| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER This is February. It is the second month. It is the shortest month of the year. Washington's birthday is in February. Lincoln’s birthday is in February. Edison’s birthday is in February. Longfellow’s birthday is in February. Dickons’ birthday is in February. —The Messenger. Leap Year. February has 28 days. Sometimes it has 21) days. Divide the year by 4. If there is a remainder, there will bo 28 days. If there is no remainder, there will be 29 days. 411914 ’ 411915 4iS-2 4<8-3 Remainder (28 days) 411916 479 Remainder (28 days) 44917 ! 479-1 No remainder Remainder (2!) days) (28 days) Leap year 1914 is a common year. 1916 is a leap year. The Ant ant! the Cricket. Winter was coming. Many ants wa re very busy collecting food for winter. They stored.it in their store rooms in the ground. There was a bad storm. A cricket came to the ant-hill, lie was wet and shivering from cold, lie was starving from hunger. He hogged the ants for one mouthful of food and a warm room in which to sleep. One of the ants said to him, “Why did you not build yourself a home and gather food for winter as wo have done?” lie said, “I did not need a house to live in, in the summer. I had a good time drinking, singing and dancing. I did not think about winter.” The ant said, “If that is true, 1 will sav that those who drink, sing and dance idl summer, must starve in winter. ’— Adapted hi/ the Messenger. An Eskimo Girl 1 am a little girl. Where I live it is c'old all the time. I live in a house made of blocks of snow. It is lined with skins. We have a large lamp in our house to make it warm. My mother cooks with this lamp. All that we do in winter is to eat and keep warm. We do not go to school. I help my mother make our clothes. They are made of skins. I have a seal skin coat. We do not have bread and cake to eat. We have no apples and candy. We eat meat and soup. I have a pretty sled. Our dogs give me fine rides on it, They make it go fast over the smooth, hard snow. Our night is six months long. Wo canlt sleep all night as you do. It is light all the time in our summer. Then we catch fish for our food. We arc always glad when the summer days come. — The Mt. Airy World. Fred’s Bird. One day last winter it was very cold and stormy and Fred’s mother did not let him go out. He played with his toys for a while, then he wont to the window and looked outs He saw a poor little bird in the yard. It was so cold and hungry that it was very weak, and it could not fly very well. Fred ran up stairs and told his mother about it, and she told him that he might go out and catch it. The bird tried to fly away when it saw Fred, but it was so weak that it could not, so be picked it up and Carried it into the house. His mother found an old bird-cage in the attic, and he put the bird into it, 1 n a few minutes it got warm and it began to hop around the cage. Then Fred gave it some seeds and water. lie kept it in the house all winter and took care of it. In the spring when the other birds came back from the South, ho let his little pet tly a w ay.—Setected. Rattle Snakes. Helen Stoke brought to school a real rattle snake skin one day and left it there to be shown to the pupils of the rotating classes. This rattle snake was killed out in Arizona. It was in a wood pile. While Helen started it out, her brother stood ready with an ax, and cut its head off. They skinned it. In the United States there are some 125 species of snakes, but only a dozen are poisonous. The rattle snake is one kind of the poisonous kind. Many people imagine it spits poison with its tongue, but that is not so. Ii bites a person and squirts poison through its fangs into the flesh. The poison is fatal, unless you can stop the How of blood above the bite by twisting a handkerchief tightly' and then sucking the poison out. Some people drink whiskey, as poison counteracts poison. In the far southwest there is a bird called the. road runner that lights every rattle snake it comes across. The snake, coils up and raises its head ready to spring and strike. The road runner runs arouud in a circle out of reach, and confuses the snake. The bird comes closer and the rattler leaps at it but the bird jumps back. When the rattler is stretched out on the ground, the road runner pecks out its eyes and then kills it.— The Ohio Chronicle. Y. M. C. A. The Young Men’s Christian Association met in the little boy’s study room on Sunday evening, Jauuary 4th, 1914, at 7 o’clock. We had an election and the new officers are as follows: Bennie Knutson, President; Glen Clark. Vice-President: Guilder Barlow, Secretary; ami Arthur Anderson, Treasurer. The president of the meeting asked one of the members to give the Lord's Prayer when the meeting closed. G unde it Barlow, Soc’y. The Girls' Christian Endeavor Society. We had a business meeting of our Christian Endeavor Society for the purpose of electing new officers in the little girls’ study-room at seven o’clock on the eleventh of January. We elected new "officers. The following are the officers: Evelyn Dryburgh, President; Doris Francis, Vice President; Helena Beier, Treasurer and Edith Bjork, Secretary. The meeting was closed by prayer by Clcnora Halvorson and it was adjourned at thirty minutes past seven. Edith I. Bjoiik, See’y
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