Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 309, 11 October 1919 — Page 16
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THK RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1919
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The editor will try to r-nswef qu.-stion readers of tho Junior submit to her. Bbe will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered la rotation, bo do not expt:t tho autwev to be printed in the ,ame ek lu which you scud It In.
Cardinal Mercier Gives Prayer As He Touches Liberty Bell
When Cardinal Mercier, the heroic Belgian primate, vlwied Philadelphia, one of his first acts was to go to Independence Hall. There with deep reverence he laid his hand upon the historic liberty bell and uttered a fervent prayer of reverence and thankfulness. The photograph was taken just as the Cardinal placed his hand upon tho bell.
Dear Aunt Polly: Who nude the f.rst submarine? W. J. Dea- W. J.: The Americans, of course. People tried to make them much earlier than that, and a man named Cornelius van Drebbel made a watr tight bout in 1620 that could move a short distance for a short time, under water. It was made water tight by greased leather stretched over the hull of the boat. But what chance had a man with a name like that? The first real successful submarine was made in 1775 by an American englseer named David Bushnell, and it was called the "Turtle" because it looked like one. Proudly and patriotically, Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly: When do we ihansre our clocks again? L. N.
vDear L: On the evening of the i
25th of October people will set their clocks back an hour, and will "snitch" an hour during the night and have a whole hour longer to sleep and will wake up the next morning, looking at a clock which seems to be staring back with the same stupid look it has always harl hut which knows in its vprv
ticktocking heart that some timej during the night it has thrown a'
perfectly good hour away into black space. Aunt Polly.
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SOCIETY NEWS
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Dear Aunt Polly: Are midgets really grown up or are they just children fixed to look like old people? Laura. Dear Laura: I used to wonder that myself, and thought that perhaps the midgets we saw In the circus were just children, dressed up like children as when they play a Tom Thumb wedding. But there
BUSTER AND TIGE CAME TO RICHMOND
RESOLVED That a laugh is better than a cry, any day. There are many dif-
show. There was a brother and sister, and they were bo very tiny that they had to have their clothes and their beds all made specially for them, and yet they were both over sixty years old, and their f ... ..rt rnal Dtnull O II l fllll Of
wrinkles The! house was as pret-1 ferent kinds of laughs. Some folks and clean as it could be and of JjJ . If they were half crying course they had to have some big Hke halves chairs for their big friends who,, a l
re came 10 see mem. i... -'T I down to hrealrW nd find ma
roaliv ra mhvata snH enmo nf, whole races Of tiny people Caiiea : , , , . .
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mem nave maoe mousanas oi uoi- imkuib 11 . ;,,; woudn't want half of
lars juat travelling around riiaoa nnrl shows hnwlii?
now smaii uiey are. inese peopie nr-aus aic cij ui6 - H i whole ones
The midtet tnai was nere in ui.
Barnes circus was said to be thirtytwo years old and yet he wasn't quite three feet high. Aunt Polly.
i . , .. ,.. f:0 i. v.0 umy gale iijb iiau a. ureuKicisi. i of dol-j Pigmies who live in Africa ij w0udn.t want half of ma either. , in or- jungles They are usually ke thlngs whole. When I get big ?e? i l"r,feAnf 'U.Sod I'-" o-g to make all my laughs
are just exactly like us, only they are much smaller. I saw two raidgets one summer who had a cottage at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, who had made lots of money in a
This War Tank Now Carries
Tourists on Sightseeing Trips
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Tank carrying passenger up mountain road near Megere, France. Two great French auto concerns are now transforming tanks intended to Bpread death among the Germans into sightseeing buses to carry tourists in the French Alpine country up and down the mountain roads. The tanks are equipped to carry ten passengers.
B. B.
Buster Brown came to Richmond last Wednesday. And of course, Tige came too. They came to a Richmond shoe store. Dressed in a bright red suit and cap, with bobbed light colored hair, he looked very much like the Buster Brown we know. His face was older though and his voice was very deep and that is because he really
was not a boy at all but a man a midget man thirty-six yearsold.
He Isn't much more than three and one-half feet high He goes all over the country with Tige just to see children. He does not care one bit about seeing grown ups. And he likes to do it, too. Ilia demonstration we'll call it "show" for short began at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and the shoe store was simply crowded. He always gives little souvenirs away but his regular supply of these littlo presents did not
come, so they bought candy and gave that to several hundred children in the crowd, and eveu that supply ran short. "Tell the children I'm sorry I
didn't have a present for every single one cf them," he said to the Junior Editor. Tige was a fine dog, full of "pep," a full-blooded bull dog. He is six years old and is, as Buster says, "an inveterate pipe smoker." He showed the children Wednesday how he could smoke. Wearing a small stiff hat, and real glasses, he smoked a pipe just as if he was having a great time and realized that he really was "a lucky dog." Buster and Tige went to Muncie from Richmond.
The tennis tournament of Junior High School was won by Kail Thomas for which Karl now becomes a "letter man."
THE NEGLECTED DOLLY A dolly lay on the nursery floor. All tattered, and dirty and sad, "I'm going to run away," she swore, But not so it sounded bad. "If thgy can't pu t me away, When they go to their own little beds, I'll go, so I will, some day, some day;
Oh! on; How l wish I were
dead!
Last Monday Katherino Ilaus-J
tetter was eight years old, and sue etltbratod this event by giving a little pany for her friends. Alter spending part of tho afternoon playing games, rofrpshments were .served in the dining room. A large cake with eight candles on it was in the center of the table, and each guest was givon a little colored basket tilled with candy ai a favor. Katherine's friends who enjoyed the party were: Misses Mildred Raper, Paulino Bond, Vivian Simmons, Vera Cain, Pauline Fox, Helen Frances Kinert, Paulino Horn, Gladys Simmons, Mary Roba Evans, Martha Evans, Martha Price, Pauline Durbin, Hazel llaustetter and Katherine Haustetter,
Masters Morice Simmons, Gene,
Wbitesell and Eugene Haisley.
Mis Grorgianna Doan, of South Sixteenth street, played a violin solo at the Rally Day services of the First Methodist church last Sunday morning.
Lart Saturday a t nnis tournament was held between Garfield and High School. Three matches were played, one of doubles, and two of .-ingles. High School won in the doubles, and Garfield won in the singles. Keith King and Robert Hawekotte represented High School, and Collin Powell and Earl Thomas, Garfield. In the singles, Thomas won over King, and Powell won oer llawekoiie. Room No. 2 is ahead in the Room Baseball League, when this report goes to press. This team lias won three games. The members are: Bennett Johnson, Philip Kessler, Robert Heath, James Hill, Neal Hill, Clifford lluth, Erman Helms, Harry Henniger and Robert King.
Master Edwin Taggari who has been ill with bronchitis at his home on South Seventeenth street, is improving.
Masters James Coe and James Hibbard spent last week-end in Hagerstown with the first James' aunt. Miss Suzanne Williams who suffered a broken arm, is now improving at her home on South Tenth street.
A picked team from the Room League will play a picked team from High School, real soon, on tho Garfield Commons.
The tournaments in the Boys' Department are progressing. The tournament in pingpong is played down to seconds.
Reporter "I understand you were treated like dogs overseas? Can you give me an instance?" Humorous Private "Well, sometimes they put us in pup tents."
BREAKING UP 200,000 ACRES Last spring crews began breaking up 200,000 Montana acres, leased from the Indians by the government for cultivation, in order to add to the world's food supply. They are still at it, in spite of assistance given by high school boys who handled some 14 tractors, machines that pull plows that turn a total of about 100 furrows at once in one day these 14 machines plowing 3C5 acres a world record. Two of the boys, one on a tractor and one attending to three seeders, seeded 189 acres in one day Boys Life for September.
Informal Photograph Shows Queen Wearing Trousers at Niagara Falls
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King and Queen of Belgium on their way to Cave of the Winds, Niagara Falls. This Is the most Informal photograph taken of the King and Queen of Belgium since their arrival In this country. It shows them in the oilskins which they donned before touring Niagara. When the king was dressed, the attendant who was helping him announced: "All right, king, you're ready," and his majesty smiled.