Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 191, 24 May 1919 — Page 18

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THE RICHMOND PALWDIUM. SATURDAY, MAY 24,

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The Fairies' Gilt Last Christmas, Harriet's grandma came over to spend the day. . She brought a red silk bag with a big ball of yarn In it, and a shining set of steel knitting needles. They twinkled and glinted at Harriet from the top of the'bag as It hung in the sud on the tall post of grand

ma's chair. '

"Dear me!" sighed Harriet

sure grandma meant them for

Hateful things! It makes me

to look at them." ,

"Yes. dear, it is for you, said

grandma, as she saw Harriet look

ing at the bags. "You know your

birthday will come pretty soon

Just the same as General Wash

ington's."

"Grandma," cried Harriet eager

ly, thinking of a present she would

like very much on that day, "but he

didn't have to knit not as ever I

heard of."

"He did his duty, whatever it was, dear," said grandma kindly, "and it is yours to learn to be use

ful and help mama knit and sew.

"Wouldn't it be wise, grandma, if

the fairies could bring our stock

ings and frocks all sewed and

knitted?"

Grandma laughed. "No, no, my

dear. That would never do. But I believe in fairies, too, and if you take hold and knit this yarn into

a ; pair of stockings for yourself, there's just enough, these fairies I am thinking of will bring you some

thing that you want very much. "Are you sure, grandma?" queried Harriet. "Certain and true!" grandma answered. Josephine Thorn, Starr school. ' (To be continued.)

ONTARIO'S CHAIN-O'-LAKES ATTRACTS ARMY OF ANGLERS I Where Go the Boats?

'Rivet;

Baling Straw Last summer the baler came when my cousin Harry was spending his vacation at my home. We went to the straw stack in the field and we climbed to the top and I caught a grasshopper and put it down his neck. He went to the house crying. He told his mother. When I came home, mamma asked me why I put the grasshopper down his neck and I said I Aid It so I could have some fun. Raymond Bussen.

Mh. grade, St. 'Andrew's School.

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Guess Which! Right or left? Left or right? One is red, the other white; Both are round and both are sweet, Both are good enough to eat; Both grew on an apple tree, One for you and one for me. Guess me now and guess me quick, Guess me right and take your pick.

REASONABLE TO SUPPOSE A ' soldier Just returned from France, who spent several months In the . muddy, vermin-Infested trenches, tells us that he knows now why all the pictures of Napo

leon show him with his hand inside his coat. '

EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to . All Boys and Girls. The Adi Cost You Nothing: Send In Your "Wants" to Tho Palladium Junior.

LOST Wreath artificials flowers,

between Eleventh and Fifteenth streets on C. Phone 2366 or call at 206 N. Eleventh. FOUND A girl's bicycle in an alley near North 0 street. Call Junior Palladium office.

FOR SALE A small bird house. Price 15 cents. Call Claude Bond. 1237 H Main street.

"MA" BURDICK IS BACK HOME

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SOCIETY NEWS

Dark brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along forever With trees on either hand. Green leaves a floating,

Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boating . Where will all come home? On goes the river. And out past the mill, Away down the valley, Away down the hill. Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. Robert Louis Stevenson. Selected by Ruth Jennings.

FOR SALE Belgian hares at 1212

South J street.

FOR SALE History of the War

Life of Theodore Roosevelt. - Call

236 South Third.

FOR SALE Eight months old fullstock male calf. Liberty, Ind., Phone 10-1. Raymond Johnson.

WANTED Boys to Join the Lone Scouts of America. Application free. Inquire, 1215 South C st.

LOST A blue angora cat, white feet and whito nose, answers to the name of "Fluffy". If found Please return to Rhea Louise Pyle, or phone 4322. Reward.

"Ma" Burdick, foster mother to thousands of American doughboys

in France, has returned. She is a sixty-year-old Salvation Army lassie

and one of the most remarkable characters produced by the World War.

With her are her husband, Ensign Floyd Burdick, her son, E. Burdick,

who served in the trenches, and her daughter Cecil, who served in the same Uniform worn by her mother. "Ma" Burdick will aid In the con

duct of the Salvation Army Home Service campaign for $13,000,000, May 19-26.

This motherly Salvation Army doughboys, mended their clothing,

and served them day and night under shell fire. Her silvered head was

protected by the regulation steel helmt worn by th boys who faced the Hindenburg line. She held the pie baking record for France, having baked 324 pies in 12 hours. Her husband chopped wood for his wife's fires and mended watchese for the boys, using a penknife for a kit of tools and his knees for a workbench. "Ma" Burdick ceased her labors only when she had worked herself into a condition of exhaustion and was found seriously ill in a loft of a shell-torn barn. She was removed to a hospital In Paris.

HOT. Little Willie Burns Sat on a stove, Little Willie Burns. Little Willie Burns Didn't go to heaven. Little Willie Burns.

HARD LUCK. Percy Poorehot (who mistook his dog for a rabbit); "I shot my dog." Friend:' "Was he mad?" Percy Poorshot: "Well, he wasn't exactly pleased." The Scout.

Marguerite and Miriam Bur-

banck entertained a number of their friends Monday afternoon at their home, 103 South Eleventh street in honor of their tenth birth

day anniversary. The afternoon was spent in playing games. About five o'clock attractive refreshments

were served the little guests.

About sixteen girls enjoyed the party. What was to have been a picnic turned into a movie party at the Washington theater Wednesday evening when William Romey entertained several of his friends in honor of his thirteenth birthday

anniversary. The weather made the change in the program, but did not make any difference in the good time they had. About six o'clock a picnic supper was served in the dining room of the Romey home. The boys who enjoyed the ' party, were: Edward Arthur Nus-1 maum, George Krueger, Frederic ! Phillips, Keith Sharp, Wesler j Scull, Philip Unthank, Howard I

Mills, Charles Carson, Eugene Kenney, Roy Hawekotte, Norman Johanning, William Marshall, Paul Druley, Ross Harrington, Richard Harrington, Horace Sipple, Francis Robinson and William Romey.

RIDDLES. 1. What hen lays the longest? 2. What has four legs and cannot

walk, a tongue and cannot talk, and a bed and cannot sleep in it?

John N. Johnson.

Grade 4, White School.

3. Around the house and around

the house and only make one track.

4. As I went through my father s hall,

I heard somebody call, His tongue was flesh, His mouth was horn, And such a lad was never born.

5. As I went through the garden gap,

Whom should I meet but Dick Red

cap,

A stick in his hand, a stone in his

throat;

If you'll tell me this riddle I'll give

you a groat. Anna Brees.

Middleboro School.

ANSWERS TO LAST

WEEK'S RIDDLES. 1. Because ho puts down three

and carries one.

2. It is not of much account with

out It's tender. 3. Because it is always in waiting. 4. Ink. 5. Try it and see. Margaret Kemper. 5A, Hibberd. 6. An onion set. 7. Mr. White. 8. Because he isn't dead. 9. Five

Virginia's Easter . One day Virginia's mother wanted Virginia and Edward to go to the picture show because it was near Easter and mother wanted to

color some eggs. When the chil

dren were gone, mother got out the

eggs and paint, and began to color

them. She colored just ten eggs, and made some candy, too. Just

as she got through the children came. The children told mother all about what they saw. When Easter came, mother got out the things and gave them to Edward and Virginia. The children were very glad to get these things. They were happy all day Easter. Emaline Hunt. 5B, Joseph Moore School.

The Peacemaker

Upon his will he binds a radiant

chain,

For Fredom's sake he is no longer

free. It is his task, the slave of Liberty, With his own blood to wipe away a stain. That pain may cease he yields his flesh to pain, To banish war a warrior be, He dwells in night, eternal dawn to see, And gladly dies, abundant life to gain. Selected by Helen Smith. 6B, Hibberd School.

O SPEEDOMETER NEEDED "I don't need any speedometer on my tin lizzy, I can easily tell my speed." "How do you do it?" said the friend. "Well, when I go ten miles an hour my lamps rattle, when I go fifteen miles the fender rattles, and when I go twenty miles an hour my bones rattle."

A HAPPY EASTER. Once upon a time there was a little boy. He was very unhappy, because he had never had a happy Easter. Easter was coming so he thought he would try to make a happy Easter. So he gave his little sister some, Easter eggs and when he went to bed that night he was as happy as he could be. Marcel Thomas. 4A, Joseph Moore School.

War With Germany Once upon a time there was going to be a war with America and Germany. So they got as many 'men as they could get and started a war. Some of the Americans killed the Germans and some of the Germans killed the Americans. So they kept on. The sad. days were going on and bringing more sorrow to the country and the Americans would not give up and the people in America had to save and raise gardens. The Americans were sending news all over America. At last the Americans sent news that the war was over. The people in America were so Mppy that they celebrated it and had a happy time ever after. William Salzarulo. 5A, Whitewater School.