N. Rute, Directo Department! f Junior Membership fifteen or more children’s relief projects which the \ sufficient number of copies of each issue of the Junior Red Junior Red Cross is financing in war-swept lands, he ( s News to provide one copy for each teacher will be sent with declared that the Juniors will be the residuary legatees out charge to each school organized as a Junior Red Cross \uxiliary. Should additional copies be desired by any school, 01 (re-zid’u-a-ri leg-a-tees’) of the American Red Cross hould individuals desire to have the Junior Red Cross News sent in Europe. It may sound odd at first, and is not your to their personal address, subscriptions can be made for such idditional copies through the Chairman of the local Chapte official name, of course. School Comn llitee. Such additional subscriptions will be re It means just this: that the tremendous work for ceived, at the rate of 45 cents each, only for the period of one full school year of nine months. Subscriptions not received in time the relief of suffering peoples in the Old World, along to run concurrent with the school year will be continued into the with the general good will for America thus aroused ensuing ve ir for a total of nine issues. in the hearts of the peoples themselves, will be in- herited by the Junior Red Cross which is carrying on Let us take issue with despondency and similar relief works for the rising generations in the break a lance against fear and rejoice in our same distressed countries. day. Let a cheerful confidence in our coun- You see, these countries have been so terribly torn irymen, in our institutions, in our means of and wasted by the war that they have not been able civilization and progress, take rest in our to rebuild the ruined sections in the quick way, for hearts and live in our families. instance, that San Francisco recovered from its great -\Mrs. John Farley Cox. fire and in ten years gave a world’s fair. They have lost everything that is needed for reconstruction as a Here We Are with a combination Novem- result of destruction wrought by their enemies, who ber-December number of your not only destroyed their homes but their working Junior Red Cross News, with a touch here and there of places—their factories and their mines—also. Thanksgiving and more of Christmas in its pages. We Some of these families are living in the trenches just had to do it—put two numbers in one, in order and dug-outs left by the Germans, dirty, damp places, to catch up. There have been difficulties at the out- indeed, and little babies are born there. Children will set in producing your little monthly magazine that spend their Christmas in slushy snow and filth amid we shall not worry you with. Is it not sufficiently the ruins of Poland, for example, despite all that the interesting to you to know that it will be a regular American Red Cross and other relief organizations visitor to your Junior Auxiliary each month of the can do with their orphanages, homes, soup kitchens, school term? free clothing and hospital supplies. The American Red Cross is giving it to your school A share in the privilege of carrying on this work for to acquaint you with what the Juniors are doing every- the New Europe—the children—will be accorded the where, and to make you almost see and know the Junior Red Cross, the residuary legatee of the Ameri- many unhappy children in foreign lands and at home can Red Cross. A. C. whom you are helping by reason of the enrollment of your school in the Junior Red Cross. And not a penny AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL of your relief money is used for this publication—all Junior money is devoted to real service for somebody, O beautiful for spacious skies, perhaps someone in your home town. For amber waves of grain, This number, therefore, is mainly a Christmas greet- For purple mountain majesties ing to you and your teacher, who is the leader of your Above the fruited plain! Auxiliary, with the heartiest of good wishes to young America! America! people all over the world as well. And if you will look God shed His grace on thee carefully at the picture on the cover of this copy of And crown thy good with brotherhood the News you will know why we include young people From sea to shining sea! everywhere, in addition to our own Juniors. —Katharine Lee Bates, in ‘‘America the Beautiful.’

The merriest of merry Christmases to you! (By permission, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., N.Y., Publishers.)

[6] Ho Ww the Juniors are HELPING CHINA TO CONQUER CHOLERA

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Clean houses and good food are good-luck signs that Juniors all over the world believe in. These two little neighbors are the same age.

IN-FANG, do look!” said the girl excitedly. have been spared,’’ Elizabeth said with much sadness. “Did you ever see anything as funny as that ‘‘No longer need the rice bowls be filled with sor- chained cat?’”’ She nodded toward the court- row,” comforted Tin-fang. vard of a Chinese home as they walked down a street Elizabeth’s face brightened. Quickly she clapped in Shanghai. her hands together. A Chinese servant answered as “With your permission, Honorable Miss Elizabeth, if by magic. “Carry to Wu-Sien-sheng this booklet. I would suggest that we make known our belief there,” Tell him it comes from the Junior Red Cross. If he answered gravely the Chinese boy. “It is the home of will read it well, and do as it says, there will be no Wu-Sien-sheng, the merchant. The chained cat shows need to keep a cat to ward off the evil ones.” The that the master believes that it is the evil spirits who servant bowed low and was gone. bring sickness.” Elizabeth and Tin-fang were members of the Ameri- They stopped a moment in front of the house while can Junior Red Cross in China, which had started a in low tones Tin-fang told her the story. crusade against the dreaded disease called cholera. It “Last year, Chi, the old- takes trained physicians to est son of Wu-Sien-sheng, treat this disease when was smitten with cholera. once it is contracted, but In spite of the cat an evil the Junior Red Cross has one had entered under the been able to save many rooftree. The August Par- who would otherwise have ents of the boy besought been victims by teaching the wise men in the temple them that lack of cleanli- for magic with which to ness is in reality the evil cure their son. It was in spirit which they have vain! Chi passed quickly feared so long. over the River of Tears, Out of their membership leaving the Aged Ones des- fund the Juniors have paid olate with grief.’ for the printing of 10,000 “If we could only have pamphlets and posters with reached them sooner with The Shanghai Juniors use leaflets and simple rules of hygiene for our good news, Chi might speeches to help the fight against cholera the prevention of cholera. PiNE-COM AND POPP’

Some of the most interesting toys I By Katler have ever seen were made by the crip- r ples in the Jodliskuv Ostav, or Home for Crippled Children, in Prague. All the toys were made of cones, burrs, acorns, twigs, poppy-balls and other forest things. The children gather their mate- rial in the woods in summer, and then in winter the real toy-making begins. Quaint little replicas of the fat peasant women of Slovakia are made from poppy-balls of different sizes, and then colored in the brilliant hues so familiar to the Czechs. Lifelike hunting scenes with plenty of action are constructed from a few burrs and pine cones. The stags and horses are made of the green, Bohemian children don't get excited—even when they see candy for the first time in years unopened cones, while trees and shrubbery are repre- sented with open cones. The legs of the animals are all of twigs, and tiny whittled slivers of wood form YY ZECHO-SL( IVAKIA should be a land of child’s the horses’ upstanding-ears on their acorn heads. The delight, for it is there that some of the prettiest, huntsmen are poppy-ball men and their bows and arrows cleverest toys in the world are made. More than are fashioned of tiny bent twigs. one American girl in a Red Cross uniform has found in the Some of the children who make these toys are terribly dingy back room of a Czech toy-maker an hour of delight- crippled—many of them made so through disease brought ful entertainment after her hard day’s work. It is a treat about by undernourishment because the war deprived them just to inspect the toy-maker’s grotesque array of villages of food. One little girl is blind, and so lame she can never with roofs of real thatch; his tiny wooden animals, so small walk, but her deft fingers fashion the most realistic chickens one wonders how they were ever cut by hand; his card- from pine cones and little bits of whittled wood. Another board and papier-maché toys almost indestructible—every- little girl of seven years is an adept at suggesting the scenes thing from a wooden fish that floats right side up to a life-sized baby elephant. Red Cross workers without a chick or child of their own kin are taking home many of the toys simply as souvenirs of a visit to tovland. lhe toys are made in homes tucked away deep in the Slovakian mountains or on the great plain of Moravia. Here in the homes of the peasants every- body makes toys, from wrinkled great-great-grand- mother to tiny tots four and five years of age. Toy- making is often depended upon to augment the slender income from the farm, and the tired farmer frequentl\ works long into the night making toys after he has tilled the fields all day. Each member of the family has his specialty, and does that particular part of the production. Father and brother are handier with the knives and do the cutting. Mother's artistic taste is displayed in the coloring, and the children do the gluing and mount- ing. All over the land one finds children who have become adepts in toy-making; and in designing their childish ingenuity sometimes brings forth better re- Woods and mountains are rich in toy mate- sults than are obtained from grown-up co-workers. rial that costs nothing but a summer walk

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‘atken Hills which can be represented when the toys are finished. A little boy who had his arms blown off by the explosion of a hand grenade is very clever at designing new toys, which he does with his feet as easily as you and I might do it with our hands. One of the special delights of this group of children is to depict in these toys the folk-songs of their fatherland or some of the historic events in its history. These particular woodland toys have never found their way to America, but before long the children of this country will have them. And the children of America, in turn, will thus be helping the Prague home to help the unfortunate little cripples of Czecho- A spirited hunting scene can be made from pine Slovakia. The Czech children are anxious for that cones. Mrs, Hills holds the proof in her hand day to come, for they are very grateful for the aid Americans have given them, and they promise to do their best work on the toys to be made for American chil- Czecho-Slovakia the children used to sit ia huddled groups dren. on the doorsteps, in the courts between the houses, or on When they do come, these toys will not bear the old the curbstones, elbows on knees, heads in their hands, just trade-mark ‘‘Made in Germany,” for Czecho-Slovakia is pensively gazing into space and thinking. now a free country. In the course of a few weeks, after the American Red Meanwhile, although hundreds of children play in the Cross feeding stations were opened, the children showed streets of Prague just as in any other large city, there is several hundred per cent more animation and liveliness. never the ceaseless noise and cry that one hears from Good rich soup, made with meat and fat, was a very differ- crowds of American children. ent thing from the weak watery stew of the town soup line; When the American Red Cross workers first arrived in and for months this watery stew had had to piece out the daily ounces of black bread in many thousands of households. As for the cocoa—real cocoa with milk in it—it seemed almost too good to be true. In a short time there was a change. Hide-and-seek and 4 the more strenuous and time-honored tag, rope-skip- ping and jumping began to interest the children, and proved that their earlier listlessness was in part, at i least, the result of lack of food.

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Honesty with steady eye, Truth and pure simplicity, Love that gently vinneth hearts, These shall be thy only arts

Laugh at danger far or near; Spurn at baseness, spurn at fear; Still, with persevering might, Speak the truth, and do the right. Some of the little cripples who know how to work miracles with twigs and acorns —Alexander Everett.

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HIDE-AND-SEEK IN THE RUINS

By Louise Franklin Bache

LAY? what shall we play?” Five little boys cakes; but then she remembers she mustn't make a and girls in Belgium are asking themselves this noise if she doesn’t want to be the first one found. question. Jan, Marie, Pieter, Mathieu and Poor old bare cupboard! All that is left of it now is a Annetteke are their names. For five whole years they broken door and battered walls. have not known what real play is. Now their mothers Pieter finds a hole in the wall exactly the right size and fathers, big brothers and sisters are very busy to hold a small boy. The hole was made by a great building new homes in which they all may be happy shell which came tearing through Jan’s home one day again. ‘Run and play,” they say to the little brothers while the war was going on. Pieter’s coat is just the and sisters who are too small to help in the work. color of the stone wall that surrounds him. Mathieu That command crawls up into makes the chil- the old smoke

dren look seri- chimney; surely ous. It is hard, Jan will never this process of think of looking thinking what to for him there. play! Annetteke is “T have it,” very small, so shouts Jan. “We she hides behind will play hide- a great pile of and-seek in our loose stones. old house across There is a the street.”’ Jan rattle of stones! points his stub- Annetteke’s lit- by finger to the tle wooden shoe cliff-like wall has dislodged a that marks the rock. Inasecond site of his for- Jan is upon her mer home. Clat- and Annetteke is ter, clatter, go taken prisoner. all the wooden When winter shoes across the comes there will stone pave- be no more ment. games of hide- Jan is “It.” That is the and-seek out-of-doors. reward one gets for think- But in about twenty Bel- ing of things! gian villages the Junior Marie finds a good hid- Red Cross will try its hand ing place in the old kitchen at keeping the children cupboard. Here it was, in happy with nice hot lunch- the days before the war, eons, on cold days when that Jan’s mother kept the bare rattle-windowed great earthen crocks filled schoolroomseemsverybleak with delicious gingerbread to tired children who have cakes—cakes made to look not had enough breakfast. like all the animals Noah had in his wooden ark. My! Crumbling stone walls do how good they were! Ma- indeed make questionable rie is just old enough to playgrounds—but last sum- remember them, and she mer the children of a dozen Belgian villages were hap- almost smacks her lips pily dodging about in the when she thinks of those ruins of their former homes.

[10] The American Red Cross has helped the Italian Government feed and clothe 154,704 litile Italian children who have no families 19 take care of them KSGIVING LETTERS FROM MLE FPRENLA PRIM

HE boys and big, it is bigger than girls of Amer- 100 yards, there are ica could not footballs, croquet celebrate Thanksgiv- games, swings, there ing alone this year, are big tents. At noon for the children of we eat nice hot vege- France wished to tables. What I like speak their thanks best of all are the au- too. They are very tomobile rides. The grateful, these French rides to the monu- children, for all the ments I like most be- gifts the Junior Red cause we go far. We Cross has been able have red cheeks, we to give them—the are not sick, we are food, the warm very healthy. I think clothes and the happy that my letter will times. So they have find you healthy, too, decided, hundreds of and that you will like them, to put their my letter. I close by thanks into letters sending you a_ big that everyone may hug. read of their love and “EUGENIE RHEIN, appreciation for the 10 Rue de la Petite Juniors in America. Pierre (20 ieme)” Here are only a few of the notes they have “Dear Little Ameri- written to the mem- can: bers of the Junior Red “| thank you very Cross: The smallest ones need help, but they much for the care and all want to write to American Juniors the money which you “Dear Little American have given for us and Friends: our other comrades “We write to you in two words to thank you because who have no father and who have been suffering for they have told us how good you have been to us. We such a long time from misery and poverty. I have have been able to spend forty days happily in the hope that another year you will do what you can for mountains in a pretty country where there are woods me and my comrades. and fruit trees, fields, mountains and deep valleys. “T thank you very much with all my heart. We are well; the people who take care of-us are kind “In leaving you I kiss vou very hard. and do not scold too much; we eat all we want to. We “ALBERT ROCHE, do. etfands, we take care of the animals, we walk in 12 Rue Bonnet, Paris (18 ieme).” the woods where the air is so good, we lie on the grass, we listen to stories, especially about the Americans “Dear Friend; whom we shall always remember, even when we are “How happy I am and grateful for your generosity big. which procures me the great joy of spending my vaca- “Good-bye, dear friends, with all our affection, tion in the good fresh air of the country. I am at “MARCEL AND Louis DEVALLEE.”’ Dun-sur-Auron with a kind family. “Kindly accept all my good wishes of good health for “Dear Little Friends: you and your family and all the thanks of a little “Il am sending you this letter to thank you. I am schoolboy whom you are making very happy. happy when I go out into the field. I have fun, it is “RAYMOND CAMUS.’ ’

[12] THE BRIGGS TWINS’ CHRIS!

By Henrietta Lund

HE Briggs twins, Betty and John, stood Just then there was a loud knock at the door, and just outside a rough board shack, which in blew one of the neighbors from across the fields. they had called home ever since the forest ‘‘Howdy, folks!’ he said, as he pulled at his cap. .‘You fire swallowed up the comfortable Briggs farmhouse. are all invited to a real Christmas party at the Red Their faces were very grave. It was the day before Cross shack tomorrow.” Before the children could Christmas, and there was not a present in sight. thank him, the door slammed and he was gone. “Tt isn’t so bad for us,” John said to Betty, as he Christmas day came and brought the party. It dug the toe of his heavy boot into the black ashes was a real party, too. An old man had found one lone which were everywhere, ‘but with a kid like Ann Christmas tree standing back in the hills. The coun- it is different. Why, just this morning, Betty, she ters in the little grocery store were pushed back and was hunting around for that old rag doll. Sud- fancy flowers made out of newspapers, tinsel and denly she remembered poor old Dinah had gone bright boxes took the center of the stage. There were up in smoke along with everything else, and she real candles with lights that blinked a merry welcome began to bawl so loud they must have heard her to the children as they marched in. down in Minneapolis. Then she thought of Santa People came from far and wide, walking miles over Claus and if she didn’t stop crying in a second! Said the hard roads. Even the grown folks came, and she was sure he would know about the fire and bring everyone joined hands and circled about the tree. her another doll to take Dinah’s place!” In all that group there was not a happier child than The Briggs little Ann as the shack was in the doll she had so midst of the longed to have woods of north- Santa Claus era Minnesota, bring her was where the great put into her fire had raged a arms. Even the few weeks be- older boys and fore. Betty and girls, like Betty John could see and John, were nothing but Happy iidhood remembered. acres upon acres | th ver There were all of black ashes. Jointhe Ju edCross kinds of gifts, No wonder the _ and there was twins had such candy. grave faces When the as they un- party was al- latched the door most over one of into the two- the men an- room cabin. nounced that it “Oh, Betty! was all a Christ- Did you hear mas message tie reindeers?” from the Junior asked a very Red Cross of little girl as she the Northern ran to meet Division. them, “And do you think that Santa Claus will Minnesota Jun- get here, now tors spend many that all the little after-school hours fir trees he used making gifts for to find his way childrenwho need an extra bit of by are gone?” Christmas fun.

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OW does your yi HPAES vn i Kan., they tried a circus. rm school earn its a It was a great success, for THE JUNIOR PLEDGE Junior Red Cross ay it netted $175, which was money? Here are some of I pledge myself to honor and serve the flag more than enough to pay the money-making schemes of my country, and to work, save and give the school’s Junior Red that have already been re- in order that the Red Cross, the emblem of Cross enrollment fee. Be- humanity, sacrifice and service, may bring ported. - relief and happiness to suffering people side this it gave every boy In Oakland, Cal., the © throughout the world. EE Ae QU AAAAAI and girl in the school a Juniors earn their money wonderful time. The boys

in the Red Cross toy shop ETT aN ute OAM RAMA APU HP TTT PORT eet . » ~~ and girls planned it with and the Red Cross salvage the aid of the teachers and shop. Boys and girls in manual training and fine arts principal. They had a side-show in every room, and classes know that if their work is good it will be put real live clowns frolicking about the halls. In one of on sale in the Christmas toy shop. Here the boys will the rooms they had a movie show with the scenes display toys of all kinds, and the best pieces of furni- done in charcoal on drafting paper. This was rolled ture made in the carpentry shops. The girls will show on big rollers with a light behind to give the desired dainty gifts made with needle, reeds, brush and pen. effect. In another room was folk-dancing and still Unsalable articles of clothing which are sent in to the another boasted a real minstrel show. salvage shop are remade in the high school sewing Juniors of a rural school near Hill City, Kan., earned classes, and then offered for sale again in the salvage their Junior membership by planting several acres of shop. Old hats are treated in the same manner by the wheat. Here and there in the field they placed large classes in millinery. Buttons are brought in by the placards bearing the words “Junior Red Cross Farm,” children, sorted, and put on cards for sale. Articles of so that every passer-by might be reminded of the fact little or no value, such as old purses, music rolls, lamp that the children of America were organized to help shade frames, tin cans, scraps of crash and old pieces themselves and others. When these Juniors harvested of linen, post cards, and scraps of fancy paper, are their wheat, they had not only grain for the town, made over by the pupils at school and sold in the but a 1920 membership in the Junior Red Cross as salvage shop. well. An “Odds and Ends Shop”’ raised money for the Christmas trees brought the Juniors in McLennon Faribault, Minn., Juniors. County, Tex., their mem- The rear of a store was bership in the Junior Red rented and newspapers Cross. Juniors cut the were asked to give all the trees and decorated them publicity they could to the for a big county bazaar. scheme. People left their Some were sold in the odds and ends at the Red street, some were displayed Cross shop, and then came in the store windows, and in to buy what took their some were sold at the fancy. Everything was bazaar. sold at a reasonable price. At Central High School, The older Juniors took Washington, D.C., the girls turns being in charge, while in the domestic science de- the younger girls made partment hold a Red Cross attractive clerks in white candy sale every year. aprons and caps. They sold Last year they made 1,200 everything from second- pounds of candy which hand pianos to ice cream. netted them $600. They In its first year the shop found that in order to make cleared over $5,000. as much candy as this, it At the Fourth Avenue The Junior Red Cross advocates “One was necessary to have the School in Hutchinson, tooth-brush for each person in the family! yp? whole thing run in a sys- [14] a2

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Boys and girls who visited this year’s county fair in Day- ton, Ohio, wore tags to show they were Red Cross Juniors

tematic way. ‘Two girls were appointed financial Hand-made lace cr embroidery always brings good managers, and two others served as directors in charge prices. Girls from some of the rural districts in Porto of-the candy making. Special committees were ap- Rico have earned generous Red Cross contributions pointed to collect old candy boxes, and to attend to by making lace and embroidering linen for sale. the advertising end. One girl was appointed from Other Porto Rico schools collect old papers and sell each section of the school to take advance orders for them for the benefit of the Junior Red Cross. In the candy. The making of the candy was started Missouri this enterprise has proved equally success- about a week before the sale. To keep the candy ful, for St. Louis Juniors report having made $6,000 fresh until needed the girls placed it in large earthen by the sale of old newspapers, packed tight and tied jars and laid paraffine paper carefully between each in big bundles. layer. Old candy boxes were freshened with crepe Juniors in Thayer, Mo., decided to earn their Junior paper and pictures. Here is one of the recipes that Red Cross money by raising chickens. Not having the Washington girls have had good luck with: any chickens, or enough money to buy them, they CHOCOLATE CARAMELS—T wo ounces (2 squares) of chocolate; resorted to buying eggs. Each Junior bought an egg. 2 cupfuls brown sugar; 14 cupful New Orleans molasses; 4 cup- They borrowed a setting hen from a friend, and soon ful milk; 4 tablespoonfuls butter; 1 teaspoonful vanilla; 324 cup- ful nut meats; pinch of salt. there was a bunch of downy chicks, which rapidly Measure the first five materials into a saucepan and place over grew to frying size. a slow fire. Place an iron plate under the saucepan if it is cook- ing ona gas stove. Stir until the candy boils, then stop stirring! The Potomac Division of the Junior Red Cross has Let it boil gently. A hot fire will burn the candy quickly! contributed this idea for collecting pennies at the Test the candy to see if it is done after it has boiled for about 20 minutes. Remove from the fire as soon as a little dropped in bazaar: Soldiers, sailors, nurses, and all the animals cold water forms a hard ball. If a candy thermometer is used, in the zoo, can be cut with a coping saw from thin let it register 245 degrees F before taking the candy from the fire. Stir inthe chopped nut meats, with salt and vanilla. Pour into wood, such as is found in chalk and cigar boxes. The a shallow buttered tin until it is about three-quarters of an inch Prang Industrial Art Books, 1 Vand VII, give patterns thick. When nearly cool, mark and cut in 34-inch squares with a sharp knife, Roll in waxed paper and keep in acocl dry place. and instructions for the making cf these toys. (15 ] DITOR’S CHRISTMAS LETTER

Dear Juniors: As this is a Thanksgiv- There are one or two ing as well as Christmas little stories I want to tell number of your magazine, you at Christmas time with let me tell you what a the aid of your teacher, youngster in Jerusalem said who, I hope, will read this to a Red Cross worker. A letter to you. They are dif- forlorn little boy was given ferent from most Christ- a dose of castor oil. With mas stories, and though a look of confidence, he the people in them were un- swallowed the stuff and h appy, the stories may lead spluttered a bit; but even to greater happiness for in the act of swallowing, both them and you. murmured, ‘Thank you, A young lieutenant in sir!’’ How many American the Red Cross service, who children would do that? has been conducting relief Isn’t that very astonish- trains to different parts of ing gratitude? Poland, saw an overturned It is one of these little wagon on the trail which ones, cast upon life’s shore leads from Russia into by the tidal wave of War, Po‘and from the northeast. that the artist, Miss Up- When he came nearer to john, shows in the Happy the wagon he found a whole Childhood Poster repro- family beside it, using it for duced on this page, and a camp, and the only per- which is perhaps at this son in the family who was very minute hanging on not very sick with typhus your schoolroom wall. was a little girl of 11. She Study the little girl's had been caring for all. Typhus comes from unclean face, and you will note a wistful look and a linger- living and surroundings, but how can people bathe ing trace of sunken eyes, reminiscent of the starva- and live in clean places if they haven’t any home? tion period of her unnatural life. She is just learn- When the Red Cross man looked around a bit he ing how to play, is on a “vacation” in the Slovakian found the mother lying under a tree, dead. She had mountains—a vacation from terrible things. She has died two days before. Under another tree, in another emerged, thanks to the Junior Red Cross, from a direction, the father was dying. The little girl who netherworld of nightmares. Like a poor caterpillar had been nursing the family was sitting on a box in that has escaped from a dark cocoon to discover that front of the wagon, out of her mind. The strain had it is not a caterpillar at all but a beautiful butterfly, been too much for her! Under the wagon were two which may flit joyously through warm sunshine and very young children, both under five, suffering from fragrant woods, she has just awakened to a realiza- typhus. The father died that day, and the Red Cross tion of love and happiness—to a consciousness of life man took the three children to an orphanage where as the Creator intended it to be. they are now being cared for with all the tenderness Will you help to keep her happy? and love the Red Cross can bestow. There may be someone like her in your very neigh- Conditions such as these Polish children have borhood. But whether she lives in Europe or in known from infancy—hunger and cold, vermin and America, she should have a place in your thought rags, pestilence and death—have prevailed for many, Christmas Day, and inspire you to strengthen your many children in other countries. Thousands of little Junior Red Cross and spread its loving service for ones in the war-wasted lands have never known the future men and women all over the wide world. taste of milk of any kind. So, your Junior Red Cross And remember that you yourself will be happier is conducting fifteen or more relief projects for chil- always for having made others happier! dren there. ' Austin Cunningham.

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