Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 71, 2 February 1918 — Page 11

THE UICHMOND PALLADIUM, FED. 2. 1018

PAOB THREW

THE OLD MISS tuAUNDA There was once an old mali whose name was Mies Malinda. She was very saucy. After a while she changed and she was as nice ,ns any other woman. She had a monkey whose name was Pedro. He was very naughty to his mistress. One day the old maid went out to the park to breathe a little fresh air. She was always afraid that her monkey would do some damage to the house. As she went out and got about six squares from the house, Pedro, the monkey, ran HMit in front of her. She fell right over him and when she got up she was all muddy. Now junt think she had to walk hack six squares with those muddy clothes on. Her spectacles were covered with mud. :llow couM she see. She was almost .blind. As ! he went home she Ml in a puddle of water and then that ; washed her spectacles off. Then just think of her wet clothes she -had to walk five more squares. ,;When she reached home she could'nt find the door key. It just "happened that, she had the key in ,her old fashioned hat. That was i the style for old maids. In the house she got her nice whip and gave Pedro a good whipping. Then she lost her temper again and fainted. There was nobody there so she died of losing her temper. Leota Ilosbrook, r A Grade, Age 11 Yrs., Finley School. RIDDLES The land was white. The sea was black. It'll take a good scholar To riddle me that. As white as milk, And not milk; As green as grass, And not grass; As red as blood. And not blood; As black as soot, And not soot I have a little sister they call her peep peep; She wades the waters deep, deep deep; She climbs the mountains high, high, high; Poor little creature she has but one eye. Flour of England fruit of Spain, Met together in a shower of rain; Put in a bag, tied round with a string; If you'll tell me this riddle I'll give you a ring. Answers next week. Roma Duffin, 5A grade, Vaile School, 11 years old.

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1. Where can happiness always be found? In the dictionary. 2. Why is a gun like a jury? Because it goes off when discharged. 3. How do bees dispose of their honey? They cell it. 4. What is more foolish than Bending coals to Newcastle? Sending milk to Cowes. 5. What do we often catch yet never see? A passing remark. James Basore. 1. Why is a plum cake like the ocean? Because it contains many currants. 2. What professional man generally shows his teeth to h customer? A dentist. ; 3. Which side of a pitcher is the handle? The outside. 4. When is it a good thing to lose your temper? .When it is a bad one. .5. What part of a fish is like the end of a book? Don't you know? Why the Fin-is! 6. What sort of sympathy would you rather be without? You don't want to be "pitted" by the small-pox. 7. Why does a man permit him-! self to be hen-pecked? Because he's chicken hearted. 8. Why are policemen seldom run oyer? Because they are never in the way. .9. Why is the earth like a school 'slate? ' Because boys and girls multiply on the face of it. 10. How mny peas are there in a pint? One P. Howard Ilosbrook.

SUGARLESS CANDY? CERTAINLY! USE CORN SYRUP

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Saying, whoa! to sugar doesn't mean whoa! to candy! Not in Chicago, at any rate, and a few other places besides. For sugarless candy is all the rage. Sugarless candy? Certainly. Neither is there anything hideously and horribly wrong about sugarless candy, which, after all is the childish way of insinuating that FOOD CONSERVATION The way we children can help Uncle Sam is to be very saving with our food, and observe meatless, wheatless and sugarless days, eat less candy, drink water instead of milk, and use less sugar in your tea, chocolate or coffee. Eat small quantities of the food that can be sent to France to feed our soldiers and allies. We can eat fish and oysters instead of meat, rye or corn bread instead of wheat bread. Save all canned goods. We can eat more molasses and less sugar. Be careful with your school clothes and your school books. When you are marking up your books, drawing pictures in them, tearing them do ycu ever stop to think of the poor little boys or girls that don't have the opportunity to go to school. They not only can't go to school but many are starving. And when you go around the railroad stations the little boys and girls no larger than we, are carrying large loads of baggage. Their poor little faces show the lack of good and nourishing food. But maybe some day the war will end and their hard labor will end. We children of America have plenty! and do not know what it is to want. Alice Caveny, 7B English. ' MIGIE . j Two doors from me there is a dog j that would look like a Jack, rabbit if he had his tail cut off. His name is Migie. Migie likes to play with j the school children. Every time he ! sees me coming, he grabs my dress I and sweater belt and pulls as hard as he can. Every night he plays hide-and go-seek with me. When you are playing ball he, runs and gets the ball for the catcher. Ella Milton Warner School.:

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such a composition would be a paradox. Sugarless candy isn't paradoxical it is delicious. This picture shows three children and two adults, engaged in teasing Kaiser Wilhelm II by making peanut brittle without sugar. Instead corn syrup is being used. It is a perfect substitute for sugar in this case. The Women's Council of Nation THE BOYS AT CAMP SHERMAN OHIO As I sit by the fire I think of my cousin in his tent. There are twelve boys to a tent. It is warm in the tents. They are getting training quick. They are getting used to different parts of the United States. At night the boys have the Yk M. C. A. to go to. They go to the writing desk and write home to theij mothers. The boys at Camp Sherman have a program for the week. They have boxing matches by boys who were boxers before they joined. They have three picture shows a week, and they enjoy these very much. They are glad to have something to amuse them. They save 'everything they can, bo you aid I and the nation should save the food. Bernard Koine, 7B English. BUY A LIBERTY BOND Did you buy a "Liberty Bond?" If you have not you still have a chance because the president said that the war would cost thirty billion dollars and we hare only raised six or seven billion. If we don't win the war what good will your money do you? So why don't you buy a Liberty Bond and help win the war? Your money will not do you any good when it is in your pocket and if you buy a Liberty Bond you will get four percent interest. So why not do your bit and buy a Liberty Bond. If you can't fight, let your money fight. Buy a Liberty Bond they are for sale at any bank. Howard Mills, Garfield School.

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a most illuminating and spirited Sugarless Candy contest. They have no patent on their idea, and anyone at all is at liberty to conduct a like competition. No scenery, and only one "property" needed. Somebody must offer a prize for the best sugarless candy recipe. A whole army, of self-confessed candy experts will spring up like magic and try for the prize. HELP WIN THE WAR We would like to ask the advice of American housewives on matters pertaining to the welfare of Belgium and France. There thousands of children are starving from just our own carelessness. We would like a majority vote on organizing a group of relief workers to collect relief funds for thOBe people. What could we do to make people realize their terrible position? If we could only conceive some plan to make people open their eyes to the horrors of war I'm sure we could collect more funds for those poor starving people. Talk to your neighbors, talk of such things in society, do something so that it .may soften the hearts of the people and make them get out their pocketbooks. Do your bit. Isabella Moore, Garfield School, 7B1. SAVE FOOD Why eat food? Because we must; but we can save. IJsten, the boys are fighting for you and me. These are the things to save: Pork, beef, sugar and wheat, because they help do the work. This is a good motto. Fight the kaiser in the kitchen. This is how; use molasses in your coffee, cakes, ginger bread. We must have meatless and wheatless day to obey our motto. When you eat think of those that have nothing and that with help you save. I know it will make you feel like crying, but say to yourself, I can help and I'll do my best. Hattie Nungesser. The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had: one.

OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM The Star Spangled Banner Is the national anthem. . It is so designated by the regulations of oar armr and nar)-, which proscribe its observance by members of the serrice. The American popJe as a whole do not know what to do and how to do when the anthem 5s being played. It is .customary stand and since the declaration of war it is dangerous for an Individual to remain in Ma seat while ft i3 being played. The ma jbrfty , ff those who riarrd do that and nothing more unless they try to sing th words. It has been said that very few people know the words and that toe composition is a difficult one. Today the national anthem fa a prayer or a hope and faith and rendition should be heard with reverence. At the theater when the orchestra is playing" "The Star Spansled Banner" it Is no time to read the program, for the seating of people, for the arrangement of wraps etc. Look at the soldier or sailor. He is standing at attention with hist right hand at salute aa he is required to do. Would ft not tt more becoming If every individual in the audience would stand as near attention as he knew how? As far singing is some say we should, as the French do during the playing of the Mareeillaiae, there could Be nothing more impressive than an American audience standing in quiet and dignity during the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner."

THE LITTLE ORPHAN Once upon a time there was a little girl whose name was Jane. She was very poor for her father wa3 dead. Her mother had a very, hard time. She was obliged to work all day. One day the motfoer died so June was left an orphan. She tried hard to get a position but she was too small. One day she had no food ami no place to sleep so she had too go to the forest In the middle of tn night she heard a noise among too leaves. She was very frightened for she thought that ft might be a bear." She crept into the hollow of a tree until the bear had gone by. The next day she went out of the forest. Jmre was very hungry so she went up to a house and asked for food. The lady took her in and gave her a chair and something to eat. Jane told the woman that her father and mother were dead. This was a kfnd lady so she told June to stay there all day but when her husband came horn he would not let June stay. But he repented and so they adopted her the next day. Garnet Dungan, Star school. Do Your Bit For Uncle Sam Every boy and girl can do hfe or her bit. Sometimes when a boy starts doing his bit the girls laugh at him. This discourages the boy and he quits. Instead of laughing, the girl should tell him how nice it is that he will and can do this. If the girls would encourage the boys in this way there would be a lot more boys helping, sometimes cnudren ask "What can I do? Whoever is asked this question should answer, "Keep a garden in summer, raise chickens, get moiwy forthe Y. M. C. A., buy a Liberty loan if yon have the money or gst work from the Red Cross." Girls can knit sweaters, mufflers, socks, helmets and many other things. Some of the girls that like to sew could make comfort kits and if you want to, get boxes up and ask people if they would like to put something in them. If everyone would help m these ways or others there would be no slackers, but all would be doing his or her bit. Mary Conniff. DONT WASTE ' Whon you cook dinner use what is left over for supper. yhen yon use sugar use very little and besides think how our soldiers need sugar more than we. Don't make candy unless you make it with molasses. Only buy fiw cents worth of candy a week. f. think we can help win this warlf we don't use much sugar to make candy and don't use much 'meat .and wheat One wheatless and meailess day in a week will help win this war. Irene Paul.