Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 327, 1 November 1919 — Page 16

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, NOVKMBKU 1, 131'J

Query Corner

The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. Gbe will act promise to answer all of them. Tho qut-sdona will bo answered In rotation, eo do not expect tho tnswer to bo printed In tho tamo week In hich you scud It In. Dear Aunt Tolly: Do you believe In ghosta and wltcb.C3? Betty E. Dear Betty: Thero Is an old say ing that saya, "Seeing la believing" and If thla la true I don't believe In them for I have never really been any, although I almost have lota of times. Now If tho Baying had been, "Hearing la believing," 1 would certainly bo a firm believer In them for oh, tha tlmea I've heard them all over tho upstaira when I was homo alono, or Just outside the window, or at the end of the hallray how they creaked and moaned and groaned and kept coming closer all the time but 6omehow never qulto came Into tho room whero I was so that I could bco them. They are especially thick all around the house Just after someone has told some real good ghost story or after I havo spent an evening reading Conan Doyle or Edgar Allen Poe ind go upstairs to bed leaviug the rest of the folk3 downstairs. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: How can you have 2 hills without a valley? T. G. F. C. R. P. Dear Alphabet: That's easy. Put ne on top of another. And If you !o not believe that can bo done omo over to my house and I can -;how you the ant-hill in our back ard and our back yard is on a hill. -Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: How many tibie feet of air around the whole arth? N. R. E. Dear N. R. E.: That has never een found out yet and probably .ill not be found out "till the stars ;row cold and the Book of the Judgaent leaves unfold," at least until ho stars grow cold so that we can ;ot closo enough to them in an air plane to study them and find all ibout tho air that surrounds them ii we have found out about the air hat's around our earth. Even then ou will probably not be able to measure It In cubic feet because acre is water in air and the amount f water in It keeps changing all ho time, which changes the amounts of air in different places Anyway aa I was seeking the an ;wer to your question I came .cross some figures which I want o give to you for I havo not been ible to find any possible use for hem myself. The density of ether, Yhich ia the amount of ether in a crtain amount of space, is 93600000000000000000000 (a fraction) s much aa the density of water. It's great fun being a scientist ou soo. When you get to be a 'dentist please find out a way to ueasure the amount of air around ho world and then I will write and isk you to tell me about it. Aunt "oily. Johns Hallowe'en Once upon a time thero was a Mttle toy that didn't mind his Mother. Ono Hallowe'en John which was the boy's name) said, 'Mother, may I go out with my riend.",?" His mother said, "No," which made John very angry, that they ad to go to bed. When everything was still, John rept. downstairs and to where his rlcnd were waiting for him. Now is father heard him shut the door o he thought he would play a trick n John. So he dresses in the same ind cf clothes that John has on nd goes out. Aa he is just ready o go out of the gato ho saw John omtng hia way. So he hides In back of tho fence and when John pproached the gate hia father rabbed him in the house and gives iim a hard spanking. From this ime on John always does what his nothfr tella him to. Written by 4elen Smith, Hibberd School 6A (rade. WHY IS A STOMACH? The teacher once asked a little .Tirl what her stomach waa for. The little girl said her stomach vas to hold up her petticoat. Helen Moody, 4A, Warner School.

Sports tha Boys Like if I?y T. E. Jones Cross country running in the form of Hound and Hare, Paper Chases, and Road Races was first developed In England, and Liter introduced into American schools. Requirements, of Runner In deciding whether or not you arc the proper typo to make a distance runner, one question will be, "Have I the correct build?" Runners of ability, like race horses, appear with a variety of physical characteristics; there have been winners who wero short and stocky, and those who wero tall and rangy. The build of a man is much less important than the l'ol-' lowing factors: strength, endurance and determination; a good heart, good lungs, good stomach, and good muscles not necessarily large. All of these factors may not be present in a beginner, but are enumerated as being found in the winners. Strength, endurance, and even nerve, arc the result of careful and consistent training. Style of Running. Make an effort to perfect your stylo. Adopt a lithe, easy, free natural stride, keeping muscles of the arms, trunk and neck relaxed , also relax as much as possible each muscle of the thigh, calf or foot at tho instant it3 individual task in tho stride baa been completed. In going up hill, shorten the stride and incline the body forward. Keep eyes off the ground. Training. Training is tho paramount requirement. Work is necessary to build up all parta of the body. Three times for the first two or three weeks of the season is often enough to work out. Learn to Judge your pace. Confine practice to the turf rather than hard streets whenever possible. Dress according to tho weather. Intelligent care of the body is very important. The schedule for work shown below is designed to guide you in your work, but may be altered as nervoua make-up and physical condition requires. sciii:ini.K von a wrrk Monday: Joy: walk ; run 2 miles easy. Tuesday: Joff '4; rim a fast '& I rest 10 or 15 minutes; joy an easy mile. Wednesday: Joff a mile; walk lop 2 miles. Thursday: Jog ; rest; run a fast 3-1; walk 4. Friday: Host. Saturday: Time trial over the course every other week If not in sompetitlon. On alternate Saturday, run easy 5 or 6 miles. Joys' and Girls' Newspaper Service Copyright, 1919, by J. If. Millar One Hallowe'en Once upon a time some boys took the front steps from the front of a brick house. When tho woman that lived in the house came out, she fell and hurt herself. She was hurt so badly that she had to be taken to a hospital. The boys that took the steps from the front of the house had to bo taken to a Reform School. Clifford Leighton, 11 years, Finley School, 5B grade. Author's Name Was Omitted Last Week Sorry to say through some mistake the namo of Northrop R. Elmer waa omitted from last week's story entitled "The Chateau on the Brink of the Hill." We thought the story was too good to be published without the author's name. The Editor.

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Picked baseball teams from High School and Carfield clashed Tuesday afternoon and the result was a victory for Garfield to tha tune of 34 7. This is the second game lor these teams. The lust game was played last Saturday with a resulting score of 32 8 in favor of Junior High. The fellows that played for High School are: Spears, Marshal, Eikonberry, Druley, Schumaker, Rocker, Sautir, Komey, Phillips and Cone. Garfield players are: Kessler, Powell, Bentlage, Floyd, Thomas, Risio, Good, Nickcns and Johnson. In the lyeague games at Junior High. Room 2 remain;) victor, and can boast that it has not lost a game thds season. Uennett Johnson is captain of this team. Room 11 is second with Wallace Smith aa captain. James Rowe is captain of the team from Room 6 which holds third place. In a close game Tuesday afternoon St. Mary's again trimmed Warner to a ecore 12-11. Batteries for St. Mary's were Ryan and Moore; and for Warner were Thomas and Holtcamp. Riddles 1. What hen lays the longest? 2. Out in the field there stands an old gray bull, feed it and feed it and it will never get full. 3. Black and white and red all over. 4. Running all day and never time to stop. By Cites-. Collins. 1. What goes tip and may come down and goes up and never comes down (at least as far as I know.) 2. Why does an Irishman build his pig pen on the side of the hill? 3. Why does an Irishman turn his pepper box upsidedown? 4. Upon the hill there is a little old man; he dresses in calico. 5. Upon the hill there is a house and this house is iron; there is a man inside of it. there are no doors, how is he going to get out? By h. KK. Answers will appear in next week's junior. Answers to riddles of Oct. 1. A lawsuit. 2. Saturday night. 3. An ironclad. 18. Who Has More Fun Tkana"Y" Boy? Are you a member of the local Y. M. C. A.? Do you know what good times they have downstairs in the Boys' Department? If you do, you will want to be a "Y" member. A new Boys' Secretary1, Mr. Beatty, has just arrived, and he likes boys better than any one else and is full of enthusiasm for his work, and is planning all sorts of interesting things for this coming year. Russell Crab, as swimming instructor, is stirring up all kinds of interest for the boys, who will find the northwest corner of the basement a Palace of Delight. A membership campaign is going on at the Richmond Y. M. C. A. Join now I The Haunted House Once upon a time there lived a very poor man. One day he came in a big city. In the city lived a man who owned a haunted house. He said ho would give anybody who would sleep in the house a lot of money. The nvan came to him and said he would. The man said that be could. That night when he waa going to lay on his bed, he saw a ghost on it. Ho went to tho man who owned the house and told him. The man came and they went into the hall and found it waa filled with ghosts. They went down into the cellar. When they were going down a ghost pushed them down. They fell down on a lot of snakes. "What's this?" he said. Ho found himself laying on a dead rat He had had a nightmare and had rolled down tho stairs. The man got the money and lived happily ever after. Roland Fulle, 9 years, 4th grade, St. John's School. BAD SIGHT. "Won't you marry me, Miss Pig? Pvo got my eye on a fine little home." "Om, Mr. Hog, you must have a sty on your eye!" Cartoons Maga zine.

Printing on a "Round Press" By Grant M. Hyde "1 was watching the printing press at the newspaper olfico today, Dad, and I couldn't see any type." "Was it a rotary press?" "Well, It had a lot of rollers, rolls of paper, and it ran awful fast. And folded newspapers came out ready for the carrier boys." "That is a rotary web perfecting press, Soany,--such as most newspapers of more than 4,000 circulation use now." "But there wasn't any type." "No-stereotyped plates of the pages, instead. Ifa an interesting invention, and witiiout it we could not have newspapers of half a million circulation a day. Do you remember the printing press in the little olliee in grandfather's town? Well, that was the small-newspaper press- called a cylinder, or "flatbed" press, because the type forms of the pages are placed on a flat bed and slide back and forth under a platen cylinder. From this diagram you will see how the pressman slips paper sheets into tho grippors of the cylinder, and the paper is carried between the cylinder and the type form to receive an impression on one side. It's flow, because it is fed by hand, and tho sheets must be run through again to be printed on the other side. "But, the modern rotary press, OLD STYLE FLATBED PRESS NEW STYLE ROTARY PRESS ?A6E4 see from this diagram, has no flat bed. Instead, stereotype plates of the newspaper pages are bolted to the various rolls and the paper runs in a wide ribbon, perhaps half a mile long, from a paper roll. After running through a set of rollers, it is printed on both sides. Then it joins another ribbon from other rolls, which print other pages, and passes into the folder to be cut and folded into newspapers. "It is a rotary because every moving part revolves and can bo run at high speed by electric motors; it is callud 'perfecting' because it prints on both sides; it Is called 'web' because that ia tho namo of the paper rolls. Newspaper presses whether they be quadruples, sextuples, octuples, or other multiple rotariea are just different combinations of several sets like this built into one huge ma-i chine. Some print and fold 100,000 newspapers an hour. "What arc stereotype plates? I'll tell you some other time." Coys' and Girls' Newspaper Service Copyright, 1919, by J. If. Millar HORRIBLE! One wideawake Junior has called attention to the fact that in last week's Junior wo used tho words "Hallowe'en Night." Wo confess we did. Sorry! It was a mistake. Ed. (P. S. For fear there may bo somo who do not understand why It is wrong1 to say Hallowe'en Night we want to add that Hallowe'en Is really an abbreviation for Hallow Even which means "night" itself and is generally used to mean a night that comes before somo special day as Christmas Evo ia tho night before Christmas. Hallowe'en Is tho night before All Hallows Day or All Salnta Day, a day observed by many churches all over the cpuntry.)Ed. ,

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Hire's Finley's Ball

Team! Have ou come up against the Finley Baseball Team yet ? If you have, jon've met something, and if you haven't, joii have something coming. Here is tno lineup as a Finley "re.oter" sent them in. We would like to lnar the lineups for (he other schools, only please send the last names as well as the first ones as there may b? some Junior baseball stars who have the same1 first names and we would not know which ones were meant. Finley's players are: Dale A., Clifford B Arthur W., Donald' II., Bill S., Howard H., Dan V. Taylor II., Bob T.; Sabs are: Arthur F, Herbert 11., Luther K. roriiimxomciKc Making Merry on Hallowe'en Hy Carol n Slierwln P.ailey Your barn, the garage, or a clean, dry cellar, v. ill be a splendid place for the party. Make candlesticks from potatoes, and If pumpkins are scarce empty boxes may be covered with orange colored paper and have faces cut in the covers through which the cam'!.: light gleams. If you are aide to get seme phos: phorescent paint, sketch a witch, a cat, and an owl on the walls. They will show in a ghastly way when the lights are out. Two or three new brooms will also .serve for decorations. Cut bat's wings from Mack crepe paper and attach to them as if the bats were hiding in the brooms. Games to Play. Hide a good many nuts in piles of straw or heaps of leaves. If you are giving the party in tho house, the nuts may be hidden in baskets of sawdust. The guests hunt for them, and the game is won by the. player who finda the most in a certain length of time. Write some fortunes, that will fit your guests, in lemon juico on white paper, using a clean steel pen. Fold them, and havo thein distributed by a girl dressed aa a witch in a scarlet skirt, black cape, and a tall, red hat. When tho papers are exposed to the heat of an open fire or a candle flame, the formm tunes, which did not show before, aro suddenly plain to everybody's astonishment. You may also cut some letters from celluloid or cork, or get a box of the letters used in soup. Drop theso in a dishpan of water. Tho guests, with their eyes closed, dip into tho water with a tin cup. U they succeed in bringing up some letters, these aro supposed to bo the initials of their future husbands, or they spell their .coming fortunes. Hallowe'en Goodies. Make plenty of substantial sandwiches, ham, chopped egg or checee. Tie a lew of these with orange or red raffia or ribbon and serve them on paper plates foiu baskets decorated with bright leaves. Hollow out rosy apples and fill them with celery and nut, or chicken salad. Make ginger and fugar cookies in leaf form, and decorate small frosted cakes with tiny black cats, cut from paper and pinned to the top. Hot chocolate and molasses taffy finish the feast. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Service Copyright, 1919, l.y J. 1 1. Millar

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