Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 197, 26 June 1920 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1520

QUERY CORNER

The editor will try to answer questions reader of the Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. Tins Hueatlona will be answered In rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed rn the Banio week in which you send It in.

Dear Aunt Polly: If A7A and A7, what i9 7Ax7? JL E. S. Dear Ruth: ''l - You see, I know your real name! There is something the matter with your problem to begin with. A, or the unknown number, cannot equal two different things In the same problem. Either you have copied it wrong or it is printed wrongly in the book. Problems are bad enough when printed right, bat when they are printed wrongly, it surely is enough to make wrinkles in any one's forehead, isn't it? Please look it up and when we find out Just which one A equals, we can solve the problem. I will be glad to help you with this problem if you will lot me know about it, or with any others. Don't forget you promised to come and see me some time. I am looking for you. Aunt Polly.

Dear Aunt Polly: How old am I?-

-J. T.

Dear J. T.: People can tell the age of horses by their teeth, and the age of trees by the number of rings of growth in their trunk, but as far, as I know, no way has yet been found to tell how old the owner of two Initials is, at a distance of 10 miles or more. When the way is discovered, I will write to you immediately. If you should get tired waiting for it, come up to the office some after

noon, and let me get a good look at you. I wager I can guess it right away. Aunt Polly. Pear Aunt Polly: Do 1 live in town or country? No Name Given. Dear No Name: I have never yet heard of a namelews person either in town or country. Guess you live on one of the mountains in the moon. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Have you the Girlhood of Elsie Di nam ore in your library? If you have, please write and tell me. If

you haven't, where can I find it? ( would come to your office but I very seldom get a chance to go up town. Thank you A .M .S. Dear A. M. S.: We have no library in connection with The Junior Palladium, and I do not have the book in my own library or I would gladly let

you have it. They have it in the

public library, though the Morriason - Reeves library. Please, when you come to town, come up nd see me and we will talk it over. I have several other interesting books which you might like to read. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Where did the game of baseball come from? C. C. Dear C. C: The ancestor of our national Same (as it is known today) is the old English game of "rounders." Soon after the founding of Philadelphia, the game or something like it, was played there, only it was called "town ball." This same game was played in upper Canada as early ?a 1S38. But the game as it was played in those days was so different from our modern game of baseball that it can scarcely bo called (he same game. The first time, the game was played much is it is today, was in the neighbor hood of New York. It was quickly devplopwl and soon there were regularly organized clubs playing as: early as 1845, in a place named "Elysian Fields" (a queer name for a baseball park, isn't it?) which was on the site where Hobokcn, New Jersey, is, today. In 1SB7, a barta!l convention was held where uniform rules were made. In the

following May the first National Baseball Association was organized. Aunt Polly.

JOSEPH'S GHOST

"Yes, slree, Mr. Troins, I suro did git even with 'at 'ere Josuf Peabody 'at Just passed here, fer

a mean trick he played me oncet.' j "Have some tobacco, Hiram, and

while we sit here and smoke our pipes, tell me the story," I replied, with immediate interest, for when Hiram told a story It was certain to be a good one. "Wall, see'n' as won't hurt nobody scr nothin' ter relate it, I might as well," he said. In this way I beard the following story which I will try to give you as much like the original as possible, with a few things added which I gathered from some other bill folks. These two old characters had been friends until Joseph had

charged Hiram many times too)

much money for hauling a camping outfit some two or three miles into the hills. After that, many petty incidents had increased the hatred between the two men until cither one would go a square out of his way to keep from meeting the other, or a milo out of his Way to cause some trouble for the other. It had been about two years after the first break when both of the men bad wished to buy the same piece of property. When each one found out that the other was trying to get it, there was a rush to the owner to close the deal, and Joseph had come out ahead by about five seconds, but nevertheless,, the owner. This was a heartbreaking disaster for Hiram, but when he found out that he was, without a doubt, beaten, he lay awake nights trying to think of some plan to get ahold of that property. One morning about a week be

fore Joseph moved into his houso he might have seen Hiram entering

his house with a saw, chains, hammer and a sheet and poll'. When Joseph was getting ready for bed, the first night after ho had moved into the house he thought he heard a noise above him, a If someone were tip-toeing about. But he said to himself that it was most likely rats, and immediately forgot it. About two hours alter that he waB awakened by a terrible bumping as if a heavy box were falling (low stairs. Ho grabbed the cover over his head and lay. shaking with fear, all the time telling himself that something COULD have fallen and that it could be nothing alive. Five minutes elapsed and Joseph had just about decided to go to sleep, when he heard a low moan and then a terrible scream. (When he told the story he said that his hair stood on end and that it was considerably grayer the next day). Then slow steps were heard on the stairs, and the door was opened and he saw a ghost! It walked to the edge of the bed, and said in hollow tones, "Get out of my house!" It then turned and walked out of the door and its footsteps were heard slowly retreating upstairs. Joseph did not sleep any more that night, but when daylight came, his boldness returned. He could not acount for the ghost, but he Bald to himself that he never .believed in ghosts and he was not going to do so now. The next night Joseph went to bed prepared to shoot the ghost if it came again, but when he laid his head on the pillow, he felt a piece of paper there. Taking it to the light he saw that this was written in blood. "If you are not out of my house by tomorrow

.night I shall come again and kill I vou!" !

Hiram chuckled to himself and, said to mo, "1 didn't have ter makel that call, fer Josuf moved out lirst lliini tlir nfvt dnv and upcmpd ner-

; foctly willin' fer me to have the!

. house. But ho s wondann to this

day why I dint bothered with no phoftlti." Alice Lemon, Eng. I V., High School. NOTE: This story was used with the permission of Miss Trueblcod.who judged it one of the best of the s'ories written for her short story class in High School, last semester.

Girls of Troop No, 3 Are Showing Progress Monday afternoon the girls of Troop Three of the Girl Scouts held an outdoor meeting in the Glen. After a short meeting the girl 3 enjoyed the swings and other playground apparatus. A second meeting was held on Wednesday of this week at the home of Henrietta Harris, on Sheridan street. The girls are studying the Girl Scout alphabet and the scout laws. At the Wednesday meeting the history of the Girl Scout organization was read. Henrietta Harris is patrol leader of the troop, and Mary Coins is treasurer. Martha Perkins is secretary-treasurer. Ten girls have already passed the Tenderfoot test, and three girls are second class scouts. Their names are Geneva Dorsey, Mildred Goins, and Martha Perkins. Henrietta Harris is ready for the first class Scout test.

Traveler (at the edge of high cliff, "Do people fall over hero often?" The Guide "Only once."

MISSION CHILDREN IN SPECIAL SERVICE

Children's Day at the Union Mission on North Fourteenth street will bo on Sunday, June 26. The children who will have a part in the program are Florence 'full, Torcse Falcone, Glen Olinger, George Daub, Thelma Daub, Louis Boomershine, Ragena Kortwright, Mary Castelucchio, Mildred Boomershinc, Jeanette Lacy Edgar Shaffer, Mary Hawkins, Herman Olinger, Corrona Rayle, Mary Wilcox, Tency Minnick, Grant White, Anna Kortwright, Frances Bresher, Edith Moore, Mary Griswell, Lealler Olinger, Wesley Willis, Hazel Kay, Helen Shepard, Lurida. Garret, Edith Boomershine, Coral Boomershine, Bessie Boomershine and Elsie Duckett.

A FINE GARDEN. Boston, Ind., June 25. To my readers: I want to tell you about my pleasant trip I took Sunday. My brother-in-law came over Saturday night, and Sunday we all motored to West Manchester. There we spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Troutwine. There we enjoyed a fine dinner, and "in the afternoon we played games and had lots of music and then we called on my grandpa and grandma Overholser, and if you want to see a garden go to my grandpa's. I myself like to see a nice garden, but their garden took my eye. I am a little boy 12 years old and I am in the 5th grade of school, Boston School, district No. 1. MAHLON OVERHOLSER.

PERPLEXED An old man sat up in a tree; He caid, "I am trying to see If the earth doth roll Around on a polo, For Columbus was wrong, seems to me." Geraldine Harter.

MONDAY

TUESDAY

The Whole Week Long with Little Nan

The dolly's name is Elizabeth Ann, And her mother's name is Little 'Nan.

Elizabeth has the best of care, She and Nan are a happy pair.

Monday, Nan washes Elizabeth's clothes. Tuesday, she irons them and hangs them in rows.

Thimbles and needles appear the next day, Bess brings her mending from over the way. On Thursday, to Bess 's house for tea Nan and Elizabeth go, you see.

Friday comes. Things must be set to rights. Houses not cleaned get to look like frights.

Sunday's the day for rest, you know So after Nan to church does go,

She perches up in a cozy nook, Opens wide her favorite book,

Reads and laughs while litte Jack Builds the blocks up in a stack. Builds them up, and then comas Rover Bounding in, and knocks them over.

Such days of fun have Little Nan, Rover and Jack, and Elizabeth Ann!

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