Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 291, 20 September 1919 — Page 16

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TUB RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919

Query Corner

The editor will try to answer qonstloiu readers of tho Junior submit to her. She wilt not promise to answer all of them.!

The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the

answer to e printed In the name week in which too send

it In.

Dear Aunt Tolly: What Is the next thing world to be invented? N.

in the R. E.

DearN. R.E.: It may be a "Blimp" omnibus,

ballon that can carry many people

and that will take us a ride say, fifty miles long-for a nickle. Or,

it may be a small airplane on the

Ford style, an airplane that will go

anywhere and that will not cost any more than a Ford automobile,

and then everyone, almost, will have a little airplane tied to the top of their garage, and airplanes will be as thick In the sky as bees are around grapevines. Or, it may be an Aladdin's lamp that when we rub it a genii appears and we will say, "O, Sir Genii, give us knowledge so that we will not have to study to be bright and know all we are supposed to know." And the genii will answer, "It shall be done!" And all at once you will find that you know just when all the battles were fought and why, and Just where all the important treaties were signed and what happened to them, and oh, just everything and all you have to do is just to play all day long while the genii gives you a big dose of knowledge every morning. It might be lots of things, but It

seems to me the very best tnin that a person could iayent -ana that probably will be invented very soon, is a little button that fastens on the bed right by the side of your ear. Then when you are called to get up in the morning, all you need to do is to presa the button, and lp, you are up and washed and dressed and eating breakfast right on time, and mother is so hppy because she dpes not need to worry now, that you might be late to school. Wouldn't that be just wonderful? Wo do pot min4 being up a bit, a half hour after we're up, but it is such a terrible thing to lie in bed

and know you. pave to get up right away and tbo bed, did no (eel so comfortable all night as U (eels, right then., and, well, we do hPS that some one will invent something like that during thU PPt year. Just think how; we would like a button ike that op those cold winter morning3. Aunt Polly.

Young titoway, Deported Thrice Is Back Again With Two Other

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tissue Aunt Pollyi What, waj thij "name of the wife of Thomas Jefferson, the .third president ofthe Unitgd StifosJ What were the, names of hhTcniid-renj-porothy J. "Bear Dorothy: Mrs. Jefferson's name was Martha Wayles Skelton. Their daughters were named Martha and Maria, although Maria was usually called Mary. They had another daughter named Lucy who died when sho

was only two 7 ,ar3 old. Martha and Mary went to school several years in France. Aunt Tolly. Dear Aunt Tolly: When will the time come that men like Patsy stand on the street corners and give candy and ice cream cones to all the kids. Benny. Dear Benny: . At the time when all of our other dreams come true. Aunt Polly.

Boston Boy Serves

in Big Strike

As poon as the army of Boston's police force "walked out" last week, volunteers appeared to help In the

difficult situation of directing traffic and keeping as much order as possible. One of these volunteers was Frank Cassel, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, a boy fourteen years old, who began directing the traffic on one of the busiest cornerg of the city. At first people laughed at him. But they soon found that he meant business and

acted quickly and ably in his puce. When the soldiers of the state militia, which were called to help put down the strike, they found Frank was "there with the goods" and so

they left him on bis volunteer po-l lice duty.

Left to right: Marcelle Leol, Mi. chael Gilhooley and George Declereq. NEW YORK. Michael Gilhooley,

the champion stowaway, is in again. Only a few weeks ago the immigration officials sent him back to.

France Oil the transport ueorge waahineton for the third time.

They thought be was out of the country for good, but when the Kroonland docked in Hoboken recently an army officer telephoned that Gihooley was back again. His record now ia four times in and three times out, and he said upon his arrival : "If they dont let me land I'll try and try op eyery ship from France until they do let me." Gilhooley is only fifteen years ojd, but iOO per cent, nerve and determination. AH he has pf the latter is centered; op his becoming an American citizen. Eyep the Immigration officials believe hp would make his way in the world any-

Wu6r6 They first encountered him last March when he arrived here op the transport Black Arrow. He then said his home was in Charlerol, crew, but he had no shoes on. He Belgium, that hia father, ap Irishman, died before the war started, and his mother, who was a Belgian,

was Kuiea n t

trooped" ffTth American sold rs HDout France. He was taked to. Ellis Island and sent back to France, only to arrive here a few weeks later on the transport

Zelandia. Aflain He Is Deported. Again he was deported and again he catno back on the transport Santa Paula. He escaped from her after bing ordered held and lived in Wet.. 134th street for a month, when he wan taken to Ellis Island once more. Elsie Janis, the actress,

and others offered to adopt him, but while this was being considered ho tried to escape from the island with two other stowaways by making a raft and paddling for the New Jersey shore, where they were caught by a dock waWitsm. He was placed under guardand taken,

aboard the George Washington.

When he arrived he was all j smiles and sitting on the floor of j the Kroonland's brig eating a plate ,

of Rtfiw. In his Docket was J5o,

given him by the ship's officers and j

had kicked out the panels in me lower part of the door of the brig,

and hia shoes had been taken away ; from him. i "I've got friends In the Sixtieth 1 guard company coming in on the

Arcadia, ulinooiey sma auer uiw

Kroonland docked, "and when tney

arrive they'll get me Into the coun

try. Then I'm Koine to Kansas

and live with Trivate Frank Welty of that company on his ranch there."

Tho Arcadia left Brest three

days before the Kroonland and is due in a day or two. Gilhooley tried to climb aboard the Arcadia

when she left Brest, but was foiled. He waited and jumped on the Kroonland, landing on her well deck. He bid in No. 7 hold where

he was found the second day she was at sea. He was detected in a coal bunker planning to elude the immigration Officers when she arrived here and he was put in the brig. He was kept in the brig one night and then taken to Ellis Island. Two other adventursome stowa

ways who are now at Ellis Island born, in

wua uunoQiey are juarceue ueoi and George Declereq.

Great Singer Was Kissed by a King When Madame Melba was just a little school girl 'way off in Melbourne, Australia, her little friends used to gather around her, and beg, "Do make that funny shake in your throat." None of them then had any idea that that same "shake" would be worth over two thousand dollars an hour. Madame Melba's name when she

was a little girl, was really Helen!

"orter Mitchell, though everyone ?ivps nnnthpr friend a

called htr Nellie. Her father had come from Scotland to Australia, where he had become a very wealthy man. It was in Australia, near Melbourne, that Melba was

1865. Iler first lessons

ing the summer in a littlo seaport town called Sorrento, and one day while driving around town, noticed that the fence of the local .cemetery was all broken down. She immediately decided to give a cpiy cert to get funds fo; new fence. Flaring V'cr.ra vere printed, and, Spite of the fact that her father strongly disagreed, Nellie set out with paste and brush and stuck up her own bills and raised $100 by her own effort. Already people realized that her voice was naturally very beautiful, but every notion toward a public career was opposed by her stern father. When she was only seventeen alio married Charles Armstrong, a man who was not at all interested in music. Freed from opposition in her home, she now sang wherever sho was asked. In 1887, her father went to London, and Melba went with him. She had a letter of introduction to Mme. Marches!, the great French teacher, and as soon as she could manage it she went to France. After hearing Melba's second song, the great teacher rushed out of her apartment calling to her husband, who was named Salvatore, "Salvatore, j'ai enfln une etoile!" which means, "Salvatore, at last 1 have a star!" Years of study followed, and in less than fifteen years she returned to Australia just for a visit, a world-famous singer. "1 will never forget," Melba says, "something that happened on my

first visit to Sweden. I received a message from the king asking me to return to Stockholm and sing to hira. The morning after that, the king sent his aide-de- camp to ask me to come to the palace. I went and the king received me alone with a pretty little speech and gave me a decoration. "Then, I said: 'Sire, there is ono thing I wish to ask of you.' " 'What is it?' he said. " 'I wish you to pin this decoration on my breast.' " 'That I will,' he answered. And then we found that neither of us had any pfns. " 'I'll get some,' he said, and went quickly after them. "When he had fastened those pins on, he said: 'But those pins must not kill our friendship (for you know that when one friend

pin or a

Ope of my young brothers and I were on a few hours' fishing trip in the majestic Kennebec. "Oh, look," he yells, "look, the

water is a lot nearer to t'

an tnG lasl lime we were up here!"

knife, the saying goes, that their friendship will be killed). I will kiss you on both cheeks and then we will always be friends.' " Madame Melba always keeps those pins in her jewel case.

were the lullabies her mother, who was an accomplished musician, sang to her. Her first piano lessona were also given to her, by her

mother.

iNeiue was oniv six veara n m . iw--

appear-1 &a,ys i, inai a uui my name. Uium,

"As I was crossing the bridge the other night," said Kelly, "' 7 Pat O'Brien 'O'E, sa j how arc v:-- rprpttv w. '

. m. m. vivj FT WlLllin, TJrady,' says he. 'Brady?'

traon: , me ueean

anna in p'

r binrrinn "Ollln f

and won a encore with

the song. Ten years later she was spend-

says he, anu mine s not O Bnen. With that we looked at each other again, and sure enough, it was nayther of us."

American School Children Learning How to Make Their Own Pretty Toys

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School children looking at toys which they have made.

During the war there was shortage of toys to the fact most of the Christmas playthings sold In this country were produced in Germany. But American tots soon will not have to depend upon Germany or any other foreign country for its toys. Toy making Is being taught in many schools in America and in many cases the grade of playthings tamed out is above that of lbs imported ones. Cigar-box wood and bright paints are the mala materials used by the children. -