Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 291, 20 September 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1919

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Part One The next day the children, Captain Brave, Ladydear, Mrs. Aar ' and Booh flew up to. one of the summer pastures above the forest ' lauds to spend the day with the .herdsmen watching the cattle. You ' .-".rp- the cattle and sheep are Sk7n up tho t.in sides to these green pastures Tor i... u xner months while hay is raised on the meadows below to be fed to the animals during the long winter. "It must be awfully lonesome for the men watching the cattle," said Jack as the big plane carried them over the wood-covered mountain sides. "They're too busy to get lonesome," said Mrs. Aar. "Why, do they have anything to do besides watch the cattle to see that they do not wander away or get hurt?" asked Jane. "You just wait and see," replied the widow lady. And the children soon saw. There were about a dozen men around the little chalet built on the edge of the pasture. Three or four were watching the cattle as they ate. Four were sleeping in the little house. They were the ones who would watch the cattle when night came while the men working during the day went to sleep. The other men were the cheesemakers. "The cows must be brought the chalet in the morning and night to be milked. The milk to at is made into cheese. The cheese is stored away until the herd is brought down to the lowlands in the fall," said Widow Aar. Pigs were kept in a corner of the pasture, too. The whey left from the cheese-making is good food for them, so they were raised without any cost. The herdsmen all proved to be real nice men. They sang at their work guarding the cattle and making the cheese. Many of the cows -ere great pets and the herdsmen showed these to the men. One cow took delight in going behind one of the herdsmen and knocking his hat off. ''We have plenty of time to make friends with them all and it helps us to protect thom against storms and other dangers," said Peter, one of the herdsmen. "You see," he went on, "when we bear a storm coming down the mountain we walk around the cattie. talking auietlv to them, to keen them from getting afraid. They know our voices and feel safe, if they were left alone when the thunder and lightning started they might start to run and would be killed by falling over the cliffs." The children had arrived too late. of, course, to see the herd brought j in for the morning milking. But Widow Aar said they could wait for the evening milking and still get back to the valley before dark. During - the day the children watched the cheese-makers at work, ate their fill of fresh cheese, and drank all the milk they wanted. Part Two. .Jack had always thought that Main street hill, back in Make-Be- . lieve town, was a wonderful place for coasting in winter time, but when Captain Brave told him that some of the coasting places near where they were staying in Switzerland, were a couple of miles long, the little fellow decided that the hill at home was a short one. For it ran only two city blocks. Jack had never seen the kinds of sleds they nsed in Switzerland. Captain Brave showed him one

standing in the corner of Widow Aar's living room. The captain called Jt a "toboggan." That's what we'll call it from now on. Instead of being a long platform on two runners several inches high it was a wide board that rested fiat on the snow. The front end was curled back so that it would slide over the rough j""- Little ridges on the bottom-helped toil4' U ru" straight, Captain Brave said, a.?"? the sides on top of the board were two rails to which the folks on the toboggan held while going down hill. "During the winter months the long mountain roads are covered with a glassy coating of ice and snow," said Captain Brave. "Then folks with their toboggans walk up the roads for miles until they are as high as they can go with their toboggans. They climb onto the toboggans and start the trip down.

"The ALL SANDY RIDGE NEWS The town board met at the new barn at Scrubbs corner an4 many important matters were brought before the members. The village mayor made a short speech o nthe welfare of the younger generation. I He said: "As a citizen of this pro- ! gressive little city, which was built in the days of Caesar, and no other I building since, I feel it my es-J-taejned pleasure and business to talk touls. to this bright and intelligent groujTofun-in. regard to the welfare of our young pceie. It seems to me, and the complaint of the town judge, there are too many dissatisfied young couples these days. It is a matter of cutting the high cost of living as well as anything else, for it will be only a matter of time till Justice of Peace Phinn will be asking our village for more salary for too much labor on his part. What I want to say, we must train our young men and women to regard a marriage a little more than the same thing as an installment plan. One of our most brilliant girls received a telephone call a few days ago, and, not knowing who the party was, asked her to marry him. She replied at once and said, 'yes, who is it?' This is only one instance in a hundred and I think there should be something done about this kind of courtship." Brink Dubbs was over to the city last -week and he brings the news of his new find a sweetheart. Of , course, she wanted to know all I about Brink the first thing, and Brink, who has a lot of nerve, told j her he was a steady, hard-working man and he would like to know ! wlt sk- 1os in ,he world for a Hiving. Brink felt very gloomy w,H,n sl)e ,ol(1 1im she worked in a junk shop. Brink thought it was asking too much to go with a girl that had surh an unsanitary job He told her he guessed he would not be back to see her any more. OUR TOWN MAN There is a man in our town And he loafs around the saloons, He has a rusty phonograph And never changes tunes. There Is a man in our town, HJs name is Bill Bailey, He is a perfect man. except He plays the ukelele. "Waco, you've been a naughty boy today. "You can go to bed without any supper." "Well, mother, what about that medicine I've got to take after meals." I)ne Scout Magazine.

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Some of the way they coast slowly along stretches of road almost level. Then the road goeS'through a patch of woods where the air is much colder, because the sun has not shone through the great trees. Then there will be another steep hill which will land them out in the open again. The whole trip down to the bottom of the mountain road will take them only a few minutes. It probably took them a couple of hours to reach the top of the road. "Toboggan races are held on the steepest and most difficult coasting places. Only the mose expert tobogganers enter these races because other folks would be thrown Try;T Jir toboggans and perhaps

hurt if they atiilZ.to race. "Water is poured on these mHs the night before the races are to be held. This water freezes and makes the hill as smooth as glass. The racers fly down the road at a realy-traly mile-a-minute gait. The man or woman who makes the trip in the shortest time wins the race. "One of the coasting places is known all over the world. This is

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THE VILLAGE GOSSIP BY NUFFEY'S CORNER NEWS. Ez Zarrow is still having trouble with his new auto and his wife who knows very little about driving an auto always give Ez advlc: Last night they were out driving atia there seemed to be engine trouble and Ez thought the engine must be missing. "Well," said Mrs. Zarrow, "that's funny; we had it when we left home." ine papers nave talked so much about the high cost of living it has caused the folks of good cir cumstanccs to worry where the next meal will come from," ' said Justice Phinn in his address to the Bean dinner reunion yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hollar are such heavy sleepers, that they have made the baby's bed higher so they can hear the noise when it falls out of bed. The price of toothpicks has advanced, and the Dew Drop Hash House declared they will not pay the advance, and will buy a knife and pine log and let the patrons cut off their own toothpicks. The proprietor has already taken steps to put up a sign: "Only one pick to a customer." THIS HORSE'S TIRES LOOSE "My dear, what is the matter with the horse? Isn't he walking lame?" said Mrs. B. to Mr. B. "I know what's the matter, pop," There is a man in our town, Who's even worse than that. He's teaching tango dancing on The floor above our flat. STILL GOING! He turned the corner on high speed, But he failed to see other cars; And in the paper, we now read: Interment 9 a. m. no flowers. THE FAT MAN'S TROUBLE Little drops of water, Little drops of wet, Spoil the st iff est collar

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called the Cresta run. It Is at St. Moritz. Many sharp turns In it make it a dangerous course for any but the greatest tobogganers. Racers have gone from the top to the bottom of the hill In less than a minute. Tart of the time they were almost flying going over sixty miles an hour. That's as fast as the fastest locomotive can pull a train." There isn't any room for more today, so I guess, you'll have to wait until next week for the rest of the story.

Junior Jokes The following story is told of a certain small curly-headed Richmolite who was taking her supper with tier Zer. in the cafeteria of the local Y. M C. A.! She had gotten her supper from the counter and had paid for it, and had gone to her seat at a nearby table, only to find out that no butter had been given her for her bread. Running up again to the

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SHE DIDN'T WANT DUCKS A lady who had lived in the city all her life took a sudden notion she would like country life, and as her knowledge of setting hens was limited, she asked a friend: "How long must I set my hen on eggs to hatch?" "Three weeks lor chickens and four weeks for ducks," the friend replied. A few days after, the friend met the lady and asked: "Well, how did the chickens progress?" "Oh, there weren't any after three weeks, so I took the hen off as I did not want ducks," was the lady's reply. A m.JS to dig up,

bui 3U ua.; ujt wjieven though one i3 a blockhead A negro was recently brought in-, ith the price of lumber so high," to a Virginia court on a charge of sai0 Squire Boggs, our prosperous grand larceny. After hearing the contractor.

evidence the judge pondered for a moment before passing his sentence, and said: "Rastus, you are fined ten dollars." Whereupon the negro replied: "Ah got dat ten dollars right down in mah left hand vest pocket." "Well," continued the judge, "Just dig down in your right hand pocket and see if you can find thirty days." Everybody's Magazine. HER CHANGEABLE DESIRE She said that she would uie for him, Of him she was so fond; Quite true, one month she's a brunet, And the next she is a blonde. "Come, come," said the impatient conductor to the man who was searching his pockets, "you couldn't have lost your ticket, you know" "Couldn't, eh?" said the passen ger, "I lost a bass drum once."

i NOT THE CAMERA'S FAULT Hiram Boggs sent his girl a "These photographs you made of bunch of flowers and it insulted myself and husband are not at all her as she sent them back and placsatisfactory and I refuse to accept i ed a card telling him he needn't

them. Why, my husband looks likp nn nnpl "Well, madam, that's no fault of mine. You should have thought of that before you had them taken." Puck. ITS MY MISTAKE "Look, oh, look!" yelled a chappie named Fife; "There's a U-boat out there, on my life!" "Aw, that ain't no sub, You innocent dub," Said a grouchy old man, "That's my wife." OH, SPLASH I "You'll find the cobbler is awl right." Observed old Amos Blast, "He'll peg for you with all might, And he'll stick to the last." his HE MEANT WELL In the parlor there were three, She, the parlor lamp and he; Two is company, no doubt. So the little lamp went out

counter with the bread she announced that she would like some butter for her bread. "Did you bring the bread with you?" asked the kindly lady beufc'i the counter, who had not noticed that the little girl had been there before, and wishing to know whether tho bread had been paid for or not. "No," answered the little girl, "we loft home in such a hurry, wo did not have time to bring anything."

SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION Teacher -"What do you know about Aladdin's lamp? William "If he's the new kid in the back row I just blacked it for him." The "Hall of Fame" was built by a donation of $250,000, given by a donor who wished his name withheld. The hall itself is situated on University Heights, New York City, and contains 150 panels upon which the names of great Americans aro inscribed. w GRI MEN'S CURVE NEWS The funeral of the ex-town constable will not be held tomorrow, as it was postponed on account of the victim is not dead yet. "Two hcad8 are better than Tony, the fruit man, placed adf order for a new popcorn machine, and when he unpacked the machine the handle was missing, so right away Tony writes the manufacturer a letter. Mester pop corn maker man: I find thata you sent me my niechene, and by whicha you no send me a handle. Now howa do youa expect me to run sich a mecheno with out you no put a handle on. Onea my custumers raise a biga trouble when he wanta to buy a sack of popcorn, and I tella hirne you for no send me a handle. If that is the kinda bizness you do you will get your mechene back as soon as I geta a time to send it. Tony Spagetti P. S. - Since I havea rote this herea letter I finda the ha.ndl wrapped up in some a papers. iou neeani iooKa lor ttie mechene ; back now. send her flowers as she is a lone ways from a dead one. Muley Cannon has received notice he will not be permitted to call on his usual Sunday and Wednesday night girl, unless he leaves some candy for the younger brother. TAKING IT EASY. An officer on board a warship was drilling his men. "I want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air and move them as if he were riding a bicycle," he explained. "Now commence." After a short effort one of the men stopped. "Why have you stopped, Murphy?" asked the officer. "If ye plaze, sir," was the answer, "O'm coasting." "Mercy, John, the baby has eaten a lot of dog biscuit!" "Never mind, dear; it serves Towser right; I caught him eating the baby's food yesterday."