Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 299, 27 October 1917 — Page 14

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PAGE FOUR THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, OCT. 27, 1917

. B EW ARE I A. Creepy Hallawe'ert Tale Suitable Only for Strong, Brave and "Spook"-Lovlng ' Adventurers. .

Dear Aunt Molly Notwithstand ing tho fact that I have stopped writing, I just thought I would let you know I am still well and can tell as big, ones. as ever, especially for Hallowee'n. ., " You Bee It was like this. Last Hallowe'en the teacherover at our school happened to pick up a hot poker, burning her pretty lingers, and thusly we were given a holiday. See? I went out to my cousin John's and,we delded to go out hunting, out by an old cemetery, In a woods, and on Hallowe'en night! It was so dark I couldn't see to shake hands with myself, and my knees had a most peculiar rattle to them, but I wasn't a bit scared When we got In that woods and were ready for the, coon hunt it was so black I thought maybe some one had left the lid. off the paint can and I had fallen In, but wasn't scared.. After while John stopped by a tree and said, "Now, the best thing we can dois.ta separate. I'll go around by -'the fence and you go through- the, cemetery, you know." Yes, I knew. Not'waltlng for my answer, John hurried off and left me alone. Off to one side I heard a screech owl squeoch. ' Right then I decided I wouldn't go through that graveyard, -If the path were paved with gold.';. I'd sit right by that tree until dear cousin Jack came back, but I-wasn't scared,, exactly. I leaned back against the tree and prepared for a long wait But It wasn't long until I heard someone coming through the woods real slowly. They'd take a step, and then wait Then they'd take another step. Closer and closer they came. Then I could hear a dog, too, sniffing and rooting around In the leaves. ' Closer and still closer they came. Then they stopped. I listened but could not hear a strand. I wondered if they were planning to sneak up on ine. Then suddenly something clutched the' back of my col lar and I was whisked , off, down, flown, aown into a deep Diack funnel. For hours, If seemed that I fell,' Then suddenly I came to. a room wnere a fire was burning, and by the fire were ghosts, big ones and little ones. - , To one side there were three ghosts playing cards, only they did not have any cards. They just shuffled pure air. And they never ' talked, either, or that is, 1 couldn't hear them saying anything, but they kept their jaws moving all the time. - ; . As I came into the room they all jumped up and rushed over to me. ; One of them pointed his Jong boney finger at me and started to give me a long lecture, moving his Jaw up and down and shaking his, head at: me, but h didn't say a single word out loud. There are 1 some little skeletons there by the fire, too, Utile animal skeletons, cats and dogs, I guess, because one of them' came over, and rubbed up against my leg. Then they -brought out -a long saw, and laid me on a table which I did not see, and began to saw the top of my head off, Just as if it was wood. I tried to scream, but my mouth seemed to be gagged. Then I tried to fight my way loose, and just as I was in the midst of mussing them up, I heard John say, "Hey, look out who you're hitting. WhJt did you go to sleep for instead of helping get jthis bird of coon. You re some hunter, you are " Aunt Molly, that reAnd say, minds me of a tale about an Old Maid's Cemetery, where they put all the old maids, so hero goes. It was out by . But no, I won't go on either; I'm feeling too good, Just now. ' HENRY M'FARLONE. Pet Parrot East Flower Seeds We have a parrot. She can say all kinds of things. She is a nice pet Wo feed her sun-flower seeds and things that we eat When she is ont doors you can hear her screaming over hero at school. But it is too cold for ber out of doors now. She will say everything for my little brother. When she wants something to eat she will say, Take It Polly." Marie Davis, Joseph Moore School.

MR. SLOANE WRITES

LETTER TO JUNIORS Dear Aunt Mollie: May I write a letter to the boys and girls of Richmond? Dear Friends: I often wonder as I go about from school to school listening to your sweet voices In song, if you really know what splendid advantages you have, as students of music. The books which you sing out of in your school are full of beautiful songs, well written and will help you to be good readers or music There in every building you have pianos, vlctrolas and funny little organs ( while I play sometimes.) Many of you who are in the 5th and 6th grades take lessons and hone to be members of the Garfield and High school, orchestras, which are lust about the finest to be found any place. Now in Richmond we have other kinds of music too. There is the "Community Sings," to be held "somewhere in Richmond" every Tuesday evening. These sings are for your papa, mamma, big sister, brother, auntie, uncde and grandoa and grandma. Now you can help, by urging your tolks to attend ana sing the dear songs of long ago. and also some new ones. Then we are going to have the opportunity of hearing some of the finest musicians in the woria tnis winter. ' ' First there will be the. wonder ful Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, which all of you orchestra Btudents should attend. If you hear it you will be able to play better in your school "orchestras. Then too for the violin pupils, Efram Zimbalst one of the very greatest violinists of the day. will play. - Last summer at Lakeside I neara Evan Williams, the great Welsh tenor. He Is a fine menaiy man and sines beautifully. He led the audience In the Star Spangled Banner before his program started. Then there is Alma Gluck, Miss Miller and Mero. who sing and nlav the oiano. I do hope that my toys and girls will hear at least some or tnese concerts." If you can't go to all of them, pick out the one you are most interested In and deny your selves some candy, chewing gum and picture shows, you will be won regarded and be better little musi cians for hearing this great ana good music Your friend and teacher, R. C. Sloane. THE WITCH'S FLIGHT . It was one Halloween night When the old witch made a flight She rode on her broom Up to the moon. She sailed up in the sky To sweep the cobwebs high . She was all in black With her hair trailing down her back. . "My dear," said Mr. Moon, ".What are you doing up here?" , I have come to clear Away the cobwebs that are here. So it was on that Halloween night : That the old witch made a flight Up in the sty so bright . To sweep the cobwebs high. - Thelma Williams, 6B Grade, 1 Starr School. " " THE GOOD OLD WITCH Once there was a little girl who lived with her grandma.One night when they were in bed, she heard a noise. Her name was Mary. She got up and looked out of the window. What do you think she saw? It was a witch riding on a broom. I Mary was so frightened she jump--fed ir bed and covered up her head. she laid there for a minute and she heard another noise, she uncovered her head and there was the witch. Mary didn't like to show she was frightened. The witch granted her two wishes. Mary wished she had a fine house to live in and thai the witch would go away. Then the witch disappeared and Mary went to sleep. In the morning she woke up and she was in the beautiful house and Mary and her grandma lived happily ever after. Maxine Jones, 6B Grade, Starr School. An Ungrateful Chicken Once upon a time I had ji little chicken. It roosted on our back porch. We fed it but it ran away from us and we never saw It again. Bernice Smith, 3B graded Warner school.

THE OLD MAID'S CORNER Their Latest Gossip The Old Maids have a new motto which is as follows: "Be patriotic

and DON'T get married." Irene Knott has recently adopted the name of Pa. Sissy, of the 8A class, was rather cold tho other day. He wore his scout coat and a Bweatcr. We expect him to join an ftdian tribe soon so that he can wear an Indian blanket. Dan Ross enjoyed a nice little chat with Ruth Dottier the other evening. Prof. Englebert has been very stylish of late he's wearing a necktie. The old maids have very peculiar laughs. One sounds like a wreck whittle and the other like a horse with the heaves. Dan-Ross is very fond of throwing kisses into the hall especially if there's some one out there. Cry Baby Ebert enjoyed a nice little cry the other day when Horn less Bob biffed him on the head with a book. Beachy Eggemeyer was elected Secretary of the 8A class of Garfield. She was congratulated by handshakes, kisses, secand-hand chewing gum and bangs on the head with books. To return the thanks she gave a theatre party for some hes and shes. They went to see Charlie Chaplin. Some dentist is going to have a fine job. Tommy Schumaker has been having the toothache. He had it so bad that he couldn't even get his arithmetic. Reba Boggs had taken a great liking to green and white sweaters. Beware Harry I LECTURE NO. 3. (By Old Maid Whitesell) Now winter will soon be here so of courso ws want to be prepared for it None of us wish to be houseplants or like old men who sit around with their great-coats on and mufflers and fur caps and then almost freeze. So let's start in right now and it will not be such a task .when winter really comes. When you wash your face In warm water just before going out, you should also rinse it in cold water and then you won t get so cold. Bundle up warm before going out and be warm. This is the way you generally do when-you go out doors. You -put your hand3 in your pockets, have your shoulders all stooped over, and your eyes on your feet, (as though you thought they were pretty); And you think, "Oh, how cold It is. My, I wish I were at home by the fire, and Oh, how I wish I had my nice hot supper. Everybody looks so cross out here." And then you walk slower. "It's getting cplder all the time. My feet are almost frozen and my hands are numb. My, if I ever get home I'm not going out again for a month," i And you are as miserable as you can be. Instead, this is what you ought to do. ' Put on warm gloves and go along BWinging your arms, (that keeps the blood in circulation you know.) Walk fast with your head up. and chest out. Take long deep breaths, and think, "If I . look - happy . and cheerful and smile . at someone, they may look happy and. cheerful and smile at someone, and so on until we're all smiling. I can't hardly Wait until I get home. I can uBt see the supper on the table. And right then you will begin to walk faster and feel warmer. And then you think, "And it is so warm at home," and you walk faster still, and then the first thing you know you are at home with dry stockings and house slippers on, and eating a steaming jiot supper. Aunt Matilda is very fond of saying, "Yes, sir." THE QUEEN AND THE GOLDEN BIRD Once upon a time there was a man who asked the way to the golden bird. They told him right straight east but not to take the golden cage; if he did he would not get the bird. So he went and took the golden cage just as the other man told him not to. Then he was caught by the guards. Then what could he do? He was caught so the guards said that if he would get the Queen they would let him go, so he saldhe would. He got the Queen and he kept the Queen himself, and they .lived happily ever after. Helen Lee, 3A Grade, Hlbberd SchooL

THE STORY OF A

PROUD PUMPKIN Once upon a time there was a pumpkin seed. He thought he was the only one living. Well, a little boy came and saw him and said, "Mother never will miss this one seed," so he took it and ran out behind the barn and planted it The seed thought he would just burst, so in a couple of days he did burst. When he came to earth there was the bright sun, and pretty soon there came tho boy. Said the boy, "Well, I know what I'll. I'll just wait until it grows big. Then I'll bring mother out here." So the boy tended tho plant. Well, that plant thought, "I'll just grow and grow until I'm as big as that boy." Pretty soon there wa3 a little pumpkin. on the vine. In a week the pumpkin grew as big as the boy's head. In another week the pumpkin was bo big a man could hardly lift it. Tomorrow was Hallowe'en. The pumpkin was to be in a Hallowe'en party. They told stories so ghostly that it made shivers run down your back. Well, the pumpkin had a new candle put in him, and he was set on a fence post. How many horses it scared I do not know. But It did not frighten one boy. This boy had been staying out late making mischief. He had often come home this way by himself but he neverhad been as scared as he was now. He ran so fast he did not see the pumpkin on the fence post. He stopped on a log and a ghost stopped with him. The grost said, "We've been running some." The boy said, "Yes, and we'll run some more." They ran and ran until they came to the end of the world.. Then the boy jumped into the sky and so did the ghost. The boy became yellow and soon became so bright that you could not look at hirrt, arid he i? the sun. The ghost Is the white moon. The moon still pursues the sun. Well, the Jack-o-lantern, as tne pumpkin had turned, told me all this. won tho .Tack-b-lantern felt so proud that he fell off of the post and "busted." Everett Lady, Starr School. PET PARROT EATS FLOWER SEEDS The first Halloween in Fairyland the brownies dressed up like old witches and ghosts. The fairies were dancing when the brownies came. So when they were through dancing they turned around and there they saw two rows of brownies dressed up like witches and ghosts. They were so scared that they screamed and fainted and some of them ran away. Then the brownies laughed and thev had baskets of good things to LUUiV OIL tilt- 1MV rhl VU I at with them, and tney naa a party. Mary Catherine Cramer, 6A Grade, Starr School. Base Ball Standing St Mary's moved into first place by defeating Starr school Monday evening. . The game was tight and undecided till the last .inning, the score being 7-. The batteries were: Starr, Townsend and Thomas St Mary's, Nolan d and Englebert Standing. Won Lost Pet. .666 .500 .500 .000 St. Mary's 2 1 Starr 1 1 Warner 1 1 Whitewater ....... 0 1 THE SELFISH CHILD One day John's mother gave him a saucer with some jelly in it She told him to call his sisters and give them some. He went out but did not call his sisters. He went up in the hay loft to eat it When he came down he found his sisters under, a bush having a doll party.. They told him that Mrs. Brown had had a party and brought the remainings of the ice cream, candy, and cakes over to them. Jchn had learned a lesson. He was never selfish any mora Chrystol Graves, 6A Grade, Warner School. ANSWERS TO NAMES CHILDREN OF 1. Isaac. 2. Mary. 8. Cart. 4. William. K. Clifford. 6. James. 8. Byron. 9. Charles. 10. Clayton. 11. Michael. 12. Russet 13. Kenneth, 7. Loron. 14. Preston. By Carl Mc'Creary, Warner School.

OUR LOYAL JUNIOR WRITERS The following is a list of our loyal Junior writers, who have sent In euch good stories and articles that Aunt Molly wishes she could see each one of the authors personally and tell them how much she appreciates their work, and how sorry she is that they could not be printed'wheu sent in: Louise Nleman, Horace Baker, Howard Fosnot, Elsie Stoddard, Rhea Johanning, Helen ' Pille, Wilbur Bennett, George Krueger, Warren Cottiugham, Thelma Baker, Nina Murray, Leora Johanning, Jane Beck, Richard Posther, Maybelle Catheart, Qoldio Brown, Mildred Shonkwiler, Marguerite Lucile Muckridge, John Bland, Thelma May, Finley Bond, auline Moore, Richard Sheppard, Virginia Rhodes, Mary Elizabeth Rees, Horace Webb. Dolpha Clem, Vera Romberg, Marion Marshall, Burthelia Heeger, Catherine Lane, Frank Dallas, Ruth Brady, Mildred Gardner, Delcris Blunk, Cryatol Graves, Vernan Morgan, Marjory Lephart Ruby Thomas. Virginia GilliJand, Margaret McKay, Lola Haas, Lea tha Lamb, Russell Swanton, John Roy Smith, Elizabeth Harter, La-

von Beeson. . The Witch That Crossed The Large Moon Once upon a time there was a witch who thought she was better" than any other one. She would even say that she could fly the high est on her broom stick. One night she even went as high as the moon, and everybody said, "I see the old witch crossing the moon." She was very proud. One night when It was Hallow een, the witch went up into the sky to sweep the cobwebs and she heard a queer sound. It was a bat,' so she flew faster than ever. Oh how high she went. But here in my story you are going to have to say goodbye to her. Because she went so high she got dizzy and fell clear " down to the ground, and that was the end of the old witch. Louise Daub, 4A Grade, Starr School. SWEEPING COBWEBS One Hallowe'en night an old witch went up on her broonT to sweep the cobwebs out of the sky. There was a little girl that was having a party, when one of the children happened to look up and saw tho witch. She said ''Look there!" All of the children looked. What do you think they saw? They saw the old witch on her broom riding through tho air. They all ran in as fast as they could go to tell the little girl's mother that was havin gthe party. Soon as the old witch got there she began her work. When she was done she got on her broom stick and came riding down. By this time everything was still. . - By Roberta snener, btarr scaooi, 6B grade. HAVE HALF HOLID.AY Last Friday all the children down at Finley school who weren't either tardy or absent got out-at recess. They had been going to school for six weeks without being tardy or absent. ,V: . : ,; '.r v -. In our room I expect about twen-. ty-four got out and only about, eight or ten were left. Every six weeks the .ones who . do not hare any tardy or absent marks will get -out at recess, and Mrs. Gentle said . that if everybody would keep from getting any tardy or absent marks she either would give them a holl-, day or else take them out in the woods some place. Everybody said they were going to try. When I got out Paul Hamilton, Ather Reeg and I all went over to horehound hill down by the old poultry house and we built a big -fire under an auto hood. Then William Norris came and some boy they called Frank and . they went up to the poultry house, and they said they wer going to see a lot of -spooky things up there. . That would be a good place to go for Halloween.-'-Gilbert Snider, Finley school. Play School at Party When Lillian Leach had her party the girls Bhe invited were Eloise Mills, Amy Green, Dorothy Caine, Sarah Poinler and I. Marjory also had some little friends. We played games. Then we had refreshments. After this we played school. Dorothy was the music teacher and I was the teacher. Mr. Leach then took us for a ride, and took us home. Your friend, Maida Van Voorhis,