Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 297, 26 October 1918 — Page 12

PACE FOUR

RICHMOND PALLADIUM. OCT. 26. 1918

Query Corner

.The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer ell of them. Tbe Auctions will be answered In rotation, so do not expect the answer to bo printed in the same week in which you send It In. Deaj Aunt Molly: We are two girls In Garfield school, and are deeply In love with a teacher up there. We would do anything in the world for her. We try to be good, but she doesn't like us as much as we want her to. riease tell us what we can do to make here like us just a little more than she does. Irma G. W, and Grace E. S. My Dear Girls: Be natural and be yourself. If you truly care for someone, and it isn't a silly "crush," it means that there is something very congenial in your character and temperment, which the teacher will feel as much as you do if only you will not spoil it by acting sentimental, or standing around and smiling all the time. , - There is nothing that a teacher prizes more than the true friendship of her girls and boys, but there is nothing that causes her more worry and disappointment than for some one, of whom she is very fond, to turn a good, clean, wholesome friendship into a sentimental lore affair. - , i And so, Erma and Grace, if you want the companionship of your teacher, give her first your best, straightforward, common sense ' friendship, and don't make her life miserable with love letters, candy and slave-like devotion. Be yourselves. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: , ' Here is a Question vou can't an swer. When will the Kaiser die? , William Brady. Dear William: '" I greatly fear that if you think you have .a question . which I can't answer, you have formed as poor a judgment of the extent of American brains and ingenuity as your notorious fellow namesake, when he and , several of his friends thought we didn't amount o very much, at least when it came to fighting. . The Kaiser will die in that certain year. A. D. Twentieth Century, when great internal reforms have rent the very heart of his government and country, and on that certain day when a great internal strike occurs in his nervous system which causes a certain little red motor pump to stop its work. Ed. Dear Aunt Molly: s How much patriot!. V is there in you? Julia R. Burr. Dear Julie: . Dear Julia: . . can't really do something for my country pretty soon, I'm afraid all the pent up steam inside of me will blow my whole head off. - Aunt M. ' Dear Aunt Molly: , How nearly is the war wan? .'; ' . Helen S. . Dear Helen: ; J It seems to me that there are three great points which will be necessary to gain In : winning the war; and part of those are practically secured already. First we must convince the Germans that all their years of carefully building up a great military power, and all their faith in guns and bullets, was wrong. And we have practically done that since now the Germans are finding out that the spirit of the Americans, and Of all the Allies who never have pretended to be interested in killing people, can make farmers and shop men and clerks and all the other civilized people rise up and conquer professional fighters, when they are put to the test Second, we had to make tbe German people see that If they wanted to live in the same world with us, they would have to be men and act like men who knew how to take care of themselves, instead of making themselves the slaves of an allpowerful master who said to them, "Trust God and me, and then do what I tell you," after which he gave them the most powerful guns and the most deadly chemicals in the world, and then sent his subjects out to destroy Belgium,

France. England, Russia, and perhaps the United States. We began to win that second point when America came into the war. for when we told the Kaiser we would fight until Germany was a democracy, the Kaiser at once told his people to go on fighting for him and as soon as the war was over he would reform the government. And when they began talking peace, Wilson again told them to be a democracy first and we could talkpeace afterwards, so the Kaiser has written back saying that these reforms have been made and within the past week the people had been given the right to vote although he still is holding part of his power. The only thing that remains will be for the last power which the emperor is clinging to, to be taken from him, and then the second great point will be won. But the third great factor in winning the war is for you American boys and girls to finish to make the world a great united brotherhood, where democracy will be made safe forever, and nations of men never again will leave their homes to go out on battlefields and kill each other. You must remember that there are thousands and millions of little chubby-faced German children today, who are laughing and playing together just as American children do, who do not know any more about fighting and hurting people, than you do. The girls are playing with dolls, and the boys are skating and playing ball, with - all the genuine good spirit that would make them the best friends ever, if only they can grow up to understand that we Americans and all the allies believe in friendship and brotherhood, instead of in fighting. And so to win the war, and have it remain won, you American girls and boys must try to understand the great problems which the German children will have, in learning to do things and think things out for themselves instead of just mindInsr the emneror as faithfully as

we are taught to obey God as our King; and when you boys grow to be men, you must help make such just laws for all nations, that the poor Germans will see how, after all, the only way for nations to live in the world together, is by having a great parliament where their statesmen can talk over their problems and think out the right answer, instead of trying to settle problems by seeing who can kill the most, fathers , and brothers in war, and at tbe end, saying that the nation who did the most damage was fit to rule the world. Editor. Say Aunt Molly, if the Spanish influenzuh belongs in Spain, how did it get clear over here? Jimmie G. Dear Jimmie: If I should tell you how it got out of Spain, I'm afraid someone would appoint me a committee of one to take it back there, and since I have no desire to mix up in this business, suppose we drop the subject. Aunt Molly. SOCIETY NEWS "The Jolly Seven" had their first meeting at Miss Lillian Hodapp's Tuesday afternoon. Officers were elected. The members are as follows : Alice McGrcw, Isabella Moore, Lucille Taube, Mildred Underbill, Elizabeth Taube, Henrietta Collings and Lillian Hodapp. Refreshments were served. Isabella Leonard has returned from a several weeks' visit in Dayton with relatives. Alice McGrew will entertain fourteen friends with a masquerade party Monday evening. Members of the "Jolly Seven" celebrated the Hallowe'en season with a masquerade party Thursday evening at the Taube home. The girl Scouts are planning a Hallowe'en party for Tuesday, to be held if possible, in the Odd Fellow's hall. Siberia has an area more than one and one-half- times as large as that of the United States. Women employed in the operation of street cars in the state of Washington are prohibited from working after 5 p. in.

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MABEL'S SCARE. Twas Hallowe'en night and Mabel started out for her Hallowe'en adventures. Where should she go first? To Helen Salt's of course, for Helen had said she would wait for Mabel. But wait a minute. I forgot to tell you how real scarey Mabel looked. She had on a big white sheet, white gloves, and white tennis shoes, a white cap and a false face like a skeleton. It made the cold chills run down your back. Mabel knocked at the door and was admitted by Helen's mother. Mabel asked for Helen and was told that Helen said she would meet Mabel at the corner of Graveyard and Haunted streets. Now these streets had been named that for a special reason. Haunted street was named because there were three or four haunted bouses on it, and on Graveyard street there was an old Quaker church with a grave yard around it And to get to the corner of these two streets, Helen either had to go through the cemetery, or past some of the haunted houses. Lately strange things had been said about these houses, so Helen decided to go through the graveyard. But when she had started across a little piece she heard this, "Whe-o, to-who-o-o, to-who-o-oe." She looked around, but she did not see anything, so she began to run, and she was so scared she trembled like a leaf. Just as she was about out of the graveyard, she looked around and, oh! oh! oh! There was a great big ghost running right after her. She ran faster, but just as she was trying to open the gate, two more ghosts rose up from behind tomb stones, and caught her by the arms. They said, "We are going to cut your head off and cook and eat you, because you tried to escape from our ghost-hood." - Mabel began . crying, and said, "But I am not a real ghost," and she took her false face off. But she was so frightened that she had turned as white as the sheet she was wearing. "You can't fool us," they said. "We are wise ghosts, and we recognize one of our brothers. Now come with us." They led her out of the graveyard up to the corner, and then turned down Haunted street Mabel noticed that there was a moving ht in every one of the haunted uuses. She cried out for help, but there was no one near. At last they took her into one of the houses, where there were more ghosts moving around in the dark. "Yum, yum, got 'nother bad ghost?" asked one. "Uh-huh," answered the one who had Mabel. "The hatchet and chopping block are upstairs," said another. "We had one dandy little girl ghost tonight. She was awfully tender." So they took Mabel upstairs, and all the other ghosts crowded around because they said they wanted to have a taste of the runaway ghost but they could not find the hatchet and chopping block, and one said, "I remember now, we took it to the third house." Then off they went to the third house and behind them all of the ghosts were following." Here at last they found the chopping block, and tied Mabel down. She screamed and yelled with all her might, but it did no good. At last one said, "What will you give us if we let you go?" Mabel answered, "If you come home with me my papa will give VAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES; GOVERNMENT

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you anything you want." "Will he give us each a whole chicken to eat?" he asked. "Yes," said Mabel, "but we have only a hundred and forty-five." "All right then," he said, "we will go. There are only one hundred and forty-four of us." They untied her, and told her to lead the way. She did, and to her surprise, all the lights were out in her father's house. "Maybe they are in bed," she said, for she did not want to be killed. She walked in, and sitting in a chair were two ghosts. She pushed on the lights, walked over to them, and pulled their masks off, and found it to be her papa and mamma. She then told them why all those ghosts were there. Then (Oh, don't you wish you had been there), her papa and Mama just laughed and laughed, but Mabel could not see anything to laugh about. "Well, Mabel," said her papa, "Since you don't seem to know your friend ghosts, I'll introduce them to you," and he took hold of her hand and took off the mrrk of the first ghost, and to Mabel's astonishment whom should she see but but Helen SaxtThen he took off the masks of all the rest, and Mabel found out that she knew every one of them.

First Stamp Made in 1840, Says Scout My collection consists solely of stamps from different parts of the world, especially U. S. A., Mexico and Canada. I have about 700 different varieties. I am this time going to give you a lecture on what I call the "Birthday of the Stamp. The first adhesive stamp or label was put upon sale in 1840. It is mostly known to us collectors as the " penny black, and bears the head of Queen Victoria and the words "postage, 1 penny," but the name Great Britain was not on it Nearly all the other nations forgot to put their names on their first issues, but they've remembered them since. But Great Britain continues to be the only great nation that prints no national name on her stamps. The British government gave them so favorable a reception on that 10th of January, 1840 (which may be considered the birthday of the stamp), that letters began to be circulated in every part of the United kingdom at the rate of only a penny a great reduction. After the issue of the "Penny Black" the two penny blue stamp of a similar design followed. The first stamps were not perforated, ftlthough sold in sheets. Scissors had to be used to cut them. In spite of the inconvenience it was fourteen years before a perforating machine was invented, by a Mr. Archer, who made a machine able to punch, sixteen holes in threefourths of an inch. The little canton of Zurich was the first foreign state to use the stamp, in 1843; then through Brazill, America took it up, but did not really adopt It until 1847, though New York and St. Louis made the attempt in 1845. Stamps became general in Russia in 1848, but France was the last, for not until January, 1849, did the act come into force in that country. By 1858, though, practically the whole world was using the postage stamp. Not much uniformity in color was observed at first, but at the end of the last century a universal color scheme had been adopted, so stamps of one, two and five cents in value are green, scarlet and blue the world over. Now, Chief, I don't want you to get the wrong idea as to where I got this dope, so here it is: I was reading a stamp book the other day and I gleaned all these facts from It, not direct copying (except the dates), mind you, but Just In my own words. Edwin D. Witherstone in Lone Scout

Indeed there were not a hundred and forty-four of them, but there were seventy-five. After that Mabel understood what her papa was laughing at, and she laughed too. "To think," she said, "that I was that easily scared." ' Mabel's parents told her that it was they who had planned this for her. Then one of the ghosts said, "I want my chicken." And then every one of them said the same. "You shall have it," said Mabel's papa. He rang a bell and three maids appeared and served each ghost a little plate with a paper napkin with Hallowe'en pictures on it ice cream moulded in the shape of a chicken, cake and candy owls, witches and ghosts. That night Mabel said that It was the funniest Hallowe'en she ever had had. Julia R. Burr. Garfield school.

EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ada Cost You Nothing; Send In Your "Wants' to The Palladium Junior. LOST A two-bladed electrocuted knife that will pick up tacks and small nails. Was dropped between 11th and 12th on North B street. Return to James Ronald Ross, 311 North 11th street FOR SALE Boy's Fire Fly sled, $1X0. Doll bed, 25c; doll cart, 15c. Four small and seven large graphophone records, all for $1 Charles Walsh, 308 South 4th St WANTED To buy green trading stamps at once. Please bring to the house. Charles Walsh, 303 South 4th St. FOR SALE Aeroplanes, made by A. William Winner. Call at 31 North Ninth street. FOR SALE Airplanes for 20, 25 and 30 cents. Inquire of Leoline Klus and Andrew Spaulding at 915 N. G. street. FOR SALE Foui Belgian Hares. Three does and one buck nine months old. Phone 3672. WANTED At once, to buy Greon Trading Stamps. Charles Walsh, 308 South Fourth street. FOR SALE Ladles' wheel, $5.00. Call at 200 North Twenty-first St., or phone 3804. FOUND A red sweater belt in the South Tenth Street park. Owner may have same by calling Elsie Baker, 207 South Tenth street. FOR SALE Belgian rabbits, Call phone, 3784. WANTED Boys over 12 and under 16 to be in Patriotic Pageant on October 19 as Soldiers and Farmers. Soldiers must have Khaki Uniforms and if possible, Military Style Guns. Farmers must have Straw Hats, Overalls and Hoes. If interested, call 3710 or see Norman Hoeffer, 108 South Twenty-first street. Call early as only a limited number are wanted. FOR SALE Two French poodles. Call at 322 Randolph street or phone 3153. ' FOR SALE Air rifle. See Leoline Klus, 915 N. G. street WANTED New scraps of all kinds of good, for quilt pieces, two to three cents a pound paid for them. Alma Chamncss, 16 North Eighteenth street, city. WANTED Boys to join the Lone Scouts of America. For further information call at 229 South Second street, or see William F. Gil-more.