Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 297, 26 October 1918 — Page 9

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Three-Year-Old Girl , Gefs Letter rom Soldier in France Helen I'earl Ringley probably is one of the youngest Richmond girls to be getting letters from France, for she is only three years old, but her uncle, who is a soldier and has gone overseas, thinks of her so much that he has written the following letter to her: -My Dear Little Niece: What are you doing these days? I'll bet you are a great big girl by this time, and just as sweet as can be. I'd just love to see you and see how much you have grown. I'm coming home before long, and then I'll bring Aunt Nona and come and see you and little sister. I'll tell you about the little French girls over here. I can't understand them very well yet. They all like the American soldiers real well. They like to get American pennies, nickles and dimes for souvenirs. I'll try to remember some French words to tell you when I come home. When they say. "I thank you" it is like this, "Je vous remercle," "good-morning" is "Bonjour," "goodnight" is "bon nuit," "How do you do?," "Comment allezvous?" Do you think you could understand such words?" I'm not studying any French, because I know I'd never learn it very well. Do you still like to drive Fred better than to ride in the Buick? I'll bet you know all about the Five and Ten Cent Stores where you go to buy pretty play things. What are you expecting old Santa Clause to bring you for Christmas? I'll bet you wan't another new doll. I'll not look for Old Santa Clause now, for I'm getting too old for him to look after me any more. Tell mother I'm looking for a letter from her most any day, and you must write too. And tell papa he's not excused from writing at all. Hope you are real weyy. I am at present. Take good care of yourself and little sister. With lost of love, Your uncle, VERNON IIOBBS.

"Be loyal" Is law of Boy and Girl Scouts By MADGE WHITESELL. People haven't heard as much : corncerning the Girl ScoutJ as they have the Boy Scouts, because the Girl Scout organization is only six years old. Nevertheless the Girl Scouts will play an important in the wellfare of the country. - One of the Scout laws is that all Scouts are loyal. In the following incident, which I have copied from . "The Ladis' Home Journal," a Boy Scout's loyalty is shown: "A German column was cautiously approaching a bit of French woods, when a lad of fourteen was caught hiding in a clump of bushes. The German ' captain asked the boy in French if there were any French soldiers in the woods. No answer came from the boy. "Can't you talk?" asked the German officer. "I can." answered the boy. The captain repeated the question and the boy refused to answer. - "If you do not answer," said the captain, "we will have to shoot you as an enemy." No answer came from the boy. Just then a voley of fire came from the woods, several of the Germans were killed and the column retreated with heavy losses, taking the boy with them. The German captain asked the boy if he knew that there were French soldiers in the woods. "I did," answered the boy. The German ordered that the boy be shot. As the volley of the firing squad opened on him, the boy, looked the party full in their faces, with a smile of triumph on his own young face. On his left arm was Been the insignia of the Boy Scouts!" That Boy Scout was loyal to his country and to the Boy Scouts of France. So, even if you aren't a Boy or Girl Scout you can be loyal.

Wienie Holders Are Easily Made, Says Scoat If you have ever toasted marshmalows on the beaches or cooked wienies (Frankfurters) in the woods you will appreciate this hint. Get a green twig about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, peel the bark off and then sharpen the end to a point The twig may be as long as you like, but the best are about pne foot and a half long. Spear your marshmallow or put your wienie on and you will be surprised what dandy holders or forks they make. ' forks they make. John Keller, in Lono Scout

Richmond Children Own $37,096.17 in War Saving Stamps Thrift stamps and war saving stamps which the girls and boys in the public schools of the city have bought, are reported to Superintendent Giles each month, and at the end of September the total reports were as follows: " High School .$13,079.19 Garfield 6 727.38 Flnley ....... 1.601.73 Warner 1,240.23 Starr 3,650.04 Whitewater ............ 621.63 Hibberd 2,193.74 Vaile 4.002.93 Baxter 2,103.53 Sevastopol ... ..... 1,089.22 Joseph Moore 868.55 zThe total now is $37,096.17, while in June it only was $23,451.70. The average amount of money which each boy and girl owns now is $9.60, while in June it only was $.76. If any boys and girls would like a little problem in arithmetic, they might try to find the number of pupils in the public schools this winter from the above figures. (. 5. 5. G. Children May Have Winter Gardens Although Wayne county is not in the portion of the country which is best suited to having winter .gardens, many careful gardeners have been most successful in raising vegetables during these months. A bulletin from the United States School Garden Army gives the directions for making hot beds, in which the vegetables can grow during winter especially if the weather .continues warm, or at least in early spring. It is well to construct a hot bed during October, when time can be devoted to it. The construction of a hot bed is not difficult, and offers good practice to anyone interested in manual training. A pit is dug from 2 to 3 feet deep and from five to six feet long. Glass sashes are used to cover the pit. Place a two inch plank, 12 to 15 inches on the north side of the bed. The plank used on the south side is about one-half the width of the one used on the north side. This allows the sash to slope towards the south in otder to get better results from the sunlight. The ends of the bed are enclosed with boards to fit snugly, and soil is banked up around the entire framework to keep out the cold. The sashes may be hinged at the top, or they may be made to slide. Some arrangement for opening is necessary to allow proper ventilation, and to allow the gardener to work in the pit. About ten or twelve weeks before the time of outdoor planting, the pit should be filled with well heated stable manure. This manure is covered with six or eight inches of rich soil, finely pulverized. Keep the soil moistened while it is being heated by the fermenting manure. Keep a soil thermometer in the pit and carefully record the temperature from day today. When the temperature falls to 90 or 85 degrees it is safe to sow seeds. If the bed has been properly constructed, it will produce enough heat to grow plants during a period of five or six weeks. If it is impossible to purchase glass, strong white canvass can be stretched across the pit

An' little Orphant Annie says, When the blaze is blue Q I An' the lamp wick sputters, I . An' the wind goes woo-oo! i I An' you hear the crickets quit, ,j An' the moon is gray, An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew ''A N Is aUsendied away

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N " . YANK MAKES PAL OF ALSATIAN LASS The Yank fighter has made a pal of the little Alsatian lass during the period of his leave. She guides him about the village, sips his vin ordinaire with him and with childlike enthusiasm marvels' at the tales he tells her of her little American cousins over the seas.

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Riley Garfield School Girl Tells How Her Uncle Was Taken Prisoner My uncle Salvador was called to the colors May 8, 1915. He was in the Italian army and served in the trenches one year, fighting hard against the Huns. Then he fell sick and was sent to the base hospital. He was in the hospital one year, helping the nurses. Then he was called in the trenches once more and was there fourteen days when he was captured by the Huns. We have received three Red Cross postal cards. The first one we received told us he was a prisoner in Austria Hungary. He has been a prisoner for a year. We have not received any letter from him for six months. He has a girl about three years old and a boy about a year old, and his wife. They are over there in Italy. ' This is written by his nelce, Catherine Porfidio, Garfield school. lone Scouts Will Take Hike Sunday t The members of the Lone Scout tribe, under the leadership of William F. Gllmore, will take a five mile hike next Sunday. Any boy wishing to join this Loan Scout camp may call William F. Gllmore at his house, 229 South Second street at once. ' The total area of Russia before the war was estimated at 8,660,395 square miles, while Its population was 160,095,200.

Boys and Girls May Cause rinking Caps to Be Taken Away The Richmond boys and girls are preparing to cause themselves a great inconvenience at Glen Miller, if they continue to play "sailboat" with the drinking . cups at the first spring, and waste them as they are. now doing. Paper is growing so scarce and expensive nowadays that the park superintendent and all the city officials will not feel it Is right to put the sanitary drinking cups out by the spring, if the boys and girls get whole bandfuls of them, and throw them around on the .banks of the stream. ,: " Boys and girls should know what it means to be thirsty and go to the spring for a drink, only to And that all the fresh cups have been taken and thrown around on the banks. The cups are not put there just for the superintendent or for grown up people. They are put there for every one of you. to be used when you want them. And if they hare to be taken away, it will be because you boys and girls have turned the comfort : and .. convenience of drinking cups into an ugly nuisance. : ".'', v Mr. Hollarn, the park superin ' tendent. said that the other day be pat fifty cups down, by the spring, and then when he came back about . fifteen minutes : later, found that every one of those fifty cups had been taken out of the container which is there on the tree beside the . spring and had ' been thrown on the ground. Before you boys and girls d such a thing again, you better think how would you feel to come to the spring some day, just as thirsty as you could be, and see the cool water pouring out and sparkling as it runs along the narrow gully to the little stream farther down, and then have no way to get a satisfactory drink. The boys might try Jto stoop down and drink from the spring Itself, but the water wonld run all over your face and up your nose and even into your ears because of its volume and force; and thdrls might try to make a. cupou' their hands.but they only

conld t a tiny little sup at a time while the water would drip all over their clothes: and then the boys and girls would think of the days when hundreds of the cups had been lying around over the banks and floating around in the stream, wasted. The Fresh Freshies ' By GRANNIE HODAPP. - If you wish 'jto have your windows washed, just call on OUs Culivln. .".:.'.. If you wish to know how to make things look new, ask Alice McGrew. Grannie Hodapp is quite an entomologist Bobby Greeg seemed to ' enjoy walking last Monday. Madge Whitsell is quite an artist at trimming hats. ' Roland Osbourne is said to look nifty in brown. The Dean twins enjoyed a very nice buggy ride Sunday afternoon. It takes G us Pf a fflin and Charles Lawler an hour to eat a bon-bon at Moover's. Howard Roberts is a victim of the Spanish Flu. Christ Hale and RrVrt Sudoff now stay at Townsend's.