Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 301, 30 October 1920 — Page 14

PACE TWO

THB KlL'miU.Ni) PAU.AD1UM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1920

"Come over here, near my cage, Mr. Beardy, where I can see you." said the lion to Billy Whiskers when the great beast stopped roaring. "Oh, very well," he roared back, "I will see you In the procession tomorrow, for I hear you are to march back of my cage." The lion's keeper came In to see what the lion was roaring about and In passing Billy he stopped to get a good look at him, and presently he wag joined by another man, who Billy found out took the part of the clown and who was expected to walk by Billy's side in the procession, while a monkey rode his back. "You are a pretty fine looking goat, old fellow, and I expect we will.become great friends. Here is a lump of sugar to begin our friendship with, or do you prefer tobacco?" said the clown. "He seems like a nice man," thought Billy, "but I never thought to see the day when I would march

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jumped off Billy's back, and as he ran past him, he gave Billy's beard a pull. Like a shot Billy was alter him and had the monkey not run up a pole, Billy would have killed him. From that time on, Billy and the monkey, whose name was Jocko, hated each other and an outward peace was only kept up when someone was around to keep them apart. The monkey would climb a pole or sit on top of a wagon, or anything high that was handy, so Billy could not reach him and then call him names and sauce him until Billy pawed the earth with rage, which made the monkey laugh. The only one that could get even with the monkey's tongue was the parrot, and she and the monkey would sit and sauce ecah other by the hour.(In the next story Billy parades and meets an old enemy.) (Copyright by the SattUleld Publishing Co., Akron, O.

WEEZY'S DIARY

in a procession with a monkey on my back and a clown at my side, and I don't know whether I will allow him to ride or not, but I guess I will behave for a while and see what life Is like under a circus tent." The next day dawned bright and fair and there was great commotion throughout the circus, getting ready for the 11 o'clock procession that was to march through the Btreets. Early in the morning Billy was led into the sawdust ring, and a peculiar saddle like a little platform was strapped to his back. This the monkey was to dance on, dressed as a ballet girl, with yellow, spangled skirts, a satin bodice and a blue cap with a feather in it on his head. When Billy first saw the monkey In this dress walking on his hind legs toward him to get on his back, he had a good mind to toss him up to the top of the tent, he felt so disgusted ; but his curiosity got the better of him and he decided to wait and seo what they expected him to do next. He soon found out. ' They wanted him to trot around the ring, and not jump when the ring master cracked his long lashed whip at him, while the monkey danced on his back and jumped through paper rings, as the lady circus riders do.

"This Is very easy," thought Billy. "I don't mind this in the least, only I don't want, to go around too many times one way for it makes me dizzy." "That will do for this morning,

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CHAP. III. Pipe-Dream Buys Dope for Claribel, Peanut Brings Her to School (Weezy's Diary, Wednesday, Sept. 22.) -It's the funniest thing I eyer heard about. It positively is. This morning in our first study period Dot passed me a note. I kept that note and I'm going to copy it in here: "Weezy, you missed the sight of your life last night. Clarence Cav-

enaugh tried to take Claribel home from school. Do you think that

vampire would go with him? Well, I should say no until she saw PipeDream Connerty and then she slip

ped right onto Pipe-Dream's arm like it was a magnet and sho was a little nail. The only person more surprised than I, was Pipe-Dream himself. . But he liked it. Sue told me she saw them in the drug store getting a dope a little later. Can you imagine Pipe-Dream buying a girl a dope? Can you imagine any girl going with Pipe-Dream instead of with Clarence?" I surely was surprised when I read that. But that was only the start of things. At noon, I saw all the girls looking out of the east window. When 1 rushed over to see what it was, there, about a block away was Claribel coming slowly along the sidewalk, hanging on a fellow's arm, of course. Ad about half a block back on the other side of the street slouched Pipe-Dream Connerty. That little, fat, red-headed Peanut Morgan had her. To think that the only two boys in the school that have a look in with the queen are the two that no one else will go with. And every fellow In the school is crazy to go with her except Joe Lyons. Joe Is such a dear. I thought he would invite me to go to that picnic supper tomorrow night, but he didn't. I can't understand why. Joe never put off asking me for a date like that before. Oh, well, I suppose he must be a little excited too. This surely la going to be an exciting year the way it is starting off. We really don't need football this fall. CHAP. IV. Joe Lyons is in Bad, Picnic Dinner Ends in Scrap Between Rivals. (Weezy's Diary Thursday, Sept. 23) It's late and I ought to be tired, but I can't go to bed. Of all the mean tricks ever played I think that Joe Lyons worked about the meanest on me. When I went to school this morning I looked up ahead and what do you think I saw? Joe Lyons was

standing on the steps trying to make a date with that horrid actress. She shook her head. He ducked. The poor simp! Just before the bell rang he came up and asked me. Maybe 1 didn't give him a black look. 1 told him to ask me again at noon. He did. 1 went. But that picnic. It was real excitement. All of us girls were dying to see whether Claribel, the Queen, would come with Peanut or with PipeDream. Peanut, having once had a taste of fast life, was not to be backed out. He was there too, with prim Vangy Waters. Believe me, that queen played all her charms. She managed it so that, at the table, she sat between Peanut and Pipe-Dream. Then she divided her attention half and half. It was comical. First Peanut would cast a darkened look at PipeDream, and then Pipe-Dream would shoot a wicked stare at Peanut. Neither boy talked very much, even to the queen, and neither would talk to anyone else at all. When the supper was over we decided we would have a game of oldfashioned prisoner's base. All the boys would try to catch Claribel. I saw Peanut getting madder and madder. There was a little mixup and first thing we knew there was Pipe-Dream sprawled on the ground. "You tripped me," he shouted, and made a dash at Peanut. Peanut dodged and Pipe-Dream tripped over his leg again. Then even slow Pipe-Dream began to get riled. He picked up a big stick, hurled it at Peanut again Peanut dodged. The stick went flying through the air and almost hit the queen. All the boys rushed to her. Several of them jumped on Pipe-Dream. There was all sorts of excitement. But the Queen liked it. She let PipeDream take her home and Peanut went back on the street car with Vangy. (More Next Week)

Puzzles for Juniors

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Hadley and Helen Hawton had been promised a Halloween party for works. At last the evening of the party came. Hadley and Helen were not usually allowed to have evening parties, hut as everyone knows, goblins and ghosts and grinning spook3 sleep in the day time and come out for their revels at night. And Halloween of all nights well it goes without saying that a Halloween party must be in the evening. One by one, and two by two and in threes and fours, the guests came and then the games started. While bobbing apples was causing great laughter and noise and splashing and fun. on the back porch Scott and Marjorie Stanley, who lived next door to Hadh-y and Helen and who wanted more than anything to see a real ghost, stole away from the group around the tub with its red apples bobbing elusively around on the water and crept toward the library, where a rather waning log fire in the brick fireplace furnished the only light for the room. Halloween decorations were everywhere and by the flickering light the grinning cat above the clock on the mantel piece grinned a little more horribly than ever and the jack-o-lantern, hung above the fireplace like a helmet and headpiece of armor in an old castle had that weird expression of seeming half-alive, after all, as do those

old suits of mail in the armory of a castle. A strange feeling began to take pos

session of the children and they crept slowly on into the recesses of the room, peering about in the dark corners, hoping to see a ghost. All of a sudden they heard a click behind them and then a strange voice humming low, dragging mournful notes. Startled, they looked quickly Ground and there by the feeble flickering of the now quickly dying fire they saw a white fig

ure with a great head and big. round, bright eyes looking staight at them and slowly the voice which seemed to come from this figure ended its song in a subdued moan "The Land of Ghosts calls for my soul."

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sat gazing at the figure and Marjorie, clinging to him, also sat spellbound. Suddenly laughter was heard and the 'room was flooded with light. The other guests trooped in, Hadley Hawton in the lead, laughing teaslngly. "Well, did you see your ghost?" he said to Scott and Marjorie. "Doesn't he sing well for a ghost?" Then he showed the ghost, a sheet with a face cut In it and draped over a jack-o-lanttrn In which was a lighted ca-ndle. This was thrown over the Victrola on which was the weird Indian son, "Her Blanket" fixed to begin at the most ghostly part This ghnst had been made, Hadley explained to everybody, to fool all the guests, but when he notIced Scott and Marjory stealing away in search of a ghost he Just had to start Jt then. Scott and Marjorie joined In the laugh and all the guests trooped out to the dining room where popcorn and apples and doughnuts made everyone happy, even Scott and Margy, who felt a little bit sorry that they had not seen a real ghost.

1. A feeling all persons deto.st, Altho t is by everyone felt, By two letters fully expressed. By twice two invariably spelt. 2. Erect a column of eleven fivelettered words, so that by reading the diagonals from side to side you find something lhat most boys want to be. Thus you take the first letter of the first word, the second of the second, the third of the third, the fourth of the fourth, the fifth of the fifth, the fourth of the sixth, and so on. Definitions of eleven five-lettered words are: 1. Noise a duck makes. 2. Small unit of weight.. 3. To begin. 4. Bright or intelligent. 5. At the beginning. 6. A certain kind of auto horn. 7. A ridiculous situation. 8. An old English church. 9. To change. 10. To frighten. 11. Just above the instep. Answers will be published next week.. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES 1. Harding, Cox, Coolidge, Roosevelt. 2. If I bought turkeys for $5 each, geese for $2.50, and chickens for such a ridiculously low price as 10 cents, then, in order to buy exactly 100 fowls with $100, 1 would have to border 12 turkeys, 13 geese and 75 chickens. 3. Concealed mottoes, "Here we rest.. (Ala.), "Hope" (R. I.). "Lib

erty and Independence (Del.),

(Wis.), "Agriculture, (Tenn.), "The Union"

"Forward" Commerce" (Ore.) 4. "The "Hand me

Meal of Anagrams;" cruet" is "The Menu

Card;" "Your posset" is "Oyster Soup;" "One solid Lamb" is "Boiled Salmon;" "Try our Steak" Is "Roast Turkey;" "Steamed or Tossed" is Dressed Tomatoes."

"It was 'and' I said, not 'but'."

Riddles for Juniors

1. Which bird ought to lift the heaviest weight? 2. Why is a nobleman like a book? 3. Why should a boy named Ben marry a girl named Ann? (Answers will appear in next week's Junior.)

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES 1. Gas. 2. A fish-monger's business makes him sell-fish. 3. When he is the queen's coachman. 4. They would reach from Washington to Cleveland. 5. The elephant took most; he had his trunk. The i'ox and the cock took least; they had only a brush and comb between them.

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