Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 333, 8 November 1919 — Page 14

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TUB RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, NOVEMT..i S, 1.J

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Just as Sir Sprigg finished his

story of Sartoo, and Jack was planning to be a general in Africa when he grew up and Jane was glad she was close beside Ladydear and Captain Brave, Ladydear appeared in the doorway with a letter in her hand. "I have just received a letter from Signor Angelo asking us to meet him in Naples. He would receive us in his house the Italians call it villa in the mountains, but he says he has been having trouble lately with some band3 of robbers that have been coming into his estate and plundering it, and that though he has settled them for awhile, they are disagreeable and might make our visit with him unpleasant. He wants us to meet him in Naples where he will entertain us. This invitation was greeted with a chorus of "Oh, goody, goodys" by the children, who had often heard about this beautiful Italian city, but had never seen it. They decided that it was too late to go that day, for Iadydear thought of several little things she wanted to fix about the children's clothes before their journey for Signor Angelo was a man of great honor among the Italians and she knew they must be ready to go to several places where they would meet many Signors and Signoras and perhaps a count or duke or something like that. Jack wanted to wait until the next morning to go, too, for he wanted Sir Sprigg to tell some more of his soldier stories. Early the next morning Lady-

dear and the children got into the airplane and Captain Brave jumped in beside them and swiftly guided the plane toward Naples. They made a landing on a level place on one of the many hills around Naples. Looking down over the city, the children thought they had never seen anything so beautiful as this city cuddling close up to the hay. The purple waters of the bay dotted with the sails of many boats made Jack and Jane want to go sailing right away. Ladydear told them that they

should ask Signor Angelo if theyjwa3 covered over with

now they must go and meet him at the hotel which Signor Angelo had mentioned in his letter. Going toward the hotel which was in new Naples, the children wondered if a Signor looked any different from other men they had met. They thought perhaps he might look like Sir Sprigg. Jack said he hoped so. As soon as they entered the lobby of the hotel, they saw a man coming to meet them and they knew at once that it must be Signor Angelo he looke dso handsome and so distinguished looking, the children thought. They were soon introduced to him by Captain Brave and they knew they were going to like him because he was so kind and kept saying such funny things. After lunch Signor Angelo ordered his automobile, an Italian make, the Signor told Jack, who admired the beautiful car the very first thing, and announced that if everyone were willing they would take a ride and look over the city. All eagerly agreed and the car spun away. As they were going along the seaside they passed the old fortress Castello Nuovo, which reminded the children of the Tower of I.ondon. Signor Angelo saw by the expression on Jack's face that he was disappointed that they did not go into the old fortress and told him that they were going there, tomorrow, and to the Castle of St. Elmo, which he pointed out to them standing on a high hill above them.

"One day while you are here," he said to. Ladydear in his beautiful English and in the soft tones with which most of the Italians speak, "we shall go to the National Museum over there," pointing far inj the distance, "for you would enjoy I it. There are many beautiful and! strange things there." I Then he told Jack and Jane that' in this museum were many things

brought from Pompeii. "Oh, yes, we've heard of Pom

peii," cried Jane, 'it was a city that;

For Girls toMake

Box Craft for Your Room .... Uy Carolyn Sliorwin nailry Don't throw away one of the strong cardboard boxes that the shops send to you. Each one will give you a great deal of fun in us

ing your hands, and will make

something useful and attractive

for your room. Home-Made Week-End Bag This is made from the strong box in which your new suit came. Lay the box and the cover on large pieces of brown linen or denim and trim to lit, cutting out the corners. Stretch the cloth tightly over the edges, gluing it in place no that both the box and the cover are neatly covered. If you like, you may make scented pads of cretonne to fit the inside and tack them in place. This will hold your week-end things beautifully if you fasten it with a shawl strap, and it will serve for a longer trip, too.

Armistice Day

Do j oil remember what you did on November 11th just one year ago? Do you remember how many skillets you almost beat Into holes trying to express your feelings that night? Do you not almost hear it now, the horns, and the whistles, the shots and all the other ways in which people told you they felt, or tried to tell, for even then they did not half say what they wanted ot say. People just could not say how happy they were that they knew fighting had stopped and that now their soldier laddies were not in danger every minute of losing their lives. Peace had come at last. Fighting with all its cruelty and suffering was ended for a time. Next Tuesday is the auuiversaray of Armistice Day. So let us be extra glad on that day that the war is finished and finished successfully. But Juniors, we will not really have peace until every man and woman and girl and boy has kind and friendly thoughs for every other man and woman, boy and girl in the whole world. And it is coming someday, just as sure as anything, and perhaps surer than most things. AUNT POLLY.

THE MISSING WORD

could not go sometime, but right

Query Corner

The editor wfll try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer fill of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect tho answer to be printed In the same week in which you send It In.

Dear Aunt Tolly: Why does Jack C. like to chew gum? A. Warner Friend. Dear W. F.: Trobably because it keeps his mouth busy when he can't, think of anything to say. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: How many log cabins were there in the world in 18S0? Jumbo. Dear Jumbo: Your name makes me want to give you peanuats and your question almost makes me want to give you chloroform. It would be easy enough to tell if it weren't for the bluebirds. They build log cabins to live in too, you know and many of them have told me about hearing their grandfathers and grandmothers tell about the homes they furnished in the year you mention but all of them are

not here now. They have migrated south. So I will not be able to answer your question until next June when the bluebirds have come out of their hiding places. Besides, you know, I wasn't here then and can't speak from experience. Aunt Polly. Dear W. F. S.: You didn't ask any questions but as this is my letter corner I will drop a line to you here too. I was so glad to receive your letter and your stories. Expected to see one of the rabbits you caught jump out too, hut

though I searched carefully, I did not even find a perky ear or a bushy tail. Anyway I guess I'll believe you for you more than told the truth about the tomato vine. Next time you want to be at home when callers come especially aged aunts like me. Aunt Polly, i

a river of

lava and lots of people were killed." "And there is the mountain that killed the beautiful Pompeii," said Signor Angelo in his quaint way, and pointing high overhead to the great mountain Vesuvius. Jane wa3 surprised that it was the mountain that had caused such destruction it looked so cairn and beautiful. "Now, wc shall go through the Toledo one of the oldest streets in Naples," said Signor Angelo. Here they saw some tiny shops full of beautiful things. Ladydear exclaimed over them so that Signor Angelo said they would have time to get out and see the pretty things for awhile. In the shop windows were all kinds of wonderful things combs of beautiful tortoise shell and pins and necklaces of the exquisite coral, for which Naples is famed. Ladydear saw a pair of kid

'gloves that were very beautiful and

found that they sold for a very low price. She decided she must have a pair of them right away, and hur-j ried into the little shop to make' her purchase. Jack and Jane, who were left outside with Booh, saw another store around the coiner loaded with corals, red, pink and white, of! ail sizes, and made into all soils of j pretty things. They ran to look at. them. The little street into which , they had turned was very, very, narrow, and the buildings on either side were very high. Suddenly, two masked men rushed out froini

i no doorway wnere iney nau been standing, seized the children and started running very fast with them. Poor Booh barked' and barked and the children cried and screamed, but by the time the people had rushed out from the nearby

shops the men and children

entirely out of sight. Ladydear was attracted by the noise and ran out to the street and

Dainty Clothes-Press Boxes Cover strong shoe boxes, just as you did the week-end bag, using chintz in a small flowered pattern. Pieces of wall paper in a pretty pattern may be used also. Those will hold your lies and slippers mwl L'ii.n vmir i'lntlioR-nres look-

ins neat as well. It will be a "'IJk

plan to stand these on the shelves

They will keep fresh longer. Wall paper makes a most attractive covering for a hat box, too. A pattern of roses, violets, or bunches of wild flowers is the best

to use. Lay the cover on the wall paper, cutting it to fit., and then paste it neatly in place. Cut a broad and a narrow strip to paste around the box and the edge of the cover. For Your Bureau. A small, round candy box makes a charming pin cusiiion. It may be already covered, and it is usually strong so that you have a foundation to sew to. Use only the box itself and stuff it with wool. Cover the wool with pink or blue silk. Then cover the outside with siik to match, tacking it to the edge of the box. A lw of the tiny silk flowers that you now buy by the yard in the shops may be glued to the edge of t lie box, or a ruffle of lace will cover your stitches. r.m s' aii'l Girls' N'cw):ipiT SVi h e Copyright, l'.MIi. i.y J. II. Miliar

land the Prince will not marry anyone who has a bad speech. He j comes from the same good speak- ! ing class as I do." ! Dame C: "Yes, you. I wish your dad had not brought you here when you were twelve years old. You bet you'd not come from a i good speech class then." Englisha: "Aunty, don't speak so. You know that I oil'ercd to teach you better speech, so that ! you, too, could belong to the good

'speaking class. But you

not let me, and --" i Dame C: "Hush, you wretch! What does all this here good

to do with ine?"

"This is Good Speech

speech have

Englisha: Week." Dame C:

Englisha: (Coming out of cupboard, dressed in silver, suddenly remembers her patching) "Godmother, my patching will not get done if I go." Godmother: "Never mind the patching; it will be done. Now, go, your coach is at the door. But don't forget you must start for

(Exit

I Englisha; curtain.) j Act II. ! (Ball room gaily decorated. ! Seats against back and side wall.

Prince enters.) Prince: (to Jgnie) "May I have the pleasure ot dancing witli you, presently?" Ignie: (delighted) "I say so." Prince: (disgusted with her speech, goes to Indie) "And, may I have the pleasure; of dancing with you soon?" Indie: "You bet." (Prince is relieved from these disgusting girls by the herald.) Herald: "Prince Grammar, a strange princess." (Exit prince. Waltz heard in distance.) Ignie: "It's funny no one asks us to dance." Indie: "It ain't cause we ain't pretty." Dame '.: "My dear girls, the fact if, you're so beautiful and well dressed, people don't dare to ask you." Ignie: "I say. It's too bad tho Prince didn't get to dance with us before the foreign princess came." Indie: "Of course, she bein a princess, the prince couldn't help goin' to meet her. Wonder who she was? She had the most beautiful silver clothes. (Enter herald). Dame ('.: "Here comes the herald. I'll ask him. Hey, sir, come here." (Herald stops.) "Who was

! that lady in silver?"

Herald: "She was announced as Princess of Silver Speech."

would !anu -indeed! Well,

Prince was goin' to dance with

daughters, and so was obliged leave them for this lady." Herald: "(), indeed." Ignie: "So you see, wo ain't no partners."

What a pity."

"My girls both

By Julia R. Burr. A gaudily furnished parlor in the house of Dame Careless. When curtain rises Dame C. is found reading a book. She is dressed as if going to a ball. Dame C: (Getting up, puts down book, goes to stair-door)

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inu- ..uy, a.m ,uu 'jhome bL.fore midnight

uresscu : Ignie: (From upstairs) "Yes, mama, I'm waiting for Englisha to tie Indie's ribbons. 1 never seen such a slow poke." Dame C: "Englisha, tie that bow immediately. What do you mean by such slowness?" (Goes to mirror and arranges hair. Enter Ignie and Indie). Indie: "We are ready to go, mama." Dame C. : "How sweet ray loves look." (Goes to stairdoor and tells Englisha to come down directly. Enter Englisha). "Englisha, we are going to the ball that Prince Grammar is givin'. He's to choose his wife, and I'm sure Ignie or Indie will be chosen. Nobody could be prettier than they. When we git back every bit of that patching must be done, or you get a beat ing." Engl i. ha: "But, Auntie, how

go to a ball speaking bail

veryone will notice you

the

?ot

love

So thats it, nun: Herald:

Wlrit do I care about it. Seems j Dame to me you're practicing on us. dancing." Come on. my beauties, let's go and j He rald:

leave silly Kngiisna to taut to ner(as(1" Iiatches." (Exit mother and daugh-j indie: " 'Tain't surprisin

tors). j dance beautifully." Englisha: (Gets patching and, Herald: "1 congratulate vou. I sits down) "Oh, dear, I do wish I i10,. i hall )i;ive t)l0 opportunity couuld have gone to the ball. 1 , 0 seeing vour nerl'onnance."

'Indeed. 'Tis a charming

have no pleasures dresses, nothing that

the nor

attracts one

lu'c-l-'y; (Exit herald.)

too, and they ran to the little shop! to me." (Enter godmother.) around the corner. j Godmother: "Englisha, what's Rushing into the shop, L-adydear . the matter?"

asked Signor Angelo to talk ft the little woman who owned the shop. From her they learned as much as she knew. She had seen two children and a dog come up to her

window and immediately two men standing near the doorway bad grabbed the children and had run away with them. Jumping in to the automobile, they searched frantically all around that part of the city but no trace of the children could be found. Signor Angelo knew of two clever men who lived on his estate

were i who could pronaDty nejp mem our,

so he left that very same evening for his villa. Ladydear and Captain Brave returned to the hotel

Englisha: (Jumps up) "Who

around the corner to where the; where they found a letter had been

crowd was. She could not understand what the crowd said, but she

understood something teriible had happened, and she could not see Jack or Jane anywhere. Alarmed, she ran to the automobile where were Signora Angelo and Captain Brave and almost dragged Signor Angelo out of it in her wild excitement. Captain Brave jumped out,

left for them by the kidnappers which said that Signor Angelo had ordered them to take the childenr. (To be continued.) Eddie Rickenbacker is laying his plans for a trans-Pacific flight in competition for the Ince prize of $50,000. He intends to have an airplane built acording to his own specifications.

are you?" Godmother: "I am your fairy godmother. But tell me why you are unhappy." Englisha: "Really, godmother, 1 am not unhappy. I was only wanting to go to the nail. But I have no pretty dresses." Godmother: "You shall go to the ball, for you take pride in your speech, as I want all my godchild ren to do. Beautiful language is always the key to the greatest pleasures. You really have the greatest gift of the fairies, that of the silver speech. Now for your dress. At the ball you will be known as Princess of Silver Speech so you must be dressed accordingly. Step into that dark cupboard while I repeat a spell. Do not come out until I finish." (She goes into cupboard. Godmother waves wand and repeats spell.) "Wavy, wavy, wundo, wum, Fairy powers hither come, Turn the darkness into light, Turn the rags to silver bright."

i Ignie: "What, a rude man."

Indie: "I don't understand it a tall. I thought we would have been the belles of the ball." Dame C: "Well, sweeties, let's

go to the refreshment room and have some ices." (Enter prince , and princess. Mother and daugh

ters curtsey and exit.) Englisha: "What strange looking ladies." Prince: "But let us talk of yourself, princess. (Seats her on chair and stands beside her.) Tell me about this wonderful place where you live. The Silver Speech, what can it be?" Englisha: "It is in the land of " (There she glances at her wristwatch. She flees, for 'tis one minute to midnight. Curtain.) (To be concluded)

NSWERS TO RIDDLES

LAST WEEK (1) A dead one. (2) Threshing machine. (3) Newspaper. (4) Factory wheels. By Ches. Collins. (1) Smoke. (2) To keep his pigs in. (3) To fill it. (4) A scarecrow. (5) Break out with small pox. L. K. K.