Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 149, 4 May 1918 — Page 13

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QUEEN EDNA OF FAIRYLAND Once in Cyrria, Fairyland, there lived a queen called Edna. She was very wealthy, and many rubies, pearls and diamonds made her great castle. Her eyes were dark blue, and her hair was long, curly, and golden in color. She was loved by all who knew her. Now at a neighboring town, Dal-

ton, a grand ball was to be given;

by King Francis, in order that ms cnn Prince Harold, might be able

to select for his wife the most: heautiful maiden there. So it was

that every royal family in Fairyland was invited. The ball was to be on three nights, Monday, Tuesday and Wedesday, and on the last night, the prince should have his wife. Queen Edna on the first evening of the ball went to her chamber to get into the robes she had laid out to wear. Now she had many robes. But of them all, there was but one she wished to wear at this ball. The queen of all Fairyland had a grudge against Queen Edna, and the reason was that Queen Edna was more beautiful and loved more than herself. So when Queen Edna went to get her robe It was gone! But not just the one, but all. She didn't know what to do. She asked the maids if they had moyed them, but they had not. So she stayed at home the first night of the ball. Now the prince was discouraged, because he wished to meet his future wife at the very first of the ball. But she could not be found. He didn't know which was the prettiest. But the king told him that one queen was not present. Now when the prince heard this, he ordered her presence at ence. So the poor queen had to come in the robe she hated so much.

But the prince saw right then that

his future wire naa maae ner presence. But the king was not at all pleased when he saw this lady in her old robe. But he didn't know why she had come thus. Queen Edna told the prince that she had had her robe laid out, and when she went to get it, it was gone. But it was worse still, for they were all gone. This the prince delivered to the king. He felt sorry for her. The next night, when the queen went to get her robe, they were all there. But when she had put the favorite one on, the fairy queen appeared and said: "Woe be unto you, if you marry him! For I will kill him if he aren't, kill me first! Now listen!

I give you words of warning, fair

maiden. Go to this grand Dan. Harry him, if you dare. Farewell!" and with this she departed. That right, Queen Edna told the prince what the fairy had said. He said that they would get marired first, and then he would go to the fairies court, and get him a pair of invisible glasses. The kind that even fairies cannot se you, but you can see them. Now when he got to this fairy court, he had to pay them with something very dear. So he said he would give his beautiful wife to the king of the elves, if his plans did not come out right The fairies thought it a great plan. They gave him the glasses, and he preceded on his way. He went to the fairy queens castle, where he found her sitting on her throne,, making up a plot against his wife and himself. He stole up behind her and drew forth his sword. This ho stabbed her with. When a fairy queen dies, all the other fairies loose their power, until another queen can be found. That is what happened here. And while he had the chance, the prince made himself ruler of all Fairyland. He brought bis wife to the castle and she was made queen of the Fairyland. They are still living a bappy life there. Frankey C Alrord, Cambridge City.

WASHDAY NEAR FRONT IS LARGE AFFAIR

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"A little learning Is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." Pope.

The wash of an army hanging out to dry. Monday is washday the world over, even behind the front line trenches in France. The washing hanging out in the picture above, being the wash of a part of the British forces. The women of the small town cheerfully do the work.

I'M NOT A SLACKER NOW Once upon a time there was a little girl, who was in the fourth grade. She was 10 years old. Her name was Mary. She did not know what had become of her mother and father. One day when she was at school the teacher said: "Some of the children want us to organize a Thrift club. How many want us to?" They all said that they wanted to have a club. Then the teacher told them that they would have to have a president and a secretary. They all said that the teacher ought to choose them. So the teacher chose Mary for president and Alice, Mary's class mate, for

secretary. Then every child, but Mary began to buy Thrift Stamps, and War Savings Stamps. But Mary was too poor, sometimes she did not have enough money to buy food with. A friend of hers had had been sending her to school. Every night before going to bed, she would cry. One night she said to herself, "I'm the president of the Thrift Club and I can not buy any stamps." The next day when she went to school the children began to call her a slacker. Slacker! was all she heard that day. That night she threw herself on her hard bed and cried. The children kept on calling her a slacker, until school was nearly out How Mary wished more and more that the next week gone. The next day was Sunday and she went around and begged for food. The next day she went to school. Now every one, but the teacher called her a slacker. That night when she got home, she found a woman and a man. They said they were hunting their child. Mary and the woman and man talked, until Mary found that they were her father and mother. They had left her with some folks before they went south. They found out afterward that the people had gone away. The next day when Mary went to school she bought two War Savings Stamps, for her father had come back rich. Wanda Mae Fulkerson.

McKinley's Iove of Trees We like to read how President McKinley, on the last day of hia life, asked the nurso not to place the screen so as to hide his view of the trees. - "I want to see them; they are so beautiful," he said. And we are glad he loved them. Near the home of ex-President Hayes, there aer twenty avres of woodland. Many of the trees are historic, .here are beautiful weeping willows whose beginning was in far-away St. Helena at the grave of Napoleon. An acorn from the Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn., Las grown there into a slender oak. There are trees from the Mikado's gardens and ivies from old castles. President McKinley, who was a life-long

; friend of Mr. Hayes, always wanted

to, visit these trees when he went to Ohio. Ralph Fitzgibbdcs, St. Mary's School.

MY THRIFT STAMP MONEY. I will tell you how I earned my money for thrift stamps. I earned It by being a good girl, running errands for mother and father, and helping mother. Bernice White, BB, Warner School.

EDITH'S THRIFT STAMPS One day last summer Edith wanted to go with her brother to sell papers. She wanted to buy thrift stamps. She asked her mother if she could sell papers. Her mother told her that she could. Edith and her brother went down town and sold fifteen papers. They had twenty cents apiece. Their father gave each of them a nickel and they each bought a thrift stamp. Before school began Edith had sixteen thrift stamps. Mary Jane Schillinger, 5B, Warner School.

Thrift Stamp Verses Johnny bought a Liberty bond, To hit the Kaiser in the head; Jhony bought Thrift Stamps too, To put the Kaiser in bed. Lucile Howes, 7B, Garfield. My father has many friends in the army; And many in the camps. My two brothers and I will help to win this war By each of us buying Thrift Stamps. Lucile Howe, 7B, Garfield.

BOY HAS TWO WAR SAVING STAMPS. I worked at the Boiling Alleys and made five dollers. I bought a war savings stamp and three thrift stamps with that money. I chopped wood and made twentyfive cents. I ran errands on my bicycle and made three dollars. To get the other fourteen cents I sold some fish I caught So now I have two war savings stamps. Horace Webb, Warner BchooL

A THRIFT STAMP STORY Once there was a little boy whose name was James. He was very poor. One day a little boy came up to him and asked if he had any Thrift Stamps. James said that he did not have any. He felt very sad over it. One day he was sitting on the door step, crying. A man came by and asked bim why he was crying? James told him that he wanted to buy thrift stamps and had no money with which to buy them. The gocd man gave him four dollars and fifteen cents. The next day James bought a war savings certificate. He was very happy. James found a job and kept buying thrift stamps until he had four war savings stamps. He now had more stamps than any child in the school. Margaret Shields, Warner School.

How I Earned My for Thrift Stamps Every morning I help mother mother make the beds. On Saturday I sweep, wash the dishes and empty the waste basket. I get a dime for the work I do. Papa gives me two cents for every one hundred in arithmetic and spelling I 'get. I had three dollars in the bank before thrift stamps were kuown, so I put it in thrift stamps, and before I realized it, I had a war savings stamp. Now I have eight more thrift stamps. Barbara Thomas, GB, 305 North Eighth street.

THE COMMON NAMES OF TREES When in the early spring the attention and admiration of every ( observer is challenged by that huge ' bouquet of white blossom ss, the dogwood tree, we wonder why "Dogwood"? Usually the name of an animal attached to a plant means that the plant In question was believed by the early simplers, who, as a rule, gave the common names to be either beneficial, or baneful to that animal; for example, sheep weed, catnip, wolf's, bane. The tarly botanists, like the Biblical writers and Shekespeare, held the dog in slight repute. It is therefore questionable whether the name "Dogwood" was meant to convey contempt for the tree as worthless for timber or whether it referred to the value of its astringent bark as a cure for the mange in dogs. 1 early

spring wun iae "jod, comes the redbud Ju3.tree. why should beautiful creature have

tiCE a blistering name? In the days when legends gathered -about whatever was unusual in nature, this tree, glowing red in the springtime, was said to blush because Judas hanged himself upon it. Whence came the name buckeye for the horse-chestnut? When the shell of this tree cracks and exposes to view the rich, brown nut with the pale brown scar, the resemblance to the half-opened eye of a deer Is very real. From this resemblance came the name. The name Horse-chestnut has been accounted for in many ways, the most plausible being that the scar of the leaf-stem really looks like the imprint of a horse's hoof. Vincent Mercurio, April 16, 1918, St. Mary's School. USES OF TREES Clothing ia made from the fibers of the bark of some trees. The leaves of one species are used as towels, table clothes, etc. We get rubber from the rubber tree of South America. Wax is produced by the wax palm.Dye- woods yield dyes. Tonics are made from the sap cf trees. We obtain tar and turpentine from the pine. From the bark of the birch the Indians made canoes. Hats are manufactured from their bark and also from the palm leaf. The out bark of the cork oak constitutes the cork of commerce, an invaluable article, for wiieia. there is no fitting substitute. . The wood of the siiver-fir is used to make sounding boards for musical instruments. Paper is manufactured from the wood of trees. The bark of the hemlock is used in tanning leather. Thus we find that trees and the products of trees ire used in making nearly every.hing. But lumber should be con;idered as the most important of ill. Clarence Greene, St. Mary's School.

CARRIES A BANNER I make my money for thrift stamps by carry a banner for a dance at the Eagles hall. I make from fifty cents to a dollar a night I don't spend a cent foolishly. I buy war savings stamps. I will do everything I can to help our government and our soldiers. I hope every one is doing their bit Earl Hawkins, Warner School.

How I Am Going to Earn a Thrift Stamp I am going to earn a Thrift Stamp. I am going to do errands for my mother and not buy candy. I save every penny and nickel I get Mother told me to save my money and buy Thrift Stamps. My grandmother some times gives me pennies and nickels, I put them in my bank. I have 19 cents in It now. Just as soon as I get 25 cents am going to buy a Thrift Stamp. Marguerite Shields,, 5B.

GIRL SAVES SUGAR O HELP WIN THE WAR. I used to eat lumps of sugar, but now I don't I used to burn paper and magazines, but now I sell them and use the money for thrift stamps. Letoh Van Etten, Warner S0001- s.a.i.iJLi-.

Trees That Lightning Strikes The laurel is seldom, if ever, struck by lightning. The oak is, of all trees, most often injured in this way. Those who study trees . have gathered many facts about this matter. Thev tell us that the

; richer In oil a tree is the less liable

it is to be struck. The wood-pine is seldom struck in Ireland and Norway, where thunder storms occur in the winter, but it is often struck in countries where the thunder storms occur during the summer months. The tree students tell us that this is because the tree is richer in oil in winter than in summer. They also tell us that trees with dead branches are most often struck. Matthew Mercurio, St Mary's School.