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LIONS CATCH J.H.S, GYM GIRLS' TOURNEY

Enthusiasm and excitement tended every game in the dodge ball tournament at the Junior High school which began last week and was completed with a victory by the Lions, Tuesday afternoon. This is the first girls' tournament j that has been played at the Junior t High school and all the games were j played alter school in the alternoons. The regular gym class teams clashed In the tournament which was played in three rounds. The. teams in the tournament at the end of the first round were: Richmond Reds, captained by Kathryn Weimar; Lions, captained by Elizabeth Pettibone; the Jumping Jacks, Louise Daub's team, and the Harvard, Berenice Richards. The second round saw the Jumping Jacks and the Lion3 still In the ring. From the third round the Lions, Elizabeth -Pettibone's team, emerged victorious.

WILD LIFE OF FOREST AND STREAM

THE LEGS OF SNAKES Francis Rolt-Wheeler Oh, yes, the- have! For one's first thought on reading the title of this article Is promptly to deny that snakes have legs Trnlr tint nil nf -' -j i ; them do, only a few of the larger ones, but those few prove that, many ages ago, the ancestors of the snakes were reptiles that walked. This is especially interesting when one remembers that, in the Bible, the serpent who tempted Eve seems to have had legs, for the command TiBiuM MUff PUPtMCNTAPY hinp Limbs. that he should be made to crawl on his belly all the Ways of his life was given as a punishment. None of the snakes on the North American continent have any legs, but the bush-master of South Amer-1

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lea has little, vestiges of bones cobras nearly all in fact are showing where his forefathers, had j deadly venomous, but the corallimbs, and both the boa constrictor ( snakes are the only New World and the python have legs that are species. Of these, coral-snakes are still sufficiently developed to come tropical, moccasin stay near water through the skin. They even have' in hot climates, and the copperhead horny nails, though these do not is not found much about Mason and

eeem to serve any useful purpose. Such vestiges are known as rudi-1 mentary limbs and go to show that WHO IS HE? Successful because he's done one thing well. You've ridden in it, often. (Yesterday: John H. Patterson, the cash register man.)

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WHY Wi TO OO vVTH the snake once was differently formed. A snake moves by the sidewise pressure of his body against the irregularity of the ground. This is the same principle as sculling a

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---- I presses againsi me waier siueways. On a large flat sheet of , glass many snakes cannot move forward at all, and nearly all of them would advance with difficulty. Every person in the "United States should know at a glance the venomous species. On the North American continent they are rare. riOPKIY ICWNATIONS ssfhind Limbs, Nine-tenths of all snakes belong to ; 'he harmless colubrine family, like! the garter-snakes. All the viper: snakes are venomous, and this group includes the rattlesnake, cop-; perhead and moccasin. Most of the Dixon's iine. Learn to know these; four species and you need fear no other snakes. SENDS PICTURE WITH TRAVELING LETTER Starr School, January 5, 1921. Dear Lucy Williams: Your letter given to me by our writing teacher, Miss Kinchell, was a pleasant surprise. I am thirteen years old, and live! in the east part of the city, near beautiful Glen Park. I go to Starr School and like it very much. It is the best grade school in Richmond. We have twelve rooms inour school and our grade has five teachers. I like music best of of all my studies. The art exhibit is at the High Schoof, and we go there about once a month. Earlham College is located just west of our city. One of the largest piano factories is located here, and bears the same name as our school Starr. I have three brothers and one sister. All of us had a very nice! Christmas. Am sending you one of my pictures, and would like very much to have one of yours. Sincerely yours, MARY ELLEN NEWLAND.

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By the "Y" SCOUTMASTER This week's question: In what two books of the Bible am I he Ten Commandments recorded? Answer to this question will pear in this corner next week. aiAnswer to last week's question: The miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. It is recorded in Matthew 11-19; Mark C 33; Luke 9-12; and John 6-5. Answer to puzzle No. 4: "The giant, Goliath, could eat only one soft-boiled egg on an empty stomach because, aHer that, his stomach would not be empty." LETTER TO SCHENECTADY. Hibberd School. Richmond, Ind., Jan. 17, 1921. Dear Nicolo Rossiti: I thought your letter was very interesting. You have things in your school that we do not have. Our school is not as large p.s yours. We have ten rooms and an office which has just been built. We do not have f a swimming pool or an auditorium, but we have a cooking room for the girls and a wood-work room for the boys. We have an orchestra in Hibberd made up of six violins, one drum, one cornet, and piano. On last Sat urday evening, January 15, there was a concert given by all the nnjuui uiiiicourt, .mere are; about sixty members in bined orchestra. this comOur first term closes in about two weeks and if I am promoted I i win go 10 junior High. Some of our largest buildings are the Westcott hotel, which is six stories high, and the Romey furniture store, which is also six stories high. It is made of beautiful white marble. Richmond is a great manufacturing center. I am going to tell you about the Hoosier Drill Co. This factpry is one of the largest in the world for manufacturing up-to-date seeding machines. Iast year it was sold to the International Harvester Co. The machines of ; the International Harvester Co. are sold to every grain growing section of the world. The three brands of seeding machines are, Empire Jr., Hoosier and Kentucky. Do the farmers of your section hava any seeding machines from Richmond? Please write again, for I would like very much to get another letter from you. Yours sincerely, GEORGE DAUB. Answer to puzzle No. 1 : H arrow. Pat's S nncess on

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Mos'. recent photo of Lady Patricia Ramsey, -Princess Pit," and her son. This intimate glimpse of England's most beloved noblewoman 1 ady Patricia Ramsey, shows her with her youn son in the nursery in their palatial home. "Princess Pat," as all England knows her, wapopular with English folk before her marriage because of her sympathetic nature, her beauty and her democratic ways. And when she spjrned offers of numerous titled men and married Commander Alexander R. N. Ramsay, an untitled Britisher in the navy, she endeared herself more. Ramsay since has come into a title of his own.

YOUNG SCIENTIST TAKES ALONG SMALL MENAGERIE WHEN HE ENTERS OXFORD

In 1814 a short, quick-eyed lad of years, with a r,liojk of reddish1? brown hair, entered the college of Christ Church, Oxford, England, bringing with h'tu; a uicnngerie. In the court between his room and tho canon's gardens ne turned lose a whole sida show of unlmali and birds. Tiglath Pilot-fir, his pet tea, and Jaoko. tho monkey, were thcr.e wilh an eagle, a chameleon, J a jiick.il and an adder. There were also marmots, guinea pigs, squirrels, green frogs, to, toises and I s nakes. had started to make collections. His lather, Dean William Fuck'.and, was a famous geologist. The son, Francis Trcvelyan Buckland, had the instinct, too. When he was only lour years old, a visiting clergy an brought in some fossils. Calling his son, the Dean asked, "Frankie, what are these?" "They are the vertebrae of an ichthyosaurus," lisped the little boy. Year r.fter year young Buckland studied and collected. He began to specialize on fish, traveling all over Europe collecting fish eggs from many dillerent livers and sending them back to the South Kensington Museum in England. There he raised the fish in big vats, and from there he sent out other fish eggs to 'nil over be hatched in new rivers the world. In the mean.1., . n,-- i ' lime a Dig amonion was s-eiGiiif; him. There was one office he want-: ed to get. j t iojjp ... l. r. n ..-(. . on ..... old, his draem came true. He got ill jour., wiicu uc n aa jaii the position, becoming Inspector of Fisheries for the British Isles. He feared no ice, or wind, or water. He waded swift streams to study the currents that the salmon ; would have to swim against in coming up from the sea. He invented salmon ladders by which the fish might get over the weirs and so have free access from the rivers into the sea. He induced pari in nient to pass laws, protecting prop erly both fish and sea birds. . Soon the result of his work be came apparent. In Billingsgate market, London, hundreds and thousands of tonj of salmon were sold where only a few tons had been sold shortly before. Millions had salmon to eat. It was the miracle of the bread and fishes over again Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Service. Answer to riddle No. 3: A rifleman firing wide of his target is like a man who blacks his wile's eye because one misses his mark, and the other marks his missus. Lad is Douncino

6 A-6 GRADE PUPILS SEE CAESAR IN GAUL

Travel pictures are usually interesting, but to watch travel pictures where a great old conqueror marches through a country that still exists but which now has a different name, is probably even more interesting. All the boys and girls of the 6B and 6A grades of the city's public schools were invited Friday afternoon to tho Senior High School auditorium, to watch Caesar on his march through Gaul. These boys and girls have been learning a great deal about old Koine and this motion picture show was planned especially for them. Answer to puzzle No. 3: "How shall live persons divide live eggs so that each receives one and one still remains in the dish?" Let one take the dish. For Boys to Make Handicraft A CREEPER FOR GARAGE By Grant M. Hyde If Father likes to take care of his own car, as many car-owners do, he has probably often wished that he knew of some scheme to make easier the work of getting under to reach out-of-the-way grease-cups on the chasis. Why not build him a "creeper," like those the mocha- is use in the repair-shops or ra Ik" a wooden imitation of the spins Ufairs they use? The creeper should he m-u'e strongly and of good sound wood clear-grained pine, yellow pine, f ynrus. or anything else that is handy for Father is heavy. The stocii for the frame-woik should be "g-in. wood, 4 or 5 in. wide (B and Bare 18 in. long; A and A ate 36 in. long.) Fasten the joints with screws. The platform on top should be made of some lighter boards, i aDoui '.i-in. tnick, taken from gro cery boxes strong but flexible enough to bend a lillie. For wheels, get four strong furniture castors preferably with metal wheels at the hardware store. Select castors that have locking devices which drive into the holes first, and keep the castors from falling out. Bore holes for the castors in the fiamo-work at C, C, C, and C before you nail dewn the top boards. A head-rest will be a murh-appre-ciated addition to the creeper for Father will tell you that his neck gets tired when he is working under the car. The standard (D) for the head-rest should be cut out of a 2x4, and should be about-a foot long, slanted so as to hold the rest about 4 in. above the creeper. Tho crosspiece should be a 1-in. board, 5x8 in., covered with cotton-stuffed cloth. As it is ofen handy to take off the head-rest for certain kinds of jobs, fasten it to the creeper with two long stove bolts. Answer to riddle No. 2: That which lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upwards is an icicle. What is said to be the largest diamond in the world was brought to New York recently. This stone, which is said to be perfect in Shape and of a light straw' color, weighs 183.15 carats, eouivalent to a little more than one-tenth of a pound, troy, and is the p.in.-i . , oi Abou el Hand, former sultan of Morocco.

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