Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 232, 10 August 1918 — Page 14

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM, AUGUST. 10, 1918

The Burden of Gold Elizabeth Marshall lived with her grandmother. Her father and mother had both died when she was a little girl and ever since she had lived with her grandmother. "Grandmother, I am going to take a walk while you toast the bread for tea," said Elizabeth. "All right, dear," said her grandmother. So Elizabeth took her hat and a story book and went for a walk in the woods. She had not gone far when she saw something shining brightly not very far away. It was getting dark and Elizabeth did not like to go much farther in the forest, but she thought that it might be a piece of gold she saw. She started toward it. When she got there she found a little house with a lovely piece of gold on the doorstep. Elizabeth didn't knock, but she stood a minute looking at it and then said, "Oh, that I might have that piece of gold for my own." "And so you wish you had it, do you?" laughed a voice and upon loking up she saw a frightful looking godlin. Elizabeth gasped, "Yes, sir." The goblin laughed and laughed and said, "Take it and go, but I think that you will get tired of it. "Well, I'm pretty sure I won't get tired of it, but good-bye," and she ran away at the frightful look the goblin gave her. When she reached home supper was ready and being very lired she Bat down and put the gold in her

pocket. Whet her grand mother came into the room she saw Beth sitting In a large chair in front of the great open fireplace. She picked her up, but dropped her, crying, "Mercy, child what makes you so heavy?" At this Elizabeth awoke and said "It Is the gold in my pocket, grand mother." As she spoke Elizabeth laid down a heavy black stone. "Elizabeth!" said her grandmother. ' "Oh! Oh! Oh! I've lost it and here is this old stone instead of the gold," cried Elizabeth. Then she lay down and cried herself to sleep. When the clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very ,8011 a figure glided from room to room until it reached the little bedroom where the burden of gold lay. He saw Elizabeth and said, "Elizabeth. I am the goblin, and I will take away the ugly black stone for you are too young for the burden of gold." And then he looked at the grand mother and said, "And you are too old." So the goblin took away the burden of gold for he was the only one who could make it shine like gold and when it was taken away from him it Liked like an ugly black stone. Once more it shone bright ly on bis doorstep. Contributed by, Esther A. Armacost. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ads Cost You Nothing; Send In Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Canary birds. . 1007. Phone LOST Old fashioned gold pin with pear set June 24. Phone 1366. FOR SALE Rabbits at 2210 N. E street. WANTED Five boys to join a woodworking craft club. They must be interested in woodworking, and be able to draw plans desirable. Call at the Junior office for information. WANTED A bicycle. See Nuncio Corsl, 615 North Twelfth street WANTED A book on aeroplanes. Call phone 1230. WANTED A small steel vise. See Frederick Weir, or call phone 1239. LOST A gold bracelet having a three-leaf clover with red, white and blue set in it Elizabeth Estelle. 111 N. Third sereet If found, please phone 1821. WANTED More girls to Join the Girl Scouts. Inquire at 8 North Tenth street, or at the Junior of-

Ruins of French town after Hun air raid. Enemy air raids on French unfortified and practically unprotected villages is causing loss of life, especially among the women, children and aged men at home. The photo shows the destruction wrought in a street of a French town by a Hun air raid. Several lives were snuffed out and many persons were injured. British soldiers are seen searching the ruins for bodies.

Canning Club Girls Are Active In Work

The Girls' Canning Club will meet with Alice Lemon Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at her home on East Main. The meeting this week will be in the form of a garden picnic, and the girls will be served with an early lunch on the lawn or over in the Glen. Each girl is requested to bring a war-time recipe which she has tried so that they can be discussed and exchanged. The meeting will be almost purely social. Although the Canning Club has been organized and the girls have been meeting for some time, any new girl in Richmond who wishes to do so, may begin even now to try for the state prize of a trip to Washington, and merely by working at home can meet all the requirements of the work. The rules are as follows: 1. Contestants shall be from 10 to 18 years of age, inclusive. 2. Contestants from 10 to 14 years, inclusive, shall agree to can by the one period cold pack process at least 36 quarts of fruits and vegetables; 20 of these must be vegetables. 3. Each contestant from 15 to 18 years, inclusive, shall agree to can by the one period cold pack method at least 60 quarts of fruits and vegetables; 30 of these must be vegetables. 4. Each contestant shall agree to do all the work without any outside help except - that assistance may be given in heavy lifting. 5. Each contestant shall agree to exhibit at the annual show 5 quarts of fruits and 5 quarts of vegetables, making a total of 10 quarts. 6. Each contestant shall agree to keep a complete record of date, time spent amount canned, cost, value of product, and profit. In addition, each contestant shall write a story of not less than 400 words, covering the points listed in the canning record book. 7. Awards are to be made on the following basis: a. Quality of exbibit 35 b. Quantitiy of canned products 30 c. Variety of canned products 10 d. Record and story 25 Total 100 In order to help with the work which many of the Richmond girls are trying hard to follow, Purdue university has sent out suggestions on keeping records which prove of great help. First entries should be made the same day that the work is done. In figuring the cost of the canned products, the value of fruits and vegetables should be figured at

WHAT GERMAN AIR RAID DOES TO

j v (c) c&MMiTTtg market price, even if grown at home. Charge .015 gor each glass jar used, even if it is an old one. Charge 1.5 of the total cost of the canning outrit to each year. Rubbers and new lids should be figured at cost. If sugar and syrup is used, count the cost at market price per pound. In estimating cost of fuel, charge .01 cent a jar for vegetables and .0025 cent a jar for fruits. The time of the canning club member shall be figured at 12.5 cents per hour, but do not count period of sterilization unless doing work other than watching sterilization. Books for Vacation Reader "Aunt Molly can you tell me a good book to read this summer," asked one of the girls the other day. And since so many other boys and gir:s are trying to think new books to read, we are printing a list of the books recommended for Scouts to read. Practically all the books may be found at the Morrison-Reeves library any time, and every boy and girl who is supposed to be at all well read should know every one in the list Lisbeth Longfrock. (Aanrud) Little Men. (Alcott) Little Women. (Alcott) Under the Lilacs. (Alcott) Marjorie Daw. (Aldrich) Pride and Prejudice. (Austin) Little Minister. (Barrie) Lorna Doone. (Blackmore) Jane Eyre. (Bronte) Last Days of Pompey. (Bulwer Lytton) Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines's. (Clarke) Friends of Caesar. (Davis) Egyptian Princess. (Ebers) Silas Marner. (Elliott) Ramona. (Jackson) , Hypatia. (Kingsley) ' !" ! Mr. Achilles. (Lee) Scottish Chiefs. (Porter) Cloister and Health. (Reade) Daisy Chain. (Yonge) Peter and Wendy. (Barrie) Four Gordons. (Brown) Peep in the World. (Crichton) Hans Brinker. (Dodge) Last of the Silver Sword. (Debiss) Mary's Meadow. (EwLng) Peterkin Papers. (Hale) York and Lancaster's Rose. (Keary) Binbi. (Ramee) Queen Hildegarde. (Richards) Castle Blair. (Shaw) Heidi. (Spyrt) Mother Carey's Chickens. (Wiggins)

TOWN y - " ,i',f ow Public 'fotftvtriqf David Copperfield. (Dickens) Stories which Girl Scouts are to read are : The Tale of Two Cities. (Dickens) The Talisman. (Sir Walter Scott) Little Lord Fauntleroy. (Burnet) Sara Crews. (Burnett) Six Girls. (Irving) John H.i'ifax, Gentleman. (Craik) Last of the Mohicans. (Cooper) The Pathfinder. (Cooper) The Deerslayer. (Cooper) Otto, the Silver Hand. (Pyle) Mary's Adventures of Rab. (Brown) Treasure Island. (Stevenson) The Btnck Arrow. (Sevenson) Jaskanapes. (Ewing) Nellie's Silver Mine. (Jackson) Robinson Crusoe. (Defoe) Rab and His Friends. (Brown) Bob, Son of Battle. (Ollivant) The Call of the Wild. (London) Master Skylark. (Bennett) The Prince and the Pauper. (Twain) Harold the Last of the Saxon Kings. (Bulwer-Lytton) Hot Weather Fails to Stop School Garden Market The children's school garden market was again a success in spite of the hot weather which proved too severe for many boqs and girls to take their usual places Friday afternoon. Instead of the usual number, of at least thirty-five, only nineteen children attended. Not as many grown people attended as usual, either, but the sale went as rapidly as ever. Practically everything was sold within three quarters of an hour, and the few pies, cakes and mangoes which were left could be used at home, the children Baid. Articles which went fastest according to the children, were cakes, cookies, cottage cheese and jelly. Also all the lima beans, corn, squash, pickles, eggs and bread were sold. The highest sales were made by Mabel Gustin, who brought the most material. In all she made $27.07 which brings the total of all that she has made during the season's market to about $30.00. Mabel says she has bought three dresses out of her savings already, and is expecting to buy a new winter coat school shoes, her school books and pay for all the flour, sugar, and other materials which she uses, out of the money. All that is left she will put Into war savings stamps, of which she has a good supply already. Next Friday the children expect to bring corn, pie, pickles, cake, squashes, cottage cheese, pressed chicken, probably melons, beets, eggs, tomatoes, lima beans, cabbage, cookies, jams, cucumbers and flowers.

Query Corner!

The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer nil of them, Tho questions will bo answered In rotation, so do not expect the answer to bo printed in the same week in which you send It in. Dear Folks: Would any of you like to have a thrift stamp? Just for fun I told my Sunday School boys that I would give any one of them a thrift stamp if they could ask me any question that I could not answer, and since I always have tried to be an impartial aunt, the same will extend to any of you. Send in only one question a week neatly written aud sign your full name and address, so that if I cannot answer it I will know where to send the thrift stamp. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How many Germans fell on the battlefield? Lynn Brendel. Dear Lynn: The exact number that were killed, wounded, or scared to death. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How many liberty bonds and thrift stamps do I have? James Basore. Dear James: I believe I heard you say that your father bought two liberty bonds for you, and as for thrift stamps, if you are a pure American you have $1,000 worth, minus the number you could not afford to buy yet. If this is not the correct answer, let me know at once and I shall be glad to report your name to the Secret Service men. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: What is Edison making? James Basore. Dear James: A reputation. Aunt Molly Dear Aunt Molly: How far is it from the ground up to the sky? Elizabeth Estelle. Dear Elizabeth: That is matter of eyesight. There is no definite location for the sky, it is as far away when one is on a mountain top as when in a deep valley. It merely is the blurry haze where the long distance of our eye sight merges at its limit Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How many clouds are there in the world? Robert Morgan. Dear Robert: According to my last count there are 500,472, but I might have missed a few in Hindustan. Why how many do you count? Aunt Molly. RIDDLES. What is blacker than two crows? Their feathers. There is a big black thing that stands on the hill and it eats and eats and never gets full. A threshing machine. Why is a horse like a letter "O"? Because "O" makes it go." Patch upon patch and a hole in the middle. A chimney. A king met a king in the King's lane, so he said to the king what is your name: Saddle my bridle, rosin my boy, I've told you my name three times in a row. His name was "My." If all the women went to China where would all the men go? To Peking. ; : 3 Black and white and red all over. A newspaper. What smells when you first enter a drug store. Your nose. Up and down, up and down, never touches Bky or ground. A pump handle. Ruth Critchet