Collecting butterflies

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title: Collecting butterflies
Year: 1940
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Fulltext: November, 1940 Raising Flowe~ By RAMON SIN THE YOUNG CITIZEN +35 CLUB Our English Club Collecting Butterflies ·By MAMINTAL TAMANO By ESTRELLA G. REYES (I I YEARS OLD) ( l I YEARS OLD) ( 14 YEARS OLD} ONE of the nicest things.for IN OUR ROOM at school we COLLECTING moths and buta schoolboY. or a girl to do have organized an English tertlies has been my pleasin leisure time is to raise Club. The members of this ant outdoor work for severtlowers. I have a beautiful club agree to use no !an- al years. When do I find flower garden just in front guage except English at time to do any collecting? of our house. It is rectan- school. The purpose of This is the· way I do it. gular in form, ten by twelve this club is to help us in the Each day as I go io and meters, and is enclosed by a use of English· and to make from school I am on the bamboo fence. us feel at home in speaking lookout for specimens. I At a distance the garden it. This is because English am always prepared to take presents a variety of colors. is the medium of instruc- care of any specimens There are sampaguita flow- tion in the Philippines. which I may capture, and ers, hibiscus (gumamelas), When we organized our I get some that way occacadena-de-amor, and dif- club, the first thing which sionally. ferent varieties of roses. In we did was to elect officers. Then on Saturdays, if I the center of my garden Our teacher appointed a have no work for mother, there is a statue. Around "detective" who is not I go on a collecting trip. this statue I have roses known to the club members. One Saturday I had very growing. Near the roses This "detective" reports good luck and took many are clusters of lilies. In each those members whom he specimens in one of the of the four corners are hi- hears using the dialect at fields to which I went. biscus bushes, and along the school. The offender has to Sometimes I collect a sides are sampaguitas. pay a fine. We use the few specimens on Sundays. Each morning I gather money thus collected for And of course when we are ·flowers in my garden. Then improving our room. having vacation I have I remove any old or dry We are all interested in many a pleasant ·and suc"Jeaves. I fill a vase full of our club, and it is a success- cessful collecting trip. flowers which I am careful ful organization. When I get some specimens I put them in a large to arrange attractively. In Arrangement. These sug- glass containeF. This conthe March, 1940, number of gestions help me to make tains a chemical which kills THE YOUNG CITIZEN I · a mce arrangement of my them quickly and painlessread Suggest~ons on Flower cut flowers. (Please turn to page 437.) November~ 1940 WAGNER (Continued from page 421) THE YOUNG CITIZEN 437 THE BAT COLLECTING BUTTERFIES (Continu~d from page 423) (Continued from page 435) and another is known as -ghosts that come out of ly. Then I. arrange them The M astersinger. 'There their graves at night, ac- in my display case. I fasten were knightly singers· who cording to superstition, and each specimen securely in wandered about Germany suck the blood of human place by sticli.ing a pin during the Midde Ages. beings. Of course, this be~ through it. Sometimes these singers lief is only a superstititon- My mother admires my met in contests to decide most certainly it is not true. collection very much. So who was the best singer. An There are thousands and. do many of my. friends, and artist has painted an imagi- thousands of bats in the some of them have gone nary. scene representing a Philippines which help and into the business of collectcontest of these minnesing- benefit the Filipinos. Have ing moths and butterflies.for ers, as they 'were called. A ,you ever seen thoughtless themselves. copy. of .this picture is Filipino boys stoning or I took my collection to shown on page 421. killing a bat? Do you think school where it was on disAfter years of exile, they. should do th~t? ·cer- play. My teacher showed Wagner was permitted to tainly not. We should pro- it ·to other teachers and return to Germany. With tect the bats, for that is the pupils and the visitors who considerable difficulty he only way we can repay came to 'our school. built a theiiter in the little them for their good work. Any one living here in city of Beyreuth 0 (pro- the Philippines can make nounced bigh-roit). He which place his famous a good collection of moths called this theater his Festi- theater is still in 'use. and butterflies. There are val Playhouse, and it has I plenty of specimens here. become very famous. It REVIEW took a long time to get it built, but at last it was finished. Wagner had fulfilled his dream of the union of arts in the creation of the music-drama and the Festival Playhouse. The last opera which Wagner wrote was Parsifal which tells of a knight named Parsifal and his deeds. This was completed in 1882. Failing health caused Wagner to spend the following winter at Venice, where, in 1883, he suddenly died. He was buried at Beyreuth, at I. Tell of Richard Wagner as a boy. 2. Tell of his early study of music. 3. When he was a young man what did he do in music? 4. Why did Wagner have to leave his country? · 5. What did Wagner call his musical plays? BOOK ADVENTURE (Continued from page 418) A sinking ship, a desolate cry, Tell of men who soon will die; The pirates now have gained the .top. Hurry! Can no man make them stop? 6. What stories did he One man left to save the use in his series known as ship! The Ring of the Nibelungs? One man left! He must not 7. Name the fou·r music- slip. dramas of this series. Far into the night so late, · 8. Have you ever heard I read to learn this one any of Wagner's music? man's fate.