Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 107, 17 March 1917 — Page 13

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The Sandman

FOR TONIGHT

Story

Great preparations were going on in the Dollington home for the next few days. Aunt Dinah was as busy as a "buzzy old fly," Peter said. "Sure I have no legs at all left for doing the old woman's bidding," said Peter, "and it's no more work I'll be doing for the likes o' her." So Peter went around the corner of the house and lay himself under a tree, but he had hardly done so before Aunt Dinah came bustling to kitchen window and poked out her head. "Wrer you all goin', you lazy good fo' nothin Peter?" she said. "Ise jus gotter have some currants fo' mah cake and I gotter have 'em quick too."

Peter did not move. There wasi

just one more thing he wanted to I

hear before he obeyed Aunt Dianah. i

"Peter, yo' lazy good fo' nothin'," went on Aunt Dinah, "yo' jes stir yo'self an' git along to that stor. Peter did not move and Aunt Dinah poked out her head farther from the window and saw Peter stretcher on the gras. "I'll jes' git my broom an' then I rec'on yo' all will move," she said, "an' if yo' all hurry right smart Ise gwine t' make yo' a cake fo' yo'

self." . Up jumped the lazy Peter as ! though a bee had stung him and off '

to the store he ran, and so the cake was made and' all the other things that go to make a dinner perfect. . The night of the dinner party arrived. Mr. John was dressed in his best clothes and he had a nice suit of evening clothes that probably no other Gentleman Doll possessed, but his wife was the belle of the party. Mrs. Dollington wore a pink silk dress trimmed with tiny frills of pink tulle with little pink rosebuds caught on the frills here and 4here. Around her neck she wore a string of tiny pearls and on it was hung a little pink guaze fan. She wore pink satin slippers, too. The table was prepared for ten guests, which is a great many for

Doll Land, ana wnne some or tne i,

know

herself; "1 knew he didn't how to buttle one little bit"

There was a roast of beef, as welll my brother,

as the chicken and salad and ice

cream, and Dinah's famous currant

cake, and when the guests had fin

ished, although they all declared

they had eaten every bit they possibly could, not a thing looked as though it had been touched, and Aunt Dinah put the food and dishes all in the little closet and pantry ready for the next dinner. After dinner some of the guests played cards with the tiniest little cards, real ones', too, that you ever saw, and others danced to the music of a real paper orchestra,

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PET DOG WENT MAD Once we had a pet dog. Her name was Collie. She could do all kinds of tricks. When I would get up in the morning she would lick my feet. One day my brother and I took her to the creek to wash her. She took a fit and went mad. She bit

I ran to the neigbors

near by and told her about it. She

came to my brother. Then my father came and killed the dog and they cut her head and sent it away. My brother had to go to Indianapolis and take treatments. Earl Hawkins, Richmond, Ind., Warner School.

PRIZE COMPOSITION

which was placed in one corner of the drawing room. Everybody had a splendid time and said Mrs. Dollington was a perfect hostess and her huuband a perfect host. "But what could you expect," said one guest; "they are the real Doliingtons of Virginia and that old cook they have has been in the? family for -generations, I am told." The next morning Mrs. Doliington took her breakfast in bed and Aunt Dinah brought her coffee and muffins on a tray. "Yo' jest go right off t sleep agin. Honey," she said; "Iae go win t' hus

tle all this work out the way i:i ai

jiffy"

(Uncorrected A STORY OF A DOG Once upon a time seven miles up the river lived a young man his wife and baby, the father took his dinner pail and .started to his work.

! not far from the house was a half i f.arrel that was culled big "tub the

mother would put the baby in there while she did her work Soon the

father came home and asked where the baby was and the mother said "Why he's in the big tub" the

I father ran to where the baby was ! but the high water had taken the the til away. The father ran along

trying to get it but could not reach it It went down the stream along way until . some other people saw it and sent a big dog out to get it The dog tipped the tub until he could reach the baby then he took hold of Its clothes and brought -it to shore. Freida Frese, 3A, Whitewater School.

ECHOES

By Claude G. Miller Comments and Slams' Made in Fun

Curious Girl is Pitched

Once upon a time there was a man who wont to the river and got some crabs. When he came home he put them in a tub down the cellar. . After he h id gone away his little girl wanted to see what was In it so she went down the cellar and put her" finger in lite tub. All at once she felt something' pinching her. She pulled out her finger and to her surprise (she frivv a crab hanging on it Then she screamed as loud as she -could"' When her

guests were paper dolls, Mrs. Doll- coffoe and tagte1 t"he muffllia- and U . her Uns he went to the in cton man used to have two Keu-!n. , A .1 ,i cellar and pulled It off

tlemen dolls besides her husband.- ""'-V"'. " ""u i Then he told her that the next

' . ... ; iii-i room ami weui w

wuicu maue uvr uuuifi yaruy rueijjg a Ta a(jy

It'didnt take long to put the

sleep, just

grgeatest success of the season, for j j : ... 1 t 1

icyv uinutriB wo 6iyu- iu - i;un house in oncri aml then Aunt band that cculd boast of having ; inah dresse(1 fne c,jiidren , Uov and gent lement present. - . Marjory and pul on a cIeaa wuIte

A.i me uw,i Were,ea.eu ui apron, and by that time the little

uuu ""; "I girl who lived in the big house was the Doll ladies and gentlemen came irrand took them and went m 1 heir best clothes and the litte downstair.-- Where . a big-machine electric lights shinuig on them all.j wag waiting and Aunt Dinall and Peter was dressed as a butler for; her bables took a rjde the dinner and stood very stiff and j ()f course Aunt Dinah talkod n0 prim m his place but Aunt Dmah, more untiI that night and tnen elie it was who brought in the chicken. was heard to teU her miatress that all brown and crispy looking, on a I .-her Mia8 Margie and Maa- Roy na(1

. ..J; P'a"ei- . - At i all the fine folks a-starin' at 'em)

! e ier rau wan on mem hmks, w,erever that auto-bill stopped ." but he am t goin' f bring in. my j Next Week.g story "The Doll-

uiiuiicii, Kuviiu 1 ue baiuu n ington Family." Part III

.am (Jit lilt- idL'tc ui liuiil v uiaooai myself." Everything went along well until Peter began to take away the plates and somehow something happened and Peter fell right across the table, and there he lay, with all the guests staring at, him. too frightened to move hand or foot. Poor Mrs. Dollington nearly faintedfrcm ehame, but the guests were very polite, and not one of them spoke or mentioned 4t - afterward, either. : Aunt Dinah came bHstling into

the dining room, and, taking Peterf

by the collar, she hustled him out and finished waiting on the table

herself. . "He is jes' no 'count.'

time she wanted to know' what anything Was, she should ask him and he would tell tier. So after that she asked him and was never pinched again. Contributed by Clara K utter.

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The writer of this nifty column has lately decided to start a.restraunt, one to show Rlchraond.how to eat. Rules and Notices: 1 Eaters are requested to eat beans with a fork as they generally roll off of a kinfe. 2. They are requested to swallow sop Immediately, as the soft gargling noise often puts the orchestra to sleep. 3. Don't tip the waitter, he gets too much pay, now. "HanciC" Monger busted another record at the Y; a running record. We wonder who was' after him. John Milier of Cambridge lias agreed to send the writer a long list of boys' (and girls) names' who have been acting too nice, too bad or neutral. ran I Wicker of Dublin has consented too send the names of some Dublin fellows who have acting worse than that. Doth "cities'' have been laughing at Richmond boys, let's " have a laugh at them.

The Poor Woodcutter Once upon a time there lived a poor woodcutter. He had no home but lived in a hut. lie had little to eat. One doy as he was in the woods cutting down trees a princess came riding by. She was beautifully dressed, she wore a velvet robe had all her soldiers with hf;r. When he saw her coming he hid, but she told him to come out she knew he was a poor woodcutter and had but little to eat and lived in a small hut. Hbe took him home with her and richly clothed him, gave him ?. room and work and she f ell iu love with him so she married him and ' they - lived' happily ever afer. Ruth Stauher, 514 Grade, Viile School.

ETHAN ALLEN A HERO His Daughter a Hoapital Nun. ' Ethan Allen the famous leader of the Green Mountain Boys and Ifrigadler-General in the Revolutionary War was born in Connecticut but was educated in Vermont He was noted for his early and active efforts in behalf of liberty. He captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point. In the same year on an attempt to capture Montreal he was taken prisoner and sent in iron chains to England. . After a long captivity he returned home. Generous and frank, a strong and vigorous writer. loyal to his country and true to his friends, he did much for Vermont and to no other is the state indebted for its independence. One of his daughters was converted to the Catholic faith and became one of the hospital nuns. She died a saintly death. The edifying spectacle of her last moments caused the conversion of the non-Catholic physician who attended her. Fanny Allen was the first American bora lady to become a Nun. Gladys Royce, Age 11, St. Mary's School, Richmond,- Ind, ...

A TWISTED POEM

Hatw totem 'hwo el.he gitnb. ' -hadeveU? ' , . " llatvv,, teteuia bwo cth onrth-diuw "vedro? ' Oulh -ghih. OwiJi owl. otu lal sti wons . ' . , Lydouc hcenug rou ehtatli-irfe's dyurd wolg. . , ; By rVaneea Heal ton, Economy, Indiana, 5th Grade.

The Selfish Little Girl Once there was a little girl who lived in a big house in a large city. She had many games toys and dolls, stilt she was not happy because she wished for even more. Soim'times she gogt what she wauted. Once her mother said to Clara's father. "Whatever shall we do with her if, with all her toys, she is not yet satisfied." Then her father said, "I know let us go to an old shabby looking house the day after tomorrow anil live In it until f he is not so selfish." So they went and Clara, had to work arid work with plain things to eat and wear. Oue day she said, "Mother I am beginning to see how selfish I was. I will never be like that again." So her mother told her that they would go soon and Clara waa never selfiah again. Erma Wagner, 6 A Grade, Hibberd School.'

The Large Potato Peeling One day my little cousin went out to feed the pigs, and he fell iu the pen. The pig6 came up to him and smelled him all over. . This frightened him very much, and be called for his mother. . She came as fast as. she could to see what was the "matter. This is what he said, "I fell iu the pen and the pigs th'ought I was a big talor peelin." Yours truly, Dorothy Suider, 8A grade, Garfield school.

WANTED! SOME HELP

THE STOLEN BOY

Please can fiome one help Louise Emmett remember how she was

going to end this story? It sounds !

as if it were going to be real -interesting, and I for. one would like to hear the ending. The Boy and the Woodpecker. Once there was a little 1ny. And one sunny afternoon the little hoy was out playing when he heard a noise. And he looked around and he saw a w oodpecker on a big -oak tree But the woodpecker did not know it and so he kept on peeking away. I forgot to tell you that the boy's name was John. . But I forget what became of them. Louise Emmett, iB grade, Whitewater school.

Once upon a time. there was a boy. -He lived in Canada near the

ocean. His father had gone to sea

but had not returned. " One day -he was playing by the ocean. A -man grabbed - him. The man had a great big horse pistol by his side. He took the boy and put him in a boat. He rowed this-boat out to a pirate ship.' "This man was a pirate. The pirate -put the boy in a dark place.- There was only one man in the dark place. This, man's name was John Stevenson, Sr., and the

she said -to i boy's name was John Stevenson,

Jr. - The man said he was trying to

escape and the boy said he -would

help him. -The -man said.

hard to do, or , we are closely ;uardod." A week passed and 'the pirates were going to land and burn t city. The boy said. "This is our chance." - 8o when all were off the ship they jumped overboard and swam to shore. They went home ind found an excited mother. So they put en dry clothes and ate a lunch and if the three are slid living they are still happy. By Keith B. Sharpe.

TRUE STORY OF SAINT PATRICK

St. Patrick was born about the

It 4sJ year 372 at Dumbarton in Scotland.

He called himself both a Briton and a "Roman, and says his father was of a good family, named Calphurnius. At the-age of 16 the- saint was taken captive by pirates and sold as a slave to Miicho, a chief of northern Ireland.- There 4ie re1 saained six years -tending his mas-. ter"s -herds. ' He hus describes-his life: "After T had come to lreland.l I was daily -tending - sheep, and many tunes In the jday J prayed, and more and more the love of Ood and his faith was stirred in mf heart, so that In a single day A have said as many as a hundred

received a heavenly command to quit the country. "Behold, thy 'ship is ready," said a voice and the saint set "ferth for the, coast.' After a long -journey overland, he found the ship awaiting him, The master of the vessel, however, refused ' him nassace. but Divine

Providence -moved the -mariner to compassion for the poor slave. "He relented and carried the fugitive . to France. -- The next thirty-eight years were spent in penance and sprayer- and study. In 432 -Pope Celestine consecrated hkn Bishop of -Ireland, and sent him . forth to convert Ireland. When he went there the whole island was pagan but at his death AH Ireland was converted . to Christianity.

The Shamrock is the natioual flower of Ireland 'hecause St.' Patrick used it to ' iHuwtrate the Holy Trinity. - '' .-; -That St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland -may he oly a -myth, twt-lhe fact AtlM remain iJiat there are-no vrnouious -reptHes -to- that land. Green la loved by the Irish: as It -recalls the freshneits of -their; naMveiand Anna Couiff, 4t rears,' HI .-Mary's -School -,.,.

. In Holland the daily bread allowance allotted to each person over one year of age is to be -four-fifths

lbs. Persons doing heavy -manual J prayers and in -the night Pearly -the labor wilt receive supplementary i same." rations. . Such was his daily life ur,til he-

WIHTTIER'S POEM . ON ST. PATRICK In tbe midst of the war tor the! Union, oa Now Vear' Day.- w inti, fVesidntAhjiiltaui -Lincoln issued hta'-famous Proclamation of Gnianeijtaftuii. 4vig freedom -to nearly four 4uitboa ftlaveo ' TUla -w.u. done as Alwr 4'eaawre, 4mt R reud 4n le jUjtttUm f e.w in tbe

.. To" Whl.ttier," 1'The. Poet of Pre: dom,"-the issuing of this immortal f proclamation seemed, the crowningof a life's desire, for he had been among the inot ardent of abolilion-1 ists, ever laboring and praying for the -.end of American slavery. : Whittier resolved to coiebmte the event by writing a . poem in, which should he cited the -life work of some illustrious - roan who had ! been redeemed from hondage. The " history of the world lay -before him. : Whom should he Choose ' " ' He- oaiglit have . selected the Jo- . seoh. f ;Old "Testarneut .Scripture,' who was sold as a. slave, -and be- , came the founder of a migWy ,.atioii ; . ' . . . 4Ie mibt-hajre chosen Aesop ot: Hie 'Creek's . whose fables have giv--en point to -the Wisest "sayings 61 tiages and 6iets. He might -huve chosen the. Terence of the Romans, -whose -bright comedies, have ; charmed the eebolars of two thmisahd years , -.-' , -feut o? The: Pot' of .Pree,ldai, ; looking '-over -tbe world's history, chose St. Patrick as 4iis grand tvpV xi a tiiave redeemed from-bondage . to blew the world through .all sue-', ceediog -generations. ' And when we- eHKi tne jMKtu of Wliittier, e iiiiould -remember not only' the slav: fry St. -Patrick -ovdured his yoth Wt iiiw -hia imMe record ae. -n rhampjOM of -fat4tn '-freedom. iV-' seph fiiat-try. ' r"de, M -' frbwt