Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 209, 14 June 1919 — Page 16
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RICHMOND. 1ND., SATURDAY, JUNE M, 1919
Query Corner
The rtltor will try to answer
question readers At tho Junior
submit to her. She will not
promise to answer ill of them.
The questions will fee Answered la relation, no do not expect the
answer to bo printed In (ho
ame week In which you send It In.
Dear Aunt Tolly: Who invented tho art of writing? . N. It. E. Dear N. R. E.t
To br-aln with. It waa not Invent
ed. It was Iikrt tttojjt VrmflSfs,Tt
Juat.BrSL-anil-ST? and kept get
ting belter and better all the tinie
The old myths and legends say that Tlioth of Cadmus invented it, but history proves that the people
who believe that, simply stretched
their imagination a little. In other
words, it ten t true. The Talmud,
the Jewish Law Book, said that it waa given to the people in a vision, but the art of writing did not como
by that easy a road. It started as
something very simple and differ
ent from what It Is now and just
grew. And do you. know what writing was when It first appeared? It was pictures, Just rough pictures nut one after another until the
wax or the stone or whatever they happened to bo writing on was covered with them, and those pictures toW a story. The long name that some wise people give td these pictures, is hieroglyphics. These were first found in Egypt about the year 4000 B. C. Probably they were being ued long before that, but no one could remember distinctly of having seen any before that. It
wasn't such a very simple way of J
writing after all for they naa some
hundreds of figures to think of
And jut think what mixups we get
Into, sometimes, trying to make
our fifty (about that anyway) pic
tures say something sensible when
we use them in writing. Of course ours are not pictures any more. They have grown into very demure looking letters and figures and punctuation marks. It is lots of run to try to read the pictures. Get a book that has them in, sometime, and see if you can understand what they say. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Who am I, boy or girl? Blue Eyes. Dear Blue Eyes:
Do you think I would have one bit of trouble guessing that Of
course you're a girl. No boy would ever sign himself "Blue Eyes."
Now isn't that true? Aunt Polly.
It is Apple Blossom Time in Evangeline Land
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The New Airship Have you ever seen a dirigible? Well they loo Just like the watermelon balloons that came with the circus, only they tiro verry, very much bigger. They arc great big
oval shaped bags filled . r
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It is apple blossom time in Nor-
mandie, these early days of June. In Nova Scotia, land of Evangeline and the Acadians, it, too, is apple blossom time. Just now there is a hundred mile belt of apple blossoms around quaint Annapolis ValleyJust as superb In the fragrance and peaceful beauty as they were in the time of which Longfellow wrote his famous poem. The land fits the poem, or, perhaps, to a poem in itself it seems
like a delicate, fragrant dream, far,
far away from the strugglo and
hurry of life where rest and peace and simple beauty reign. There is a kind of sadness mixed with all this quiet beauty a memory of
other times, and one feels a haunting mystery while standing gazing
at Cape Blomiden, which in turn still looks compassionately down on the sands where the Acadians were embarked on their sad Journey. Tall, wraith-like ships glide by the mouth of the Oaspereau riverdream ships, riding on a river of dreams. The Great Magician has laid his wondrous spell upon the land. Perhaps it Is this very" peacefulness, this semblance to another world, that is sending war and work weary Canadians and Americans to Evangeline Land. The most convenient way for Americans to get there is by boat from Boston to
Yarmouth, N. S., and then the Dominion Atlantic Railway to Wolfville or Grande Ppe, the heart of the Acadian country, where a statue is being erected to the memory of Evangeline, by the distinguished French-Canadian sculptor, Philippe Hebert. Many people go there in the late summer, too, to take part in the Cherry Carnival at Bear River, with its rustic sports and hospitality like that of old England in the days gone by. Last year as many
as four thousand visitors descended on this little town whose total population is lees than this number, so far and wide baa the fame of Bear River spread.
Dear Aunt Poliyf
1 am a girl ten years old. My brother Is in the army. Me enlisted
for three yeara in and four years
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WANTED-Positlon of taking care of babies and smalt Children by
girl, age 13. Phone 2828.
LOST Wreath artificials flower,
between Eleventh and Fifteenth streets on C. Phone 2366 or call
at 2G N. Eleventh.
found A girl's bicycle in an al
ley near North G street. Call Ju
nior Palladium office.
out. His three years are up July 12th, Do you think he will come
home? T. V. M.
Dear T. D. M.:
Ye I believe your brother will
be home before the summer is
over. Has he been in France or in
this country? Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly:
Why are doughnuts called dough
nuts? Ruth Luciie.
Dear Ruth Luclle:
I had never heard that name giv
en to them before. I expect the
main reason they are called dough
nuts, is that once upod a time
some girls about your age, or some
boys, decided they would give the
old fashioned goodies a different name, different but not so abso
lutely different from the old name.
i so they called them doughnuts.
Aunt pony.
FOR SALfe A Imall bird house.
Price 15 cenw. can Claude Bona
1237 Maln Street
FOR BALE Belgian hares at 1212
South J Street.
FOR SALE History of the War.
Life of Theodore Roosetelt. Call
236 South Third.
FOR BALE Eight month old full-
stock male calf. Liberty, Ind.,
Phone 10 1. Raymond Johnson.
WANTED-Boy to join the Lone Scouts of America. Application
free. Inquire, 1215 South C fit.
LOST A blue, angora Cat, white
feet and white nose, answer to the name of "Fluffy". If found
Please return to Rhea Louise Pyle, of pbn? 4322. ' Reward.
Personals
Mis Margaret Coe, who wa op
erated on at Reld Memorial hoa Ditat, last week, for tonsil and ade
nolds, Is at home, now, improving.
MJss Miriam Wright Dilks, who
has been very 111 with influenxa, is improving at her home on the Ab-
ington pike.
Mis Nancy Lee King has come
to Richmond with her mother, to
spend the summer with her aunt,
Mrs. Phillip Robbin.
Cooking for boys is a regular
class, now, in the Cincinnati public
school, and they often cook the
noon day meal for the rest of the
school.
A new kind of ABC blocks is on
the market. These blocks have rounded edges instead of the sharp pointed ones, and arc safer for chil
dren to play with.
Cordelia's Burglar The dull gray mist that had en
veloped Mount Tom all day came sweeping down' in sheets of rain
through the valley. As the twilight deepened, the clouds hung oppressively low and night came quickly
on. It was that swlit approacmng
darkness that aroused Cordelia
from her story and made her glance apprehensively out of. the farmhouse window. For the first time that day she fully reallxed that she was alone, and the sudden sense of isolation filled her with vague fears. "Mother and 1 will be home before dark, unless accident detains us," had been her wather's last words as he drove down the road to Springfield that morning. But the darkness was falling and strain her! ears as she might, Cordelia could!
hear no sound of the approaching
wheels that must bring them home. There waa only the steady drip, drin. of rain from the eaves. The
sound singularly oppressed her. What If there had ben an accident? What If they should not return come. She pressed her face close against the window pane only to
draw back, frightened by the deepening shadows and the moaning of
the wind through the pines. For one moment, she was half determined to go to her friend, Helen Simpson, who lived on the nearest
farm. The next, she shrank away with dread from the thought of the long mile of lonely road she must
travel nth eda renns aplaietaoishrdl
travel in the darkness, and driv
ing rain.
The story she had been reading
only added to her uneasiness. It
was about a young girl made pris
oner by a burglar who had passed
himself off as a friend in order
to gain entrance to the house. Cordelia shivered. Fear wa tak
ing tight hold of her and she must ahJr4 It off, hu closed tho took
and put it away. Then she lighted the lamps in the living room and the kitchen. That made things better. She busied herself with preparations for
supper, and as the occupation re
stored her courage somewhat, she
sang a little to assure herself that
she was quite at ease. When supper was ready to be placed on the
table, she returned to the living
room and took up her sewing. The storm was increasing, and the rush
and drive without only made great
er the silence within. She tried desperately to laugh at the fears that settled down upon her once
more.
Hark I There was a sound of
wheels splashing through the mud and water then a sudden halt. She
picked up the lamp ran to the
door. A carriage had driven up to
the gate, and a man stepped out.
Cordelia saw at once that it waa
not her. father. Sho drew back
into the shadow of the door Intending to close and bar it. But It was too late. (To be continued.) War Monument In Texas Crowning a Texas hilltop stands a rude monument that speaks to travelers, for miles throughout the valley, of the people's gratitude for victory and their affection for the local men who sailed overseas. The ranchmen built the pedestal of rough Btones, bound them together with cement, and surmounted the whole with a white cross. On every smooth-faced stone they inscribed the name of some allied statesman, general, flier, or victory, while on a tablet just beneath the cross they had engraved the names of the heroes from the valley. The unique monument rises 21 ft. above the hilltop. Popular Mechanics, i
trUil gas.
itj3 ato heavier than
ami the airplanes are lighter
than air. The airplane Is best for short swift flights with lipht loads, and cannot bo equaled in their great speed, think the men who are working on air ships now, but they favor these big dirigibles for long trips and for carrying heavy loads. These airships were not used with very great success 'during the war, but now, people are finding out how valuable they can bo, and ho are getting to work and trying to improve them. Ono of the improvements that has been made in them, is the change in the kind of gas with which they fill tho big bag. And America, we are, proud to say, made the suggestion.Hor scientists suggested that they fill tho bag with a gas called helium instead of one called hydrogen. Because hydrogen gas explodes very easily and helium gas does not. This was such an improvement that people think now, that with a few more changes in the building of these airships, they will turn out to be very useful in air traffic. Great Britain is doing a great deal toward making these dirigibles more perfect, and has built threo or four that have been quite successful. One of these is the R-33 which made Its first flight on March 6. It is 670 feet long and Us bag has a diameter of 79 feet. One
of the most interesting things
about it is that it has a small
"chair car" With only one seat in
It way at the 'very end of the long
bag, at the rear end. This breezy place is occupied by a man who watches everything about him, the air, the ground below him, and everything that is going on. And he
certainly can see about everything,
too, for it is about the best observation car that has ever been made. What look to be one big bag, is really made up of nineteen gas bags. Its crew usually numbers twenty-three men. They can cook food in these airships, too, by using the hot water from the engines and electric stoves. So people can travel, it Is thought, more comfortably and more safely in these dirigibles than In airplanes, and can carry heavier loads. These will probably make fine passenger ships. Perhaps that is how we will all be riding, sometime. Wouldn't that be fun.
Will Distribute 15 ! Million Banks to Kiddies
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Dr. J. Stanley Brown. Dr. J. Stanley Brown, of Joliet, 111., newly appointed national thrift
director, will distribute fifteen mllv Hon hand grenade banks to the
school children of the United States
who earn enough money to buy war saving stamps. Those grenades were manufactured for tho benefit
of the Germans, and all that is lacking to make them available for fighting now is the TNT.