EUROPE, AFRICA, AND AMERICA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22183, 28 August 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

EUROPE, AFRICA, AND AMERICA

Gardening in Africa

Here are letters from girls and boys in Sweden, Poland, the United States of America, and Africa. The writers tell of their hobbies and their pets, and the things in which they are interested. Perhaps you would like to correspond with one of them.

From Poland

My favourite hobby is modelling men's faces in either clay or snow. Sometimes I carve them in wood. I started doing this when an artist, who was drawing my portrait, showed me how to draw FieldMarshal Pilsudski, who died in 1935. Now I have kept on improving my faces little by little. —PHILLIP A. DAVIDSON (aged 13), Care of Giesche Spolka Akc., Katowice, Poland.

We live in Africa. One of my hobbies is gardening. This year Corinne and I have a garden near the Lukunga River, about a mile from our home. We have planted peanuts and native peas. In the months of August and September we dug out the elephant grass. We piled it up as high as we could without letting it fall. When it was very dry, we burned it. Then when the rains began in October wo planted peanuts. In the places where the ashes had mixed with the ground we planted native pca.s. We used only a short-handled native hoe. In the month of May wc harvested our peanuts. The native peas will not be ready until some time during the dry season—from May to October. —YVONNE FAITH ENGWALL (aged 10), E.P.I. Kimpese via Matadi Conga Beige, Africa.

An American Hobby

I have a very unusual hobby. It is collecting pretty materials and cloths. When I obtain or find a pretty piece of cloth. I cut it to the size of a small square. I then put

Kathryn Herrick

a small hem on all of the edges so it will not be rough. I have now about 1500 pieces of cloth. Among them is a very rare old piece of black Spanish lace, and also a valuable piece- of blue velvet (it is imported from France). I enjoy this hobby very much. It is fun to see how many pieces of cloth you can obtain. —KATHRYN HERRICK (aged 13), P.O. Box 3086, Beach, Fla., U.S.A.

A Travelled Pet

a hotel cat. The next day we bought him a rubber cat, a rubber bone, a sweater, and a comb. That night we went to Berlin and he slept in our compartment, but he was worried. My dog once slipped out of the door and went racing up and down the corridor.to the maid's astonishment. We left to go up to Stockholm, and that night he had to go into a dog compartment in the baggage car. In Stockholm our

Frisky Ives is a wire-haired fox terrier. When I got him he was only one month old and I was in Algiers. I bought him for 400 francs from a teacher. He was certainly a good little dog. He swam in the sea, played in the garden, and chased cats. Then my father was transferred to Stockholm. When we arrived at

the boat Frisky was very good, but when we got. to sea he barked at the white foam and waves made by the boat and wanted to jump over to play with the waves. When wc got to Marseilles, the French town, wc got on.a train and Frisky v/as terribly excited. We could hai-dly hold him. He trembled and kept looking about. When we arrived in Paris we went to the hotel and to bed. but Frisky went out. for a little walk with daddy and tried to chase

chauffeur kept him at his home. We went out for the first time to play in the snow, and he went wild with joy. He chased me down the hills on my sled and on my skis. In our apartment a photographer came to take pictures of us, and the picture I send with this shows Frisky whispering a very important secret. —TIMOTHY READ IVES (aged 9), Care of American Consulate Genera], Stockholm, Sweden