Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 111, 20 March 1920 — Page 14

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. Now, let's see. Ladydear was to ell tht! children who the Mohammedans nie. "Ages and npes ago." said Lady.tear, "about 1,100 years I think, a Utile boy was bom in Mecca, Arabia His parents were very, very poor. They died when lie was still a little : el to'. It U said that he drove camels for a limo to support himscir. "After his mother and father died his uncle. Abu Talib, took care of hiai, gaveliin an education and allowed the boy to travel till over Arabia and Syria with him. This lad was Mohammed. When Mohammed became a man! ais uncle recommended him to aj very rich lady, much older thanj Mohammed, to manage her affairs. -he fell in love with Mohammed md married him. "Mohammed always had been ery good and very religious. 3a eh year, so history says, he had pent many days alone in a cave! ear Mecca,, reading, thinking and 'laying. Now that he did not have to rork day In and day out, he decided to start preaching his religon. He believed that he was an ipostle of God, called Allah. Now i'nisure you' know what an apostol :s. If you have been going to SunJay school. "At first the only folk who beieved with him were members of his own family, but after years of preaching many people joined him. Tliey were called Mohammedans, ifter this former camel driver, and aow there are millions and millions jf Mohammedans In Asia and pails jf Europe and Africa.1 "Because Mohammed was born n Mecca that city is considered he holiest spot on earth by the Mohammedans. The Mohammedans WHO WAS ST. PATRICK Jack and Evelyn had been makng St. Patrick things all afternoon id .when they were finished, Jvelyn said, Jack 1 wonder what jt. Patrick's Day means. I don't know, said Jack, but it eems to have a lot of green in it. No one ever seems to know about hat, said Evelyn, but daddy knovs o many things that 1 think be ohould know. I do too, said Jack, and he was ight for a knock was heard on the door. Evelyn ran to open it. Hello " said daddy, what lave you for me now. A question, laid Jack, we want to know what It. Patrick's Day means? Why he was a priest, he lived in reland 1500 years ago. Bur whyj lid they call him Saint, asked Jack! h, that wax not all of my story, j 'e was good and kind and this one, ay, the 17th of March we celebrate j n his honor. Ellen Bart el. 4B, "aile. 7 '( AM MA SO Vou VE Bought another

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are very religious and several times a day they kneel down and pray. When they say their prayers they always kneel so that they are looking toward the city of Mecca, no matter how many thousand inileii away they may be. "Ever faithful Mohammedan tries to visit Mecca at least once in his life. Once each year the Mo

hammedans hold a pilgrimage to Mecca and hundreds of thousands flock to the city. Mohammed died in Medina.a city not so very far away from Mecca, and his body is buried in a giant mosque that covers three acres of ground. Perhaps you don't know just how large three acres is. Well it is enough to build several big houses on. "One of the many mosques here in Constantinople, called the Mosque of Saint Sophia, was a very' ancient Christian church when the city was captured by the Turks five hundred years ago. They turned it into a mosque so that they could worship in it." In the Days of Slavery i One evening in .the days of slavery, an old gentleman and his wife and other members of the family were sitting around Hie fireplace, the days work was done. There came, a Knock at the door. The old gentleman stepped to the door and opened it. A stranger ws standing at the door. He invited him in ami when he was seated by Hie I'ue they asked him where lie came from and where lie was going. He told (hem he had escaped from his master and was on hid way to Canada. He asked them if he could stay Willi them a few days us lie was tired iroui traveling so far. Trfey totd him he might stay w;ilh them, so he offered to help with the work round" (he farm, until he was ready to start on his way again. Everything went well for several days, but one morning alter the old gentleman had gone lo work, the old gentleman and wife decided to look in the Stranger's? bag and see what was In it. so she opened it and found a strange looking object which resembled a snake. When she oih it in her hand she felt very stiange, bhe looked at it lor sometime. The si range feeling still remained with her at last she decided to destroy it, so she look it to Hie tire place and threw It In. But it win out of tho fire but she caught It again, took the tongs and held it iu I he fiie. it made a noise like a calf bellowing, but she held it there till it was burned up. A short time after this the stranger came to iho house, looked U)OMAM - VOO'LL RUIN WE VJUITM VOOR FOOLISH exTRAVAGANCE V

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' """SB. Slie iota mm "ves sue nau. sue also told him she had destroyed; Hie oueer obiect w in i s le nau found within his hag." Then he told her this had been .'riven him lo insure his escape lo i freedom. But as she had destroyed it he tit..Tiuni,ii ii iivi knowing whether I had no way of he would ever reach his destina lion. lie also said for what uhe had done there would be enhity and spite in her family as long as one of them lived. He left immediately, they never saw him again nor they never knew wheather he readied Canada or not. This is a true story, it was told me by tho great granddaughter of the old lady who had this experience. Louise Wat kins. L! ears of age, 404 Souih Sixth street. Seventh Day Adventist School. The Selfish Prince Once there was a very selfish Prinee Mis name was Percy. He thought of nobody but himself. One day lie was going along the; street, he saw a poor liltle boy on a door step. The little boy was1 crying because he had had no breakfast.. The little boy said, " won't you please give me sonio money lo buy me something to eat." "No." said the Prince saucily and went on. One day his fairy godmother came, the King and Queen were worried with their son. They asked her what to do about it. She said. "Let me see, Oh, let me have him for one week and we'll see if he will be any better." Then away she went without letling the King and Queen kiss him. She took him lo a beautiful place out in the forest, there she left him with one friend, a dog. One day as he was eating a piece of meat, the dog whined to Percy for some meat. Percy gave him none. All at once it became dark. Percy was frightened so that he cried and cried. As he was eating supper in the dark ho heard his dog cry. He felt sorry for the dog and threw a piece of bread. The dog ate it and cried for more. So Percy gave him another piece. Then all al once it became light and the godmother came. She took him to his mother and father. They were so glad to see him. lie was always unselfish after that. V 1 1 T il no wt3 i n t 1 1 L Y jcaia um his father died and left him the . - 1 . When he was twenty years old kingdom Percy married a beautiful Princess of another kingdom. lie ruled wise and long, t.very body liked him. He was unselfish ! to the poor and gave tho poor when they needed it. j When he died everybody was sad because they had lost their most good and best king. James Atkinson, Grade 6, Economy lnd. I, TOO MUST BE A-GOING The shadows come a-walking, A-sfalking past my door. The shadows come a-walking. Some eighty-nine or more. Please, shadows, take. me with you! I, too, must be a going, I, too, must be a-knowing About the winsome marshes. The gray and velvet marshes That never called before, That never called before! Christian Science Monitor LITERARY CHAP Farmer Jones was discussing his son's ambitions with his neighbor's wife. "And does your boy show any literary talent?" asked the muchinterested lady. "Well," answered Farmer Jones, as he gazed down the lane to where his son was making desperate effort to capture a stray pig, "he can can pen a stray article, now and then."

"I hear your dog died?" "It did." "Was it a lap dog?" "Yep, it would lap anything." "What did it die of?" "It died of a Tuesday." "I want to know how it died." "It died on its back." "What did it die of?" "It fought a circular saw." "What was the result?" "Lasted only one round." Boys' Life

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My Aunft-'-at 1- w''!1.?! J Treats name ..nave u yci uv Marcus anu me uog s uamo sie iioasle wa standing and Marcus wanted to go over him instead of walking around her, Marcus jumped over her. When Marcus wants In nlnv hp tPAlS UD the TUg. Did v i-..r - j you ever have a playful cat . Neither am i. 10 ,uj Aunt's cat MarcUB has a ball and a spool onit nt rmirse he has a mother. Bes9io Is fourteen years old and Marcus if 13 years old. Josephine Thorn, 5B Grade, Starr School. MY MOTHER'S DOG ivi i v

When my mother was Dorn a m-i anvti,ing about your work. I'm golie dog was born the same day. jng t0 the library Bureau and find When my mother was one year old1, out a fcw now ti,jnKS about filing." the dog wag one year old. He was j "Well, 0f all the cranks. But you

black and had a brown noce anu bhown paws. His name was Carlo. He liked, popcorn and ice cream and when! my mother had a party she always shared the good things with Carlo.) She dressed him in lied doll's j clothes. I He lived until he was twelve ; years old. Then my mother and hpr sister made a little wooueni tomb stone for Carlo. They always put flowers on hi3 grave. Dorotha Sraies, IB Grade, Fin'cy School. POLAR ICE In the region around the South Pole., Sir Ernest Shackleton found various kinds of ice to which he gives interesting names in his new book. "South." Thus one kind he pictures as "young ice;" another as "light pack"; another as "open pack"; and another as "drift ice." Heavy hummocked pack and close pack are the roughest in appearance, with ragged Utile crags : 1, fnllA Christian Science Monitor! . PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT . Boy "Grandma, if I was invited out to dinner some place, should I eat pie with a fork?" Grandma "Yes," indeed." Boy "You haven't got a piece of pie around the house that I could practice on, have you. Grandma?" JR JR JR JR MY LITTLE BOAT My little boat floats on the pond, Then floats back home to me; Like ships that leave the harbor-bar And sail right out to sea. My little boat floats gayly on, Ac fpnrlpco na rin hp . ... . . , When I am big, a great big ship CM. nil . . ..1.1 r-. '1 Shall take me out to sea Christian Science Monitor The greatest zoological garden! jn the world is in London. England. it comprises about sixty acres in: the very heart of London. It was ! opened in 1828. v I

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Vv Answered for i THE FILING SPECIALIST Hy Nli.at.etli Muteer While Bertha Martin placed the papers in the filing drawers, Marian Hayes looked on in disgust from her observation ground, the switchboard. "Bertha, you're ( hewing gum as if your life depended on it. And furthermore, you don't have a single qualification of a filing clerk. You are neither regular, accurate, iiui Ill-ill. i uuu i i ii in n. juu nor neat. I don t think you Know fiin-t jj0at me out of Iny joU I'm going along. The Library Bureau Aml tnis l3 wnat ,i,oy oarnP(i: There Is a Library Bureau in all tne principal cities of the United states w here one may secure the best information and equipment for filing Tnpy werp advised to go to one of tho schools of filing, which are found in several of the larger cities. These schools are equipped with business files purchased from old firms and with government files. After a month's investment of time, they might be placed at a salary ranging from $18 to $35 a week. There are such schools In Chicago, Boston, New York and Philadelphia. They couldn't leave the small city where they lived, so they decided on a correspondence course with the nearest school. Two months later, Marian beLampcame file clerk for the Horace Lamp Company. Because of her intelligent classification of all the datri in the office, she soon became file manager with a number of girls under her. And what became of Bertha? Old Mr. Weatherly blinked and started one morning when he asked for a copy of a certain letter. It took his stenographer exactly one-half minute to get it for him, instead of the usual five. Then he called Bertha. "Where are you getting these new ideas, young lady?" Bertha told him and explained to him as well as she could that there were high standards to be attained and kept in the "Filing Profession'" just as in other lines. "So, I tried to introduce a new and efficient system here." "Humph," said old Weatherly, raising his eyebrows and pulling his nose, "I guess it is worth something to get a letter when you ! want it. You can look for $uo in I your envelope every week after this." CAN YOU TELL? A drove of turkeys ana s neep nave run neaa ana jeei. mw many are there ot eacii: