Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 271, 24 September 1921 — Page 16

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Greeting a Fairy If yort meet a fairy Don't run away; She won't want to hurt you, She'll only want to play. i Show her round the garden And round the house, too; She'd love to see the kitchen (I know they always do). Find a little present To give her when she goes; They're fond of silver paper And tiny ribbon bows. 1 knew a littlo girl once Who saw twenty-three Dancing in the orchard As jolly as could be; They asked her to join them And make a twenty-four; She ran to the nursery And hid behind the door. Hid In the nursery (What a thing to do!) She grew up very solemn And rather ugly, too. f you meet a fairy. Remember what I say; Talk to her nicely AStt UOU I I uu away. R. P. Jn Punch, London. 3ase Ball Standing ' J. H. S. League Teams After two weeks of ball, the ague teams of Garfield's indoor . . . 1 -.1 J i aseoau piayers uuuwcu mo inlawing standing when the report vas received at the Junior Pallad"im Thursday evening, Sept. 22: Major League. G.W. G.L. Pet. oom 2 .. 1 0 1.000 com 4 1 0 1.000 . .com 6 1 0 1.000 com 14 1 0 1.000 ,,'nnm 1 1 1 .500 oom 25 0 1 .000 ' oom 20 0 1 .000 oom 5 0 1 .000 I oom 3 , 0 1 .000 Minor League. . G.W. G.L. Pet. 1 oom 2 1 0 1.000 ' com 3 ........... 1 0 1.000 oom 6 1 0 1.000 " oom 25 1 0 1.000 : oom 20 1 0 1.000 oom 14 0 1 .000 oom 5 , 0 1 .000 oom 4 0 1 .000 oom 1. 0 2 .000

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM.' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 24,, 1921

Is Sunset Best? Fountain City, Ind., R. R. A. Junior Richmond Palladium, Richmond, Ind., Dear Aunt Polly: 1 am sending you a little poem lo publish if you think it lit. The title is: Sunset. You can talk about your sunrise all through the day. But when you're done and over I'd like to have my say, I'll take the beautiful sunset. Every time I will. At evening when the sun is setting And its shadows steal across the hill. I'd rather see a beautiful sunset Than most anything. It's so. Most every eve I see it. It's wonderful I know. Leslie R Bethel school. Anderson, age 16, Pear Leslie: I think you did very well with your poem In the way you expressed your idea. Try again soon. We are grlaU to publish this. Aunt Polly. CIRCUS AGAIN IN PARIS The circus has returned to Paris and this makes the children happy. Taurine tViA vai. i)i n irlniir nf tVin circus, the prancing horses and the! spangled costumes and even the clown with all his pranks and jokes, almost disappeared. Now, though it is not just what it used to be, it has again appeared in the beautiful French capital, to the delight of hundreds of people. EVOLUTION "Evolution," explained the bright pupil," is growth, development, for example: When the period stretch. ed a point, the comma was born.' Can You Make Up Your Mind? Can you make up your mind? Without fussing and fiddling, we mean. Lots of folks can't. ? The more you worry over a question, trying to decide what to do about it, the harder it becomes to decide. Learn to make up your mind quickly, but wisely. Then get the habit of sticking to your decision. It pays. If a man asks you to decide one way or another about something, he wants you to decide and he wants you to decide quickly. If you keep him waiting, and even then aren't sure your decision is just what you think it should be well, what you think if you were the man?

PUPILS MAKE SLIDES AND USE IN SCHOOL Colored lantern slides are made by the pupils and used by them in giving talks on various subjects in public school No. 77, New York city, one boy produced his own slides and showed them .when giving a little talk on "The Development of the Steam Engine" and a girl likewise made more interesting her talk on "The Evolution of the Compass."

Anxious "Now, children," said a teacher, "I want you to be very still, so that you can hear a pin drop." In a minute all was silent, then a little boy called out: "Let it drop!"

With a STEEPLE -JACK

The very edge of the roof of an 18-story skyscraper is no place for a person with "nerves.', John A. Prescott, steeplejack, says so, and I believed him as I cautiously worked my way up to the edge of that building one of Chicago's highest and looked down at the sidewalks many feet below and saw the crowds of people looking like dwarfs, scurrying this way and , It was about 15 years ago that Mr. Prescott began steeplejackmg At that time he went from town to town, painting a church steeple here, a smokestack there, and a flag pole, somewhere else. Every year he "made" Rockford, 111. One year he arrived in Rockford with a low supplyof funds. He decided to waste no time finding a i li 1 1 .1 . OA 11 1 n" r , . iB . T l" lu A , T ed painting. Mr. Prescott was en gaged. "After buying my ropes and blocks," Mr. Prescott told me, "I had just about 60 cents in my pocket. And such ropes and blocks they were. The blocks were in the 10 cent class, frail and weak, and the ropes were little more than heavy fish cord. But I needed the money so I foolishly started in with this outfit." He rigged his ropes and pulley up on the towering stack, climbed into the little board-and rope swing in which the "jack" sits while he plies his brush, and slowly pulled himself up to the top of the big pipe. . In order that you may better appreciate Mr. Prestcott's position up there with nothing to keep him from falling to a mighty hard roof! i except some weak, thin ropes I'm

The Sailor Man The sailor man he sails away Upon the Seven Seas. But I shall launch my little boat, The very finest boat afloat, Upon the little lake that flows Beneath our apple trees. But sailors are the same, you know; Whatever voyage they may go, So, sailor man, good-by to you. And, as you see, I'm going too.

THE LITTLE DUCK The little duck is like a boat Of yellow down when it's afloat, It swims across the lake, serene, To lovely shadows cool and green-, Josephine Redmond Fishburn. going to take a few words to tell you who may not know, how it feels to be up at the top of a big stack. It is thrilling. If you look straight up you see nothing but clear, blue sky. Your stomach feels queer empty. You wish you were down on solid earth. If you look down it doesn't take long to realize what would happen should you slip out of the seat. Perhaps you see a horse in the street far below. It looks like a big ant. People look squat and funny. A-gain, if you aren't accustomed to this sort of thing, you'd give a whole package of chewing gum and something more, maybe, to bo down. And if you look around over the flat roofs of surrounding skyscrappers well, the whole sensation is dizzy, almost sickening. Anyhow, Mr. Prestcott, swinging on his fish-line outfit, slowly worked his way around and down the big stack. Finally the job was finished. His ropes and blocks had held much to his surprise. His hands were raw and sore from holding to the new line. "And believe me, if I have anything to say about it," he said, "i'U never be so foolish as to tackle a job with, that kind of an outfit again. There isn't so much danger with good ropes thick ones but you can't tell when something might happen." I looked at the thin, swaying, toothpick-like poles on roofs of tho surrounding buildings and thought of having to climb them to paint the big balls on top, and agreed there was a possibility of something happening. "But what did you do before you Decame a steeplejack?" says I. "Oh, I was a high-diver with a carnival company, but one night I took a bad fall so I quit." "And then became a steeplejack something more mild, eh?" Mr. Prescott grinned. Oeorge Ft. Cleveland. THE QUEST BEGINS (Continued from Page One) 4,000 feet high and eight miles wide. It may be found that there is a connection between South America and Africa, and we hope to learn this by sounding near the island. We then go eastward to the Cape of Good Hope and the Antarctic ocean. We have to discover whether Cape Anne is a part of the Antarctic Continent or just an island, and then we expect to come out near the Weddell Sea. Hunt Far t net Inland "From the Sandwich Islands to South Georgia, and eastward by the Sub-Antarctic Ocean to the islands called Bouvet and Heard. where on the latter island I think ; we shall find fur seals; then en ' route for New Zealand, where we are going to hunt for the lost island of Tuanakl in the Pacific, which is supposed to have trees and people on it. It was mentioned about 90 years ago in missionary records but since then nothing has been heard of it. A shoal now ex ists in the position mentioned, and mitVi nil f mnlA.vt nnnli-.n ..w. - dredging we expect to come across . , some finds. "People often say, 'What is the good of it all?' but they do not stop to consider that all that helps the general welfare has been based on scientific research. When Franklin in America first drew electricity from the clouds, he opened up a vast field for knowledge, and the many uses of electricity permeate every line of activity. Where should we be without our light and the many comforts which have come as the result of this search? While there is anything left to be found out in this world it is the duty and privilege of man to seek and probe."