Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 295, 28 October 1916 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. OCT. 2S. 191 THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM Something For Fun

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Of all the fun we ever had on Halloween, the most was when all bur neighbors went together and got up a Halloween party. There were about twenty of us, ranging from six to thirteen years old, and we surely had a circus. Our mothers had agreed that we could have all the fun we wanted, as long as we didn't go out on the street. .At first the boys didn't think much of the scheme, but when they found they could fix up everything they wanted to, to scare the girls, and especially when one mother promised to bake a little pumpkin pie for every single one of us, they "fell" for it, too. We put in a dime apiece, and then divided out so much for decorations and stunts, and "eats." Every single one of us had something to do for the party, and no one would tell the others what they were planning. The party was held in the house that had the largest rooms, and the most 'spooky cellar, and we surely made use of every inch. We

all came masked and when we found that there were an extra number of girls, we discovered that half the boys had used their fair

sisters' clothes. Then we had an old-fashioned spiderweb, unwinding

balls and balls of string, and find

ing all-day-suckers, bean shooters,

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tin horns, and all sorts of things at the end. And after that we tried all the different Halloween stunts we had ever heard of, and of course most all the boys got soaking wet from going in head first, bobbing for apples. But the climax of the evening was when the boys practiced all their arts of invention on us one at a time, on the Ghost Walk down cellar; going backward down a steep cellar stairs blind folded,

with a clammy hand on the back of

your neck, crawling over a wab

bly board, almost having your head pushed into the furnace, bumping

into wet, flappy things, oh, it was

great!

And then to end the affair with being stuffed full of popcorn, apples, marshmallows, peanuts, and those pumpkin pies why we could not help saying that we had a lot better time than being out on the street, and even the boys still talk about that good old Halloween. Why don't some of you try it this year? AUNT MOLLY.

My dear Aunt Molly: Why is halloween called hallo ween? Louise V. My dear Louise: November 1 is the festival of All Saints or All Hallows, and during the night of October 31 pious old people used to keep All Hallows vigil an All Hallows eve. And so it has come down to us as Halloween. Ed. Dear Editor: Why do you always put Ed at the end of your answers? That isn't your name. Emma R. Dear Emma, "Ed" Is the abbreviation for Editor. Aunt M.

Dear Aunt Molly: What can you do to have fun on Halloween when you aren't invited to a party?

Mabel S.

Dear Emma: One year several girls in one neighborhood had lots of fun dressing up and going around

to their friends' houses to call, and

the poor friends had the hardest

time guessing who was who. But

they all enjoyed it and every household asked the mysterious callers

to come back the next halloween. Ed.

Dear Aunt Molly: Why do ghosts

dress in white? II. W.

Perhaps so that they can scare

people better in the dark. Ed.

Editor Junior Palladium : I can't understand how people know there

is a pole up at the north pole, if

nobody has really seen it. Mary O

Dear Mary: "Pole" is just a term

used to carry out the idea of the earth revolving on its axis, the

north and south poles being the ends of this axis. But there isn't anything there. Ed. Dear Aunt Molly: Do real ghosts have hair? John R. All ghosts I've seen were sheets and pillowcases, but I understand that the real ones are supposed to be bald. Ed.

ANSWERS TO RIDDLES 1. Why Is not your nose twelve inches long? It would then be a foot. 2. Why isn't the moon rich? Because it spends all its quarters getting full. 3. What country is like a happy dog? A merry cur (America) 4. When is fishing discouraging? When you fish all day and get nothing but mosquito bites. 5. What is the first bus that ever crossed the ocean? Columbus. 6. Why are chickens necks like door bells?

They are always rung for company. 7. Why was George Washington like a piano?

Because he was grand, upright

and square.

8. Why does an elephant never

go visiting?

Because he has to carry his trunk.

9. When does a cow become real estate? When she is turned into a field. 10. What bells have no tongues? Dumb bells. RUTH SCHWENKE St. John's School

MAKES OWN DRESS FOR GRADUATION The bell had rung for dismissal, and the girls of the highest class were getting ready to go home. They were talking about dresses, for this class was very ambitious and each girl was trying to make her own graduation dress. "How are you getting on with yours, Louise" said one. "I have finished the skirt, Louise replied, "and now I am making the sleeves. How is yours?" "All done but the button holes," answered the first. "Mine is ready to press and lay away," said another. Mable Raymond said nothing, but slipped away quietly. "Poor Mable," exclaimed Louise. "She'll never get hers done." "No, she's too slow," said all the other girls. When Mable arrived at her home her mother noticed that she looked

very downcast. "What makes you so sober, Mable?" she asked. "Oh mother," said Mable, "I'm afraid I shall never get my graduation dress done. I sew as much as I can every day, but I have not finished the seams yet. I'm such a slow sewer, I think I'll give up trying." "Don't give up," said her mother. "Remember the hare and the tortoise." Mable smiled and felt more cheerful. With her mother's words in mind she continued to sew patiently and steadily every day. When graduation day came it was a happy Mable who took her place looking neat and pretty in a

white dress of her own making. "You did get it done, Mable, after all," said Louise. "Isn't it pretty, girls?" "Oh, yes!" exclaimed all Mable's classmates. Why, it's the prettiest one of all." HELEN KUNKLE, 5 A grade Starr School

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Uncle Charley has finished his morning's sketch. A Teddy Bear! And a lively one, too, for he jumps down off the canvas and begins to grow large and strong. Uncle Charley is so frightened that he shrinks almost ot the ground. Teddy grabs him by the hand and places him with chains on his feet. See the tears watch him holler! Can you draw movies like these? (Copyright by George Matthew Adams)

Boys Go Fishing; Have Grand Time

DESCRIBES MAGGOT Originally the apple maggot, which is common in the northern part of Pennsylvania, fed upon the hawthorne tree. Then it discovered that the apple was more to its liking, and for the past sixty years it has been a patron of the fruit which Adam ate. It is something like the housefly, but it has four dark bands across its wings. Curiously, it is not much inclined toward sour apples, but feasts mostly upon the sweet varieties. The trouble is caused this way: Soon after the apples are formed a female will deposit her eggs under the skin of the fruit. After the young are hatched they tunnel toward the center, and as the apple ripens the insects work the faster. When full grown the larvae leave the apple through a ragged hole in the skin. Spraying with arsenate of lead about the time the flies appear is the host cure. BENJAMIN WILBUR BURR, 6 A grade, Starr School.

Bobby and Buster were twins, six years old. They heard their grandfather say he was going fishing early the next morning. When they asked him if they could go too, they thought he was going to say "No," because of his look, and frowning, he said, "Why, I should say yes." When they heard this they jumped up and down and clapped their hands. They could hardly go to sleep at all that night, until their mother said, "You cannot go unless you go to sleep." Then they closed their eyes and dreamed that they were fishing. About six o'clock they woke up. Grandfather was not up yet, so they went into his room and got his fishing pole, and went down stairs. Buster was fishing and Bobby wa3 the fish. Bobby got his nightgown caught In the fish hook. They could not get it out, so they started up

stairs. Buster fell over Fido, their

dog and upset a chair.

Grandpa heard the noise and

came hurrying down stairs. When he saw them he pretended to be angry. He said, "What are you doing up so early?" Buster was crying and Bobby was ready to. Grandfather took the

hook out of Bobby's gown, picked up the chair, and told the boys to go upstairs ami get dressed. They had wanted a new pair of overalls, so when they went upstairs they saw them, and new straw hats besides. Their mother let them wear them. It was half past seven when they started. Bobby and Buster had fruit in their basket, and grandfather had sandwiches in his. When they got there Buster fell in, and Bobby tried to help him out, and his hat fell in. So grandpa had to get them out. Buster was wet from tip to toe, so grandpa took off his clothes and had Bobby cover him up with sand. Grandpa caught eight fish, and it was just two o'clock. Buster's clothes were dry, and Bobby's hat, too, so they went home and had fresh fish for supper. PAULINE WALLACE, 6 B grade, Finley School.

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LILY Look in the lily Some sweet summer hour; There blooms the snow In the heart of the flower. HERMAN MONROE Finley School

TRIP TO THE LAKES I took a nice trip to the lakes this summer. My aunt took me with her. I enjoyed the water very much. I went out In a boat one afternoon with a girl I got acquainted with up there, and caught four fish. I fished off the dock, too. I took lots of nice boat rides. We stayed there three weeks. I took a big boat ride to Nevada Mills one afternoon. LUCILE KEMPER, 10 years old, Vaile School.

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LOST A gold stick pin with a little gold medal on it. Finder please phone 3440, or call at 909 North G Street. FOUND A pair of glasses with case. Call at 220 North 20th St. Lloyd S lifer, Starr School. FOUND An Ingersoll watch was found on 100 North Sixteenth St. Hervey Cook. FOUND An eight-year-old boy's overcoat. Phone 3729, or call 250 North 22 St. FOR SALE OR TRADE Angora Goat. See John Hipskind Jr. 2205 East Main. FOR SALE OR TRADE One per- , fectly good steam engine, in splendid condition, guaranteed to run. Cost $2.00 when new. Write or apply to Raymond C. Myers, Cambridge City, Ind.. P. O. Box 87. LOST A red cap with white stripes on It, at the Centennial. If found please return to 624 South 7th St LOST A bank book. If found return to 624 South Seventh street

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