Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 232, 12 July 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. JULY 12, 1919

Query Corner

The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, eo do not expect the answer to be printed in the same week In which you send it in. Dear Aunt Tolly: I am a country girl of 12, and would like to know where would be a nice place to have a picnic F. O. Dear F. 0.: Not knowing which direction you live from Richmond I can not select the place which would be nearest you, but I will name several good picnicking places: Sedgwick's Rock, Reid's Springs, Thistlethwaite' Falls, Elk horn Falls, down along Clear Creek, west of the National Road and Glen Miller are dandy places to have picnics. Some are quite close to Richmond, and some are several miles away, but I will sug '-gest them all. Hope they will help you to choose a good place Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly Do you believe Dear Helen: Some years ago I was sure l cuuiu uecii kuusis -uu' ing behind me as I went upstairs by myself, and since I haven t heard of any ghosts dying, I suppose those same ghosts must be somewhere, only I don t see them . any more. You see, l reany ao noi believe in them nearly as much as usual, and so that is probably the reason- I do not see them. Folks say, and so perhaps we ought to be lieve it, that one doesn't get to sec , ghost? in all their glory unless one really believes in 'em. I suppose this is all on account of the ghosts' pride, because they probably do not want to spend time calling on some one who doesn't entirely believe that they exist. So, not believing, I do not see see them, and never having seen one, I do not really believe in them Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly I bet you can't guess what my name is, can you? It. B. Dear Ruth Brugger: Bet I can Just see if 1 haven't told it al ready and told it right. Ask me something hard. Aunt Polly. PRETTY WATER "Stop, Btop, stop, pretty water said Mary, one day, To a frolicksome brook that was running away, "You run on so fast, I wish you would stay, My boat and my flowers, you will carry away. ' "But I will run after, mother says that I may, For I would know where you are running away." So Mary ran on, but she never rould say Just where was the place where tho brook ran away. Sent in by Kathleen Dickerson, grade 3A, Sevastopol School. THE BEAR STORY Once upon a time there was a little boy. and he liked to go out in the woods and kill little animals. So one day, he went out in the woods' and he saw a little bear come out of a bunch of bushes, and play a little while and (hen go back. The little bear came out once more and the boy shot him in the foot. Then the little bear began to cry. And the old mother bear came out of the bushes. Then the boy had to kill both the bears. Then when he took them home, he told ' his mother that he thought he was going to get killed himself. Charles Kendric. WILLY BOY Willy Boy, Willy Boy, where are you going? I will go with you if I may, I'm going to the meadows to see them mowing, I'm going to see them make the hay. Selected by Catherine Hopping, Grade 4B, Starr School. The W. S. S. sales are still going on and Boy scouts are still helping the work. The latest reports al headquarters give a total of 2.182,240 Red Postcards credited to scout, amounting approximately to 142,881,016.

Bastille Day In France July 14 Ten days after our national, day of Independence, is the national day of France. This day, the fourteenth of July is c;iUj Bastille Day because on that day, in 1783, the French people destroyed the grim old fortress, wich was always thought of as the place of cruelty and torture, Ihe old tower where the kings of Mediaeval France hid their foes. This great prison was built about 1370. by Charles V. Later kings enlarged this, and put a wide ditch around it. The building was five .stories high with walls twelve feet thick. There were eight large towers. On July 14, 1789, the people burst into this strong old prison, burst the iron doors and went into the most hidden dungeons of the old fortress, explored all the dungeons that were made far underground, and all the cells in the .towers. This was the beginning of France's declaration to govern herself as an independent republic, although it

"The ALL OUR VILLAGE WHIFFS. The heavy rains flooded Widow Tuttles big vegetable garden and destroyed all the corn, squash and tomatoes, which was all she had planted. Squire Thlum suggested she could fare better by planting navy beans next year. Mrs. Matilda Kash baked a sponge cake and borrowed the eggs, sugar -and flour from Mrs. Whiggans. Mr. Whiggans said "sponge cakes were good, but he couldn't see why his neighbors had to take the name-sake by sponging entirely on us. Uncle Sy Plunkard never knew Columbus discovered America till a few days ago. He always thought it was Robinson Crusoe and that it was Columbus who slept twenty years. Miss Artilda Cornshuck has begun to wear her furs, which have been in storage all winter. Miss Sally Pumpinsky is just keeping company with Joe Squasher's because she is saving chewing gum wrappers. BREEZETTES. A kiss is like gossip, mouth to mouth. Goes from If you went home to dinner and saw only one beet on the table, you'd say, "That beet's all." It's funny the Spring opens the leaves and the autumns turn them. A man without arms could read a book like that. It is said, "buttons are put on a coat so you can button it." A sculptor has a most horrible death because he makes faces and busts. It is bound to make you feel a little "cheap" when you think of the days when you used to take all of baby's candy, and then try to muffle his cries by asking him what's the matter. . OUR WANT ADS. For Sale Anyone wanting a big fat hog. come and see me Oskar Shatter. Wanted A treasurer for a bank; one without arms preferred. Lost A little dog, by a gentle man with a muzzle, wh oanswers to the name of "Fido." Lost A black goat, by a widow with a broken horn. Beef was the highest when the cow jumped over the moon. Wanted A first-class cook desires a position as housekeeper with some wealthy widower who does not object to onions and companionship.

was many years before this republican government was firm and strong enough to make peace in the country. From that day which stands for the beginning of their independence, the French people have always celebrated the fourteenth of July as their National day. Let us here in America, who love France, celebrate with her on her day of independence. France has always been one of our loyal allies, since the earliest days of the revolution when Lafayette and Rochanibeau came with immediate aid of troops and supplies, and when French fleets came over to help us in our fight against England. One way we can help her celebrate her day is to find out and then tell others how many wonderful things France has given to the world. France is modest and does not brag or advertise but if we look, we will find that she has given to the world many of the greatest scientists, students and experts of all kinds that have ever lived. For instance, France invented

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THE VILLAGE GOSSIP BY HICKORY CENTER SOCIETY, Ben Henry Johnston's wife has joined the new knitting class. Ben has to board up town, until the monotony wears off and that will be about two months. Some new neighbors have moved to the village, and it will take every bit of that time to get their history put into scandal. PODUNK CENTER NEWS. Squire Iliggins had his tooth pulled last week. other Ben Kankor's boy washed his neck this week. It is rumored he has a date. Miss Pollyann Whiggs is getting rough. She rides bicycles and chews gum. Newt. Thinn would like to carry a watch, but he says he can't stand the noise. The checker and croquet season will be delayed this year owing to so much rain. While Ebenezer Grubwash was waiting for Saturday night to come a heavy shower came unexpectingly and gave Ebenezer his bath ahead of time. Uncle Ez Zarrow built a highboard spite fence between his home and a neighbor's property. This idea pleased the neighbors so well that Uncle Ez tore it down. Hank Smith attended the movie at Melodon hall last night and he now says, "a person never would know there was so much trouble in the world if it wasn't for seeing it in pictures." Miss Samanthy Zarrow will not have a birthday cake this year the cake is getting so it gives too much heat. Hiram Squash says time has changed because he could remember when the old-fashioned girl used to say "ask father" and the modern daughter says, "give 'er more gas, George, the old man is gaining." Miss Annabelle Spudds, the girl of the village with such a large mouth for singing, also feet that extend over the edge of the platform, sang at the Tie-eating contest last Tuesday. Annabelle thought she did so well that she should be presented with some remembrance. A brick house was suggested one brick at a time. la.

the Creuset gun, which, by military experts, has been judged to be as powerful, and more efficient than the Krupp gun. Through pro-German advertising you have probably heard of the Krupp gun, but have you heard of the Creuset gun that is far superior to the Krupp? We will name a few other men men that France has given to the world: Ambroise Pare, who laid the foundation for all modern surgery; La Place, one of the greatest mathematicians in all time, and who laid the foundations of modern study of the stars; Lavoisier, who founded the modern science of chemistry; Pasteur, who discovered that diseases were mostly carried by germs from a sick person to a well person. Pasteur is called the Lfe-saver. And these are just a few names chosen by chance. We need France! We admire France! We love France! Let us rejoice with France on her day of freedom Bastille Day that she is still free, and let us try in every way we know of, to help heal her terrible wounds of war.

CHARLES MAC LEONHARDT

SANDY MUSH NEWS. The way rents are in Sandy Mush, some people won't have enough money to rent a telephone booth. Doc Grumm decided he would wash his own windows and save the price of labor. Doc made a good start, but a lady came along with a short skirt, and Doc lost his foot-hold. Doc's medical bill was fifty dollars. Doc claims he will have one foot on the ground from now on. Iky Dinkelstein, our Main street clothing merchant, has installed a blue skylight. The shade of clothes is blue this season. Sy Weatherby came to our village last week for the purpose of getting some family group pictures taken. Sy noticed the week's bill shown in photographs in front of the Sandy Mush Theatre and went inside and asked to haze some family group pictures taken. Armedia Whiggerus made a new skirt from a leg of her brother's trousers. NUFFEY'S CORNER NEWS. It may seem a mystery that anyone could eat a mile a minute, but that's what Squire Jones claims he did when he ate a meal in a railroad dining car.. Mary Ann Pashby borrows sugar when the markets are high and pays back when it's low. Knobb's Corner drug store has sold a hundred per cent more hair tonic since the saloons went dry. Roscoe Ebbs has a chance to get married, but he's afraid there won't be another war very soon. Wo are fortunate, indeed, that the wind storm which blew down our church Thursday afternoon did no real damage. Uncle Ike tells us he is thankful there is one wheel on his auto that doesn't need a tire the steering wheel. Eddie Jebbs, who came into several thousand dollars thru his grandfather's will, and who has been in the city several months has come back and gone to work at his old job at the tannery. DOUBTFUL EVEN NOW A three-hundred-pound man stood gazing longingly at the enticing display in a haberdasher's window. A friend stopped to inquire if he was thinking of buying the market-down lavender silk shirt. "Gosh no!" replied the fat man wistfully. "The only thing that fits me ready-made is a handkerchief and a grocery wagon umbrel

THE WATERMILLION There was a watermillion a grow ing on a vine. There was a picaninny watching it all the time. And when that watermillion wasa ripenin in the sun The picaninny hooked it and then began to run. Into a far off corner he toted it way, And ate that watermillion within a single day He ate the rind and all and finished it with vim; And then that watermillion just up and finished him. Sent in by Pinky.

ABOUT THE DOG We had a little dog and her name was Nellie. She liked me, she said. Sometimes when we went to school, and when we came back for dinner an dsupper, and when we sat down in our chairs, she jumped up in our chairs and tried to lick our faces. But we wouldn't let her do it. And this is all of my story. Marie Landrieth, Findley School. FROGTOWN NOTES. Almost every member of the village church bought tickets to the lawn social, which was given to arrange a long vacation for the preacher. Very few. attended the social. Lizzie Hebbs never misses the Ladies' Tuesday Art club, because she can't tell but what the other members talk about her. Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg are visiting their cousin, Moore Hogg at Bean Ridge, this week. The Evening Jag is a new paper printed at Frogtown and the Morning Headache printed at Podunk. Hiram Zarrow takes them both and he says the Morning Headache always conies after the Evening Jag. Asa Dusenwal says he is glad the war is over, for he knew how the boys must have suffered when they got a pair of socks his daughter knitted. The difference between a hill and pill; one is hard to get up, and the other is hard to get down. THE NEW FAMILY Away out west there lived a family, such a large family too, there were seventeen children, all boys. John New, and James New, and Henry and Joseph. There were so many they run out of names. The last boy was Nothing New. Then at last there was a little baby girl the first one. So they called her Something New. ONLY BANANAS "What have you in the shape of cucumbers this morning?" asked the customer of the new grocery clerk. "Nothing but bananas, ma'am," was the reply. BEFORE AND AFTER Before a man's married he's a regular dresser. After marriage he cuts out regular and dresser. Before marriage he has no buttons on his shirt; after marriage he has no shirt to sew buttons on. Before marriage he says, "he would not marry the best lady on earth; after marriage he finds out he hasn't. POLITENESS WAS HIS GIFT Of all the absent minded people Uncle Zeb Zarrow ran against a cow and politely raised his hat and said, "beg your pardon madam." Soon after he stumbled against a lady without looking up and said, "Is that you again, you brute?" A SOUP FABLE. Ike Rosenski took his son in a restaurant and they ordered soup. "Oh papa, there's a fly in my soup," said Jakey, "Veil, son eat 'till you come down to der fly and den tell der vaiter and get another bowl of

soup for nudding."