TIIK SAN LLRJ^.Qfg^^ MAY 1,-1910-THK Jl T\TOR CAT.L5

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WRITERS' CONTEST

: ;> :/ Write on: one side of the paper only.'

must ''';be in by Wednesday as usual, but winners willnot ;be^ announced until May 15. -// ; v ;•;• * ; ;i:

TWELVE SETS OF "WORLD'S MASTERPIECES" ARE PRIZES FOR SOLVING THESE PUZZLES

WHATILIKEBEST AT:THE NICKELODEONS• ;;\u25a0 Three years ago there were 'only a few of-.you-.who had ever been to anickelodeon. Now.tlj,ere is not one of you-—not even. those who live away offin/little'mountain* towns— who doesn't know and like the moving pictures.Tour,

'athers and mothers and big;brothcrs and sisters all go sometimes, andlike the*pictures when they are good. Sometimes, however, they say: "Oh it,was;no good tonight." Sometimes, you don't like 'them,'' either.'r When do you like them?. When don't you like them?,;.;Do you .like the funny "ones "ofithe serious ones -orthe historical onesbest?..:.'-/'- .\u25a0

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nice, easy; way if..would be to'learn history.and: geography? .Instead of reading and reading, those dry^pages until youcan .say, them .off backward,- wouldn't you like to go somewhere 'and SEEEur9pe; and -Asia and 'Africa and North and South America and Australias,oh£ J";/ront.of yoitr.eyes? \u25a0\u25a0 Wouldn't you liketoSEE Washington crossingthe Delaware, and the battle of Bunker-lKll?/^:,CBut perhaps some of you 1 wouldn't.: It may be lhat you believe school isthe;place for. study, and when you're put you doirt want to have SnytfiinSto dowith lessons. v/^ ;

: \u25a0' '.' .-\u25a0"';"\u25a0 ; .":.:•• IfJhat's what you? think! say so. That's all the Junior wants to know':what you really think... Ithelps you to think to write out your ideas. They

.1.9.1.9,QH.''dl?er.S-nt.'.tAat$™y? dotft'AhcylilThey're not exactly the same when youjustv'think, them as they, are the. morning some ,of >you read them" overagain iirthe Junior, are. they?. •\u0084 : . ,- ./v.

/v • ' '•/,;;v v:THe -Junior is ,the only place where you have: a {chance"; to let others, boysand- girls:of your own ages; who are interested in the same things that youare,"know what-you think.". ,' ; -<, •

\u25a0'\u25a0^' •:??;gct; busy ;a"nd,write some good letters! .You never know what, maycome of it.- Some dajv sonic [6i you: may1own nickelodeons, and then you'llknow, what, boys and ;girls' want to seei Why;' it's almost like getting readyto go into business . m /'" *; • •

AWARDED'A WATCH AWARDED A WATCHWOULD' KNOW THE UNITED; v STATES FIRST

/. .; ;. EIiIZABKTIIIIOYT,"\u25a0.'\u25a0', ".];Ulrdn '\u25a0-\u25a0 iVunding!<\u25a0'• Cul. Willow Spring

: School,)-. Sixth Crude." "13'Yeiirn

Iswould like to visit,our own UnitedStates.'*"-. ;' '"Going' tc Rchool-the other morning.Ithought:', .J.'Mr.'/ISdltorv'choso 'the sub-ject,;' Why I:L.oyo:My Country,1 but .1anvgoing to tell you why I-want to seeour< own United" States.'.- .. '\u25a0:.''. \u25a0\u25a0'.-\u25a0•'..-'..I'm'Bure there arelots of people whowould :go'.to i)urope:or elsewhere." ButI'willftako the United. States first.'V....AI want 'logo.to 'every, state in. the

union," 'to \u25a0' the 'homes of authors, \u25a0 poetsand patriots'and, other' placesof inter-est. I.want to.go to every hill; valleyor* town' whore/. .a \u25a0,'battlo x has beenfought." \u25a0 I")wanf to.make a grand-tourin our: own, states," then Iwill thinkabout going^olsowhere. ... ;/ I'want to.visit.Boston, where Benja-

min- Franklin :was' born,, and Philadel-phia/ where ho died.- To visit.German-town, pa., where Louisa. May Alcottwas born. To "Little Britain, whereUobert Fulton was ,born, and to NewYork, where ;he died. Also to NewHampshire,"' where -Admiral Farragutdied. To tho- birthplace, of NathanHale and also the spot .where he died.To the birthplace of George Washing-ton. Thomas Jefferson, John Adamsand Hamilton. I-mostly want to visitwhere George Washington was bornand dli'd. Iwould like to sue MountVernon. \u25a0 '\u25a0* , •\u25a0 .. ,-!>.Ialso would: visit ranches, orchards

and vineyards and see their crops.- I;y;uUI Z~ 1° the .-plantations and 895jia. cottojv

llut here, Imust come down else Ibump the clouds. These lines are only•n.stk-s in^the air which will eooh tum-ble /down, . Home one might a»K tileivhyIlove tliis country and Iwill nay,.'JJeeguse It is free," Iwould no moreiJie a country like Rusaia or Turkeynan 1 a wasp or bee after itmd sumg1 me. Of all the governments

think 1 would chooSe that of thiJnlted Ktates, although it has manylaws. \u25a0 No uovernjnent '8 perfect.

AMERICA THE ONLY COUN-TRY IN WHICH TO LIVE

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(ir«rklii Street. Spring ValleySchool, Highlit A tirmlc.

L "Age,13 Yearn .Iam glad .that Iam an American formany,, reasons. > One of\these is,, theaverage American, Is brave. -Two ex-amples are' shownVwhen we refer to therevolutionary .:,war and tho;war of 1812when' our. countrymen fought for theirrights against odds which were enoughto, make any .man's .heart <quail. The

Americans -are. generous, hospitableand.'most of them, unselfish.Ifyou take a man from every nationyou would pick out . the /American asthe ono: with the most- inventive; mind.Unlike our.. Knglish cousins, the Amer-icans aro very alert and active.«o havo had sueh 1 inventors asThomas, A. .Edison,/ who invented theduplex telegraph, phonograph, micro-phone, the mlcrotasmeter and klneto-Hcope^and the incandescent lamp; Bam-uel I-. 13.:Morse, ;who made the firstelectric telegraph and the submarinecable; Xli Whitney, who. invented thocotton gin. - .; / . ,

As Iam an American, it may seemthat Iam prejudiced in America's fa-vor, but this is not so. The UnitedStates s only 134 years old, the young-est nation in tho world, and yet look attho progress she has made. She haßBuch wealthy and unselfish men asUo.Pkefeiier, Carnegie and others, wljospend- -millions of dollars every yea?for libraries; for education and formany other things of great benefit totho peopl£.

She Jihfi jpuch great cities as NewYork. Chlcagb, J'yifidelphla, Baltimoreand Ban Francisco,5*b.tTj&S St'eh rrUers as Washington

Irving, Hawthorne, Harris (Undo Ke-mus) and many others.

Her principal poets, Longfellow, Poe,Bryant, Knieraon, '

whittier andHolmes.

Wver'y American Is loyal to his coun-try, no matter where he goes. Mymother and Iwent to Kurope with theintention of staying, but we coon found

that the United States or America wasthe finest place on earth, so we camehome.

The United States produces, morecopper, load, marble, coal, iron, steelnnd aluminum than any other country.

America is a free and Independentcountry, where everybody can have anequal chance and where, everybody isgiven an equal chance. Jt Is not trou-bled with aristocratic families, for hereeverybody is on tHe same level.Every foreigner respects and everycitizen loves that great nation, theUnited States of America. v Do youwonder thatIlove my country and thatIam glad to be called an American?

SOUTH AMERICACAMILLAMALOXE,

85 I'nlni Avenue, San Itnfncl, Cnl. SnnItul'at-1 Grnmmar School,**A Sixth1Grade. 10 Yenro

South America. Now Is'that not astrange country, to wish to visit? Allthe same it is my heart's. desire to gothere. But why doIwish to go there?Is there anything of interest, there?Think now. Would you not like to seethe great. Andes with 'their- snowcapped peaks and the beautiful Ama-zon jungle with its many colored'flow-ers and beautiful trees? Icertainly

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should enjoy a trip through this coun-try.Ishould go across tho Amazon

river, then through the great forests,where the birds sing as if In apotherworld, and where the animals prowl,forcing their way through the thickfoliage, which grows so abundantlyand clings to the trees above.,T. .should like to see

-the Indian

women make the dainty drawn worlchandkerchiefs which wo Americansprize so much. \u25a0 .

There is so much to see in SouthAmerica that 1 don't know where Iwould end. One thingImust not leaveout in taking my journey are thestraits '-of Magellan, The banks ofthese straits are of solid rock and havebeen built by nature herself. In sail-ing through these straits one takes hislife in his hands, for the storms are soterrific here that a;ship may bo dashedagainst the rocks at any moment.'Despite all these facts. the trip is vory

interesting :and one thinks himself ahero if he comes safely through.

But wo must leave South Americaand hasten home, for tho Junior Call iswaiting for the report" of our trip.

ITALY,THE HISTORIC

ADDA TRAVIS,11C5 Valencia Street, • Fourth • Grndr,

AmiMNiv. School. Age 11 \u25a0;>;;..»Iprefer Italy,-because it has a cli-

mate similar to our dear California, and

The Junior Call has been making anexhaustive search to find a new kindof prize to offer the Juniors who solvenuzzlies, and. write . compositions.Something was desired which wouldbe acceptable to both boys and girls,and which would be so fine and at-tractive that all would work hard towin it. The Junior Call has foundwhat it believes -willprove one of themost popular prizes ever offered toboys and girls^

The fi£v? prize is a handsome redcase containing 50 colored photographcopies of the world's most famouspaintings by the great masters. Can

you imagine anything to beat that?You'll say not after you have seenthe set...

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Really this is the most beautiful giftThi Junior Call Wyct been abk >ooffer its boys and girls. The picturesare printed In postcarcf form, so tfiatyou. can send them to friends— thatis, if you feel that you are willingtodivide with those less fortunate thanyourself. These pictures are whollyunlike the usual colored postcard pic-ture, The beauty and coloring ofthese thake therrf surpass any post-card that you ever saw. The picturesarc a great joy in themselves, and

then, you see, tley are copies of theworld's most v famous paintings, pnthe back of each is a full descriptionof what the picttre is and somethingabout the artist;who painted it. InJ>ct, § study qJ tijese pictures and thetext printed on the backs of them is

almost like an education in art: Thediginals of the» paintings hang in

the great art cileries of, Europe andAmerica. • Spread out the cards in

your own room'-and thews you havethe treasures of the art world beforeyou in a goHection. The beautifulcase adds muchlo the attractivenessof this premium.,

Twenty-four </£«ts of 'Worlds

'A ''it is the home f famous painters andsculptors. Itiyoted for its beautifulwomen and ha *omo buildings.

Like our gol. estate, it produces finowines, olivooi md fruit, and is gov-erned by.a.goi homo loving king andqueen, who ar* ery-klnd to their sub-jects. ,».. i '.' . ./•\u25a0;,ii*v'

Italy^»*ts iti; beanljful rivors, andits scen*J"y is mous/ilie world over.For th:4'-.reas< mairVr of our notedpaintersvgo ith e'lfor .subjects ami tocopy tho pictur»:byiltalian masters.

1 would presto ;go there in sprlnrv,when the whiXeountry is in bloom,and then I,coB compare it with oursouthern counM.^'Iwould enMivisiting Rome, the

scene of nnci<^^ splendor, and wouldtry and imag^Bsceing Nero and tin-other rulers ™<> in their fcl'iry. 1would liko loKt Milan, :tiul. in fact,1 would like flwslt all tho principalcities of this JVd country, Italy.

ITALY ANWER .WONDERS.:;/;., ,-.',' MAIJfTCASKV, .Byrne*'..More.i.injcmm School, B Sixth.. Grnde;'iA|fc 13 YearsIwould like ivisit Italymore than

any other county:because there are somany wonderfir things there.

To reach ItairsTt would go to NewYork and fromiere take a steamer forNaples, a cityrituated on the bay ofNaples, commadlng a beautiful view.

Mount Ve&uius stands hi plain

Sight of the city. Itis a cone of lavanearly a mile high. Steam la con-stantly pouring from the cone. In theyear 79 an eruption took place andburied Pompeii and Herculaneum andmany other villages in lava. Some ofthe buried cities, especially Pompeii,have been unearthed. These Iwouldalso visit. \

Iwould ascend the cone of MountVesuvius and look Into the abyss below.Ihave heard that sometimes lumps oflava are hurled to the top, only to fallagain to the abyss below. Ialso wouldvisit Rome and see the old ruins, suchas the Coliseum and the Forum. Theformer is an oval shaped theater openlo the air and large enough" to 'seat50,000 people.. The Forum is in thecity limits and is said to be very beau-tiful.

While Iwas in ItalyIwould makeVenice and Milan my stopping points.Venice' is built on a hundred or moreislands. Tho streets are canals and themain one is called the Grand canal andlittle. boats called gondolas take thoplace of wagons and streetcars. \u25ba Nodoubt a great many of the children ofVenice have never seen a horse. Milan"is another city- that Iwould like tovisit,because the very famous Milancathedral is situated there. Tho ca-thedral is built of white .marble and ithas more than a hundred spires andfully 4,000 very-beautiful statues. Onone of the walls is the famous artist DaVenci's painting "The Last Supper,"which is a- very beautiful pictue. /

Famous Paintings" are to be giveneach week.

Twelve sets will be awarded tothose solving the picture puzzlescorrectly.

Twelve sets willbe awarded for thebest compositions. You can try forthem in both contests if you like.

Hereafter answers and prize win-ners willbe published two weeks afterthe date upon which the puzzles ap-pear. You must send in your answerby the Wednesday following publica-tion, just as heretofore, but the namesof. winners and the answers willbepublishci in the second issue there-after. This willgive the editor more

A VISIT TO ITALYISABKLi GItU.NDMAN, <*

227 .lerney .Street, Stin Krnuc.lxco. AdainnSchool, IISixth Grade. Age 11 YearnIthink Iwould like to visit Italy;

it is such an interesting country. Home,the' capital, is a very beautiful cityiThe pope resides there in the Vatican.

Th«re are ruins of tine buildings inHome. The most noticeable ruin isthat of the Coliseum, a hug<?, ovalshaped theater, open to the sky, withseats for 40,000 or 50,000 persona. TheHomans used to go there to witnesslife and death struggles between menand wild beasts.

The Forum is another extensive. ruinwithin the city limits. It was a greatpublic square on a lowland betweenhills. . .Naples is also an interesting city.Mount Vesuvius is in plain sight. Iread an interesting story about thochildren of Naples and the neighbor-ing villages. They have a marketplacein Naples, to ,wh,ich they bring fruit,fish, sugar plums and other things tosell. Some children go to the arsenalswhere the carpenters work and gatherwood to soil or gather driftwood on thebeach. If a, dishonest child is foundamong them lie 13 put out of the mar-ket.

Herculaneum and Pompeii are twocities which were buried with lavaduring the reign of.Titus*. -They havobeen unearthed and Ithink Iwould

time for consideration of.the answers;but, remember, all answers must be inby the Wednesday followingpublica-tion, or they can not be considered.

Composition subjects will be an-nounced two weeks ahead of the dateof publication. But compositionsmust be in on Wednesday followingthe announcement, just as formerly.

Thus there will be winners andanswera in The Junior every Sunday,but they will date back to the an-nouncements of two weeks before,instead of merely to the last issue,as heretofore.

Get busy and win a set of 50 splen-did colored pictures in a pretty case.

COLORED PHOTOS OF FAMOUS PAIIINGS, 50 IN A SET, ARE NEW PRIZES

\u25a0•-\u25a0*"•', \u25a0 -•:?..enjoy looking nt the buildings and thethings the ancient Italians used.*Venice, with its canals and gondolas,is the most interesting city of themall. Instead of horses, wagons or auto-mobiles, people and things are takenfrom one house to another in gondo-las. All along the canals are stonepalaces in which lords and dukes live.

Although these cities of Italy arcso interesting, Ilike my own countrybest. , v.v--\.y ;

STRANGE JAPAN

ROSR WEIDI.EIN",ISIJ> Parker Street, Berkeley, n Seventh

Grade, "WnitlilnjrfoiiSchool. Age12 Yearn

As we all know, in Japan there arevery curious things. Everywhere wego we see that, In,the house or in thestreet. «Ifwe. were to look in at some of the

houses wo might see strange things,such as a girl entertaining her friends.We would notice their clothes and thequiet way they play. They always havethe water boiling in the kettle to maketea, and they serve tea when theirguests come and when they go.

Bilt,look at the way that lady carriesher child. We think it is cruel, butthe Japanese woman can work whileher baby is on her back, and they be-lieve in carrying it that way.

We see many other sights strange toour eyes, both walking in their beau-tiful gardens, built more for dolls thanfor people, and walking in the streets.

We surely think it is wonderful inJapan and have many plans for thedays to come. . ; iv< But if we should wake up and findourselves at home we would be sorry,maybe because our. plans were spoiledand itiaybe. because we. would haveliked to see our;Japanese cousins oncemore. But I-know we would be pleasedif we found the. Junior; Call .right 'onour bed and on it. that familiar faceof Alonzo. I.know we would be, pleasedto get home (although we would, haveliked to stay there a.few days longer)when we saw Alonzo." :\u25a0 :. -•..' '\u25a0'•

HOLLANDEDXA YOUXG,

310 A'llla Terrace, Sun • »lu<eo, Cnl.Ilurllugamc School, Slxiii Graded

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The country Iwould like most tovisit Is Holland. -You can see manybeautiful things there. •

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in Holland. , Their houses are . funny,too.' Some people live in tanks. .:The children "in Holland are differentfrom us. Their clothes are different.Tho boys wear trousers, a little capand n little waist. The girls weara little skirt. with a waist and bonnet.

The children" in, Holland play withtheir shoes. -They take them' off andput a doll, in them: Then .they -..tiea long string to them and put themin the water. They play cradle withthem.,' .. \u25a0..

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.When the children get through play-Ing with their shoes they wash' them.They wash them before they? go '

inthe house. They take a brusn,. waterand soap and scrub them. Then theyhang them, on a bush. . •\u25a0 \u25a0 ,

In winter the children go skatingon tho ice. Their skates are not likoours. They are made liko sleighs,with straps to fasten them. They havoa Hag to keep tho children out of theice. Itis red.

To seo. these things Iwould like tovisit Holland. . :\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0}.'\u25a0\u25a0:

BACK TO BERLINiVIIKDKHICK VIOIILt

22 fountain Street. Noc Valley School,IIi-oiirUi Frade. Age 13

The city Iwould like to visit the bestis Berlin. Jn a small street of Berlinstands a house of six rooms. In thishouso liv.'.s my grandfather and grand-mother, my father's parents, Thohouse is very old and is overgrownwith moss. It haa a little garden infront with nn old style fence, In thisgarden there aro squirrels and de*r,and in the trees, which are almost de.rayed, live many families of owls.At tho back of the. houso are barnswith their roofa covered, with straw,where oxen and horses may now bufeeding. In tho barm* stund oldwooden buckets, out of which the ani-mals drink. My grandmother prom-ised'to give me money enough to comeover and kco tliis wonderful placewhen she dies, but still 1 hope Klie willlivo us lontr us I.

NO, ANSWERS OR WINNERSTODAY

As announced in the last Junior, noanswers to puzzles are .published to-day. Thejcorrect answers "to thepuzzles in the last Junior, togetherwith the names of those winning the12 sets of "World's Masterpieces,"willbe published |next <Sunday.

For correct, answers to the picturepuzzles published today 12 sets of"World's Masterpieces" will }beawarded on May:15. JAnswers,: writ-ten on postcards, must be inby nextWednesday:

MODERN, NOT ANCIENT,x CITIES

„ EMANUEIi STEIGMAX,Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Crocker

School, Seventh Grade.' Age 12.France is tho country Iwould like

to visit.Paris would bo the first place Iwould goto. . * ' , :y.';P<In Paris Iwould inquire my way

of the Hotel, dcs Invalides. There Iwould see my hero's tomb, the tombof Napoleon Bonaparte: What mem-ories would it recall!TT

His • first insulting funeral at St.Helena; ; his second and magnificentfuneral in Paris. His great works,his code of laws, his wonderful vic-tories all run into the. mind at once.

Next we go to the Louvre. Heroare works of all the greatest paint-ers. Here are the captured pictures.Most |of-. theTcaptured pictures weretaken by Napoleon. . •\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0....,

•Next we go to Arseille, a park forParis.'..'-'-- "\u25a0•* \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0

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XVl.^all come to mind. Marie -An-toinette's room, her large glass mirrorand other furniture can be seen. -

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Next we leave Paris and journey upthe Seine river valley, which has a per-fect labyrinth of canals and railroadlines.- \u25a0

.\u25a0\u25a0 •..•',.:.'\u25a0\u25a0• v •\u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0;*\u25a0.The Rhone river -valley, noted formulberry, trees and silkworms, -> nextcalls our attention. .......-

But where are the grapes from'whichwe have such excellent wine? -In»theGaronne valley, which is covered withgrap?;s. \u25a0'. -i-\u25a0-.-. ". ..-,. .•.-.-•..,.. \u25a0>••\u0084.• •*--\u25a0:\u25a0-...It is air lino enough to visit Home

and others, places,, but ono wouldmuch rather' see, our. own day's workthan the work of almost forgotten peo-ple, and for that 'reason' lhave se-lected France: to tell about.

- -LEARNED GERMANY

LIZZIE MOITOZA, .'Fifth Grade, Nun I'ublu Public School,

.'. , Sun l'ublo..Ak« 12 Yearn •-\u25a0.. .. My ambition would bo to go to Ger-many. •\u25a0

•\u25a0• ..--, i .. . • ••\u25a0\u25a0\u0084•••\u25a0 Iwould like to visit Ha'mburer, sim-ply because Iwould liko to have a chatwith the, learned men of the HamburgcollegeH and institutions.

The -fame, of these institutions isworld wide. Itwould bo a pleasure tolisten to the ideas of these learned men.In medicine and music they excel thoseof other countries. Iam/putting- nostain on America, 1:for- our country hasbetter advantages inthe way" of edu-cation than any .other country. OnlyHamburg's institutions are of a. muchlonger standing.' \u25a0

Iwould also like to go through alltho ancient towns.*,. The llttlo German children* dress so

queerly, too.Ishould liko to see his majesty, theemperor, while reviewing his troops.My only reason for wanting to visit

Germany is because it is a picturesquecountry and has the master teachers.

COLD GREENLAND FOR FUNIjKSMIS AV.\UMIOI,Z,

1280 Sou strt-(>(. \«m- Valley School,IIThird lirude

If Iever had the money Iwouldvisit Greenland. It is very cold upthere, but Iwouldn't care because Iwould have my fur coat on.Iwould not like,to live there, but

Iwould Juki like to go on a visit. Iwould Btuy them for about a yearand then Iwould . pack up and gohome. As soon uu Igot up there Iwould mak« a uloil out of

-whalebones,

and then Iwould make some reinsto hitch the dogs by. Iwould haveureut fun.