Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 245, 25 August 1917 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AUGUST 25, 1017

SPEAKING OF FISH ! Dear Boys- One of the best things about camping on a lake, when we were just ten feet from the water's edge with two perfectly safe row boats bobbfog at the lauding, was being able to go fishing whenever we wanted to. Wouldn't that be your idea of a .perfectly blissful vacatiou? It was mine, too, especially since I never had been In such a place before, and just folt in my bones how proud I would be to come in with a long string of nice plump bass .and pickerel and maybe even some lake trout, (you know I might have caught some) and then have all the girls Btanding around with glittering eyes and watering mouths while several skillets full of that sizzling brown fish sputtered away over the crackling wood fire. What more could one want? We were there at Basin Bay on Lake George, which I guess is noted for being one of the most ideal fishing places in the whole country. So one of those nice grey days, when there was just enough breeze to make the water toss gently, two other girls and 1 went out in one of those nice unslnkable flat-bottom boats, armed with several gentle bamboo poles and a lovely cigar box full of fat juicy fishing worms; and we felt so perfectly full of the ; fishing spirit that as we pushed off we told the cooks to get out the largest frying pans, because we were going to bring in several whales. Of course the first thing to do was bait the hook, so we began; but I don't believe we had real fishing worms. They didn't seem to be sports about it at all. When we picked" them up they wiggled

and squirmed all around the inside of our handsT and when we tried to put them on the hooks, they would draw themselves out real long, and then, hump themselves up all fat and puffy in the middle. They acted real cross, and besides they felt so cool and slippery; I decided the next time I went out I'd use artificial flies. But finally the hooks were baited and cast overboard, so the next thing to do was wait. And we waited. It was lots of fun sitting there in the gently bobbing boat, intently holding your pole at just the right angle, for the first half hour, but after that it began to seem as tho' something might happen. One of the girls had curled up at the end of the boat (or I guess they call it the stern) and had gone to Bleep sitting on the end of her pole. The other girl was knitting, so I also began to pass away the time by hanging over the side of the boat and looking down in the water. You know Lake George isd very clear, so clear, In fact, that they Bay you can see the bottom twentyfive feet deep. So I was looking flown, watching the weeds and rocks as we lazily bobbed along over them, n hen suddenly a big two-pound bass came swimming . along close by, and after sniffing aro'ind it for a minute or two gave a disappointed little wag of his tail and went on. This was too much for me, so I pulled in my line, and there was the hook, as slick and clean as if it were rieht out of the store. So I went through the delightful pleasore of enlisting another fishing worm to do his bit.and then watched to see what would happen. Almost at once two or three nasty little sun fish came swimming up to get another meal, but I didn't want them, so wiggled the line while the other two girls grew as excited as I. The sun fish stood off a little bit, and then, behold, here came tHy monster again. We all sat perfectly still while I rigidly held the pole and waited. Sure enough, straight up to the tempting meal swam he, gleefully waving his fins, and at once began chewing off all my lovely bait without even nibbling on the hook. And there we had to sit, just helplessly watching him. Why, it was terrible. Once or twice I even jerked the hook real hard trying to get him on it, but the brnte only waited until all had quieted down again and then came back to finish his meal. No telling how long we poor fisherwomen would have had to endure that torture, if a sudden rumble of thunder had not made us realize that a storm was coming up, and that already there were white caps. So we took our spite out on the ores as we pulled for shore. But, boys, the next morning there were almost fifteen dead fish washed up on our shore. Some thought a motor boat might have killed them, and others said perhaps the waves bad dashed them up against 1

WHAT THE GIRL SCOUTS ARE DOING

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The Girl Scouts are facing the big test. Burning with zeal to help in the war, they have offered their services to the Food Administration, which, knowing the value of this great organization, has accepted the offer heartily. It will gladly utilize the girls' services in circulating the Food Pledge cards, and in similar tasks. A member of the Food Administration has provided a special pledge for the girls which has been accepted, and which includes the following promises: the rocks, but three of us were pretty, sure that they either died from 8tuffiug themselves so full of our bait, or ..else they just naturally didn't have thyself respect to go on living after all thisnames we called them. Anyhow, when it was all,over I felt that I had learned one rather useful thing. And, excuse me for tacking a moral on the end of all this, but you see, I really am supposed to write some sort of an edl.torial. So the neat little point 3 this: Even on your vacation, if you want to have much luck doing something, you better learn a few scientific little points about it, first. Editor. The Baby in the Street Car The other day when I was in Richmond on the street car there was a little baby. It was very naughty. It would not stay where it was put. First it wanted to look out of the window,' then it wanted to sit in its mother's lap and at last it wiggled down till it got on the floor. This was not a nice place for a baby, so the mother caught it up and tried to settle it on her lap. But that naughty baby bent itself back and stretched out its little legs, and gave such a loud yell that everybody in the car jumped and looked scared. Then the poor mother, who looked quite wornoijt, gave the baby's hand a slap that seemed to drive the naughty all away, for the little arms went up around mamma's neck, and the little face, full of shame now, hid itself on her shoulder. Soon the baby, who was only naughty because it was tired and hungry, went fast asleep; Yesterday I got into a street car and there was a plump, cosey little baby sitting in its mother's lap. It had on a white worsted cap and mittens, and a white cloak, and it had a first-class backbone too. Nobody in the car sat up any more erect than that baby. Pretty soon the baby gave a scream, not an ugly scream, but more like a hurrah, that made you feel like joining it. Then it played on its under lip,' and sang such a funny little tune that the folks in the car could not keep from laughing. The baby however, took no notice. It was not a show.baby, at all, but it knew how to amuse Itself, and seemed to be saying, "I'm having a good time! There's lots of fun in the world." There wasn't one in the car who didn't feci like giving that dear, good little baby a hug and a kiss. J. S., Economy, Ind.

To give up candy week. To give up sweet drinks three days a week. . It is also suggested that the Girl Scout wear, so far as possible, the Food Administration Uniform. As this is of chambray or gingham, its use would release for soldiers' use the khaki that now figures in Scout uniforms. When a girl becomes a Scout fche really weds herself to the ideal of American womanhood, promising to BETTY MORRE'S SCHOOL DAYS CHAPTER 11 Betty looked among the crowd for her grandmother. Presently a little old lady came up to her. She said, "Are you Betty Moore?" I am sure you must be." "Yes, 1 am Betty Moore." "Are you my grandmother?" replied Betty. "Yes, I am your grandmother," said she. "Grandmother, meet my friend, Virginia West," said Betty. "I met her on the train. She is going to the same school I am. Won't that be nice?" "I am glad to meet my granddaughter's friends," said her grandmother. "I think I have met Miss West before. Betty I think we had better go home. Won't you ride home with us Miss West?" "No, thank you," Virginia replied. "My father is here after me. I had better go home with him. Goodbye Betty, I will stop for you tomorrow on my way to school." "Goodybye Virginia," cried Betty, "I shall be ready for school." "Come, dear," said her grandmother. "Our machine is here. If we do not hurry we shall be late for supper." Betty followed her grandmother to the machine. She got in beside her grandmother and they drove to the house. Betty was surprised to seo a large house set back in a beautiful lawn. "Is this your house grandmother?" said Betty. "It is so beautiful and so different from the ranch." "Yes, this is my house and your home, dear," replied her grandmother. "I hope you will like it here." As Betty followed her grandmother in the house she wondered why her father had never told her how rich her grandmother was. "Betty you may go to your room and dress for dinner," said her grandmother. "Your room is at the top of the stairs." Betty went into her room. She was surprised to see that the comb and brush had the initial "B" on them. When she wont down to supper, she said, "Grandmother, have you had the brush and comb made especially for me." "No, dear," replied her grandmother, "That was your mother's room. I though perhaps you would like to have her room." "O, thank you grandmother," said Betty with tears in her eyes. After supper Betty and her grandmother sat upon the porch,

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love, honor and obey the Scout law that helps her to leach that ideal. Girls Scouts are really Soldiers of the Home. From nature lore anil sports they learn the lessons of health, comiaddliness and simplicity. They learn household science in a way that makes it yield 100 per cent service to the family; and they also learn those things whereby they can serve that bigger family, their nation, in its present crisis things such as photography, signaling, gardening, telegraphy, dairy work and first aid. talking. Betty tola lier of her life on the ranch. In turn her grandmother told Betty of her mother's life before she was married. "Betty," said her grandmother, "It's getting late so you had better go to bed. You must start to school tomorrow. "All right," said Bettey, "Goodnight grandmother." Betty went upstairs to her room. As she was brushing out her hair she said: "Grandmother is so good to me I know I shall love her. I shall work hard to please daddy and make grandmother proud of me." (Concluded Next Week.) WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CHAUTAUQUA By Henry McFarlone The Richmond Chautaqua has done more this year to interest the Junior than any other year. Of course the first day (Sunday) Sunday school was on the program. That did not interest many, but lots of us had to go just the same. The second day the Chautauqua management tried what they never had tried before putting on the same program with Bryan, Empey and other noted speakers, a real representative of the Juniors themselves, Alice Louise Shrode. Litle Miss Shrode gave one of the finest programs ever given by a ten-year-old girl. Besides, Alice Louise is the only child of her age that any Lyceum bureau employs. Her program included "Naughty Zell" and many of Riley's poems. She can sing and whistle as well as she can read. "The Dutch Doll," representing a toy shop and a man who was trying to create a human being from wax, to act as a wife for his only son, was also appreciated by the front line of children, Monday night On Tuesday Signor S. Bellino gave an Accordian concert in which he pleased the crowd so much that every boy whistled and cheered, especially when he imitated the drums. "The Last. Days of Pompeii" was shown in moving pictures but on account of a rain the crowd was thinned out considerably. The next night Ralph Parlette, the humorist, and moral lzer, gave a gripping lecture on "Hard Knocks." In his lecture he said: "1 don't envy children at all. I remember when I was young, a preacher, Elder Berry, used to come to our house to eat his meals and all the

neighborhood would bring' over good things to eat, and when every thing was set, everybody would sit down everybody but me and my father would say 'Now son, run into the other room and wait until the second table.' Looking through the keyhole I could see every piece of chicken was gone but tho neck, and I was hungry. No, I don't wish I was a child again." On Thursday the Boston Symphony Sextette gave a most beautiful musical program. That evening G.iy Empey gave a lecture which the scribe can't possibly describe., Mr. Empey had been there himself and he knew exactly what he was talking about. The rest of the things at the Chautauqua happened too late for this week's Junior, ho that's all for this time.

Denver Cooper Improves Skate-Mobile Denver Cooper has proved himself one of the young inventors of Richmond. Instead of having an ordinary skate-mobile like most of the other boys have, a foot-board with two little skate rollers on each end and an upright post in front; Denver has improved his. Since you never can tell when an accident might happen and it. always is safe to have your tools along, Denver has planned for this by having his hammer tied onto the front of his machine, and having a little black purse tackel on to the board just below the hammer to carry the nails. In this way Denver is prepared for almost anything. Also the purse is very useful for carrying money when being sent down town on erarnds, especially when paying the gas bill for his mother, since he ran carry the statement back and forth also, without any fear of losing it. Other boys also may profit by Denver's inventions. Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland," was as much a scientist as he was literary. When that book was first published the Queen of England was so interested in it that she asked Mr. Carrol to be sure to send her the very next book he wrote, and so he did, but the poor queen was very surprised to find that it was a very dry text book in mathematics. A Dainty Dress for Mother's Girl. 2086 This design is simple and charming. The waist is in Empire fashion and finished with tab ex tensions which may serve to hold a smart sash or girdle. The round neck edge is outlined by trimming bands. The sleeve may be finished in wrist or elbow length. Challio, lawn, organdie, gingham, voile, repp or silk may be used for this model. Tho Pattern iscut in 4 sizes: 2 4, 6 and 8 years? It requires 2 yards of 44-inch material for a 4-year size. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Name Address City , Size Address: Pattern Department, Palladium,