Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 238, 17 August 1918 — Page 14

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM, AUGUST 17, 1918

SOCIETY I NEWS

Miss Freda Erk's Sunday school class held a picnic Tuesday afternoon at Glen Miller Park. The following members were present: Misses Rhea Crandall, Iris lgleman, Irene Dodd, Elizabeth Cheak, and Grace Simcoke. Misses Mildred Jones and Edith and Alice Sherman were guests., Mrs. Seik acted as chaperon. Miss Gwendolyn Simcoke, of Pittsburg, has arrived in this city for a week's visit with her grandparents. Miss Mary Louise Eyden has gone to Kentucky to spend the remainder of the summer. Miss Marguerite Saurer has returned from a fortnight's visit in Columbus. Miss Aleatha Miller, of Berne, Indiana, has returned to her home after a week's visit with relatives. Masters Raymond and Harry and Miss Mary Helen Adelsperger, of Muncie, are guests qf friends here. Masters Harry and Frank Chambers ar spending a fortnight in Michigan. Masters Allen, Jr., and Francis Doan Hole are visiting in Northern Michigan. Miss Bonita Wilson, of S. W. Third street has gone to Shelbyville to spend a fortnight. Miss Anna Mae Horr is visiting relatives in the country. Miss Faye Logue will return next week from a fortnight's visit with relatives. Miss Leota Hosbrook is spending her vacation in Dayton the guest of her aunt, Mrs. M. R. Maveum. Miss Ruth Critchet will leave next Tuesday for a fortnight's visit in Michigan. The Occiyopicl Camp Fire Girls spent Thursday and Friday camping near Williamsburg. Those in the party were Misses Virginia Harris, Mary Catherine Youngflesh, Edith Lewis, Emily Bailey, Marian Hill, Demarius Helms and Martha Eggemeyer. The girls were chaperoned by Miss Catherine Reese. Almost 70 per cent, of all the sugar consumed in this country is used in the household. So it is up to the women to make the sugar go around. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to -AH Boys and Girls. These Ada Coat You Nothing; Send in Your "Want" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Rabbits at 2210 N. street E WANTED Five boys to Join a woodworking craft club. They must be interested in woodwork ing, and be able to draw plans desirable. Call at the Junior of fice for information. WANTED A bicycle. See Nuncio Corsi, 615 North Twelfth street WANTED A book on aeroplanes, Call phone 1230. WANTED A small steel vise. See Frederick Weir, or call phone 1230. LOST A gold bracelet having a three-leaf clover with red, white and blue set in it Elizabeth Es telle. 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 office. FOR SALE Boys' books including the test of Juvenile literature. 75 cents to $1.00 books for 15 cents each. Call 114 Pearl street, West Side.

Boys and Girls May Take a Vacation at the Earlham Museum Richmond boys and girls may have a vacation in their own city by visiting the Earlham museum. It is open every week day from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, and is one of the most interesting places in eastern Indiana. There are all sorts of birds and butterflies, beautiful stones from all parts of the world, great huge skeletons of elephants and mastodons, stuffed animals, wonderful shells and curios, funny old-fashioned tools and pioneer articles, a little toy model of a Jewish temple, queer delics hanging from the balconies and walls, and bo much that no matter how often a boy or girl goes to the museum .they always can find something new. But many children are most interested in the Egyptian mummy. Several girls insisted, the other day that she was still alive, because they thought it moved. But since it several thousand year old, and since the table will move slightly when one pushed against it, there is not much danger of the mummy frightening anyone. No admission is charged and any boys or girls who wish may go in as often and stay as long, as they wish.

Second Belgian Flower Sale Next Saturday Forget-me-nots for the Belgian Baby flower sale, which will be held next Saturday, August 24, children's day at the Chautauqua, will be given out to the boys and girls Friday afternoon at the Commer cial Club rooms on North Ninth street. All children who took part in the sale before, and any new patriotic Richmondites who wish may help. Fir information, call the Commer cial Club rooms, 2000, or Miss Eleanor Seidel, 3785. Last Children s Market Is Held Th last school market of the year was field Friday afternoon, rne usual number of about thirty-five children was reduced to seventeen because of a shortage in garden produce which was caused by the recent hot wave. The children stated that toma toes, lima beans, cake, crab apples and potato salad sold out the quick est. The sales in most cases were not as good as previously. Mable Gustin made the highest sale having sold $5.20 worth of food stuffs. Warner School Has First Gold Star Warner school may have the first gold star on its service flag. Robert McKinley Justice, of Ft Wayne Ave., who has been reported missing in action, was a member of that school when he was a boy,-and is the first Richmond boy to be reported other than wounded. "When You Gaze on Me, What Is considered an ill omen which Is near the chain bridge at upon me, then cry." The legend

to a record low tide, hardships are sure to follow and in every Instance since the date of the first inscription, 1417, the prediction has been found to be true. This year the waters have fallen away to the lowest

level reached in over five hundred years and if there Is any. truth in the superstition, this year will find Germany in a slough of despondency.' '

Query Corner!

The editor will try to answer questions readers of tbo Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer till of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed in the ame week in which you send It in. Dear Aunt Molly: How did the Indians of the United States get red if Adam and Eve were white? Yours truly, Johnson Healy, 411 South Ninth Street. Dear Johnson: Did you ever hear the way an Indian himself explained it? lie said that when God made Adam, He moulded the dust out nicely into shape, and then baked it and bake it in in a great huge oven of His. But since this man was the first experiment God was so afraid he would be spoiled that he took him out of the oven before he was quite done, and the result was that the first man was a pale faced failure. Not being discouraged, however, God tried a second time, but this time he left the poor man in too long, with the result that he was burned almost black. So profiting by His past experience, God tried the third time, and this time the man came out done to a turn, brown and glistening, a perfect Indian. And Johnson, since "Indian" de notes the crest of perfection don't you think it is appropriate to call our state "Indiana?" Dear Aunt Molly: On what certain day are we going to win the war? David Henderson. Dear David: If I were a cheap fortune teller I might predict September 14, 1919, and then be in another part of the country by the time that day came, but since I would rather bring out the real truth in my answer to your question, I'm forced to say that the real day of winning the war lies with you and the boys and girls of America. If I should ask you what our boys are fighting for you would say "Democracy and Liberty," which means that the war pnly will be over when democracy and liberty are proved to be greater than the German system of living. For you, David, that means that our cause only will be won when you can be tested beside any German boy today, and show that in school you make better records, in playing you are more just and fair and active, and at home you can help to make the American ideals far better and higher than any German boys under the Kaiser's rule. To win the war our ideals of peace and brotherhood for all nations will have to break down the German system of guns and murder, and instead of you boys adoptThen Cry" is Warning

Germany's Hungerstone in the Elbe River. for Germany Is derived from the legend of the Hungerstone. The stone Tctschen, Germany has this inscription across its face. "When you gaze explains the words. It is said that when the waters of the Elbe fall away

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Thousands of boys an dgirls of the United States have enlisited with Uncle Sam as poultry raisers. The poultry club work was started in Virginia in 1912 with eleven clubs and one hundred and fifty members. From this beginning an organization has developed to include eleven states and a membership of fifteen thousand energic boys and girls. Each organized state has a poultry agent assigned to it. The organized states are: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Washington, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The boys and girls are assisted in their workby local school teachers, county farm agents and county home demonstrators. Poultry clubs are carried on so that the boys and girls have an opportunity to learn simple business methods. The members write compositions on the management of poultry as a part of their work. Each person keeps a record showing accurate figures on expenditures, receipts and profits. Short courses at various state schools are offered to members of poultry clubs who have made a good showing in their work. Another feature of poultry clubs is the poultry management contests. These contests are managed by the poultry club agents and are the means of obtaining a practical knowledge of handling and caring for poultry.

Ing the Hun's spirit of savage cru elty. Americans will have to meet any barbaric deed or principle show themselves to be more manly and superior in every test of open bravery and unstained honor; until at last even the Germans will admit our superior manhood, and too, will adopt our ideals of equality and brotherhood for their children. Then David, the day will come when we shall have won the war. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly How many stars are there at nght? James Basore. Dear James The same number that there are in the daytime, only at night you can count them, and in the day time one rather large star, which we call the sun, is so bright we can't see the others. But if you mean the number that you can count it varies from time to time. The usual number that may be counted at one time, however, is 2,000. Since the heavens rotate dif ferent portions of the sky are vis- j ible at dinerent times, ana in au as many as 5,000 dfferent ones have been seen with the naked eye. A telescope brings many million stars into view, and since photographic plates under a telescope bring far more under study than of German Hungerstone

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even the eye can see, the greatest number estimated is. at present 100 million. There are 18 million in the Milky Way alone, but it merely seems a blur of pale light to us. Editor. Dear Aunt Molly What makes a Ford rattle? David Henderson. Dear David Anything. Editor. Dear Aunt Molly Why is a promise considered sacred. Grace Simcoke. Dear Grace A promise s sacred because most people consider their word of honor, or in other words themseivese, of higher value than any gold or silver or forced treaty in the world. Ed. Dear Aunt Molly What don't you know? David Henderson. Dear David Poor ignorant creature that I am, I don't know what I don't know. Every time I think I've found something that I don't know and study the matter clear through I come to believe that the very fact I'm sure I don't know anything about it, is the beginning of being sure that I do know a lttle. The only thing I'm positive that I never can understand is what I am. It may be that I'm a wounded Belgian hero who imagines in his delirium that he is an American girl out in Indiana; or maybe I'm an old grandmother out in the Easthaven Asylum who imagines that she is writing editorials; or who knows, maybe after all I am a pink fairy who belongs up on a puffy white cloud and only am assigned to live on this mosquito-filled land for a few years to punish me for being late to a pink tea party. Why, David, what are you? Editor. P. S. And David, that Thrift Stamp is still waiting. Say, Aunt Molly if the soldiers get five hours lost when they are going from here to France, where does all that time go? Jimmie G. Dear Jimmie Maybe it stays on some desert island waiting for the soldiers to come home again. Aunt M. SAVE POULTRY MANURE. Poultry manure is more valuable than the manure of any other common farm animal, its analysis Ehows, and is particularly well adapted to gardening. Poultry raisers should either use it on their own gardens or sell it, thus increasng the profits of their flocks. The Belgian population is composed of two distinct races, the Flemish, who are of German, and the Wallons, who are of French extraction.