Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 23, 8 December 1917 — Page 14

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Query Corner

The editor will try to answer (uHuon.s readers of the Junior submit to her. Slie will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered iu rotation, bo do not expect the answer to bo printed In the same wecli in which yon send it In. . I Aunt Molly: Whf are boys always fighting's. Why does the owl have such large eyes? Dear Josephine: Boys are ' always fighting because they are passing through the same stages as the human race passed in order to become civilised. Owls have such large eyes because the pupil of the eye must become diatated in order for the owl to see at night. Ed. Aunt i-Iolly: Why don't men wear their trousers short like the girls wear their dresses? Mary Marker. ' Dear Mary: Men have more common sense than some women. Ed. Aunt Molly: Who discovered Richmond. Answer: Probably some Indian chief or the first balloon man. Ed. Aunt Molly: Why do girls think they are so much smarter than boys. Boys of the 8A Class, Columbia City. Dear Boys: They don't think so. They know it Ed. ''Aunt Molly: Why do people make fun of Fords when they don't make fun of other cars. Frederick Waterfall Dear Frederick: Fords make write- a lot of noise and are one of the cheapest cars on the inarkst. Ed. Aunt Molly: Why don't men wear dresses and long hair. Mina Portman. Dear Mina: Dresses would hinder their work and only people with .lota of gray matter have long hair. Aunt Molly : WTien we eat doughnuts where does it leave the 'lole. Mina Portman. Dear Mina: It leaves the hole in te air and we breathe it out Ed.

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SERBIAN ORPHAN BROUGHT TO U. S.

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Miss Elizabeth Shelley of Washington has a memento of many months work conducting with Mme. Slavko Grovitch, a children's hospital in a little Serbian town in the early stage of the war. His name is Babaljub, which is Slavic for God's love, and his chief ambition is to be a boy scout and a good American citizen. Bagaljub is four years old, one of the few Serbian orphans allowed to depart from Serbia after the Austro-German occupation.

THE CHILDREN AUD MR. KOLPMAN There was once a boy and girl who had long wished for a turkey. The boy said to his. sister: Let us save up our pennies and get ua a turkey. The cliildren started lo save their pennies. The parents had only a small farm, so On Your Plate of this If ach Person in United States By SUBSTITUTING Other Foods Saves Weekly 1 Pound Whit Hour Vi - Sugar Va Fats 70uncesof Meat WE CN FEED THE ALLIES Et These Save Sugar BE HUNGRY C. I ra itlmlnMrttU."

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BE A GOOD AMERICAN they could not get it from the farm. The children went to the next neighbor. The man's name was Mr. Kolpman. He was a very kind man. , The children took their money and asked Mr. Kolpman if he would sel lone of hi3 turkeys. He said that he would give them the turkey and they could keep the money to get something else. The children thanked him. They had the turkey taken home. The parent? were up-town, and when they came home, asked the children where the turkey came from. The children did not stop with this, they took the money and got something else. The children enjoyed the dinner because they helped. From Catherine M. Frye, 5-A Grade, Sevastapol School. THE GREATEST WISH Once there was a little girl whose name was Mary. One day she went out in the woods to pick some berries for a sick lady. She emptied them out and started for i more. These were for her mother. I Sho got her basket full and startshe met an old man. He was about dead from hunger. Mary took some berries out of her basket and gave them to the old man. After he ate them he turned into a fairy. The fairy thanked Mary for saving his life and said, "I will grant you the greatest wish anyone could ask." "What is that," asked Mary. "Wait and see," was the answer. Then the fairy disappeared. Mary wondered what he could have meant, but finally she understood, because she lived happily ever after. Monroe Martin, 6B, Sevastopol School. How the Bed Punished Mary Once upon a time there was a lazy girl named Mary. She didn't like to go to school. One morning her mother called her to get ready for school. She said, "Just in a second." But she went back to sleep and ber rootier called again. Bat the did not come. After awhile the bed said to Mary, "Get up and go to school or 1 win take you." So the bed took her to school and the children and teacher said, "Ah! ah! ah!" and Mary said to the bed, "take me home and I will never do It again." So the bed took Mary heme and he never did sleep late again. Buby Gibbv, 5B grade, Sevastapol School.

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The Cheese That Went .More)

A man ol'(JoihM)i once went to the market soli :heew. A.s he wont atom one of his cheese fvll from hi .has and ran don the bill. "Can you run lo the market ; atone?" said h man "1 will smd thho 'others att.fr you:" and he set them all rolling clown the storp crooked hill. When he came to the market, ha could not find bli (heese, so he went about asking if any one had seen them. "Who was to briug them?" asked one man. "They were to come by themselves." answered the man of Gotham. "They were running so fast when they left mo that they have probably reached the next town by this time." He hired a horse and rode away to the next town, but to this very day he has not been able to find them. Contributed by Lucile Williams, Sevastopol school. A Little Girl's Thanksgiving There was once a poor little girl who had no mother or father. One day she thought that she would go down town and see if she could get something to eat. All 'at once a man came up to her ask her name. And he wanted to know why she was so far away from home. She told him that she was hungry and the man said that he lived in the country and he wanted to know if she would like to come and live with bim and his wife. She said that 6he would like to very well. So she got a good Thanksgiving dinner and lived happy ever after. Florence Harris, grade 5A, Sevastopol school. V - - "J nnrfl there was aboy who was I ten years of age. -On tnat aay nis uncle gave him a turkey because it was a week before Thanksgiving. They fed him every day .and he was getting too fat but tie am not like his home. But soon it was Thanksgiving day and he was roasted brown for them to eat. They had cakesej pies, puddings and other good things. After dinner tney piayea games and had a very fine time. Rocco Conti, 5A, Eevastopol, Richmond, Ind. WARNER BOYS CLEAN UP PLAYGROUND The boys at Warner school are setting the most patriotic example of practical helping of almost any of the school boys. Each week four boys are appointed from the tipper grades to help with the cleaning up and at recess times these boys go around the school grounds with 'long sticks having a sharp nail at the end, and with these, the boys pick up all the waste paper Irom the streets and around the playground. The sticks were made in the woodwork department, and are a great advantage since the boys do not have to touch the dirty papers with their hands. If all the boys of the Richmond schools would do this also it would be a great help, especially if the Richmond city officials would have to cut down the city expense by having less street cleaning as many other cities are beginning to do. More and more we will have to depend on boys to do what men used to be paid for doing, and if the boys begin it of their own accord, it will help very much. What Wre Did on Playground The first thing that we did on the playground was to lay brick. We put 6ome gravel under the swings and then we smoothed the gravel off. We then laid our brick. We laid each one opposite the other brick and then we put some cement over the bricks and took a broom and swept it in all the little cracks of the bricks to make it smooth and bo the bricks will not come apart We did this an our manual training time. Don Ovon, Sevastopol school. Girfe Make Cranberry Sauce Our last cooking lesson we made cranberry sauce. First we picked them over. Then we put them in boiling water. We cooked them 15 or 20 minates. When tbey were done we strained them through a strainer. Then we added theh sugar. Then we put them into a mold and pnt them Into the window to cool. When it was cold, we put them into dessert dishes and ate It Bteabeth MHIere, Sevastopol cheel, IA grade.

HOW HANS ESCAPED FROM THE TOWER Onee upon a time there wai a tilth' hoy who:;e name was Hans. Hans lived on a tiny Use. The name of (he islam! was (inum Island, whkh is far out in the I'ai il'ie ocean. He did not live in u lious3 like ioa or nie, but he lived in a high tower His father was a wiclted magiciau who kept Hans locked in the tower. Hans would sit at the window sill day and watch the tide come and a;o. One day the angry waves dashed upon the shore. They were coming nearer all the time, till at last they reached the high tower. Then they began to rise till they were about oue yard from his window Haas was not afraid. Afraid! lie had always been brave. At last the water was almost to the window sill, whtn Hans remembered the canoe that his father had in his room. He ran and got it and came back to the w indow. Just as he got there the water began to rush in. Ho stood up on one of the chairs and shoved the boat out. and jumped in. The boat drifted about until noon. Then thewater began to go down. It went down very slowly, but all at once the boat sank into the soft sinking sand. Hans jumped out He saw the tower in the distance. He ran to the door and found his father lying drowned. He was grieved very much about it. Even though hi3 father was cruel to him, he loved him just the same. He took his father's body and bound it with cloth, then he dropped it slowly into the ocean. It sank very slowly. Then Hans went into the tower and got his hat and coat and came out to nlay along the shore. He .

saw a ship coming and it had a" large flag on it and he knew that it was somebody coming to the island. At last the ship came up to the shore and out climbed a troop of people. They made Mends with Hans. Tbey built houses on the island. Hans grew to be a handsome young man and married the man's daughter. They lived happily on the island for many years. Esther King 6B Sevastapol School. How Alice Was Made Happy Once there was a poor little girl. Her name was Alice. She had no father or "mother. She was very sad because her father and mother were dead. She stayed at the orphans' home where all the other orphan children stayed. One day as Alice was sitting in a big black chair with her doll is her lap, a kind looking woman came into the room to adopt a little girl. The matron said: "You may have any child you want." The kind woman saw Alice sitting sadly in the big black chair. Alice had pretty eyes and brown, curly hair. The lady asked, "Alice, do you want to go and live with me?" Alice replied, "Yes, I will go with you." The lady felt sorry for Alice and took her home with her. When Christmas came Alice had some pretty things. She was no longer sad. Mary Wilson, Sevastapol School. HOW I CAN SAVE The way I can save is not to eat candy because we want to save the sugar. I am not going to eat candy unless some one brings it to me. I do not like corn bread, but. I am going to try to like it. When mother makes some I am going to try to eat it, and save the wheat bread all I can so that we can save the wheat and send it to the Allies. When I sit down to eat I am going to take one spoonful and put it on my plate, then take another spoonful. I will take only one piece of meat, I am going to eat everything on my plate. Elsie L. Jordan, Sevastapol School. How We Made Cement Every Thursday over at Sevastopol we work in the yard. Last Thursday we mixed cement First we screened the sand. Then we pat in some cement and we mixed it Then we wheeled it over to the swing and put it on the brick. We had to make two loads. Then we washed the tools and put them up. Charles Fndersill, Sevastopol school.